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Subject:Help with Maker's Mark/any info
Posted By: TaylorCornish Thu, Jan 22, 2015 IP: 68.5.225.223

Hello! I'm new to this, but I had come across this antique frog and was hoping to get any info regarding it.


Thanks everyone!

http://www.pinterest.com/taytaybayallday/antiques/

Subject:Re: Help with Maker's Mark/any info
Posted By: rat Fri, Jan 23, 2015

The mark suggests that this is supposed to date from the early Qing, but it seems of recent manufacture to me.

Here's a write up that came up when I plugged the content of the mark into Google (in Chinese if you want to track someone down to explain it):

 郎窑绿是清康熙年间江西巡抚兼御窑厂督理郎廷极主持景德镇窑务时所烧的一种铜绿釉瓷器,因郎廷极的姓氏而名,又称“绿郎窑”、“绿哥瓷”、“苹果绿”,是以铜为发色剂被氧化后的颜色,釉面呈青绿色。其中有的釉面凝厚,玻璃质感强,光亮莹润,釉色较深,开有细碎的斜片纹,并映出五彩光泽,俗称“苍蝇翅”;另有一种釉面,因铜的氧化与还原不一,形成器里釉为红色,器外釉为浅绿色,被称为“反郎窑”(1)。郎窑绿对烧成的气氛、温度要求很严,烧成一件成功的产品非常困难。烧制时间为康熙中晚期(1705—1712年)。

  吾家藏绿大肚瓷笑佛正符合这一特征,釉面凝厚,光亮莹润,玻璃质感很强,开有细碎的斜片纹(见图1)。在自然光下绿色嫩艳娇滴可人。布袋和尚造型自然生动,身材矮胖,大腹便便,袒胸露腹,箕踞而坐,善眉乐目,十分逗人喜爱(见图2)。清代以前的瓷佛像是前后两半或左右两半拼合成形的,清末至民国出现灌浆法,两半拼合废除,凡灌浆形成的瓷像定是民国以后的制品(2)。吾家藏此佛为前后两半合成,痕迹鲜明,显为清代之物。迎光侧视时呈现满器的五彩光斑,光彩忽闪忽闪,返铅现象明显,更可证是传世古瓷(返铅现象即蛤蜊光,即郎窑绿之“苍蝇翅”,百年以上传世古陶瓷才有,釉彩中的铅元素经过百年以上的沧桑岁月逐渐从釉彩中渗出所致)。积釉处在放大镜下可见密集的气泡如山上一片片野菊花一般紧密。底部积垢老旧,系麻袋布纹底。有一片片微小的针眼支烧痕。有一“福建会馆朱茂盛造”椭圆形印款(图3)。经在国家图书馆北海分馆查清咸丰三年朱荣等续修的《秀水朱氏家谱》,悉知朱茂日成即朱茂盛。“日成”乃“盛”字之古汉六书体(见辞源1435页,“日成”同“盛”,一本作“盛”)。其字子芹,崇祯十一年(1639年)二月十四日生,康熙五十一年(1713年)正月十三殁,活了七十四岁,系南宋大儒朱熹之后,属朱熹幼子朱在一脉;其祖父朱国祚系明万历至天启年状元宰相(3);其父朱大定明天启癸亥年承父荫授中书舍人,崇祯己卯年(1639年)改授四川成都府管粮通判,1641年署重庆知州,1642年升成都府同知,诰授奉政大夫。崇祯死后,1645年南明福王朱由崧监国升南京尚宝卿,1646年死于钱塘,其生平载入郡志。

  朱茂盛生于官宦文儒之家,其母诰封为宜人,著有怀旧阁诗。明朝的灭亡使他有着与朱耷相同的遭遇,故改为经商入福建会馆。随着一个朝代的灭亡,朱家也家道中落,其父有三妻,而他仅娶一妻叶氏,生二子二女,从康熙后便失考,秀水朱氏从此衰落(4)。

  这尊佛像从造像、瓷釉、制作手法、款识等各种特征均表明是清代郎窑绿瓷,造型奇特、保存完好,是郎窑绿中的珍品。郎窑绿是康熙四十四年至五十一年(1705—1712年)为江西巡抚郎廷极所烧,而朱茂盛死于1713年正月十三,所以年限肯定为郎廷极郎窑绿烧造年限。

  笔者所见社会上伪“福建会馆朱茂盛造”绿笑佛,虽形一样,却有形而无神,没有真品的所有特征,釉色不但不莹润嫩艳,反而有发暗发黑的现象,底新,系人为用竹签划点作旧,无针眼支烧痕,积釉处无密集釉气泡,更无苍蝇翅光芒。

   吾家藏佛像所有特征属郎窑绿中上乘者,在当时即十倍于郎窑红(郎窑红是铜呈色的一种红釉,在清康熙郎窑烧制时,民间就有谚语:“若要穷,烧郎红”,可见郎窑红之珍贵。)。旧时王谢堂前燕,飞入寻常百姓家,此稀世奇珍为我家所藏乃我之缘分,幸也。

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Subject:Re: Help with Maker's Mark/any info
Posted By: Bill H Sat, Jan 24, 2015

This is a model of the mythical Three-legged Money Toad, often seen in the company of the Daoist alchemist and Immortal Liu Hai (see link).

The base-mark reads from the right and across in two lines as "Fujian Association, Made by Zhu Maosheng" (Fu-jian hui-guan, Zhu Mao-sheng zao - 福建會館, 朱茂盛造). Zhu Maosheng is a name that I believe has come up in the context of porcelain models and figures, but never to my knowledge in conjunction with period pieces of the well-known early 20th century "Fujian Association" of Jingdezhen potters.

I Googled the mark on this Money Toad model and came up with the same mark on what was described by several Chinese websites as a China Republic-era model of the Budai Heshang (Cloth Sack Monk or Happy Buddha), which appears to me to be a contemporary interpretation of such figures. A link to one of the Chinese websites is included herewith. I suspect that you toad model may also be contemporary.

Best regards,

Bill H.

URL Title :BudaiHeshang



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