In recent years, if we want to be the most popular collectors in the public auction market, the "Ten-Faced Lingbi Mountain Residence" must have a pit. From Song and Yuan ceramics to ancient furniture, from silk paper calligraphy and painting to Ming and Qing dynasty royal kilns, the owners of the Ten-Faced Lingbi Mountain Residence have extremely high standards for the selection of works of art, and all the works of art selected in their collection sequence are treasures.
In 2021, Beijing Poly "Yu Song - Ten Faces Lingbi Mountain Residence and Famous Tibetan Ancient Ceramics Qingyi" special session, the total transaction exceeded 56 million.
Top left: Dingyao six out of the sunflower mouth carved Xuan pattern bowl
Top right: Black glazed brown sprinkler bowl
Bottom left: blue glazed scratched peony pattern lid box
Bottom right: Jun kiln sky blue glazed lotus seed bowl
All are the old collections of the Ten-Sided Lingbi Mountain Residence
The falling of the gavel in this field not only once again proved that the return rate of collection of high ancient porcelain was tens of millions, but also deepened people's curiosity about the owner of the Ten-Faced Lingbi Mountain Residence.
The mysterious collector's most eye-catching art operation is nothing more than the famous work that set a world record for the auction of ancient Chinese paintings and calligraphy - "Ten Faces of Lingbi Map".
Ming Wu Bin's "Ten Faces of Lingbi Diagram" (partial)
What does the Ten-Sided Spirit Map draw? Why did it attract collectors to bid? And why does this painting alone drive an entire cultural circle?
《Ten Faces of Lingbi Diagram》
First Blood
"Ten Faces of Lingbi Diagram" can be said to have come out of nowhere.
It first appeared at Sotheby's in New York in 1989. At that time, the 11.5-meter-long calligraphy and painting of the late Ming Dynasty was sold for 1.21 million US dollars, setting a record for a single Chinese art to exceed one million US dollars.
In 1989, "Ten Faces" first appeared at Sotheby's in New York
Perhaps because he loved this long scroll too much, the collector who owned it named his hall "Ten-Faced Lingbi Mountain Residence". 31 years later, in 2020, "Ten Faces of LingbiTu" once again appeared on the auction field of Beijing Poly, and after more than an hour of bidding, it finally fell at a high price of 512.9 million yuan (including commissions), a premium of more than 50 times.
2020 Beijing Poly "Ten Faces Of Lingbi Diagram" auction site
Quietly say: this subject was auctioned at a consulting price, and the starting price of the scene was 100 million yuan. Soon, buyers directly bid to 200 million, and in just a few minutes, the bidding price broke through 300 million. After more than 40 minutes of anxious bidding, the hammer was finally dropped at 446 million yuan, and the final transaction price plus 15% commission was 512.9 million yuan. For more than an hour, in order to shoot this painting, it is enough to beat two kings to glory
So, what exactly does the Ten-Faced Spirit Map draw?
To put it simply, the object depicted in the "Ten-Sided Lingbi Diagram" is a Lingbi stone that is only more than 50 centimeters high on one side.
"Ten Faces of Lingbi Diagram" Lingbi Stone front front portrait
During the Ming Dynasty, Mi Wanzhong, who loved stones, found a perfect lingbi stone. This Fang Lingbi is majestic in shape and has a considerable face, and has the weather of three mountains and five mountains. Miwanzhong fell in love with it, named it Non-Shi, and invited his friend and court painter Wu Bin to paint for it.
Wu Bin, one of the main advocates and leaders of the late Ming Dynasty figures " Deformationist painting style " and "revival of the classic landscape painting style of the Northern Song Dynasty", enjoyed a high reputation. After obtaining this Fang Lingbi Stone, Wu Bin played with Yue Yu and drew the non-non-stone from ten angles (front front, rear front, left front, right front, front left, front right, back right, back left, front bottom, and back view bottom). On each side, Wu Bin recorded the real size and the evaluation of the stone, which has the meaning of "looking horizontally into the peak of the ridge side, and the height of the distance is different".
