Rebirth 93: Break off the engagement at the beginning and marry Bai Fumei

"Isn't this just a bottle? Is it so valuable?" Fang Ziwei brought her little head closer to take a look.

Du Mingde glanced at Fang Ziwei, then at Feng Yao, and chuckled, "This is no ordinary bottle!"

The Celestial Ball Vase appeared in the Yongle and Xuande periods of the early Ming Dynasty. During the reign of the Yongzheng and Qianlong dynasties of the Qing Dynasty, the two emperors directly ordered the Jingdezhen Royal Kiln Factory to produce special porcelain. The Celestial Ball Vase was a key product and became the royal palace's use. One of the porcelain furnishings. Because of its huge and round belly curve, it is very similar to the image of celestial bodies and stars in the eyes of the ancients, so it is named "celestial sphere bottle". Some people also call it "Qianqiu bottle", symbolizing the meaning of eternal peace.

The celestial sphere bottle is a large object, so the firing process is very difficult, and problems such as deformation and cracking often occur. In addition, the shape of the celestial sphere bottle requires a cylindrical bottle neck with a round and full bottle body. At the same time, the angle at the intersection of the shoulder and neck needs to be very sharp, so the bottle neck is prone to collapse during the shaping process.

Song Qingyun listened to Chen Yang and Fang Ziwei talking, nodded slightly, and looked at the bottle in front of him, "The most difficult thing about this thing is not the shaping, but the craftsmanship."

This Yongzheng blue and white underglaze red celestial sphere vase uses porcelain as paper and cobalt blue and copper red as ink. The cloud and dragon patterns painted on it are complex and delicate in composition, and the composition is strict and elegant. Its artistic level can be compared with Chen Rongzhi's work, but in terms of technical difficulty, The porcelain painting of this product is even better.

Among them, the blue and white have appropriate shades and are well-rendered, truly showing the magic of "ink dividing five colors." The underglaze red is deep and thick, and the combination of white drawing and flat painting has exquisite brushwork and clear layers of color, without any turbidity or flooding.

You must know that blue and white and underglaze red are two different colorants. Cobalt and copper have different firing temperature and atmosphere requirements. Firing is extremely difficult. Because the production process is complicated and demanding, there are few finished products since Yongxuan. Moreover, the Yongzheng imperial porcelain admired the Yongxuan imperial porcelain, so the imperial kiln factory vigorously copied it.

Even so, there are blue and white underglaze red products from the Qing Dynasty. When the blue and white are thick, the underglaze red is dull, and when the underglaze red is bright, the blue and white are gray. There are only one or two that have the best of both worlds. And this bottle of blue and underglaze red They are all fresh and juicy, just right, which makes them rare and valuable. This also shows that the firing technology of this product is superb and it can be described as an unparalleled masterpiece.

"This kind of celestial sphere bottle, if it is a single-color glaze or a blue and white one, is not as valuable as this one. It is valuable because it uses two firing techniques: blue and white and underglaze red. On a bottle!" Song Qingyun explained beside him.

At present, among the cultural relics handed down from ancient times, the Qing Dynasty Tianqiu vase can be regarded as a masterpiece of the royal kiln. The Tianqiu vase from the Yongzheng and Qian Dynasties not only continued the traditional blue and white and multicolored styles of the Ming Dynasty, but also added various pastel, enamel, Langyao red, etc. . However, the most surprising thing is that the imperial kilns of the Qing Dynasty cleverly used pastel plus doucai, blue and white underglaze red and other varieties in the decoration of celestial sphere bottles. Of course, the price is also very considerable.

"Emperor Yongzheng once ordered that the Yongxuan porcelain from the Qing Palace's old collection be handed over to the Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln for imitation." Chen Yang looked at the bottle, walked closer and picked it up. It felt right in his hands. "The Qing Palace Manufacturing Office documents stated that this type of porcelain should be copied. Copying the ancients requires new instructions and clear descriptions.”

