"You're looking for the best porcelain maker?"

Geng Lao looked curious and said, "Several major events in China have been manipulated by you behind your back, right?" Chen Dongsheng falls, Ullens gets out, are all your masterpieces? ”

Wu Tianyuan smiled and said nothing, which made Geng Lao sigh at his growth speed even more, and said happily: "The country is finally peaceful!" As soon as the two biggest moths died, collectors were finally able to return to rational collecting, and the market had a new order. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

"Old man, that's why I'm looking for you to help me introduce a few good craftsmen, you are a porcelain master, and there are always masters around you, right?"

Geng Lao nodded, did not ask Wu Tianyuan's plan, thought for a while, and said: "Speaking of antique porcelain craftsmen, I recommend Tang Tianming first, that is, the descendant of Tang Ying!" ”

"Oh? Descendants of the Tang Clan? ”

Geng Lao smiled: "Xiao Tang is almost in his early fifties this year, needless to say, the ancestors have passed on the craft for several lifetimes, and you still don't know Tang Ying's level?" ”

Wu Tianyuan was excited, the reason why he was looking for Geng Baochang was to find a top-level craftsman, and to cooperate for a long time in the future to revitalize antique porcelain.

Geng Lao said meaningfully: "It seems that your kid is planning to make antique porcelain?" It's not easy! ”

"In a broad sense, antique porcelain refers to the imitation of the previous dynasty of the standard porcelain, in the past, the antique shop divided the antique porcelain into two categories, the antique porcelain of this dynasty, called "new imitation of the old"; The imitation of the previous dynasty and the previous dynasty is called "old imitation of the old". It is generally recognized that "old imitation of old" has a certain collection value, and it is unanimously agreed that the collection value of "new imitation of old" is not high. ”

"The Republic of China period is one of the peak periods in the history of Chinese antique porcelain, from the Eastern Han Dynasty celadon to the Qing Dynasty enamel porcelain, all periods and categories are all imitated. The common ones are the celadon imitating the Three Kingdoms, the Two Jin Dynasties, the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the white porcelain imitating the Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties, the imitation of the Ru, Guan, Ge, Ding, Jun kilns of the Song Dynasty, and the porcelain of the Yuan Dynasty and the blue and white, five-colored, doucai, pastel, enamel and monochrome glaze of the Ming and Qing dynasties. ”

"The largest amount of antique porcelain is mainly concentrated in the Ming and Qing official kiln porcelain, and the most popular is the porcelain imitating Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong. In addition to a small part of this kind of porcelain, Kangxi and Yongzheng are written, most of them are written in Qianlong. There are two main reasons: first, the Qianlong porcelain system is regulated, and the painting is complicated and has no artist's personality; Second, the Qianlong Dynasty was the heyday of the Qing Dynasty, and its social influence was huge. ”

Geng Lao has seen too much porcelain in his life, and he heard that Wu Tianyuan wanted to make antique porcelain, so he helped him sort out the cocoon: "Antique has two meanings, one is pure antique, that is, the use of existing technology to imitate ancient boutiques, just to reproduce the magic of traditional craftsmanship." The second is to falsify and cheat money, and the two cannot be the same. ”

"I want to meet Tang Tianming, you see?"

"No problem, since you are interested, I will follow you on a trip, let's go to the porcelain capital, Jingdezhen!"

Wu Tianyuan hurriedly arranged, it was not easy for Geng Lao to go out at the age of ninety, so he took an in-depth visit to the current situation of Jingdezhen to see the real level of porcelain craftsmanship.

"Hello Donald, I'm Wu Tianyuan."

Old Tang hurriedly greeted him and said with a smile: "Director Wu is welcome, I have been to your museum twice, and I am amazed!" You must know that you have a relationship with Geng Lao, and I have long wanted to meet you! ”

With Geng Lao's introduction, everyone quickly became familiar with it, and now Wu Tianyuan's identity is known to everyone in China, and he is a big star everywhere.

