Yuan blue and white collection of four misunderstandings

The Yuan Dynasty blue and white porcelain opened up a new era for the transition from Chinese porcelain to colored porcelain. It is magnificent, bold and unrestrained, has a wide variety of paintings, and is very different from the traditional Chinese aesthetic taste. It is indeed a wonderful work in the history of Chinese ceramics. In recent years, with the sky-high price of the blue-and-white ghost cannabis figure in the overseas market, there has been an upsurge of crazy blue and white flowers in the domestic and foreign collections. Under the upsurge, inevitably muddy, there have been some misunderstandings.

Misunderstanding 1: All over the country. The rise of the collection of blue and white blue-and-white flowers has led to the emergence of a large number of blue and white flowers in the country in recent years. Some of them even appeared in hundreds, and some of the lovers of blue and white flowers exclaimed: National treasures everywhere! If so? Zhang Pusheng, a member of the National Cultural Heritage Appraisal Committee and known as the academic "master", believes: "At present, there are only 300 genuine blue-and-white porcelain items in the world, and there are only 9 fine-grained blue-and-white characters."

Misunderstanding 2: sky price porcelain. In July 2005, Yuan Glory Guiguzi Xiashan Figure tank sold 15.868 million pounds (about 230 million yuan ***) of the transaction price, equivalent to a full two tons of gold! Is Yuan blue and white worth so high? It is an indisputable fact that there is a small amount of intact blue and white flowers. However, the blue and white flowers are porcelain. After all, for porcelain collections, people should pay attention to its culture, history, art, and technology. It should not be used as a platform to hype it. The economic value.

Misunderstanding 3: Single decoration. Some people think that the main decorative motif of the blue and white flower is dominated by biological species, such as peony pattern, lotus pattern, chrysanthemum pattern, pine bamboo plum pattern, Yuemei pattern, dragon pattern, phoenix pattern, kylin pattern, shoal pattern, lotus root pattern, peacock Patterns, deer patterns, hippocampal lines and so on. In fact, in addition, the main decoration of Yuan blue and white is also the character category.

Misunderstanding 4: Identification of subtleties. Some experts in the identification of blue and white flowers, like to see the twigs, such as bubbles, strokes, etc., while ignoring the overall blue and white flowers. In fact, the patterns of the Yuanqing ornaments are exquisite, magnificent and splendid, and the scenes are wide and full of design. They have strong aesthetic effects and era styles. Its beauty is the beauty of the whole, the beauty of the macro, not the beauty of details, and the excessive attention to details. Dismembered the beauty of the art carried by the whole blue and white flower.