Painting dragons on ordinary porcelain can be done casually, but it is different on a large vat. This is the same as the difference between filming a TV show and a movie.
When something is enlarged and becomes high-definition, some flaws and flaws become particularly noticeable.
Therefore, not everyone can paint large-scale patterns well.
The large tanks here are obviously exquisite. For example, the other one is painted with a lion.
Two lions, decorated with the pattern of double lions playing with balls, the pattern of wishful ribbons, and the gaps are lined with patterns of miscellaneous treasures.
The main decoration is a pattern of two lions playing with a ball. It depicts two groups of lions with eyes wide open, mouths showing teeth, hair flying horizontally, strong and powerful, playing with each other around the hydrangea.
The bigger the vat is, the bigger the lions on it will be. Even so, these two lions are made lifelike, which is not simple.
In fact, the decoration on the dragon vat is not the most difficult technique. The most difficult thing is actually the size. It is big, so it is the most difficult to make!
Embroidery is really a technical job here, and ordinary people can't do it.
After seeing such a good thing, Chen Wenzhe would naturally not miss it.
Not to mention anything else, just the painting method of cloud dragon and lion above is worth him to stop and learn.
Standing outside the door and watching, it was still unclear, so Chen Wenzhe simply walked into the store.
Only then did he see that the inscriptions on these two large vats were also very standard.
The inscriptions on these two large blue and white vats are small and very formal, but he lacked the inscriptions written on his lips.
Chen Wenzhe knew that this seemed to be a rule passed down from the previous Qing palace, or was it a habit or custom?
Walking into the store, Chen Wenzhe discovered that this store is really unique. It is either a vat or a jar. Anyway, they are all large vessels.
In addition to the two large tanks in the middle, there are many other tanks in the store, large and small. The biggest ones are the two that I saw first.
In addition to those two, there are two other vessels that are also quite small.
One is a pterosaur vat, and the other is also a large vat with cloud and dragon patterns.
It's a pity that these large vats are modern crafts, not antiques, otherwise their value would be higher.
Due to the difficulty of firing the large blue and white vats, which were bulky and difficult to transport after being fired, and were easily prone to freezing and cracking when water was stored in winter, as well as natural and man-made disasters such as turmoil and revolution, by the time of the Yingdu Kiln of the Qing and Tang Dynasties, the complete Ming Dynasty vats were
It is difficult to see the large blue and white vats from the Qing Dynasty.
By the time of the Republic of China, there were very few intact dragon jars, and those that have been handed down to this day are even rarer, which shows how rare they are today.
Today, large blue and white vats are frequently sold at auctions for hundreds of thousands or even millions.
In the early 1990s, a beautifully imitated blue and white marine pterosaur tank was successfully auctioned in Hong Kong for HK$300,000. This shows that even imitations of blue and white dragon tank can be loved by people.
Obviously, the seawater pterosaur tank in the store is an imitation, and the imitation is quite precise. If you don't look at the layer of fire outside, you really can't see any flaws.
I looked at the price tag, 80,000, a big tank is 80,000, is it expensive?
It's really not expensive. You know, no matter what era it is, the cost of firing such a large vessel is not low.
This does not include the production process and labor hours, but only the firing cost.
So how high is the cost of firing a large blue and white vat? The imperial kiln factory in the Ming Dynasty once estimated that the large porcelain vat was valued at fifty-eight taels of silver each, and the two porcelain vats were valued at fifty-eight taels of silver each.
At that time, the average cost of official kiln porcelain was only one tael of silver.
To make more than a thousand pieces of small porcelain among the people, about eighty or ninety rods of pine firewood are used, while for a large dragon vat kiln it takes forty or fifty more rods.
In other words, the cost of firing a kiln for such a large vessel is generally four to five times that of a small vessel.
After successful firing, the value of this kind of porcelain is forty or fifty times that of ordinary small porcelain.
Therefore, such an exquisite large vat, even if it is a modern work of art, is not expensive to sell for 80,000 yuan!
After walking around, Chen Wenzhe realized that there weren't many good things here, just five or six.
Other large cylinders have different prices according to diameter and size, and the price is very cheap.
The one with a diameter of 73cm is 880 yuan, the one with a diameter of 90cm is 1800 yuan, and the one with a diameter of 1 meter is 2800 yuan.
This price is too cheap compared to those priced at RMB 80,000, so many tourists are very tempted.
It's a pity that this thing is not easy to carry, even if you are tempted.
Although this eliminates many potential customers, it does not mean that the store's business is not good.
After just standing for a while, Chen Wenzhe saw several business transactions, including two foreigners. It was obvious that they wanted to take things out of the country.
After paying a little attention, Chen Wenzhe discovered that the two foreigners were still big customers.
If you are a wholesaler, you definitely don’t just need one or two items, which is a big business.
After Sui Houzhizhu recorded all the craftsmanship worth recording, Chen Wenzhe slowly walked out of the store and continued to move forward.
After just walking a few steps, I saw another porcelain shop.
This is a company that sells porcelain for daily use. It seems to be building a brand. This is the routine of modern ceramics factories.
Without any desire to go in and take a look, Chen Wenzhe continued to walk forward.
Next, he saw many ceramic factories setting up specialty stores here, and the production techniques were quite acceptable, considering that these were industrial products produced on a large scale.
Several of them are foreign brands. It seems that not only domestic merchants have seen opportunities, but also foreign porcelain manufacturers. After all, this is a big city.
After passing the Chenghuang Temple and coming to Hualou, the stalls here have changed a lot.
Now these antique stalls have all become fixed stalls and there are very few mobile stalls, which is obviously easier to manage.
As for the antiques sold at the stall, no one knows whether they are authentic or not, but they look a bit like that.
Chen Wenzhe just took a look at it casually. If these things were really antiques, they wouldn't be placed here in the open air.
However, compared to the original ones that looked fake at first glance, the current ones are imitated more seriously. As for high imitations, they are still rare.
Of course, most of them are ordinary old things, such as bottles and cans from decades ago, and at most there are some old things from the Republic of China.
During the period of the Republic of China, there were no official kilns, coupled with social unrest, all kinds of monsters and ghosts appeared. Therefore, some of the imitation products during that period were really good, and some were just like that.
However, after dozens or hundreds of years, even if it is something bad, time has given it a historical depth and made it look like the same thing.
Shaking his head, Chen Wenzhe walked into the Chinese Building.
The antiques on the market now are not as good as the thin bowl from the Republic of China that he collected when he first opened his shop!
That one could have sold for three to five thousand yuan at that time. If it were sold now, with the current market popularity, it might still sell for three to five thousand yuan. After all, that small bowl is in really good condition.