Sweat, I received more than 400 recommendations in more than two weeks after uploading. I only added 200 recommendations in one week. But I have already said that I will add 200 and add another chapter. I can’t afford to make such a promise. From now on, I will add 200 every day.
There is no upper limit for adding another chapter. If two hundred recommendations are added in another week, there will be no more updates. Today there are three updates, and this is the first one.
"Since Xiao Han you have entered this industry, I have to ask for your help. This time I brought a treasure from home and asked you to appraise it. Don't worry, I know the rules. The appraisal fee is three thousand. I
I won't give you a cent less, as long as you give me an accurate answer." After Meng Guangtao finished speaking, he entered his room.
His room was next to Chen Qing's family. In the blink of an eye, he slipped out a convenience bag from the room. There was a bunch of newspapers in the black convenience bag. He opened it and there was some plastic foam inside. After clearing the plastic foam, a small yellow bag was revealed.
bowl.
Originally, Han Kongque did not want to be appraised by others. After all, he was not a famous expert or scholar. Although he knew his own eyesight, his knowledge may not be recognized by many people in the antique world.
If you identify something for others in this way, it will be fine if it is authentic. If it is a fake, it will be difficult to tell. Some people may even turn their backs and say you are talking nonsense.
It’s not like Han Kongque has never experienced this kind of thing. After several experiences, he stopped doing such thankless things, otherwise he wouldn’t have asked Gu Lie to buy it for him after he saw the right thing.
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Although Han Kongque made up his mind not to let anyone appraise it, Lao Meng did not give him a chance to refuse. The small bowl of yellow flowers placed in front of him quickly attracted his attention.
Seeing the change in Han Kongque's expression, Meng Guangtao smiled proudly. He knew that if he entered this industry, it would be impossible not to like this small bowl.
"This is a small bowl with flange flowers on a yellow ground!" Han Peacock looked at this beautiful small bowl in amazement.
The bowl is very new, the flowers are very bright, and the whole bright yellow bowl gives people a noble and dignified feeling just by looking at it. At just one glance, Han Peacock knew that this was a work of art with exquisite manufacturing technology.
Such craftsmanship is certainly not something ordinary people can create, and enamel color cannot be imitated by ordinary people.
Enamel porcelain is the most famous variety of painted porcelain in my country. It is a product of the development of my country's porcelain technology to the peak of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty. Because it was fired in small quantities and was only for the emperor's secret play at that time, it was extremely precious. .
Enamel is an overglaze decoration technique that transplants the enamel painting technique to the porcelain body. It is officially called "painted enamel on porcelain body", later known as "Gu Yuexuan", and abroad as "rose color".
Enamel was created in the late Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty. It was created by introducing foreign enamel materials, and it became an extremely valuable porcelain for the palace.
The production process of enamel-colored porcelain is different from other porcelain used in the palace. White porcelain is first fired at high temperature in Jingdezhen, and then sent to the Manufacturing Office of the Qing Palace Household in Beijing to be painted. The enamel maker is then fired in a colored furnace.
Kangxi enamel porcelain uses all imported color materials, especially one of the rose red or carmine red materials, which contains trace amounts of gold and presents a unique and delicate effect.
In addition, the color materials of traditional Chinese colored porcelain are mixed with water or glue, while the enamel colored porcelain uses oil to mix the color materials like Western oil paintings, and has a certain thickness, making the painting more three-dimensional and layered.
Enamel is an ancient craft with bright colors and high collectibility. However, the firing process of enamel is extremely complicated, so there are very few things handed down from generation to generation. It is still very difficult for ordinary people to make high-level enamel bowls.
Easy.
"Ah, what a beautiful little bowl." Chen Xiaozhu exclaimed as soon as he saw the little bowl.
At this time, Chen Qing and his wife, who were packing their tools, were also attracted and saw this exquisite small bowl.
Meng Guangtao was still very proud of this effect. He said happily: "Yes, this is the yellow ground enamel flower pattern bowl. Xiao Han, what do you think?"
This small bowl is beautiful, but this is only for some laymen. People who generally don’t understand it will say it is beautiful at first sight, but not many people can tell whether it is a real antique or not.
Meng Guangtao also asked someone to identify it, but they all said it was not accurate. He also went to a professional identification agency, and those people struggled for several hours and finally told him that it was a high imitation made in modern times.
The most important thing is that the experts from the appraisal agency still wanted to buy this small bowl, but the price offered was only a few thousand yuan, which made Meng Guangtao very angry. Since it was a high imitation, would those experts be interested in collecting it?
Although those people, under the guise of research, said that by studying this small bowl, they wanted to develop a firing process to restore the enamel color, but this kind of process is not so easy to restore even by the masters in Jingdezhen, let alone
Their small research institutions.
There were several unsatisfactory appraisals, so Meng Guangtao made up his mind to find someone familiar and reliable to appraise, rather than so-called experts from outside.
It’s not that those experts don’t have the ability to appraise, but they don’t believe in their character. After all, when you see a good thing, you want to pick it up, and if you ask someone to appraise it, you naturally don’t know the provenance and authenticity of your own thing, at least.
Not sure, this gives some people a chance.
