The purple sand pot is rich in connotation and knowledge, but it is loved but does not know where to start.
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Familiar with the classic instrument shape, and then look at the master's works, you will slowly understand the knowledge of the mud, craftsmanship, charm, etc. of the purple sand pot, so as to pick a pot that suits your favorite.
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Purple sand pots are generally divided into five categories: round utensils, square utensils, tendon cysts, flower plastics, and beam lifting utensils.
According to incomplete statistics, the number of purple sand pots ranges from dozens of models in the Ming Dynasty for spring to more than 2,000 modern purple sand pot types.
In the face of so many purple sand pot types, many pot friends have been dazzled.
Today, Xiaobian will talk to you about the most common type of four instruments - circular instruments.
Rounder
1. Wendan pot
The shape of the Wendan pot was created in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and the shape is more similar to that of the inverted Xishi.
Wu Meiding, a scholar of the Qing Dynasty, once praised Wen Dan Ju: "As for the imitation of the image body, the refinement is completely different, the rhyme is enemy of beauty, and the Gegao Xizi." ”
Among them, the beauty should mean the shoulder of the beauty, and the West Is the inverted Xi Shi.
2, pour the West Shi
Xi Shi is an innovation made on the basis of the Wen Dan pot in the late Qing Dynasty, and its original name was Xi Shi Milk, which literally means Xi Shi's breast.
In the design, the body of the pot symbolizes the plump breasts, while the button symbolizes the nipple, the spout is short and slightly thick, the handle is upside down, the lid is truncated, and the bottom of the pot is a bottom. Later, because the name "Xi Shi Milk" was too naked, it was changed to "Pour Xi Shi".
3. Dragon egg pot
The shape of the dragon egg pot was found in the Qing Dynasty.
Wu Dingmei of the Qing Dynasty "Yang Envy Tea Pot Endowment": "The round one is like a pill, the body is slightly longitudinal, and it is a dragon egg." ”
It is said that the shape of the dragon egg pot is taken from the egg type. In the poem "The Birth of the Cat", it is recorded that the ninth prince of the Dragon Clan, the Cat, broke out of the shell of the dragon egg, and in the folk, the Cat has both the meaning of warding off evil spirits and the meaning of "the family has the meaning of "the family has the meaning of everything is worry-free".
Its whole body is egg-shaped, the body of the pot is smooth and round, the short mouth is DC-shaped, the handle is easy to pinch, and the flat beads are buttoned.
4. Noble concubine pot
The guifei pot was created at the end of the Qing Dynasty, taking the milk of the noble concubine as the prototype, the half-moon shaped body tube, full of grounding, full and round, dignified and stable, giving people unlimited reverie.
In contrast to the upside-down Xishi pot, the truncated lid was replaced by a jam cap, and the spout was changed from a straight spout to a skimming mouth. The body of the pot was also changed from near circle to semicircle.
5. A bead
It should be called two beads to be precise, but it has now been agreed upon. Compared with the inverted Xishi, the overall completion of the circle is higher, and the front handle and the three-curved mouth are used. The shape is round and jade, and it is eye-catching.
A large bead on the body of the pot, a small bead in the pot button, just like the "mother and child bead" delicate and delicate, which is loved.
6. Beauty shoulders
The shape of the beautiful shoulder was also created in the late Qing Dynasty, and its shape is more three-dimensional than a bead. The oval was replaced by a perfect circle, and the mouth continued to use the three-curved mouth and the positive handle, and the light joint replaced the dark joint.
The beautiful shoulders are as dignified and elegant as the ancient women, with a little bit of court grace and luxury, and without losing everyone's charm. The shape is full, generous and decent, mainly reflecting the rounded body, and the lid and the body of the pot are integrated, without gaps.
7. Lotus seeds
The Lotus Pot is the origin of the Series of Lotus. The earliest lotus pot type, in the Qing Yongzheng period or earlier, already existed lotus pot shape.
Compared with the shape of the vessel, the lotus pot has less bottoming and more tail flying. The initial lotus vessel shape, one circle and one circle, from small to large, again and again, expresses the traditional Chinese meaning of "Liansheng Guizi".
8. Throw a pot
Also known as Dezi, it was created by Yixing pot maker Shao Daheng. Its shape is simple and generous, the whole instrument is lustrous and full, simple and elegant, and its connotation is reflected in concise lines, which is high and upright, and the charm is dazzling.
The Yixing County Chronicle records the pot made by Shao Tycoon as a pot of thousands of gold, which shows the degree of recognition of Shao Tycoon's pot at that time. Gu Jingzhou, a master of Chinese arts and crafts, wrote in the "Outline of Yixing Purple Sand Pot Art": "After decades of speculation, I feel that his (Shao Tycoon's) various instruments can be called the master of sand art, brushing a generation of delicate and complicated winds.
