Chapter 995: Carefully crafted to confuse the fake with the real
Chen Wenzhe easily copied a pair of pastel double-flavored peach-patterned bowls, which are considered to be typical Kangxi vessels.
Although the shape of the vessel looks simple, it is not easy to actually make it. Not to mention Shuangyan, especially the peach blossoms on it, it is not easy to make it well.
However, Chen Wenzhe had previously made water-dotted peach blossoms, which was a top-notch craft among pastels.
Therefore, the peach blossom bowl he made is still very interesting.
The shape of the bowl is too simple, and there is not much difficulty. The most difficult thing is the jar.
Chen Wenzhe made another large jar, the peony jar. He was better at this type of jar.
It's just that this time he used a heavy makeup technique, which means that the peonies on the big pot are more gorgeous, which foreigners like.
However, it seems that Lafayette also liked this type of pastel.
Among the many Qing court pastel porcelains, Cixi pastel porcelain is simple and straightforward, with rich and colorful brush strokes, rich and luxurious, and unique.
Therefore, Chen Wenzhe painted red birds and peonies on the large jar in front of him, making it a rich jar with red birds and peonies.
Kangxi's was available, and Cixi's was also available. Chen Wenzhe simply planned to slowly imitate it from Yongzheng to Qianlong.
Anyway, there were a lot of ready-made utensils, so Chen Wenzhe picked out two cups and made a pair of pastel chrysanthemum and bee cups.
If there is any characteristic about these two cups, it would be beauty and elegance.
Because Qianlong's pastels are not as beautiful and elegant as Yongzheng's, but present a graceful, luxurious, exquisite and exquisite style.
Obviously, beauty and elegance are the characteristics of Yongzheng pastel porcelain.
Compared with Yongzheng famille rose, Qianlong porcelain is more varied.
The patterns of Qianlong pastel decoration pursue a gorgeous and intricate style.
The subject matter is wide-ranging. On the basis of traditional flowers, birds, landscapes, and figures, a large number of contents are added that imply happiness, prosperity, peace, ethics, etc. Many patterns use homophones to express auspicious wishes, such as
Porcelain is also more popular.
Therefore, among porcelain collections, pastel porcelain is a variety that cannot be avoided.
Simply looking at the production process, pastels are one of the varieties of overglaze colors, also known as soft colors.
The dyeing method of pastel porcelain decorative painting has absorbed nutrients from the arts of the sisters, and adopted the techniques of spot dyeing and over-coloring to make the objects to be depicted, whether characters, landscapes, flowers, birds and insects, appear strong in texture and clear in light and shade.
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There are a certain number of official kiln pastel porcelain handed down from generation to generation, but there are also more and more imitations. Some of them have prominent signs of ageing, but if they are not aged, they are very bright.
Others, in order to show that they are old objects, apply some gray-brown mud on the bottom of the utensils or the mouth of the jar.
Chen Wenzhe is a good old-fashioned artist, so he knows where to find faults when appraising Qianlong pastels.
He followed what he knew, avoided all the pitfalls, and finally made it perfectly distressed, which was a true fine imitation.
First of all, there is the type of utensils. Qianlong pastels are rich and diverse in shape, especially the various large utensils used for display.
Such as revolving neck bottles, revolving bottles, celestial sphere bottles, flat bottles, polygonal bottles, etc. are very popular.
The overall structural proportions of the shape are inconsistent. Although the height or diameter are the same as those in the book, the curvature of the belly of the object is incorrect, either expanding or shrinking.
This is also the case on a large plate, or on a large soup basin.
Of course, compared with various difficult-to-make revolving bottles and the like, large plates are much simpler to make.
He just needs to strictly follow the prescribed sizes, such as thirteen inches, twelve inches, eight inches, etc.
This is not difficult for Chen Wenzhe. In fact, the difficulty is not the size, but the thickness of the carcass.
Chen Wenzhe has seen many Qianlong pastel imitations, and one of the biggest flaws is the carcass.
Some pastel carcasses are too thin and some are too thick.
But in terms of quality, pastel quality is whiter and more delicate, which can be seen in the fine pastel porcelain produced in Jingzhen.
The base of pastel is glass white, and the color can be over-rendered from thick to light, so the flowers and leaves painted on pastel will have different shades, which is particularly suitable for rendering.
Chen Wenzhe originally made fine imitations of Yuan blue and white, and his grasp of the carcass cannot be said to be unparalleled, but it is not difficult to produce a qualified Qianlong pastel porcelain embryo.
Once the shape, size, and carcass of the vessel are ready, it’s time for the glaze.
Qianlong glaze requires special preparation, which requires a unique formula and unique ores.
No matter what it is, there is definitely no place in South Vietnam, let alone various materials suitable for imitating Qianlong porcelain.
Fortunately, Chen Wenzhe had prepared these in advance, and he had already imported a batch of glazes from China, otherwise nothing would be imitated now.
Chen Wenzhe now deals in all kinds of porcelain materials from the Qing Dynasty.
Seriously, he would also like to thank Wu Er. Without him ordering in large quantities, he really wouldn't be able to start this business.
Only when you actually start this business and enter the industry can you truly understand how huge the demand is for domestic top-grade blue and white materials, pastel materials, and even porcelain clay, porcelain stones and other raw materials.
The country of porcelain is still not a boast until now.
That is to say, in the past hundreds of years, China has not paid much attention to the construction of porcelain brands, which has allowed foreign countries, such as Neon, South Vietnam, France, Germany, and even England, to get ahead.
Now domestic manufacturers should have woken up and started building various brands.
However, perhaps it is because the domestic porcelain making technology is too strong and no one is convinced by anyone, so it is still a chaotic war.
Chen Wenzhe shook his head and thought no more. He should seriously imitate Qianlong pastel porcelain!
It is not easy to imitate Qianlong porcelain. It is still the most basic porcelain body. After grasping the thickness, you still need to grasp the essence.
What is the essence? In the final analysis, it is the porcelain itself.
In addition to the decoration and glaze color, the most important thing about a piece of porcelain is the embryo.
The porcelain body of the early Qianlong period still maintains the fine and smooth characteristics of the Yongzheng period.
In the late Qing Dynasty, due to the incompetence of the pottery supervisors and economic reasons, the quality of the fetuses was not as good as that of the early and middle Qing Dynasties when Tang Ying supervised pottery, but it was better than that in the late Qing Dynasty.
In the early period, the enamel was shiny and moist, not much different from that of Yongzheng period, but in the later period, it gradually became rough.
No matter what, all the official kiln wares produced during the Qianlong period were very exquisite pastel porcelain.
The most basic characteristic of this kind of official kiln wares is that the glaze is firm, as smooth as fat and jade, and smooth and flawless.
Generally, the glaze of pastel porcelain is either glossy or not clean enough. The glaze often has small uniform ripple-like wrinkles, which are most obvious in ceramic prints, but are not as serious as the uneven wavy glaze in the late Qing Dynasty.
When it comes to imitation, the most important thing is to understand the object of imitation. The more you understand, the easier it will be to avoid pitfalls, so that the imitation can be lifelike and even fake.
I feel like there is nothing wrong with the tire, and the last part is the most important part, the painting.