The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

The porcelain still needs to be desalinated. Zhang Nan didn’t take any of them, but Mark Callaway and the Thomas Jacobs brothers left the ship with a crate. Here are the 42 gold and silver wares and 29 pieces. All kinds of bronze mirrors-these metal utensils do not need to be desalted after being cleaned with fresh water, so they are taken away.

Anyway, it is a good thing that will never be transferred, and you can play with it. Who wants to like it?

Tang Jing, the last peak in the history of Chinese bronze mirror manufacturing, is also one of Zhang Nan’s favorite collections in his last life: dealing with construction sites and excavators in the Jiangnan area, except for the porcelain of the Yue kiln, which is the bronze mirror. Can find "first-class unearthed baby".

As for the other...

There are not many high-end categories, but the opportunities are too few and slim!

This is the result of funeral customs and regional reasons. Except for the bronze mirrors, there are very few opportunities to unearth other first-class high ancient bronzes in the Jiangnan area.

It is quite possible that top bronze mirrors can be dug out on the construction site, because since the Warring States period, the Jiangnan region has been one of the production areas of top bronze mirrors.

In addition, the ancients used to be buried with bronze mirrors. In the Warring States, the Han Dynasty, the Jin and the Southern and Northern Dynasties until the Tang and Song Dynasties, as long as the tombs in the Jiangnan area are decent, there will almost always be bronze mirrors to bury them!

This custom has existed until modern times: when a person dies, a "spiritual bag" will be brought into the coffin, and there must be a mirror inside the bag. Of course, the modern use is no longer a bronze mirror, it is replaced by a glass mirror.

However, Zhang Nan knows that cremation will be practiced in a few years, and this custom will gradually disappear, because after more than 20 years, all urns must be put in the unified cemetery, there will be no place to put this "spiritual bag".

If you have any conditions, you can play with it or make some antiques. Bronze mirrors have naturally become one of Zhang Nan's hobbies.

In the Tang Dynasty, this bronze mirror was not cheap, and the 29 bronze mirrors that came out of the water this time were of good quality. There were several large-diameter sea beast and grape mirrors and Ruihua mirrors with superb craftsmanship.

"Foreign Purchase

No, some look like a gift from a diplomatic agency. "

Zhang Nan judged this way.

These superbly crafted mirrors are not particularly rare items for Zhang Nan today, but they are suitable to play with: after getting on the yacht, they are holding bronze mirrors with words on the surface.

Guan Xingquan and Zhang Nan went shopping for treasures in Nanyang. They were very impressed with the two-faced Tang Jing they got at the train station. This will see Zhang Nan playing with the copper face and asking, "What's so special?"

There are a few fine products, but Zhang Nan seems to like this one very much, and I am a little curious: Guan Xingquan can be regarded as half an antique lover two years ago, and I haven't seen any special differences in this mirror for the time being.

Upon hearing this, Zhang Nan handed the mirror to Boss Guan, "It is a Jiang Xin mirror that pays tribute to the royal family. It has almost never been unearthed. I thought it was a legend before.

About 1200 years ago, a Tang dynasty official named Li Zhao wrote an article specifically about this kind of mirror, saying, ‘Yangzhou’s old Gongjiang heart mirror, cast in the Yangtze River on May 5th. In other words, there is no one who has a hundred exercises, or it is already six or seventy exercises, which is easy to break and hard to make. ’

The legendary mirror originally thought it was special, but now it looks like this, it's not special enough to fly. "

I was curious and thought how special this mirror could be. Now, according to my own aesthetic concept, it is not as good as the top sea beast grape mirror or the benlong mirror.

Guan Xingquan took it and took a closer look at the pattern and inscription on the back of the mirror. There was a circle of traditional characters "Yangzhou Yangtze River Heart" on it.

"Bai Lian, I don't know if you would think that Hundred Steel is a refined copper."

It's not Zhang Nan, but Guan Boss who said this. It seems that he has made a lot of progress in the antique industry in recent years.

One hundred smelting copper, the Tang Dynasty refers to refined copper, the quality of copper is high, there are few impurities, and it is better than the materials used to make common copper mirrors.

But this will be put together with the other bronze mirrors. In fact, there is no difference in the quality of the material. Perhaps it can be different when it is still golden.

"Perhaps the people of the Tang Dynasty have a different aesthetic view from ours. They probably like it very much, who knows."

When Guan Xingquan saw Zhang Nan going to play with other mirrors, he re-wrapped this "Jiangxin Mirror" with a large tissue and newspaper, put it in a thick cotton bag and put it back into the crate.

29 bronze mirrors, according to Zhang Nan's habit, it is estimated that one side will not be scattered, this one is a "whole", whether it is collected or displayed, it will be treated as a whole like those 42 gold and silver wares.

