This is nonsense. At that time, the European powers began to invade China and plundered a large number of cultural relics to the West. As a large collection family, the Aval family was not particularly interested in Chinese porcelain, even if they were not particularly interested in them, they added a lot of collections.
After more than a hundred years, oriental artworks have soared to a considerable price, and the Aval family thinks they can take action.
As a collector of Western art, the Aval family is very smart, but they are a bit confused when dealing with oriental art.
The so-called "take it all and use it like mud and sand."
But it is precisely because the reputation of the Aval family in oriental collections is too far inferior to their Western collections, and the problem Zhou Zhi just mentioned is that the Chinese porcelain that has lost its past is too messy, which leads to buyers' concerns about the Aval family's oriental collections.
In fact, for the Aval family, just like An Siyuan hired Zhou Zhi back then, he hired a reputable oriental porcelain appraisal expert to identify the family's collections and produce a collection album to solve the problem. However, this family seems to be troublesome even in doing so and is unwilling to spend so much energy.
Without diamonds, it is difficult to take on porcelain work. Such hasty practices limit most entrants. Zhou Zhi didn't know if this was the last arrogance of the Aval family, that was, he didn't want to deal with unprofessional people.
This kind of practice is also quite common in the cultural and entertainment circles that Zhou Zhi has come into contact with. For example, the old man who picks up scattered scattered in Lu Qiao's hometown in Meishan, and the old man Lu who sells rouge purple Laifu Distillery in the Big Willow Tree Ghost Market all has such a "gain". "So you've made a lot of money for them?" Zhou Zhi asked Lin Wanqiu with a smile. "It's so possible, there are thousands of pieces." Lin Wanqiu said: "But as the first batch of invited participants, the quality of the more than 100 pieces of porcelain we got is quite good."
"Maybe the Aval family wants to create momentum." Zhou Zhi checked the movements of the porcelain smooth and fast. He first picked up the utensils and examined the glaze color and glaze surface, and used his fingers to circle the upper edge and bottom of the porcelain with his fingers to detect the density, porcelain degree, moisturization, and glaze thickness of the inner tube of the porcelain through the touch.
In addition to the visual characteristics of the picture style, craftsmanship, fineness, base style, shape, glaze, as well as flint red, clam light, treasure light and other characteristics, it is actually not difficult for these fairly open porcelains in front of them. "Sister Wanqiu, sometimes I think it's a shame to be an appraisal consultant for you." Zhou Zhi put down the porcelain bowl in his hand, went to the pen to write down his appraisal opinions, and picked up another square bottle. "Why do you say that?" Mai Xiaomiao felt very curious. She actually liked Lin Wanqiu, a spirited and confident and generous big sister.
"Because labor fees are too easy to earn." Zhou Zhi shook his head: "The difficulty of identifying these porcelains is completely different from the difficulty of experiencing the ghost market in the big willow tree."
"It seems that the goods you have to re-evaluate in the daytime?" Lin Wanqiu admired Zhou Zhi's ability and was particularly interested in his short story about the identification. "In fact, it is best to identify porcelain in the daytime and under natural light." Zhou Zhi flipped the square bottle in his hand: "At night, you will lose at least half of your eyesight." "Then you still have so many good things?!" Lin Wanqiu was a little angry, feeling that Zhou Zhi was showing off.
"Hehehe, good luck, good luck..." "This bottle...why doesn't it look like Chinese things?" Li Laosan looked at the square bottle in Zhou Zhi's hand: "It seems to be a Western Beige product!"
"This... is not just a real thing, but also a fine product of Qianlong official kilns, and the most precious one among the official kiln porcelains." Zhou Zhi said: "This is enamel."
"Ename? Isn't enamel a traditional French craft?"
"Ename is actually a glaze imported from Europe in the Qing Dynasty. Among them, French color is the purest. Third brother, you say it is a traditional French craft, and this is not the case. Wrong. "
"It was conceivable how precious this glaze from thousands of miles was, so the enamel glaze was used exclusively for the palace, and even the Jingde official kiln, which made the royal imperial tribute porcelain, was not qualified to use it. Instead, in Jingde, the white porcelain body was fired first, and these white porcelain body were transported to the palace, and then the painter in the palace workshop painted the enamel painting and colored it, and then it was fired in the inner official kiln in the palace. "
"But this picture..."
The picture of this porcelain bottle is indeed a bit strange. The square bottle has a thin neck and a square mouth. There is a common plate and dragon ear hanging on both sides of the Chinese porcelain.
In addition to the inconsistent ratio of the bottle belly and the bottle neck, the workmanship is still quite fine. Chilong's ears are gray-purple and the bottle body is bright yellow, which belongs to the simpler background color among Qianlong porcelain.
If it's still quite ordinary here, the theme picture will be too bizarre.
There are paintings on all sides of the square bottle, and the paintings also have borders. In traditional themes, this painting method is called "consecration" or "opening windows".
However, unlike the consecrated paintings on traditional Qianlong official kiln porcelain, the borders generally imitate the cave door frame scenery of Suzhou gardens. The "window frame" of this square bottle is a very common cucumber pattern in the West.
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The cherry is a Mediterranean plant that symbolizes wisdom and art in the eyes of the ancient Greeks. It was first used in the decoration of the Collins columns of ancient Greece. It was widely used in buildings and artistic design during the ancient Greek and Roman periods, and later it was the most common decorative theme in all Western style art.
These cucumber patterns on the bottle are designed in the form of Roman marble relief curled grass, replacing the Chinese window opening and full of three-dimensional sense of Western art.
The paintings inside the window are even more magical. The four paintings are all characters, one is a mother and son fishing by the river, one is a young man and a woman chatting intimately, the other is a girl pondering in the garden, and the last is a nobleman and his servant hunting with thin-waisted hunting dogs.
The scenery and backgrounds of these characters are all Chinese-style painting methods, using the profound, flat and lofty composition of landscape painting. The texture and criticism methods used by mountains, rocks, forests and trees are done by masters of Chinese painting.
However, it is fun to see the characters in detail. They are all Western characters, each with blonde hair and blue eyes, pink skin, and their clothes are also top hats and dresses. Men wear tights, women wear Western skirts, head crowns and hairpins, which are quite exposed and bold.
This is why Li Laosan is confused. From a visual point of view, this porcelain bottle is very story-oriented and scene-oriented, and is a typical European picture. Various floral butterfly patterns are also painted on the neck, abdomen and bottom as complex decorations. Except for the two small dragon ears, they are all in a perfect Western style.
Li Laosan can even name this style - Rococo. (This chapter ends)