From December 14th to 16th, Rong Bao Zhai's 2023 Autumn Large-scale Art Auction was grandly opened in Shanghai, and the first classical furniture collection in the history of the Old Summer Palace, "Pine Wind", was invited to appear on the same stage with Zhang Daqian, Qi Baishi and other masterpieces. This is the first time that Rong Bao Zhai has collected the global limited edition collection of the new era of classical furniture in the Old Summer Palace, opening a new era of art auction collection in the new era.
Mr. Cao, a collector of "Pine Wind" in the Old Summer Palace from Jiangsu, said that looking back on the auction process of the past 100 years, each era has a specific humanistic spiritual situation, as well as specific excellent cultural and artistic auctions, it is not a fixed collection concept model, it is advancing with the times with different times, and the "Pine Wind" of the Old Summer Palace is one of the few global limited edition new era classical furniture collection treasures that have emerged in this era.
The "Pine Wind" of the Old Summer Palace is rich in meaning, "pine" is the length of a hundred trees, tenacious and unyielding, "the years are not cold and you can't know the pine and cypress;."It's not difficult to see a gentleman. The back of "Pine Wind" is carved with silk sandalwood carving technique "Five Blessings for Longevity". "Five blessings" from the "Book of Shang": "one day of longevity, two said rich, three said Kangning, four said good virtue, five days of life", five blessings are ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, people's universal value of a pursuit, Kangning is a blessing, wealth is a blessing, longevity is a blessing, peace is a blessing. Wufu represents all the good things and things in the world, symbolizes the most simple wishes and expectations of people in the new era, and infiltrates a tranquil and elegant oriental cultural realm in the silent place.
Chen Yushu, a distinguished expert of the Old Summer Palace and an advocate of classical furniture in the new era, said: "The excellent traditional Chinese culture should go to the global artistic context in the exploration, and enhance the intrinsic value of the cultural and artistic collections of the new era in the process of world culture. ”