Chapter 854 Tang Dynasty Ceramics

This golden bronze Buddha head of Gandhara is the earliest and one of the most sensational trophies brought back by the Dagu expedition from China’s frontier provinces.

When they returned from their first expedition from China’s frontier provinces and Central Asia, it can be said that they returned with a fruitful experience.

Because the Manchu Qing Dynasty was weak at that time, and the Qing government at that time did not have the concept of protecting the cultural relics of its own country, so the Dagu expedition team, when they arrived in the frontier areas of China, can be said to be looting and no one cares.

They not only searched the famous historical buildings in the area, but also robbed many local tombs, such as the Loulan tomb at that time. this head.

Only then did the ‘exploration teams’ from other parts of the world know that in the frontier areas of China, there are still so many ancient tombs waiting for them to dig. The expedition’s journey to China’s frontier regions to explore treasures.

In the more than 20 years after them, European and American countries and Japan have organized countless ‘exploration teams’ to loot and dig in China’s frontier areas, not only looting countless Chinese cultural relics, but also destroying many local ancient buildings , and ancient tombs with extremely high archaeological value.

It was also the success of this expedition that started the Dagu expedition team, the future ‘brilliant’ expedition in China, after that, whenever they set off to China’s ‘exploration’, there would always be countless Japanese. Rich people come to the door, provide them with financial assistance, and ask them to bring back some ‘special’ cultural relics they need.

And today, this golden bronze Buddha head, which started the brilliant Dagu expedition back then, will go home with Jin Muchen.

Jin Muchen took the gold and bronze Buddha head into his pocket with a heavy heart. At the same time, I was also calculating in my heart that the time I spent in Japan this time was really too short. There is just too much to deal with.

When you come to Japan next time, you must find the remains of those members of the Otani expedition. At that time, all their graves must be smashed, and all their bones are picked up, so that they can also taste the taste of exposing the corpse in the wilderness, so as to relieve their hatred.

After putting away the Buddha’s head, Jin Muchen didn’t have much time, so he stayed here and moved forward.

Soon he came to the ceramic exhibition area, where there are many treasures waiting for him. Soon the first ceramic exhibit caught his eye.

This is a white porcelain phoenix head vase from the Tang Dynasty.

The earliest porcelain in China should actually come from the Jin Dynasty, but the porcelain at that time, because it was time-consuming and laborious to fire, and rarely produced high-quality products. The fine china, so the china of this time. It is not the mainstream in ornamental ceramics.

Therefore, most of the porcelain at this time was mainly practical, and the white porcelain phoenix head bottle in front of me was just like that.

The workmanship is comparable to the porcelain of the Ming and Qing Dynasties when the art of porcelain was at its peak. It is incomparable even to the porcelain of the Song Dynasty when the porcelain was just beginning to flourish.

Although this white porcelain phoenix head vase is called white porcelain, its whiteness cannot be compared with the white porcelain of the Ming and Qing Dynasties at all, and its color is darker yellow.

Moreover, the production process is also very rough. The vase is about twenty centimeters high, with a narrow top and a wide bottom. The entire vase is not glazed. Where to draw.

It is such a simple white and yellow porcelain vase, the only thing that shines. Just at the mouth of the bottle, a crested-like lid was made. And the head of this phoenix is ​​also more funny, it looks more like a chicken head.

To be honest, the skills of this modeling are completely incomparable with the later Ming and Qing Dynasties.

But even so, the preciousness of this white porcelain phoenix head bottle is self-evident.

Although the porcelain on the market today is respected in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Song Dynasty is also very popular, mainly because the porcelain of these dynasties has its own characteristics.

For example, the porcelains of the Song Dynasty are mostly famous for their simple shapes, simple and rich colors, and a Zen-like feeling.

The porcelain of Ming and Qing dynasties, because it happened to be the peak period of the development of Chinese porcelain, was famous for its bright colors, exquisite shapes, delicate workmanship and luxurious materials.

However, the porcelain before the Song Dynasty is also quite recognized by the market, and the reason why those collectors are willing to pay for the porcelain before the Song Dynasty is mainly because the porcelain before the Song Dynasty is too small.

You must know that before the Song Dynasty, China had experienced several times, the period of the “Great National Integration” when the grassland people invaded, and the damage to the Zhengshuo of Chinese civilization caused by those “Great National Integration” was quite amazing.

The three palaces of the Han Dynasty and the Chang’an of the Han Dynasty left by the great Han Dynasty have all been turned into a handful of loess, and the once brilliant Tang civilization has also been wiped out.

