The style of each enamel vessel is different for different reasons.
Because the craftsmen's painting techniques are different, the painted works are also different.
That's why there are Qing Dynasty enamel works. Each piece is unique and naturally of high value.
Enamel colored porcelain is the most rigorously made porcelain product among all colored porcelains in the Qing Dynasty.
Its shape design, production of wooden physical molds, pattern painting content, painters, signatures, and inscriptions were all designed in advance and approved by the emperor.
Including the copy of the original, the fonts, the person who wrote the inscription, and the finished vessel, almost all of them were screened by the emperor himself and strictly controlled in the end before they could be completed.
After learning to this point, Chen Wenzhe is already very confident in making enamel colored porcelain.
Therefore, he directly imitated the enamel-colored porcelain that Kangxi awarded to Nian Gengyao according to historical records.
Enamel green mountain kettle, enamel porcelain bowl with apricot grove and spring pattern, enamel color porcelain bowl with pheasant and peony pattern, and enamel color landscape bowl with figures. These are also commonly used enamel vessels of the Yongzheng period, and are naturally among the imitations.
So what does imitation mainly imitate? It’s just the tire, glaze and craftsmanship!
Jingzhen's white body, precious glaze, the efforts of top craftsmen, and the emperor's personal supervision created this famous vessel that was only popular in the three dynasties of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong.
Fortunately, today we finally have the conditions to see this kind of elegance that was once deeply hidden in the palace, and we don't have to "beg" from the emperor like Nian Gengyao did.
Therefore, Chen Wenzhe can use various means to find imperial enamel porcelain from the Yongzheng period and imitate it.
"Since we have imitated it, why don't we imitate a set of top quality products from the third generation of Qing Dynasty?"
Not satisfied with the imitation of Yongzheng enamels, Chen Wenzhe thought of a batch of enamels auctioned in recent years.
Among them, the Kangxi pink enamel consecrated flower bowl was auctioned by Sotheby's in 2018 for 238 million Hong Kong dollars.
Yongzheng enamel bowl with thousands of flowers and brocade patterns sold for 180 million Hong Kong dollars at the 2017 Hong Kong and Suzhou Fubi!
During the Qianlong reign, his enamel poppy bowl with a poem inscribed on it sold for HK$169 million at the 2018 Suzhou Fubei auction in Hong Kong.
There is a reason why each of these three small bowls is worth over 100 million yuan.
However, among these three small enamel bowls, the Kangxi one is the most expensive.
This is not because of its superb firing technology, but because there are more craftsmanship stacked on it.
Among all porcelain, red glazed porcelain is of a higher grade than other types of porcelain.
Therefore, Yongzheng's can only be ranked second.
However, through this small bowl, we can see the characteristics of the official kiln wares of the Yongzheng period.
The enamels produced during the Yongzheng period were the most representative products of that era.
The porcelain of this period can be described as "showy" in terms of its appearance, structure, and appearance.
The enamel colors of the Yongzheng period exceeded those of the Kangxi and Yongzheng periods in both quality and quantity.
However, in the current collection market, what is the price of royal enamel porcelain?
As for Yongzheng, any piece of his enamel-colored porcelain is very expensive.
For example, the enamel and pastel "Peaceful Spring Letter" picture bowl from the Yongzheng Meiyintang collection, size: 11.9 cm in diameter, the transaction price is RMB
46 million yuan.
Yongzheng enamel rouge-red ground plum and bamboo pattern wine circle, size 6.3 cm in diameter, sold for HKD 40.86 million.
There is also a Yongzheng enamel bowl with "Ten Thousand Flowers Brocade" pattern, the size is 10.1 cm, estimated value: HKD 5,000,000
~
7,000,000, but the transaction price was HK$14.44 million.
You must know that these are all small pieces, with the largest diameter being less than twelve centimeters.
Just such a small thing, the cheapest one is more than 10 million yuan.
Twenty years ago, the price of a piece of enamel was only tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of yuan.
In the past twenty years, the price of enamel has increased hundreds of times.
Compared with other collectibles, the value of porcelain has grown relatively rapidly, and the rate of increase is also very large.
The auction method used for the enamel paintings of the Yongzheng period has also been used in overseas auctions, and was promoted to the outside world under the name of "Imperial Royalty".
Many collectors also say that the current enamel colors seem to have a Western flavor.
Of course, even judging from the exterior decoration, it still smells like this.
In fact, there must be a reason for this, because during the Qianlong period, many Westerners entered the inner court.
So it was at this time that a lot of Western culture was introduced.
With the participation of Western culture, it naturally has a foreign flavor.
Therefore, the patterns and colors will have a Western feel.
And why are Chinese “royal items” used in the auction?
For most collectors, this is just a form of hype.
Because when everyone sees this word, they have a noble feeling, so the price will gradually rise.
In fact, the enamel colors of the Yongzheng period have a more life-like flavor and are closer to our real life.
From our current perspective, we can see the living conditions of that period from the enamel paintings of this period.
I saw the peaceful and prosperous days of the Yongzheng period, the bustling streets and the state of people's lives at that time.
Nowadays, most of the people who can collect enamel are relatively powerful senior collectors.
The reason is that the price of enamel is now relatively high and it is difficult to see it in the ordinary market.
There is nothing we can do about this, because as long as you are a collector, you all know the quality of Yongzheng porcelain, let alone enamel-colored porcelain.
Needless to say, the value of Yongzheng enamel-colored porcelain is higher. This is not one, two, but all enamel-colored porcelain.
Of course, among the three previous enamel paintings, Qianlong's price was the lowest.
However, you should not think that the price of Qianlong's enamel is necessarily lower than that of Kangxi and Yongzheng.
The three pieces of enamel-colored porcelain that Chen Wenzhe made before were just auctioned at close to each other, but that doesn't mean they are the best.
In fact, in the market, the most popular porcelain is Qianlong porcelain, including enamel porcelain.
Although it cannot be said that any piece of Qianlong enamel color is worth over 100 million, there are quite a few that are over 100 million.
For example, a Qing Dynasty Qianlong material-shaped yellow ground enamel phoenix dancing peony baggage vase, the size is 18.2 cm, the transaction price was 207,086,000 Hong Kong dollars.
This is more than 200 million Hong Kong dollars. Even if the Hong Kong dollars are worthless, it is still a lot when converted into RMB.
You know, this is no accident.
Analyzing some past auction data, one was auctioned in 2008, and the price was not low.
It was an enamel-colored Ping'an amphorae from the Qianlong period. The price at auction at that time was about 23 million.
This price is already an astronomical figure for ordinary people.
But for art lovers, it may just be a collection of their favorite objects.