The art of Cheng Hua Qing-Hua Palace Bowl: Gong Kui and fanghua

01 Okui palace bowl 05 British Museum Lily bowl 09 Yongzheng palace bowl

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In September October 8, 2013, Hong Kong soufbi held the largest Chinese art auction in history. A small bowl of green flowers and okra grain was held in profit, conquering all Chinese and foreign people present with elegant and charming art fanghua, the final deal was made in HK $0.141 billion, making it the most eye-catching pearl of the auction at the 14th anniversary of the Hong Kong sufbi celebration. (01)

A small blue-and-white bowl with a caliber of only 14.5 cm in the district took less than three minutes to create the second highest price in the porcelain world in the Ming Dynasty. The chimney increased. Once upon a time, it was a legend that was out of reach. Now, it is placed in a light box with a well-equipped device, which emits a blue sky, making it impossible for everyone who passes by to stop and worship. In fact, the price of RMB is a direct reflection of the artistic value of the Chenghua palace bowl. Even outsiders who do not know about antiques will immediately be attracted by the Qinghua palace bowl, her unparalleled touch and gentle elegance is an unforgettable artistic temperament. In addition, there is a bowl of almost identical Cheng Hua shukui grain, from the famous Japanese anzhai's collection, the existing Osaka City Toyo ceramic Museum.

Cheng Hua doucai chicken cylinder cup is the most famous porcelain in the history of Chinese ceramics. Soufubi's rare blue-and-white okra bowl allows people to see the legendary quality with their own eyes. Chenghua Guanyao porcelain can be said to be the most rare treasures in the Ming Dynasty porcelain. It has always been regarded as a treasure by Chinese and foreign collectors. The late famous ceramics expert, Mr. Liu Xinyuan, director of the Jingdezhen Ceramic archaeological research institute, once studied the research and found that the Emperor Ming Xian became the emperor for 23 years, more than twice as long as the Emperor Xuan de of Ming Xuan Zong, however, the number of defects and Porcelain Tiles unearthed at the kiln site in the Ming Dynasty in ZHUSHAN, Jingdezhen, but not half of the Xuande kiln host (Liu Xinyuan compiled the "production kiln burning record test-the Emperor's broken china: Reconstructing Chenghua porcelain, Sotheby's, London, 1995, 11th page); at the same time, the number of complete handed-down porcelain pieces is in stark contrast to the number of residual parts unearthed on the kiln site, this also shows that the production requirements and quality standards of Chenghua Guanyao porcelain are extremely demanding. Therefore, each complete piece of work is carefully selected, they all go to the palace under the strictest selection criteria, and behind each piece of the beauty of the world, there are countless unfortunate burial objects that may be buried in the ground due to minor flaws in production, in this case, it is a matter of course that sufbi can achieve this billion yuan classic product. According to the research statistics of Mr. Zhu Tangsheng, former chairman of the Soviet Union's Asian region, the vast majority of the existing historical porcelain is hidden in the Palace Museum in Beijing and Taipei, in addition, there are only over 20 pieces of collections in private hands around the world (Julian Thompson, list of patterns of Chenghua porcelainin collections worldwide? The Emperor's broken china: Reconstructing Chenghua porcelain, page 116-129, September 1995, London), the rare value is comparable to that of Song dairu.