Therefore, many of the exquisite utensils they made in those days have all been wiped out with the fire of war.

Not to mention such fragile porcelain, and pottery? There are very few that can be completely preserved to the present. This is also the main reason why the porcelain before the Song Dynasty has a high price in the collection market.

Although they can’t compare with the porcelain of the Song Dynasty and later periods in terms of artistry, it is precisely because they exist in small quantities that the price is firm.

For example, the white porcelain phoenix head bottle in front of Jin Muchen’s eyes is absolutely ugly, and the workmanship is not in line with exquisiteness. It was only used by nobles in the imperial palace during the Tang Dynasty.

With the bonus of the royal family, the price of this porcelain will immediately double several times.

If it was just such a white porcelain bottle, in his identity as a Tang Dynasty porcelain, it would definitely be worth seven or eight million, but if you add the bonus of the royal family, it would at least turn over a hundred. The quotation can reach about 15 million RMB.

So even though this white porcelain phoenix head bottle was not regarded as their national treasure by the Japanese, Jin Muchen still smiled at this white porcelain phoenix head bottle.

After putting away the white porcelain phoenix head bottle, Jin Muchen continued to walk backwards, and soon saw the three-color appliqué double dragon ear bottle that he saw when he came to step on the spot.

This double dragon ear bottle is about 30 centimeters high, with a thin neck. There is a peony flower on the body of the bottle. The two handles are shaped like double dragons absorbing water, and the workmanship is exquisite and beautiful.

The most important thing is the handle of the double dragons. It is basically confirmed that this double dragon ear bottle is definitely a utensil used by the royal family back then, and it is very likely to be the tomb of an emperor in the Tang Dynasty.

As a result, the value of this double dragon ear bottle is immediately different.

And this is a Tang Sancai pottery, although it is not ceramic, but because it is the authentic Tang Sancai, and it is also the ear bottle used by the emperor, so the price of this thing is immediately higher than those of the three-colored horses. down.

In the Tang Dynasty, because porcelain was not yet popular, the main vessel used to hold water at that time was still pottery, and the main ornamental vessel for dignitaries was also pottery.

And if it is crude pottery without any color, those noble people will not look down on it. After all, the crude pottery thing is burnt out of mud, and it is too breathless, and it can’t fit the noble people at all. The temperament of spring and snow.

So some craftsmen who fired ceramics began to look for the shape and color of the pottery.

At the very beginning, the most successful thing that these craftsmen fired were the Tang Sancai horses. You must know that when the Tang Dynasty was founded, the country was established by military merit. At that time, not only the generals could fight, but even the emperor was the emperor who immediately conquered the world.

Therefore, the emperors in the early years of the Tang Dynasty liked horses very much, especially when Emperor Ming of Tang Dynasty, because in the prosperous age of Kaiyuan, Tang Xuanzong’s literary and martial arts had surpassed his ancestors, so he himself also liked horses very much.

The royal craftsmen of the palace fired a lot of three-colored horses, and as a result, these things were naturally very popular with the Tang Minghuang, as the so-called “upper and lower” effect.

Such three-colored horses also began to become popular in the upper circles, from emperors to civil servants and military generals, to low-level officials at all levels, and wealthy big businessmen who liked three-colored horses very much.

So that after they died, they would take the three-colored horses to be buried with them. This is why, after the founding of the People’s Republic of China, several ancient tombs of the Tang Dynasty were excavated in our country, and the main reasons why the three-colored horses were unearthed.

In the middle and late Tang Dynasty, because of the change of people’s aesthetic taste~www.readmtl.com~ craftsmen also began to try to burn various kinds of three-color pottery, so all kinds of three-color pottery were born.

Of course, these pottery, in addition to their practical functions, are also the ornamental objects that the dignitaries usually like, and after they die, they will be buried with them.

In the later Ming and Qing dynasties, there were actually a lot of Tang Sancai pottery in circulation in our domestic antique market, but it was not very popular, because collectors at that time thought it was unlucky.

After all, it is a tomb, and it was used by the dead, so even if their hearts are big, they will inevitably respond.

Because there is no market, people who sell this kind of Tang Sancai naturally don’t pay much attention, and the preservation conditions are of course not good, so many Tang Sancai pottery unearthed were almost destroyed at that time.

By the end of the Qing Dynasty, there were basically not many Tang Sancai pottery on the market, and even if there were, they were all looted by those European and American collectors.

The Japanese were rising stars at the time, and they came to China to take advantage of it relatively late. By the time they came to China to search for this thing, there were basically not many. (To be continued.)