This triple bottle from an imitation official kiln in the Ming Dynasty is 24 cm high, 7 cm in diameter, and 8.5 cm in foot diameter.

It is covered with imitation official glaze throughout the body, with gray-green glaze color, and sauce-colored glaze all applied to the edge and bottom.

The body of the instrument is adhered to three identical small bottles, with a novel shape and belongs to the founding instrument type in the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, what we are talking about here is just a triple-tube bottle.

This kind of three-piece bottle combination did not appear in the Ming Dynasty, but was found in the Song Dynasty.

The most famous piece of this type of instrument should be a Southern Song porcelain collected in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provincial Museum.

It was the celadon triple-linked daji bottle born in Lishui Longquan Kiln. It is famous entirely because strictly speaking, it is indeed a defective product.

So, what is a triple bottle? What is a daji bottle?

As the name suggests, the three-piece is a porcelain that is connected together and combined into one.

Daji Bottle is the most popular porcelain bottle style in the Song Dynasty

Daji Bottle is not only popular in the Song Dynasty, but also a representative work from Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

The Daji bottle in Lishui Longquan Kiln is even more famous.

This kind of bottle looks like a word "ji" from the side, so it is called "Daji Bottle".

One day 800 years ago, it was probably because the craftsmen who made it wanted to fish for convenience, so they put three Daji bottles in the same silhouette and burned them.

As a result, something happened when the fired. As soon as the porcelain bottle slipped, the unique triple-connected bottle slipped out.

An accident created the unique Sanlian Daji Bottle in the world.

For some reason, the craftsman did not break the defective product, but instead stayed it.

This triple bottle from 800 years ago was formed by a unique porcelain because of the fall of a Daji bottle in the middle. Perhaps this is the incomplete beauty?

Instead of deliberately imitating the Cong-style bottle, Chen Wenzhe began to exert his imagination freely.

So he then imitated a stove, which was an old collection of the Qing Palace.

This imitation official glaze double-eared three-legged furnace is 10.5 cm high, 11.5 cm in diameter, and 7.5 cm in foot spacing.

The furnace is in the shape of a tripod, with two rings of ears symmetrically on the mouth, and a round belly.

It has three milky feet, six burning nail marks in the furnace, and three burning nail marks at the bottom of the furnace.

This furnace has a simple shape, with glaze color and glaze pattern similar to the Song Dynasty official kiln porcelain.

However, Song official kiln porcelain does not have this shape, and it is a good product among the imitation official glaze porcelain of the Ming Dynasty.

The official kilns of the Ming Dynasty that are currently discovered imitate the Song Dynasty were concentrated in the Chenghua Dynasty.

The main types of vessels are tripods, trunks, stoves, bottles, cups, pots, bowls, bowls, plates, washings, slag buckets, basin support, and pen mountains.

Almost all types of the instrument are included, and most of them do not sign the year.

The characteristics of Chenghua Imitation Official Kiln are very obvious. Generally, the bottom of the utensils are coated with yellow sugar, the glaze is blue and gray, the glaze is strong, the glaze is large and hidden.

This type of utensil includes slag buckets, basin holders, etc.

In addition, the mouth edge and bottom foot of the utensil are coated with sauce-yellow glaze, or only the bottom foot is coated with sauce-yellow glaze.

The glaze is green in color, the glaze is thicker and has a strong luster. Except for a few of them, most of them are sparse.

At the same time, in the middle and late Ming dynasties, folk kilns also began to imitate the Song official kilns.

The main types of instruments are Zun, bottle, washing, and other decorations.

Daily porcelain such as bowls and plates are almost gone, and most of them do not sign the year.

This may be because the imitation process is difficult, and imitators tend to imitate porcelain with higher selling prices for economical interests.

This point is obviously different from the Ming official kiln.

The folk kiln imitates the official kiln porcelain, with the bottom of the foot coated with sauce-yellow glaze to show the iron foot.

The glaze color is blue and the lines are light yellow to show the effect of "golden silk".

The open patterns are either dense or sparse, and some patterns show irregular dense fine hairs.

Next comes the Yuan Dynasty, and people in the Yuan Dynasty seemed to be more good at playing, and they played with Cong-style bottles in new ways!

When we buy things now, we always hope that merchants can give away some small gifts.

For example, when buying a computer, you will ask for accessories such as a mouse, a computer bag.

This will give you a sense of affordability, but this 1 n gift strategy is not a promotional method for modern merchants.

There is a piece of porcelain from the Yuan Dynasty, just like we show how the ceramic producers from more than 700 years ago achieved a free gift for buying one item.

This is a Yuan Dynasty Longquan kiln green glazed Cong-style bottle. It is different from the ordinary Cong-style bottle. It is composed of the main body of the Cong-style bottle and the base of the lower half.

If we only look at the main part of the Cong-style bottle, we are very familiar with it. It is a shape called Cong from ancient times.

Cong was a ritual vessel from the previous three dynasties. By the Song Dynasty, the image of the ritual vessel from the Shang and Zhou dynasties reproduced the glory of the past in another way.

Now we generally call it the retro movement of the Song Dynasty.

The people of the Song Dynasty admired the etiquette and laws of the three dynasties and had a fanatical pursuit of the artifacts of that period.

They not only like to collect antiques from the Shang, Zhou and Warring States Period, but also use the material they are best at - porcelain.

They used porcelain to resurrect those ancient and mysterious ritual instruments.

Cong is one of them, most of which are produced in Longquan kiln.

By the Song Dynasty, it no longer had strict usage regulations like in the "Li of Zhou", but developed new uses, furnishings and flower arrangements.

However, by the Yuan Dynasty, the shape of the Cong-style bottles had new changes, forming a kind of effect of placing Cong-style bottles on the base.

Just like today, I will give it a wooden base.

However, this Cong-style bottle is made of clay and burned.

Some are movable and can be taken down at will.

Some are directly glazed and burned together with the utensils, forming a "one-piece".

Such a combination of artifacts and bases becomes a new shape. In addition to the production of Longquan Kiln, it can also be found on the shadow blue and Yuan blue and white porcelain of the same period.

Theme objects and bases are of various forms, mostly plum vases and incense burners.

The base is obviously in the furniture style.

Some are like round stools, usually made of four legs, or six legs, and horseshoes.

This forms a silhouette, and the sides will be decorated with Ruyi cloud patterns.

There are Ruyi head-style four-short feet or six-short feet under the mud.

The waistband, horseshoe, pot door, and mud support are all structural components in traditional Chinese furniture.

For example, the Cong-style bottle from the Yuan Dynasty is a relatively special square meter, and the base attached to the bottom is similar to a combination of square furniture.

And we can all find their shadows in furniture from the Song and Yuan dynasties.

It is obvious that this type of "one-piece" shape is not a fabrication.

It is a reflection of real life and usage scenarios at that time.

Now you can boldly guess that some incense burners, plum bottles, and cong bottles will be used with wooden furniture bases.

For example, there is a basin frame in the mural of Yu Yin’s tomb in the Gaotang and Jin Dynasty of Qilu.

In Feng Daozhen's tomb, physical objects from the basin were unearthed, proving that the use of glaze was used at that time, and the shapes and structures were very similar.

Under such use habits, smart porcelain makers combine the base with the original vessels when making objects and appear in a new look of a joint.
Chapter completed!