This jade pot spring vase is as thin as transparent. It has a beautiful shape, simple simplicity, exquisite craftsmanship, unique ingenuity, exquisite conception, complicated and unique style.
The most important thing is that the glaze is moist, even, oily, jade-like, and feels like jade.
In addition, the painting is exquisite, with cloud and dragon patterns engraved in the dark, making it domineering, elegant, agile, and lifelike.
A copy of this kind of porcelain should definitely be kept at home to appreciate.
And there must be more than one piece of porcelain like this in the Ming Dynasty.
After finishing this thin-bodied jade pot spring vase, Chen Wenzhe immediately remembered the thin-bodied jade pot spring vase from the Chenghua period with dragon and phoenix patterns engraved on it.
Although this piece is not ruby red glazed porcelain, you can tell from its name that the craftsmanship is not simple.
When you see it, you know the beauty of Chenghua, and this is really not an exaggeration.
Now that I thought of it, I made one.
This porcelain does not use fresh red clay, but ordinary porcelain clay. It is not difficult to make. After all, Chen Wenzhe also has top-notch craftsmanship.
As long as the embryo is thin enough and his top-notch carving technology is used, it is not difficult to secretly carve the dragon and phoenix patterns.
The main thing is the wording that day, which is not easy.
"It seems that Chenghua has a lot of Tianzi style porcelain!"
During this period of time, Chen Wenzhe has been a little crazy due to non-stop porcelain making.
There is nothing he can do about it. The main reason is that when he makes a piece of porcelain, he can think of many porcelains that are particularly precious, beautiful, and that he particularly wants through this piece of porcelain.
Such porcelain must be rare and rare. If you can't buy it in the market, you can only make one yourself.
It finally occurred to me that if I don’t do it now, why don’t I have to write it down in a notebook and wait for it to be done later?
This time Chen Wenzhe made a cup with a simple shape, but it is quite magical.
It is a thin cup with a sky-shaped pattern, decorated with lights and dragon patterns. Some experts believe that if it is authentic, it would be worth at least 300 million.
Many people know that a handful of soil can be turned into beautiful artifacts. This technology of turning decay into magic has fascinated countless people.
Chen Wenzhe fell in love with porcelain making from a very early age, but he didn't have the conditions before.
It is precisely because of this special preference that he often pays attention to some programs about porcelain.
Chen Wenzhe hopes to see some precious porcelain in the show.
So in TV and video programs, he saw the chicken cup competition.
Even if there are too few of these cups in existence, and even if they are fakes, they are rare, you can definitely still see them in TV shows. This is nothing unusual.
However, in this treasure appraisal program, the treasure appraiser brought a small milky white cup, which really surprised Chen Wenzhe when he saw it.
It is said that this small cup is a Tianzi thin cup. If you put a light on the cup, you can still see the dragon pattern.
When I saw it on TV, it was just an ordinary small white cup.
However, when the treasure appraiser shines a flashlight on the cup, he can see a faint dragon pattern on the wall of the cup.
If you point your flashlight at the bottom of the cup, you can see a sky character.
If there is no light, the dragon pattern and the sky character at the bottom of the cup will be hidden.
After showing off his skills, the treasure appraiser put away the flashlight triumphantly and waited to hear the exclamations from the host and the audience.
In fact, Chen Wenzhe was really surprised when he first saw this.
Chen Wenzhe and the host had almost the same idea. They both felt that small cups with hidden dragon patterns like this should be rare, so the price of such cups should be very high.
In order to have a clear standard, the host specifically asked experts to set a price for the cup.
At this time, the experts also spoke.
He said that if this kind of thin cup with a dragon pattern engraved on it is genuine, then the value of this cup should be higher than that of a colorful chicken cup.
Because there are fewer such cups in existence than chicken vat cups.
As we all know, in 2014, Xiangjiang auctioned a colorful chicken vat cup from the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty. The transaction price of this chicken vat cup was 280 million Hong Kong dollars.
So, if this cup is real, it is worth at least 300 million.
During the program, after carefully inspecting this Tianzi thin tire cup, the expert first gave everyone some knowledge.
Experts said that the porcelain body of the thin cup, that is, the cup, is very thin, almost not as thin as the fetal bone.
The famous egg-curtain cup of the Ming Dynasty has almost no fetal bones.
The egg-curtain cup is a thin-bodied porcelain cup. The porcelain body of this kind of porcelain cup is very thin, sometimes said to be as thin as a cicada's wing, and there is almost no fetal bone.
This type of egg curtain cup is the most famous one made by Wu Haojiu, a native of Fuliang Jingzhen during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty.
Compared with him, it can only show that the thin-tired cups of the Yongle and Chenghua periods had high technological achievements.
Of course, thin-bodied cups were also made in the Qing Dynasty, with the utensils from the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong dynasties being the most classic and with the most outstanding craftsmanship.
As for this kind of thin eggshell cup, the expert on TV said very clearly that he has only seen three pieces, and these three thin eggshell cups are all collected in the Wanwan Palace Museum.
One of them has no inscription on the bottom, while the other two have a blue and white six-character inscription "Da Ming Chenghua Year System" on the bottom.
According to this expert's knowledge, apart from these three eggshell cups, only some porcelain pieces have been unearthed from the Ming Emperor's Tomb in Jinling.
In fact, Chen Wenzhe also knows these things very well. Why?
It is because of the three words "eggshell cup" that eggshell pottery cups appear in history textbooks and were unearthed in Qilu.
As a Qilu native, it is impossible for Chen Wenzhe not to know what eggshell pottery is, nor the craftsmanship of eggshell pottery.
The eternal masterpiece of eggshell pottery is that it is less than 0.2 mm exquisite.
It is truly as black as paint, as bright as a mirror, as loud as silence, and as hard as porcelain...
What is your understanding of thin? Is it as thin as money’s lips? Is it as thin as cicada’s wings?
Here, you can see how thin the wall of a goblet can be. It is even less than 0.2 mm.
More than 4,000 years ago, in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, during the Longshan Culture period, the simplest materials met the pinnacle of craftsmanship.
This is a very small number of thin-walled black pottery cups that have been unearthed, so they are said to have left a lasting legacy.
It is normal for such a cup to be imitated, but there are not many good imitations.
After all, how thin is the 0.2 mm wall?
0.02mm
=2 silk, zero point two is twenty silk.
This wire is a length unit commonly used in mechanical processing.
Chen Wenzhe is not an engineering student, nor does he know much about this. However, being able to describe it in units of machining precision should be able to explain how thin it is.
With such a piece of pottery, it is not surprising that the ancients in the Ming Dynasty wanted to imitate the eggshell pottery cup.
It doesn’t matter the era, modern people want to imitate it.
However, the level of imitation is open to question!