The history of the modeling of monk hat pot
The shape of the monk's hat pot has appeared in the porcelain of Jingdezhen kiln in Longquan kiln in Song and Yuan Dynasties, and blue-and-white and in-glaze red monk's hat pot porcelain was also fired in Hongwu and Yongle years in Ming Dynasty. Purple sand monk hat teapot was first made in Jinsha Temple in Ming Dynasty, and was passed down by Shi Dabin and others. But it was lost in the Qing dynasty, which is why it is difficult for us to see a decent monk hat pot in the Qing dynasty. Because the body of the monk's hat pot is an equilateral square, it needs a solid and profound basic skill of ceramic art and profound cultural connotation in the diagonal connection of clay tablets. The shape, quality and spirit of the Buddhist monk's hat pot made in Gu Jingzhou have been fully displayed. This pot was originally hidden in the hands of a collector in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, and now it is hidden in the Hang Seng Hall of Beijing Antique City.
Gu Jingzhou's Achievements in Hu Yi
Gu Jingzhou's dozens of pot types are excellent. His achievements in pot art are extremely high, his skills are exquisite and his materials are extensive. He can be said to be the most accomplished ceramist in modern times, and his reputation is comparable to that of Shi Dabin in Ming Dynasty. The overall modeling of his works is simple and elegant, with vigorous and rigorous modeling, smooth and harmonious lines, elegant and profound implications and rich oriental artistic characteristics. The utensils made by him are exquisite and elegant, with various manners, which can be called "the masterpiece of purple sand art with delicate and complicated style" and praised as "the master of pot art" by domestic and foreign art experts. Gu Jingzhou made a small number of teapots in his life. Sometimes he only makes a batch of teapot in a few years, and all of them require high quality. If they are not satisfied, they will all be destroyed, so the price of his works ranges from several hundred thousand to several million yuan. In the 1980s, the auction price in Hong Kong was 650,000 RMB. Now the price per pot per hour exceeds 6,543,800 yuan.
Gu Jingzhou's profound cultural accomplishment.
Gu Jingzhou's superb artistic realm of pot-making is inseparable from his profound cultural accomplishment. Whether there is cultural accumulation is the most important threshold for folk artists in the artistic process, and it is also one of the important differences between everyone and ordinary craftsmen. Gu Jingzhou attached great importance to this origin and devoted all his life to it. He even read and studied books related to silicon salt, from chemical composition, chemical molecular formula and so on. In the practice of making pots, he has in-depth research on mineral processing, raw material preparation, technological processing and firing.
From the early 1950s, when Xu Hantang, the first apprentice, was accepted, for several decades, Gu Jingzhou was full of peaches and plums. With his own work experience, he asked the young people who studied with him to hone their basic skills and be solid, in-depth and flashy. From selecting mud and hammering mud, we have developed excellent skills one by one. Because of their strict requirements, Gu Jingzhou's disciples have made great achievements, such as Xu Hantang, a master of arts and crafts in China, Qian Liyuan, a master of arts and crafts in China, Li Changhong and Zhou Guizhen, masters of ceramics in China, and Shen Mihua, Pan, and others, celebrities of arts and crafts in Jiangsu Province.