Chapter 414: If there are dates but there are no dates, I will hit three poles.
Owning a Ru kiln is the lifelong dream of all porcelain collectors.
However, judging from the recorded auction history of Ru kilns, once a Ru kiln is sold out, even an unqualified defective product is worth a fortune.
In the 1980s, a Ru kiln plate with a diameter of only 8 cm was auctioned in the United States. It was deformed during firing and was not a qualified product.
As a result, at that time, it was sold for a sky-high price of US$1.54 million.
And at the Hong Kong Sotheby's auction held at the Xiangjiang Convention and Exhibition Center on April 4, 2012, Ru Kiln's exquisite product - "Northern Song Dynasty Ru Kiln Azure Glazed Sunflower Wash" from the old collection of Mrs. Ivery Clark, was even more...
It was sold for HK$185 million, which was approximately 150 million yuan at the time, and HK$278.6 million plus commission, setting a new world record for Song porcelain auctions.
It is normal to not be able to buy Ru kiln fragments.
However, you should be able to buy other more classic fragments here, right?
After all, very rare Chenghua imitation Ru kiln wares can be purchased, and it is a remnant that can be repaired without losing any piece. With this kind of luck, it should not be difficult to collect some not so rare high-quality remnants.
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Six hundred thousand was nothing to Chen Wenzhe, so after getting the things, he immediately completed the transfer.
However, this business is a truly large-scale transaction for the small businessmen in this village.
So it caused quite a stir. As soon as the transaction was completed, someone came to their door.
"Don't worry, this is not the place to talk. Go to my house to talk!"
Having just received 600,000 in cash, Lao Huang was still a little excited.
However, he did not lose his mind, so when he saw someone coming with something, he immediately thought of the role of a middleman.
The things were handed over to Cao Qingchun, and a group of them arrived at the house covered with porcelain tiles in the west of the village.
This house is Lao Huang's home.
It can be seen that Lao Huang is very knowledgeable about porcelain tiles.
At the very least, although the porcelain tiles used on the walls of his house are not high in value, they are all genuine.
It's a pity that the craftsmanship of these porcelain tiles is not that good. Otherwise, these porcelain tiles would be on the exterior wall, and Chen Wenzhe would definitely be a prostitute for nothing.
"Huang San, are you in such a hurry? Can't you wait a moment?"
As soon as the group sat down, a young man opened the woven bag in his hand.
The vendors here seem to like to use plastic woven bags.
No matter whether the porcelain pieces inside are real or not, or whether they are very expensive, they are all packed in this kind of woven bag that looks a little rough.
"It's getting late. Let's hurry up. As long as it's good, I will definitely pay a high price."
Chen Wenzhe looked at the time and saw that it was almost eight o'clock. He had to go to work today and he really didn't have time.
"Look at this piece of mine. This is a piece of porcelain from the official kiln of the Northern Song Dynasty." It was Huang San who was the fastest.
Before Chen Wenzhe could finish his words, he sent the things in front of Chen Wenzhe.
"Huh? Is this really a porcelain piece from an official kiln?"
Just looking at it, Chen Wenzhe was surprised.
He really didn't expect that he would really encounter good things here.
For Chen Wenzhe, sometimes the excitement of seeing a good piece of porcelain is no less than that of seeing an original piece of porcelain, because he can see a value that is more important than the original piece.
If it is an original artifact, ordinary people cannot clearly see its inner texture, glaze color, etc.
A piece of ancient porcelain can provide a lot of important information to some professionals.
Chen Wenzhe is naturally a professional, not an ordinary person, so he was happiest when he encountered such classic porcelain pieces from the kiln entrance.
The Guan Kiln of the Northern Song Dynasty is one of the five famous kilns of the Song Dynasty. Its achievements in celadon art are world-renowned, and it is also a glorious page in the culture and art of the Central Plains in the Middle Ages.
It can be said that Chen Wenzhe has a deep understanding of celadon.
Coupled with the many obvious features of the official kiln, he knew it was genuine just when he got it.
This was so surprising. He didn't expect that after hitting three poles with or without jujubes, he actually got a thousand-year-old jujube.
Chen Wenzhe was very familiar with this kind of celadon.
Holding it in your hand, you feel that the carcass is delicate, and no particles or breaks can be seen.
This thing feels great and heavy.
The good hand feel adds to the solemnity of the porcelain.
Due to the high iron content of the raw material, the color is purple-brown.
This kind of Northern Song Dynasty official kiln porcelain has "gray-blue body and gray-purple skin."
The inner tube can be seen in the broken porcelain pieces, so various features can be seen clearly.
Just like the previous Chenghua imitation Ru kiln wares, it was because Chen Wenzhe could clearly see the inner tube that he was able to accurately date them.
Otherwise, depending on his guessing skills, it would be difficult to determine what dynasty it was from.
Look at the inner tube. This piece of porcelain is about the size of a child's palm. The quality of the tire is very good, and at least it is very finely polished.
Chen Wenzhe knew that during the forming process of the official kiln wares of the Northern Song Dynasty, all parts of the carcass were cut neatly, and the blanks were finely polished. There were no stubbles that appeared when the blanks were drawn, and there were no knife marks left during cutting.
Looking at the glaze again, the characteristics of official kiln wares are even more obvious.
The official kilns of the Northern Song Dynasty were well-fired and had bright and moist glazes.
There are large mountains of interlaced patterns, some of which are large, extending from the edge of the utensil to the edge of the feet.
The small grains are very quiet, surrounding the large grains and spread out.
Due to multiple applications of glaze, countless tiny bubbles like beads accumulate in the glaze layer, which is called "bubble accumulation". These small bubbles have the effect of refractive scattering of light waves.
The glaze layer of this piece of celadon is well vitrified, and the color is very positive. There is no glamorous green color, and there is no floating light of new porcelain, which is what most people call luster.
The celadon glaze on Ru kiln and Jun kiln porcelain in the Nanhe area has a cyan or pink cyan color, with a slight flash of color and turbidity. The same is true for the official kilns of the Northern Song Dynasty, achieving an artistic effect close to that of beautiful jade.
The Guan kilns, Ru kilns, and Longquan kilns of the Song Dynasty all had this characteristic, which can be said to be ingenious.
Being able to get a fragment of an official kiln can be said to be an unexpected surprise.
Chen Wenzhe is very willing to pay a high price for this kind of thing and get a good start.
Of course, falsification must also be done. You must know that imitations of official kilns are everywhere.
The more possible good things you get, the more careful you have to be.
Therefore, I was optimistic just now, and all I saw were the advantages of this broken piece of porcelain.
But now we are looking for faults, trying to find its flaws as much as possible, and as long as we find anything wrong, it may be a modern imitation.
Don't think that no one is imitating broken porcelain pieces. That's because there isn't enough profit.
For example, the price of official kiln fragments is unexpectedly high by many people.
At a previous auction in Australia, an ancient Northern Song Dynasty official kiln porcelain piece inlaid with platinum pendant sold for more than 700,000 yuan.
The ancient porcelain piece is inlaid with a platinum pendant. Platinum is not the focus, and it is not valuable here. It is only tens of thousands of yuan at most. Therefore, the real value is the ancient porcelain piece from the official kiln of the Northern Song Dynasty on it.