Therefore, the pot can also be seen as a representative of the photoniostat, the image spokesperson of the purple sand lighter.
9. Tycoon throws the ball
As the name suggests, the ball thrower has the meaning of picking and superimposing. Throwing the ball is the shape of the three balls stacked, the pot button, the pot lid, the pot body are all ball-shaped, the three balls are stacked, and the circumference is rounded, which is the model of the ball.
Compared with the tycoon, the knob, lid, and body of the pot are changed to a rounded part, which makes it appear more upright, and usually has a larger capacity than the pot.
10. Shouzhen throws balls
Chen Shouzhen is also a generation of famous artists, with his own cognition and understanding of the purple sand pot, and he has made obvious changes on the basis of the tycoon throwing ball.
The Lid of the Shouzhen Ball Is Rounder and Fuller, and the Neck of the Pot is raised, closer to the feeling of the ball. The belly of the pot is moved up, the shoulder of the pot is relatively gentle, the body of the pot is more beautiful, and the spout is longer.
11. Imitation drum pot
Antique, also known as antique, has now been conventionally called antique. Its simple shape, stable shape, and quaint charm are loved by the pot people.
The button of the imitation drum pot is slightly flat, and in the view of Master Gu Jingzhou, any imitation drum pot, turning the lid over and putting it on the plane, can stand. The lid is slightly raised, there is a heaven and earth line, the upper line is slightly wider than the lower line, the body barrel is slightly flat, the abdomen is bulging, the neck is high, a curved stream, and the ear handle.
The tycoon's antique shape is stable, thick and atmospheric, the overall line is smooth, the spread is measured, vaguely contains a kind of femininity, the pot body is full but not bloated, flexible but plump, and the lines are full of tension.
12. Virtual flat pot
Purple sand ware was first seen in the Ming Dynasty when the Dabin style made the sand pot "virtual flat", and then famous artists have made it, the biggest feature of this type of vessel shape is its "flat".
As early as the Spring and Autumn Period (about 770-700 BC). Longxian once unearthed a copper flat pot with a height of 20 cm and a width of 20 cm for wine vessels. After the Spring and Autumn Period, the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties all had flat pots made, but the material gradually changed from metal to purple sand ware.
"Virtual flat" is a difficult instrument type in the traditional hand molding of purple sand, the jargon "shape flat one point, forming difficult one point", from the bodybine into a cylinder, and then use the "mud beat" to shoot into such a flat, the force should be even, flat and can not collapse, for the full manual operation skills is a great challenge.
13. Dagger pot
"Sayings": From the bag from the urn. Packets, take what they can contain also. Yi: Gourd, a large, round and flat gourd, i.e. melon.
Dagger: A wine vessel made from dry slugs. Su Dongpo's "Former Chibi Fu" rides a leaf of the flat boat, holding a bottle to belong to each other.
The above is the name associated with the dagger, in fact, the zizun pot can also be seen as a variant of the pot, and it is also the classic type of the purple sand pot.
14. Siting kettle
Siting belongs to the pear-shaped pot in the pot type, only because the pot was made by Lu Siting in the Qing Dynasty, and fell into siting, so it is called Siting pot.
Early Siting pot, the spout curvature is small, the mouth is concise, with a bamboo knife falling on the cover wall, the later Era of the Siting pot, the style is soft, the curve is obvious, the mouth is sharper, the signature is all kinds of preparation, there are bamboo knife carvings, there are also steel knife double hook carving, rare plutonium printers.
Qing Dynasty Minnan proverb: "one nameless, two Siting, three Mengchen, Four Yigong" nameless model ranked first, Si Ting section ranked second.
15. Pear-shaped pot
Pear-shaped pots can also be called Mengchen pots, and the Mengchen pots that have been unearthed and continuously discovered are mostly small pots and well-made.
The Mengchen kettle has also become synonymous with the horizontal kettle. The small pot of Hui Mengchen Ming and the seal pot of "Jingxi Hui Meng" are produced in many generations, and the fame of the Mengchen pot is particularly large in Japan. The Mengchen pot belongs to the pear-shaped pot, mostly three-curved mouth, and is connecting the Ming.
16. Sub-metallurgical scoop
Qu Ziye was a native of the Qing Dynasty, with excellent poetry, good at seal carving, and good at painting. Because of its falling style and pottery carving, its style is called the ziye stone scoop.
