Starting from the end of the 15th century, the interest of South Vietnamese potters gradually turned to overglaze decoration.
Red, green, and yellow colors may be used together with blue and white to decorate utensils, or they may simply be used as glaze decoration.
South Vietnamese potters in the 16th century were even more interested in decorative decoration.
Although the output of ceramics is very high, the quality is increasingly worrying.
In 1567, the first year of Longqing's reign, the Ming Dynasty government lifted the maritime ban and "allowed trade in both the East and West."
Subsequently, Jingzhen's products flooded into overseas markets in large quantities, with high quality and exquisite craftsmanship unmatched by anyone.
In this way, Nanyue Ceramics, along with many other kilns, faded out of the international market, including South Vietnam's traditional Southeast Asian market.
Due to the subsequent change of Ming and Qing dynasties, which affected the Chinese kiln industry, the South Vietnamese ceramic industry continued until the end of the 17th century.
In 1683, the 22nd year of Kangxi, the Qing Dynasty regained Wanwan.
The following year, the ban was lifted and domestic ceramics regained its former dominance.
Since then, South Vietnamese ceramics have disappeared from the international market.
In the past few hundred years, South Vietnam's porcelain manufacturing could not be said to have experienced ups and downs, but it was not much different.
After all, the market is doing okay now, and it just so happens that Chen Wenzhe has a hand in it.
If possible, he might be able to take advantage of the geographical advantage here to directly launch his white porcelain and celadon on the market.
I have to say that if political status is not considered, the geographical location of South Vietnam is really great.
Here, as long as the country is stable and the external environment is okay, it will develop immediately.
This is also an important reason for the rapid development of South Vietnam in recent years.
It is a pity that small countries often do things involuntarily, so they cannot grasp their own advantages, and eventually all efforts will be in vain.
All plans are progressing in an orderly manner. Chen Wenzhe spends his days wandering around the antique markets in major cities in South Vietnam.
In the process, he also met many people, two of whom were quite special.
Before, Chen Wenzhe thought that no one in South Vietnam was engaged in collecting.
Now that he knows, he is narrow-minded. There are still many people engaged in collecting in South Vietnam, and some of them have even made great achievements.
For example, someone he met recently spent twenty-five years collecting more than 10,000 porcelain plates!
This is not surprising. The most surprising thing is that this man was worried that his collection would be stolen, so he posted all these porcelains on the wall!
Chen Wenzhe, such a strange man, naturally wanted to see it. Among other things, he wanted to see the fine porcelain of various dynasties in South Vietnam.
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Imagine that there are more than 10,000 South Vietnamese antique porcelains in just one house. Even if most of them have little value, they are still very valuable to Chen Wenzhe.
Not to mention anything else, how much historical information on South Vietnam can Chen Wenzhe get by just going back to all these things?
Don’t talk about anything else, just the firing of ancient porcelain. He should know it better than all the South Vietnamese, right?
When you encounter this kind of opportunity, you cannot miss it.
Therefore, when he saw the room full of porcelain, Chen Wenzhe was almost shocked!
This kind of operation has never even occurred to him!
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It must be decoration, but no matter how it is designed, after seeing the house with blue and white porcelain on the walls inside and outside, you will feel that your own house is ordinary and the same.
How unique is this house? This collector actually used 10,000 porcelain bowls, plates and urns to decorate his house!
His name is Ruan Wen, and he loves porcelain and antiques very much.
This man is almost sixty years old. Although he is much older than Chen Wenzhe, he is definitely a wonderful person.
After getting to know him, Chen Wenzhe realized that there were quite a few places to buy and sell porcelain in South Vietnam.
This Nguyen Wen is a living map, and it was through him that Chen Wenzhe purchased a large number of South Vietnamese porcelain from various periods.
Because they have spent more time together, Chen Wenzhe understands Ruan Wen relatively well.
Nguyen Van first collected porcelain antiques in 1986, when he had just returned to his hometown after retiring from the army.
He worked as a carpenter and had the opportunity to spray paint a table and chairs owned by a local antique collector.
It was this collector who first introduced him to the beauty of traditional porcelain plates.
Nguyen Van was so impressed that he decided to become a collector himself.
He couldn't afford to collect antique South Vietnamese woodenware, so in the end he had to choose porcelain.
He traveled to all the northern provinces of South Vietnam in search of traditional porcelain and spent all his money trying to buy as much of it as possible.
But Nguyen Van's obsession with porcelain made it difficult for his family to accept it.
Especially since he spent all his money on porcelain, and then borrowed more money from neighbors, relatives and friends to buy new antique porcelain.
Every time he heard that someone was selling porcelain, he would bring all his collection to the door.
In other words, every time he goes out, he packs his collection of porcelain in his backpack for weeks, sometimes even months.
He traveled all over the country, and his collection of porcelain followed him around the country.
Because he was worried that these collections would be stolen or damaged if they were kept at home.
He even considered that if he passed away, his porcelain might be sold by his family, which was a situation he could not face.
Therefore, in order to ensure that his collection would stand the test of time, he decided to integrate all of his treasured porcelain into his home.
He believed that the only way to protect these antiques was to mount them on the wall.
So one night he started mixing some plaster and taped some of his collection of porcelain bowls to the wall of the house.
Only after seeing Nguyen Van's house can you truly understand how spectacular the house is, which is covered with nearly 10,000 porcelain plates, bowls and urns.
It was only when Chen Wenzhe saw photos of this unique house online that he knew there was such a strange person.
However, although this house is very beautiful, there are only a few collections dating back to the 17th and 18th centuries, and most of the other collections are relatively cheap.
However, Mr. Nguyen Van does not care how much his porcelain is worth. All he wants is to preserve the cultural heritage of his country.
This point is as pure as Chen Wenzhe, or even more pure than Chen Wenzhe.
Because Chen Wenzhe not only wants to preserve the history and culture of his own country, but also wants to preserve the history and culture of other countries.
To ensure that his legacy will outlast him, Nguyen Van has told his children that they cannot sell or demolish the house after his death.
They could live in it, or continue collecting antique china and build the house.
Such persistence is still very admirable.
In fact, this kind of thing is not uncommon. Coincidentally, there is also such a porcelain house in China, and it is even more spectacular than this South Vietnamese house.