Chapter 1,170 Alternative Porcelain
The reward bottles that cost millions of yuan are not something to say, but Xuantong official kiln porcelain is more expensive. Why? Because there are only a few in the Forbidden City.
Chen Wenzhe knew a few items, which were the collections hidden in the Forbidden City.
Like the yellow ground, green flower and bird pattern bowl, this is the representative of it because it is very special.
What is special? It is not that it is particularly rare, but because it is one of the few official kilns from the Xuantong period.
This yellow-land, green-colored flower and bird-patterned bowl was fired during the Xuantong period of the Qing Dynasty. It is 6.5cm in height, 12.4cm in diameter, and 5.3cm in foot diameter.
The bowl has a straight mouth slightly open, deep belly, straight upper abdomen, and a circle foot.
Apply yellow glaze inside and outside to make the inner and outer light.
On the yellow-glazed ground on the outer wall, two peach trees and four flying birds were painted in green.
The green ring line is decorated with a green ring line near the edge, and the foot wall is shallowly carved with double ring lines for a week.
All the green color patterns have the same scribing contour lines as the pattern.
The six-character regular script style of the outsole ink writing "made in the Xuantong period of the Qing Dynasty".
Yellow ground and green color are one of the varieties of low-temperature glaze overglaze color.
Therefore, yellow glaze is used as the ground and green is used to paint the dark patterns carved with cones.
This kind of decoration method is more common on plates and bowls. If it is an official kiln tool from other periods, it is just an ordinary product.
But just because it was fired during the Xuantong period, it seems particularly rare, because its firing is average and not worse than the official kilns of other periods.
Of course, there were also good things during the Xuantong period.
For example, the yellow glaze dark cloud dragon plate, which is precious in glaze color, is 4cm high, has a diameter of 18.7cm, and a foot diameter of 11.4cm.
It belongs to the old collection of the Qing Palace. This plate has an open mouth, an arc wall, and a ring foot.
The six-character regular script of the blue and white script of Zunei is "made in the Xuantong period of the Qing Dynasty".
The inner and outer walls of the plate are covered with yellow glaze, and the center and outer walls of the plate are secretly engraved with clouds and dragon patterns.
The yellow glaze cloud dragon pattern is a traditional decorative pattern for palace porcelain, and has been used throughout the dynasties and has many styles.
According to the regulations of the Qing Palace, there are strict regulations on the use of yellow glaze bowls inside and outside, and only the emperor and the empress dowager can use them.
This plate should be the imperial porcelain used by Puyi, the Emperor Xuantong in the late Qing Dynasty, so it is of significantly higher value.
Chen Wenzhe also needs to make a batch of yellow glaze porcelains like this. Although some of the ones made before involve yellow glaze, they are definitely not classics among yellow glaze.
After all, yellow glaze is quite special. In ancient times, no one dared to use it, so naturally no one made it more.
If you do less, your skills will not work well. As long as you do it, you will definitely be the imperial craftsman of the court.
In addition to representatives of identity, some top craftsmen still have some good works.
For example, a group of strange flowers in porcelain, Liling Kiln underglaze colorful colors.
This is a representative of porcelain from the Xuantong period, and the colorful flower and bird pattern vase underglaze of Liling is its representative work.
This was made in 1911 in the third year of the Xuantong reign of the Qing Dynasty. It has a height of 30.3cm, a diameter of 6.3cm, and a foot diameter of 6.3cm.
The bottle has a long and slender neck, a round belly, and a ring foot.
White glaze is applied inside and outside the bottle, and the body is light and thin.
Flower and bird patterns are painted with colorful underglaze, with elegant colors.
The outsole is signed with blue and white regular script "Huzhou Porcelain Industry Company in the Three Years of Xuantong of the Qing Dynasty", and the outer green color double circles are displayed.
Husheng Porcelain Industry Company was founded in Husheng in the 32nd year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty (1906).
In the modern history of porcelain making in my country, the underglaze colorful porcelain of Liling kiln in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China reached a high level in terms of production technology and decoration, and can be regarded as a stranger in the ceramic art garden.
