Chapter 240 Antiques bought from abroad

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 The second treasure holder is a young man dressed in a gold collar.

The upper body is in a white shirt, the lower body is in straight trousers, the leather shoes are shiny and can be seen, and the hair is meticulously taken care of. You can tell that you are a successful person.

"Hello host, hello experts, and audience friends, let me introduce myself first. My surname is Wei, and I come from Dongjiang.

"Before displaying the antiques, I want to make it clear that this item of mine was bought at a large overseas auction and was not purchased in China.

"If this antique is real, I am willing to donate it to Mr. Feng's Qingyun Museum."

Hearing this, Feng Qingyun, who was originally a little drowsy, suddenly opened his eyes, and a flash of light flashed in his eyes.

Antiques are quickly placed on the appreciating square table.

This is a painted pottery horse with a small head, a long neck, a strong and fat body, and looks unusually majestic.

The whole body is covered with yellow, green and white glazes.

The shape is that of an erect horse figurine, with four legs standing upright on a rectangular base.

The horse's head looks straight forward, and its two eyes are particularly lively, as if they can move at any time.

The most interesting thing is that the horse’s ears are erect, and combined with the way the horse tilts its head slightly, it looks like it is eavesdropping.

There are small pieces on the body of the horse, and there is slight deglazing, but it is not obvious.

Overall, it is a piece of exquisite pottery with great artistic value.

Some viewers in the live broadcast room began to discuss:

Collection Lao Zhang: "Ah, my eyes, what did I see? I fainted, this is the treasure of the Tang Dynasty: the three-color horse of the Tang Dynasty!"

Picking up leaked Yuan blue and white flowers: "It's really a tricolor horse from the Tang Dynasty. A tricolor horse that is so well preserved is a top-notch antique!"

Craftsman who makes high imitations: "I heard that Tang Sancai is not allowed to be bought and sold?"

Visitor 9527: "Brother, why do you have ears? Didn't you hear that they bought them with real money from abroad? And they also donated them to Mr. Feng's Qingyun Museum? It is a blessing to have treasures returned, the more the better.

Ah."

Visitor 9528: “That’s right, people are doing a good deed by spending money to bring antiques back from overseas.”

Kuo Shao who drives a BMW (level 88 VIP): "Let me tell you something interesting. Last time I went to the antique market, I saw a three-color porcelain that I liked very much. The price was not expensive, but the stall owner said something to me.

I almost squirted out my overnight meal.

"What are you talking about???"

The wealthy young man driving a BMW said: "He said I have good eyesight. The three-color horse belongs to his family and is more than a thousand years old."

Live broadcast must say 666: "What happened to the ancestral tradition? Isn't the golden nanmu box that the uncle decorated just now also inherited from the ancestors?"

A netizen who goes by the name "picking leaks but not picking up money", who looks like a senior antique enthusiast, gave his own explanation: "Brother, Tang Sancai was a burial object for high-ranking officials and nobles in the Tang Dynasty. There is no such thing as this thing passed down from ancestors."

……

There is an inlaid monitor in front of each expert seat, which contains real-time antique information given by the program team.

Several experts at the expert table, including Shen Yu, were carefully watching the details of this Tang Sancai horse.

According to records, this tricolor horse was bought by the treasurer at a foreign auction for a high price of 600,000 euros.

Although Tang Sancai is very famous, this thing belongs to the category of flowers blooming inside the wall and fragrant outside the wall.

Foreign collectors have been particularly fond of it since the late 1920s.

More than a hundred years ago, specifically in 1904, the construction of the Longhai Railway began. When it reached the Dongdu section in 1905, a group of Tang Dynasty tombs were discovered in Beiman Mountain outside the city. Many of them were excavated with exquisite shapes and bright colors. of pottery.

Among them are three-color camels, three-color horses, statues of ladies, figurines, livestock, poultry, and various scattered daily utensils, such as cups, plates, dishes, bottles, stoves, pots, etc.

The specific quantity is unknown, but it should be around several hundred pieces.

Mang Mountain was a famous mausoleum group during the Han and Tang Dynasties. There are many tombs of famous people, such as Liu Chan, son of Liu Bei, Li Yu, the later ruler of the Southern Tang Dynasty, Meng Chang, the later ruler of Shu, Di Renjie, Du Fu, Meng Jiao of the Tang Dynasty, etc. are all buried in Mang Mountain.< /p>

So some antique dealers took notice and transported these pottery back to big cities and started selling them in antique shops.

