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This triple bottle imitating the official kiln in the Ming Dynasty is 24 cm high, 7 cm in diameter, and 8.5 cm in foot diameter.

It is covered with imitation official glaze, the glaze color is gray and blue, and the mouth and bottom feet are covered with sauce-colored glaze.

The body of the vessel is composed of three identical small cylinders glued together, with a novel shape, belonging to the original type of vessel in the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, what I'm talking about here is only the triple cylinder bottle.

This combination of three bottles in one piece did not appear in the Ming Dynasty, but in the Song Dynasty.

The most famous of this kind of vessel should be a piece of Southern Song Dynasty porcelain collected in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provincial Museum.

It was a celadon triple-link Daji vase born in Longquan kiln in Lishui. It is famous because strictly speaking, it is indeed a defective product.

So, what is a triple bottle?What is a Daji bottle again?

Sanlian, as the name suggests, is three pieces of porcelain that are connected together and combined into one.

The Daji bottle is the most popular style of porcelain bottle in the Song Dynasty.

Daji bottle was not only popular in the Song Dynasty, but also a representative work of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

The Daji bottle of Longquan kiln in Lishui is even more famous.

This kind of bottle is called "Daji bottle" because it looks like a "auspicious" character from the side.

One day 800 years ago, it is estimated that the craftsman who fired it wanted to catch fish and put the three Daji bottles in the same sagger for convenience.

As a result, there was an accident during the firing, and the porcelain bottle in the middle slipped, and this unique triple bottle slipped out.

An accident created the unique triple Daji bottle in the world.

For some unknown reason, the craftsman did not smash the defective product, but kept it.

This triple bottle from 800 years ago formed a unique piece of porcelain because of the fall of the Daji bottle in the middle. Maybe this is the beauty of incompleteness?

Instead of deliberately imitating cong-shaped bottles, Chen Wenzhe began to let his imagination run wild.

So he went on to imitate a stove, which was an old collection of the Qing Palace.

This imitation official-glazed binaural tripod furnace is 10.5 cm high, 11.5 cm in diameter, and 7.5 cm apart.

The furnace is in the shape of a 鬲, with a lip, two rings of ears symmetrically placed on the mouth, and a round belly.

There are three milky feet under the banner, six burning nail marks in the furnace, and three burning nail marks on the bottom of the furnace.

The shape of this furnace is simple and simple, and the glaze color and glaze pattern are similar to Song Dynasty official kiln porcelain.

However, the official kiln porcelain of the Song Dynasty does not have this shape, and it can be called the best product among the imitation official glaze porcelains of the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty official kilns discovered so far imitate the Song official kilns and are concentrated in the Chenghua Dynasty.

The main types of utensils are tripods, statues, stoves, bottles, cups, pots, bowls, bowls, plates, washers, slag buckets, basin holders, pen mounts, etc.

Including almost all types of utensils, and most of them are not signed.

The characteristics of Chenghua imitation official kilns are very obvious. Generally, the bottom of the utensils is coated with sauce yellow glaze, the glaze color is blue and gray, the glaze surface has strong luster, and the openings are large and indistinct.

Such utensils include slag buckets, basin supports, etc.

Then there are sauce yellow glazes on the mouth and bottom feet of utensils, or only the bottom feet are coated with sauce yellow glaze.

The glaze color is blue-medium green, the enamel is relatively thick, and the luster is strong. Except for a few of which are relatively dense, most of the cracks are relatively sparse.

At the same time, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, folk kilns also began to imitate Song official kilns.

The types of utensils are mainly display utensils such as statues, bottles, washers, and pen mounts.

Porcelain used in daily life such as bowls and plates is almost missing, and most of them do not have year marks.

This may be because the imitation process is relatively difficult, and imitators tend to imitate porcelain with a higher selling price for the purpose of economic interests.

This point is obviously different from Ming official kilns.

The folk kiln imitates the porcelain of the official kiln, and the bottom feet are painted with sauce yellow glaze to show the iron feet.

The glaze color is azure and bluish, and the grain lines are light yellow to show the effect of "golden silk".

The split pattern is either relatively dense or sparse, and some patterns are irregular dense fine hairs.

Then came the Yuan Dynasty, and the people of the Yuan Dynasty seemed to be more able to play, they played new tricks on the cong bottle!

When we buy things now, we always hope that merchants can give some small gifts.

For example, when buying a computer, you will be asked to send accessories such as a mouse and a computer bag.

In this way, there will be a feeling of getting benefits. However, this 1+n gift strategy is not a promotion method for modern merchants.

There is a piece of porcelain from the Yuan Dynasty, just like we showed how the ceramic producers more than 700 years ago realized how to buy one and get one free.

This is a green-glazed cong-shaped vase from a Longquan kiln in the Yuan Dynasty. It is different from ordinary cong-shaped vases in that it is composed of the main body of the cong-shaped vase and the lower half of the base.

If we only look at the main part of the cong-shaped bottle, we are very familiar with it. It comes from the ancient shape "cong".

Cong is a ritual vessel of the last three dynasties. In the Song Dynasty, the image of the ritual vessel in the Shang and Zhou dynasties reproduced the glory of the past in another way.

Now we generally call it the retro movement of the Song Dynasty.

Song people admired the etiquette of the three generations, and had a fanatical pursuit of the utensils of that period.

They not only like to collect antiques from Shang, Zhou and Warring States, but also use their best material—porcelain.

They revived those ancient mysterious and majestic ritual vessels with porcelain.

Cong is one of them, mostly produced in Longquan Kiln.

In the Song Dynasty, it no longer had strict usage regulations as in "Zhou Li", but developed new uses, such as decoration and flower arrangement.

However, in the Yuan Dynasty, the shape of the cong-shaped bottle had a new change, forming an effect that the cong-shaped bottle was placed on the base.

Just like today's stone appreciation, it will be equipped with a wooden base.

It's just that this kind of cong-shaped bottle is carved with clay and fired.

Some are movable and can be taken down at will.

Some are directly glazed and fired together with the utensils, forming a "one-piece outfit".

Such a combination of utensils and bases has become a new shape. In addition to the production of Longquan Kiln, it can also be found on Yingqing and Yuanqinghua of the same period.

The theme utensils and bases come in various forms, most of which are plum vases and incense burners.

The form of the base is obviously a furniture style.

Some are like round stools, usually made into four-legged waist, or six-legged horseshoes.

In this way, a pot door is formed, and the side will be decorated with wishful cloud patterns.

There are four short legs or six short legs in Ruyi head style under the mud.

The waist, horseshoe, pot door, and mud support are all structural components in traditional Chinese furniture.

For example, the cong-shaped bottle of the Yuan Dynasty, because it is a relatively special square vessel, the base attached to it is also similar to a combination of square furniture.

And these we can find their shadows in the furniture from the Song to Yuan Dynasties.

Obviously, this kind of "one-piece outfit" style is not fabricated.

It was a reflection of real life and usage scenarios at that time.

Now we can boldly guess that some incense burners, plum vases, and cong-style bottles will be used with wooden furniture bases at this time.

For example, the murals of Yu Yin's tomb in Qilu, Gaotang and Jin Dynasties are painted with basin frames.

The actual pot frame was unearthed from Feng Daozhen's tomb, which proves the usage habit of glazing at that time, and the shape and structure are very similar.

Under such usage habits, smart porcelain makers, when making utensils, combine the base with the original utensils to appear as a new combination.