Chapter 1138 Blue is rare, drops are precious, silk is wonderful
I guess many friends don’t know what Jianzhan is, or they don’t know what kind of beauty Jianzhan is.
Just take a thousand views. Only those who have seen Jianzhan and Liuxiazhan can truly know his beauty. Even if you just look at the pictures online, it will be enough to amaze you the magical skills of the ancients.
After watching it,
You must be amazed, how did the ancients do it?
Not to mention the ancients, even many Jianzhan craftsmen who have read a large number of ancient and modern literature research have known the truth but not the reason.
Many people read the technical documents of Jianzhan burning, just like reading a heavenly book.
In fact, many of the masters who make cups can’t understand them.
On the one hand, I lack professionalism and on the other hand, I also have my own experience, but it is difficult to express it in words or language.
This is a unique phenomenon caused by the general lack of knowledge among Jianzhan craftsmen. Unlike many purple clay masters who have undergone strict professional learning and inheritance.
But for most of us, some technical discussions about building kilns are still very meaningful.
The formation mechanism of Yaobian is a probability event, which is so difficult, just like winning a jackpot by buying a lottery.
Even if craftsmen know this mechanism, it really depends on luck to achieve this effect.
This is also the reason why no one can burn it until now.
So what is the difficulty of Yaobian Tianmu not being burned in large quantities?
As we all know, Yaobian is a rare and precious variety in Jianzhan, one of the eight famous porcelains in the Song Dynasty in China.
But few people know that the fired technique of Yaobianzhan is almost as difficult as that of ancient Shu Road and as difficult as climbing to the blue sky.
It is such a difficult little tea bowl that appears entirely by God's will, but modern people have overcome its firing technology.
Chen Wenzhe had to sigh that if we really talk about firing porcelain, some modern masters are even more powerful.
And here, he also admires some foreign collectors and museums.
Whether it is public or private,
People dare to collect some fine works by domestic masters at a high price.
Don't think about it,
Several years later, these fine porcelains are another treasure that has made the Chinese people stunned and collected abroad.
This is also impossible. It cannot be said that the Chinese people are short-sighted, but our economic development or foundation has not kept up with the pace of foreign countries.
"I didn't expect that I would have to get a few more masters' skills for free!"
Within the Pearl of the Sui Hou, records the records of the resurgence of the three generations of the people burning Jianzhan.
The one who cooked the rabbit hair cup, the other who cooked the Yaobian cup, and the other who cooked the Tianmu cup.
These belong to Jianzhan, and they are all high-quality products in Jianzhan. Among them, Rabbit Hair Cup is the most common, oil drops, Yaobian, or further Yaobian Tianmu is the most difficult.
Learning naturally starts with a simple step by step, and can only master a new knowledge at a faster speed.
Chen Wenzhe did this, so he was not in a hurry to learn how to change the sky.
Instead, I began to learn about Yaobian, or the rabbit hair cup in the kiln transformation.
Don't think that rabbit hair cups are not as famous as kiln-changed Tianmu.
Don’t think that the rabbit hair cup is not as good as the Yaobian Tianmu Cup before it is underestimated.
This kind of thing needs to be compared with whom.
Not to mention anything else, just talking about the value of the rabbit hair cup. Its price is not as expensive as the Yaobian Tianmu Cup, mainly because the Yaobian Tianmu Cup is too rare.
Of course, the difficulty in making must be rare in the past, so the price will naturally be high.
However, is it easy to make the best products among the rabbit hair cups? This is also a kind of kiln-shaped cup.
At first, Chen Wenzhe tried to cook it with hand, including oil drops and rabbit hair, but there were no fine products.
For example, rabbit hair, the most precious thing is gold, silver and blue rabbit hair cup, but these all require some luck.
Of course, if there is technology, it can be done in a directional firing, but this requires learning.
Therefore, if you want a high-quality Jianzhan, you must study the technology in it in depth.
This is why all Jianzhan, including rabbit hair cup, are cherished and expensive.
For example, in the Poly Spring Auction in June 2021, the Jianyao Rabbit Hair Cup, which was passed down by the Fujita family, ended successfully after a 5-day auction battle.
The Song Dynasty Jianyao Rabbit Breast Kiln, which once ranked third in Jianzhan Auction, was finally sold for 17.5 million yuan, with a total commission of RMB 20.15 million.
This penis is circumferentially shaped, with a golden buckle on the edge of the mouth, a solid body, full glaze, and a bright and moist glaze color.
The patterns inside the cup are so exquisite, iridescent, and there are clear rabbit marks inside and outside.
The silver-blue rabbit hair shines brightly under different angles of light.
At present, it is difficult to find a few rabbit hair cups that can match them in museum collections around the world.
Everyone knows that Jianyao was first founded in the late Tang and Five Dynasties and developed to its peak during the Song Dynasty.
The Rabbit Hair Cup is the most produced and most representative tea cup in the Song Dynasty Jiankun.
It not only often appears in the tea poems and lyrics of literati in the Song Dynasty, but also the tea books of the Song Dynasty are mostly regarded as the most respected.
Song Huizong even praised the rabbit hair cup in "Theory of the Daguan Tea": "The color of the cup is blue and black, and the jade hair is the best."
As a representative of the Rabbit Hair Cup, although there are many fired items, how difficult is it to find?
In the Song Dynasty, the output of rabbit hair cups in Jiankang Jianzhan system had a certain scale.
On the one hand, a large number of poets in the Song Dynasty described the elegant things in their poems and sentences, and all of them talked about rabbit hair cups, which shows that these poets often used rabbit hair cups.
On the other hand, among the existing Jianzhan, there are relatively large number of rabbit hair cups in major museums in China and the world, especially the major museums in Neon.
At the same time, in the folk collection world, there are also a large number of rabbit hair cups.
At the Jianzhan site, large number of fragments of rabbit hair patterned cups were unearthed.
These major phenomena verified that the number of rabbit hair cups in the Song Dynasty was relatively considerable.
This is why the market supply is guaranteed and everyone's love can be met.
However, under the low production capacity at that time, the supply and marketing relationship must have been less than demand.
Although the rabbit hair cups in the Song Dynasty had a certain production capacity, their quality was uneven.
The yield rate of the Rabbit Hair Cup in the Song Dynasty is circulating in the industry, which is a very one-percent probability, which is actually inaccurate.
If the quality rate of rabbit hair in the Song Dynasty was one in ten thousand, it would be more accurate.
In other words, what is difficult to burn is the finest products among rabbit hair cups.
Although the yield rate of Jianzhan in the Song Dynasty was relatively low, the production volume of each kiln often reached tens of thousands of pieces.
Especially during the Southern Song Dynasty, the technology was completely mature, and the fired rabbit hair was no longer limited to gold rabbit hair, but silver hair and blue hair.
Among the various glaze-colored marks of rabbit hair cups, silver rabbit hair marks are the most precious and rare, and the firing is the most difficult.
In the rabbit hair cup, the rabbit hair is sparse and dense, with clear boundaries, and has a three-dimensional effect. The color is silver and blue.
The marks of the same rabbit will have clear places, blurred places, and even different places will show different colors.
It may also have a different transition to the markings, which will make them more layered and three-dimensional.
As the saying goes: blue is rare, drop is precious, and silk is wonderful.
Chapter completed!