Author: M. Tatsu
#陶宝篇-19 #
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(Three-color glazed pottery camel carrying music figurines, Tang Dynasty)
Today, what I will share with you is a national treasure-level pottery: Tang Dynasty three-color glazed pottery camel carrying music figurines (above)
Before admiring this pottery treasure, let's take a look:
What is Tang Sancai? How was Tang Sancai invented? How did it come to be famous?
Let's talk about them one by one. (The picture in this article was taken by the author, all rights reserved)
(Tang, Three Color Seven Star Disk)
What is Tang Sancai?
As mentioned earlier, primitive ancestors around the world learned pottery making sooner or later, but on the road of pottery "evolving" into porcelain, only the Chinese ancestors invented porcelain, because they found the three keys to porcelain making: glaze + kaolin + high temperature (more than 1200 degrees).
Foreigners have not discovered that kaolin (porcelain clay) is necessary for making porcelain, so although they can also make glazes, they have been unable to make porcelain.
Similarly, kaolin is not everywhere in China. Therefore, when the glaze is painted on the ceramic billet made of ordinary clay, the utensils fired are "glazed pottery".
note! The concept of glazed pottery also includes the product "porcelain" that is fired by glaze brushing on kaolin adobe tires. Because there is a certain gap in the quality between this "porcelain" and later mature porcelain, it is also called "original porcelain". Primitive porcelain is glazed pottery, but the extension of glazed pottery is greater.
Since the invention of glaze in China during the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, there has been glazed pottery, but at that time, the color of the glaze is very monotonous, blue-gray and cyan-
In the Eastern Han Dynasty, potters invented low-temperature lead glazes. Its main coloring agents are copper and iron, in the oxidation atmosphere of the kiln, copper makes the glaze appear green, and iron makes the glaze appear yellow-brown or brown-red, resulting in the creation of green, yellow-brown and other colored glaze pottery.
After entering the Tang Dynasty, Tang Dynasty potters developed blue glaze and other color glazes on the basis of green glaze and yellow glaze of the Han Dynasty, making glazed pottery step into a more colorful world.
Tang Sancai, meaning tang dynasty pottery glaze color, colorful and colorful. (3) Means "many")
Tang Sancai unexpectedly became popular
Before the beginning of the 20th century, people never knew that there was such a thing as "Tang Sancai", and they had never seen or heard of it.
During the construction of the Longhai Railway from 1905 to 1909, a number of Tang Dynasty tombs were found in Luoyang's Beiqi Mountain. Because the tomb hindered the construction of the railway, and because there was no sense of cultural protection and cultural protection law at that time, the fate of the tomb was only one: to give way. As a result, tombs were excavated. Nearby residents are busy digging and collecting treasures. In the process of treasure hunting, people's eyes are only on those jewels, gold objects, etc., while some pottery figurines and pottery are smashed or thrown elsewhere because they hinder the treasure hunters.
People wonder why there are so many obstructive pottery (figurines) in these Tang Dynasty tombs, and they are still fancy?
People don't think much about it, just think of hurrying to get valuable things in their hands first. As a result, more clay figurines and pottery were smashed and thrown away.
(The following figures are all "Tang Dynasty three-color glazed pottery camel carrying music figurines", no longer re-annotated)
Because the pottery figurines and pottery in the tomb are very bright in color, some people think about it a little more: Maybe this thing can also be worth some money?
With this uncertain thought, someone collected the more complete faience pottery (figurines) in the tomb and sent it to Beijing Liulichang (a famous antique market, from the Qing Dynasty, short for a street of Liulichang culture).
Because these faience pottery (figurines) are ming vessels, although they are on the market in the Liuli factory, they are also few and far between, and people feel that the funerary vessels are unlucky.
Fate has finally taken a turn for the better.
On this day, Mr. Luo Zhenyu, a famous Chinese epigrapher, walked around the glass factory and accidentally saw a faience horse (Tang Tomb Ming Ware), he felt that this pottery was very distinctive, so he rushed to ask the store for details. After listening to the introduction, Mr. Luo bought this "faience pottery" back home.
After careful study, Mr. Luo introduced this Tang Dynasty faience glazed pottery in his article. This is not good, because with everyone's blessing, the Tang Dynasty color glazed pottery immediately doubled in value, not only Chinese antique lovers have collected, but even foreign buyers have frequently bought it with heavy money.
Tang Dynasty colored glazed pottery has been famous all over the world ever since. (Explain that although your own conditions are important, it is more important to meet noble people)
The origin of "Tang Sancai"
According to common sense, the scientific name of these Tang Dynasty glazed colored pottery (figurines) should be called "Tang Dynasty color glazed pottery XX ware", but this is a later word. When it first started as a new "species", no one knew what it was, and experts couldn't find out what it was. However, the anecdotal name for it is very appropriate, and it has been called:
Tang. What an image!
After that, this kind of colored glazed pottery of the Tang Dynasty was agreed to be commonly known as "Tang Sancai".
Tao Bao Introduction:
Three-color glazed pottery camel carrying music figurines, 723 AD, Tang Dynasty; excavated from the Tomb of XianyuLian in Xi'an, Shaanxi In 1957; National Museum of China Collection.
In this vessel, the hump is glazed with yellow glaze, the body is strong, standing on a rectangular pedestal; its neck dark camel hair is scattered, and its head is hissing; on the humpback is placed a square platform, with a circular cushion underneath, and the green edge is painted with diamond-shaped patterns; a rectangular green edge blanket is laid on the platform, the inner circle is yellow beaded, and the middle is white, green, yellow and brown stripes. There were four people on the stage, playing instruments, one playing the lute, one blowing a whip, two drumming; one of them stood and danced with his hands. Except for the drummers and whistle-blowers, the other three were deep-eyed, high-nosed, bearded, and should be Western Hu people, and the remaining two were Han Chinese. This figurine has a novel theme, a tall shape, and a unique shape, which provides vivid and accurate information for future generations to study the music and dance of the Tang Dynasty, so it is designated as a first-class national treasure cultural relic.
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