Chapter 1,313 Picking sesame seeds and losing watermelon
This time, the team member fished the blue and white plate from the bottom of the sea, and the overall look is really beautiful.
The entire market looks very regular, with only the bottom slightly concave.
Three groups of peach blossoms with folded branches are painted on the folded edge on the back of the plate and on the abdomen. There are diagonal scratches on the abdomen, and there are false circles on the bottom, and the soles of the feet are exposed.
A double circle of blue and white is painted on the bottom, and inside the circle is the pattern of deformed ribbon and square victory.
The glaze color is white with a bluish tint, eggshell green, and the blue and white hair color is sapphire blue, with distinct shades of shades.
This plate has fine glaze, beautiful shape, fine workmanship, and bright blue and white flowers, which fully reflects the outstanding characteristics of blue and white porcelain in the mid-Kangxi period.
Although the pattern is based on traditional Chinese painting methods, the decorative layout is no longer Chinese style.
Its traditional patterns and intricate decorations are not only filled with the flavor of oriental culture, but also contain a strong exotic sentiment.
Since the porcelain plates sold for export previously discovered in China were basically unearthed cultural relics, the mouths of those porcelain plates along the bottom glaze have traces of naturally formed soil erosion. Severe soil erosion has caused the glaze of some porcelain plates to lose their brightness.
Because this plate is a cultural relic found at sea and is in perfect condition, it is far superior to similar porcelain unearthed on land.
This makes this large plate a rare high-quality porcelain plate for export.
It's a pity that such a large plate can be preserved in such good condition. There must be a lot of them under the sea.
Sure enough, just once, five or six team members surfaced one after another.
They all have one thing in common, that is, they all hold a big market.
"So many?" Chen Wenzhe looked at Gao Qijing strangely.
They must not only be aware of this place, at least the group who deceived Gao Qijing before must have been here, or even many times.
Since it is such a shipwreck cemetery, how come there are so many exquisite Qing Dynasty blue and white porcelain underwater?
"Boss, after listening to your introduction, this time we did not get into the boat to search, but drove out the nearby sand!" A team member explained the reason for their harvest.
Chen Wenzhe was speechless. There was so much to gain from cleaning up the sediment near the sunken ship?
So how much did those treasure hunters in the past gain?
However, when Chen Wenzhe thought about it, his previous thoughts seemed a bit wrong.
Maybe those guys before were not professional treasure hunting teams, but just ordinary fishermen. If so, that's right.
They have no professional knowledge at all, so it is not strange to leave some treasures hidden in the mud and sand around the sunken ship.
You must know that underwater archeology is not simple. Generally, salvaging things in such dangerous sea areas is carried out against the clock.
In this dangerous sea area, if the weather is not good, it will be very dangerous.
Generally, sunken ships are salvaged in this kind of sea area, otherwise the sunken ship would not have sunk.
Therefore, the general salvage team competes with typhoons and illegal fishing.
Even if the salvage team has a national background, their goal is not treasure, but they are destined to face the troubles caused by treasure.
And the best trouble starts with anti-theft.
After taking over a large market, Chen Wenzhe directly used the backtracking skill.
He wanted to see if this sunken ship was worthy of large-scale salvage.
This must be a sunken ship from the early Qing Dynasty, and the porcelain carried on it are all blue and white porcelain produced in Jingzhen during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty.
The ship was unlucky enough to set sail on a sunny day.
However, when we arrived here and prepared to cross the Strait of Malacca, we encountered extreme weather.
They sank to the bottom of the sea in a very short time.
Time flies by. More than three hundred years have passed, and the number of fishing boats in this sea area has begun to increase.
Several surrounding countries will compete for the fishery resources of this ocean.
On this day, a small fishing boat caught several pieces of ancient porcelain while fishing in this area.
This is nothing new here. This reef area is very famous among fishermen from several nearby countries.
Because porcelain often comes out of the water in the nearby sea, and the porcelain that comes out of the water is usually thrown directly into the water and will not be taken home at all.
However, this time the fishermen did not throw them back into the sea like their ancestors did.
Because he once heard some news that Chinese people like porcelain and began to buy it at high prices.
That day, he put on his diving equipment and went into the sea to check, and found an ancient sunken ship half-buried in the mud.
He fished out more porcelain and spread the news.
Soon, the fishermen on the nearby islands all joined the ranks of salvaging ancient treasures.
This sea area is very chaotic, and it can be said that it is in the actual control area of several countries.
Many people were moved when they heard the news, especially the news of the shipwreck.
Not only fishermen, but also some second-rate dealers.
They came here and soon gained something.
Second-level traders usually purchase goods from fishermen. Of course, if you have the skills and resources, you can also go into the water yourself.
Compared with other treasure ships, this ship does not carry much porcelain, but it is still quite a lot, and they are all blue and white porcelain.
Soon, tens of thousands of pieces of blue and white porcelain were produced here, but the quality was not very good.
After all, it has been in the sea water for two to three hundred years, and marine life is very sticky.
Even so, some stacked blue and white porcelains were sold at high prices.
In the end, what happened here alarmed the Yinni Coast Guard.
They drove small warships, directly occupied the sea area, and demanded a ban on illegal fishing.
However, such a quick response can only be regarded as a last-ditch effort.
The blue and white porcelain from the Kangxi period on the sunken ship had been looted on a large scale for a week.
According to subsequent estimates, at least 50% of the cultural relics were lost, that is, about one piece.
What happened next was even more regrettable.
Because in the next few days, law enforcement officials from several countries came over.
They fought with each other, but in the end because they didn't get a few cultural relics and found that the things on the ship were not good enough, they threw the sunken ship directly under the water.
Seeing this, Chen Wenzhe laughed.
It's terrible that there is no culture. Even the government of a country will just ignore this sunken ship just because it seems to have no value.
So many people go into the water to steal and fish, and everyone chooses to salvage good-looking porcelain and valuable porcelain.
In this way, everyone thinks that other places have been searched and looted.
They all looked for the obvious porcelain, but instead left the porcelain buried in the mud and sand here.
In fact, this kind of thing should be considered normal.
Through backtracking, Chen Wenzhe could see that the largest number of teams that salvaged the sunken ship here was an underwater archaeological team composed of seven people.
They took a small fishing boat and arrived at a nearby island to set up camp. Then they called a small sampan and came to the water to salvage.
Soon after, seven or eight boats and more than 50 people gathered on the deserted island not far away.