Chapter 193: The Royal Family Treasure (Ask for subscriptions, ask for monthly passes, ask for recommendations!) )
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If you want to find the source of these bottles, you have to start with the glaze color of the bottle, anyway, the style of this bottle is French style, so follow this line to find it.
Jin Muchen didn't care about eating dinner, so he began to study it, after all, in China, to go to the Internet, this speed is really painful.
He browsed a lot of French art websites, but most of them found nothing.
Although I also found a lot of porcelain with a similar glaze color to this bottle, but looking at the pictures, I couldn't find a similar color, because these French art ceramics are relatively recent works, and even if the earliest ones are found, they are all works of the 19th century, that is, the 180s.
Although some of these works are glazed with metallic glaze, the colors are relatively positive and are not mixed with purple.
I specifically searched for some purple glazed porcelain, and the colors were relatively pure, unlike the three porcelain vases in front of me, and the purple on them had some problems with thieves.
After checking for a long time, he didn't find out why, Jin Muchen felt a little frustrated.
I happened to be hungry, so I went to the cafeteria below the hotel to have a big meal, and when I returned to the room, I just bought those handicrafts in Panjiayuan today, and they were also delivered.
Looking at the room full of loot, Jin Muchen's mood couldn't help but feel better again, today he is in Pan@Home. It can be said that a big purchase was made.
There are a lot of things that have been collected. There are snuff bottles of Heng @ Shui, New Year paintings of Yang Liuqing, embroidery of Jiang @ Su, wood carvings of Dong @ Yang, stone carvings of Qu @ Yang, shadow puppets of mountains @ Dong, porcelain and crystal ornaments of Jiang @ West, purple sand of Yi@ Xing, bronzes of Shaanxi @ West, clothing of Yun @ South, Buddhist supplies of West @ Tibet, white jade of Xin@ Xinjiang, Jiaozhi pottery of Taiwan @ Bay, etc.
Of all shapes and sizes. All of them add up, no less than three hundred, and now when he goes back, the antique shop opens, and there will finally be something to sell in the store.
You must know that these things, if they are in China, because of the large quantity, they generally can't buy any high prices.
But if you get to the United States. That's different, Americans like these Chinese-style gadgets very much, although they know that they are handicrafts, but as long as they look at the right eye, they never hesitate to bid.
What's more, these handicrafts are carefully selected by him, and in his eyes, some flawed handicrafts are difficult to hide from his eyes, so these are all carefully selected by him.
Not sleepy anyway. Just take advantage of the time to put these crafts. They were sorted one by one and packed properly.
It was already midnight when I was done, and when I got up the next day, I called an international courier to pack all these things and send them to the United States.
After the goods were delivered, he called Uncle Fang and asked him to pay attention to the inspection.
After finishing all this, it was already afternoon, so he went to the hotel's restaurant to have a bite to eat, and then he went back to his room.
The origin of those porcelain vases is not clear, and he has no heart to visit Pan @ Jiayuan today.
Sitting in front of the computer, this time he did not log on to the websites of those French artworks, but chose the pages of some French museums, hoping to see if he could gain something on these websites.
After all, he felt that the three bronze gilt easter eggs in his hand must not be simple, maybe that museum could have similar collections.
It's a pity that after looking at it in the afternoon, he was dizzy and couldn't find a similar collection.
It's not that this search is in the wrong direction, but the main reason is that there are too many museums in France, you must know that France is a major art country in Europe, and in the 18th century, it was also a world-class robber on a par with England.
When the British established the empire on which the sun never sets, in fact, France did not lag much behind, and it also followed the looting of the whole world, hundreds of years of accumulation, but the French saved a very rich family foundation.
Even though it was sacked by the Nazis in World War II, they still kept a lot of fine art.
Therefore, there are now countless museums in France, large and small, and there are no less than 100 in the Paris area alone.
Famous museums such as the Louvre, Fontainebleau, etc., some small and medium-sized museums that are not famous, are simply countless, and these museums basically have their own websites, and it is almost an impossible task to browse all the websites of these museums one by one in a short period of time.
What's more, there are some top-notch exhibits in these museums, but they have never been displayed on the Internet, which greatly increases the difficulty of Jin Muchen to find the origin of the three vases.
It seems that this will not work, why not think differently?
Jin Muchen pondered, turned his head and looked at the three vases placed on the table in the room, the curve of the easter eggs was obviously Rococo style, and it was also a bronze gilt glaze, with purple, which was very distinctive.
