Purple earth is turned into three iron feet, and the fable has a letter in it.
Yi Ci Benqi Tuizang Li, Song Zhao Hu Kuaqie Shi Tan.
This is the three-legged washing machine. The three-legged washing machine is a classic type of Ru kiln porcelain from the Northern Song Dynasty in ancient my country.
It is a pity that only one piece has been handed down from generation to generation, and it is now collected in the Palace Museum in Shendu.
This three-legged washbasin is painted with azure glaze on the inside and outside.
The glaze is full of fine cracked flakes.
The bottom is fully glazed and has 5 small nail marks.
Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty valued this wash very much. He once wrote a poem for it, which was engraved on the outer bottom of the vessel by the palace jade craftsman, and later signed "Qianlong Emperor Wuxu Xia Imperial Inscription".
This device has a simple shape and regular production.
The glaze is light azure, soft and moist.
It is 3.6 cm tall,
Diameter 18.6 cm,
Foot span 16.7 cm.
The body is not big, it can even be said to be small and exquisite.
The most important thing is that the shape of the vessel is simple, but it is a piece of porcelain that imitates antique bronze.
It has a straight mouth and a flat bottom, with five tiny nail marks distributed on the bottom, and three curved shapes standing on a tripod.
The shape of this three-legged wash is very simple and elegant, and the production is strict and meticulous. The bottom of the mouth is clear and neat, and there is a string pattern around the outside of the mouth.
Glazed inside and out, the color is slightly lighter, with ice cracks, and the glaze color is shiny and shiny, showing the special charm of Ru kiln celadon.
This simple and elegant color sense may be the main reason why Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty "abandoned Ding and used you". It is also a reflection of the fashion of the upper class and the aesthetic taste of the rulers at that time.
Such a three-legged wash,
It is very easy to imitate, but it is extremely difficult to imitate well!
In modern times, various Ru kiln factions often imitated some three-legged washbasins.
The imitation fired templates of each house are obviously the only Ru kiln three-legged washer in the Palace Museum that has been handed down from generation to generation.
However, from many pictures, we can notice that this only handed down product has obvious polishing marks on its feet.
This can be proven by comparison with the narcissus basin collected in the Wanwan Palace Museum, which is recognized as having the soles of the feet rubbed.
In this way, the original shape of the Ru kiln's three-legged foot wash has become a mystery.
Since it is a mystery, special attention must be paid to imitating it.
Strictly speaking, the three-legged wash can be said to be a plate.
A plate with three legs becomes a classic three-legged dishwasher.
And this kind of three-legged wash with azure glaze,
Once it is born, it can usually be sold for a sky-high price.
The value of your porcelain,
There is no doubt that in the auction market, Ru porcelain is basically synonymous with sky-high prices.
Not to mention those large-scale Ru porcelain styles, the auction prices for the exquisite Ru kiln three-legged washware alone are basically more than 10 million.
When negotiating prices with Wu San before, they mentioned the prices of some three-legged washing machines. However, those prices were relatively far back, and Chen Wenzhe and the others were limited to the three-legged washing machines of the Ru kiln in the Northern Song Dynasty.
If we relax the era and only count the Three-leg Washing in the Song Dynasty, the number will be much greater.
At the 2010 Xiangjiang Spring Art Treasures Auction, CITIC International Auction Co., Ltd. auctioned a Song Dynasty Ru kiln three-legged washer for 16,192,000 yuan.
At the 2016 spring auction, Ao CITIC International Auction Co., Ltd. auctioned a Song Dynasty Ru kiln three-legged washer for 14,593,500 yuan.
At the 2018 boutique auction, Xiangjiang Rongsheng International Auction Co., Ltd. auctioned a Song Dynasty Ru kiln three-legged washer for 23,833,600 yuan.
It can be seen from this that as long as it is a three-legged bath from the Song Dynasty, not necessarily a three-legged bath from the Northern Song Dynasty, it can easily be auctioned for tens of millions of dollars.
In fact, it is certain that the three pieces above were definitely not produced by the Ruguan Kiln of the Northern Song Dynasty, because if they were, the publicity would never say that they were from the Song Dynasty, but would directly say that they were from the Northern Song Dynasty.
Therefore, the reason why these three Ru kiln three-leg washbasins are priced at less than 100 million must be because they came from the Southern Song Dynasty.
As for whether it is an official kiln, we have to say something else, because when promoting it, there was no special labeling of official kiln porcelain.
If it were an official kiln, the publicity side would definitely write a big book about it. How could it be hidden?
Even so, among porcelains, especially porcelains with simple shapes, it is easy to sell such a price, but it is difficult for other types and other kiln entrances to do so.
Chen Wenzhe knows that among antique porcelains with simple shapes, especially plates, small butterflies and other porcelains, there are really not many that can sell for tens of millions of dollars.
If anyone can create miracles, it must be Ru Kiln. For example, in 1992 in New York, a beautiful country, a small Ru Kiln dish was sold for 140 million yuan, creating a miracle in the world's ceramic auction history.
You know, that was in 1992, thirty years ago now.
At that time, a small plate could be sold for 1.4 billion. How perfect should such a porcelain work be?
First of all, it must have come from the official kiln of the Northern Song Dynasty, and secondly, it must be in perfect condition. If any of these conditions are missing, it would be impossible for it to sell for a sky-high price of more than 100 million.
Of course, it is not a good thing. Even if it is Ru kiln official kiln porcelain, even if it has the names of all the emperors in the past, can it be sold at this price?
Ru porcelain is worthy of being one of the most precious porcelains in Chinese porcelain.
As for the three-legged washing machine, one of the classic types, how difficult is it to collect one?
Therefore, the three-legged washbasin with azure glaze from Ruguan kiln in the Northern Song Dynasty that Chen Wenzhe has in his hands is so precious!
To produce such a batch of high-quality three-legged washing products, one must strive for excellence.
So what is the hardest part of making this type of vessel?
It's definitely not the plate above it, but the three legs below it.
The color and roughness of the wear marks on the soles are almost the same.
Currently, there are two views on this issue.
The first is that the original shape of this washing foot should be a water drop shape.
The second is that the prototype of this bottom-washing foot is not simply in the shape of a water drop, but has another shape.
The first is the water drop shape theory, which is also the shape used by most Ru porcelain imitation works on the market.
Therefore, we can know that this view is still recognized by most people in the industry.
Scholars who hold this view believe that the soles of the feet stored in the Forbidden City in Shendu are only slightly worn, so when they are not worn, the soles should be in the shape of water droplets.
The reason why it is made into a water drop shape is probably designed by craftsmen in the Northern Song Dynasty based on certain uses of "washing", and there is certain archaeological evidence.
Among the foot fragments unearthed from the Ru Kiln site of Qingliang Temple in Nanhe, the feet of some fragments are shaped like water droplets, but it is not certain whether they came from the Three-legged Washing Machine.
Second, other shapes are said.
With the discovery of the Ru kiln ruins, many breakthroughs have been made in the study of Ru porcelain, and new important clues have been provided for solving the mystery of the three-legged washing foot shape.
There are many fragments of the Northern Song Dynasty Ru Kiln three-legged washbasin unearthed at the Ru Kiln site of Qingliang Temple in 2000. It can be seen that the feet are obviously not drop-shaped, but have a shape with the lower end extending slightly outward.
The base of the collection of the Forbidden City in Shendu is exactly like this type of vessel with the lower half of the foot missing.
Therefore, many people have speculated whether the Song Ru three-foot bath in the Forbidden City may have had wear marks left due to broken feet and polishing.
So, should the shape of the tripod washbasin be the same as that of the unearthed remains?