Looking at Chen Wenzhe, Chen Xingchen smiled bitterly, is this endless?
It’s okay to strike once or twice, why do you keep striking?
Chen Wenzhe could only keep shouting in his heart: I am really not floating!
You must know that this monk's hat pot is known as one of the most difficult porcelains to make in history.
Of course, the monk's hat teapot made of purple clay will not be simple.
Among all porcelains, the monk's hat pot is the most difficult to make. This is the life pursuit and goal of outstanding craftsmen of all ages.
In historical records, the monk's hat pot first appeared in the Yuan Dynasty. According to some research data, the production of monk's hat pot should have started in the Song Dynasty, and the official kiln porcelain of the Northern Song Dynasty began to produce monk's hat pots.
After that, they were also fired in the Yuan Dynasty, but due to the difficulty of making them, there were not many of them.
In the early Ming Dynasty, with the increase in national power, more blue and white monk hat pots were produced in Jingzhen.
Later, as a large number of porcelain craftsmen moved to the production of purple clay ware, they also transplanted this shape into the purple clay teapot.
This kind of teapot is named after the mouth of the teapot is shaped like a monk's hat.
Its shape has an upturned rim, low front and high back, and a duckbill shape.
The lid lies inside the mouth rim, the neck is tied, the belly is bulging, the feet are circled, and the handle is cranked, which has a strong ethnic minority style.
Although this kind of monk's hat pot is difficult to make, the more difficult it is to make, the more pot-making masters throughout the ages have been able to make.
Everyone wants to make one, and they all want to be different, so they create a pot type that is ever-changing!
The Yuan vessel has a solid shape, a thick neck and a slightly short flow.
The pot flow of the Ming ware is slightly longer, the neck of the Qing ware is slightly higher, and the abdomen is slightly thinner.
This kind of teapot has blue and white glaze, red glaze, blue glaze, white glaze, five colors, doucai, enamel color, enamel color, etc.
Although there are many varieties, not many have been handed down.
The reason why Chen Wenzhe knew it was because of a painting.
The fourth painting among the "Pictures of Beauties" in the old collection of the Qing Palace is "Picture of Concubine Yinzhen's Recreation", also known as "Picture of Ancient Thoughts".
In the picture, a lady is sitting on a bamboo chair, looking down in deep thought.
The background is a cabinet-type Duobao grid, inside the Duobao grid, a narcissus basin from Ru kiln in the Northern Song Dynasty, and a three-legged wash basin.
And revealed behind the beauty, most of the Ru kiln flower-shaped lamp holder and the Shang and Zhou bronze goblet.
In addition, you can also see the Xuande Ming Dynasty's ruby red glazed monk's hat pot, jade carvings and red sandalwood screens, which are well-proportioned and complement each other, showing a typical royal style of wealth.
As can be seen in the picture, for safety reasons, the cap pot is placed halfway on the shelf to stabilize it.
It is a ruby red monk's hat pot, which is very clearly drawn in the picture.
Various signs are enough to prove that the ancients loved the ruby red monk's hat pot, and its preciousness can be imagined.
You know, it was in the royal family, within the palace.
In other words, the ruby red glazed monk's hat pot is very precious even among the royal family.
The monk's hat pot has an upright and dignified shape with strong lines. The craftsmanship is extremely difficult and beyond the reach of ordinary craftsmen.
Whether you can make an exquisite monk's hat pot can also show the level of the craftsman's attainments.
This is also a self-challenge for craftsmen, especially the processing of square-shaped hat pots, which is even more difficult.
Only first-class craftsmen can do this.
What appears in front of everyone now is a square monk's hat pot.
Don't look at what Chen Wenzhe did just now. It seemed very simple and fast, but the craftsmanship involved was very difficult.
A square pot, as the name suggests, is square in shape, and the spout on it is shaped like a monk's hat.
These are all shaped by pieces of clay.
Of course, there are some difficulties in mixing and practicing with the mud, and the most difficult ones are the tire reshaping and shaping.
Therefore, no matter ancient or modern, there are not many monk hat pots that have survived.
Of course, there are still a certain number of monk hat pots among the people today.
Because the quantity produced in Xuande and Chenghua in the Ming Dynasty was relatively large, while the production in other years was smaller.
What’s more, Yixing now produces more purple clay.
However, due to the extremely high craftsmanship and difficulty in making monk hat pots, Jingzhen stopped producing them after Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty.
Especially now, some famous people with purple clay are proud of making monk hat pots, which is enough to illustrate the problem.
There are many talents among the pot-making artists. Except for the late master Gu Jingzhou, who imitated the monk's hat, many masters and artists dare not make it rashly. You can imagine the difficulty of making it.
Monk hat.
It means rising steadily, good luck and good luck, and has always been favored by collectors and pot art enthusiasts.
However, most of what is seen in the market is that the workmanship is rough, the products are fake, and the products are rare to see.
Just because it is difficult to make, once it is made, the price is not low.
Even if it is simply made and made again and again, as long as it can be made and people say it is a monk's hat pot, it can easily be sold for thousands of dollars.
If the shape is a little more complicated, or if you can imitate a famous monk's hat pot, the value will be different immediately.
Now on the market, as long as it is a slightly better monk's hat pot, its value will exceed ten thousand yuan.
The price increase of other porcelain, such as purple sand, will definitely not be so exaggerated.
So, this is a challenge, but it is also an opportunity.
Even now, as soon as a monk's hat in better condition is seen on the market, it will be sought after by collectors.
Even if Chen Wenzhe didn't say anything about these things, Chen Xingchen and others, as professionals from the Academy of Fine Arts, would naturally be aware of them.
Therefore, they were dumbfounded when they saw how easily Chen Wenzhe made a simple version of the monk's hat pot.
No matter how simple it is, this is still a Sifang hat pot!
It's just a small teapot like this. If it doesn't cost 70,000 to 80,000 yuan, I'm afraid I won't be able to buy it.
In other words, just because this is a monk's hat pot, even Chen Wenzhe will benefit from it.
His original teapot could easily be sold for 56,000 yuan, but this one could easily be sold for 70,000 to 80,000 yuan.
If the production is more complicated and a little more thought is put into it, the price of a square monk's hat teapot can easily exceed 100,000 yuan.
They are all understanding people, so there is no need to say much.
This time Chen Wenzhe settled down and started making various monk hats from simple styles.
There are too many styles of monk's hat pots. A simple classification includes: small, medium and large monk's hats, and from short monk's hat to Ruyi monk's hat.
Next, he also produced various kinds of monk hats such as four directions, six directions, eight directions, and lifting beams.
These are actually relatively simple, and the most difficult one is probably the High Wall Monk.
Improve your production skills step by step, so that Chen Xingchen and others can learn something.
When it came time to make the high-walled monk's hat, Chen Wenzhe's speed also slowed down. Even the materials used before had to be replaced and it was impossible to make do.
This time, he was more careful starting from the selection of materials.
Since Chen Xingchen and others now mainly use purple clay teapots, what he chose this time is raw ore bottom trough green teapots.
Because this mud does not add any pigments, it is the purest natural purple sand mud.