The magnificent flower-filled patterns found in Shirosatsuma porcelain cannot be produced by ordinary hand-painted craftsmen.
Chen Wenzhe knew with a little calculation that this level of decorative painting would require a hand-painting craftsman with more than 20 years of experience to draw it perfectly.
Considering their huge hand-made production costs, compared with European hand-painted porcelain, it costs four thousand yuan a piece, which can be said to be very cost-effective.
Works like this full of flowers are always out of stock, so this Nanyue collector is very happy and proud to be able to buy them and keep them at home.
After listening for a while, Chen Wenzhe realized that no wonder the white satsumas he collected here were so magnificent.
It turns out that not all white satsumas have gorgeous and gorgeous patterns, but the more complex and numerous the patterns, the more expensive they are.
The price of this kind of porcelain is mainly determined by the amount of painting required for each work.
It’s just that the flowers are not blooming for a hundred days. Starting from the late Edo period, and into the Meiji and Taisho eras, Satsuma ware became popular. The Showa era was the peak period of Satsuma ware.
Even during World War II, his works were exported around the world.
But now, mosa-yaki is no longer good, otherwise it would be another thousand-year-old national treasure or something.
Of course, Chen Wenzhe definitely cannot say such things.
After all, you are a guest in someone else's home, so you can't slap them in the face here, right?
There happened to be a language barrier, so Chen Wenzhe didn't have to flatter this great collector.
But as the translator kept whispering in his ear, Chen Wenzhe really felt it was a bit funny.
It is such a kind of porcelain that is not taken seriously in Neon, but in the mouth of this South Vietnamese, and even in the mouth of all South Vietnamese, it has become a priceless treasure.
Chen Wenzhe couldn't help but asked, why is it a priceless treasure?
Because there are various patterns on the neon ceramics in his collection.
Such an answer made Chen Wenzhe confused. Is this also a reason?
Of course, some neon Satsuma ceramics seem to be covered with 3D relief patterns and have a variety of colors, which look vivid and harmonious.
However, there are many such porcelains in China!
When making any kind of porcelain, there is a craft called carving, right?
There are also top-notch ones, such as hollow revolving bottles!
There is nothing strange about these techniques.
But in today's South Vietnam, this kind of work is very popular.
After learning about this batch of ancient neon pottery, many local collectors came to visit one after another, saying that they were already priceless treasures.
Indeed, this collection looks very beautiful, and most people cannot afford it.
But the group of South Vietnamese tycoons who got rich first can definitely afford it.
Therefore, after visiting these works, Chen Wenzhe also had the idea of making a batch of mossaki.
Anyway, the technology is ready-made, and when making porcelain, whether it is neon or Nanyue, more or less imported porcelain stones and glazes are used, which makes it easier for Chen Wenzhe to imitate.
After spending a long time in South Vietnam and getting in touch with the antique collecting circle in South Vietnam, Chen Wenzhe felt like a duck in water.
After seeing the customs of foreign lands, no, the culture and skills of foreign lands, he learned a lot.
Of course, the unexpected gains are even greater.
If you can gain some top-notch skills by visiting other people's collections, then the more people you know, the more opportunities you will have to pick up missing pieces in the collection.
For example, for some ancient books in South Vietnam, you must know that before the Qing Dynasty, that is, before France invaded and colonized South Vietnam, the characters used in South Vietnam were always Chinese characters.
Therefore, the slightly older South Vietnamese ancient books are all recorded in Chinese characters.
Now, some ordinary domestic tourists can pick up some ancient books in South Vietnam, because they know the characters on the ancient books and know what the contents of the ancient books are, which allows them to identify whether they are valuable, but the South Vietnamese do not
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South Vietnam was deeply influenced by Chinese culture in ancient times, but it has changed its direction in modern times.
After South Vietnam switched from Chinese characters to Roman characters, many cultural gaps appeared.
Therefore, even if the South Vietnamese people have important cultural relics at hand, it is difficult for them to know their important value.
Because many cultural relics are from Han culture, they don't recognize them, or don't particularly understand them.
To a certain extent, this is also a hole dug for oneself.
It is a pity that many treasures are buried or even lost like this.
Therefore, Chen Wenzhe found another category of collection.
On this afternoon, Chen Wenzhe was walking on a street in Hu Minh City. There were old books stalls everywhere on both sides.
You can find many ancient books here, not only domestic ones, but also foreign ones.
Therefore, it also attracts many tourists who are interested in history and culture.
Things are different now. There used to be almost no competitors.
Now, domestic tourists are Chen Wenzhe’s biggest competitors.
Chen Wenzhe is no stranger to ancient classics. He paid special attention to them especially after picking up the rhymes of the Ministry of Rites.
It's a pity that there is no chance in China, but in South Vietnam, maybe we can still seize the tail of the opportunity.
Now South Vietnam's economy has just developed, and some special hobbies have not yet been developed. This is an opportunity for foreigners.
This is like the United States, Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan going to China to search for antiques in the 1980s and 1990s. It is almost the same scene.
Chen Wenzhe was still very curious about ancient South Vietnamese books, so after walking into the street, he carefully searched every second-hand bookstore here.
Since it is a used bookstore, there are naturally many used books.
It's just that most of them are old modern books, which Chen Wenzhe can't understand.
What he can't understand is naturally not ancient books, so it's better to choose them this way.
In this way, I read from house to house, and sometimes I can find some old books, but they are of little value.
Also, many of the old books here are also published in modern times, but they are just old things.
He was full of enthusiasm at first and felt that he was going to miss a large number of ancient books, but he didn't expect that when he started looking for them, he found that things were not at all what he imagined.
Have the ancient books here been looted?
Why should we keep some? Chen Wenzhe didn't give up, so he could only continue to search.
Huangtian paid off and searched for several hours. Unexpectedly, he found something.
However, this time it is not an ancient book at all, it seems to be a handwritten copy copied by someone else in modern times.
The moment he picked up the book, Chen Wenzhe felt a little chilled. He could tell at a glance that it couldn't be an ancient book.
It looks like it has a history of 20 to 30 years at most. The paper is slightly yellowed and the fonts are still pen fonts. How long can the history be?
I was about to put it down, but after taking a casual look, Chen Wenzhe realized that this was actually a historical record?
South Vietnam also has historical records circulated in China? This is relatively new!
I picked up this book and read it carefully. I can generally understand the text. It seems to be the history of the Nguyen Dynasty, not domestic historical records!