Also, there are very few works left in the feudal dynasty, and this is one of the weird ones!
Of course, there are also normal Xuantong porcelains, such as the blue and white double-shaped "Xi" peach bat big bowl.
The big bowl of peach bat with a double-character "Xi" character in blue and white, with a height of 9cm, a diameter of 21.1cm, and a foot diameter of 8.5cm, also belongs to the old collection of the Qing Palace.
The mouth is slightly outward, the arc wall, the circle foot, and the foot is inside the blue and white script "made in the Qing Dynasty Xuantong Period" six-character double-line regular script style.
The outer wall of the bowl is decorated with blue and white, covered with lotus patterns, bats and peaches in between, and four groups of double joy ("囍") characters are written symmetrically.
The character "Shuangxi" used as the decorative pattern of porcelain appeared earlier in folk kilns.
It was discovered occasionally in the early Qing Dynasty, and after the mid-Qing Dynasty, it appeared in large quantities on the official and civil kiln porcelain.
During the wedding of Tongzhi, more than 6,000 pieces of porcelain with this theme were fired.
According to the Qing Palace archives, this bowl was burned in the first year of Xuantong, that is, 1909.
If this one was not burned at the time when the Qing Dynasty was about to perish, it would not be considered a historically valuable thing.
But who made it burn three years after it was burned, and the Qing Dynasty was destroyed?
There are still many alternative porcelains like this, and the most special one is definitely the Xuantong period.
Can you imagine the price of these alternative official kilns?
Take a look at those rare and expensive Ming and Qing dynasties ceramics, sometimes it can really surprise you.
For example, domestic ceramics have rarely had basic models since the Ming Dynasty.
The year inscription on ceramics in regular script appeared from the Ming Dynasty and continued until the Qing Dynasty.
After the Ming Dynasty, the official kilns generally included the dynasty of the emperor's year name, which is also called the dynasty of the dynasty.
Among them, there were 16 emperors in the Ming Dynasty and 17 reign titles. Zhengtong and Tianshun were both reign titles of Zhu Qizhen.
There were 12 emperors in the Qing Dynasty and 13 reign titles. Tiancong and Chongmei were both reign titles of Huang Taiji.
However, for every year, you can find the corresponding official kiln ceramics.
For example, Jianwen in the Ming Dynasty, this was because of the war and no porcelain left behind.
Hong Xi, this person has only been in power for one year, and certainly has not.
The blank period is quite famous, and blank porcelain appears, which is a typical representative of alternative commemorative porcelain.
The blank period was the orthodox dynasty, Jingtai and Tianshun dynasties, and they were all affected by the war.
During the Taichang period, the unlucky emperor had only been in power for only 29 days.
In the Qing Dynasty, the destiny of Lao Nu Nurhaci, he often gnawed tree bark at that time, and his only pursuit was to wear wild boar skin.
Even if I became famous later, I would definitely not have the intention to fire porcelain.
As for Tiancong and Chongmei, they were thinking about entering the Central Plains at that time, so they were unable to make official kiln ceramics in Jingzhen.
The Forbidden City was a royal palace in the Ming and Qing dynasties. In the past five hundred years, countless exquisite ceramics from Jingzhen Imperial Kiln Factory have arrived here.
The dynasties listed above were either in power for too short time or had no control over Jingzhen due to war, so they were unable to leave behind official kilns with the year-end model.
Even if there are found that there are many porcelains of this type, they are mostly fake entrustment information from Jiajing, Wanli, Tianqi and Chongzhen.
The Palace Museum has added displays of the emperors of the Qing Dynasty and their corresponding official kiln porcelain. In addition, there are some "alternative official kilns".
Although these emperors did not reign for a long time, they still seized this short opportunity and left their own unique "mark" on the top ceramics at that time.
There are very few such official kilns in the world. So how much price impact will this factor cause? And which ones have particularly appreciation potential?
Chapter completed!