Luo Tian spent the last night in Manila, and boarded the plane back home. He got off the plane and did not stop at all. Luo Tian took a car and ran directly to the auction company. At this time, Xie Ming happened to be in a meeting.
Luo Tian was waiting outside the conference room with his palace lanterns and a pair of bell cups in his arms. He Pingwei and Chen Xiaoying both saw Luo Tian waiting outside the conference room and gave Xie Ming a reminder.
In fact, the meeting was about convening the auction of Luo Tian’s collections. When he saw Luo Tian coming, Xie Ming stood up excitedly and let Luo Tian go into the conference room. When he saw what was in his hand, he was shocked again and saw what was outside.
The suitcase was even more dumbfounded: "Where did you come back?"
Most of the meeting rooms were people I knew. Luo Tian was a shareholder of the company and sat directly next to Xie Ming. He placed the palace lantern on the conference table: "What do you think this is?"
"Isn't this Changxin Palace Lantern?" Liu Dachuan responded the fastest, but he immediately denied his statement: "But Changxin Palace Lantern should not be in your hands. Could this be a fake?"
Luo Tian smiled proudly: "This is the real palace lantern I brought back from Manila. Compared with the Changxin palace lantern, there are only fewer inscriptions. You can look at the copper rust on it and the work. This is unique.
There is a palace lantern that is exactly the same as the Changxin Palace lantern!!”
The conference room was buzzing, and the people from the appraisal department and Xie Ming surrounded him. People from other departments were out of their position and stood outside and talked. Although the people who worked in auction companies all year round were not proficient, they were basically.
I understand all the knowledge. When the Changxin Palace Lantern was excavated from the tomb, it was a big news.
Liu Dachuan and Xie Ming expressed their concerns most. They knew what this palace lantern would mean if it was true. The two carefully studied the copper rust on the bronze ware and the carvings of the palace maids. Liu Dachuan sighed: "This is
Ji Jin!!"
The "gold" mentioned in articles before the Han Dynasty often refers to bronze, while "jijin" is pure and beautiful bronze. The book "Mozi" describes the "God of Dayu" when it describes the casting of the Nine Cauldrons" and "God of Fei Lian Cai"
Gold is in the mountains and rivers, and pottery is cast in Kunwu." The "gold mining" mentioned here refers to the bronze needed to mine copper ore to obtain the casting of a tripod. In the famous poem "Han Yi" in the Book of Songs, there is "
In the sentence "Golden E" refers to the bronze yoke (horse harness).
Some time ago, in several TV series that reflect the historical stories of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were scenes of how much gold the king gave to ministers. The eunuchs were holding trays in their hands, and there were several gold ingots in the plate. This was a big mistake.
Wrong! In fact, the king rewarded him at that time not real gold, but bronze. The Western Zhou Dynasty Conggui of the Poly Art Museum can clearly tell us this.
Why did the ancient Chinese call bronze gold? This should be related to the lack of understanding of gold, a precious metal in the pre-Qin period, and the use was not universal. It should also be related to the fact that bronze was quite precious and there were few copper mineral resources in the Central Plains.
At that time, copper ores were mainly distributed in Jiangxi, Hubei, Anhui and other places in the Yangtze River Basin. It was not easy to obtain a large amount of copper. According to research, King Zhou sent troops to conquer the south many times, and robbing copper was also an issue.
A very important reason.
Because bronze is called "gold", people later called bronze ritual vessels "gold" and called the inscriptions on bronze ware "gold". "Ercology" with "gold inscriptions" as the main research object
, was once a very important science in ancient China.
The material of this palace lantern is Jijin, which means that the bronze raw material used was left by the previous dynasty. "It's good to have antiques." Xie Ming said: "There is no problem with copper rust, but unfortunately there is no inscription, otherwise it will be more convincing."
"Mr. Xie." Although I usually call you Xie Ming and Xie, today's occasions are different, so naturally I have to do things according to the occasion: "Now we just say that we may not be persuasive enough. I hope the palace lantern can participate with my collections.
It’s auctioned, so the fastest way now is to send it to the Municipal Cultural Relics Bureau for ingredient testing, which is even more convincing.”
Xie Ming slapped the table and said, "Good idea, I'll contact Xu Dashan now!"
This matter was decided. When Xie Ming called back, Luo Tian took out a pair of Chenghua Doucai bell cups, which attracted Liu Dachuan's surprise: "Luo Tian, you are simply a god
It's so funny!"
"Yes, it's Doucai, and I discovered it in Manila." Luo Tian said: "I have confirmed it correctly, and I have to go through the warehouse entry procedures."
Liu Dachuan said: "We should not have doubts when you passed by, but for the sake of caution, we still have to take a look."
"No problem." Luo Tian said happily.
Chenghua Doucai is one of the most precious varieties in the porcelain category. Since its birth, there have been imitations in all dynasties and many fine products, especially the most imitations in the Yongzheng period. But no matter what, it cannot be imitated.
From a technical perspective, it has the following aspects that are not achieved.
First of all, the text is not written properly, that is, the six-character model "made in the Chenghua year of the Ming Dynasty". Senior Cheng Wanli, the founder of Chinese porcelain identification, summarized the characteristics of the real model "made in the Chenghua year of the Ming Dynasty" in this way: "The big characters are pointed and round, not high
, the character "Cheng" is hard and straight, the character "Chuang" is straight, the character "Chuang" is flat, the character "Chuang" is "Shoulder and waist" is "Chuang" is "Shoulder and waist" is "Shoulder and waist" is "Shoulder and waist" is "
This means that after writing a big character and adding a horizontal line on it, it looks like a Tian character. This is how to write the word "big" in Chenghua. When we usually write big characters, we must have a higher appearance on it. If we add it, then it will be added.
A horizontal line does not look like the character "Tian". In addition, the strokes we usually write large characters must look like a broom or a saber, which means that the strokes are heavier, while the strokes of Chenghua styles are lighter, like sharpened sticks;
The stroke of the character "Cheng" is both straight and hard, without turning;
The word "Hua" is usually written on the right side of the word "Hua", but the standard Chenghua "Hua" word does not come out, and it is a combination of "Hua". The top two strokes are in line with each other.
If it is flat, no one is taller than anyone else, so it is called "Man Dagger Flat Micro Head"; the horizontal line of the character "Zhi" under the character "Zhi" generally does not exceed the sharp knife; the character "Ming" has a flush above the sun and moon, which is narrower and flat;
The last stroke of the character "Cheng" is a point. This point is irregular when written. Sometimes it is on the head, sometimes it is on the shoulder, and sometimes it is on the waist. Therefore, it is said that "Cheng's three-point head, shoulders, and waist".
Second, Doucai was also called filling in color in the past. It first draws lines and then fills in color, that is, first outlines the pattern to be drawn, and then fills in various colors to the parts to be filled in. This process usually has two
Or multiple people have completed the line. The line is a person who specializes in line, and the color filling is a person who specializes in line. Therefore, many color fillings are not so standard. Some have out of the line, while others have not filled in the form, and the coloring is
The glaze has obvious unevenness and accumulation, which is the characteristic of Chenghua Doucai. Third, there is the "color purple red" of red color. This "color purple red" has always been inappropriate for future generations.