Preview Entry 2 - Steven's Art & Antiques (Asian and European Art & Antiques 08-22-2015)
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Polychrome Dragon BowlLot 121 D: 5 3/4" 6 Characters (大清乾隆年製) mark Estimated: $5,000-$10,000 Starting bid: $2,000 |
In this week, our bear has found one relatively good piece from Steven’s Art. It is a Wucai “Dragon and Phoenix” Bowl with 6 characters Qianlong imperial seal mark. However, this piece has not been sold in that auction. Rrrrrrrrrrgh!! (People should see this blog!) Our bear roar.
Why Connoisseur Bear think it is not a fake piece?
Here's why:
1. Color and Motifs
First of all, the painting and the mark for this bowl has passed our checks, the color of those motifs matched with the style during Qianlong dynasty. And the motifs are nicely painted, the mark is nicely written.
Secondly, it fits the proportion. Sometimes we may find pieces with doubtful proportion, such as the foot rim is too tall, the mouth rim flair is too long. However, this bowl is very similar to other “Dragon” bowls during Qianlong dynasty.
Thirdly, we think that the damages on this bowl are helping us to identify the ages for this bowl. For a fake piece, there is no need to create some fake damages and lower its price. Also, the damages and the foot rim also show the body of this bowl (see red circles), which is white and dense, it shown that this bowl is made with fine quality clay, unlike some fake reproduction in later ages. And if we examine the dragon inside the bowl, we can see some iron spots near the dragon (black circle), during the firing stage, some iron grits may attached to the porcelain, this phenomenon cannot be seen if you use electric kiln for porcelain production.
So, why no one would buy this bowl?
First, it may relate to the damages on this bowl. As we can see in the photos, there are about 4~5 chips, for each chip, it means the seller must send the bowl to a restorer if he would like to sell it again for a better price. Even in Hong Kong, it is very hard to find a good restorer to fix the chips. And even if we are lucky enough to find a master to restore this bowl, the price would be costly, and it must be even higher than the original price for this bowl. And for the second reason, for each chips it means the possibility for further damages on this bowl, if we use flash light and put it behind those chips, we may find some hairline cracks, or even worse, some large cracks, which can further lower the resell price for this bowl.
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