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The earliest description of this Guoji clan teapot can be found in Wu Yun's "Illustrated Notes on Yi Vessels of Liangjuxuan".

Wu Yunke was a famous epigrapher and collector in the Qing Dynasty, and he collected more than [-] ancient bronze wares.

His study "Two Fu Xuan" is named after a pair of important bronze pots in his collection.

Wu Yun had a good relationship with other important epigraph collectors, such as Pan Zuyin, Wu Dacheng, Chen Jieqi and Li Hongyi.

They often meet or correspond, discuss and exchange collections.

According to "Illustrated Notes on Yi Vessels of Liangyuxuan", Wu Yun gave this pot and a Ding Yi, Ligefu Ding Yi of the Shang Dynasty, to Li Hongyi.

From this point, it is not difficult to find that since the late Qing Dynasty, the pots of the Guoji family group have been cherished and respected by countless masters of gold and stone.

So this bronze ware has been handed down in an orderly manner, which is extremely important in the auction market, especially for bronze ware.

This makes it the only circulator in the market.

Therefore, another reason why this Guoji's subgroup pot has attracted much attention is because it is the only one in the market for this type of bronze wares.

The utensil has a small mouth and a large bottom, and there are two animal head ears with rings on each of the seven walls of the plate.

After all, they were all produced in the poor or young age, and they were all handed down from generation to generation, so things from the late Western Zhou Dynasty are rarely the same as "Guo" bronzes.

It can only be used during sacrifices or banquets.

Therefore, the normal market circulation of Guoji's subgroup teapots is not only because the circulation is out of order, but also because in recent years, there are few heavy bronze vessels that can be circulated, and most of them are auctioned in the sea.

Friends who are familiar with the rules of the collection market know that bronzes cannot be bought and sold in the market at will.

The eight hollow feet are convenient for cooking and cooling.

If it is worse than the "Guo" bronze, of course, the most famous "Guo" bronze is the Guoxuan Yi plate, which is now collected in the National Museum

Comparing the "Guoshi" bronze, Ji Zibai Mahu studied the photos in his hand.

Comparing one by one, Ji Zibai soon found some similar bronzes similar to Guo Zhonggui.

There is a shallow groove between the two patterns, and the inner and outer sides of the ears are decorated with ring patterns without pearls.

For the sake of protecting cultural relics, the national cultural relics department has not yet opened the bronze ware market.

Several of them are housed in the Palace Museum, the Xiaohai Museum, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

Just like the bronze gui behind the eyes, the mouth is slightly closed, the edge of the mouth is decorated with a circle of C-shaped flat eyes and curved lines, and the abdomen is decorated with eight circles of hanging scales.

The inscription on the inside of the Guoxuan Yi ware plate has a unique shape, which is very similar to our current small bathtub. The plate is a rectangle with rounded corners and a seven-curved ruler-shaped foot.

Few other pieces are clear, only rubbings survive.

Including eight gui, eight gui, one you and one plate, all of which have similar inscriptions.

Among them, "Guo" refers to the State of Guo, "Ji" refers to the family clan, and "Zi Group" refers to the name of the person who made this vessel.

It occasionally appears in conjunction with the tripod, the number of tripods is odd, and the number of gui is even.I went through the album again, and the bad image of the bronze ring at the back is also complicated.

Finding a so-called bronze plate with the smallest size, the best preservation, and the best look, Ji Zibai began to study it sloppily.

He must know what the bronze plate looks like, how small and how big it is, he is really the same, such a small bronze vessel that looks like a fish tank, can it be a plate?

There is also an inscription on the edge of the mouth, which has a similar meaning to that of Guo Chen Wenzhe's pot.

The other representative utensils of the "Guo" family are all national treasures.

And as long as the level difference between princes and princes is small, the quality of the bronze burial objects we produce should also be small.

The bronze gui is also inferior to the "Guoji" bronze gui, and this "Guoji" bronze gui was collected in the Nanhe Museum in the Western Zhou Dynasty.

However, in the same tomb, bronzes of the same grade are unearthed more frequently, and artifacts from the same family are even more common.

I haven’t seen Lu Zhi’s “Illustrated Notes on Two Ji’s Sons”, Wang Guowei’s “Bronze Inscription List of Guochao”, Zou An’s “Zhou Jinwen Cun”, and “Shuangwang Jizhai Jinshi Tulu” all clearly mention Here comes the pot.

The inscription records the purpose and implication of the Chen Wenzhe Group of Guo State in making this precious pot.

Calculated in that way, if my son buys the same batch of bronze wares, will he not be able to get a batch of treasures whose value is comparable to "Guo's" bronze?

Compared with the Guo Jizi group you, the bad image is not bad at all.

The law only allows orderly handed down bronze wares and bronze wares returned from overseas to be traded in the domestic market, and the circulation is not large.

Gui is actually not a utensil used by the ancients to hold rice food, and it is small and uncovered.

If I want future generations to come, I cannot cherish this artifact forever.

For example, the Guo Jizi Group Ge, which is from the Spring and Autumn Period and is now in the Palace Museum.

If that's the case, the treasures of the first-level cultural relics that I got this time are only one or two.

So, except for the Guo Chen Wenzhe pot, where are the other "Guo family" bronzes hidden?Will it be less?

It is recorded that it was unearthed in Fengxiang, Xishaan, in the Qing Dynasty, and it is very unlikely that the pot of the Guochen Wenzhe Group was unearthed in the late Qianlong period.

But it is a special plate, but a treasure similar to the "Guoshi" bronze Xuanyi plate.

It was previously in the collection of Lu Zhi, Li Hongyi and Zou An (1864-1940), connoisseurs of the late Qing Dynasty, and their backgrounds are quite prominent.

From the end of the Qing Dynasty to the present, there are as few as [-] references to this teapot and its inscriptions. According to a small number of references and studies by Zhongli scholars, there are few bronze wares seen in the market in recent years.

Looking at the decorations and the inscriptions on Mohu, it should be much worse than the "Guo" bronze Li.

Like the bronze wares that have no inscriptions and have no important historical status, there are many unearthed in China.

For example, Rong Geng's "Shang Zhou Yi Qi Tong Kao" and Wu Xiaocheng's "Ke Zhai Ji Gu Lu".

There are eleven characters inscribed on the inner neck of the teapot of Guo Chen Wenzhe group: "Guo Chen Wenzhe group made treasure pots, sons and grandsons Yongbao for their use and enjoyment".

It is known later that it was assembled with Guo Chen Wenzhe, and there are no other four pots in the same group.

So, looking at the small utensils under the album, Ji Zibai is very fond of it, it is a bronze plate.

In other words, our country restricts the circulation of bronze wares.

And under the corresponding photo in his hand, there are not many bronze gilts.

Especially its inscription makes it an orphan, because it is possible to reappear with the same inscription and shape.

Not yet, how are the bronzes in the photos behind you compared to the "Guoshi" bronzes?

It is a pity that Guo Chen Wenzhe made a pot for this set, which has become the only one that can be circulated in the current market.

The upper belly of the utensil is sloping, the top has no lifting beam, the neck of the utensil is decorated with a circle of fretwork, and an animal head is cast on the back and front.

The shape, ornamentation and inscriptions of the teapots of Guo Chen Wenzhe Group are very unique.

Bronze Li evolved from pottery Li, and it is also the same as our cooking utensils.

Now it is used as a sacrificial vessel, but the tripod has no small rim, and the body of the tripod is not decorated with dragon patterns.

As for those, Ji Zibai paid more attention to them, because I don't have a natural advantage in finding that kind of treasure.