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Chapter 1571 Must be Different
When appraising porcelain, in addition to observing the projected color inside the porcelain with a flashlight, it is also necessary to observe the glaze color. The glaze color must be accurate and uniform.

To be precise, the glaze color of porcelain produced after the Republic of China is white, and the glaze color of porcelain produced in the Qing Dynasty is bean green. This point should be paid attention to when buying ancient porcelain.

The last is the style of painting, the style of painting must be good.

Especially when buying larger porcelain, pay attention to distinguishing between hand-painted and decals.

The decal pattern is dull and the lines are relatively dead.

Small vessel-shaped blue and white porcelain, you can feel the edges and corners with your hands, which is caused by the use of glue in the applique.

Appliques are often used on the edge patterns of porcelain, and seams sometimes appear at the joints of the appliques, or the patterns on the left and right parts are uneven.

It is not difficult to identify the authenticity of ice plum porcelain, and it can even be said to be easy.

First of all, look at the color. When purchasing, you can first check whether the porcelain is white and blue.

If it is white with milky yellow or other variegated colors, it is likely to be inferior porcelain;

Then listen to the sound, listen to the sound of ceramic knocking, real porcelain will make a crisp and pleasant sound when tapped lightly;

If possible, it is the hardness ratio.

To test whether the ceramic is hard enough, real porcelain is high-hardness porcelain, and there is no trace on the ceramic with a metal tool;

The last thing is to measure the heat conduction and test the heat conduction speed. Real porcelain is high-density porcelain, which is thicker and slower than other porcelains.

As long as you understand these characteristics and carry out targeted imitation, it is not difficult for Chen Wenzhe to imitate the small ice plum jar comparable to the Kangxi official kiln.

He can even use modern technology to make this small pot more beautiful than the ones in the Kangxi period.

Of course, you can't blindly pursue antiques in this way.

Ancient porcelain, sometimes limited by technology, will leave more or less defects.

These will be the basis for the appraisal of modern appraisers, but this kind of defect has caused some flaws in a fine porcelain.

If you don't pursue antique craftsmanship and avoid these flaws, you can get a more perfect porcelain.

Bingmei porcelain, after all, is only a small category in the Kangxi period.

When making Kangxi blue and white, just make a few pieces and keep them as souvenirs.

After Kangxi came Yongzheng, and Chen Wenzhe made too many Yongzheng porcelains.

Even if it is Yongzheng blue and white, Chen Wenzhe has done a lot of ink color and so on.

Now that there are ready-made materials, Chen Wenzhe just made a big pot.

Yongzheng blue and white, changed the style of Kangxi, and more often deliberately imitated the shapes and patterns of Yongle and Xuande blue and white.

For this kind of porcelain, Chen Wenzhe still wants to make one himself.

He even consciously stippled with a pen to form features such as dark spots.

The bright and multi-layered characteristics of Kangxi blue and white porcelain in this period are no longer visible, and the rough and simple style of painting has also been replaced by craftsmanship and charm.

Therefore, Chen Wenzhe concentrated these features on a large pot.

This is a large blue and white pine, bamboo and plum jar, 22.5 cm high and 22.5 cm wide.

This large pot has a wide round mouth, short neck and wide shoulders, a bulging body, and a slightly retracted lower abdomen.

The overall appearance is plump and full, stable and thick.The whole body is covered with white glaze, which is shiny and elegant.

The outer wall is painted with blue and white pine, bamboo and plum patterns "Three Friends of Sui Han".

The green pine is firm and indomitable, with strong branches.

The bamboo is elegant and handsome, the plum blossoms are proudly in full bloom, the beauty is elegant and elegant, and the brushwork is rich and unrestrained, just like the mood of ink and wash.

The paintings of the whole vessel are pure and noble, and the layout is complicated and simple, expressing their respective characteristics vividly and vividly.

Yongzheng's porcelain, if you make such a piece, it will be as good as several pieces of Qianlong's porcelain, right?
The last glory of the three dynasties of the Qing Dynasty was the Qianlong period.

