This store has a complete set of promotional materials, and Chen Wenzhe couldn't help but pick it up and look at it.
Snuff bottles were originally used by a few nomadic peoples such as Manchus, Mongols, and Tibetans in my country. They are mainly made of copper, silver, and porcelain.
After the Ming Dynasty, tobacco bottles and snuff were introduced into the mainland.
Later, the variety of smoking pots gradually increased. By the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, jade, jade, spar, gems, agate, ceramics, copper and silver, bamboo and wood carvings, nesting materials, interior paintings and other smoking pot varieties had appeared.
Coupled with the continuous improvement of craftsmanship, it is not only a practical product, but also a favorite arts and crafts.
There are many varieties in this store, and the paintings have a wider range of themes, and some of them are even more interesting.
Because Chen Wenzhe could see that a small number of snuff bottles used internal painting technology, which was a unique skill.
Chen Wenzhe didn't understand the technology of making snuff bottles, but he still knew the inner paintings very well, and he could even make a few gestures.
The materials of snuff bottles with interior paintings include agate, spar, amber, etc.
Before painting, use iron sand balls and emery sand to evenly sand the inner wall of the tobacco pot, and then design works of various themes according to the shape of the pot.
Internally painted snuff bottles are a traditional Chinese folk craft, and there are three major schools: Beijing School, Lu School, and Cantonese School.
Artists of the Beijing School use bamboo brushes and willow brushes to paint, and are famous for their simple and elegant paintings;
The Lu School uses hair brushes to paint, and its paintings are delicate and gorgeous, while the Cantonese School's inner paintings are characterized by bright and colorful colors.
Seeing the gorgeous and colorful paintings, Chen Wenzhe was sure that they were works of the Cantonese school.
The Cantonese faction is famous for its bright colors and decorative styles. It is also a young faction and is very popular among young people even now.
For example, the snuff bottle in front of you is transparent, and inside it uses the inner painting technique to draw two pink and black kittens.
And...looking at it, Chen Wenzhe discovered that the craftsmanship of the snuff bottle in front of him seemed to be very extraordinary!
Originally, interior painting was a unique skill. He slowly painted various vivid pictures in a small snuff bottle.
In other words, these pictures are all painted inside snuff bottles.
Anyone who has seen a snuff bottle should know that the snuff bottle is not big, but the opening is even smaller.
It is not easy to insert a pen into such a small opening and slowly draw a picture.
This is just like engraving a seal. If you want to print normal fonts, you must engrave the words on the seal backwards.
The same principle applies to internal painting technology.
Therefore, for internal painting works, if the skills are not high, you can only paint some simple things.
At this time, the snuff bottle displayed in front of Chen Wenzhe's eyes, the picture inside was not simple.
Chen Wenzhe knew at just a glance that this was a Liangzhou song!
And he could also see that the author of this Liangzhou song must be a master.
"The luminous cup of grape wine, if you want to drink, play the pipa immediately. Don't laugh when you are lying drunk on the battlefield. How many people have fought in ancient times."
This picture is a poetic painting from the Tang Dynasty. The subject figure only occupies a corner of the picture, but it is surrounded by vegetables. The artistic conception is far-reaching, and the brushwork is meticulous, vigorous and unrestrained.
The protagonist of the picture is a mighty warrior, holding a gleaming Longquan sword in one hand and an exquisite luminous cup in the other, drinking the fragrant wine to the exciting sound of pipa.
This painting perfectly expresses the boldness and boldness of the warrior lying drunk on the battlefield, and the heroic demeanor of disregarding life and death.
The brush strokes on the characters' clothes are like flowing clouds and flowing water, and the powerful lifting and turning of the brush strokes express the vigor and vigor of the warrior.
The background of the picture is described with light and free and easy pen and ink, forming a strong contrast with the delicate and vigorous expression of the subject characters. Sometimes the ink is dripping, and sometimes the lines are dry and white, which is extremely abstract beauty.
Such a painting, not to mention it is painted inside a small snuff bottle, even if it is painted on the wall, it is very attractive.
"Yunong? It can't be Dai Yunong, right?" Chen Wenzhe laughed. This pen name is very special.
Therefore, Chen Wenzhe just thought about it for a moment and remembered such a famous person.
"Liangzhou Song" by Yu Nong, a master of interior painting art? This artist seems to be only in his fifties now. I didn't expect that his interior painting skills were so good.
This is a snuff bottle made of colored glaze. There are many things painted on it within a small area. This is all technology.
Picking it up casually, he planned to ask about the price. If it was not expensive, he would naturally buy it.
"The firing of colored glaze seems to be a very good technique!"
While walking around, he saw that there were not many snuff bottles with interior paintings here, but he actually saw a snuff bottle with interior paintings of figures?
Stopped and took a look, it seemed like he was the President of the United States?
Sure enough, I turned it over and looked at it. It was a portrait of President Reagan of the United States, with his signature on it and his life story on the back.
"Where have you seen this snuff bottle?"
Chen Wenzhe just thought about it for a moment and realized that he seemed to have seen this in Wang Xisan's museum.
Looking at the snuff bottle in front of him, he felt as if he had forgotten something.
Chen Wenzhe knows some of the masters of snuff bottle interior painting in China, and Wang Xisan is one of them, because his museum is built on the land of Qilu, and he is even more powerful and famous than Yu Nong.
Master Wang Xisan is also older and became famous earlier.
However, the "Portrait of Presidents of the United States" he produced does not seem to have been circulated.
A complete set of snuff bottles is still preserved in a museum named after him!
Therefore, this snuff bottle belonging to President Reagan is more interesting.
The reason why he said this must be because the production level of this snuff bottle is very high, even higher than the production level of the Liangzhou Song written by Yu Nong that he first got.
After thinking for a moment, Chen Wenzhe picked up the snuff bottle and walked quickly to the cashier at the door.
The sales model of this store adopts a layout similar to that of a supermarket. You enter the store to choose something, take it out and pay for it to take away.
"Are you Boss Chen? Are you interested in these two snuff bottles?"
As soon as Chen Wenzhe walked out, the owner of the store, a young man in his thirties, said with a smile.
He actually knows himself? Chen Wenzhe is a little helpless. He is also considered a celebrity in the antique city?
“Seeing that the production level of these two snuff bottles is quite good, I want to buy them back for collection.”
"Well, Boss Chen's eyesight is very good. The two snuff bottles you are holding in your hand are indeed the treasures of our store. One is a work of Yu Nong. A casual search on the Internet will tell you how good he is.
The other one is even more impressive. It is a work by Wang Xisan, a master of modern interior painting. You should know that all of his works have entered museums, and they are considered collection-level treasures, and the prices are not low."
Chen Wenzhe is even more helpless. This is the disadvantage of being a celebrity.
However, since it is the treasure of the store, why is it placed casually within the reach of customers?