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The cargo ship headed northwest, and the yacht headed northeast, each heading to the target sea area.

This is a shallow water area, the "Sunshine Star" only maintains a speed of 12 knots, and the distant "Great Shark" is slower, only less than 10 knots, all for safety.

It's here to salvage the sunken ship, but you can't sink yourself in a daze!

After a few hours, the yacht slowed down, stopped sailing, broke down, and arrived at the target sea area.

Captain Philip left the wheelhouse and arrived in the living room. He said to Zhang Nan: "Boss, the shipwreck is about 30 meters behind our stern. The water depth is only 5 meters and less than 6 meters, which is very suitable for shallow water."

Zhang Nan smiled, "It's rare, there is finally a place where I can go. Let me prepare equipment for me, and I will go into the water after a meeting."

When Philip heard it, he looked at the following table and said: "It will be dark in more than an hour, look."

"Let's go down and take a look. Those equipments don't need to be moved out today. I'll talk about it tomorrow.

I'll talk about it tomorrow. At the back of the yacht, there is a small work boat with suction pumps and other equipment. The "Big Shark" is also followed by a boat.

The conversion anchorage distance is only more than ten nautical miles, and there is no need for a cargo ship to hoist the work boat to the deck to transfer, just drive and run by yourself.

After positioning and anchoring, the work boat leaned to the rear side of the yacht, and after the anchor was also dropped and the two boats were connected, the four men above jumped onto the yacht with their sailor bags on their backs.

These are four divers including Vita Bruno, the diving captain, and one of them is also an equipment operator.

A yacht attendant, oh, now he also doubles as a sailor, taking the four newly-boarded men into the cabin.

Soon Vita and the others came out wearing swimming trunks. Here, Zhang Nan put on a tropical shallow water suit to avoid being stung by some poisonous sea creatures.

The transportation boat first went to the nearby waters and sprinkled a circle of shark repellent to avoid causing trouble for diving.

Four divers and a few bodyguards who are familiar with divers took spearguns into the water first, and then Zhang Nan entered the water accompanied by Guan Xingquan. After getting used to it, I dived towards the target point.

It's amazing, I can't swim, but I can dive.

At 30 meters, this will be there.

The visibility of the clay seabed is so good that you can see the light rain tens of meters away.

There are a few dark brown dead woods exposed on the seabed. The two divers stroked the mud with their hands, so that the boss could see the general appearance of the sunken ship: the upper part has been completely destroyed by the sea and time, and the remaining ship's side under the mud is probably still there. It is four to five meters wide and fourteen-five meters long.

Before the ship sinks, the length is estimated to grow four or five meters, and the width may also be five or six meters.

The clay seabed is a bit bad, as long as it is disturbed, the visibility will immediately deteriorate.

A diver probably found something, fished something out of the mud, swam over and handed it to Zhang Nan.

It's a small piece of porcelain.

There was no way to speak on the bottom of the sea. Zhang Nan took it and looked through the diving goggles: about the size of a soap box, the color in the sea is not counted, but it is very thick.

He gestured with the tiles, and pointed to the location of the tiles just now: The diver understands, this means letting him look for it again.

As for Zhang Nan, he began to swim towards the surface.

As soon as the water came out, the transportation boat was already waiting. The man on duty just now took a "diving observation bucket" to pay attention to the underwater situation so as not to hit people.

Zhang Nan first threw the tiles into the boat. The boss above pulled the boss onto the boat. The gas cylinders had not been unloaded, so he first retrieved the tiles and took a closer look.

The yellow and white bottom has a moiré pattern on the outer surface, and the thickness is almost one centimeter. The lines are black, and Zhang Nan's back is facing the sun, so as not to be dazzled.

I took a closer look at the fracture. The tire was thick, but the top layer should be makeup soil. It felt like a makeup soil layer was used, and then painted black color on the top and then burned.

Turning his lips, this is an unfamiliar northern kiln, and I can't remember which kiln it is.

To be honest, Zhang Nan is also proficient in several southern kilns such as Jingdezhen, Yue kiln, and Longquan. The north...

Slightly understood, of course, Pian Junci can still recognize it.

But this black-colored thing on a white background, I really can't remember what kiln is in my mind, I can only roughly determine that it will not be earlier than Tang, because it seems that there is no such decorative style.

After a while, the two divers came up and handed Zhang Nan a few pieces of the broken tiles they had just found.

Most of them have remnants of black painting, and the fetus is quite vinegar.

Still can't remember, what should I do

There is a way, there is a master on the cargo ship!

I am a player, not a museum researcher, but Chen Jianghua may know it.

Thinking of this, he said to Vita, who was still in the water, "Don't look for it anymore, come up first."

The diving captain dived again, and soon all the guys surfaced.

