In the world of antiquities, an inconspicuous object often hides an amazing story. Some time ago, a pastel flower bottle of the ** period attracted the attention of many collectors with its unique charm.
Although its estimate was only 8,000 euros, it was sold for a staggering 750,000 euros, and the commission was as high as 920,000 euros, equivalent to about 6.5 million yuan.
This price not only set a new record for this type of porcelain, but also sparked speculation about the true age of this pastel flower vase. Could it be that this bottle is really the real thing of Yongzheng Dynasty?
Emperor Yongzheng, as an outstanding monarch in the history of the Qing Dynasty, his aesthetic taste can be called first-class. The porcelain of the Yongzheng Dynasty is famous for its fineness, and the monochrome glaze is noble and elegant, which is similar to the later Arts and Crafts Movement and the Bauhaus Movement.
Although Emperor Yongzheng lived in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, long before the Western artistic aesthetic revolution, his porcelain showed a charm that transcended its time.
Compared with the floral style of his son Qianlong, Yongzheng's porcelain is more elegant. It is said that monochrome glaze was his favorite type of porcelain.
However, when this aesthetic of "frigidity" is combined with pastel porcelain, it shows a different kind of pink and freshness. This unique aesthetic style makes the pastel porcelain of the Yongzheng Dynasty unique and highly sought after in the porcelain world.
Pastel porcelain, a porcelain category born in the late Kangxi period, has won people's love for its elegant colors and soft artistic effects. In the firing process of pastel porcelain, a white pigment called "glass white" is used as a base, and then the pigment is applied to this layer of glass white.
Because the glass white has an opaque effect, the transparency of the pattern is reduced, and a pink and soft artistic effect is presented. In the Yongzheng and Qianlong periods, pastel porcelain developed and matured and was fired in large quantities. Among the pastel porcelain fired in the past dynasties, the pastel porcelain of the Yongzheng Dynasty is the most pink and fresh.
The pastel porcelain patterns of the Yongzheng Dynasty are mainly based on the theme of flowers and birds, especially the official kiln ware depicts peonies, peach blossoms, begonias, chrysanthemums, poppies and other flowers vividly. In addition, the decoration of the "dragon over the wall" style also rose in the Yongzheng Dynasty. This unique ornamental design makes the pastel porcelain of the Yongzheng Dynasty even more unique.
However, what really makes Yongzheng pastel porcelain so brilliant is not only the improvement of porcelain-making technology, but also its combination with court flower and bird paintings. At that time, the ruling court and even the entire Qing Dynasty painting circle, the "boneless painting" painted by flowers and birds bloomed on the Yongzheng pastel, which bloomed with a different kind of splendor.
The so-called boneless is a Chinese painting technique, which is usually used in flower and bird painting. Compared with the traditional practice of painting flowers and birds with lines and then filling in the color rendering, the boneless painting directly uses colored materials to render the image of the object on the screen. This technique is reflected in the "Boneless Flower and Bird Painting" created by Xu Chongsi in the Northern Song Dynasty.
However, after that, until the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, only a few people used the boneless painting method to create. Yun Shouping, a painter in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, revived this technique and formed the "Changzhou School".
Yun Shouping's boneless flower and bird paintings are realistic and expressive, and the colors are fresh and elegant, and the shades are appropriate, which has triggered a competition to imitate the Qing Dynasty painting circles. Painters such as Jiang Tingxi and Qian Weicheng all took Yun Shouping as their teacher and formed the "Changzhou School".
Although Yun Shouping had passed away during the Kangxi period, the Changzhou School of Painting grew stronger and became the mainstream of the flower and bird painting school in the court during the Yongzheng period. It can be seen that it is inevitable that Yongzheng pastel porcelain is strongly influenced by Yun Shouping's boneless flower and bird paintings.
However, the vast majority of Yongzheng pastels do not really abandon the lines, but try to draw the outline lines as slender and soft as possible, creating a visual illusion of bonelessness.
This is because in the traditional process of painting pastels and flowers and birds in the Imperial Kiln Factory, the contour painting and the coloring are two processes operated by different craftsmen.
This kind of porcelain-making process was followed until the end of the Qing Dynasty, and it was extremely rare to see really boneless pastel. It was not until the middle of the first period that new pastels appeared, and porcelain making was completed by one person from artwork design to sketching and rendering, such as the group of "Zhushan Eight Friends", and the pastel porcelain production was truly realized.
Whether this pastel flower vase is really the real product of Yongzheng Dynasty remains to be verified. But in any case, it shows the unique charm and exquisite craftsmanship of Yongzheng Dynasty porcelain. At the same time, it also allows us to see the close connection between traditional craftsmanship and the art of painting, and how this connection influenced and shaped the aesthetic fashion of an era.
With the continuous development of the antique market and people's increasing attention to traditional culture, such collections with historical value and cultural significance will continue to be sought after and paid attention to.
Author's Note:
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It turns out that it was only in the end that it was discovered that something was not worth anything at allIt took hundreds of thousands of dollars to wake up。If you have a certain understanding of the collection, it is estimated that you will not be easily fooled.
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