Jun kiln porcelain is famous for its magnificent glaze color, especially the copper red kiln glaze created with copper oxide as a colorant and fired in a reducing atmosphere, which has made its reputation even more famous.
This glaze is natural, varied, colorful, and is endowed with rose purple, eggplant purple, lilac purple, begonia red and other reputations according to the degree of change and color.
Jun kiln sky blue glaze bowl
Northern Song Dynasty - Jin
Height 8.2cm, caliber 19cm, foot diameter 5.7cm
The glaze color of jun porcelain has a kind of glittering blue milk, and the beauty of its tone is wonderful. There are two kinds of glaze colors, one is a fine flat glaze and the other is an orange peel glaze, which is characterized by the "kiln change" of the fired color glaze.
There are many sayings about jun kiln in the Tibetan porcelain industry,
For example, there are no less than ten:
"Five famous kilns, headed by Jun"
"Gold has a price, jun has no price"
"Jun porcelain is not right, the kiln is unmatched"
"One color into the kiln, one color out of the kiln"
"Jun porcelain hanging red, valuable"
"Jun does not hang red, I am poor in a lifetime"
"Even if there is a family property, it is not as good as a piece of jun porcelain"
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Why can jun kiln win so many eyeballs?
And why is it only a red, wrong, "a little red"
Can you make everyone ask for it at all costs?
Let's take a look at it together
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After the development of the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the ceramic process has been further improved, the unification of the country and the development of production, so that the Jun porcelain handicraft industry has a rapid development, the rise of official kilns, the folk kilns are lined up, kilns everywhere, competing for glory, the five famous kilns in the Ru kiln, the official kiln are in Henan territory, of which jun porcelain to the kiln to become wonderful art, not only favored by the people, but also favored by the official court, and monopolized the Jun kiln as the official kiln, to the late Northern Song Dynasty, specially set up a kiln near the Juntai in the north gate of Yuzhou City, the hometown of Jun porcelain, Specialized in firing imperial supplies for the court.
Yuzhou Juntai Jun kiln site
Because the court is luxurious and luxurious, the selection of materials is strict, regardless of the cost, the craftsmanship requirements are higher, and the production of bowls and daily life utensils that were originally fired by the people is also mainly changed to burn various flower pots and pots, as well as artistic ornaments such as zun, bottles, and stoves.
The burned jun porcelain is forbidden to circulate in the folk, when the kiln is opened by the government to send officials to supervise the selection, the qualified ones are elected, and the rest are smashed and buried on the ground.
Jin-Yuanjun kiln sky blue begonia red slag bucket pot
Height 17.1 cm caliber 19.2 cm abdominal circumference 59 cm foot diameter 10.9 cm
Northern Song Dynasty Jun kiln rose purple glaze rhombus flower three-legged flower pot holder
It is 7.8cm in height, 24 cm in diameter and 13.5 cm in foot spacing
Since then, everyone can only look at the kiln and sigh, but the prestige of Jun porcelain is even higher. Dignified in shape and skilled in skill. The kiln is wonderful and dazzling. Especially based on red and purple, it melts and shines, shaped like a flowing cloud, brilliant like a sunset, unpredictable, with a fascinating artistic charm, unique in the garden of competing flowers.
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The porcelain blank is first cooled slightly by vegetarian firing, and then glazed and fired, and the glaze layer is thicker. During the firing process, it contains a large amount of calcium phosphate substance, and the glaze layer breaks during roasting, and the glaze boils and rolls.
Due to the unequal weight of various elements, when the glaze is boiling, the lighter weight rolls upwards, and the elements with large specific gravity such as copper and iron flow downwards, forming dark grooves in the glaze layer; The kiln changes slowly extinguished, the glaze gradually stops boiling, and after the high and low are completed, irregular flowing lines often appear in the glaze layer, buckling and sluging, such as "earthworm walking mud" This feature is unique to the jun kiln.
