"That's right, we don't have a bad eye for plates like this, but the bottoms are usually double-circled with six characters in regular script, or square with four characters, like some of the later ones made for the inner palace, and occasionally there are pictures. Yes, it is also a smooth simple blue and white or Zhu Wen, this is the limit of our knowledge. "The people who can sit here are basically in the industry, and everyone must respect their appraisal opinions. Lord, even here I can only shake my head and sigh.
"Then this young master, I wonder which family he belongs to?" There are many capable people in the imperial city, and someone immediately thought that the person who can win this small plate in the cultural toy market must have two systems of knowledge. A person with both qualities, and a person so young, must probably be the successor and disciple of a certain great master.
"He has been studying pottery at home since he was a child, but his knowledge is not in porcelain, but more in calligraphy and painting. It can be said that the mounting technology of the Nangong Yang School is unparalleled in the country. Even the old men of Rongbaozhai are skilled in the craftsmanship. Be convinced.”
"Last year last year, Rongbaozhai hired a capable person to repair a picture of Yi Yuanji's deer ape using the lost method of burning lead. It is said that he was also a descendant of Yanggong in his early twenties..." Someone immediately thought of this. Thing: "Could it be..."
"By the way, that's him." Mr. Ma said with a smile: "This time I brought another restoration of the "Portrait of Madame Shexiang" from the early Ming Dynasty, which gave our National Museum a huge rip-off!"
"He! I've seen the before-and-after video of the portrait. The craftsmanship is really amazing!" Someone else immediately gave a thumbs up.
This matter has just made the news. The state publicized the news of the discovery and restoration of "The Statue of Lady Shexiang" much more powerfully than the discovery of the "Longzang Sutra". After all, there is a layer of ethnic minority work in it, and the state attaches great importance to it. Also normal.
So there are quite a few people who know about this.
"His greatness lies not only in his craftsmanship." Ma Ye said: "In recent years, the restoration work of calligraphy and paintings in the Forbidden City and National Museum has advanced by leaps and bounds, and the restoration work has exceeded the past few years. The reason is that he organized and copied The silk and brocade used for calligraphy and painting in the Song Dynasty are almost identical to those used in the restoration of ancient books. They can completely replace the Qing Dynasty inventory in the National Museum and the Forbidden City.”
"The two old men no longer need to search like in the past. The inventory handed down from the Qing Palace is now being put into storage according to the collection process of third-level cultural relics. The restoration materials mainly come from special supplies in Sichuan, although they are not yet open to the public. It depends on the level of use. It is very generous to report the situation of queuing up and waiting for the repair materials to be approved one year earlier than before!”
"No wonder they are so good, they do soft movies!" Someone in the room suddenly found an excuse for their poor eyesight: "We can't beat them in hard movies!"
Literary people call calligraphy and painting "soft pieces" and porcelain "hard pieces". In terms of artistic status, calligraphy and painting have long surpassed porcelain. The reason lies in the difference between the creators.
The creator of calligraphy and painting works is called an artist, and the maker of porcelain is called a craftsman.
The five-color, pastel, and other porcelain paintings in the official kilns of the Qing Dynasty were first painted in the capital by imperial painters. After being sent to the emperor for viewing and approval, they were then sent to Jingde, where local craftsmen transferred the paintings onto the porcelain body. of.
As for the enamel painting, it is completed directly in Beijing. Jingde is only responsible for firing and carving the plain body, and the painting is completed by the inner palace workshop. Sometimes it is directly directed by the painter.
This is also the reason why enamel color has the highest status among painted porcelain in the Qing Dynasty.
This problem persisted until the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, when the porcelain plate paintings of the Eight Friends of Zhushan appeared as a symbol, and the artistic standards of the two were barely equal. Even so, it is still debatable whether the Eight Friends of Zhushan are porcelain craftsmen or painters who use porcelain bodies and porcelain plates as the basis for their creations.
"Yes, yes..." People who usually would never be convinced by calligraphy and painting researchers now immediately used this as an excuse: "It turns out that it is made of soft films, so this is normal!"
The National Gallery of Art is on Wusi Street, the northeast corner of the Palace Museum, and it takes an hour's drive from Daliushu.
This also shows that the flourishing of arts and crafts is not as grand as the flourishing of a hundred flowers in later generations. The current arts and crafts exhibition is still qualified to be held in the National Gallery.
Later, more and more awards were given to various exhibits. For example, this large exhibition organized by the Ministry of Light Industry will be unified into the "Arts and Crafts Expo". The exhibits will also extend from jade, bone, tooth carvings, etc. to filigree and lacquerware. , woodware, embroidery and textiles, etc., the exhibition organizers have also been downgraded from the national level to units such as the National Culture Palace, and even handed over to some provinces that have made great contributions to intangible cultural heritage and have relatively strong economic strength, such as Guangdong Province .
Correspondingly, the weight of the exhibits at the exhibition is also different. Unlike now, only the Hundred Flowers Award works are eligible to enter the national hall.
Exhibitions with the prefix "国" can be referred to as the "national exhibition". This is the best endorsement of the industry's top products.
Last year, the southern Sichuan red material began to show signs of rising, but the thoughtful customized products limited the imagination of craftsmen. Although the southern red carvings replicating the Qianlong Furong stone-covered furnace surprised everyone in terms of material, However, there are serious deficiencies in innovation. In addition to clearly expressing the role of Sichuan red material in highlighting craftsmanship, both the subject matter and innovation are not qualified to be selected for the Hundred Flowers Award.
Chu Qinghong simply didn’t send it to the competition and only participated in the exhibition as an exhibit.
This year was different. After seeing the results of the combination of Sichuan Red and Su Gong carving techniques, Zhou Zhi allocated a large number of high-quality cherry red stones to several masters for creation. He only made some suggestions on the subject matter. At the same time, Apart from contributing an old red sandalwood tree root collected by Su Huaxuan as a base that can be carved into the shape of overlapping waves, there was no excessive intervention and the masters were allowed to play as they pleased.
The effect was naturally different. The Nanhong that Zhou Zhi had access to in his previous life was not up to the current level. He also did not expect that the top-grade cherry red material would have the gelatinous texture of top-grade jade after polishing.
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This is an optical phenomenon. After light enters the material, it is scattered by translucent molecules and forms a visual phenomenon. In the jargon, it is called "glue out".
Although Nanhong carvings are very "excellent", that is to say that due to material limitations, many jade-like materials cannot show very fine craftsmanship details, but they can be reflected in Nanhong, but they lack the bonus of "Baoguang". It's a bit lacking in meaning.
The high-grade cherry red color makes up for this defect and also improves the quality of this set of "One Hundred and Eight Dragon Sons".
When Zhou Zhi and Mai Xiaomiao rushed to the exhibition hall, "Dragon Son Picture" was placed in the most conspicuous position of the exhibition hall. Countless visitors were surrounding it, admiring this breathtakingly beautiful work, its novel materials, and its superb craftsmanship. The craftsmanship and the exhibitor's idea of combining materials are amazing. (End of chapter)