The Yuntong Company's exhibition catalog has 133 pages and records 399 artifacts from the Qing Dynasty palace collection.
These antiquities are all rare treasures that are very rare in the world, and they are important materials for studying the scattered market of the Qing Dynasty's old collections.
There are seven volumes of Tongyun Company's catalog from 1930 to 1940, covering ceramics, calligraphy and painting, stone carving and many other aspects.
Among them, the 1964 catalog contains a large Qianlong vase with various glazes called the "Mother of Porcelain", which has become important evidence that Tongyun Company once collected this "Mother of Porcelain".
So in the end, many experts have always believed that this auction item is a pair with the one in the Forbidden City in China.
certainly,
The statement is: they may be a pair, because Chinese porcelain makers like to make pairs of porcelains, so there may be several pairs.
But for now, the two pieces we see now are left. Will we find them again in the future?
Having said that, it is possible that several pairs were fired, and this is the basis for some counterfeiters to make profits.
If there is no such possibility,
For example, who do they sell the high imitations made by Wu Er and others?
There are only two in the world,
One more thing came out today,
Everyone knows it's fake.
There are no absolutes in the world, that is, there are many possibilities, which makes the world more interesting.
Chen Wenzhe is one of the best, or simply called a real expert.
So in his opinion, the porcelain mother in the photo and the one in the Forbidden City collection are probably a pair.
Because from the point of view of the shape of the vessel, the shape of the American "porcelain mother" vessel is correct.
In addition, judging from the delicacy of the painting and the natural and aged expression of the color glaze, it should also be credible.
Of course, these are all Chen Wenzhe's nonsense. If it is not credible and incorrect, it will not be able to fetch a price of 1.5 billion.
This price was only a year or four ago, and now, we still don’t know how far the price will break through.
This is the importance of orderly inheritance,
This is why in the antique market,
There is a reason why all antique shop owners love telling stories.
The stories they tell are fabricated inheritances.
Only things that are inherited in an orderly manner can be sold at a better price.
Just like these high imitations made by Chen Wenzhe, no matter how good the imitations are, even if they reach the level of authenticity, if they really want to appear on the market, there must be a suspicion.
Why? Even if no one can identify flaws and defects, it is still a matter of doubt.
Just because of inheritance, this thing of yours seems to have appeared out of thin air. If there is no inheritance, then where did it come from?
Therefore, it is very likely that it was imitated by modern people. This is the psychology of many antique experts.
Here, there is no evidence, it is just a free heart testimonial!
Not to mention anything else, let’s talk about the porcelain mother piece that was later auctioned.
It is also controversial.
It's just that its inheritance is too clear, so it can be sold at a sky-high price.
Besides the question of authenticity,
There are also artistic disputes!
Some people believe that the social significance of these two large glazed vases from the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty is far greater than the aesthetic significance.
Because its colors are complicated and its themes are too many, it lacks connotation.
Moreover, it lacks a higher aesthetic realm in art and does not combine artistry with technology.
However, its social significance is huge, which no one can deny.
Because of its comprehensive application of process technology, it has obvious characteristics of the times, showing the top production technology and cultural confidence of embracing all rivers at that time, and improving the visibility of Chinese manufacturing in the world.
This played a very important role in the development of Chinese culture.
It has made great contributions to the prosperity and development of Chinese porcelain culture and world porcelain culture.
However, these cannot hide that he is a work of brilliance.
Some people even think that it has no art at all and is just a "vase" made of various techniques and hard work.
The vases here are the kind of superficial things that have no connotation and look like a shell.
In fact, this is also a matter of opinion.
If we talk about showing off and having a nouveau riche mentality, then who is more powerful than Qianlong?
During Qianlong's reign, he did more than just make such a porcelain mother-of-pearl to show off his skills.
For example, among the many decorations on the large vase with various glazed colors, the most eye-catching is the "yangcai icing on the cake" decoration of various colors on the mouth and abdomen.
In fact, Chen Wenzhe can still do many of the craftsmanship used on the porcelain mother-piece.
If you sort it out carefully, you will find that he can do some of the techniques of the five famous kilns, and he can even do them very well.
However, if he really wanted to make this yangcai, he really didn't dare to say how good it was.
At the very least, he definitely can't do what Qianlong Yangcai did now.
Yangcai, just two words, really speaking, its craftsmanship is too complicated, not even inferior to enamel color.
So what exactly is Yangcai? Yangcai generally refers to new colors.
Xincai refers to a type of overglaze color on porcelain, formerly known as Yangcai.
New colors include decals, paintings, brushed flowers, spray flowers, printing, film transfer, gold tracing and coloring, color printing, corroded gold color and various electric colors, etc.
Its characteristics are rich colors, diverse decorations, beautiful rough shapes, vivid patterns and novel styles.
This technique first uses colorful pigments to paint various pictures or patterns on the surface of white porcelain, and then bakes it in a color furnace. Modern foreign-colored porcelain began to develop during the Republic of China.
Therefore, this kind of porcelain is also called new color porcelain.
So what kind of art is this? What is the artistic effect?
To put it simply, it is to pursue a magnificent and colorful effect.
However, these processes are generally paired with some suitable subjects.
For example, the realistic paintings of Liufu and the theme of Liufu brocade on various large glazed vases from the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. The realistic paintings have full compositions and detailed figures;
The brocade decoration has distinctive national characteristics and a strong naturalistic tendency.
The decorations on other parts, such as the rouge-purple ground intertwining branches and Baoxiang patterns, Qianlong-style blue and white, veneer, imitating the Ming Dynasty Yongxuan-style blue and white, gold-colored fretwork, gold-colored curly grass patterns, etc., the decorative motives are all derived from nature.
These patterns and the style of the main body cover up the infinite luxury, and finally make these works with gorgeous craftsmanship become a lot more connotative.
Qianlong could have done a lot of works like this in his time.
According to "Eight Years of Qianlong's reign, every work was completed and the records were cleared", which is the archive record of Qianqing Palace.
On the fifth day of the eleventh month of the eighth year of Qianlong's reign, the eunuch Cheng Jinggui came to tell him that the eunuch Hu Shijie handed over ten landscape palace bowls in Yangcai with red ground and four groups of icing on the cake, ten pieces of Yangcai and yellow ground with four groups of icing on the cake, and ten pieces of Yangcai and blue ground with four groups of icing on the cake. Four pieces of landscape palace bowls.
Others include eight points of Yangcai red ground with four groups of landscape yuan cups and plates with icing on the cake, eight points of Yangcai red ground with four groups of landscape and begonia-style cups and plates, a pair of Yangcai Diange poems vases, and a pair of Yangcai characters poems jade plum bottles. , a pair of Yangcai verse chrysanthemum and jade plum vases, a pair of Yangcai Western character vases.