"You should really let Chen Xingchen come over and take a look. This is what you call a masterpiece!"
When Chen Wenzhe got close to the bottle, he was extremely surprised.
This thing just fell into the hands of a group of guys who make high-quality imitations. Otherwise, whoever gets it will think it is the real thing.
The main reason is that this revolving bottle is really difficult to make.
Here, you definitely can’t look at things like aging and distressing.
So this time, Chen Wenzhe looked directly at the craftsmanship.
It must have been an overall shape at the beginning, with a folded mouth and folded edges, a wide neck and smooth shoulders, and a fine yellow ground with a brocade ground.
Ruyi cloud heads are painted along the lower ring, which is well rendered and three-dimensionally realistic.
It is decorated with necklaces and beads, four groups of which are decorated with auspicious characters, and there are chimes like auspicious bats, and four blooming florets, orange-red and bright blue, fresh and graceful.
Another room is decorated with four groups of Pisces, which adds to the auspiciousness, and is supplemented by curling ocean flowers, which are filled with wind.
Even though the decorations are dense, they are orderly and orderly.
The lower sloping shoulders gradually converge, and between the red dragons on the outer green space of the vessel's belly, there is a pink and green pattern with gold and hollow Kui patterns, and it is decorated with reliefs on all sides. It depicts a pair of abundant fish swimming freely in the soft waves and among falling flowers and algae.
Among them, the two mandarin fishes face each other, and the red carps swim together, leisurely and lifelike.
Through the gaps in the carvings, one can see that the inner vase imitates Ming Dynasty blue and white intertwining flowers, with different flowers and blooms, which is wonderful and interesting.
The feet are decorated with yellow ground brocade patterns of rotating branches of foreign flowers, chamomiles and anemones, which are elegant and affectionate and echo the decoration on the neck.
The inner neck and bottom of the vessel are painted with turquoise green, and the bottom is decorated with a six-character seal script in a double frame of blue material, which is extremely rare.
Overall, the body is well-proportioned and the color is full and elegant.
The carp pattern on the bottle is lifelike, coupled with the hollow water ripple carving design, it looks majestic and rich.
This performance perfectly reflects the auspicious meaning contained in the red word "吉" on the bottleneck.
The most complex craftsmanship of this piece of porcelain is the revolving bottle that combines several styles.
It is divided into an inner bottle and an outer bottle. The inner and outer bottlenecks are connected, and the bottom of the inner bottle is connected to the inner part of the outer bottle.
The carp pattern on the outer bottle is lifelike, coupled with the hollow water ripple carving design, it looks majestic and rich.
The red word "吉" on the neck of the bottle implies good luck and good luck, and the blue and white pattern drawn on the inner bottle can be seen from the outside.
Although it is ingenious, it is time-consuming, labor-intensive and material-consuming, and it is not easy to copy...
Even Emperor Qianlong felt that the craftsmanship was too complicated, and wrote in Tang Ying's memorial: "It is not necessary to burn as many porcelains as usual."
It doesn’t take much, but how many pieces were fired? Can we burn more of the precious official kiln porcelain from the past?
Therefore, many of the precious official kiln porcelains now hidden in major museums are not orphans.
The pastel statue of a figure from the Yongzheng period that Chen Wenzhe collected before was thought to be a fake just because there was one in the Forbidden City.
This is really undesirable. Is it a fake? Not because it is available in other museums, but also because of the quality of its production process.
After all, this is not a bronze ware, that one is a model and a cast.
But porcelain, generally after one piece is fired, a batch will be fired as usual.
That is to say, complicated bottles like revolving bottles are difficult to bake, so they need to be fired less frequently.
If you do not allow more burning, you will burn less. Burning less does not mean that you will make one piece, and it is definitely not one piece.
Generally, royal porcelain comes in pairs, and single pieces are rare.
Our traditional culture emphasizes that good things come in pairs, and giving gifts in even numbers is important. Even garden design also pays attention to symmetry.
The emperor's family paid special attention to pairs, especially the utensils in the harem. Which objects were not in pairs?
Especially porcelain that is both practical and decorative, they all appear in pairs!
Therefore, even the revolving bottles should appear in pairs, and it is impossible to bake one piece alone.
Even when it was fired, it was definitely not two pieces, but more than four.
Because no one knows whether the kiln will be successful or not.
If you can make more, try to make as many pieces as possible and bake them in the kiln together.
And how successful it will be in the end depends entirely on God’s will!
If you are unlucky and get one, don't worry, you will definitely continue to burn it. Only if you successfully burn another one and match it, will you pay tribute to the emperor.
Chen Wenzhe doesn’t think private individuals could imitate bottles made of this kind of craftsmanship during the Republic of China, mainly because it was too difficult.
This piece of work is painted with blue and white on the inside and foreign colors, enamel, and pastel on the outside. It uses gold tracing, hollowing, turning, relief, shallow carving and other techniques. It is extremely luxurious and breathtaking.
This kind of craftsmanship, even during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, was definitely the pinnacle of porcelain.
Chen Wenzhe thinks it is unrealistic to combine so many craftsmanships in one place, or to gather them in a private kiln.
In this way, its identity will be clearer.
I looked at the price again. Is the price of 12 million high?
If it's genuine, it's not expensive at all, but what if it's a fake?
Chen Wenzhe didn't believe that someone behind Wu Er could produce something of such a high level, let alone make it old.
He could confirm that this piece of porcelain had no signs of wear and tear.
I couldn't help but look at it carefully again. Not only were there no signs of wear and tear, there were also no signs of damage, not even the smallest flaws.
Of course, there are still some pores caused by natural aging, but this does not affect the viewing.
It is really a blessing that this piece of porcelain can survive natural and man-made disasters and wars.
Regardless of whether you can buy it or not, it is undeniable that it represents an artistic crystallization that combines the essence of porcelain-making art and technology from past dynasties!
I don’t know how long it took before all the ceremonies outside ended.
Finally discovering something unusual here, Wu Er came over.
After taking a look at the old man in front of Wu Er, he looked about fifty or sixty years old. Although he was dressed in a Tang suit and looked elegant and approachable, Chen Wenzhe knew from his thick arms that he was a qualified porcelain worker.
"This is Mr. Cui, my master. Some of the things I have in my hands are all the work of my senior brothers." Wu Er introduced.
"I've met Mr. Cui!" Chen Wenzhe greeted very politely.
"Don't take it seriously. The waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves ahead. The conditions in our time were not good. I didn't go to school. I should have made some stupid mistakes. Just don't laugh."
Chen Wenzhe was polite, and Mr. Cui was even more polite. This behavior surprised Chen Wenzhe.
No wonder he is a master. With this attitude, he should develop a good craft.
"Boss Chen is interested in this bottle?" Mr. Cui looked at Chen Wenzhe curiously and asked.
"I'm attracted to it," there was nothing to hide. Chen Wenzhe continued very frankly: "It's a pity that the price is too expensive, otherwise you can take it away and collect it. Handicrafts of this level are rare."
"Yes, if it hadn't appeared abroad before, I would have thought this one was from the Qianlong official kiln!" Ji Lao said regretfully.
Chen Wenzhe was stunned. Although he knew that this was not imitated by Wu Er and others, but Cui Lao said it so easily, could it mean that they were also fishing?