20 19 1.6 New Year's Spring Festival auction, a "six-sided blue-and-white bottle with bright stem and long external powder green glaze embossed plantain leaves hollowed out and tied branches with flower patterns" fell at a sky-high price of 1.495 billion yuan! ! ! !
The production process of this batch of goods is extremely complicated. It is one of the most famous porcelains of Tao Tangying in Qing Dynasty, and it is a heavy weapon of Qianlong Imperial Kiln. During the Qianlong period, the society was stable, the national treasury was enriched, and more and more palace objects were decorated to reflect the image of prosperity and peace. As far as porcelain is concerned, the early firing of blue-and-white porcelain was to pursue the vitality of the Ming Dynasty, and then it gradually turned to a delicate and dense painting style. Colored porcelain and colored glass have the same trend, but they retain an antique work, and its survival is quite rare. The collection of the Forbidden City is the same porcelain vase, which should be regarded as a pair with this lot. This work of art is ingenious and elegant in design and exquisite in workmanship. This work was also supervised by Tang Ying in the Qing Dynasty. What is particularly rare is that it is still intact after nearly a hundred years of changes.
This device is hexagonal, with a long neck, overlapping shoulders and an arch belly, and the round foot is omitted in a step shape, and the shape of the device is correct and atmospheric. Powder green glaze is applied all over the body, the glaze is decorated with relief, and the mouth is decorated with ruyi moire; Neck carving vertical banana leaf pattern, long and short staggered lining; The shoulders are carved with Thai patterns, and the anklet decoration simplifies the dragon pattern, which is orderly and interesting. The six sides of the abdomen are decorated with flowers, the blank position is hollowed out, and the holes are scattered all over the body. The upper part of each face is a single lotus, with branches tied together, and the lower part is anemone, which is graceful. The leaves of the surrounding grass flowers are spread out in a ring shape, and the flowers are arched, which is more vivid and conspicuous. Through the exquisite carving hole, you can see that there is a bottle inside, which is covered with blue and white lotus patterns, similar to but different from the main body of the external bottle decoration. The inner and outer abdomen are transparent, the shoulders and necks are connected, and the bottle mouth is enjoyable, which is quite scientific and technological. The six-character and three-line seal script at the bottom of the "Qing Gan Long Nian System" is neat and tidy.
The hollow part of this bottle imitates the verve design of the window lattice in Ming architecture, which is a beautiful and exquisite scene, and through this scene, we can see the verve in the distance. At first glance, this product is fresh and elegant, but when you look closely, you feel that there is something inside. These two layers of ornamentation are not intuitive to what you see, but depend on each other and complement each other, giving the viewer a feeling that half of her face is still hidden in front of us behind her guitar, attracting people to discover the truth, and the longer they watch it, the more they can't put it down.
Aisingiorro Hongli (17165438+September 25th, 0-1February 7th, 799), the sixth emperor of the Qing Dynasty, was named as "Qianlong", which means "Heaven prospers". He ascended the throne at the age of 25 and reigned for 60 years. Remarkable achievements, continuing the martial arts of the previous dynasty.
Old Shi Quan not only cares about world affairs, but also has extraordinary attainments in literature and art. During his 60 years in office, he went out 150 times to explore talents for the palace, or brought back various distinctive artistic elements for the palace. However, Gan Long made comments on Chen Fang in the palace and provided opinions and suggestions. It is also considered as the vane of contemporary aesthetics. According to the records of hall of mental cultivation Construction Office, Emperor Gaozong of Qing Dynasty attached great importance to the completion of various projects in the palace. Craftsmen have made many orders, and they must submit drawings in advance before they can be allowed to make them. If they are not satisfied, they will revise the drawings many times ... so few people can compare with Ganlong's contribution to the court Chen Jia, and his high taste can be seen.
Porcelain is indispensable in the decoration of Qing palace. During the Qianlong period, his aesthetic ideas and personal preferences were expressed incisively and vividly through utensils, which had a very important and close relationship with Tang Ying, a pottery official at that time.