The dimension and shape are similar and the interior and exterior are painted into the blue and floral palace bowls, which are a group of top-level works in the Chenghua blue and floral porcelain. They are produced in the third-stage maturity (about-years) of Chenghua porcelain burning, its porcelain tires, white glaze, molding, green materials, and painters have reached the peak level. White and delicate porcelain tires after repeated concise, light and pure, glaze juice warm and transparent, the degree of glass has been perfect, slightly flashing wax light, there is an irresistible kind of friendly touch, similar to goat fat Meiyu, sweet and mellow. The bowl is made up of excellent specifications, full and dignified, impeccable, playing in the hands. In addition, because of the domestic "Equality blue" Cobalt material, or independently or with the import of cobalt material, the creation of the elegant and elegant, innocent blue and white face, in stark contrast to the powerful yongxuan Qinghua. In terms of subject matter and descriptive style, it is known that the series are used for the yongxuan period, that is, the popular twenty and twenty pattern. There are about 12 pattern styles, in the yongxuan period, the style is full and the pen is rough. It tends to be a new style with a wide area of white and strokes, and the style is light and smooth, A new artistic effect that is concise, elegant, and lively. The eyes, hands, and hearts share a peaceful, pure, and meaningful spiritual realm. This extremely delicate, gentle, and delicate female artistic temperament is said to be related to the-year-old princess favored by the Emperor Cheng Hua. A blue-and-white lily bowl hidden in the British Museum is the ultimate of this style. The famous British collector Sir kenif collection of a green flower Lily palace bowl, graceful flow of branches and elegant and simple blue and white flowers, showing all the artistic characteristics of the palace bowl. The bowl was sold at a high price of 2002 at the London auction house baolong in 0.82 million. Another precious melon and rattan palace bowl, from the famous Swiss meitintang collection, was also sold at a high price of April 2011 Hong Kong at the Hong Kong soufbi auction in 90 million. (05)

Cheng Hua porcelain was favored by the emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties. Mr. Cai and Bi, the Palace Museum in Taipei, once reviewed the Emperor's love for Cheng Hua porcelain from a large number of historical documents, the discovery is especially true for the Ming Wanli emperor and Qing Yong Zheng di (Cai hebian edited Chenghua porcelain in historical context-the Emperor's broken china: Reconstructing chenghuaporcelain, London soufbi, 1995, 16ff ), in the works that later generations are competing to make porcelain, the Wanli kiln and Yongzheng kiln are also the most successful. The Qinghua palace bowl is naturally the main object of the imitation, especially the Yongzheng kiln, in terms of artistic style and temperament, it is also able to have both shapes and minds. For example, if a bowl of Qinghua Palace in Yongzheng kiln, which is from Beijing zhengguan Tang, is Xiao weimiao, but it is carefully described, the work of Yongzheng kiln still cannot be copied into the soul of art at the core of porcelain, which is a kind of innocent and quiet feeling that cannot be said. As early as the beginning of the last century, Western collectors began to follow the taste of Chinese specimiters and turned porcelain into a collection of Gods. They were deeply impressed by the artistic level and burning quality of porcelain. For example, in the largest collection of Chinese ceramics in the West giant Sir David London, there is a set of 7-piece houses with different decorative patterns, it is now publicly displayed in a special exhibition hall of the British Museum. In fact, each piece of porcelain that has been circulated in the hands of a private collector has a long string of prominent Tibetan backgrounds and legends. For example, soufubi, the okra palace bowl, is one of the three finalized palace bowls from the collection of Sir kenif. Lord the right honourable Lord Rolf Cunliffe kenif, a Lieutenant Colonel of the Royal Air Force, was one of the most famous Chinese art collectors in Britain and Europe in the middle of the last century. In 1944, he began to collect ancient Chinese art from a pottery pot in the Han Dynasty, covering ceramics, bronzes, jades, and cigarette holders of history. With an extraordinary artistic taste and vision, Sir kenif spent £ January 2, 1947 in 475 from Peter boode, a famous antique dealer at Mount Street in London

The firm buys three bowls (Roy Davids & Dominic Jellinek, provenance: collectors, dealers & scholars: Chinese ceramics inbritain & America, England, 2011, p.m ). The okra bowl was one of the three. It was sold at the 1971 UK antique seller Bluett's fair at 25000. 10 years later, it was sold again at the Hong Kong soufbi auction in 1981 with a turnover of 4.07 million Hong Kong dollars, the next step is the glory of the 0.141 billion Hong Kong currency. (09)

From 150 to 25000 to 4.07 million Hong Kong dollars to 0.141 billion Hong Kong dollars, this incredible price leap just shows the true eternal artistic value, which cannot be measured by the price. In the pale blue glaze, the hope of perfection and ideal excludes human beings. beyond the region, the time and space, the cultural language, and the inheritance of this will become the common fortune of mankind.

In this short article, I would like to dedicate myself to Mr. Liu Xinyuan, a famous Chinese ceramics expert who died not long ago and former director of Jingdezhen Ceramic archaeological research institute.

The art of Cheng Hua Qing-Hua Palace Bowl: Gong Kui and fanghua