And when you have an idea, you will naturally not tell the truth to Meng Guangtao. Of course, these are all because Meng Guangtao believes that his things are real, and other people have bad intentions, so they have these conjectures. This is also the case for many antique collectors.
common thoughts.
In the final analysis, he was not sure that this small bowl was definitely authentic. After two years of getting to know Han Kongque, he knew that he was an upright person, so he wanted to let him authenticate it.
Meng Guangtao had already prepared. After placing the yellow enamel bowl with floral patterns on the stone table in the yard, he took out three thousand yuan and handed it directly to Han Peacock's hand.
"Lao Meng, what are you doing?" Han Peacock didn't want it. Although there is a fee for appraisal at the antique shop, it depends on the situation. If they are colleagues or acquaintances, helping each other, they cannot charge money.
Meng Guangtao said: "This is a rule. If you don't accept it, then I won't dare ask you for appraisal. Regardless of whether the item is genuine or not, the appraisal fee must be paid."
"Wow, it's so easy to make money in this antique shop. Just look at this small bowl and it costs three thousand?" Chen Xiaozhu saw Meng Guangtao stuffing money into Han Kongque's hand, and felt that his outlook on things was a bit broken.
Many people outside only earn 3,000 yuan a month, but Han Kongque charges 3,000 yuan to appraise such a small bowl. Doesn’t this appraisal equal a month’s salary to others?
"Girl, this money is not easy to get." Han Kongque smiled bitterly.
The reason why he doesn't rely on this for a living is because it is very troublesome to do appraisals, especially for unknown appraisers, because not many people will trust you.
If you identify someone else's item as genuine, both parties will be happy. If someone else's item is fake, no matter how strong your evidence is, others may think you are talking nonsense and that you are incapable of identifying the authenticity.
Of course, it may also be a matter of character, and the good ones are said to be imitations. This is the same as Meng Guangtao's thoughts on other appraisers.
When he first came into contact with antiques, Han Peacock had a few appraisals for others, but even after these few experiences, Han Peacock stopped looking at things for others to save trouble.
After all, real antiques are still rare, so naturally nothing good can be found in the appraisal. Every appraisal will cause some discomfort, and Han Peacock naturally doesn't want to ask for trouble.
"Lao Meng, please put the money away. We have known each other for several years. I will show you the things carefully, but you also understand the rules. If you don't listen to what I say, just pretend you didn't hear it, okay?
"Although Han Peacock was optimistic about this small bowl, he didn't look at it seriously. No one dared to say that it was a good thing.
If this is a fake, it will be a blow to Meng Guangtao. It is uncertain whether Meng Guangtao will be grateful to him.
"Xiao Han, I trust you. If you say this is a fake, just tell me the reason. These three thousand yuan are yours. Since I want you to authenticate, I will pay you the money regardless of the authenticity." Meng Guangtao said.
Han Kongque looked at the exquisite little bowl and said, "Let's talk about the money separately. I'll take a look at the small bowl first."
As he said this, Han Peacock directly picked up the small bowl.
This small bowl is about 6cm high. I measured it with Meng Guangtao's tools. The diameter is 10.8cm and the foot diameter is 4.4cm.
The bowl has a curved mouth, a slightly drooping belly, and rounded feet. The inside of the bowl is plain and without any decoration.
The outer wall is decorated with enamel on a yellow ground. There are 4 petal-shaped consecration lights on the yellow glazed ground. The inside of the consecration is made of yellow glaze, with painted peonies. The outside of the consecration is painted with a lotus pattern of folded branches.
The inside of the circle foot is glazed with white glaze, the outer sole is decorated with two lines of four characters "Made by Kangxi" in regular script in red color, and there are two double columns in red color on the outside.
The decorations on this small bowl are neat and delicate, and the colors are bright and eye-catching. Even if such a beautiful small bowl is not from the Kangxi period, it can still be regarded as a top modern work of art.
Enamel-colored porcelain is a precious porcelain used in the palace. Because the number of firings is limited and not many are handed down from generation to generation, it is extremely precious.
Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty was good at learning and absorbing foreign culture and science, allowing foreign artworks to enter China.
It was under these conditions that enamelware was introduced to the Qing Dynasty. Under the influence of enamel painting on copper bodies, enamelware was successfully trial-produced in China in the late Kangxi period.
The colors of enamel are various, common ones include red, blue, green, purple, white, black, rouge, etc. It is rare to paint enamel on white ground.
The decorations mainly include a variety of peonies with twisted branches, large flowers with broken branches, group flowers with the word "longevity" added in them, and consecrated flowers.
The Kangxi enamel-colored products handed down from generation to generation do not have large vessels, and they are standing pieces. The height of bottles is no more than 25 centimeters. Most of them are boxes, bowls, plates, cups, and pots, among which bowls account for the largest proportion.
The enamel colors of this period mainly used plain white porcelain fired in Jingdezhen. In order to achieve the effect of painting enamelware on a copper body, the inner wall was glazed and the outer wall was unglazed.
The enamel color material is then fired in a kiln to turn into porcelain, and then painted.
The texture of the porcelain body is more delicate and whiter than that of the copper body, and the colored materials are more gorgeous and moist. The painting effect is better than the enamel color of the copper body.
This small bowl is so beautiful because of this firing process.