Jin-Yuan Jun kiln sky blue lilac purple slag bucket type flower pot
Height 26.1cm, caliber 27cm
Abdominal circumference 84.2 cm, foot diameter 16 cm
The bottom foot of the utensil is glazed and then erased, and after firing, it becomes brownish yellow. Because the enamel of jun porcelain is thick and transparent, carving, scratching and printing should not be revealed, so jun porcelain wins with glaze color. It is different from other porcelain glaze colors, creative, unique style, in the glaze beauty of ceramics to open a new artistic realm.
Northern Song Dynasty - Jin Jun kiln sky blue glaze bowl
Height 8.2cm, caliber 19cm, foot diameter 5.7cm
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In fact, the same is the five famous kilns, the market for their treatment can be three, six or nine, very different. Ru kiln has continuously created a sky-high price record of more than 100 million yuan, and the autumn auction of the fixed kiln this year has also been traded over 10 million yuan...
The kiln has always been tepid, and more than one million is already the highest price. (There are more than 10 million, but they are often Ming Dynasty, of course, it may be the age labeling error, but on the whole, the current price performance of the Jun kiln is not satisfactory!) ）
Why is that? In the Tibetan porcelain industry, the Jun kiln is known as "gold has a priceless price" and "the home has ten thousand, it is not as good as a piece of Jun porcelain".
Let's take a look at the market performance of Jun Porcelain:
Song to Jin Jun kiln azure glaze mouth large bowl
Transaction price: HK$1 million
Song to Jin Jun kiln moon white glaze purple spots fold along the plate
Realized price: HK$5.14 million
HK$5.14 million is already the highest price of jun kiln porcelain in the global market for this year's autumn auction.
Without the support of "Le Congtang", the Jun kiln in the Hong Kong auction field can only be basically maintained within one million yuan:
Yuan to Ming Jun kiln sky blue glaze jar
Transaction price: HK$1.06 million
Jin Zhiyuan Jun kiln moon glaze with a pair of seat bottles
Transaction price: HK$650,000
Jin to Yuan Jun kiln moon white glaze three-legged furnace
Realized price: HK$387,500
Looking at the performance of the New York auction, it can only be said that it has not reached the way it was imagined.
Yuan-Ming Jun kiln sky blue glazed large bowl
Price realised: $62,500
Song to Jin Jun kiln green glazed bowl
Price realised: $25,000
The rise of any porcelain category, followed by the explosion of sky-high prices, will definitely take time, and there will be an opportunity. We prefer to believe that perhaps the best jun kiln utensils have not yet appeared on the market ...
At present, the best jun kilns are still in museums, especially in the National Palace in Taipei. Then let's see - the world's top jun kiln porcelain ~ ~
Jun kiln sky blue glaze plate
Northern Song Dynasty, height 4.3cm, caliber 18.4cm, foot diameter 6cm
Disc open, shallow arc abdomen, circle foot. The inner and outer application of sky blue glaze, the outer wall glaze is uneven, there is a phenomenon of flowing glaze. The glaze layer at the mouth edge is thinner, faintly reflecting the gray carcass, and there is no glaze in the circle foot.
Jun kiln sky blue glaze three-legged barrel furnace
Northern Song Dynasty - Gold, height 20 cm, mouth and neck 26 cm, bottom diameter 14.5 cm
Straight mouth, deep belly folded bottom, wide circle foot. There are three exposed tire marks at the bottom of the fold, which are long strips, originally three-legged, and then worn off. The inside and outside are coated with sky blue glaze, and the glaze has the phenomenon of "earthworms walking mud patterns". The edge of the mouth and the edge of the foot are sauce-colored.
Jin-Yuan Jun kiln moon white drum nail wash
Height 9.4 cm caliber 25.4 cm bottom diameter 18.5 cm
Round mouth, shallow abdomen, abdomen shaped like a drum, flat bottom, three cloud head shaped feet. The mouth edge and the abdominal wall are each decorated with a string pattern, and the drum belly is decorated with drum nails for two weeks; Twenty-two on the upper rim and eighteen on the lower rim. Glaze marks can be seen outside the mouth and on the edges of the strings, and the edges are beige. Glaze to the bottom foot, coat the outsole with brown tire protection juice, and there are nineteen burn marks around the periphery. The bottom is engraved with the number "one", and there is a note of the Inscription of the Qing Palace "Yingtai Xiangshu Temple".
