Color Character Story Line Porcelain Plate Painting (Middle Qing Dynasty)
Porcelain board painting is an art of painting directly on the porcelain board, including landscapes, figures, flowers and birds, insects, melons and fruits, and pictures of immortals in Bo Gu. Its shape and length vary from Fiona Fang to Shanghai, and it can be used as screen inserting, hanging, enclosing and viewing, and can also be used as decoration embedded in tables, chairs, beds and other appliances. During the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, porcelain plate painting was quite popular. Blue-and-white and multicolored are the most common in Kangxi of Qing Dynasty, while blue-and-white and pastel are more common in Yongzheng and Qianlong. In the late Qing dynasty, the light crimson color was unique, and the new pastels of the Republic of China pushed the creation of porcelain plate painting to a peak, and a large number of famous artists and masters of porcelain plate painting emerged. As a wonderful flower in China ceramic art garden, porcelain plate painting has been paid more and more attention in recent years with the active folk collection and the expansion of collection categories. Especially in the period of the Republic of China, although it only lasted for 40 years, it showed the unique artistic styles of different schools to the world, and its collection value and appreciation space are self-evident. In the spring art auction in 2000, Pacific Auction Company launched more than 65,438,000 famous porcelain paintings of Zhushan. The price of each piece ranges from 1 10,000 yuan to tens of thousands of yuan, and some reach several hundred thousand yuan. Among them, four famille rose landscape porcelain plates (72.5cm× 19cm) in Wang Yeting in the Republic of China were sold for 1.5 million yuan to 2 million yuan.
But from the overall situation, the scope of porcelain painting is still relatively small. Compared with other categories of ancient ceramics, porcelain plate painting flourished late, and people still have some time to explore and understand its brilliant achievements. According to a gentleman who collects porcelain of the Republic of China, in the summer of 1985, he bought Wang Yeting's two landscape porcelain paintings, Su Causeway Xiao Chun and West Building Yu Ting, from a farmer's house in Gaocheng, Hebei, and offered 400 yuan. At that time, only a small plastic bucket of gasoline was added, and 350 yuan made a deal. 1994 who painted the snow porcelain plate in summer was bought from Qingzhou, Shandong; /kloc-0 In the spring of 1998, Wang Qi's Birthday Map of Erxian was purchased from Pingyao, Shanxi, with an offer of 200,000 yuan, and the transaction was made at120,000 yuan. At present, the porcelain paintings appearing in the auction are often famous but unknown, and the prices of some fine products are not very high. At a large auction in Tianjin, the author witnessed a set of Qing Dynasty mahogany enamel paintings inlaid by Hua Niaowen, with a height of 183cm and a width of 145cm. Each screen is decorated with four flower-and-bird enamel paintings, and each painting is composed of colorful auspicious contents such as pink painted flowers, birds and bamboo stones, with delicate strokes and full colors. Pastel porcelain painting, a combination of mahogany and beech, is beautiful and elegant, and the price is 1.2 million yuan. Experts believe that the price of this exquisite object, which has artistic taste and consists of 16 porcelain paintings, will only go up, not down. There is a simple reason. The price of fine porcelain paintings in the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China was much lower than that in this period. Moreover, porcelain painting has the advantages of colorfastness and stable color. This shows that the price of porcelain painting is not in place, and there is still room for appreciation.
Porcelain painting in the Republic of China was not a fake, but an imitation. Today's fake is different from this one. This kind of porcelain plate painting often imitates the names of famous people in the Republic of China, such as Wang Dafan and Wang Yeting, or copies it according to the original picture, or slightly changes the original composition, or imitates it according to Kanggan porcelain plate painting in Qing Dynasty, disguises it with old wooden frames, and fills the old with the new to make up for the bad. Such things are fakes.
To distinguish the authenticity of porcelain paintings, we must first be good at distinguishing the characteristics of the times. Porcelain plate paintings in different periods have different shapes, patterns, painting styles, themes and firing techniques. For example, most of Kang Yong's porcelain paintings are not inscribed, and decorated with decorative frames. The porcelain plate paintings in Jia, Dao and Xian periods were more gorgeous than vivid, and their artistic level was not as good as that in Kang and Yong periods. Pale crimson porcelain plate painting in the late Qing Dynasty is porcelain painted by literati painters. "Eight Friends of Zhushan" is an artist who imitates literati painters to make Chinese paintings on porcelain plates. Mastering these characteristics, and then analyzing its old and new degree from the appearance, we can make a general judgment on the age of porcelain painting.
Pastel figure porcelain painting (Qing)
Secondly, we should be good at distinguishing the author's style. Fake porcelain paintings mostly make a fuss about "Eight Friends of Zhushan", so it is necessary to understand the painting style of everyone in "Eight Friends of Zhushan". The characters in Wang Qi's paintings are vivid and fresh in color; Wang Dafan's paintings are both form and spirit, harmonious and natural; Wang Yeting's paintings are rich in green and skillful in brushwork; Cheng Yiting's flower-and-bird paintings are elegant and exquisite, full of pastoral interest; Deng Bishan painted fish and algae freely, full of pride; Liu Yucen's paintings of flowers, birds and insects are vivid and natural, with wonderful artistic conception; Xu Zhongnan's pine and bamboo paintings are vigorous and powerful, and the picture is full of sense; Tian Hexian painted plum blossoms sparsely but not empty, dense but not chaotic; Who draws a snow scene, the snow is combined with the movements of the characters; Bi Botao's feather paintings are bright and concise. Collectors should not only grasp the overall style orientation of each author, but also deeply understand each person's painting techniques and specific forms of expression. There are also everyone's calligraphy and seals, including fonts, structures, pen habits and so on. We should carefully observe whether there are contradictions and flaws, whether it conforms to the author's painting style, whether it conforms to the content of the picture, and whether it conforms to the times and years, so as to see through those fakes that seem to be separated from each other.
Third, be good at distinguishing porcelain plates. It is also important to distinguish between old and new porcelain paintings and porcelain plates. According to relevant data, the largest porcelain plate in the Republic of China can exceed 1 m, and the smallest is only a few centimeters. Its thickness is about 1 cm, 0.3 cm to 0.5 cm. On the back of medium and large porcelain plates, there are fetal bone ribs with equidistant protrusions, commonly known as "ribs". The reason why there are "ribs" is to prevent deformation during firing. Some small porcelain plates have no "ribs" on the back, but there are coarse cloth patterns when making blanks, and some have "sand bottom" on the back. The fake tires are flat and smooth, and some have "ribs", which are actually artificially added and look very uncoordinated.
Pastel flower-and-bird porcelain paintings collected by the author (late Qing Dynasty and Republic of China)
Collection of Landscape Porcelain Paintings (Republic of China)