Needless to say, the development of porcelain reached the Qing Dynasty. Various classic types, glaze colors, and craftsmanship emerged in endlessly.
Among the top ten classic types of utensils, there is also a rattle.
This was a popular utensil style during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty. It is characterized by a small mouth and a slender neck.
Rich shoulders, curved or barrel-shaped belly, shallow circle feet, and flat bottom.
This kind of bottle is named after its shape like a rattle with a handle, and is mostly made of blue and white underglaze red.
Due to the rarity of this type of vessel and the limited quantity in existence, it has always been worth a lot of money.
Just showing up attracts attention.
Such porcelain,
Chen Wenzhe had to hide one thing no matter what,
Therefore, it is indispensable to make a red underglaze rattle statue from the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty.
Then there is the through-ear bottle, which is also relatively rare, but it cannot stand up to the classic shape of the vessel.
The Guan'er bottle is imitated in the style of a Han Dynasty pot, with a long straight neck, a flattened abdomen, and a circle foot. The neck is symmetrical on both sides and is attached to the vertical tubular ears.
Many of them were fired in Ge Kiln, Guan Kiln, Longquan Kiln, etc., and imitations were also made in the Qing Dynasty.
He had seen this kind of bottle before when he was repairing Longquan kiln porcelain, but Chen Wenzhe had never made it himself.
When I encounter the opportunity this time, I naturally want to make one. At least I need to be familiar with the shape of the device, right?
The most important thing is that by imitating such a type of vessel, he can gradually become familiar with the Ge Kiln and then try to make the Guan Er vase.
As for the Guaner vase from Longquan kiln,
There is no need to do more,
Just do one at most.
He has made too much Longquan celadon porcelain. Now that he wants to make more porcelain, there is no need to make more.
Of course, it’s okay to make one and see how good it is now.
After all, I haven’t made Longquan celadon for a long time, and I don’t know what kind of green jade he can make with his current craftsmanship?
Green as jade, has he reached the extreme limit of his pursuit of this kind of effect?
In this way, Chen Wenzhe was familiar with the types of porcelain he knew how to make before, and at the same time he was trying to learn how to make new types.
Now when he makes a type of porcelain, he tries his best to incorporate the glaze color and craftsmanship he knows how to make.
In this way, although the speed of making any kind of porcelain is not fast, as long as it is made, it will be a qualified fine porcelain.
"Huh? So it turns out that I've never done a bottle appreciation before?"
this day,
Chen Wenzhe finally succeeded in appreciating one of the top ten classic porcelain vases.
Bottle appreciation is very famous,
But when he really tried to do it, he found out,
It turned out that he had never done it before.
Let’s talk about the classic porcelain bottle that is most familiar to collectors:
It must be a bottle reward.
This type of vessel was also the most popular in the Qing Dynasty and was the latest style to appear during the Yongzheng Dynasty.
Its main function is to serve as a reward, and its shape is derived from the jade pot spring vase.
The shapes of the vases handed down from ancient times are basically the same, with a rounded mouth, a long and slender neck, shoulders decorated with convex string patterns, a round belly and a circle foot.
Just looking at the shape of the vase, it is really not much different from the Yu Hu Chun Ping. Even when I first started appreciating the vase, it was the Yu Hu Chun Ping.
Legend has it that Emperor Qianlong once wrote a poem while drinking: one piece, two pieces, three or four pieces, five pieces, six pieces, seven or eight pieces, nine pieces, ten pieces, tens of millions of pieces. Emperor Qianlong didn't know what he said in the next sentence.
At this time, Ji Xiaolan took the next sentence: Flying into the reed flowers, they disappeared.
It was such a simple thing that solved Qianlong's difficulties.
At this time Qianlong said to Ji Xiaolan, there is a reward!
In this way, Ji Xiaolan was rewarded with a bottle.
Bottle appreciation, as the name suggests, is a reward vessel given by the emperor to ministers with meritorious service.
