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Printing clay boxes, also known as printing clay boxes, printing color pools, are used to store printing clay. The origin of the printing box is still inconclusive, before the Song Dynasty, the use of mud seals, wax, honey, water color, etc., and there is no printing mud seen in later generations. Since the Northern Song Dynasty, mimeographing has gradually been adopted, and in order to prevent the volatilization of oil, it has been preserved in porcelain powder boxes.
Zeng Gong wrote in the poem "Winter Night Is a Matter": "Seal the seal and strike the bell to be idle, and I like to have a vegetarian meal." The printing box has been mentioned in the sentence.
In the late Ming Dynasty, the literati seal arose, and the clay box became an indispensable thing in the study room.
The forms of clay boxes passed down from generation to generation are different, and they are common in flat circles and short, and the inside of the box is flat. The materials used are jade, stone, bamboo, wood, horns, lacquer, gold, silver, copper, iron, ivory, etc., with different shapes, exquisite carvings, available and rewarding, with porcelain as the best.
"Literary Instrument Notes" Yun: "The jade of the playthings is better than the magnet, but the printing pool is better than the magnet, and the jade is not victorious." Therefore, officials, brothers, and kiln fixers are very expensive."
With its unique texture, purple sand has a stronger shapeability than porcelain, and is the preferred material for making clay boxes.
Qingqianlong Imperial Color clay pile painting Valley Quiet Printing Clay Box
CICC International (Hong Kong) Autumn Auction 2017
Size: Thickness 3cm Diameter 9.1cm Weight 269.2g
Realized price: RMB 6,978,200
On November 24, 2017, CICC International (Hong Kong) Auction Co., Ltd., Zi Yu Qing Offering - Palace Purple Sand Night Show, Qing Qianlong Imperial Painted Clay Stack painting, Valley Qing YouYin Clay Box, sold for a high price of RMB 6,978,200, the most expensive purple sand printing clay box in history.
This clay box section of mud is a tire, the texture is delicate, there is a pearl jade, and it is equipped with the enduring color of Song silk. The instrument is small and sweet, round and round, and the craftsmanship is beautiful.
The top of the lid is slightly raised and full of tension. Cover, body female mouth set, straight wall, jade bottom, body line stiff, well-defined.
The bottom central mold "Qianlong Year system of the Great Qing Dynasty" double-line six-character seal book, the knot is elegant, clear and powerful, and the literary room utensils are made for the Qianlong officials.
The cover surface is made of red, black, yellow and brown color clay, piled up to give color, and paints the quiet scenery of the valley on the cover of the printing box, creating a suitable effect of ink blending and dyeing, the picture is beautiful and elegant, the atmosphere is pleasant, and the wind bones of the four kings are stored.
Its thickness and lightness, rich layers, exquisite changes, straight to the pen and ink, in the Duan mud cang ancient silk color background, deep song and Yuan landscape true taste.
On the nearby side, the cliff is steep, and on the platform with the stone wall soaring, a four-corner pavilion stands. On the right, there are strange rocks, winding and overlapping, with bushes between the stone gaps and grass leaves and moss. Two large trees in front of me crisscrossed out, one full of golden branches and the other graceful and green. The rear is lined with green pines, straight into the sky.
On the other side of the nearby, a green-tiled house looms under the hillside, shaded by trees, and the pavilion on the right is offset by the valley across the sky. The empty valley extends into the distance, there are mountains, towering peaks, clouds, mist, two rows of geese across the sky, a picture of cool autumn hitting and geese flying south jumped out.
The clay painting technique used to print clay boxes dates back to the Yongzheng period. Looking up the literature, it can be seen that the drawings on the carcass of the royal court were drawn by the royal court painters, and these pictures had fixed patterns at that time.
The purple sand pots in the Qing Dynasty court are practical instruments, and the literary play utensils in the study are works of art, the number is not much, all of them are of high quality, and the level is not the same. Among the old Tibetan categories of the Qing Palace, pen holders and brick platforms are the most common, and the printing clay boxes are extremely rare, which can be described as rare and extremely precious.
Dong Bangda (1696-1769) was a Qing Dynasty official and calligrapher. The word Fucun, contention, the number Of Dongshan, Non-Wen, Zhejiang Fuyang people. Yongzheng eleven years into the soldier, Qianlong two years to teach editing, the official final ceremony department Shangshu, Tan Wenke. Good books, paintings, seals, ancient laws, landscapes to take the Law Yuanren, teachers inherit the four kings, good use of dry brushes, and magnificent, unique.
During the Qianlong period, the most admired court painter by the emperor was Dong Bangda, whose works far exceeded that of other court painters of the same period. The Qianlong Emperor greatly praised him, and many people knew about it.
Judging from the records, the number of his works collected by the Qing Dynasty's Inner Government was so large that almost no one at that time could have originally originated from Dong Bangda's paintings.
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