What is unique about the 147 million blue and white glazed red sky ball bottles?

Blue and white porcelain everyone knows,

Have you ever heard of red porcelain in blue and white glaze?

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June 2019, Beijing Poly,

A piece of blue and white glazed red porcelain

Fetch a sky-high price of 147 million!

Yongzheng imperial blue and white glaze red sky ball bottle

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Qing Yongzheng Imperial blue and white glaze red cloud sea Tenglong big sky ball bottle

Realized price: RMB 147,200,000

The dragon painted on the bottle is full of momentum,

Soaring between the clouds on the surface of the sea,

The blue and white flowers are suitable for shades, and the rendering is moderate,

The glaze red is calm and heavy, and the layers are clear,

The combination of the two is just right,

In addition, the shape of the celestial ball bottle is more noble,

The viewer is amazed.

This bottle borrows from the expression of "three appearances of the dragon body in the clouds" often used during the Shunzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, the dragon body only reveals three sections, and the other parts are covered by floating clouds, so it is called "one body and three appearances". The cirrus pattern is meticulously depicted and the picture is realistic.

Blue and white hair color, quiet and elegant, alum red color bright and pure, color contrast harmonious and pleasing to the eye. The painting is superb, depicting the dragon leaping between the clouds in an extremely powerful and vivid way, fully embodying the royal majesty of the flying dragon in the sky.

Chen Rong, Kowloon (partial) Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA

Chen Rong, Mo Longtu, Guangdong Provincial Museum Collection

This blue and white glazed red celestial ball bottle, depicting a cloud dragon pattern from the ink dragon figure of the famous Southern Song Dynasty painter Chen Rong, successfully combines the Painting Technique of the Song Dynasty with the new artistic carrier of porcelain painting.

The sharp three-toed dragon claws on the celestial ball bottle are particularly eye-catching, with distinct characteristics of the times, this type of dragon pattern is common in the Tang, Song, Yuan arts and crafts, the Qing Dynasty is extremely rare, at this time the official kilns are almost all patterned five-clawed dragons, considering its reasons, when this product is Chen Rong painting as a powder, it is a unique "painting" imperial porcelain.

Yongzheng imperial blue and white glaze in the red celestial sphere bottle part

This blue and white glazed red sky ball bottle with porcelain tires as paper, cobalt blue, copper red as ink, the depiction of the cloud dragon ornament is complex and delicate, the chapter is strict and exquisite, its artistic level can be compared with Chen Rong's work, and in terms of technical difficulty, porcelain painting Danqing is even better.

It should be known that blue and white and glaze red are two different coloring agents, cobalt and copper firing temperature and atmosphere requirements are different, firing difficulty, because the production process is complicated and harsh, since Yongxuan there are few instruments, Yongzheng Royal Porcelain respects Yongxuan Royal Ware, so the Royal Kiln Factory vigorously imitates, even so, there are Qing dynasty blue and white glaze red products, blue and white when the glaze is thick red hair color is dull, glaze red is bright when the blue and white gray, the best of both worlds, not one in a hundred, has always been hurt by the potter, and the blue flowers and glaze red of this product are fresh and dripping, Just right, it is valuable to see its preciousness, which also shows that the firing technology of this product is pure and pure, which can be described as a masterpiece in the world.

Blue and white glazed red cloud dragon pattern celestial ball bottle

It is hidden in the Palace Museum

This kind of shape is called "heavenly ball bottle", because Chinese art aesthetics have always been said to be "round places in the sky", so this kind of bottle with a round belly is nothing more than a metaphor for the firmament.

Chinese celestial vase porcelain was first seen in the Ming Dynasty in the 15th century, but the bottleneck in the 15th century was shorter than in the works of the Qing Dynasty in the 18th century.

Tianqiu bottle is a kind of porcelain shape deeply influenced by West Asian culture, created and burned in the Jingdezhen kiln during the Yongle and Xuande years of the Ming Dynasty, blue and white sky ball bottle, pastel sky ball bottle, purple glazed sky ball bottle, Lang kiln red sky ball bottle, colorful sky ball bottle.

Yongle Dynasty began to become an ornamental bottle, which was more popular during the Xuande period. The bottle shape is small mouth, straight neck, full shoulders, false circle feet, and slightly concave sand bottom. Because the orb belly is huge, as if it has fallen from the sky, it is named.

Inspector Tang Ying (1682-1756)

The shape of the celestial vase is derived from the West Asian metal ware of the Islamic world, which is an innovative shape of the Jingdezhen kiln in the Ming Yongle and Xuande periods, and is mostly decorated with blue and white. Tang Ying entered the palace at the age of sixteen, entered the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and dabbled in the vast collection of the Qing Palace, so he understood the qianlong emperor's expectations and made porcelain.

Tang Ying was rich in artistic talent, in addition to designing and creating porcelain, he was accomplished in poetry, drama, calligraphy and painting, but it was only hidden by the fame of Tao Tao and was not known. Although tang Ying does not see the actual ink dragon painting and calligraphy painted by Tang Ying today, it is certain that its level is by no means mediocre, and because of such superb skills, Tang Ying moved his ingenuity to paint on the porcelain tire, which is not difficult, so it is the first of Tang Ying to use the ink dragon into the decoration porcelain, which shows the depth of his love for the ink dragon painting.

The Yongqian Imperial Kiln inspired by Chen Rong's pen and ink

Blue and white glaze red, commonly known as "blue and white plus purple", is a porcelain decorative technique with glaze red and painted ornamentation between blue and white. Glaze red has a separate decoration, but most of them are combined with blue and white to decorate and are called "blue and white glaze red".

Its characteristics are not only the characteristics of "beautiful and elegant, calm and stable" of blue and white, but also add the thickness and magnificence of the glaze red, enrich the color effect, and form an elegant and simple artistic style.

Therefore, red porcelain in blue and white glaze has become one of the precious varieties in the mainland.

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