This kind of vase is painted with lotus flowers, which symbolizes honesty and integrity.
The emperor rewarded him with a vase of blue and white flowers, implying that "an official must be honest."
After the vase was formed, it definitely could not be called Yuhu Chun Ping, so it originally had another name, "Yutang Chun Ping".
In the past, the emperor issued a decree: "Appreciate a pair of spring vases in Yutang."
The eunuch below would tell the whole story in front of the emperor: "Pass an edict to appreciate a pair of spring vases in Yutang."
But as soon as the eunuch turned around, he would say: "A pair of bottles."
To put it simply, the middle part was omitted, so gradually, this bottle was later called "Shang Ping", and the original real name "Yutang Chun" was no longer called.
Appreciation bottles are truly treasures of Chinese ceramic art.
In fact, if you think about it, you can understand that as long as it is a vase, it must have come from the palace.
After all, can the rewards given to ministers and nobles be anything bad?
Currently on the market, there are not many appreciation vases from the Yongzheng period. The most common ones are those from the Qianlong period, which are loved by collectors because of their fine workmanship.
There are several types of appreciation vases in the Qing Dynasty. In addition to the blue and white lotus appreciation vases mentioned above, there are also gold appreciation vases.
The gold-painted vases are mainly vases with blue-glazed gold-colored leather ball patterns. This type of vases emerged relatively late.
It is fired on the basis of the traditional vase. Its shape is similar to the vase of the same period, but the whole body is covered with sacrificial blue glaze, and the glaze is decorated with gold.
The theme decoration on the neck and abdomen is a rubber ball pattern.
The patterns are extremely rich: dragon, phoenix, lion, deer, group crane, group Fushou, bat chime, gossip, egret lotus, quail chrysanthemum, auspicious fruit, pine, bamboo, plum, goldfish, moonflower, flower insects, flowers and butterflies,
Round flowers and various flowers, to name a few.
The gold color and the sacrificial blue glaze complement each other up and down, and the glaze surface is even and bright. The gold color pattern is particularly eye-catching, giving it a unique sense of grandeur and attracting more attention.
However, there are also vases with only blue glaze and no gold painting. Now there is one in the collection of Nanyun Provincial Museum.
In addition, the Nanyun Museum once collected a Qianlong blue glaze vase with gold-painted dragon patterns. The decorations on the whole vessel are mainly concentrated on the neck and abdomen, with gold-painted cloud patterns and dragon patterns.
Gold-painting decoration was more common during the Qianlong period, and gold-painting on blue ground was a very common one, often with a high level of craftsmanship.
This type of gold-painted vases were mainly popular in the late Qing Dynasty. Because the gold-painted vases are easy to be worn and the gold color is easy to fall off, they are not easy to preserve, so there are relatively few of them in good quality.
The market price of this type of utensils is not too high, but they have strong circulation.
There are many counterfeit products in the market at present, and many of them are made of post-painted porcelain.
Among the current imitations of appreciation bottles, the biggest shortcoming is that the shape of the current imitation appreciation bottles is not well mastered.
Generally speaking, the neck, abdomen and soles are not in place.
As for the blue-glazed gold vase, the most difficult thing to imitate is the glaze and gold color tones.
But at the same time, this kind of vase is also the most difficult to identify. It is difficult to imitate but it can be imitated, so it is not easy.
Then there are the pastel vases, which began to appear in the mid-Qing Dynasty. Most of the decorations on other porcelain were transplanted onto the vases, and the painted patterns were very rich.
Because the shape of the vase makes it easy to draw patterns on the abdomen, pastel vase is more popular among people.
But this kind of vase is not always used as a reward, but more for appreciation.
Among them, the most common ones are the pastel bat vase, the pastel butterfly vase and the pastel leather ball pattern vase.
These vases were mostly seen in the Guangxu and Xuantong dynasties.
These patterns are all over the vessel and are relatively complex and detailed. The rim of the mouth is decorated with modified lotus petals. The decorations on the neck and the main body of the bottle are basically the same.