Zhang Nan returned to the yacht, leaving only a piece of porcelain for himself, and asked the crew to drive the transport boat to the cargo ship more than ten nautical miles away, and deliver the things to Chen Jianghua: the radio contact, although you can know the outline based on the description Kiln mouth, but the time is not easy to determine.

Anyway, not far away, let the crew take a trip.

There is no need to come back tonight, just let the crew of the transportation boat return tomorrow morning.

I took a shower and waited for dinner.

Only half an hour later, the crew informed the "Great Shark" radio station to call.

There is no need to go to the cockpit, the intercom is installed in the restaurant.

"I am Zhang Nan, Jianghua"

"Mr. Zhang, what you sent is a fragment of a Cizhou kiln in the Yuan Dynasty. It should be a large pot of broken and thick porcelain."

Upon hearing the voice in the intercom, Zhang Nan thought, "The one in Handan, Beihe"

"Yes, that's the Cizhou kiln. The age should not be wrong. Only the Cizhou kiln porcelain jars of the Yuan Dynasty have such a thick carcass."

"Okay, this should be good news. It seems that what I found here is a shipwreck in the Yuan Dynasty. I hope there are a few pieces of Yuan blue and white flowers."

I heard laughter on the other side of the intercom... "Things from the Yuan Dynasty are relatively rare, I hope."

Listening to this, Chen Jianghua is not excited at all, and it is normal to think about it: This will be 1990, and Yuan Qinghua hasn't been hot yet.

Besides, does Yuan Qinghua have to be very valuable?

Do not!

Yuan Qinghuana can also be divided into "official kilns" customized by the government and "civil kilns" with quality and craftsmanship. Even after 20 years, the value of the latter is not too high.

Regardless of the dynasty, official kilns are always in the minority.

Zhang Nan asked about the situation of the "Big Shark" again. There was no plan to launch it today, and it will be launched early tomorrow morning.

Cizhou Kiln is worthless

I'm sorry, Zhang Nan doesn't know. In his previous life, he never touched, and basically never touched that famous northern kiln.

However, Zhang Nan believes in Chen Jianghua's age judgment, and the reason is simple: because of the thickness of the porcelain tire.

Comrade Jianghua said, "Only the porcelain jars of the Yuan Dynasty are so thick and heavy." This is very particular. The Yuan blue and white jars from Heng County, Guangxi Province are very thick and thick, and it is said that the porcelain jars of the Yuan Dynasty are very thick. thick!

Why

The joking claim: Don’t the Mongols like tents, even after entering the Central Plains, the indoor items placement still followed the grassland set to a certain extent.

Porcelain jars are good and convenient to put things on. They are also used to put them on the ground like when they are on the grassland, so they can be bigger in size, so there is no need to put them in a small size in order to put them in shelves or cabinets.

It's so thick, not only will it not be damaged if you touch it carefully or kick it~www.wuxiaspot.com~ So the porcelain jars of the Yuan Dynasty are basically big and thick!

This is a bit hopeful, because not many shipwrecks have been discovered in the Yuan Dynasty. The most famous one was probably in 1975. Korean fishermen discovered a shipwreck in the sea off Xin'an. Bangzi archaeological team unearthed more than 20,000 pieces from the shipwreck. Celadon and white porcelain contain at least seven or eight different kiln openings.

There are also more than two thousand metal products, stone products and red sandalwood, as well as 8 million Chinese copper coins weighing 28 tons. This archeological achievement shocked the world at the beginning.

However, it seems that the Yuan Qinghua, which was later fired to the sky, was not found on the sunken ship, so I don't know if there is in the sunken ship underground.

Thinking about it, just don't want to, I'll talk about it tomorrow, anyway, I will know in a few days.

Dinner is all fresh ingredients, the goods from Belitung Island only today, the same goes for the cargo ship.

After nightfall, it will rain, probably because of the effects of the shark repellent in the sea, and the fish will not catch many baits.

It started to rain, so I went to bed after 8 o'clock in the evening, and got up early to start work at dawn.

This is salvaging the sunken ship, not working from nine to five. It is important to get up early.

It was just after six o'clock the next day, and Zhang Nan was eating breakfast, and he called from the United States. It was Thomas.

"What, the U.S. Department of Defense is looking for us and wants to rent our C141"

Hearing what Thomas said, Zhang Nan couldn't turn his head.

The C-141 "Weightlifting Star" transport aircraft is one of the main strategic transport aircraft of the US Air Force. If I remember correctly, a total of 289 were built.

The "Joint Force" is rich and powerful. This will have bought 3 second-hand C141Bs. This will not affect the US military's air transport capacity.

Well, Zhang Nan soon understood why this situation occurred: It took less time and felt that the US Department of Defense really felt that the strategic transport aircraft on hand was not enough!