Although there are not just three colors, people are accustomed to calling this type of pottery "Tang Sancai".

Therefore, the title of Tang Sancai is still used today.

In the 1980s, a large and well-known foreign auction house once auctioned a Tang Sancai black horse, which was finally sold for a sky-high price of 49.55 million pounds, setting a Chinese art auction record at that time.

Just like Guiguzi descending from the Yuan blue and white jar, after that, there began to be more and more fake Tang Sancai. Foreigners didn't know how to distinguish them, and gradually the market price dropped.

Shen Yu was no stranger to Tang Sancai. He had never seen the real thing in its entirety, but he had seen the real fragments.

Just as he was thinking about it, Shen Yu suddenly felt someone calling him. He looked around and realized it was Lin Xifeng, Fatty Lin, who was looking at him anxiously.

Judging from the shape of his mouth, he should be reading WeChat.

Now that there is no footage of the expert panel, Shen Yu took out his mobile phone.

Of course, it doesn't matter even if there is footage, the recorded program will need to be edited before it is broadcast. The recording time is one and a half hours, and the broadcast time including commercial time is one hour.

After opening WeChat and looking at it, Shen Yu was slightly startled. Lin Xifeng actually wanted him to perform an appraisal on his behalf.

The reason is very simple. Lin Xifeng knows porcelain, but not pottery. He cannot play with Tang Sancai at all.

After thinking for a while, Shen Yu replied: "No problem, I have everything."

Lin Xifeng finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Shen Yu's reply.

Lin Xifeng secretly blamed himself for being careless.

Every time before going on the show, he would ask about the type of porcelain to be appraised, but he didn't ask this time, and immediately made a Tang Sancai sculpture for him.

At this time, Song Jiajia finished her conversation with the man named Wei, "Since it's Tang Sancai, let's invite Teacher Lin..."

Shen Yu picked up the microphone at this time and said, "Host, it's a coincidence. I have seen an authentic three-color horse that is similar to this. Why don't you let me take a look this time."

There is no way, although it is a bit reckless to do this, but since Fatty Lin has spoken, we can only help him.

Song Jiajia was startled at first, but she immediately realized it, "This is great, then let's invite Teacher Shen to come on stage."

Amid the warm applause of the audience, Shen Yu came to the appreciation stage again.

When passing by Pei Yuqin, Pei Yuqin looked at Shen Yu with some confusion, and there was a hint of worry in his eyes.

Shen Yu smiled at her and told her not to worry.

After shaking hands with the man surnamed Wei, Shen Yu began to observe this Tang Sancai Malai figure that had returned from overseas.

After watching for a while, Shen Yu nodded gently.

Song Jiajia said to Shen Yu enthusiastically: "Teacher Shen, can you give a general explanation of the past and present life of Tang Sancai to the audience friends at the scene, as well as the audience friends in the live broadcast room and in front of the TV?"

Shen Yu nodded very calmly, "Of course, first of all, I want to tell you that Tang Sancai is a kind of low-temperature glazed pottery from the Tang Dynasty, not porcelain like blue and white, pastel, and doucai.

"The production process is roughly to take a kind of white clay, commonly known as kaolin, which is pounded and washed repeatedly to make a certain shape, then trimmed, dried and then made into a tire.

"Some require molds, while others need to be made by hand, just like making clay figures.

“Then it needs to be carved carefully before it can be fired in the kiln.

"Note that this is not the finished product. After cooling, it still needs to be glazed, painted, painted, etc.

“The final step is to enter the kiln for roasting and then leave the kiln to complete the work.

"I repeat, Tang Sancai is pottery, not porcelain. The glaze colors include yellow, green, white, brown, blue, black and other colors.

"The three main colors are yellow, green and white, so people are accustomed to calling it Tang Sancai.

"There are few daily life utensils unearthed from Tang Sancai, and most of them are livestock and poultry with small shapes, and there are also figures.

"Among them, Tang Sancai Horse is the most popular among collectors.

"People in the Tang Dynasty loved horses, from the royal family to the ordinary people, they all loved horses to the core.

"In addition, the Tang Dynasty was the pinnacle of pottery making, and all the three-color horses produced are exquisite."


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