Is Xuantong porcelain really worthless?But in the Forbidden City, boutiques are not rare

Mondo Collection Updated on 2024-01-30

It is said that things are rare and expensive, the end of the Qing Dynasty Xuan Unification Dynasty, although the history is short, but still firing official kiln porcelain, but unfortunately the variety is limited, the quantity is less, so there are not many heirlooms, very rare.

So is there any fine porcelain of the Xuantong Dynasty, and is it worth it?In this issue, let's talk about it

The Palace Museum in Beijing displays the porcelain of the Qing Dynasty emperors and their counterparts from the official kilns.

Xuantong porcelain

Culture. There is a saying in the ceramic circle: "Xianfeng Xuantong Sailong". The official kiln ware fired by Xuantong is quite sophisticated, and the imperial ware at this time is exquisite, the shape is correct, the tire glaze is pure, and the color decoration is neat. (According to the "Qing File": in the second year of Xuantong, a batch of beans, jue, jars, plates, and bowls were burned for the East and West Tombs, mostly white glazed porcelain) The level of firing of various colors is quite high!The porcelain of this period is basically an extension of Guangxu porcelain, from the point of view of the hand-me-down works, the quality of porcelain firing in Xuantong official kiln is higher, in the variety, style, glaze are imitated in the previous dynasty, and Guangxu ware is basically similar, but similar utensils are more fine than Guangxu's.

Qing Xuantong yellow ground green color flower and bird pattern bowl.

High 65cm, diameter 124cm, foot diameter 53cm

Qing Guangxu yellow ground pastel hundred butterflies picture plate pair.

Paragraph knowledge: "Qing Dynasty Guangxu year" six-character two-line regular script.

14.2cm.(2) diam.

Price realised (RMB): 161,000

Moreover, in this special era of alternating between the old and the new, the feudal dynasty faced collapse, the royal porcelain production faced a new test, and Xuantong porcelain had new characteristics, both the style of the previous dynasty and the characteristics of modern porcelain. Although the amount of Xuantong porcelain is small, it is more delicate than Guangxu, and the painting is delicate. Its carcass material selection is high-quality, the tire wall is light and even, the billet glaze is well combined, the sintering degree is high, and the percussion sound is crisp. There are mainly blue and white, multicolored, pastel and various colors of glaze.

Qing Xuantong blue and white pine, bamboo and plum pattern bowl.

Height 7cm, diameter 13cm, foot diameter 5cm

Collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing.

After the popularity of Guangxu, the new variety of colored porcelain, light red pastel, continued to develop at this time, and also fired enamel colored porcelain that had stopped burning for a long time. Because many porcelains are not settled, they may be classified as Guangxu or ** in the identification. In particular, the characteristics of the pastel ware of the folk kiln are not much different from those of Guangxu or **, and people are easy to classify them into Guangxu or ** utensils. Despite this, some of the Yitong pastel official kilns are more elaborate than those of the Tongzhi and Guangxu periods, such as the hundred butterfly appreciation bottles, the plates or bowls of lotus and treasure flowers, the heavenly ball bottles with cloud bats and dragon and phoenix patterns, and the jade pot spring bottles with peony patterns.

Left Xuantong blue and white alum red color cloud bat pattern straight-necked bottle.

Right Xuantong pastel flower butterfly pattern jade pot spring bottle.

Collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing.

In addition, the craftsmanship of Xuantong blue and white porcelain is the most exquisite in the porcelain of the official kiln of the late Qing Dynasty. The carcass is relatively light and thin, the fetal quality is delicate and white, the white glaze is uniform and smooth, the glass texture is strong, and the foot end is polished and smooth, but the blue and white hair color is purple and bright, and there is no sense of hierarchy.

How to distinguish the official kiln of Xuantong

Culture. After Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty, porcelain production developed from the handicraft workshop style since the Ming and Qing dynasties to large-scale mechanized production, so that the porcelain of the Xuantong period showed the characteristics of modern new porcelain.

With the continuous development of human society, porcelain production is the inevitable result of increasing improvement. In the Xuantong period of alternating between the old and new eras, the characteristics of the transitional changes of porcelain are more obvious, and many characteristics of old porcelain and new porcelain are both.

Qing Xuantong blue and white double "happy" word peach bat bowl.