The whole pot shape of the pot body is pyramid-shaped, triangular composition, the pot body is plump and full, because the center of gravity is sagging to use very steadily, more ornamental, the spout of the pot is characterized by short and powerful, the shape is straight barrel, so that the water is more powerful and smooth, the pot button uses a common arch bridge shape, so that the whole pot in the simple more vitality, the pot lid and the pot body tightly sewn to make this pot has a very high practicality.
17. Jingzhou Stone Scoop
Jingzhou stone scoop, is Gu Jingzhou in the sub-metallurgical stone scoop on the basis of the redesign, compared with the sub-metallurgical stone scoop, the pot body is more rounded, the pot handle is also more rounded, the pot lid is relatively flat, the bridge button is the same.
The body of the pot is oval trapezoidal, narrow on the top and wide on the bottom, the curve is soft and smooth, and the foot is a triangular vertical support for the round foot, and the shape is thick and simple. The shape is geometric, each line is full of softness, and the Jingzhou stone scoop fully demonstrates the softness and toughness of the lines.
The main point of the stone scoop shape lies in the strength, to achieve this goal, it is necessary to coordinate the proportion relationship of the triangle formed by the various lines of the stone scoop, and the body barrel, flow, handle and even the button must cooperate with each other to form the best proportion, in order to finally highlight its unique strength and charm.
18. Hantang Stone Scoop
Hantang stone scoop is created by Xu Hantang, the shape is old, ethereal, simple workmanship, dignified and generous, but also the classic type of stone scoop.
The spout was changed to a skimmer, the handle was changed to round, the foot was changed to a three-legged nail foot, and the lid appeared rounded.
Han Tang Shi Scoop inherits the stiff, straight isosceles triangle skeleton of Gu Jingzhou's master Shi Scoop, and emphasizes the strength at each point, like a curved steel wire or a curved bow.
19. Shadow Scoop
The shadow scoop is Li Hanyong's second creation according to the reflection of the ziye stone scoop. In the circle of purple sand, Li Hanyong was revered as the "Lady King".
The body of the pot is narrowed, upward lifted, sharp and condensed, the bottom is surrounded by circles and feet, flowing and leisurely, the picture above is the first shadow scoop, the spout is the lower cutout, and then changed to a right angle mouth.
In the eyes of connoisseurs, the stone pot is a shape that cannot be broken, although it has been revered for hundreds of years, and may continue forever. It is both traditional and modern.
20. Well bar pot
Well bar pot: As the name suggests, its shape is derived from the well bar. Pioneered by Chen Mansheng, it is one of the classic traditional pot types and is a pot with more variations in pot shape. But the Manson well bar, there are many styles.
The modern well bar pot as shown above, is created by Master Gu Jingzhou, using a cylindrical cylinder as the body of the pot, the overall plump and tall, a bend of the mouth out of the water smoothly, the cover surface as a circle of water pattern card cover, the more for the fly treatment, and finally with the circle of foot rhyme through.
21. Hando
Han Duo, the Duo of the Han Dynasty. The dow is a bell-like musical instrument with a bell-like shape, similar to the well-railing pot.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Mei Tioding was a famous purple sand master, and the purple sand pot he made had two big characters of Han Duo on the body, and there was a pottery inscription "To Han Zhi Duo, for the present pot, the soil is both substitute for gold, and the tea is Hudi." "This pot is believed to be the origin of the Hando pot.
Hando is a card cover, the pot body is like a clock, the upper part of the column button has a circle line, the flow is straight, and the ear handle is square. Compared with the well bar pot, the spout is straight, the handle has no handle, the lid has no water pattern, and the knob has a circle line.
22. Collect jade
Designed by Gao Haigeng and made by Zhou Guizhen in 1978, the jade pot was selected as a gift for national leaders to visit foreign countries.
The pot is titled after jade, so it is called "Ji Yu". The body of the pot is flat and cylindrical, and it seems to be composed of two large jade bi stacks, and the waist of the pot is demarcated by a concave and convex line of jade ornamentation, which makes the pot body look beautiful. The shoulders and abdomen are connected in an arc, and the bottom foot is contracted with two right-angled steps, setting off the strong and graceful state of the pot body.
The spout is square, with a round in the square, and the root is engraved with a dragon's head jade pattern. The lid is shaped like a round bi, the lid is decorated with rings, and the jade fish arch is shaped. The overall decoration is harmonious and harmonious, clean and round, the charm is timeless, and the style is elegant.
23. Double circle pot
The double-loop pot is named after the two threaded loops at the knob.
The earliest double-circle pot should date back to the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, and the bottom seal is "Dongfu Hanlin".
