Chewing plum blossoms, snow and frankincense. The next sentence is Brother Han Ting painted a teapot for me.
In 1948, Gu Jingzhou was 34 years old and in his prime. He carefully made five large stone ladle pots, and the pot blanks were transported to Shanghai by light boat. Dai Xiangming, the second generation descendant of Shanghai Tiehua Xuan, took the pot blanks with Jiang Hanting to Wu Hufan's home, and asked him to decorate the five pots with calligraphy and painting. Wu Hufan readily agreed and wrote two poems on the five pots. Each of the four pots painted "Wind Blowing Sparse Bamboo". The fifth pot was inscribed by Jiang Hanting on the lonely bird and cold plum blossoms.
The calligraphy and painting were completed and sent to the Gu family by Dai Xiangming's delivery ship, and were engraved by Gu Jingzhou himself. After the five stone ladle pots were burned, Gu Jingzhou kept one for himself, and the remaining four were given to Jiang Hanting, Wu Hufan, Tang Yun, and Dai Xiangming. These five pots are a perfect combination of pottery, calligraphy, painting, and carved beads, and can be called a masterpiece with a strong literati atmosphere. The pottery is exquisite, the calligraphy and painting are exquisite, the seal carving is exquisite, perfect to the extreme.
"Gu Jingzhou made a large stone gourd pot made by Wu Hufanshu and Jiang Hanting painted by Jiang Hanting." The inscription is "Chew plum blossoms, snow and frankincense. Brother Hanting painted a teapot for me. Qian inscribed it by herself." The inscription on the painting of solitary bird and snowy plum blossoms on the pot is: "Brother Hufan is painting. Han Ting." Five stone ladle pots that combine hardness and softness in the history of Zisha are named here, which shows the deep friendship between them.
Experience:
Three of these five purple clay teapots have been auctioned: "Han Ting Hu", "Xiang Ming Hu", and "Tang Yun Hu", and all of them have created It exceeded the purple sand auction record at that time.
Today, there are two pieces that have never been released, one is the "Hufan Pot" formerly collected by Wu Hufan in Meijing Bookstore, and the other is the "Jingzhou Pot" collected by Gu Jingzhou's family. A senior person in the collection industry pointed out that since the "Jingzhou Pot" is collected by Gu Jingzhou's family, it is rarely exposed. The "Hu Sail Pot" is currently the only visible top-grade purple sand treasure of Gu Jingzhou.