When Fang Xuanzong ascended the throne, Fazu was a heavy farmer and punished corruption. The literary affairs are in the imperial court, and the armed forces are driving on the side. And he is also a gentleman of Yu, and the rui of the white wu is forbidden. —— "The End of the Ming Chronicle", Gu Yingtai
preface
Emperor Xuanzong Zhu Zhanji can be said to be the most misunderstood emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Zhanji did a lot of serious things during his reign, vigorously developing agriculture internally to make the people rich, and externally Zhu Zhanji was not as belligerent as his grandfather and grandfather, but adopted a policy of appeasement. However, this emperor also really loves to play, the name "Cricket Emperor" is not fake, in addition to fighting cocks, wading, is a gameless emperor, Xuande years there is a kind of porcelain is also fired for Zhu Zhanji game.
In the 1970s, the antiquities store received a "blue broken bowl"
The Capital Museum has a treasure of the town museum, that is, "Jingdezhen kiln sprinkled with blue glaze bowl", in the 1970s, most people did not have the concept of cultural relics, when an old woman took a porcelain bowl from her home to the Beijing cultural relics store, wanting to exchange this bowl for some money.
At that time, a staff member of the cultural relics store received the old man, and there was nothing special about the old woman's bowl, the whole porcelain bowl was relatively large and the carcass was very heavy, and the glaze color of the whole bowl was relatively uniform. According to the old woman, this bowl was used by the family to feed the chickens, and it should be an old object that has been used for many years, and she sold it if she wanted to make a price suitable for the store. The staff also couldn't make up their minds, and the bowl was worn out badly because of the use of the bowl over the years, and several people gave the old woman 80 yuan to collect the bowl after consultation.
This large bowl turned out to be a national first-class cultural relic
At that time, 80 yuan was not a small coin, the old man took the money and left happily, and the staff of the cultural relics store also began to simply handle this large bowl. When cleaning the large bowl, the bottom of the inner wall of the bowl appears "Daming Xuande Year System" words, to know that the Xuande years of porcelain is very famous, and the porcelain written in the bowl is very rare, and after preliminary judgment, this porcelain is unlikely to be an imitation, so it is quickly reported to the relevant cultural relics department.
Soon the relevant departments arranged for the famous Chinese porcelain experts Geng Baochang, Fu Dayou and others to come to the store, and the large bowl was identified, and it turned out that the blue glaze also had a name called "sprinkled blue glaze". This large bowl as a whole is larger than the bowl, the shape is somewhat like a basin, but the size is smaller than the basin, after identification of this object is fired during the Xuande years, experts named it "Jingdezhen kiln sprinkled blue glaze bowl", is a very precious national first-class cultural relics.
Emperor Xuande's toys
This kind of "Jingdezhen kiln sprinkling blue glaze bowl" is very rare, and only fired for more than 10 years before disappearing, deep investigation of the reason to know that this unique shape and the fall in the bowl "Jingdezhen kiln sprinkling blue glaze bowl" is one of the toys of the Xuande Emperor. At that time, the Xuande Emperor fell in love with the game of making sieves, so he ordered the official kiln in Jingdezhen to burn a tool suitable for making sieves.
After receiving the holy decree, the local craftsmen naturally did not dare to be idle, and fired this large bowl of blue glaze, which was special in that some places would reveal a white ground, making the entire bowl look like a layer of snowflakes. This "sprinkled blue glaze" production process is very complicated, and there is no demand for this dice bowl in the palace after the death of the Xuande Emperor, which is why it has only been burned for more than 10 years and then mysteriously disappeared.
summary
The success rate of "Jingdezhen kiln sprinkling blue glaze bowl" is very low, the process is extremely complex, and the use is also very single, so the number is not much, even after the death of the Xuande Emperor, the Ming Dynasty also had emperors who wanted to copy the "Jingdezhen kiln sprinkled blue glaze bowl", but never succeeded again.
It is worth mentioning that after identifying this large bowl as a first-class cultural relic, he also tried to find the old woman who sold the bowl and wanted to make up some money for her, but unfortunately the old woman never appeared again. Now this bowl that was fired for the xuande emperor's game is displayed in the museum, so that more people can see the beauty of porcelain and lament the wisdom of the ancient working people.
【References】History of Ming, Records of Emperor Xuanzong of Ming, Chronicle of The Chronicle of Ming
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