"Speaking of antique porcelain, it must belong to Fanjiajing Village, Jingdezhen." Lao Tang poured tea for the two of them and said straight to the point: "It is close to the Jingdezhen Railway Station, and it is also the place where the antique porcelain "big road goods" gather in the country, mainly low-grade imitations, people can find their traces in Panjiayuan in Beijing, Baxian Nunnery in Xi'an, and Qingshuitang in Changsha. ”

"In this village of less than 3,000 people, there are more than 500 ceramic workshops and shops, with an average of six people owning a workshop. These workshops are divided into two main groups, one is run by local farmers who hire workers themselves, and the other is run by local farmers who rent their houses to foreign bosses. ”

"The classification of porcelain stores in Fanjiajing is relatively clear, and the shops imitating various periods and varieties are often independent, such as the shops imitating the blue and white of the Yuan and Ming dynasties, the shops imitating the enamel color of the Qing Dynasty, the shops imitating the pastel of the Republic of China, etc., and these shops and workshops often employ skilled workers."

"The workshop is also a clear division of labor in production, some workshops specialize in the production of white tires, some workshops process blue and white and other underglaze porcelain, and some workshops process pastel and other glaze porcelain, so the division greatly improves the work efficiency, and also makes the greatest use of Fanjiajing's small production space."

Wu Tianyuan was a little surprised, he didn't expect that antique had formed an industrial chain in Jingdezhen, and so many people relied on it to eat. Lao Tang saw Wu Tianyuan's surprised appearance and said with a smile: "In addition to the production and sales windows, Fanjiajing also has dozens of special shops, that is, "old" processing shops, which are an indispensable part of the complete industrial chain of Fanjiajing antique porcelain. ”

"Because the antique porcelain that has not been aged can only be sold as craft porcelain forever, the price will be greatly discounted. These shops are opened by some masters with excellent old restoration skills, often one person opens a shop, compared with their own technology and unique skills, and they will send the antique porcelain for post-processing and aging. In addition, some "free people" who do not open shops are also "capable people" that Fan Jiajing cannot live without, they are those high-level painters or writers, who need to go to which store, and earn a lot of money. ”

"Once their products are accepted by the market, the workshop owners close their shops on the street, leave Fanjiajing, and work in their own homes. Because of their fame, they only have to wait for customers to come to their door. First, these bosses are worried that their technology will be stolen by their peers, and second, they are worried that Fanjiajing's "big road goods" signboard will affect the price of their products. ”

"Where does the antique porcelain go?"

Lao Tang sighed and said: "In the face of the general public in the antique market, collectors can easily identify its authenticity and can be collected as a handicraft. Even for those who don't understand the knowledge of ceramics, the loss is not too big to spend a few hundred yuan on tuition. ”

"The most likely to disrupt the market are those imitations of realistic, high-grade antique porcelain, which is also the most harmful. Jingdezhen high-imitation porcelain is concentrated in Liangshanshu, Luojiawu, Shaukiwu, Lotus Villa and other communities, these areas gather the highest level of ancient porcelain imitation artists in Jingdezhen. ”

"In fact, the imitation of ancient porcelain also follows the law of survival of the fittest, and many people here originally started in Fanjiajing. They basically work at home, employing excellent kiln heads, pyrotechists, and painters, and their products are fired in traditional wood kilns. Although the firewood kiln can ensure that the imitation product is "delicious", it is discouraged by many small workshops because of its high cost, too much space, and complex firing procedures. ”

"In the early 90s of the 20th century, most of the antique workshops in Jingdezhen used space-saving, low-cost, clean and easy-to-operate gas kilns to fire porcelain, and often only those workshops with sufficient funds and high-end antique porcelain would use firewood kilns."

In addition to the ordinary high imitation porcelain with a price of thousands of yuan to tens of thousands of yuan circulating on the market, there are also a very small number of top high imitation porcelain at an astonishing price, which are made by the top imitation masters with top technology. There are probably fewer than 20 such masters in Jingdezhen today, and a small number of them are engaged in imitation firing in Thailand and Japan. ”

Some businessmen from Japan and the United States often choose one of them and invest millions of yuan every year to package the kiln, and all the products of their annual imitation firing are owned by the kiln party. Generally speaking, such a top workshop only produces a dozen or even a few fine works a year, and all the failed works are destroyed. When these works enter the market, they often enter large-scale auctions and well-known galleries, passing off as genuine works, and the price of a single piece often ranges from hundreds of thousands of yuan to millions of yuan, which greatly disrupts the market order. (To be continued.) )