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Chapter 1052 A Wonderful Flower

The imperial enamel utensils of the Qing Palace are top-notch in terms of materials and workmanship.

It can be said that every piece of enamelware is exquisite, luxurious, delicate and changeable.

And the level of exquisiteness of the tie-dao craft porcelain that can rival enamelware can be imagined!

Like enamel, this kind of craft is quite labor-intensive. In the records of the Qing Palace Household Office, this newly created pattern is called "the icing on the cake", and Jingzhen artists call it paved.

Among them, the powder enamel rolled porcelain (paved flowers) is the organic combination of the pastel color and the rolling process to form a perfect match.

The characteristics of pastel porcelain are that the yin and yang of the picture are prominent, the shades are distinct, the three-dimensional effect is strong, and the color is soft, elegant and bright.

The so-called rolling, it first evenly applies a layer of coloring material on the white tire, such as red, yellow, purple, carmine, etc., and then uses a tool like a rusty needle on the coloring material.

Generally, thin phoenix tail patterns are drawn out, and finally decorated with flowers, birds, landscapes and other patterns or consecrated patterns.

Nowadays, the rolling process has become more and more mature, and the yield rate has also been greatly improved.

In today's Jingzhen market, it is not difficult to see ceramic products with rolling process, ranging from large brand stores to small street stalls.

However, really well-made porcelain, especially well-made famille rose porcelain, is really rare.

Of course, it’s not uncommon. For example, the powder enamel rolling porcelain in the Qianlong period was not only well done, but also top-notch.

Chen Wenzhe knows one kind, the top-level powder enamel rolling porcelain of the Qianlong period.

So, don't underestimate any category of porcelain, there are only good and bad ones, and there are no hip-pull categories.

Seeing the famille rose goblet made by Zhang Gu, Chen Wenzhe was delighted to see Lie Xin, so he also made a bottle involuntarily.

Forget about the hollowed-out revolving vase worth hundreds of millions in his collection, it is too troublesome to make.

However, it is not difficult at all to make an ordinary bottle just by using the famille rose technique.

Among them, the most difficult, or the most complicated, is the tying process, but this kind of bottle is really beautiful when it is made.

What Chen Wenzhe imitated was also a piece of porcelain from the Qianlong period, and it was a fine piece of it.

The Qianlong Dynasty was the golden age for the development of ancient ceramics in my country. The official kiln porcelain of this period was famous for its rich varieties and exquisite workmanship.

In particular, the pastel rolling porcelain invented by Qianlong in the early days is a wonderful flower in his garden.

There must be a minority of strange flowers, so why do they seem to suddenly become famous recently?Still everywhere?
Over the years, famille rose porcelain has been favored by people, but it is known that the market price has only been rising year by year in recent years.

This is why porcelain is suddenly so popular!

In 2011, at the Huaxia Porcelain and Handicraft Auction held in Jiangsu Forbes, Hong Kong, a long-necked gourd bottle with a light yellow ground and foreign color icing on the cake of "Longevity and Prolongation" in the Qing Dynasty was sold for more than 2.5 million Hong Kong dollars, setting a record for Qing Dynasty porcelain auctions. historical record.

This piece of porcelain has a lot of history. The gourd is a very favorite type of vessel in ancient China. Because the gourd and Fulu are homophonic, it is loved by the folk and the royal family.

This long-necked gourd bottle was originally preserved in the Yuanmingyuan of the Royal Palace of the Qing Dynasty. It belongs to the royal porcelain and is a display vessel.

However, in 1860, the second Opium War broke out. Emperor Xianfeng of the Qing Dynasty at that time rushed to Chengde Mountain Resort in a hurry, and handed over the huge city of God to the British and French allied forces.

Under the iron heel of the British and French allied forces, the Old Summer Palace became an important place for bandits to rob.

The British and French allied forces carried out wanton looting in the Old Summer Palace, looting many precious treasures.

However, some larger precious porcelains were smashed and thrown on the ground.

This small long-necked gourd bottle was lucky to escape the bad luck of being broken, but it was still robbed out of Huaxia.

After the British and French allied forces brutally robbed the Old Summer Palace, they even set fire to this world-famous garden of ten thousand gardens.

In 2010, this long-necked gourd bottle appeared at an auction at Sotheby's in Hong Kong.

After dozens of rounds of bidding, this long-necked gourd bottle was finally sold for more than 2.5 million Hong Kong dollars, creating a new record in the history of Chinese porcelain auctions.

Why would a bottle sell for such a sky-high price?First one, for sure it's beautiful!

And on the basis of beauty, you can easily find countless advantages, such as grandeur.

This should be one of the standards for many high-priced porcelains in the Qianlong period, right?Those that can be sold at a sky-high price will definitely let you see the prosperity of Qianlong at a glance!

Let’s not talk about whether it’s really a prosperous age, but let’s talk about this series of bottles. From them, you can see that the porcelain production technology of that era must be the pinnacle.

So why would such a piece of famille rose porcelain be sold for a sky-high price of [-] million?
Is it just because she is beautiful?Of course not, and its extreme craftsmanship.

In fact, in the final analysis, the process is still complicated, and ordinary people cannot do it.

So how difficult is the process of pastel rolling porcelain?Just think of cloisonné enamel and enamels.

As mentioned earlier, the technology of pastel-rolled porcelain has only been perfected in recent decades, and only the pastel-rolled porcelain produced can be considered qualified. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the production of this kind of porcelain must have been a masterpiece. a difficult task.

Or let’s talk about this long-necked gourd bottle with a light yellow ground and foreign color from the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. Its production technology is no worse than that of an enamelled porcelain.

In the Qing Dynasty, after Jingzhen imperial porcelain craftsmen adopted and mastered the painting techniques created in the early years of Qianlong, this luxurious and elaborate decoration technique - "rolling brocade" gradually matured and was highly respected.

This technique of drawing curly grass, phoenix tail and flower patterns on the glaze surface with thin needles to express the effect of "brocade" was finally perfected in Jingzhen.

The long-necked gourd vase reproduced by Chen Wenzhe is a masterpiece of this period.

The patterns painted on the bottle are bright and changeable in color, overlapping and staggered, with exquisite composition and colorful.

The full name of this long-necked gourd bottle is relatively long, but through some words in the name, we can know that the color of this gourd bottle is light yellow, and it uses enamel technology from the West.

Its pattern is the icing on the cake, implying that there is no limit to life, and it adopts a gourd shape that has never been seen before.

But to imitate such a piece of porcelain, the craftsmanship is not the most difficult, the most difficult is the material.

Since it is an official kiln, it is still comparable to enamel-colored porcelain, so the materials and craftsmanship must be top-notch.

You must know that in the early Qianlong period, the pastel rolling porcelain was a new type of overglaze color created by the unremitting efforts of Tang Ying, the pottery supervisor, and JDZ craftsmen, drawing on the craftsmanship of porcelain body painting enamel.

Its firing site is in the JDZ Imperial Kiln Factory. Under the strict organization of the pottery supervisors, the best porcelain raw materials and the best craftsmen from JDZ and surrounding areas are concentrated, and they are spared no expense.

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