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Chapter 1245 A Wonderful Flower in Porcelain History

Chen Wenzhe has known about it before, and he knows that there are many types of peonies.

Generally, there are four types of peonies: the ones with full petals, the ones with multiple petals at the beginning, the ones with clusters at the beginning, and those with flower backs.

This seemingly ordinary Yuan blue and white peony jar with twining branches, the petals in the decoration are all shaped by intaglio and painted with blue and white.

That is, before painting the peony, first use a needle-like tool to carve out the contours of the flowers and leaves, highlighting the veins, and then paint and smudge it.

Therefore, after firing, a strong three-dimensional effect is obtained.

At this time, the peonies have different postures, facing each other upside down, full and gorgeous.

This is a typical decoration of the Yuan Dynasty, and it sold for [-] to [-] million, which is definitely not a high price.

In fact, needless to say about these large bowls, even a large blue and white bowl from the Yuan Dynasty, the current market price is not low.

It looks like a large bowl with blue and white unicorns and lotus patterns in Yuan Dynasty, with a diameter of 29.5cm. It is an absolute large bowl, with a diameter of almost [-]cm.

The transaction price in 1380 was [-] million RMB.

Just one big bowl sold close to [-] million. There must be a reason.

This large bowl has a deep mouth and a deep belly. It is huge in size and dignified in shape.

The whole body is painted and decorated with blue and white materials, and the hair color is rich.

Intense, with black crystalline flecks.

The decoration on the outer wall is divided into upper and lower layers. The upper part is painted with twining lotus flowers, and the tibia is painted with upturned lotus petal patterns.

The inner side of the mouth is also painted with tangled lotus patterns for a week, and the blue wreath at the bottom is decorated with unicorn patterns, and the whole body is lined with tangled lotus patterns.

Here I want to focus on this big bowl. The reason why it sells for such a high price must be because the bowl is well fired.

The second is the identity of the representative, such as blue and white, big bowl, and unicorn.

Qilin is an auspicious beast in ancient legends. Like Phoenix, it is also divided into male and female.

The male is called Qi, and the female is called Lin. Most people use the general term "Kirin" by convention.

The ancients believed that the unicorn has aggressive horns but a gentle temperament, and is a kind of "virtuous" animal.

"Song Shuzhi Eighteenth Fu Ruizhi Zhong" records: "A unicorn is a benevolent beast. A male is called a unicorn, and a female is called a lin. If the fetus is not cut off and the eggs are dissected, it will come. The body of the scorpion is the tail of an ox, the neck of a wolf is a horn, and the yellow is the foot of a horse."

The unicorn pattern is painted on the heart of the bowl, with a small head, like a deer and a dragon, with a single horn on the top of the head and a beard-like mane on the chin.

The body is graceful and light, covered with scales, the limbs are slender but powerful, and the tail is more inclined to the shape of a ponytail.

Why can it be sold at a high price just because there is a unicorn?

The rules and regulations of the Yuan Dynasty strictly stipulated the different classes who used ornamentation.

"Yuan Shi Yu Fu Zhi" records that in the second year of the Yuan Dynasty (AD 1265), the Yuan Court ordered: "It is forbidden to serve Linlin, Luanfeng, White Rabbit, Ganoderma lucidum, double-horned five-clawed dragon, eight dragons, nine dragons, longevity, Fushou characters, he Huang and other clothes."

This means that only the emperor and nobles have the right to use the above-mentioned special ornamentation.

This is like using the cloud dragon pattern, the unicorn pattern on it directly represents the level and identity of this big bowl.

Such porcelain, no matter what type it is, as long as it has some of the above-mentioned decorations, it is all of high value.

Of course, this is also determined by the characteristics of Yuan blue and white, because as long as it is such a high-grade porcelain, it must be made of Ma Cang soil and Su Mali green materials.

In addition, Yuan blue and white porcelain is represented by Jingzhen, which is exquisitely made and rarely handed down from generation to generation, so it is extremely precious.

According to the time, it can be roughly divided into three stages: the Yanyou period, the Zhizheng period and the end of the Yuan Dynasty, among which the "Zhizheng type" is the best.