Thinking of this, Jin Muchen's heart moved, and then he began to look up French celebrities in Google, especially those who like the rococo style and the copper gilt color.
As soon as he looked for it, a large list naturally came out, and he clicked on the top index, looked at it so closely, and slapped his thigh suddenly, it seemed that he had found the right one.
Madame de Pompadour, full name Jeanne-Antoinette. Poisson, the Marquise de Poistoux, the famous mistress of King Louis XV of France, a socialite, is a controversial historical figure, she was once a strong woman with an iron fist, and with her talents, Madame de Pompadour had a very important influence on the reign of Louis XV and the art of France.
This famous courtesan in French history has countless kinds of gossip, most of which are some lace news, about which can be ignored.
Jin Muchen is most concerned about her images of French art, and her influence on one of the most famous French arts is that she single-handedly founded the Sèvres porcelain factory!
You must know that during the time of Louis XV, this porcelain factory was almost synonymous with the royal kiln. The place of this porcelain factory in the history of France at that time. It is almost equivalent to the status of Jing@Dezhen in the history of Chinese porcelain.
Predecessor of the Sèvres porcelain factory. It is the Fanshang porcelain factory located in the suburbs of Paris, and it is precisely because of her love for porcelain that the Madame de Pompadour established the owner and moved this porcelain factory to the vicinity of Sèvres, where she lives, and often communicates with those porcelain masters, which creates the future name of the Sévres porcelain factory.
And this Madame de Pompadour is very fond of the Rococo style. It was for her reason that the Rococo style, which emerged at the beginning of the eighteenth century, flourished in France during the reign of Louis XV.
She even decorated the Palace of Versailles in the Rococo style herself, and she was also an obsessive lover of bronze gilt glazes.
She even hand-transformed high-end vase porcelain imported from China into a water bottle with a distinctly rococo style and copper-gilt handles.
Seeing such an introduction, Jin Muchen couldn't help but feel excited in his heart, although he couldn't be sure that these three vases. It's Madame de Pompadour's treasure, but he's pretty much sure. I should have found the right person.
Thinking of this, he began to search the website of the Saleuf Museum on the Internet, as the royal porcelain factory of the French royal family, if this factory is still there, it should have its own museum and its own website.
Sure enough, he soon found the website of the Musée National de Céramique-Sèvres (Musée National de Céramique-Sèvres), and in the introduction of the website, he saw two conical vases that closely resembled the three bronze gilt eggs.
Although the shape is not the same, the copper gilt background on the porcelain is exactly the same as the purple of the hair thief, and when he saw the products of these two brothers, Jin Muchen couldn't help but pat his thigh excitedly.
The museum, which was the royal porcelain factory of the French royal family, has a detailed record of any product they produced.
Soon Jin Muchen found a record of the three easter egg vases in front of him.
It turned out that these three bronze gilt egg vases were given by Louis XV as a gift to Jean-Baptiste Machault d'Arnouville, and personally commissioned the French porcelain master Jean-Claude Duplessis to make the zuò.
The original predecessor of the Sèvres porcelain factory, the Fanshang porcelain factory, was founded in 1752 by the king and several nobles, when Louis XV invested 25% of the shares, and in 1752 the factory was crowned the royal ceramic factory.
Danumer was a brilliant politician and financier, and was also a favorite of Louis XV, Madame de Pompadour was very fond of porcelain, so she lobbied the King of France with Danuvel, and finally moved the porcelain factory from Paris to Sèvres.
It was precisely in order to express his gratitude to Danuvel that Pompaduff lobbied the King of Law and gave the three vases in the first furnace of porcelain produced by Sèvres to Danuvel, that is, the three strange vases in front of him.
And the reason why these three vases can be proved to be the strong evidence that the King gave to Danuvel back then, is the purple color of the thief on this vase.
At that time, the process of the Sèvres porcelain factory was not yet mature, and this color was a color that was tried to be fired, and the composition contained alkali, which was extremely difficult to modulate, so the production was very small.
So far, only the two conical vases in the Sèvres Museum of Ceramics have the same purple color as them, and no other similar works have survived, which shows the scarcity of this vase color!
Damn, I really didn't expect that I picked up three French national treasures as soon as I picked them up!
The archaeological value and artistic value of these three vases are not mentioned for the time being, just because of their scarcity and relationship with the royal family, these three vases can definitely be regarded as royal treasures!
Now it's developed!
Hehe, who would have thought that he could pick up the treasure of the French royal family in Pan @ Home? (To be continued......)