【Talk about vases】Talk about some dry goods today, talk about vases. Please note that we are not talking about female celebrities, and certainly not male celebrities, but real vases. Comparing stars to vases, taking their beauty and useless meaning, is a pejorative meaning. Porcelain, which can be "beautiful and useless", is the biggest praise.
Song Longquan kiln green glazed plum bottle (left); Song Cizhou kiln white glaze black color plum bottle, Cizhou bottle more written wine words, such as "Qinggu fine wine" "Tianzangdi wine"
Bottles also had practical functions at first. For example, the most common plum bottle, the earliest called wine bottle, contains wine. During the Song Dynasty, the plum bottle also had a name, jing bottle. The Northern Song Dynasty court had a preaching system, that is, the emperor led the ministers to study collectively, and used this bottle to drink wine during dinner after class, so it was called a bottle.
Bright white glazed plum bottle (left); clear multicolored floral pattern plum bottle
The following will take the plum bottle as a starting point to explain how other styles of bottles have evolved on the basis of plum bottles. The person who invented the plum bottle must have been an artistic genius. Some drunkards with strong artistic aesthetic ability slowly discovered that it was too wasteful to use such a beautiful bottle for wine! Therefore, every time he and his brother finished eating and drinking, they would take a few bottles home to arrange flowers for the mother.com.
Southern Song Dynasty Longquan kiln celadon string pattern plum vase, Zhejiang Provincial Museum collection
As a result, the function of the plum bottle has changed. As an ornament, the plum bottle does not need to take into account the mechanics of the human body, the Ming Dynasty began to become shorter, removed the cap, the shoulders became round, the bottom foot became thicker, quite majestic. The plum bottles of the Qing Dynasty became feminine, slender and beautiful, and in the late Qing Dynasty there was a slender plum bottle, with exaggerated proportions, called beautiful shoulders, and there was a feeling of twelve heads. It turns out that the mouth of the plum bottle is too small, let's first increase the mouth and thicken it, and then point out the curve to get this effect
Kangxi Lang red glazed Guanyin bottle
This is the Guanyin bottle, which only appeared during the Kangxi Dynasty, but guanyin bodhisattvas themselves did not use this bottle. So what kind of bottle did Guanyin sister use? The answer is in the Cave of a Thousand Buddhas on the Namingsha Mountain
A clean bottle in a Dunhuang mural
Guanyin holds a willow branch in one hand and a net bottle in the other, you probably guess what she is doing ~ but God is God, mouthwash is manna, sprinkled to the nether realm is all blessing, so the net bottle is also known as the nectar bottle.
Ming Qinghua net vase; Qing Dynasty Benba bottle; Qing Dynasty Pastel Benba pot
Let's go back to the plum bottle, just now the mouth has been enlarged, and now add a lid, that is, the general can plum bottle also has a lid when making a wine bottle, but it is trapezoidal, and the lid of the general can is round and pointed, like the helmet of the warrior, hence the name.
Qingqianlong Pastel Plus Gold Color Mu Guiying Great Heaven-Breaking Gate Array General Jar, 80 cm high
I once heard a friend say that he wanted to buy a general's jar to put in the house for decoration, and I resolutely stopped him. Why? The Shogun Jar was produced in the Ming Dynasty, which is a Ming (meditative) vessel used to hold the relics of high monks, and later it was also used as an ornament, which was quite popular. Since it comes to the general jar, let's expand it a bit, and there are two kinds of bottles that are used as meditators, so don't just swing them at home.
The soul bottle, also known as the barn and the refuge bottle, is mainly a burial vessel of the Three Kingdoms period, on which are sculptured pavilions, slaves and livestock, symbolizing the tomb owner bringing wealth to hades. In the Song Dynasty, multi-tube bottles replaced soul bottles, and complex sculptures became many small tubes, mostly five, and the small tubes were not connected to the bottle body. In the Qing Dynasty, there were multi-tube bottles connected to the tube and the bottle body, which was not a meditative vessel, and it was used for flower arrangement. Because of its special function, its appearance is also magical
Jin Dynasty blue glaze soul bottle; Song Longquan kiln blue glaze five-tube bottle
Just now we pulled the mouth of the plum bottle up, got the Guanyin bottle, the mouth was pulled up again, and then increased, it was the anchovy bottle.
