On "Damen" Porcelain (Discussion Draft)

In antique shops, people often say, "This thing is wide open." This shows that this thing is fine. It's the first product. It's the real thing. "Open the door" or "open the door" is a jargon or term to judge an antique. Porcelain, which is considered as a "wide-open door", has at least the following elements in the eyes of people in the industry: 1, with consistent age characteristics and obvious original state. 2, leather shell, thick patina, old-fashioned, aging formed by years is natural. 3. The oxidation characteristics of cellar storage and display are obvious. The freshness of the original has been completely lost.

With these elements, it can be called the "gate". (These characteristics cannot be confused. Let's take a look at the following pieces of Ru kiln porcelain, which one belongs to the gate (you can discuss it and express your opinions)

Ru kiln blue glaze lamp holder glass tray candlestick?

Height 16.5CM? Caliber 4.5CM? The bottom diameter is 5 cm.

Ruyao glass lamp holder type glass disc candlestick integral type

Ruyao glass lamp holder glass tray candlestick mouth and glass tray

Zhi Ding and air holes at the bottom of Ru kiln

The shape and workmanship of this article are very complicated. If you think about it carefully, you can feel the difficulty of working. A teacup is designed at the lower part, and a candlestick is supported on it. The connection between the candlestick and the teacup is very close and natural, without any trace of connection, and it is hollow inside. In order to avoid the deformation of the matrix caused by the expansion of internal gas during firing, an exhaust hole is made at the bottom, which is quite regular.

The upper part is designed with a human hand, which seems to hold the bottom of a torch tray with thumb and forefinger. The middle part of the hand is also empty, and air holes are cleverly left in the dark between the two fingers.

At the top is the candle stand, which is sealed with colored glaze to form a plane. The glaze sealing process of glass is similar to that of glass lamps in our museum at the same time. This is just our imagination of the type of equipment. Whether the real use is like this remains to be further studied. Judging from the shape of the very regular Xiaomi Zhi Ding imprint at the bottom, it should be the product of Zhanggong Lane Kiln.

The bubbles under the glaze are sparse, and a large accumulation layer like snow foam is observed, and these accumulation layers are surrounded by yellow halos.

The glaze color changes with the change of the ware type. The thin part of the ware glaze is brown, with flashing red and soil erosion discoloration in many places.

Ruyao glass carving cup fumigation furnace

Height 14cm diameter 10.5cm bottom diameter 7cm

Integral Ru kiln green glaze carved cup fumigation furnace

Ruyao glass carving cup fumigator cover part

Bottom of fuming furnace with green glaze carved cup in Ruyao

? The enamel of the fumigator is bright and smooth, and the plain surface is not decorated. There are several regular willow-shaped flower holes around the cover and the cover body to meet the functional requirements of the fumigator. The furnace body is funnel-shaped and has several regular spirals. The feet are cup-shaped.

Due to the age or humid storage environment, the color of blue glaze in most places has faded and corroded. However, due to the thick glaze layer at the surface turning point, it still presents a beautiful sky blue.

Other features are the same as the previous one. ?

Ruyao Liuli Wuzi Deng Ke Flower Bed

Height 16cm? 9-caliber cm? Bottom diameter 7cm?

Overall Modeling of Ruyao Azure Glass Wuzi Deng Ke Garden

Ruyao azure stone Woods Deng Ke Shu Hua kou bu

Ruyao Liuli Wuzi Deng Ke Flower Bed Bottom

The name of this flower bed should be taken by modern people according to the shape of the flower bed. Some are called five bottles, while others are called six bottles. It seems that the workmanship is more complicated. Each of the five small bottles connected here may be more difficult than making a large bottle alone.

Exquisite and neat workmanship. The five vials in the abdomen should be made one by one and then glued on, but the shape and glaze color are exactly the same, and there are no traces of adhesion.

This bottle belongs to the exhibition handed down from generation to generation. Look at its glaze color, the glaze is very thin, and the bottle mouth and protruding parts show its tire color, and the glaze color is moist as jade. Due to years of accumulation, the imprint dirt left by long-term wiping goes deep into the glaze and cannot be removed.

? The edges and protruding positions of the large and small bottle mouths are slightly reddish in fetal color, with a strong sense of glaze and jade. Most of the openings are oblique cracks, and the five in Zhi Ding are millet-shaped, which should be the characteristics of the official kiln in Zhanggong Lane. ?

Hui Zhou's Qingbo Magazine in the Southern Song Dynasty said: Burning is forbidden in Ruyao Palace, and agate is used as glaze. Ru kiln products have delicate soil and hard fetal bones, and the glaze contains agate powder, which produces special colors, such as egg white, azure and pink blue ... Especially sky blue is the most expensive, pink blue is the most important, and sky blue is precious. There were still many porcelain and plastic handicrafts imitating Ru Ci in Song Dynasty. Although there are many post-imitators, the characteristics and charm of Ru Ci in the Northern Song Dynasty, especially the vicissitudes of the old times and the old scars left by history, will never be achieved.