Tang Ying (1682- 1756), a ceramic artist in Qing dynasty, was good at painting, calligraphy and seal cutting, and was good at making porcelain. In the sixth year of Yongzheng (1728), he was ordered to concurrently serve as Jingdezhen pottery officer, and served for nearly 30 years, successively firing porcelain for Yongzheng and Qianlong emperors. The porcelain he fired was exquisite and was appreciated by the emperors of the two dynasties. Therefore, the official kiln in Qianlong period is also called "Tang kiln". In the eighth year of Qianlong's reign, Tang Ying compiled A Picture of Ye Tao (A Picture of Ye Tao), which briefly introduced 20 kinds of porcelain-making techniques. It was the first book in China to systematically study ceramic techniques. During his tenure, he made up his mind to "practice hard with Dumen and Xie Weiyou and spend three years with craftsmen" to improve his skills, and under the supervision and design of Ganlong, he was "presented as new" many times. More than 70 kinds of colored glasses were burned, as well as various novel porcelain, such as heart-turning bottles, Thai bottles and bottle sets. He not only personally participated in the design and production of official kiln works, but also burned a considerable number of vessels for literati's own use. Tang Ying, a Taoist priest, vividly demonstrated his pottery-making attainments. He solidified the perfection of the Qing palace on porcelain, and today people are lucky enough to have a glimpse of the past.
This product has a clear source and an orderly inheritance. It was first collected by Russian Rudolf Stelz and then handed over by his family. It was shot in Sotheby's, new york on 1984, collected by Mr. Zhang Zongxian, and collected by Hongxi Art Museum of Taiwan Province Province. It was photographed in Sotheby's in Hong Kong in 2005, and was finally photographed by the owner of the Ten Faces Lingbi Mountain in North America for HK$ 44.92 million. This lot was once treasured by famous artists and passed down as a legend. After a long absence of 13 years, it is now called dragon attracting phoenix, rekindling the classics.
Pink green glaze was first created in Longquan kiln, with green and elegant glaze color and soft enamel luster. When the light is sufficient, it presents a jade-like moist feeling and greasy feeling, and a faint sky blue appears in the greasy feeling. When the light is weak, it shows the sky blue like rain. Its sky blue is very natural with a slight jade luster. Pink green glaze is a green tire with gray in the tire, which was fired in reducing flame at a high temperature of 1 180- 1230 degrees Celsius. Due to the high viscosity of lime-alkali glaze at high temperature, that is, it is not easy to flow glaze at high temperature, so a thick glaze layer can be applied, so that the glaze color of utensils can reach a soft and elegant jade texture through appropriate temperature and reducing atmosphere.
There are a lot of small bubbles and unmelted timely particles in the glaze layer of powder glaze, which makes the light entering the glaze layer scatter strongly, thus forming an artistic effect completely different from ordinary glass glaze in appearance. The dry dragon was once ancient, and the exquisite pink-green glaze color was "blue as the sky and jade-like". This blue-and-white six-sided bottle is embossed with pink-green glaze on the tangled branches of banana leaves, and the overall glaze color is transparent, showing a slightly light green visual effect. It is a rare masterpiece of pink-green glaze.
Ceramic relief technology was founded in Tang Dynasty. At that time, the prosperous Tang Dynasty influenced the world, and envoys from various countries came to worship in succession. Porcelain developed to Qianlong generation, paying more attention to the complexity of technology and exquisite production. The upper part of this porcelain bottle is decorated with bas-relief technology, which is extremely beautiful.
This kind of porcelain vase is decorated by hollowing out, which draws flowers with tangled branches, meaning "endless life" and symbolizing good luck. The branch pattern is refined from rattan and grass, which is euphemistic, dynamic, beautiful and vivid. The whole exterior wall is hollowed out in a large area, and the pattern design is exquisite and complicated. The most valuable thing is that it can be preserved intact in the process of modern exile in China.
The most commendable thing about this porcelain bottle is the exquisite hollow bottle design. The hollow bottle sleeve was not made in the Qianlong dynasty, but was fired in the official kiln in the Southern Song Dynasty, with a long history. From the artifacts unearthed from the official kiln in the Southern Song Dynasty, it was observed that there was a hollow column connected with the bottleneck in the bottle to prevent serious deformation during firing. In the Yuan Dynasty, Longquan Kiln also fired similar utensils, and there was no column in the bottle, which showed that the firing technology was completely skilled. There is a hollow bottle in Longquan kiln in Yuan Dynasty in Qing Palace. And this hollowed-out bottle sleeve is integrated, and the line of sight is through hollowing out, vaguely seeing the embedding of blue and white, which is beautiful.
On May 2, 2005, the "six-sided green vase with green glaze relief and banana leaves hollowed out and tied with branches" was sold at Sotheby's auction house in Hong Kong for HK$ 44.92 million, setting a world record at the time of porcelain auction in Qing Dynasty. I haven't seen you for thirteen years, but today I call the dragon to attract the phoenix, and my value has doubled, reappearing the record of sky-high price. Congratulations!