At that time, the price of a kiln building fragment was 300 yuan.
You know, at that time, you still earned work points, and your monthly income was only a few yuan. 300 yuan was already quite expensive.
Therefore, Chen Wenzhe believes that no matter who encounters this matter, they will deal with it in a low-key manner.
Collectors are often most afraid of others knowing that they possess rare treasures, especially in two local villages. In recent years, there have been many incidents of theft of Jianzhan collections, and it is impossible to investigate and deal with them.
In fact, it is rumored that there should be quite a few obsidian fragments unearthed.
Of course, it is not ruled out that collectors who collect Jianzhan still have some fragments of Yaobianzhan in their hands.
In addition to reports in the industry in 2017 that fragments of Yao Bian were unearthed in Hangzhou, a collector in Kunming City has been displaying the complete "Yao Bian Zhan" in his collection.
At the same time, there is also controversy about neon.
Some people believe that it is the fifth zodiac lamp.
Regardless of whether these lamps are Yaobian lamps or not, even if they are recognized in the end, it cannot change the fact that Jianzhan Yaobian lamps are really rare!
Why are there so few obsidian lamps? Domestic jianzhan making masters have long discussed this.
The probability of the formation of an obsidian lamp is about one in a million.
Why are there so few? The reason should be that the technology is too difficult.
In industry terms, it was an unexpected event that happened at the right time, right place, and right people.
It is a technology with no standards, no answers, and no way to control it.
Modern firing is difficult. If you want one, or even want to take a look, you have to go to Neon to see it? This is quite frustrating!
Don’t you want to treat them as treasures? Then I will bake more, and they will even be more beautiful than the three ancient ones.
However, it is not easy to do this.
First of all, you need to understand what is obsidian?
The word "Yaoyu" first appeared in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, and it originally meant "kiln change".
"Documents of the Neon Muromachi Period" "Kuntaikan Left and Right Bookkeeping" records: "It is rumored that the kiln was first opened...Yao changes".
Jianzhan, to put it bluntly, is a small tea bowl used by people in the Song Dynasty to fight tea. Why is it loved by everyone in ancient and modern times?
That's because the kiln in Jianzhan's third eye is really beautiful.
Neon people always use the term "universe in the bowl" to describe this bowl, saying that it is like the starry sky seen at the beach late at night, which is unpredictable.
Indeed, the patterns on this bowl caused by natural kiln changes are like being on the seaside at night and looking at the dazzling starry sky.
And there are thousands of mysteries hidden deep in the starry sky, just like the vast and unknowable universe.
The reason why this bowl is said to be a unique treasure is because if the Yaobian Tianmu tea bowl is placed in the dark, its flare will shine with a slightly eerie light, and the colors will change in an unpredictable way.
Although this tea bowl is only 12 centimeters in diameter, it can make viewers think of the universe and the stars.
There have been many opinions on the causes of obsidian phenomena.
For example, Japanese scholar Yamachi Kazuo proposed: "The obsidian blue glow is not a factor of the glaze, but it may be caused by a thin film existing on the glaze. The thin film causes light interference to produce a blue glow, just like
The oil film on the water surface or the anti-reflective film on the photographic perspective.”
Chinese scholars have discovered through research that the obsidian phenomenon is due to the segregation of silicon, which forms a thin film on the glaze surface with a thickness of several thousand angstroms to 1 mm.
The bodies of the film and the glaze are respectively metastable phase separated and unstable phase separated, thus forming structural interface reflection.
The optical principle of glaze color obsidian change is that film interference causes the formation of obsidian-changing Tianmu glaze.
The main process factors are glaze composition, firing temperature, holding time, glaze layer thickness and cooling rate, etc.
Of course, even if you master all these techniques, the final flare third eye you get will not be exactly the same.
Or speaking of the few surviving ones, the three neon ones have completely different names.
The one in the Jingjiatang library is called "Inaba Tenmu". This obsidian lamp is internationally recognized as the best bowl in the world, and is also known as the "universe in a bowl".
However, when the fourth generation head of the Mitsubishi Group, Koyata Iwasaki, received the lamp, he repeatedly said that he was not worthy of using it.
And he has never used it to drink tea in his whole life. Why would Iwasaki Koyata have such an idea? What is the origin of this cup?
The Seikado Bunko Art Museum is located in the Setagaya district of neon Tokyo. It was co-founded by two generations, Yanosuke Iwasaki, the second generation president of the Mitsubishi Group, and Koyata Iwasaki, the fourth generation president.
It is mainly used to collect various rare ancient books. So far, the museum has collected 7 national treasures, 84 important cultural properties, and 200,000 ancient books.
The name of "Jingjiatang" is taken from "The Book of Songs·Jizui" says "What is the truth about Wei, Jingjia is Jingdou".
It means what kind of sacrifice to the ancestors, a clean and beautiful sacrifice.
Therefore, Jingjia has a clean and beautiful meaning. This should be beyond the expectations of the Chinese people, right?
Up to now, how many people in China can explain this name? How many people understand the Book of Songs?
Not to mention understanding, how many people can recite a few lines of the Book of Songs?
I’m afraid those who know it only know a few famous sentences, right? Not many Chinese people understand it deeply!
Let’s talk about this Tianmu lamp. To understand it, you need to know its value.
Let’s not talk about now, let’s talk about the past. In the earliest days, this thing seemed to be hidden in the house of General Tokugawa.
Later, a man named Kasuga Bureau passed the national treasure Yaoban Tenmoku lamp received from the original Tokugawa generals to the descendants of the Inaba family who were related to her, and named the lamp Inaba Tenmoku.
By the seventh year of Taisho (1918), the shogunate era had long ended, and the Inaba Tenmu fell into the hands of Ono Tetsuro.
Later, in the 13th year of the Taisho period (1924), Tetsuro Ono sent this obsidian Tenmoku lamp to the auction house, and finally sold it to the Iwasaki family, the president of Mitsubishi, for 167,000 yen.
Less than 170,000 yen, this price should be quite unexpected, right?
Does it feel like too little? In fact, there is a cognitive error here.
At that time, this 167,000 yen was not more than one hundred yen per US dollar now.
More than a hundred years ago, in 1897 to be precise, the Neon Currency Act was promulgated, and their gold standard system was established in legal form for the second time.
The law stipulates that one yen is equivalent to 750 milligrams of gold.
This means that 167,000 yen at that time was equivalent to 125.25 kilograms of gold, worth nearly 30 to 40 million yuan, or 6 to 7 million US dollars.
At today's exchange rate, it is worth 16.7 billion yen.
There is no doubt that this was an astronomical figure at the time.
The biggest reason why this obsidian lamp in the collection of Jingjiatang Art Museum has such charm is attributed to its unpredictable glaze color.
The actual object is as dark as lacquer, but at the same time it appears to be extremely deep and full of variety.
On the basic tone of deep black, colored light spots with blue as the main color and metallic-colored crystals are added. All of these are combined to make those who see the flares in the bowl really feel like they are seeing a starry sky.