Eighteen standing statues are about 20 centimeters in height, simple and elegant, the carcass is heavy, white and solid, with the delicate texture of Dehua porcelain and the unique ivory white to show its quiet and soft charm, the folds of the clothes fold and the extension of the place, the lines such as rabbit ears and rat tails, vivid and vivid, such as Wu with the wind.

The back of each statue is a square Yin script seal book "He Chaozong Seal" four-character seal.

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He Chaozong.

There are such names that have gone out of the category of names and have become the symbol of the industry, the pinnacle of the field.

As eternal as the stars in the sky.

All those who are engaged in this profession can only look up and marvel at the foot of the mountain, and then, study devotionally, hoping to absorb the nutrients of the scales and half claws.

Calligraphy is the same for Wang Xizhi.

Painting is so true for Wu Daozi.

Jade carving is like this for Lu Zigang.

The same is true for porcelain carving for He Chaozong.

Recognized as the first person in Chinese religious sculpture art, there is no ancient, and there is no one after him.

The religious sculptures before He Chaozong are almost all large-scale sculptures.

Whether it is Mogao Grottoes, Yungang Grottoes, Longmen Grottoes, Maijishan Grottoes, Dazu Grottoes and other grottoes Buddha carvings;

Or the Leshan Giant Buddha, Quanzhou Laojun Stone Buddha and other cliff stone carvings;

Or Suzhou Baosheng Temple Arhat plastic wall, and the temple in the clay statue, wood carved Buddha statue......

For thousands of years, they have been basically large-scale sculptures, and they all have the same purpose - to serve the tools of religion.

And starting from He Chaozong, he returned to the origin.

His works go to the red dust of the market, obey the material, obey the content, obey the spiritual appeal of people, and win with the simple sculpture beauty and the texture of the glaze material, which is as beautiful as fat jade, with strong texture and high appreciation value.

He Chaozong's porcelain carving works are not only famous in China, but also in the world.

In the 16th century, it was regarded as a "unique treasure in the world" in the "East and West" market, and people "did not hesitate to buy it for tens of thousands of dollars".

In Japan and other Buddhist countries in Southeast Asia, it is regarded as a sacred treasure and is regarded as a "masterpiece of oriental art" in the eyes of Western Europeans.

He Chaozong's porcelain sculptures, the Palace Museum collects his sculptures "Cross-Knee Guanyin" and "Dharma", and the Quanzhou Municipal Cultural Management Committee collects his "Guanyin Crossing the Sea", all of which are listed as national first-class cultural relics.

This set of eighteen Arhats can be said to be unique, and the proper national first-class cultural relics can be regarded as the treasure of the Forbidden City.

Don't talk about money with Boss Chang about this thing, don't talk about that thing, vulgar!

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After a long time, it took a lot of effort for Chang Xian to pull his eyes out of the porcelain statue.

Look at the imperial green wrench finger again, inserted on the Huanghuali seat, there is a Huanghuali box outside, the color is yellow, the texture is soft, the fragrance is refreshing, and the pulp is moisturizing.

Jadeite is like a bottomless pool of water hidden in the deep mountains, the species, water, color are good, the material is excellent and there is no complicated carving, the light flickered, the inner wall of the jadeite wrench, there is a yin carved poem - Yong green jade:

In the end, you can't talk about virtue, and you can't talk about it.

The inside and outside of the ring are bright and bright, and they are all in harmony.

It can be seen from this style that this is definitely the handwriting of Qianlong Lao'er, who produced more than 40,000 poems.

Well, this thing can be sold, let go and look at the poems of the kindergarten students, it is really a diaphragm, you said how good the material and how good the work, it is so bad, evil!

Chang pouted, threw his wrench aside, and turned his gaze, it was a slip of four snuff bottles.

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Snuff prevailed in the Qing Dynasty, as the so-called "grinding into pipa gold dust flying, and the smell is slightly fragrant mist." The price of the seafarer is 100 yuan, and the big official is a dagger", which is a vivid portrayal.

The leftmost of them is a snuff box in the shape of a flat square, burgundy old amber, with a sapphire cap on the top, a tooth spoon on the bottom, and an oval foot on the bottom.

The two sides of the body of the pot are carved with a regular script seven-character poem, and the most important thing is that at the end of the pot is signed "Qianlong Jiawu Zhongchun Imperial Title".

This is someone's royal snuffbox again.

Chang Xian lit a cigarette, took a deep breath, put down the snuffbox casually, and then picked up another one.

This is a black set of cowpea red glass camellia pattern snuff bottle, the bottle is oblate, the red glass lid is connected with a bamboo spoon.

The abdomen is black with cowpea red glass, one side is decorated with Taihu Lake stone and begonia flowers, and the other side is decorated with Taihu Lake stone and camellia.

In the glass process of snuff bottle sleeve, white cover red or white cover blue is the mainstream, and there are few people who cover red glass on black ground, and the style of this snuff bottle can be called unique.

And the third snuff bottle, is a white set of blue glass enamel color bamboo magpie picture snuff bottle, with Nirvana white glass as the fetus, the shoulder decorated with a blue beast face ring, the abdomen on both sides of the round light, embedded in the enamel firing of the bamboo magpie playful spring pattern, and covered with colorless transparent glass, the bottom of the pot engraved "Qianlong year" regular script.

This cigarette bottle combines the two techniques of glass and enamel in one vessel, and the decoration technique is unique.

Chang Xian felt his palms begin to sweat slightly, and picked up the last snuffbox.

This snuff bottle is a blue and white cucumber bat snuff bottle, the chimney bottle is made of white porcelain, the whole is a round barrel, it looks like a firecracker standing up, the bottle body is painted with a melon edge texture, and the picture of the melon and vines, branches and leaves, melon leaves rolled, and a small bat lying on the leaf.

The lid is made of the same material, and there is also a blue and white bat on the top, and a copper-plated spoon on the bottom.

Compared with the previous snuff bottles, it is not brilliant at all, and it can even be said to be ordinary.

And because of the relationship between the age and the lack of maintenance, it looks very old, especially the blue and white glaze and even some burst glaze cracking, which makes this snuff bottle look much inferior to the previous three.

There is no bottom at the bottom of the pot, open the lid of the pot and shine it with a strong flashlight, you can see that at the bottom of the pot inside, there is a regular script engraved with four words, and the year system of Chenghua.

When he saw this style, Chang Xian almost threw the snuffbox to the ground without missing his hand.

What's more, this is the ancestor who came across a snuffbox!

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There are several theories about the origin of snuff bottles.

During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, the Italian missionary Matteo Ricci came to China as a missionary and brought snuff, which was packed in a medicine box at that time.

The real snuff bottle should come from the Kangxi period, in the thirty-fifth year of Kangxi, with the help of the German missionary Jilian, the Qing Palace Office established a special institution - a glass factory!

After that, snuff bottles, which are practical and can be used by people, began to become popular rapidly, and in the Qianlong period, it developed to its peak.

In fact, for the snuff bottle in China, more than 20 years ago, that is, when Chang Xian was born, this thing could only be recognized as a cultural play.

It was not until the nineties that it was defined as an antique.

The reason why it is defined as an antique is also because after the opening of the country in the seventies and eighties, a large number of foreigners came to China to Taobao, took away a lot of snuff bottles from China, and then competed for high prices in the international auction market, which attracted the attention of domestic cultural relics experts.