Chapter 880: Another New Discovery
When Zhang Nan heard him say this, he felt that this seemed to be the case.
Brain again calculated the auction of Yuan blue and white porcelain by those auction houses in the previous life, this plate seems to be very few, and the price is not the highest - once the view of the agricultural curator is accepted by the world, it proves that the picture jar is just a container in the kitchen at the beginning, and it is hundreds of millions at every turn; and the big plate is the "noble" in the original blue and white porcelain, and in the end it is tens of millions, which is really wronged by its special identity more than 600 years ago.
It's a bit interesting, it's really hard for others to refute such an assertion, and the reason is very simple: if you can't get so many sample specimens, can you smash a few large plates, jars or something to verify it?
It's funny to think about, the academic world that likes chirping crookedly the most, this time it is possible to be slapped to death by the director of agriculture on this issue!
If the curator wants to complete his academic research, he must give him strong support, and the relationship between the two sides is not only relatives, but the director of the museum gave him his own research manuscripts for study.
Interesting enough, to support!
Thinking of this, Zhang Nan smiled and said to Chen Jianghua: "There are at least a few hundred pieces below, plates, jars, bottles, everything, fish them up and take a look, enough for the agricultural curator to complete the report." β
Chen Jianghua was stunned: "Hundreds?!"
"Well, at least a few hundred, semi-cargo holds, mostly intact. The other half of the cabin I looked at the Longquan kiln, and there was a cargo hold that was not opened, but I thought it was unlikely that it would be blue and white, or it would be even more amazing.
But don't tell me when the time comes, I don't like to swagger, at most seventy or eighty pieces will be about the same, otherwise there will be more things and the price will drop. β
Chen Jianghua quickly reacted and nodded: "Don't worry, my mouth is locked." β
Between seven or eight hundred and seventy or eighty, there is no difference at all for academic research. As for historical research, the owner is reluctant to make it public, and he is here to help this time, and he is not stupid enough to be a tendon.
More than money, this is not only a matter of money, just like museum collections, less talent, too much will become cabbage.
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After resting almost, Zhang Nan and Chen Jianghua went into the water together.
Unlike Zhang Nan, a landlubber who needs a group of people to protect when he goes into the water, Chen Jianghua put on a pair of swimming trunks and carried an oxygen cylinder on his back, and he didn't even need fins: when others fell upside down, he jumped down directly, and he was not afraid that things would be too heavy and hurt in the water.
There is a reason, he is a native of Xiangshan, Yongcheng, a fisherman in his family for generations, and it is difficult to become a college student at the beginning, or the class of 78, which is amazing! When he was a child, he learned to swim in the sea when he could run, and he was a proper master of the black bar level in the waves.
It is said that when I was a teenager, I used to dive to get some mussels: the mussels that grow on the reef are too small, and the mussels at a depth of two or three to six or seven meters below the surface of the water are only big after low tide.
In particular, the mussels attached to the reef at a depth of five or six meters can be so large that they are not much smaller than today's cans, and they are properly delicious for drying.
At that time, there were no gas cylinders, and a fierce man could get it by plunging down, and it was a little fun to dig underwater for a minute or two.
The unprotected diving master of the earth eight road type practiced in life, the depth of the wreck below, he can go down and swing a few laps casually without a gas cylinder.
Spectacular, very spectacular!
The underwater camera, which fixed the footage, was turned on, and the divers began to clean the cabin and salvage it.
Zhang Nan and Chen Jianghua watched the excitement on the side, this matter is not land treasure digging, archaeology, or it is better to leave it to divers, even Chen Jianghua is not blindly involved, do you use the method of prying mussels when you were a teenager?
Submarine salvage, Comrade Jiang Hua has no experience.
Enough of the excitement, get on the boat again.
The divers took the jar first, and a pair of blue and white dragon pattern lotus leaf lid jars were the first to get it, and measured it with a ruler: the height of the lid was 36 cm, the diameter was 21 cm, and the bottom diameter was 20.5 cm.
In terms of preservation, this thing is much better than the "Ghost Guzi Descending Mountain Picture Jar" that I got in Heng-Xian and later sold for a sky-high price: not only in pairs, but also because the lid is still there.
The sky-high price of the thing is actually a wreckage: no lid!
This pair of jars is exactly the same, with a straight neck, a round belly, a shallow hoop foot, a lotus leaf lid, a petiole button on the lid surface, and a closed mouth.
The theme pattern of the belly of the jar is a double dragon playing with beads, with cloud patterns between them, ball patterns and entwined peony patterns on the neck and shoulders, and a double hook variant lotus petal pattern at the bottom of the jar.
There are flint red spots on the bottom, and the blue and white hair is verdant and slightly faint.
On the lid surface, a rotating leaf vein is painted with a button as the center, and a mandarin fish, crab, herring and catfish are painted in each of the four directions.
There are also two blank belts left between the shoulders, abdomen and shin decorations, and the overall craftsmanship is exquisite.
However, although the blue and white jars are white and firm, and the glaze is smooth and white, this is the feeling of no contrast.
This will Zhang Nan and Chen Jianghua are not here to "blow", but to play with eggs and pick bones: compared with a few big plates, it feels a little less interesting.
Soon, the traffic boat brought over a cracked lotus leaf jar, not a dragon pattern, but a mandarin fish pattern decoration - broken into several petals, and the divers were still looking down to see if there were any missing fragments. The fracture cut of this broken jar is slightly different from the previous fragment of the large plate.
After reading it, Zhang Nan said: "Curator Nong's point of view seems to be correct. β
When Chen Jianghua heard this, he said with a smile: "Mr. Zhang, I see that your name must also be attached to the report, otherwise God knows when this report will be completed." β
Zhang Nan laughed, "Curator Nong is not a stingy ghost, and it is estimated that you are indispensable." β
I don't really care, I'm not a person in that circle, but Chen Jianghua must be very concerned: it is very meaningful for him that this kind of academic report can be signed, and a researcher at 30 still has a lot of room for improvement.
After Zhang Nan finished speaking, he handed a satellite phone to Chen Jianghua, "I think you have to call my cousin-in-law to make him hungry." β
Chen Jianghua also smiled, he was Nong Bosheng's proud protΓ©gΓ©, and he knew the relationship between the curator and Zhang Nan, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to come this time.
You're welcome, so I took the phone and went to report this big discovery that would make his heart itch Comrade Curator.
Don't talk about the reaction of Director Nong after receiving a call from his own student, the utensils that keep coming out of the water here are enough for Zhang Nan and Chen Jianghua to be excited.
There were more and more things, and I had to let the lifeboat go back to the cargo ship to get the water tank.
As for whether he can find something on the Ming Dynasty shipwreck, Zhang Nan will not bother to care.
The porcelain fished out here is expensive, and the sooner it is desalted, the better.
However, he was in a hurry, so he picked up more than 50 utensils in the afternoon, and although he was equipped with underwater lighting fixtures, he planned to temporarily suspend work in the evening.
Weta gestured underwater to do so, and the guy who dismantled the camera at the stern seemed to notice something on the seabed, shiny.
A pull, gold, a narrow piece of palm-length.
When this thing appeared in Zhang Nan's hand a few minutes later, Chen Jianghua's eyes on the side were straight!
"Mr. Zhang, you must bring it back to China, China has not found it yet!"