On April 11, the seventh year of Yongzheng's reign, Lang Zhonghaiwang brought out a gourd-style porcelain pot from Xuande, Ming Dynasty. Order: Give this pot to Nian Xiyao and make several imitations according to its style. If the glaze is not very similar, it can be a darker or lighter color, and a cover can be added to the original pot.

"This celestial sphere bottle is a product under this guiding ideology. Its shape, dragon pattern image, and writing method are inheritance from Yongxuan Imperial Kiln, and the expression of blue and white plus underglaze red is "copy" Innovation that is “old but not ancient”. "

Du Mingde nodded beside him, "This spring, Christie's auctioned a piece at the Hong Kong City Auction, a Qing Yongzheng famille rose nine-peach celestial sphere vase. Do you know what the auction price was at that time?"

Chen Yang was slightly stunned after hearing this. In his later life, he knew that his master paid great attention to various large-scale auctions. He really didn't know that his master started paying attention to auctions from such an early age.

Song Qingyun shook his head, "Christie's large-scale auction, why can't it be worth millions!"

"The deal was 211 million!" Du Mingde smacked his lips, "This is the price converted into our money."

"How much?" Song Qingyun stared at Du Mingde with wide eyes, "More than two million? This is four or five times higher than the market here!"

Du Mingde nodded. Everyone in the industry knows the price of such a good item, but yesterday someone actually wanted to take it away, so they paid a debt of 80,000 yuan. Isn't this a joke? Chen Yang said that Song Qingyun had a Ji-red glazed celestial sphere vase in his hand. When he first met his uncle last year, his uncle took him to an appreciation conference. The bottle was almost the ceiling.

Song Qingyun nodded. The red glaze piece in his hand was like garbage compared to this one!

Several people looked back and forth in Boss Feng's collection. It has to be said that almost all of the objects collected by Boss Feng are genuine, but they definitely cost a lot of money. Looking around, Song Qingyun stopped in front of a square pot with enamel chrysanthemum pattern painted on a copper body.

"This is the first item I sold to Boss Feng. It is a square pot with a copper body and enamel chrysanthemum pattern made by Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty." Song Qingyun said with a hint of sadness in his voice: "I paid 30,000 yuan for this pot to Boss Feng. , he had five thousand yuan in hand at the time and said he would deliver it to me the next day.”

"This scene is right in front of me, just like what happened yesterday. How could such a good person... Oh!"

This pot has a copper body and a chrysanthemum-shaped lid with no steam holes. The lid has a stigma-style button as the center of the flower, chiselled into a low-relief chrysanthemum with flat petals. The body of the pot is square on all sides with rounded corners, the spout and handle are square, and the gold-plated ring feet are also in the shape of chrysanthemum petals. The inside of the pot is covered with light blue glaze, with a light blue ground on the neck. A small ten-petal chrysanthemum is painted inside each chrysanthemum petal, and the pot belly is painted on a yellow ground.

This yellow-ground painted enamel vessel was an innovation during the Kangxi period and became the mainstream of Qing court-painted enamel vessels. It is surrounded by chrysanthemum-shaped copper circles and is decorated with one blooming chrysanthemum inside, plus one on the lid to form five blooming chrysanthemums. . It is unknown whether it means a good harvest. The chrysanthemum still symbolizes longevity. The bright yellow ground outside the consecration is decorated with folded chrysanthemums, and two small ten-petal chrysanthemums of different colors are decorated on the stream. There are six small ten-petal chrysanthemums on the handle, three of the same color and three small chrysanthemums of different colors. The white background and two straight lines of regular script with four characters in blue material (made by the Emperor Kangxi) successfully combined Western techniques with the royal taste of the Qing court.

Uncle Master sold this pot for 30,000? That's a bargain. In later generations, this would be worth tens of millions of dollars, but I can't blame Song Qingyun. In this era, the price of enamels from the Kangxi period was only this.