The double-circle pot body adopts a standard cylinder, the spout chooses a three-curved nozzle, the mouth handle is open joint, and the lid is a card lid.
The bridge button is covered with two threaded double circles, which can be moved freely and is extremely exquisitely made.
The picture above is the double-circle pot made by Master Gu Jingzhou, which is also the most classic.
24. Qin Quan
Who first created the Qin Quan pot is unknown. The earliest Qin Quan pot used a ring ear shaped handle. Later, it was changed to a dragon-shaped handle.
Qin Quan is a pot, calm and calm, just and upright. There are thousands of images in the ancient clumsiness of the glossy face, and Gu Jingzhou has made Qin Quan a peak model of primitive instruments.
25. Weekly pan pot
The Zhoupan jug is one of the classic pot types commonly found in the Manson Eighteenth Style.
Manson uses the shape of a circumference to mean a tea pot, which refers to the way of dealing with the world. It is also called a milk pot because its three-legged shape resembles a milk nail.
The Zhoupan pot made by Chen Mansheng has two different inscriptions.
A pot of body inscription: I love Wu Ding strong food strong drink Man Sheng as milk Ding Ming.
Another pot body inscription: Tai Ding Light, Shou Ru Zhang Cang, Man Sheng as Milk Ding Ming.
26. Stone flat pot
The stone flat pot is also one of the classic pot types common in the Manson Eighteenth Style.
It is said that ManSheng has been in Liyang for three years, and the transfer order is coming, but this pot has not been obtained, the tea and rice are not thought, and it is difficult to sleep and eat. Lying on the cold bed at night, not sleeping for a long time, the child summons it, gets up and follows, walks to a bridge, the child does not see, the bridge head places a multicolored cobblestone, and the book "There is a flat stone, and I am thirsty." Man Sheng picked it up, got carried away, lost his footing and landed on the bridge, and woke up Fang Zhi Nanke's dream.
Compared with the circumference pot, the spout has abandoned the straight mouth and changed to a curved mouth. The shoulder and belly of the pot are sharply angled at 30 to 40 degrees, the lid is more rounded, and the pot button is changed to a bridge button.
27. Hanjun kettle
The modern Hanjun pot was created by Wang Yinchun and its shape resembles a stone flat pot. In contrast to the stone flat pot, the slope was changed to an inward bend. The spout was changed to a two-curved nozzle and the gland was changed to a snap cover.
The body of the pot is symmetrical, like a disc close to the broad belt body, the two spouts are round and square, stretching naturally, the circular handle and the body of the pot are communicated, the rules are orderly, the seams are interlocked, and the overall line surface is clear.
28. Hanwa
Its shape is derived from the Han tiles of the Han Dynasty, imitating ancient artifacts, and is one of the modeling sources of the purple sand pot.
The body of the Hanwa pot is a cylindrical pot body, and the short flow potential is relatively straight. Cover flat slightly arc, bridge button, button face yin engraved begonia pattern.
The Hanwa pot is now a common utility type. Because it is a large open, it is extremely convenient to clean up the tea leaves after drinking tea.
29. Sword Flow De Zhong
The Dezhong jug is also known as the Zhongde. The bell, the pot shape is the bell, the de, is rhetoric, is another good instrument in the masterpiece of the light element model created by Shao Tycoon.
The shape of the instrument is dignified and stable, the proportion is coordinated, the structure is rigorous, and the mud color in the above figure is purple, which is the best azure mud color. The shape of the pot body is simple and simple, washing away the complicated habits of the Qing Dynasty court, simplifying the complex, and creating a different sense of beauty with simplicity, which can be called the peak of the traditional skills of purple sand.
What is interesting is that Xu Xiutang first introduced Shao Tycoon's "Zhong De" pot in the chapter "Bi Zhi Poor Worker Shao Tycoon" in "China Purple Sand" and made a wonderful evaluation of it. In recent years, some books have called this pot "De Zhong" pot. The name of the pot is different, but the evaluation of the pot is almost the same.
30. Gao De Zhong
The Gaode bell was further evolved and changed from the Dezhong kettle, which is characterized by the long body of the pot, shaped like a cylinder, the spout changed from sword flow to DC, and the design of the pot handle is like an ear, suitable for holding.
Gaode bell pot is not an elongated version of the de zhong pot, its own design language in the processing and transition of dots and lines, the overall shape is beautiful and elegant, the neutral and rounded posture and low-key temperament are quite the spiritual charm of ancient literati.
Here are 94 classic purple clay pot types, see how many you can recognize?
Purple sand utensils have a history of more than 2,400 years in the mainland, and the above listed here are classic models that have been handed down for a long time and have flourished.