Chen Mansheng era, with the "Amanda Room" pot bottom seal to promote the renewal and development of the entire purple sand history, Man Sheng sent love to the purple sand pot, melted in the purple sand pot, became the first literati in Chinese history to send love to the pot, the combination of literati and purple sand, so that the literati pot can be launched.
Another peak period of the literati Zisha was marked by the Yucheng kiln founded by Mei Qiaoding, a famous calligrapher in Ningbo in the late Qing Dynasty and the founder of the eastern Zhejiang calligraphy.

▲ Yucheng kiln Zhao Weng Ming Ti Liang pot
"A thousand years of purple sand, which stretches to this day; elegant and popular appreciation, culture first; before there was Chen Mansheng, and then there was Plum Tune Ding." Yucheng kiln purple sand is represented by Mei Tioding, Ren Bonian, Hu Gongshou, Xu Gu, Xu Sangeng, Zhou Cunbo, Huang Shanshou, Chen Shannong and other calligraphy and painting and Jinshi masters, pot-making artists He Xinzhou, Wang Dongshi and other famous craftsmen to participate, jointly built a small kiln specializing in firing literati purple clay sand vessels, this kiln at that time was very famous, the works were commonly beautiful, and the grandeur of its Taoist law was crowned at the time.
The name "Yucheng" is intended to play with the literati and craftsmen of this kiln and the refined pieces of work, which can be compared to jade, pure and warm in character, lustrous and introverted without exposing, just like the good virtues of a humble gentleman, and also has the meaning of jade into beautiful things.
▲ Yucheng kiln Zhao Weng Ming Han Duo pot
Yucheng kiln ink treasure purple sand, regarded as a treasure by the collecting community, occupies a special position in the history of the development of Purple Sand in China, and the literati Purple Sand has reached its peak in the era of Mei Tuning.
With their own talents, talents, learning, and informality, these literati have designed many purple sand tea pots with new charm and novelty, as well as simple and elegant, exquisite vases, flower pots, water bowls, water injections, chess pots and other literary rooms, and engraved their own literary accomplishment, artistic aesthetics and life interests on all kinds of utensils through poems, calligraphy and painting, seal carving, and imprints, so that the purple clay sand vessels can achieve the supreme interest of "cutting the topic, meaning, cutting tea" and "available, appreciative and playable".
▲ Yucheng kiln Zhao Weng Ming bell pot (left, Tang Yun old collection)
There are many shapes and shapes of Yucheng kilns, and the works have sufficient humanistic flavor, and many of the body is inscribed with pre-Xian poems, pre-Qin characters, or Mei Zhaoweng's original poems, or Hu Gongshou, Ren Bonian, Xu Sangeng and other autographed calligraphy and paintings. Each piece of work has a unique charm, simple and simple, full of natural interest, and the appreciator will often achieve the artistic conception of the unity of the human pot and the fusion of human and human instruments, which is the biggest feature of the works of Yucheng kiln.
Today we will appreciate the literati on the purple sand pot!
40 orphan pieces of jade kiln passed down from generation to generation
▌ 1. Hando
▲ Yucheng kiln Amanda room Handuo pot
The yucheng kiln has a mandohua hall, a riling mountain house (pavilion), a stone forest He family, a yucheng kiln, etc., of which the special is the "Amanda room" model, but this model is obviously different from the Mansheng Amanda room.
▲Mandohua Hall
▲Sun Ridge Mountain House
▲Yucheng kiln "Amanda Room"
▲ Chen Mansheng carving, Yang Pengnian made Amanda room half tile pot
Amanda Room (Bottom)
▌2. Persimmon round lifting beam
▌ 3. Flat stone
▲ Yucheng kiln Amanda room flat stone pot
▌ 4. Weekly session
▌5. Three-pronged lifting beam
▌6. Qin Quan
▌ 7. Lift beam
▌ 8. Well bar
▌9. Eggplant segments
▌10. Pillar foundation
▌ 11. Half melon
▌ 12. Melon rhyme
▌13.Five-baht pot
▌ 14. Pumpkin
▌ 15. Stone scoop
▌16. Fairy Scoop
▌ 17. Chess
▌ 18. Han Bell
▌ 19. Bolang cone
▌ 20. Imitation bronze ware
▌ 21. Cap holder
Yucheng kiln literati purple sand, became another literati purple sand masterpiece representative after Mansheng.
Sending affection to the pot, using the purple sand pot as the carrier of seal engraving poetry painting and expressing emotions, the literary accomplishment, moral sentiments and aesthetic system of the ancient scholars and doctors are embedded in the small purple sand pot, and the human pot is one and exquisite.
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