God-level Golden Hand

Chapter 1044 Art Emperor
Speaking of technological breakthroughs, we have to mention the concept of overglaze multicolored porcelain.

During the Ming Dynasty, the development of five-color porcelain has made great progress, and various colors of porcelain have gradually become popular in the world with various styles, including black-color porcelain.

The so-called black color porcelain is the porcelain that uses ink color in the color material, and this kind can be roughly divided into three categories, namely, the overglaze color with ink color as the background color, and the overglaze color that uses ink color blocks with other colors. Color and overglaze color that simply use ink to draw patterns.

But no matter what kind of black color it is, it was flawed before Yongzheng, that is, black color is not easy to color, and it will fall off after a short time after being colored. After the pearl material is drawn, a layer of water green is covered on the pattern, and then fired at a low temperature, so that the black color material can be relatively firmly attached to the porcelain.

It's just that the ink-colored porcelain fired by this process will have a layer of water-green luster, and it doesn't look like a pure black color.

During the reign of Emperor Yongzheng, this defect in craftsmanship was improved. Through technical adjustments, the black pigment could be easily attached to the surface of the enamel, and the water-green outer coating was no longer needed. In this way, the fired black The colored porcelain is very pure. The pattern drawn with pure ink is quite similar to the ink painting on the paper, and because the enamel layer with the texture of glass is used as the base, the ink color pattern on the glaze is unexpectedly There is a sense of purity washed away.

In this way, the black-colored porcelain gradually separated from the five-colored porcelain to form a separate variety called ink-colored porcelain.

And with the development of time and the progress of technology, ink color porcelain has gradually developed many categories, among which this ocher ink color is a typical one.

Although the number of this kind of ochre-colored overglaze porcelain is not much, it was more popular during the Yongzheng period, but it has to be admitted that this kind of porcelain does have a unique aesthetic feeling, and the strong literati-like pattern is far more than those colorful ones. The porcelain looks more pleasing to the eye.

Of course, this is just Xu Jingxing's own feeling, and the public may not recognize it very much, otherwise this kind of porcelain would not be rare after Yongzheng.

Speaking of this, I have to mention the artistic accomplishment of those emperors in the Qing Dynasty.

Speaking of the artistic accomplishment of the emperors in the Qing Dynasty, people may subconsciously think of Qianlong, because the Emperor Qianlong liked to write poems. It is said that he left more than 1 poems in his life, more than Du Fu, and he liked to collect various works of art. However, Emperor Qianlong's favorite thing to do was to crazily stamp and postscript his name, and the "Autumn Colors of Quehua" was "deeply affected".

Because of Emperor Qianlong's seemingly crazy behavior, people subconsciously think that Emperor Qianlong is an artistic emperor.

But in fact, Emperor Qianlong's accomplishments in the field of art are far from top-notch, not to mention compared with the famous Song Huizong, even his two predecessors can't compare, but those two are doers and love art It's just a hobby, and it's not a plaything, so its artistic accomplishment is not well known.

But in fact, whether it is Kangxi or Yongzheng, their artistic accomplishment is very high.

Not to mention Kangxi, that truly intelligent man left behind a lot of literary and artistic treasures during his long ruling career, many of which were greatly developed during the Kangxi period.

As for Yongzheng, the emperor who was in power for a short time but was very talented, his artistic accomplishment was better than that of his father. It is said that Yongzheng himself presided over the decoration of the Hall of Mental Cultivation. Judging from the recorded text, Yongzheng has strict requirements on the details of the decoration. , and even put forward their own views and opinions on each decoration, allowing craftsmen to carry out construction according to his ideas.

Without a certain level of strength, many times even if you give advice, you don't know where to start. From this, it is not difficult to see that Yongzheng's artistic attainments are still very good.

In addition, during the Yongzheng period, great progress was made in the development of both ceramic crafts and other arts, especially ceramics.

In ancient times, porcelain was neither a simple utility nor a toy. It was also a very important foreign exchange economic receivable item, and it could even be exchanged for a large amount of foreign exchange. Therefore, almost every emperor in every dynasty attached great importance to the development of porcelain. Yongzheng also No exception.

However, there is still a certain gap between the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty in terms of the production level of porcelain. Even Qianlong porcelain is not as good as Xuande porcelain in terms of blue and white porcelain, but the blue and white porcelain of Yongzheng period is comparable to that of Xuande period, especially Yongzheng period. The light blue and white porcelain of the Qing Dynasty almost completely reached the level of the Xuande Chenghua period, and even surpassed it in terms of elegance.

During the Yongzheng period, there were a large number of imitated blue and white porcelains of Xuande style and Yongle style. The level was so high that it could be confused with the real one. Some of the so-called blue and white porcelain fired in the Xuande and Yongle periods are basically products of the Yongzheng period, but it is impossible to make an accurate identification because the level of imitation is too high.

There are so many controversies ahead, which can fully prove the artistic attainments of Emperor Yongzheng, so the artistic content of the ocher ink colored porcelain from the Yongzheng period is beyond doubt.

It’s just that Emperor Yongzheng was relatively serious, so most of the porcelain in the Yongzheng period was of that kind of tall style, and there were few objects that were very down-to-earth. For example, this ochre-ink porcelain is a typical example. It is used to draw landscape paintings, and the finished product will have a very elegant and poetic sense, which looks particularly sensual and tasteful.

However, in ancient times, only those literati could appreciate this kind of thing. Ordinary people still prefer brightly colored things that look lively. Even Qianlong’s artistic aesthetics tended to be gorgeous and charming, so this category of porcelain It didn't get much development.

Fortunately, people's aesthetics is still gradually improving. In the past two years, Yongzheng porcelain in ocher ink color has become more and more popular. Things that were not valued by anyone ten years ago have gradually entered the hall of elegance and become popular among many collectors. The market price of good things that are competing to be collected is naturally rising.

Take Li Zhengang's pair of ochre-colored small wine glasses as an example, it's not difficult at all to sell them for 300 million in the market.

You know, the size of this pair of small wine glasses is very small, the diameter is only about three centimeters, and the height is only five centimeters, which is not much different from today's small wine cups. This big thing can be sold for 300 Wan is quite an exaggeration, and it can already be ranked relatively high in the auction history of wine glasses.

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