Looking around, Song Qingyun, Chen Yang and others saw a Ming Xuande blue and white bowl with lotus patterns. This bowl was picked up by Chen Yang and Song Qingyun at the Fengcheng ghost market last year. It was also Chen Yang's first bowl. I went to Fengcheng Ghost Market once, and the scene at that time was like a movie, vivid in my mind, but now Boss Feng is gone.

Du Mingde learned that Song Qingyun had sold this bowl to Boss Feng for 50,000 yuan, and said that the price of this bowl would be ten times higher now. Some Hong Kong businessmen came over a while ago and bought a blue and white tangle from the Xuande period. The branch bowl cost more than 400,000 yuan!

"If it weren't for this bowl, I wouldn't have known that my aunt and the others were lying to me." Feng Yao said with cold eyes, "I was next to my dad when I bought this bowl. I clearly remember it. How much is it? They came to me that day and told me, this bowl is worth eight hundred yuan!”

"How much?" Chen Yang glanced at Feng Yao in surprise, "Didn't this guy come to your house to pick up leaks?"

Feng Yao nodded with an aggrieved look. They also said that many of the things here were imitations, which looked good but were actually worthless. But Feng Yao believed that Chen Yang and Song Qingyun would not lie to his father. After all, Feng Yao believed in Chen Yang's eyesight.

But now I have no choice. My father owes too much money. If I don't sell these things, I won't be able to pay back the money! So Feng Yao wanted Chen Yang to come and see if these things could be sold quickly. Even if they couldn't be sold quickly, they wouldn't be cheated.

Selling these things is not a problem, the key is to sell them at a high price. If they are sold cheaply, Chen Yang and Song Qingyun can take care of them, but that is meaningless! Du Mingde said that it is not difficult to sell at a high price in Shanghai, but the time is too short. Where can you find so many big names in a short time!

"Um..." Chen Yang scratched his head and asked Feng Yao, "Feng Yao, how much money does your father owe? If it's not much, Boss Song and I can help you."

"Six to seven million!"

I go! Chen Yang was sweating after hearing this. With so much money, he had enough money, but if he helped Feng Yao, he wouldn't be able to repay the money next year. The key is...

Chen Yang and Song Qingyun looked at each other, this is difficult to do!

"How can Boss Feng owe so much money?"

Just when Song Qingyun asked Feng Yao, her aunt's voice came from downstairs, "Hey, Yaoyao, when has this been? Why don't you know how to be anxious?"

"Don't worry about the junk your father left behind for now. Let's discuss the goods quickly. Otherwise, we really have to sell the house!"

"Sister, please let your friends leave quickly. I can't help you pay back the money," a man's voice came from downstairs, walking upstairs, "Put the broken Santana in the yard, and others will I think our family is bankrupt, let them go quickly!”

Du Mingde felt a little unhappy, but he had already seen it yesterday. If Feng Yao hadn't pulled him, Du Mingde would have wanted to leave. Song Qingyun raised his eyebrows and showed an ugly color on his face; Feng Yao glanced at Chen Yang, who had a calm expression on his face. He had long been used to the warmth and coldness of human beings and had become accustomed to it.

Feng Yao looked at her cousin walking over, with an unkind expression on her face, and said coldly, "Cousin, they are all my guests, and this is also my home. Please be polite!"

"I invited them here. Whether they are leaving or staying, it's not your turn to speak yet!"

The man walked to the door of Boss Feng's collection room in a few steps and pointed at Chen Yang and others, "Cousin, please stop messing around at this time!"

"Look at what they look like. What's the use of these antiques? They can't afford them anymore! We have to hurry up now..."

Before he could finish speaking, Fang Ziwei stood up and crossed Feng Yao's arm, "Hey, why are you talking to your sister?"

"Besides, who told you that we can't afford it? If your eyes are not good, go get a pair of glasses!" Fang Ziwei pursed her lips, "Aren't they just junk antiques? We have plenty of them at home!"

"Xiaowei, give me one million first!"