Therefore, this conch has a blow hole at the end and has a loud pronunciation.
In addition, there is a small round hole on the side of the screw, which can be used to adjust the volume and rhythm, which is even more powerful.
It can be seen from this that the use of conch at that time was definitely not accidental.
It is not a viewing device. It can also blow and adjust the volume of the sound. However, it is artificially made. How can it be made if one does not understand music?
The most important thing is that the production is very fine. It has a white and thick body, a fine texture, a white and transparent glaze, and a bluish glaze on the bottom. No matter how you look at it, it is a fine product among the fine products of Ding Kiln.
Besides, this is a conch, which has special significance.
Buddhism often uses the sound of Dharma conch to metaphorize the wonder of the Buddha's teachings or to express the power of the Buddha.
"Preface to the Lotus Sutra of Wonderful Dharma" says: "Now the Buddha, the World-Honored One, wants to preach the Great Dharma, rain down the Great Dharma, blow the Great Dharma conch, beat the Great Dharma drum, and perform the Great Dharma meaning."
At the same time, the conch is also one of the tools used to ward off demons.
The "Buddha Speaks of Infinite Life Sutra" says that when Sakyamuni conquered demons and became enlightened, "Sakyamuni prayed for the Dharma Lun, walked around with the Buddha, and the Buddha roared, buckled the Dharma drum, blew the Dharma conch, enforced the law with a sword, and built
Who wouldn’t like a beautiful magic weapon that has a certain meaning when used with such skills?
Among the Ding kiln porcelain, there is more than one special porcelain like this conch.
In addition, the Ding porcelain of the Northern Song Dynasty also includes white-glazed five-legged incense burners, porcelain turtles, and the famous children's pillows, sleeping female pillows and other sculptural objects.
I won’t talk about the baby pillow, but the girl’s pillow still needs to be described in detail.
The Sleeping Girl Pillow is also called the Beauty Pillow. As the name suggests, you can imagine its image in your imagination.
The Sui people's Qixiang ceramic pillow can ensure that the cervical spine will not deviate.
In the Tang Dynasty, Gongxian County was very beautiful, while in the Song and Jin Dynasties, Cizhou was beautiful in its paintings.
Quyang porcelain pillows are mostly white glaze, and are as strong as gold and stone to benefit the neck and shoulders.
If you take a sleeping pillow to accompany you, it will refresh your mind and nourish your skin.
The bamboo branches in the corner waved in the shadow of the moon, and a woman lay sleeping on the pillow beside the stream.
Thin clouds and thick fog make me sad during the day, and my brain is as cool as a dream fairy.
The willows are planted in the cold and the flowers are blooming. In the dream of the Mid-Autumn Festival, there are Chan-juan trees.
Qianlong loved channeling spiritual energy, which was better than coral and tortoiseshell.
In the scorching sun, I am unaware of the sleeping clouds, and dream butterflies enter among the lotus flowers.
It’s so comfortable to rest your body on a pillow, so there’s no need to sleep on a pillow of soft cotton.
This is why porcelain pillows were sought after by the ancients, and the beauty pillow among them is definitely a rare treasure.
This Ding kiln beauty pillow is shaped like a plump beauty lying prone.
The beauty is wearing a double-breasted long dress, lying on her side on a lace pedestal.
She put her hands under her head and raised her feet slightly.
The lines of the clothes are smooth, the hair accessories are on the head, and the hair is high in a bun, showing grace and elegance, and the whole body reveals the legacy of the Tang Dynasty.
At this time, her expression was fixed in a vivid picture of watching the king return on a spring night, with a calm and lifelike expression on her face.
It has a fine texture and is glazed all over, with a uniform glaze layer. There is only glaze accumulation in the folds and other recessed areas, but there is absolutely no glaze glaze defect.
Its glaze color is as white and smooth as jade, and its brightness can be discerned. Where the glaze layer is thicker, the color is white with a hint of green.
The production process is exquisite. It is first fired into a mold and then finely carved.
Generally speaking, the size of porcelain pillows is larger the later it is made.
