In the pot for lifting beams unearthed from Wu Jingzi's tomb?

Year of manufacture: Ming

Material: purple sand

Specification: height17.7cm.

Collection location: Nanjing Museum

introduce

According to research, before the Tang Dynasty, there was no special tea set. Lu Yu, a "Cha Sheng" in the Tang Dynasty, created a drinking method, which brought a set of complicated tea set systems. The Song Dynasty basically followed the system of the Tang Dynasty, but compared with the simple style of the tea set in the Tang Dynasty, it was more magnificent and made of gold, silver and other metals. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there was a tendency to return to simplicity, and the popular "fighting tea" in the Song Dynasty was out of fashion. Coupled with the reform of tea-making methods in Ming dynasty, ceramic purple sand tea sets began to spread widely among the people in Zhengde period. ? A hundred?

Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty are the heyday of various competitions in the history of purple sand, which can be roughly divided into three periods: early, middle and late. In the early period, from16th century to the beginning of17th century, it rose in the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty and prevailed in the middle of the Ming Dynasty. At this time, the shape of teapot is obviously influenced by the shape of copper and tin utensils, and the simple and dignified style of Ming furniture can also be seen everywhere, with more ribbed shapes. During this period, the teapot was vigorous in shape, coordinated in proportion and coarse in mud. Carving the signature in regular script on the bottom of the pot is an early form of signature. In the middle period, from the beginning of17th century to the middle of18th century, that is, from the end of the Ming Dynasty to the Yongzheng and Qianlong years of the Qing Dynasty, it was the heyday of teapot, with many famous artists and various kinds of famous pots. The purple sand plastic products in this period reached the level of originality due to the genius of the famous worker Chen Mingyuan. In the middle period, the decorative techniques of teapot were unprecedented and diverse, including relief, printing, flower clusters, hollowing out, clay painting, colored glaze and so on. It can be said that it is the masterpiece of ceramic decoration of various generations. From the early Qing Dynasty, the names of pot authors were often left on the bottom and lid of pots in the form of stamps, and some of them were engraved with poems and stamped with the author's seal, leaving annual money. In the later period, from the end of 18 to the beginning of the 20th century, that is, from the middle of Qing Dynasty to the end of Qing Dynasty, due to the participation and advocacy of literati, the art of teapot has undergone new changes in shape and decoration, adding a strong literati interest. ?

grandmother

Beam-lifting pot belongs to the early works in the history of purple sand. The pot body is large, and the tire quality is similar to that of a cylindrical tire, but the texture is delicate. There are "tears of jar glaze" stuck on the surface of the pot, and the color is liver red, belly spherical, flat bottom, short straight neck, round flat cover, gourd-shaped button, no mouth and meandering. The decorative pattern of plastic persimmon stems is stuck between the flowers and the abdomen. Japanese trumpet-shaped high-lift beam with a small system tied with a noose at the back. There is a simple cross-shaped rib on the back of the cover, indicating that there was still no sagger installed on the purple sand burner at that time. ? A hundred?

This pot was unearthed in the tomb of Jason Wu, the eunuch of Ming Dynasty in Majiashan, outside Zhonghua Gate, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. According to the chronology of brick epitaphs unearthed at the same time, it is the twelfth year of Jiajing, namely 1533. At present, this is the only purple sand ware in the early years of Jiajing in China, which is of reference significance to the identification of purple sand ware in the Gongchun era.