1627. Once Porcelain
After hearing the quotation, Qin Shiou was immediately disappointed, and said, "It's only one million dollars? I thought I could get a price of 10 to 20 million."
Billy and Little Blake stared at each other, and asked him almost in unison: "What do you think the dollar is? Yen, Korean won, or Thai baht?!"
Qin Shiou said: "Don't look at me with such damn eyes, do you know Yuan blue and white flowers? Isn't that one thing that can be auctioned for 50 to 60 million US dollars? There are also some official kilns from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the price is also very high. High."
Little Blake shook his head and said, "You don't understand the rules of antique porcelain collection. I know that the porcelain you mentioned is of course expensive. It is the emperor among antique porcelain. And those official kilns are also nobles among antique porcelain. , alla- can't compare with them, because this porcelain is just an imitation of Chinese porcelain."
Billy patted Qin Shiou on the shoulder, winked at him and said, "Your national pride can rise."
Little Blake continued to introduce, this time he tried his best to be concise and to the point, explaining alla- and other modern European porcelain, as for the history of ceramic antiques in America? Sorry, the Indians in the Americas can make pottery, but this stuff has been eliminated in Chinese art appreciation for a thousand years, and it has also been eliminated in Europe for several centuries, so there is no seat for America in this aspect of historical introduction.
Firstly, from the Roman Empire, the Egyptian lead-glazed pottery technology was introduced to Italy, and continued production until the tin-glazed pottery technology was introduced. The production technology of tin-glazed pottery was spread from the Middle East to Italy via Mallorca in southern Spain. Compared with lead-glazed pottery technology, tin-glazed pottery technology was a perfect improvement. Since then, exquisite pottery art began to enter the European upper class.
During the Renaissance, the manufacturing technology of tin-glazed pottery spread rapidly from Italy, first to France, and then to Germany, the Netherlands, Britain and the Nordic countries. The main feature of Italian tin-glazed pottery is that the painted decoration was originally painted in multiple colors, and then when the glossy color was introduced from Spain, the glossy color was mostly used. Make the product bright colors, such as golden yellow, bright red, dark blue and so on.
When the introduction came here, Little Blake pointed to the pottery inside, obviously the color of these pottery was like this
continue to develop. The pottery art of the Middle Ages in Europe began to develop to its peak, and it was Venice in the 16th century that achieved this. This maritime country took the lead in contacting China with convenient maritime transportation, and obtained more advanced tin glazed pottery production technology.
The porcelain produced in Venice not only adopts Chinese-made technology, but is also good at imitating the painted patterns of Chinese Ming Dynasty porcelain. A new style with oriental colors has been formed, which is the origin of alla-, where 'alla-' also has a name called traditional alla-.
Little Blake explained before, alla- can be translated as simulated tin glazed pottery,
The focus of this word lies in two places, one is 'imitation', and the other is 'tin-glazed pottery'. Except for Venice at that time, European countries have successively studied and studied Chinese pottery making technology, and many kinds of simulated tin glazed pottery have appeared.
Like Germany in the 1660s. The Hanlo factory in Frankfurt and its vicinity began to produce tin glazed pottery. They used the production technology transferred from the Middle East, but the utensils used Chinese decorative patterns, which can be regarded as one of the simulated tin glazed pottery.
Earlier, in the 1620s, some Italian potters moved to the Netherlands and started the production of tin-glazed pottery in the Netherlands, imitating Chinese Yixing pottery, which can be regarded as a kind of simulated tin-glazed pottery.
Later, the Dutch East India Company imported a large amount of Chinese porcelain, and the country's pottery decoration completely turned to imitating Chinese blue and white. Abandoning the Italian decorative style, it has completely belonged to the simulated tin glazed pottery.
In addition, there is pottery production in England. In the 1650s, tin-glazed pottery manufacturing technology was introduced to England from the Netherlands. And then eliminated the production of lead glazed pottery. In terms of pottery decoration, British porcelain was influenced by the Wanli blue and white porcelain of the Ming Dynasty in China, and it was almost a complete imitation.
There is no doubt that all the porcelain produced in that era can be called alla-, but in order to distinguish, the porcelain produced in different countries and regions has different names. For example, Dutch pottery production is concentrated in Deft, and its products are called Deft pottery; while German pottery production is best in Nuremberg. It is called Nuremberg pottery, and the name alla- is gradually no longer mentioned in these countries and regions. After all, the imitated knockoffs have bad names after all.
Only Venice has always regarded this as a glory. They combined the simplicity and generosity of oriental porcelain with the splendor and nobility of European porcelain traditions, and specially exported it to France. Before the 16th century, France also widely used lead-glazed pottery technology, alla-a biography Entering France, he was immediately welcomed by the upper class.
What really promoted the emergence of alla- production was at the beginning of the 18th century, when King Louis XIV of France ordered the melting of silverware in the palace in order to pay for the war of Spanish succession. Since then, the French dignitaries have turned to use ceramics, alla-became popular in Europe, but the number has increased, but the value has decreased.
Fortunately, porcelain is thin and fragile, and it is difficult to preserve. In modern Europe, wars frequently broke out, and most alla-porcelain was destroyed in the war.
After entering the industrial age, Europe's scientific and technological strength has become stronger and stronger, and ceramic technology has also been improved. More, better, more beautiful and more practical porcelains have appeared. Appreciated by bureaucrats and nobles, tin-glazed pottery has been gradually abandoned since then, and not many people use alla-, the manufacturing process has gradually been lost, and its value has gradually increased.
After listening to Little Black's introduction, Qin Shiou asked, "Which country are these porcelains from?"
Little Blake said with a smile: "When we talk about alla- now, it refers to traditional imitation porcelain. At that time, porcelain from other countries had other names. I don't know whether these porcelains came from Venice or France. If you want to clearly judge their identities, you have to You need to remove all the whale oil on it and look carefully.” (To be continued.)
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