Yuan blue and white porcelain opened up a new era of transition from plain porcelain to colored porcelain.

It is rich and vigorous, bold and unconstrained in style, and has many layers of painting.

This is very different from the traditional aesthetic taste of the Chinese nation, and it is really a wonderful flower in the history of Chinese ceramics.

Don't look at the many Yuan blue and white porcelains made by Chen Wenzhe this time. In fact, we really have to count them. Fine Yuan blue and white porcelain like this is definitely rare.

This time Chen Wenzhe made porcelain with peony patterns, and Yuan blue and white flowers with peony patterns are even rarer.

Therefore, as he was doing, Chen Wenzhe began to imitate the peony-patterned porcelain gradually.

Not to mention the blue and white flowers of the Yuan Dynasty, there must be more peony patterns handed down from other dynasties throughout the dynasties.

It was done in the Song Dynasty, and it was done in the Yuan Dynasty, so what are the other representative periods?
Whether it is celadon, white porcelain, or colored porcelain, it is inseparable from the Tang Dynasty.

If you want to imitate a series, you absolutely cannot do without the Tang Dynasty.

Chen Wenzhe intends to imitate some classic peony-patterned porcelains from Tang Dynasty, to Song Dynasty, Jin Dynasty, Liao Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty, Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty.

At the beginning, it must start from the period of great development of porcelain, which is Datang.

The prosperity of the Tang Dynasty is really not bragging.

In the Tang Dynasty, the manufacturing process of gold and silverware was developed, and because peony had a better meaning, a large number of gold and silverware were decorated with peony patterns.

For example, a relatively classic gilt silver box with double phoenix pattern, this box is shaped like lotus petals, the cover pattern is dominated by two phoenixes soaring with grass in their hands, and eight pairs of facing flying geese are surrounded by eight pairs of flying geese around the edge, with intertwined lotus flowers and fish roe in between. textured ground.

There is also the relatively famous Tang Sancai Fengshou pot, which Chen Wenzhe imitated when making teapots before.

Since Tang Dynasty porcelain mostly imitated gold and silver wares, a large number of ceramics were often decorated with painted peony patterns.

The peony patterns on Tang Dynasty porcelain are mainly peony patterns with broken branches and peony entwined branches.

Peony decorations are often influenced by the shape of utensils, which change with the curvature of the utensils, and deformed peony patterns have become their characteristics, with bright and rich colors.

However, peony decorations are common in ceramic products, mainly in the Song Dynasty.

Since the Tang Dynasty, peonies have been regarded as a symbol of prosperity, beauty and happiness, and have been widely used as decorations for various handicrafts.

The peonies decorated on the pottery of the Song Dynasty have huge flowers and bright colors.

The flower shape is crown-shaped, and the petals are divided into upper and lower parts.

The upper layer consists of more petals, and the lower layer has wider petals, surrounded by several green leaves.

For Chen Wenzhe, making this kind of Song porcelain is not difficult at all.

Because there are only a few prosperous dynasties in China, Chen Wenzhe imitated porcelain in almost every dynasty before.

For example, Tang Sancai in Tang Dynasty, secret color porcelain in Five Dynasties, Ding Kiln Porcelain, Ru Kiln Porcelain and Yingqing Porcelain in Song Dynasty.

Then there are special children's pillows, porcelain pillows, and beauty pillows, which involve the mouths of Cizhou Kiln, Yaozhou Kiln and other kilns.

For example, the porcelain pillow with white ground and black flower peony pattern in Cizhou Kiln was imitated by Chen Wenzhe before.

Chen Wenzhe has made a lot of Ding kiln porcelain, but this time he changed his direction and wanted to make more porcelain from other kilns. After all, this is also a famous kiln in the Song Dynasty.

For example, Cizhou kiln had outstanding achievements in the Song Dynasty, and it is a kiln system full of folk characteristics. The content is also the most common peony.

The most basic feature is to apply a layer of make-up soil on the relatively rough carcass with low whiteness to achieve the effect of coarse porcelain and fine workmanship.

Then draw decorations on this layer of make-up soil, thus forming the unique style of Cizhou kiln.

(End of this chapter)