Qianlong blue and white is basically bright blue, with stable color and clear decoration.

The modeling style of Qianlong porcelain is gorgeous, and it is popular to decorate various large bottles with elephant ears, cochlear ears and phoenix ears.

The decorations are complicated, and the content mostly reflects the meanings of feudal ethics, peace and prosperity, and blessings and longevity.

Chen Wenzhe made one first, a drinking cup with a blue and white landscape and pavilion pattern.

No matter when, cups are the most classic and most commonly used utensils.

No matter which dynasty, it has its own unique style of cups.

Blue and white drinking cups are the most common. This cup is 5cm high and 19.5cm wide.

This blue-and-white drinking cup has a petal-shaped cup mouth, the mouth edge is slightly outward, and the abdomen is gradually retracted to circle the sole of the foot.

The glaze is moist and delicate, the carcass is white and firm, and the blue and white hair color is elegant.

Inside the cup are pavilions and gardens between mountains and rivers, small bridges and flowing water, leisurely pedestrians, and boating on the lake.

The rim of the cup is decorated with various flowers for a week, and the brushwork and materials and colors of the overall picture are simple and timeless, which is a typical Qianlong artistic style.

Looking at it this way, is it surprising to see mediocrity?

After all, this is the official kiln of Qianlong. Even if it is a blue and white cup, it is very unusual to look at the craftsmanship carefully.

What's more, Qianlong personally yelled loudly: Zhen's chicken cup must be different!
Therefore, the ancient pastel chicken bowl cup imitated by Qianlong is really different.

One piece collected by the Palace Museum can illustrate the problem.

If you have only seen the chicken bowl cup in the Qianlong period, it should be difficult for most people to imagine its antique prototype.

Of course, now we all know that it must be an imitation of the Chenghua Chao Chicken Crock Cup.

The chicken bowl cups of the Qianlong Dynasty had a round mouth and a straight body, with the lower end slightly retracted.

The caliber is almost the same as the Chenghua Chicken Crock Cup, but the height is doubled, so the capacity is also doubled.

There are more characters and inscriptions in the pattern, and the side of the abdomen is a naughty boy playing chicken.

On the other side is a poem inscribed by Emperor Qianlong. Below the poem is a picture of a hen and chicks looking for food.

There has also been a major change in Shicai, with the pastel colors of the Qing Dynasty replacing the fighting colors of the Ming Dynasty.

In short, apart from the fact that the theme is related to chickens, and that the base is marked with "Great Qing Emperor Qianlong Antique" indicating that it is an antique work, the whole utensil no longer conveys the atmosphere of imitating the ancient times of the Ming Dynasty. It is not so much an antique as an innovation.

If you look at the antique works of chicken bowl cups from other dynasties, the alternatives of the Qianlong Dynasty are even more prominent.

From Jiajing, Longqing and Wanli in the Ming Dynasty to Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, Jiaqing and Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty, all Chenghua chicken cups have been burned.

Among them, the imitation skills of the Kangxi Dynasty are recognized as the highest, and they can almost be confused with the real ones.

The Palace Museum has two "Chenghua Doucai Chicken Crock Cups", which have been considered as works of Chenghua's dynasty for many years.

However, it was not until 2016 that the Forbidden City experts re-examined that it was likely to be an imitation during the Kangxi period. If this is the case, it can be seen that the imitation firing skills are high.

In the Yongzheng Dynasty, facing the insurmountable peak of imitation burning in the previous generation, the emperor began to consider innovation.

The craftsmen of this period carefully incorporated the famille rose technique of the late Kangxi period, but the style was relatively rigorous, which was a limited innovation.

In contrast, the Qianlong Dynasty completely abandoned the imitation of the Chenghua chicken bowl cup.

This kind of innovative style of imitating the ancients but not sticking to the ancients, I am afraid that only Qianlong, who was in the prosperous age of Haiqing, Heyan, and singing and dancing, had such confidence.

In particular, the six characters "Daqing Qianlong imitates the ancients" signed in seal script are quite gentlemanly and magnanimous.

(End of this chapter)