During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, porcelain pillows were generally less than a chi, but after the Song Dynasty, most were more than a chi.
Porcelain pillows are made entirely according to the physiological structure of the head and neck. Although the texture is hard, the headrest is very comfortable.
In order to ensure that the cervical vertebrae are not compressed during sleep, the whole body should lie on the porcelain pillow in a natural state and fall asleep comfortably.
Why do I say this? Because the remains of a Northern Song Dynasty mold-pressed sleeping pillow for women unearthed from the Ding Kiln ruins in 1985 was a practical device made based on the above concept.
This remnant of the Northern Song Dynasty mold-pressed female sleeping pillow is still regarded as the only work of the female sleeping pillow in Ding kiln.
Of course, it is certainly not the only beauty pillow left in the world.
As Chen Wenzhe knows, there is also a hand-made female pillow of the same form in the hands of a European collector.
This European collection should be the female sleeping pillow unearthed in Quyang in 1985.
The size of this female pillow is smaller than the normal porcelain pillows from the Song Dynasty.
Moreover, it is coated with vitreous transparent glaze, the fetal bones are fine and smooth, and it is purely hand-carved. It is obviously an early original work.
In addition to these two pieces, there is actually another piece that is very famous, and it is the third piece.
Why do I mention this one? Because this one is different from the two mentioned above, especially the posture and expression of the lying girl.
Of course, there are also differences in height, size, etc. There is a lot of knowledge in this and must be mentioned!
At the Australian Spring Auction in 2015, I bought a "Beauty Pillow from Ding Kiln in Song Dynasty".
The Song Dynasty itself was a special era. As long as the porcelain produced in this era could be sold for a certain price.
If you add Ding kiln, you can definitely sell it at a sky-high price. Even damaged porcelain can be sold at a high price.
If it can be a porcelain pillow, the price will definitely be higher. If it is a rare beauty pillow, the price will be immeasurable.
Therefore, the bidding started at a low price, and after dozens of rounds, the price was HK$350 million, which was nearly HK$400 million including taxes.
It is a good thing that a piece of domestic high-quality ancient porcelain art was sold for such a high price all of a sudden, but good things take a long time to come.
In recent years, the transaction volume of Ding Kiln porcelain in the global auction market has increased significantly compared with previous years, and the transaction prices have also been rising.
In the 2014 Sotheby's spring auction in Hong Kong, a large eight-sided bowl with carved patterns from the Ding Kiln of the Northern Song Dynasty was sold for approximately RMB 116 million, breaking the 100 million yuan mark for the first time and astonishing the industry.
The Ding kiln white porcelain beauty pillow that participated in this auction was finally sold for HK$395.55 million (approximately RMB 316.44 million), once again setting a new record for Chinese Ding kiln porcelain auctions.
Prior to this, even the legendary item that attracted much attention in the industry, the Ming Chenghua Doucai Chicken Cup, only fetched 281 million Hong Kong dollars (approximately RMB 225 million).
The auction price of Ding Kiln Beauty Pillow not only surpassed other Ding Kiln porcelain, but also repositioned the price of Chinese handicrafts.
However, after the prosperity came loneliness, because it was widely circulated on the Internet at that time, and the pictures of this porcelain did not feel real.
Later, I heard from an insider that it was true, but it had been repaired. I was afraid that the Cultural Relics Bureau would cause trouble, so I said it was wrong.
It's just that after Chen Wenzhe saw the picture, he thought about it over and over again and felt that something was wrong.
I searched for Macau auction items to study and compare. I was not afraid of not knowing the goods, but I was afraid of comparing goods. This carefulness really revealed many "awkward" problems.
This Ding kiln beauty pillow is 43 cm long and 15.5 cm wide, and is fully glazed.
The auction company also presented a thermoluminescence measurement report specially issued by the Xiangjiang Zhongke R&D Center.
The results showed that the last firing date of this lot was 900-1100 years ago.
Judging from the identification results, it must be true.
However, appraisal certificates can be affected by external influences!