This Ming Dynasty imitation of an official kiln triple vase is 24 cm high, 7 cm in diameter, and 8.5 cm in full diameter.
It is covered with imitation official glaze, the glaze color is gray-green, and the mouth rim and bottom feet are all covered with sauce-colored glaze.
The body of the vessel is composed of three identical small bottles glued together into one body. It has a novel shape and is an original vessel type in the Ming Dynasty.
Of course, what we are talking about here is only the triple tube bottle.
This combination of three conjoined bottles did not appear in the Ming Dynasty, but existed in the Song Dynasty.
The most famous piece of this type of vessel is probably a piece of Southern Song Dynasty porcelain collected in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provincial Museum.
It was a celadon triple Daji vase produced in the Longquan Kiln of Lishui. It is famous because, strictly speaking, it is a defective product.
So, what is a triple bottle? What is a Daji bottle?
As the name suggests, Sanlian is three pieces of porcelain that are connected together to form one whole.
The Daji bottle was the most popular style of porcelain bottle in the Song Dynasty.
The Daji bottle was not only popular in the Song Dynasty, but also a representative work in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
The Daji vase of Lishui Longquan kiln is even more famous.
This kind of bottle is called "Daji bottle" because it looks like the character "吉" from the side.
One day 800 years ago, the craftsman who fired it probably wanted to catch fish, so he put three Daji bottles in the same sagger and burned them for convenience.
As a result, there was an accident during the burning process. The porcelain bottle in the middle slipped, and this unique triple bottle slipped out.
An accident created the world's unique triple Daji vase.
For some unknown reason, the craftsman did not smash the defective product, but kept it.
This triple vase from 800 years ago was formed into a unique piece of porcelain due to the fall of the middle Daji vase. Perhaps this is the beauty of incompleteness?
Instead of imitating Cong-style bottles, Chen Wenzhe began to let his imagination run wild.
So he then imitated a stove, which was an old collection of the Qing Dynasty.
This imitation official-glazed double-eared three-legged stove is 10.5 cm high, 11.5 cm in diameter, and 7.5 cm in length.
The stove is in the shape of a kettle, with a lip, two rings of ears symmetrically placed on the mouth, and a round belly.
There are three milk-like feet under the banner, there are six burnt nail marks on the inside of the furnace, and three burnt nail marks on the bottom of the furnace.
The shape of this furnace is simple and simple, and the glaze color and open pattern on the glaze surface are quite similar to Song Dynasty official kiln porcelain.
However, Song official kiln porcelain does not have this shape, and it can be regarded as the best among the Ming Dynasty imitation official glaze porcelain.
The Ming Dynasty official kilns discovered so far imitate the Song Dynasty official kilns, and they are concentrated in the Chenghua Dynasty.
The main types of utensils are tripods, statues, furnaces, bottles, cups, pots, bowls, bowls, plates, washers, slag buckets, basin holders, pen mounts, etc.
Almost all types of instruments are included, and most of them are not signed with year marks.
The characteristics of the Chenghua imitation official kiln are very obvious. Generally, the base of the utensils is coated with a sauce-yellow glaze. The glaze color is green with a hint of gray. The glaze surface has a strong luster. The openings are large and invisible.
Such utensils include slag buckets, basin holders, etc.
Furthermore, the rim and bottom of the utensil are both coated with yellow glaze, or only the bottom is coated with yellow glaze.
The glaze color is green with a hint of green, the enamel is relatively thick, and the luster is strong. Except for a few dense flake patterns, most of them are sparse.
At the same time, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, folk kilns also began to imitate Song official kilns.
The main types of utensils include statues, bottles, washbasins, pen mounts and other decorative utensils.
Daily porcelain such as bowls, plates, etc. are almost missing, and most of them are not signed with year marks.
This may be because the imitation process is difficult, and imitators tend to imitate higher-priced porcelain out of economic interests.
This point is obviously different from Mingguan kiln.
The folk kiln imitates the official kiln porcelain, and the base is coated with sauce yellow glaze to show the iron feet.
The glaze color is azure and bluish, and the lines are light yellow to show the "golden silk" effect.
The open flakes are either relatively dense or sparse, and some flakes appear in the shape of irregular dense fine hairs.
Next came the Yuan Dynasty, and people in the Yuan Dynasty seemed to be better at playing. They came up with new ways to play with Cong-style bottles!
When we buy things now, we always hope that the merchants will give some small gifts.
For example, when buying a computer, you will be asked to receive accessories such as a mouse and a computer bag.
In this way, you will have a feeling of getting benefits. However, this 1n gift strategy is not a promotional method for modern merchants.
There is a piece of porcelain from the Yuan Dynasty, which shows us how the ceramic producers more than 700 years ago implemented a buy-one-get-one-free deal.
This is a celadon-style Cong-style bottle from the Longquan kiln of the Yuan Dynasty. It is different from the ordinary Cong-style bottle in that it is composed of the main body of the Cong-style bottle and the lower half of the base.
If we only look at the main part of the Cong-style bottle, we are very familiar with it. It comes from the ancient shape of the "Cong".
Cong was a ritual vessel of the last three dynasties. In the Song Dynasty, the image of the ritual vessels of the Shang and Zhou dynasties reappeared in another way in its past glory.
Now we generally call it the retro movement of the Song Dynasty.
People in the Song Dynasty admired the etiquette of the three generations and had a fanatical pursuit of the utensils of that period.
They not only like to collect antiques from the Shang, Zhou and Warring States periods, but also use the material they are best at - porcelain.
They used porcelain to resurrect those ancient, mysterious and majestic ritual vessels.
Cong is one of them, mostly produced in Longquan Kiln.
By the Song Dynasty, it no longer had strict usage regulations like in "Zhou Rites", but had developed new uses, including furnishings and flower arrangements.
However, in the Yuan Dynasty, the shape of the Cong-style bottle underwent new changes, forming the effect of a Cong-style bottle placed on a base.
Just like today's stone appreciation, it is equipped with a wooden base.
It's just that this kind of Cong-style bottle has a base carved with clay and then fired.
Some are movable and can be removed at will.
Some are directly glazed and fired together with the utensils, forming a "one-piece suit".
Such a combination of utensils and bases creates a new shape. In addition to the Longquan kilns, it can also be found on Yingqing and Yuanqinghua of the same period.
The theme utensils and bases come in various forms, mostly plum vases and incense burners.
The form of the base is obviously furniture style.
Some are like round stools, usually made with four legs tied around the waist, or six legs with horseshoes turned outwards.
This forms the gate style, and the edges will be decorated with Ruyi cloud patterns.
There are four short legs or six short legs in the Ruyi head posture under the mud.
Corsets, horseshoes, pot doors, and mud supports are all structural components of traditional Chinese furniture.
For example, the Cong-style bottles of the Yuan Dynasty are relatively special square vessels, and the base attached to them is similar to a combination of square furniture.
And we can all find their shadows in the furniture from the Song to Yuan Dynasties.
Obviously, this type of "one-piece" look is not a fiction.
It is a reflection of real life and usage scenarios at that time.
Now we can boldly guess that at this time some incense burners, plum vases, and cong-style vases will be used with wooden furniture bases.
For example, there is a basin stand in the murals of Yu Yin's tomb in Gaotang and Jin Dynasties in Qilu.
The actual basin stand was also unearthed from Feng Daozhen's tomb, which proves that glazing was a common practice at that time, and the shape and structure were also very similar.
Under such usage habits, smart porcelain makers combined the base with the original vessel when making the vessel, giving it a new look of union.