Height 9cm, diameter 211cm, foot diameter 85cm

The old collection of the Qing Palace. In the identification, as long as we understand the evolution of the development of porcelain during the renewal and grasp its different styles of the times, it is not difficult to make a correct judgment. The shape of the vessel is consistent with the specifications of the previous dynasty, and it is still a traditional type, such as the jade pot spring bottle, the appreciation bottle, the Cong bottle, the apricot round ear square bottle, the lid jar, etc. It's just that the carcass is thinner and thinner than before, and the shape is more regular.

Left Qing Xuantong Pastel butterfly pattern jade pot spring vase Transaction**: RMB437,000.

Right: Xuantong Holly Glazed Bagua Pattern Cong Bottle Collection of the Palace Museum in Beijing.

The glaze ornamentation Xuantong period ornamental painting is more delicate, the color is elegant, the pastel varieties are mostly pastel on the white ground, the dragon and phoenix, the hundred bats, the hundred butterflies are the most famous, and there are many handed down. The level of painting is more refined than that of Guangxu, and the image is vivid and lifelike. Although the ornament is depicted by the method of doping, the shape is more vivid, the powder is not loose, and the tire glaze is well combined.

Qing Xuantong pastel phoenix pattern bowl is 9cm high, diameter 21cm, foot diameter 87cmThe paragraph of the Xuantong official kiln pastel ware is recognized"The Great Qing Dynasty Xuantong Year System".Six-character regular paragraphs, there are also seal book paragraphs, where the blue and white paragraphs are regular paragraphs, double straight line six characters, the font is delicate and neat, the writing is regular, the arrangement is orderly, the pen road is round and powerful, and the blue and white material color is dark and bright and not fainted.

Left Qing Xuantong Xuantong imitation Jun kiln glazed apricot round bottle 30cm high, mouth 105cm, mouth length 9cm right Qing Xuantong holly glazed apricot round bottle 30cm high, mouth length 115cm, foot length 13There is no circle frame outside the 2cm word, the font is like the Guangxu paragraph, the penmanship is strong, the font is beautiful, and it has a high calligraphy value. In the second year of Xuantong, the Jiangxi porcelain company led by the Qing Dynasty was established, and many high-quality products were also produced. Many princes and nobles ordered porcelain in Jingdezhen, and these porcelains were signed"Crane Hall System", "Jishido System".and so on, it is very precious.

Liling underglaze colorful flower and bird pattern vase Qing Xuantong three years (1911) high 303cm, diameter 63cm, foot diameter 63cm Xuantong folk kiln blue and white paragraph, see the specific year number and the commemorative paragraph of the dry branch, mainly in regular script, supplemented by seal script. For example, the italics are used to write the "Xuantong Gengxu of the Great Qing Dynasty" paragraph, which is basically the same as the Guangxu paragraph of the writing method, random and sloppy, the position is not correct, and the calligraphy level is low. In addition, there are some chronicles in the Xuantong period, some books "Xuantong two years Jishitang", some books "Xuantong Gengxu Yichun Hall", "Xuantong Jiyou Yichun Hall" (the latter is the first year of Xuantong, the former is the second year of Xuantong). In addition, there are some sacrificial vessels, some of which are written with the words "Kunning Palace Sacrificial Vessel", which are obviously royal sacrificial vessels.

Sacrificial vessels

Qing Xuantong blue and white entwined branch lotus pattern lid jar is 505cm, diameter 22cm, foot diameter 207cmend

Is Xuantong porcelain worth anything?Because there are not many official kiln porcelain with outstanding quality, it is difficult to form a scale that is valued and sought after by people, so on the surface, the value of Xuantong porcelain is not very large, but in fact it is not.

At present, in the market auction records, the price of Xuantong official kiln is about 1 million yuan, and the exquisite works of private kilns also range from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands. Xuantong has a very special historical status as the last emperor, and its official kiln ware and folk kiln fine artifacts are extremely collectible.

Qing Xuantong pastel crane deer with spring pattern water chestnut bottle sold at a price of 13440,000 RMB.

Qing Xuantong pastel Magu offering a life bottle (Yangzhitang old collection).

The transaction price was HK$1.22 million.

Christie's Hong Kong 2010 Spring Auction

Qing Xuantong Mausoleum porcelain floral pattern bottle.

Auction sold**: RMB920,000.

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