Jianbao life

Chapter 28: True and False Porcelain

Liu Hu still remembered the bond he made with Li Heng, he snorted coldly and turned his head away.

Seeing how smooth Li Heng's shit luck was, he couldn't help feeling jealous.

Seeing Li Heng's smug expression, Wang Yuan almost went crazy with jealousy.

Li Heng felt the jealous gazes of the two people. He turned his head to meet their gazes, and then showed a big smile.

It would be okay if Li Heng didn't smile, but why did he smile at them on purpose!
If it weren't for the three tasting guys here, in full view of everyone, Liu Hu and Wang Yuan would have jumped up and rushed forward to tear off Li Heng's smiling face.

The three old men happily put away the calligraphy and paintings and put them aside to dry.

"Ahem, Boy Li spent a lot of time on this first baby," Ye Hai cleared his throat, and said, "Then let's not waste time, who else is coming out next?"

Except for Lin Weiya and Li Heng, everyone else looked at each other.

When Liu Hu was about to say that the second one would come, Wang Tianhai stood up from his chair, cupped his hands to the three old men and said, "Our Wang family will come the second one."

Wang Tianhai clapped his hands, and a member of the Wang family came in from the door, holding a brocade box in both hands, and carefully placed it on the Eight Immortals table.

Wang Tianhai stepped forward to open the brocade box and gently took out a pair of celadon bowls.

Gu Qing's eyes lit up at first, and he was a little surprised: "This... this is the Yue kiln celadon flower bowl!"

Wang Tianhai said: "Yes, this is a Yue kiln celadon carved flower bowl produced during the Northern Song Dynasty."

In ancient celadon, there are several colors of glaze color, some are bluish-gray glaze color and some are bluish-yellow glaze color.The Tang and Song Dynasties were the most prosperous period for celadon firing. In the Tang Dynasty, there were many famous celadon kilns, such as Yue porcelain, Ou kiln and Wuzhou kiln in Zhejiang.Yuezhou Kiln, Changsha Kiln in Hunan, Hongzhou Kiln in Jiangxi, etc.

However, only Yue Kiln celadon is loved by scholars in Tang and Song dynasties because of its clear glaze, transparent glaze layer, warm glaze color like jade, and slightly yellowish green color that can perfectly set off the green color of tea soup. Achievement and jumped to the top of all kilns, becoming the leader of celadon at that time.

Everyone went up and took a closer look.

I saw that the Yue kiln celadon flower bowl came out with one large and one small, all with six flower openings, open and flat, one with a curved belly, the other with a folded belly, and a shallow ring foot.The inside of the vessel is engraved with the pattern of twining lotus.The knife technique is delicate and skillful, and the pattern is round and smooth.The whole body of the porcelain is covered with a green glaze color, the color is clear and transparent, and has a luster like beautiful jade.

It is a pity that the large bowl looks complete, but this small bowl is made of several kinds of fragments. If this small bowl is also complete, then this pair of Yue kiln celadon engraved flower bowls is a rare treasure!

In the archaeological and antique circles in the past, most of the secret-colored porcelains were single pieces, and such a matching pair of secret-colored porcelains with the same engraved lotus pattern and almost similar fetal quality and glaze color was rarely seen.

It can be seen that this is also of great significance to history!
"This... this color, this shape! It is the secret color porcelain used by officials in ancient times. There are only more than 180 pieces of this secret color porcelain today!"

Someone recognized that the shape and glaze color of this porcelain were definitely not the shape and color of common celadon porcelain among the people.

This secret-color porcelain was a tribute from the royal family in ancient times. It got its name because its production process was kept secret. In particular, the unique glaze formula and firing method were never revealed to outsiders. Therefore, the secret-color porcelain became famous. The secret recipes for firing and glaze coloring basically disappeared after the decline of the Tang Dynasty.

Wang Tianhai nodded: "Yes, I took a trip some time ago and collected it from an old man. I originally thought it might be porcelain produced in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, but after the repair and cleaning process, I found that it was Secret color porcelain.”

There was an uproar from the crowd.

Lin Weiya sat still on the chair, she reached out and poked Li Heng who was sitting next to her, "Why don't you go and have a look?"

Li Heng pouted his mouth: "I don't want to see things from the Wang family."

Although Li Heng talked about it, he still used his perspective eyes to quietly observe the celadon bottle of Yue Kiln in the Northern Song Dynasty.

"During the Northern Song Dynasty, Yue kiln celadon carved flower bowls had excellent glaze color and compact texture. They were porcelains only used by officials in ancient times. However, there was a triangular-shaped defect from the bottom of the small bowl to the edge of the sealing mud ring to the mouth of the bowl. The parts are new, not from the same era, nor from modern counterfeiting technology. The real thing and the fake are butted together, and the real and fake are half..."

The voice of the god stone flashed in his mind, and he saw the shape of the pair of bowls suddenly approaching his eyes, magnified hundreds of times, and he could clearly see the tire texture, glaze color, and even the details of a little crack clearly.

He observed the spliced ​​small bowl for a long time.

At first glance, this small bowl is almost identical from the enamel to the bottom of the tire. It can be seen that the craftsman who made the fake piece is very sophisticated and superb. There are subtle differences in the radian, depth, color and bottom of the pattern.

Finally, Li Heng finally found a tiny crack in a very hidden place.

The place where this tiny crack is located is so ingenious that even with a magnifying glass, it may not be found, and it will be mistaken for a broken crack.

But this key place is right at the junction of the splicing glue between the fragments.

I don’t know what kind of material was used, and the slightly yellow color of the glue connected these two fragments that were nearly 200 years apart, and something like this was born. You really can’t believe it. True, even if it is false, it is not entirely false. After all, this is porcelain from ancient times.

"Wait a minute, that little bowl is both real and fake."

Li Heng made a sound suddenly.

The group of people in front turned their heads in fright, and Wang Tianhai snorted even more: "You didn't come forward to appraise the treasure, so you can conclude that my Yue Kiln celadon flower bowl is real or not?"

"Don't think that the calligraphy and painting just now will save you face, so you have to go further and talk nonsense!"

Wang Yuan echoed from the side: "That's right, if everyone makes a judgment like you do, then this treasure appraiser will be a blind man who knows how to detect treasures, so we don't have to mess around!"

Li Heng sneered in his heart, he first got up and walked over.

Everyone gave way to him one after another, some curious about what Li Heng would do next, or what words he would pronounce with surprising pronunciation.

I saw Li Heng put on his gloves, gently picked up the small celadon bowl, and turned the mud sealing edge of the bottom of the bowl upward.

"Then you see, are the two pieces that are spliced ​​together different?"

Only then did everyone go to see it. Just now they were only looking at the mouth of the bowl, the color of the glaze and the pattern inside the bowl. Because it was an extremely rare pair of secret-color porcelains that were made and fired at the same time, they almost forgot to check the bottom of the bowl in a fit of excitement.

Wang Tianhai took the small celadon bowl from Li Heng's hand, almost grabbing it, and looked at it carefully according to Li Heng's opinion.

At first, he tried to refute Li Heng's words, but Wang Tianhai's face changed slightly after he looked at it carefully, and a burst of cold sweat rolled down his back.

(End of this chapter)