"Ten Faces of Lingbi Diagram" "Wu Bin wrote" inscription
Ancient Chinese painting, the pursuit of both form and god, the pursuit of vivid meaning, top painting, must "mean to save the pen first, painting to the fullest intention". "Ten Faces of Lingbi" does not only pursue meaning, from a modern point of view, it is more like a three-dimensional scan. From different angles, record one party in its entirety.
Coupled with the influence of the painter's own deformist personal painting style, the whole work jumps back and forth between the image and the unlikeness: it is the mountains, it is the landscape, it is the animal, it is the plant, it is the sunrise and sunset, it is the rising tide of the sea... The so-called "a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people", this fleeting perception, so that everyone can find their own cognition.
In addition to Mi Wanzhong and Wu Bin, the Ten Faces Of Lingbi Diagram also has additional celebrity blessings. After the painting was completed, Mi Wanzhongyan asked Dong Qichang, Chen Jiru, Li Weizhen and others, who were already famous at that time, to write inscriptions. Dong Qichang praised it as "a bright light, wanting to fight between candles".
Li Weizhen inscription (partial)
Dong Qichang Inscription (Partial)
Chen Jiru Inscription (Partial)
Write three dimensions in two dimensions, write artistic conception with reality, and write rhymes with similar shapes. In the eyes of collectors of Eastern and Western art, "Ten Faces of Lingbi" perfectly meets their respective needs for beauty.
Ten-faced spirit
Second Blood
With the east wind of the "Ten Faces of Lingbi Diagram", the popularity of ancient Chinese painting and calligraphy has once again jumped up a little, and the popularity of Lingbi Stone has also been strongly out of the circle, and it has a strong fire.
Countless people began to be interested in the Lingbi Stone depicted in the "Ten Faces of Lingbi Map", began to study the Chinese stone appreciation culture, and issued a soul torture question: What is the Lingbi Stone? Why is it so expensive? Why is it so hot? And, what exactly is China's stone appreciation culture appreciating?
In fact, however, the culture of stone appreciation is deeply rooted in China. However, because stone appreciation is a higher spiritual preference, it was only popular for a long time in the royal family or the literati class.
Stone appreciation, originated in the Wei and Jin dynasties, from the Tang Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, for a thousand years, has been a literati doctor's favorite to enjoy the elegant things. If we look at China's stone-viewing culture from a historical perspective, there are two peak periods that other dynasties can never surpass, one is the Northern Song Dynasty, and the other is the late Ming Dynasty.
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The Song people's contribution to stone viewing was to liberate the field of stone viewing from the natural "garden setting". The stone viewing was placed in the courtyard, study and other places of human activity, completing the leap from "natural" to "captive". And the Lingbi Stone was really put on the altar because of the Love of the Northern Song Dynasty Imperial Court for the Lingbi Stone.
Northern Song Dynasty Mi Fu's "Yanshan Ming" | Collection of the National Museum of China
Mi Fu, together with Cai Xiang, Su Shi and Huang Tingjian, was called the "Song Four Families". He is the ancestor of Mi Wan zhong, and the paintings and calligraphy he paints are a family of their own. The stone depicted in the Kenshan Inscription is the Lingbi Stone.
Northern Song Dynasty Zhao Tuo's "Xianglong Stone Diagram" (partial) | Collection of the Palace Museum
Lingbi stone, produced in Lingbi County, Anhui Province, dates back to 800 million years ago. The stone is delicate and warm, smooth as gelatin, and the surface is usually interlaced with ravines and textures. Dr. Song ren pursued the elegance and artistry of life, and the form of the Lingbi Stone was very much in line with the detached mentality and aesthetics of the literati.
Throughout the Northern Song Dynasty, from Emperor Renzong of Song to Emperor Huizong of Song, the emperors requisitioned a large number of Lingbi stones. The most famous is the "Huashi Class" during the Song Huizong period.
In the palace garden "Gengyue" built by Emperor Huizong, there are countless Lingbi stones transported through the Huashi Class, and there are dozens of them as independent landscapes. It has to be said that the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty was more or less due to the flower stone class.