National Palace Museum, Taipei · Jun kiln moon white glaze out of the halberd
H:19.8cm,D:14.2cm
The shape of the antique bronze ware, the whole body cover is applied to the white glaze of the moon, the glaze layer is thin and uneven, the glaze color is bluish, the enamel is milky, the surface is bright, and the bubble eye is very obvious. Glaze to the foot, the foot side of the flow of the accumulation, the mouth edge and the edge of the edge are all earth yellow edges. The plantar edge and the concave round bottom of the foot are coated with sauce-colored tire protection glaze, and the concave round glaze appears blue color in part, and a mud ball is raised in the center; The number of words in the foot is crossed.
Jin-Yuan Jun kiln powder green disc
Height 2.9 cm caliber 19.7 cm foot diameter 11.8 cm
Extravagant mouth, folded edge, extremely shallow perimeter wall, flat bottom, shallow circle foot. The glaze color is pinkish blue and slightly gray, and the glaze is uniform and has earthworm mud patterns. The whole vessel is full of glaze and burnt, the bottom edge and edge are beige, and there are five dot-like branches at the bottom of the plate.
Jinjun kiln celadon sunflower bowl
Height 5.4 cm caliber 17.1 cm bottom diameter 7.1 cm
Extravagant mouth, six-petal sunflower bowl, shallow wall, flat bottom; The right mouth edge is folded flat as a three-petaled wide plate edge, and there is a thin circular semi-circular handle underneath. The whole vessel is slightly gray with a satin glaze color, and there are three nails at the bottom of the vessel.
Jin-Yuan Jun kiln azure grape purple hexagonal pot holder
Height 6.3 cm, mouth length 13 .6cm
The mouth is 20.5 cm in width, 10 cm in length at the bottom, and 14.9 cm in width at the bottom
The pot is made of hexagonal, folded along, and a thin edge is raised along the edge. Shallow wall, flat bottom, lower six legs. The fetal bone is thick and the shape is regular. The all-over hood is thickly glazed, the enamel is emulsioned with luster, and the glaze surface bubbles are obvious. Glaze to the bottom foot, the foot side of the thick glaze, the edges are brownish yellow; The outsole is coated with a brownish yellow tire guard glaze, and the glaze has the inscription of "Yangxin Hall Open Window" engraved by the Qing Palace.
Jin-Yuan Jun kiln sky blue rose purple bell type flower pot
Height 23.5 cm, foot diameter 16.1 cm
The whole body hood is thickly glazed, the glaze color is different inside and outside, the outer mouth edge of the vessel is brown, the mouth edge is blue glaze in the following week, the glaze is mixed with purple color spots, down the outer arc wall, the blue glaze gradually turns into a dark rose purple, at the junction of the blue-purple glaze, suddenly passing through an irregular burgundy glaze. The inside of the vessel is blue and purple glaze.
Jin-Yuan Jun kiln sky blue grape lotus type pot
Height 16.5 cm caliber 22.8 cm foot diameter 11.9 cm
It is made in the shape of a six-petal lotus, the fetal bone is rich, the extravagant mouth is folded, a thin ridge is raised along the edge, the abdomen is deep, the upper and lower are abundant, and the outer wall follows the shape of the lotus, making a bulging and concave change. The whole body cover is thickly glazed, the glaze is uneven, the mouth is along a brown narrow edge, the outer wall of the grape purple glaze appears in the sky blue glaze, and the inner wall is blue and purple glaze. The sole edge of the foot and the defects under the mouth are all exposed with gray earth tires, and the number of words "seven" is printed on the bottom, and there is a note engraved by the Qing Palace that "the Yangxin Hall is used with the anroom".