Master descends to earth

Chapter 202 Wenwan Qing Confession
Looking at Su Yuan's half-smile expression, he took a deep breath and sighed incomparably: "This old man really has eyes but doesn't know Mount Tai. I didn't expect Mr. to have such amazing eyesight, which is rare in my life!"

Slowly sat down and said: "Except for moxa, kapok, lamp wick, bamboo rut, and lotus root silk can all be used to make ink pads. After continuous trials by our ancestors, we found that cotton is soft, wick stem is rigid, bamboo rut is slippery, and lotus root silk is weak. It is not as good as moxa alone. On the contrary, after adding Zhuru, the two blend with each other and the texture is improved, which is also the foundation of Dai Yuexuan's century-old reputation!"

Su Yuan smiled and said nothing, some words were to the point, but in fact Dai Yuexuan's secret was far more than that!
There are many types of oils used to prepare ink pads, such as tea oil, castor oil, flax, and vegetable oil.The camellia oil is refreshing and does not help you get greasy for a long time.Castor is thick and thick, and the advantage is that it does not bleed through the paper.Flax is floating and has poor color matching.Vegetable oil is yellow in color, stagnant and easy to seep.

Dai Yuexuan used tea oil, the procedures were complicated, and if he was not careful, the whole process would fail.

When the three left the Forbidden City, Geng Baochang insisted that the two of them go to sit at home. The house was very simple, and the old man used all his life savings to collect porcelain, and finally donated all of it to the Forbidden City.

"This old man can't just accept Mr.'s favor in vain. This is a small item, please accept it!"

Geng Baochang handed over a blue and white pen holder, Su Yuan took it curiously, and was surprised after reading it: "Is this an official kiln during the blank period?"

"I didn't expect Mr. to have a deep knowledge of porcelain!" Geng Baochang explained with a smile: "It's a pity that I donated all the collections to the museum a few years ago, and there is nothing left in my hand. This is a leak, although The value is not expensive, but it also represents a period of history and has commemorative value."

Su Yuan stood up and declined: "Old Geng is polite, the pen holder is too precious, this junior dare not..."

"Sir, please don't refuse!" Geng Baochang said seriously: "When people live to our age, what else can't be seen through? If you don't bring it with you when you are born, if you don't take it with you when you die, it is fate to meet each other. Let's accept it."

Seeing that Su Yuan still wanted to decline, Ling Junsheng interjected: "The elder's gift, you can't refuse it, accept it!"

Su Yuan could only accept it, thanks to Mr. Geng for his gift. The so-called blank period, also known as the dark period, refers to the three generations of Zhengtong, Jingtai and Tianshun in the history of JDZ porcelain, that is, the period from 1436 to 1464.Because none of the porcelains with official kiln year marks from the three dynasties were found to exist, all the porcelains seen were produced in private kilns, so it is called the blank period of official kilns.

In the third year of orthodoxy, private kilns were prohibited from firing blue-and-white porcelain with the same style as official kilns; in the 12th year of orthodoxy, private kilns were prohibited from privately manufacturing yellow, purple, red, green, blue, blue, and white blue-and-white porcelain.

In the fifth year of Jingtai, the record of porcelain made in Raozhou was reduced by one-third. In the first year of Tianshun, officials were sent to JDZ to oversee the firing of porcelain. The command.

In fact, all three dynasties of the Ming Dynasty produced official kilns. The main reason was that there were frequent conflicts within the royal family due to the throne, so it was inconvenient for the porcelain produced by JDZ official kilns to write year marks at this time. Therefore, the porcelain of these three dynasties is often marked like this Return to Xuande or Chenghua Dynasty.

Until the JDZ Ceramic Research Institute discovered a batch of orthodox official kiln porcelain of the Ming Dynasty, and it can be seen that the style is different from Xuande and Chenghua.After all, there are not many materials on the porcelain of the blank period. The main feature is that the cloud pattern is quite heavy, the theme pattern is often covered by the cloud pattern, and the blue and white are relatively dark.