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During the Northern Song Dynasty, "gang" referred to a transportation team, often ten ships called a "gang". The Huashi Class was organized to meet the emperor's preferences and transport strange stones and flowers and trees from the south. At that time, the departments that commanded Huashi Gang included the "Fabrication Bureau" in Hangzhou and the "YingFeng Bureau" in Suzhou. The existence of the Huashi Class not only plundered the treasures of the south, but also provided supplies for the people where the fleet passed. The "History of Song" records huashi gang as "twenty years of poisonous prefectures and counties".
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If the Song people's love for the Lingbi stone is still stuck in the ornamentation, then the late Ming Dynasty literati upgraded the appreciation of the stone from "appreciation" to "play". This kind of "play" is to enjoy and play.
Ming Xiehuan's "Nine Old Figures of Fragrant Mountains" (partial) | Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, USA
The Ming people highly respected the culture of the Tang and Song dynasties, and the Song people's pursuit of lingbi stones must have affected the scholars and doctors of the Ming Dynasty. No matter how big or small, Lingbi stone is naturally formed, varied, and because of its own texture and jagged and interlaced ravines, it often presents a rough and majestic state. This unique "clumsy" appearance made the literati at that time feel something.
The Ming Dynasty King Shouqian said in the "Lingbi Stone Examination": Shi Zhi can be a player, and Wu Ling Bi Shi is called the most.
In the late Ming Dynasty, eunuchs came to power, politics was chaotic, cabinet party strife was constant, and the turmoil of the general environment caused a large number of literati to choose to place their feelings on the scenery and on things. We can call this collective "stone appreciation" behavior "escapism", of course, we can also call it "seclusion".
However, unlike the Song people who appreciated stones, the late Ming Dynasty literati not only stayed in the gaze to see, but also used a large number of stones as the object of painting. Famous works such as "Ten-Sided Spirit Map" were created during this period.
Ming Mi Wan Zhong 'Odd Stone Chart Axis' | Collection of Hangzhou Museum
Ming Lanying's "Album of Strange Stones (1656)" | In 2019, China Guardian 5.98 million yuan
The aesthetic soil of traditional Chinese stone appreciation culture, the unique charm of Lingbi stone itself, the exquisite and advanced creative techniques of painters, and the pursuit of famous stone appreciators, "Ten Faces of Lingbi Tu" with Lingbi stone as the object of creation must have a very high value and status.
A stone of soaring value
Third Blood
The stone was originally a product of nature, and people felt the landscape and wind and moon from the natural stones, so as to feel life. A stone of appreciation, different people, at different times, in different places, in different states of mind, will derive completely different understandings.
Chinese said, "The mountain gives birth to all things without selfishness, and the breeding of the group is not tired, so the benevolent one enjoys the mountain", which is the truth.
In the traditional Chinese cultural circle, stone appreciation is often suspected of being high and low. This kind of appreciation is not like appreciating a piece of porcelain, looking at its kiln mouth, appearance, glaze color; nor is it like collecting a piece of furniture, understanding its texture, structure, and inheritance. Appreciating a stone requires imagination, experience, taste, or rather, appreciating a stone requires a sense of popularity.
Qing Lingbi Stone "Lock Cloud" | In 2020, Beijing Poly was 13.455 million yuan
Ming Ling Bi Shi Shan Zi Ying Zhao | 2021 China Trade Shengjia 977,500 yuan
Qing Ling Bi stone ornament | In 2019, China Guardian was RMB 862,500
After the "Ten Faces of Lingbi Map" was sold at a sky-high price, the stone appreciation and stone appreciation culture were understood and recognized by more people. In the world-renowned auctions such as Christie's and Sotheby's, the probability of China's stone appreciation has increased significantly, and the value of stone appreciation has also ushered in a new wave of growth.
It is no exaggeration to say that "Ten-Sided Spirit Bi Tu" almost single-handedly pushed the entire stone appreciation cultural circle to a new height.
So, if it were you, what kind of stone would you choose to enjoy?
What kind of stone is your criterion for choosing a stone to appreciate?
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