Qing Kangxi blue-and-white baby chicken peony pattern phoenix-tailed zun
In addition, there is a kind of anchovy bottle, which is produced in Liling, Hunan, and is also a large trumpet mouth, but the bottle is fat, similar to the deformed jade pot spring bottle. The Liling anchovy bottle won a gold medal at the 1915 Panama Exposition, and the Longquan celadon tableware that went with it also won the gold medal. That Panama Expo was famous in China, thanks to the vigorous promotion of a certain brand of wine at the state banquet.
The bottle body of the modern Liling underglaze multicolored anchovy bottle is too small, not good-looking, simply canceled, made straight, this is the flower. Yao is a Shang Zhou drinker, that is, a wine glass. Porcelain flowers are very common ceremonial vessels, ancestors to put five offerings, that is, a pair of flowers, a pair of candlesticks, an incense burner, the feudal era heavy sacrifice, flowers are very exquisite.
Shang Dynasty Bronze Yao (left); Qing Qinghua Hua Yao
Hua Yao is a vase that imitates bronze ware, and there is also a kind of vase that imitates pre-Qin jade, the Zhen-style vase. It is a very ancient jade-shaped system, cylindrical, inner circle and outer square, attached to the heavenly circle place, used for sacrifice.
Shang Dynasty Bronze Zun (left); Qing pastel flowers
Song Dynasty porcelain began to enter official ceremonies, and porcelain came into being. Now the earliest Qun-style bottle is the Southern Song Dynasty Longquan kiln, not only the shape of the vessel imitates jade, the color is also the cyan color of jade.
Liangzhu culture Yu Chun (left); Song Longquan kiln blue glazed Qun-style bottle
Later, the celadon zonal bottle produced in Jingdezhen was engraved with a Bagua pattern, called the Bagua bottle.
Qing Dynasty imitation glaze Bagua pattern bottle
There are also flat painted bottles with lids, which have been reduced to practical utensils. In the past, there were no foam boxes, no plastic bags, and many storage functions were undertaken by porcelain, so many bottles and cans were covered. The lid is easily lost or damaged, many are not left, if you encounter an old piece of porcelain with no glaze on the edge of the mouth, then eighty percent can be presumed that the bottle cap is lost.
Qing Tongzhi Yellow Ground Black ColorEd Flower Shou Peach Hat Barrel (Pair)
The mouth of the straight-tube flower is curved outwards, called the skimmer. If you delete the skimmer, it becomes a straight tube, the short one is the pen holder, and the high one is called the cap barrel bottle. The hat tube bottle began in the late Qianlong period, the official eunuch's family's belongings, used to put the top to wear flower plumes, so the name hat barrel. Later, the folk also popularized hat tube bottles, and many civilian families also put a pair in the hall house, and there was no red top to insert a chicken feather duster.
This psychology is very similar to the current dinner table, shooting a box of white leather cigarettes, on which is written so-and-so special offer, a circle of self-conscious face, the subtext is: Buddy towards the inside of someone.
The cap holder is added with a straight neck and a small plate, which resembles a mallet for washing, which is a mallet bottle.
Qing Kangxi Colorful Birthday Wish Stick Mallet Bottle
The fat and short bottle is called the winter melon bottle, the tall and fat one is called the lantern bottle, the tall and thin one is called the elephant leg bottle, and so on.
Qingqianlong Blue Brocade Pastel Folded Branch Floral Lantern Bottle - Forbidden City, Beijing
Qing Qinghua Bogu pattern elephant leg bottle these shapes are Kang Yongqian folk research and development, at that time the kiln is in full bloom, in addition to imitating the official kiln, but also keen to produce a large number of strange things smashed into the market, hot sales of production, slow sales of the elimination, so the kiln porcelain is always wild, arbitrary, its shape is also unpredictable.
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