Ball pot, traditional pot type, one of the classic round ware of purple sand. "掇" has the meaning of picking, selecting, and obtaining, and also means "embellishing", that is, connecting, so the ball is actually to select a number of spheres and connect them according to certain laws and aesthetic laws.
Tycoon BallFriends of the ballShou Zhen BallThe three shapes have different ball-making pot styles, which are made by Shao Daheng, Shao Youting, and Cheng Shouzhen, three famous craftsmen in the history of purple sand, representing three different styles in three different periods.
The tycoon pot was created by Shao Tycoon, a famous pot maker in Shangyuan Village, Sichuan Port during the Jiaqing and Daoguang periods of the Qing Dynasty.
Shao Daheng is a generation of pot makers after Chen Mingyuan, and his pot making has been cherished in the Qing Dynasty, and is deeply cherished by tea lovers and collectors, and has the reputation of "a pot of gold, almost unobtainable". Shao Daheng's purple sand works are known for their simplicity, simple and solemn shapes, and extraordinary bearing.
Gao Xi of the Qing Dynasty recorded in "Tea Pot Says, Gift Shao Tycoon" that "Shao Tycoon's director, not a style and elegant, good at imitating the ancients, chasing the ancients, and surpassing everything", and Master Gu Jingzhou, the master of the purple sand pot, also praised "the various hand-me-downs of the tycoon pot can be called the culmination of sand art, and the style of brushing a generation of delicate and complicated".
Shao Tycoon's Tycoon Ball, the body of the pot is round and huge, thick and rich, the spout is slightly smaller, the lid is slightly arched, and the button is round and spherical, adding a unique elegance to the overall design. The spout is short and forward-rushing, with beautiful curves, and the handle is freely stretched and elegant, showing a free and unrestrained style.
Shao Daheng is arrogant, not afraid of the powerful, not kitsch, and his personality characteristics are also reflected in his works. It is rumored that a maid of a powerful family was beaten for breaking the tycoon pot of the powerful family, and Shao Daheng did not hesitate to give away more than a dozen tycoon pots in order to save people. You must know that at that time, it was difficult for him to find a pot, but Shao Daheng didn't take a penny after saving people and left. The tycoon is like a ball, the pot is like his person, the moon is breezy, and he is tall and upright.
Famous for its graceful and vivid artistic characteristics, the Tycoon Ball Pot is regarded as a masterpiece and is loved by collectors and art connoisseurs.
Xu Bing: Ball pot.
Xu Li is a tycoon with a ball pot.
Youting ball pot is made by Shao Youting, a pot master in Shangyuan Village during the Tongzhi and Guangxu years of the Qing Dynasty.
Shao Youting became famous after Shao Daheng and was the adoptive father of Cheng Shouzhen, a famous pot maker in modern times. He is good at pot art, especially good at making short egg pots, ball pots and other round plain utensils, most of the works are neat and regular, the style is simple and elegant, Shao Daheng once commented that his pot is "moist and strong, familiar and vulgar".
Shao Youting's Friends of Ting Ting Ball, while inheriting the majestic characteristics of the tycoon's ball pot, carried out bold artistic processing and recreation. The connection between the body and the lid is stretched into a neck, and the spout is slightly curved and slightly straight, which further highlights the momentum of the momentum. The spout design is enlarged, the lid is raised to one-third of the hemispherical shape, and the spherical shape of the pot button is more rounded, and the overall design is closer to the name of "Ball" than the tycoon ball.
It plays a historical role in connecting the past and the next between the tycoon and the Shouzhen ball, showing the evolution and development of the style of the purple clay pot in different periods.
Shouzhen ball pot is made by Cheng Shouzhen, a famous purple sand artist in Yixing from the end of the Qing Dynasty to the first year.
Cheng Shouzhen, also known as Chen Shouzhen, is a hard-working and prolific purple clay pot master, who studied under his adoptive father Shao Youting, and is skilled in making simple pots, and his works are rough and charming.
Among Cheng Shouzhen's many works, the ball pot made by him is the most famous, he made three more bold innovations on the basis of the tycoon ball and the Youting ball, and the body of the pot is rounder and plump; The spout is then relaxed, and the neck of the pot is raised again to show more energy; The lid is extremely exaggerated, in the form of a full semi-round ball; The beads of the pot button are moderately flattened to visually allow the tension of the lid to fully unfold; The spout increases the curvature of the curve; The handle is elegantly stretched and closed when it is good, forming a beautiful space with an ear-shaped curve, and the proportions of each part are coordinated. The overall shape is simple and thick, beautiful and mellow, and the button, lid and body of the pot visually form the overlapping trend of three "balls". In a sense, the ball pot has reached a real veritability in the hands of Cheng Shouzhen, showing a perfect aesthetic effect.
Shou Zhen Ball Pot in the first year of the first year to participate in the United States Panama International Competition, this exquisite workmanship, beautiful form, with a strong Chinese cultural atmosphere of the work, won the only "special excellence award" in the competition. Such an achievement has won recognition for the craftsmanship of the Chinese nation in the international arena and added luster to the arts and crafts at that time.
Battingbot: Ball pot.
Zhou Danwen Shou Zhen ball pot.