On the route from the South my country Sea to Malacca, hundreds of years of rough waves and continuous naval battles have swallowed up countless merchant ships.
This has also created mysterious and beautiful underwater ceramic museums one after another.
If all the porcelains in the Heidi Museum are salvaged from the water and sent to the private museum that Li Jinli is about to build, a larger underwater museum will be formed.
This museum is not in the water, but a museum of underwater cultural relics salvaged from the seabed.
This ship is obviously no exception. It was in a certain year in the early 17th century that the Portuguese hired this ship.
Chen Wenzhe could see this ship. It was not a big reminder. It was similar in size to the domestic Yangtze River No. 2 sunken ship and the "Wanli".
It bought the porcelain goods shipped from China in Macao and Hong Kong, filled the 18-meter-long ship with porcelain and silk, and then sailed south to Malacca with the help of the northeast monsoon in winter, intending to resell them to Southeast Asia and Europe.
The goddess of fate did not care about it. When they sailed to the waters of Sabah, East Malaysia, they encountered Dutch pirates.
The pirates used longer-range artillery to attack the Portuguese with precision, destroying the ship's mast without damaging the hull to gain loot.
The Dutch pirates were the ones who finally won. They fought and ran all the way, and finally the merchant ship was overtaken.
After the Dutch stormed the ship and robbed the most valuable silk and silver coins, the fire burned down the ship's gunpowder magazine.
The ship exploded and sank, and most of the remaining blue and white porcelain was shattered into pieces and scattered.
Of course, because tens of thousands of pieces of porcelain were transported on the ship, even if a lot of them were broken, tens of thousands of intact porcelains would eventually be preserved.
After a quick review, Chen Wenzhe quickly determined that there was still some well-preserved porcelain in the isolation warehouse on the ship.
This batch of porcelain is of good quality and has unique patterns, many of which are plain three-color porcelain.
This batch of porcelain has a typical style of the late Ming Dynasty and is brightly colored. Especially the porcelain decorated with window patterns is a typical representative of the porcelain exported to the Netherlands in the late Ming Dynasty.
If you count it carefully, Wanli can be regarded as the late Ming Dynasty, right?
There is no doubt about this. The Wanli era is called the late Ming era in Ming history.
Therefore, this batch of plain three-color porcelain can be considered a work from the late Ming Dynasty.
Of course, this is not important at all, what is important is its craftsmanship.
Through countless fragments, Chen Wenzhe can not only see the identity of these porcelains, but also their quality.
Through retrospective review, he was able to see the complete production process of these plain three-color porcelain.
First, the porcelain body is carved with patterns and then fired into a plain body at high temperature.
Next, the base body is poured with ground glaze, and the ground glaze in the pattern is scraped off.
Again, the pattern is filled with color, and fired in the kiln at low temperature for the second time.
In the Ming Dynasty, Zhengde, Jiajing, and Wanli all produced some plain tricolor.
If you don’t count the water-produced porcelain, this kind of porcelain is really rare in China.
Now that I think about it, Chen Wenzhe still has a plain three-color porcelain from the Kangxi period in his hand, which was found on the sunken Kangxi ship that was salvaged before.
Some plain three-color wares mixed in this Wanli-era shipwreck also seem to be from the Kangxi period.
Of course, these are all laid out on the seabed, and most of them are broken into pieces.
Only some of them, hidden in the sand and undiscovered, survived, were sucked into the cabin by the submarine, and fell into the hands of Chen Wenzhe.
The others were probably illegally salvaged.
Chen Wenzhe was very confident at this time. He was not stealing money here, so he was just and not illegal.
Since he is not illegal, what are you waiting for?
Arrange for Gao Qijing to immediately take pictures of a large number of underwater robots and go directly to grab them.
There is nothing to be polite about these foreign bandits.
Sure enough, following Chen Wenzhe's order, Gao Qijing and the others immediately gained a lot of gains after letting go.
"Holy shit, these are all plain three-color porcelain from the Qing Dynasty. They look like they are from the Kangxi period? They are not inferior to the Kangxi official kilns at all. They are even worse than the Kangxi period porcelain we previously excavated."
Chen Wenzhe was surprised when he saw some porcelain packed together again.
Gao Qijing, who came with the porcelain, smiled and bent over.
There was no way he could help but laugh.
When he laughed enough, Chen Wenzhe knew where this batch of porcelain came from.
This is porcelain that was salvaged from the water by others, but this ship was unlucky because it was hit and sank while competing with surrounding salvage ships.
Therefore, he also sank to the bottom of the sea and became a sunken ship.
How could Gao Qijing be polite when encountering such a good thing?
In this way, these porcelains that were destined to be lost abroad once again returned to the hands of the Chinese people.
"Kangxi's plain three-color porcelain is the pinnacle. It should be produced by the imperial kiln factory, but these are not ordered by the palace."
Holding a porcelain bowl, Chen Wenzhe felt very satisfied.
However, he was only happy for a while and then became unhappy again.
Because this batch of Kangxi plain three-color porcelain has such a comprehensive variety.
Through them, Chen Wenzhe could imagine that the countless thieves around these days must have made great gains.
If he hadn't accidentally sunk a small salvage ship, where would he have seen so many fine products?
Since a small boat can achieve such a big harvest, what about other salvage boats?
Shaking his head, Chen Wenzhe could only do nothing.
He was also busy before, and his harvest was greater than everyone here combined.
However, he still felt it was a pity because Kangxi plain three-color porcelain was truly a masterpiece of the era.
During the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, plain three-color porcelain was greatly developed and many new varieties were derived. These are the most classic plain three-color porcelain.
For example, from a box, Chen Wenzhe easily found a dozen large bowls with three colors on a white background.
This is an underglaze three-color pottery. It is made of plain whiteware as the base, with patterns drawn out and then painted with yellow, green and purple patterns, and covered with white glaze.
The pictures are decorated with patterns, three fruits, clouds and dragons, etc.
The glaze surface of Baidi Sancai is smooth and smooth, the body is delicate, and the glaze is bright and astringent. The light green color as tender as spring water is the most attractive.
This kind of plain three-color porcelain involves more glaze colors.
If someone else encountered this situation, it would be more troublesome to imitate this kind of porcelain, because the most troublesome thing about imitating ancient porcelain is to prepare the appropriate glaze colors.
And this, for Chen Wenzhe, is precisely his advantage.
Therefore, let alone the three colors on the white ground, even if it is the three colors on the color ground, it will not be troublesome at all.
Chen Wenzhe shook his head when he looked at the colored tri-colored porcelain mixed randomly among the white ground-colored porcelain in front of him.
Those foreigners can't tell the difference between these two kinds of porcelain, right?
I can’t tell what category it is, and I can’t tell the color when I get it?
The three colors of color and ground are made by carving patterns on the tire and then adding colors. The ground has yellow, green, rice, and purple colors.
The glaze has high hardness, is thick and haloed, and has distinct layers of decoration.