Chen Xingchen was watching from the side. He really admired Chen Wenzhe for how he could just make a decal pot without a design drawing?
Chen Wenzhe glanced at Chen Xingchen with a smile, and he continued to work. Today was all about making celadon.
If the celadon he makes is properly aged, you really won't be afraid of being noticed.
Without thinking too much, I once again made a relief jar with the image of Canglong Godson. This one must also be painted with pink celadon glaze.
Chen Wenzhe remembered that during the Qianlong period, he made such a picture jar and sold it for more than 74 million yuan.
He has done the theme of Canglong's godson several times, and he is really familiar with it.
He then imitated the Qing Qianlong celadon glaze carved Beirut vase, the Qing Qianlong pink celadon glaze carved antique Lei-style statue with Kui dragon pattern, and the Qing Yongzheng pink celadon glaze string pattern water chestnut vase.
These types of vessels are not difficult at all, and at most they require some carving techniques.
It is not difficult to imitate, but the price of their original owners is not low, and the auction price has reached more than 40 million.
After doing these things, the warm-up is over.
After thinking about it, Chen Wenzhe decided to make two relatively technical things.
At the beginning, he made it simple. This time he imitated a Qing Qianlong bean green glaze relief vase with auspicious bats, double fishes and a hundred years of longevity.
As you can tell from the name, the first is the bottle, and then the Ruyi ears are made, which are two pieces of ears that look like Ruyi.
At this time, the figures of auspicious bats, Pisces, and hundreds of longevity are embossed on it. Among them, hundreds of longevity are the most technical content.
The craftsmanship of this one is more complicated and slow to make.
However, no matter how slow it was, Chen Wenzhe only spent two hours.
Of course, what we are making now are all pots, and they are not glazed.
I looked at the time, it was already two o'clock in the morning.
"Why don't you go get some sleep?" Chen Wenzhe said.
"No, when can't you sleep tomorrow?" Chen Xingchen continued to help with clay training.
He can only help with this small favor. To imitate these heavy weapons, tire clay is the easiest, because just use the porcelain clay from Jingzhen.
You can actually buy ready-made glaze, but Chen Wenzhe still prefers to prepare it himself.
"Since you won't sleep, make something you can help with and let me see your skills!"
When the Sui Hou Pearl was launched for the first time, Chen Xingchen was making revolving bottles. The manufacturing process of such bottles was also very complicated.
Of course, at this time tonight, Chen Wenzhe did not plan to do anything so difficult, nor did he think about how big it would be.
This time he planned to make a set of bottles, that is, a large bottle within a small bottle.
The production technology of this piece is not as good as that of the revolving bottle, but its carving and hollowing techniques are not something ordinary people can accomplish.
This time, you can't do it casually, but you must draw a design first, because the process is more complicated.
When Chen Wenzhe drew the designs of several parts, Chen Xingchen immediately saw the difference.
"Making bottle sets? This process is quite complicated!"
As he spoke, Chen Xingchen laughed. He was familiar with this!
In fact, his best porcelain is making revolving bottles. Since he can make revolving bottles, he can naturally make set bottles.
Therefore, his carving and hollowing techniques are also very impressive.
Of course, he cannot compare with Chen Wenzhe's skills, but compared to other young artists, he has never been intimidated.
Chen Wenzhe just smiled and said nothing.
Soon he drew the overall effect of the bottle, and then drew the exploded view.
This time the painting was more detailed, even the bottom line, he drew it in a standard way.
Looking at it again at this time, we can see that the neck of this bottle is straight and slender, the belly of the bottle is full and elegant, and the neck is stenciled with banana leaf patterns and supplemented by wishful lines.
The belly is hollowed out and decorated with peony branches surrounding the bottle body. The full size is jaw-dropping.
The peony flower head has a distinct three-dimensional effect, the petals are densely layered, and the front and rear cover each other with different postures.
Several peonies are leaning towards their backs, also showing a natural charm. The branches and stems are interspersed between them, and the branches and leaves are lush and full of life.
The hollows are densely covered and the layers are scattered, but there is still no sense of chaos. Instead, there is a sense of order hidden deep inside.
The hidden edge of the knife is almost a round carving, which is comparable to the "exquisite crossing of the bridge" in woodware.
The bottom is fully covered with green glaze, and in the middle is the six-character three-line seal script inscription made during the Qianlong reign of the Qing Dynasty, which is the standard writing method of the early Qianlong period.
This kind of long-neck bottle is not difficult to make, and it is rare to have it hollowed out.
This kind of hollow vase was not created by the Qianlong Dynasty. It had been fired in official kilns as early as the Southern Song Dynasty. It has a long history.
From the unearthed artifacts from the official kilns of the Southern Song Dynasty, it can be seen that there are hollow pillars in the bottle body connected with the neck of the bottle to prevent severe deformation during firing.
During the Yuan Dynasty, Longquan kiln also fired similar utensils. The pillars inside the bottles were no longer installed, which shows that the firing technology was completely skilled.
The Qing Palace has a Longquan kiln hollow vase from the Yuan Dynasty. Emperor Qianlong may have made a copy of it because of this original.
In fact, if you carefully analyze the exploded view, you can see that the craftsmanship designed here is Chen Wenzhe's specialty.
Let’s not talk about carving, just decoration. How many times has he made peonies?
Now it's hollow carving, which doesn't make it much more difficult!
This time Chen Wenzhe made this bottle sleeve, and the inside of the bottle was still supported by the bottle bladder. This was not a step back in craftsmanship, but a move towards a bottle sleeve with interior painting decoration and the ability to rotate the bottle.
Needless to say, he is not lacking in interior painting skills.
Even though he hasn't had time to learn master-level interior painting techniques recently, he always involuntarily engages in immersive learning in his dreams.
Therefore, it is really not difficult to make a peony vase with his hollow carving technology.
In addition, Chen Xingchen could help this time, so the two of them worked very quickly.
Support the bottle bladder and coat the large bottle. After completing this step, the next step is carving.
The initial carving is a rough carving, so Chen Xingchen can help.
This is just like opening a character's face, as long as there is room for Chen Wenzhe to continue to modify it.
In this way, the two of them cooperated tacitly, and soon a hollow, carved peony, banana leaf pattern, and long-neck vase was completed.
The name of this kind of porcelain actually points out all its craftsmanship and decorations and superimposes them together to form the name.
By the way, the price of such a bottle is about the same as the Baishou jar made earlier, both of which were sold for 69,000,000 yuan.
In comparison, the picture jar was more expensive. It was expensive, it was only 900,000 yuan more.
"In the future, if you don't want to make purple clay pots, you can also try to make some vase sets. I remember that Tang Ying sent a batch of vase sets as tribute to Qianlong. There were eight sets. You can make some with different patterns, just make simple celadon porcelain.
, plum green, pink green, bean green, all are fine, our glaze is still good.”
After finishing, while applying glaze, Chen Wenzhe suggested.
"I know." Chen Xingchen didn't even raise his head. He looked at a design drawing and said, "The one you left seems to be a bit like Tang Ying?"
"Yes, this imitation vase was made by Tang Ying and presented to Qianlong as a tribute."