More than ten years ago, it was auctioned a record, the orthodox blue and white jug with twigs and lotus petals, which was sold for 105.8 million yuan.An orthodox blue-and-white tangled lotus cave stone peony lotus-petal pattern double-beast-ear large pot with a transaction price of 230 million yuan.

Geng Baochang sighed: "This is a Ming Dynasty blank period porcelain with a dated model that I accidentally found during my travels last year. It should be orthodox for eight years. The overall shape of the vessel is a raised five peaks connected with mountains. There is a round hole on one side of the pen holder and the back of the pen holder, which can be used as a water bowl. Behind the main peak of the pen holder, there is an orthodox eight-year inscription. The glaze of the pen holder is thick and yellowish in white.”

After a day of running today, the two old men were exhausted, so they bid farewell and left Geng's hometown. When they returned to their residence, Su Yuan just wanted to rest when he suddenly received a call from Ling Tiancheng asking him to meet.

"This is Huang Xuanlong, the owner of the Jiansong Pavilion, No. 1 in the collection of the Qing Dynasty!"

Su Yuan looked curiously at the unattractive old man in his early fifties, with kind eyebrows and kind eyes. He is the famous Lord Jiansong Pavilion?

Ling Tiancheng pulled Su Yuan, and introduced: "This is Mr. Wen, Master Xiangdao, the treasure that Brother Xuanlong likes is his collection."

Huang Xuanlong stretched out his hand on his own initiative, and greeted him warmly: "It's true that a boy born from a hero since ancient times, Mr. Wen is actually a master of Xiangdao? Huang admires it!"

Su Yuan said a few words politely, everyone sat down again, Huang Xuanlong happened to see the pen stand, and when he asked, it was actually a gift from Geng Baochang, he was shocked and had a higher opinion of Su Yuan.

"Sure enough, it's an official kiln pen holder in the blank period. Only Mr. Geng is willing to give this kind of treasure away. I'm envious!"

Ling Tiancheng looked at Huang Xuanlong's obsessed expression, and secretly laughed. Today, the other party directly came to find him. He didn't know where he heard that Tiancheng had an eight-piece study set for the Emperor Qianlong, and Ji Xiaolan's 99 Fangzhai inkstone. For Huang Xuanlong, it is definitely a fatal attraction.

It just so happened that Su Yuan got another pen holder today, and it was a gift from Geng Baochang, the master of porcelain, which was unbelievable to Huang Xuanlong.

Jiansong Pavilion is actually a plaque inscribed by the famous calligrapher Yi Bingshou in the late Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. Its fame is entirely due to a special auction of the study room in Jiade's 2006 Spring Auction, which is also the first time in China. Hold a special auction for the study room.

The owner of Jiansong Pavilion is Huang Xuanlong, a treasure island collector. He has been obsessed with collecting stationery for more than 30 years and has spent hundreds of millions of dollars. According to a joke, since he started collecting, his family no longer has savings, and he buys good things back as soon as he has cash. , If you want to take stock of his assets, you have to put out the pen holders and inkstones one by one.

Ling Tiancheng looked at Huang Xuanlong, and said with a smile: "I remember that a purple clay teapot only eight centimeters high was auctioned for a sky-high price of 1232 million yuan, which was the first domestic purple clay teapot sold at a price of tens of millions. How much did you pay at that time?" Received? 35?"

"Less than 30!" Huang Xuanlong said with a smile: "At that time, I just arrived in Shanghai, and I was only a 24-year-old boy. I loved purple sand and bamboo carvings. Shanghai is very close to Yixing and Jiading, which is rich in bamboo carvings. At the same time, it was the end of Qing Dynasty An important collection base during the Republic of China, I was introduced by an enthusiastic friend to Ms. Gong Anying, the daughter of Gong Xinzhao, a great collector in the late Qing Dynasty."

"When I had nothing to do, I went to Mrs. Gong for afternoon tea with pastries. It may be because we are destined, and the old man is also very friendly to me. Not only is he willing to pass on the knowledge of collecting, but he also regards me as a family."

(End of this chapter)