Famous Kiln Porcelain: White Tiger Kiln Phoenix wears peony blue-and-white jade pot and spring bottle.

As the "porcelain capital", China has a long and colorful porcelain culture. Since ancient times, porcelain has been loved and sought after by people from top to bottom. In the development process of thousands of years, the porcelain-making technology has been continuously improved, and the glaze color, glaze shape and glaze pattern have been constantly changing. From primitive porcelain to Song Dynasty porcelain, almost half of China has colorful porcelain kilns, forming five famous kilns handed down from ancient times, such as Ru kiln, Guan kiln, Ge kiln, Jun kiln and Ding kiln. Later, it spread to overseas countries through various trade channels, which was amazing and treasured by the world. In the current collection field, ancient porcelain is not only the perfect embodiment of ancient porcelain-making technology, but also an important embodiment of social culture and people's aesthetic taste of an era. It has great artistic appreciation value and economic collection value.

China's porcelain has experienced from unglazed to glazed, from monochromatic glaze to multicolored glaze, and then from underglaze color to overglaze color. Later, colorful, bucket color, underglaze color and overglaze color porcelain were developed. The blue and white porcelain we are going to explain in detail today is an underglaze porcelain, which is painted on the embryo, glazed and fired in the kiln. As the glaze of blue-and-white porcelain is as transparent as water, and its texture is light and thin, the blue lines on white porcelain are elegant and fresh. Once exquisite blue-and-white porcelain appeared, it became all the rage and was loved by many porcelain collectors at home and abroad after being introduced to Europe. Most of the exquisite blue and white porcelain that appeared in major auction houses were sold at high prices, such as? 200 1 A "Ming Yongle blue and white octagonal candlestick" was sold at Shanghai Jinghua Auction Company for 8.8 million yuan. Four years later, Beijing Hanhai Spring Auction, the transaction price rose to 20.35 million yuan. On June 8, 20 14, a story about a blue-and-white figure in the Yuan Dynasty, Wu Song, was sold for HK$ 402,500,000. As early as 20 1 1 Sotheby's autumn auction in Hong Kong, a piece of "Ming Yongle blue-and-white wishful plum bottle hanging on the shoulder and folding branches" also sold for a high price of HK$ 65,438+68.66 million!

? This blue-and-white porcelain collected by Tianyuan Culture this time is a beautifully sculpted phoenix wearing peony blue-and-white jade pot spring bottle. As shown in the above picture, this jade pot spring bottle is 46.7cm high, with a diameter of 13.7cm and a bottom diameter of 16.4cm, with a curled mouth, a thin neck, a vertical abdomen and a round foot.

? Yuhu Spring Bottle is a kind of bottle with a soft arc as the outline, which evolved from pure water bottles in temples in the Tang Dynasty, set in the Song Dynasty, and gradually developed and improved in the later period. The center of the neck narrows slightly, and the price of the neck gradually declines, showing an apricot shape and the curve changes slowly. It is a typical object in China porcelain modeling.

? Look at the bottle body, the whole bottle body is glazed inside and outside, the fetal quality is delicate and white, the glaze surface is moist and bright, the transparency is high, and the tentacles are lubricated. The glaze is colored, and the pattern is divided into four layers from top to bottom, and each layer is alternating with chords. The foot is concave and convex, the bottom is decorated with grass leaves, the middle is wrapped with exquisite phoenix peony, and the neck is set off by grass leaves. The bottle has elegant shape, complex and bright colors, distinct layers and full composition.

? Looking at its bottom, you can see four big characters "White Tiger Kiln", which is one of the six famous kilns in China. It was founded in the Southern Song Dynasty, developed and prospered in the Yuan Dynasty, and was closed in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. The firing process is exquisite, and most of them are decorated with glaze inside and outside, especially casting pots, bowls and bottles.

? Colored porcelain is one of the great inventions in ancient China. Even in the18th century, Europe has begun to develop porcelain-making technology, and China porcelain still occupies an unshakable position in the aesthetics of porcelain-making technology in the world. Not to mention its historical significance, China porcelain has won numerous sky-high auctions at home and abroad, and will continue to prosper in the current and future artistic development, which is why the initial level of porcelain is high, but the preservation rate is stable and the investment income is greatly increased.