The autumn auction of domestic artworks is imminent. On November 8th, Beijing Poly held a preview exhibition of art works in Shanghai, with more than 350 selected lots on display. Among them, a Qianlong imperial foreign color heart bottle is quite eye-catching. Originally a pair, the transistor bottles were separated after several transfers, the other of which is currently in the long museum in Shanghai. Can a pair of separated Qianlong period "Times Times Hi" heart bottles be combined? This is the exhibition site of Beijing Poly 2019 Autumn Auction Tour Exhibition Shanghai Station yesterday, and some viewers expressed curiosity. This is also the first time that this porcelain has been presented in the mainland market.
Qianlong Imperial Yangcai "Times Times Hi" turn heart bottle
Beijing Poly Autumn Auction will be held in Beijing from December 1 to 5, with more than 8,000 lots including modern and modern calligraphy and paintings, ancient calligraphy and paintings, antique treasures, modern and contemporary art, celebrity letters and other more than 30 categories. One of the focal points is this Qianlong Imperial Foreign Color "Times Times Hi" heart bottle.
The heart bottle is the product of the extreme prosperity of court life in the Qianlong period. It belongs to a bottle type created by the Qianlong Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty. It was the work of Tang Ying, the overseer of the Imperial Kiln Factory under the will of the Qianlong Emperor himself, who painstakingly thought about the creativity and refinement. Inside a skeletonized outer bottle, the set is a rotatable inner bottle with various patterns painted on it. The upper part of the "inner tank" is exposed and hidden in the outer bottle, and there are decorative paintings on the gall, including scenes of the four seasons, landscape figures, flowers, birds, insects and fish, etc. When the inner tank is active, through the cut-out of the "outer bottle", different pictures can be viewed, like a marquee.
Turn the middle of the bottle
The production of the bottle is extremely difficult, you need to make the bottom of the outer bottle into a chicken heart button, and the bottom of the inner tank is made into a chicken heart-like groove, and the button and groove are absolutely consistent. The "neck bottle" and the hollow jacket bottle on the shoulder of the mortise structure is exquisite, simple and just happens to fit the neck and shoulder bite, and is particularly suitable for rotating and playing. In terms of firing, considering the drying rate of the outer and inner bottles, as well as the shrinkage rate after firing, a little carelessness can cause the button and groove to not match, which is the abandonment of the previous achievements. Therefore, the cost of making transposers in the Qianlong Royal Kiln is very huge, often "one out of a hundred". The heart bottle was only used by the court to please the emperor. It is no wonder that Xu Zhiheng recorded in his famous work "Drinking Liuzhai Porcelain", "The belly of the bottle is exquisite and clear, and there is a bottle in the bottle that can be rotated at the same time, if it is, the name is 'turning the heart', which is the treasure of the inner house."
Look closely at this heart bottle, it sets of magenta, fruit green, alum red, gold color, turquoise green glaze, carmine material color, blue material color, skeleton carving, heart and other processes, the picture is complex and not messy, filled with flowers and birds, and reveals the prestige of the royal family. Twelve magpies are painted in the inner tank, the magpie symbolizes the "happy event at the door", because since ancient times, the twelve magpies are used to time the twelve hours, and the twelve magpies are all about "the times are happy", and there are December of the year, which can also be called "monthly annunciation". According to reports, such a heart-turning bottle, Taipei National Palace collection of ten pieces, Beijing Forbidden City collection of five or six pieces.
Magpie in the inner tank
The Palace Museum in Beijing, yu province, Zhang Weibang (heyi jiang ting tin bird spectrum) thirteen paintings (excerpt). Each opening right page depicts a variety of birds with a combination of Western techniques, including legendary bird species. The left page uses Chinese and Manchu characters to describe its name and ecological habits, which has the meaning of a modern bird encyclopedia.
According to reports, this lot, originally a pair of surviving, was originally the old collection of a French doctor, first sold in Paris, France in March 1987, and ten years later, it was auctioned again by Christie's in New York in 1996, when it was still a pair of heirlooms. Until June 2011, a single of them appeared at Christie's Hong Kong Spring Auction, which was later collected by the Long Museum in Shanghai. This time, the lot, another in pairs, reappeared nearly 23 years later and was presented for the first time in the mainland market.
Painter Chang Yu is also one of the highlights of Poly Autumn Shooting. Not long ago, his with Curved Legs earned HK$198 million at Sotheby's in Hong Kong, setting a new artist auction record. This Poly autumn auction continues the "Changyu Fever" and chooses the theme of "flowers" that run through changyu's various creative periods. "Jurui Yingxiang", depicted with marigolds as the object, is an important work on the theme of Changyu flowers, and the colors, brushwork and composition all reflect the late artistic style. Wu Guanzhong once commented: "I think Chang Yu himself is a bonsai, an oriental bonsai in the Paris flower garden. ”
Chang Yu "Ju Rui YingXiang" was painted on wood panels around the 1950s
Unveiled in Shanghai yesterday, there is a painting by the painter Li Keyan in 1964, "Ten Thousand Rivers and Thousand Mountains", which was painted in the same year, and "Ten Thousand Mountains and Red Everywhere", which was sold for 293 million yuan at the 2012 spring auction of Beijing Poly. It is reported that on November 10, Poly Huayi's 2019 Shanghai Autumn Art Auction will be held in Shanghai, and more than 1,000 works of art from 7 special exhibitions, such as Francis Bacon's prints, ancient Chinese bronze mirrors, and 20th century Western classic oil paintings, will be auctioned. On November 9th, the preview exhibition of some lots of Beijing Poly and Poly Shanghai Autumn Auction will continue to be exhibited in Shanghai.