Chapter 214: Go home and practice calligraphy
Have you ever seen a mouse fall into a rice bowl?
Zhang Nan is the mouse who is not afraid to die!
A warehouse of cultural relics collected by a sub-provincial city for decades was opened to him - not only the cultural relics collected in the urban area of Yongcheng, but also the entire region, with a total of 10 districts and counties!
The area of the warehouse is about the same as that of the exhibition hall, but it is higher and several times higher: it was originally an old auditorium, a building in the Republic of China. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info
This part near the gate is a row of shelves, both wood and iron, basically more than one person high, and each grid is full of various cultural relics.
"The more than 10 rows on this head have been sent in the past ten years, and they have been registered after preliminary collation. Porcelain miscellaneous items on the left, those Chinese paintings on the shelf, you don't look at them, the upper grade was sent to the cultural relics store a few years ago, but the property rights are still ours.
More than half of the back is sent from the special period and before, it has not been registered, there is no manpower, it is very messy, this trip is taking advantage of your arrival and we also happen to turn over a bottom together.
The furniture is on the right, there is a top 10,000 sedan chair, you can give it to you if you want...."
Nong Bosheng said here, how can Zhang Nan have the heart to see what Wangong sedan chair first: the treasure house is opened, hurry up and Taobao!
But after a verbal circle, the problem comes!
"Curator Nong, are all things like this here?"
Zhang Nan will hold a Yue kiln celadon dog in his hand, which is estimated to be an object of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, to put it bluntly, it is a ceramic puppy molded in the middle of a plate.
The craftsmanship is quite good, and the glaze is also green, and it is worth tens of thousands after 25 years.
"Yes, many of these are unearthed porcelain and some bronze mirrors sent by the county clerks below, if you can make an exception to give you a few, some are the farmers who work to dig up the soil and send it over for some money, in previous years, they were all collected for three or five yuan, and they have basically not been collected in recent years, and they have not been rated. ”
Zhang Nan put the dog on the shelf and said, "I think we should go directly to the back, I'm not interested here." ”
I just shook my head!
Breaking in with the mentality of being a hamster, if it was a tomb robber before being reborn, then Zhang Nan would be crazy with joy, but now......
It's not a matter of money or not, it's basically all bright utensils here, why don't you buy a bunch of funeral goods specially used for the dead and take them home to play with?
Bad luck!
"This archaeology and collection are really not the same thing!"
I sighed in my heart, let's go back.
The second half of this storehouse is a mess!
It's really not an ordinary mess, there are shelves, boxes, and a cloth to cover!
There was ash everywhere, and there seemed to be two long platforms on the sides, on which there were a few things protruding, covered with cloth, which had not been taken away for at least ten years.
Zhang Nan gestured, and Alyosha and the little Wang were alone, carefully removing the covered cloth.
Can't be fast, otherwise you will be gray, and you will have already suffered a loss just now.
Below are two long painting tables, on which is a small Western figurine.
Zhang Nan stepped forward to get a marble cupid statue, but he almost flashed his hand!
It's not too heavy, how much can a marble product of twenty-five or six centimeters weigh?
It's too light! It's more important than cheap hollow gypsum products.
"Interesting. ”
Thinking to himself, he took it in his hand and looked closely: the little Cupid, the goddess of love, pressed his lips with the index finger of his right hand, his eyes were staring intently ahead, and his left hand was quietly reaching for the quiver of his arrow of love.
This is a bare porcelain sculpture known as the "Dangerous Cupid", an 18th-century product of the Royal Porcelain Factory of Sèvres, France, with an imitation of marble, designed by Etterne-Maurice Facon. ”
Seeing that Zhang Nan was interested, Nong Bosheng on the side said.
"Naked porcelain?"
"We don't like this in China, that is, we don't glaze and directly put the plain tires in the furnace to burn, which has been popular in Europeans for a while. ”
"Oh. By the way, Curator Nong, I remember that the Sèvres porcelain factory seems to be very famous, it is the imperial porcelain factory of Louis XV, right?"
"Not exactly, that porcelain factory is a bit like our official kiln in Jingdezhen, and the large amount of porcelain produced is basically supplied to the upper class society in France and Europe, not only for the king's court, but also a little well-known. ”
Zhang Nan lacked knowledge of European antiques, and Director Nong was strong in this regard, so he asked a few more questions.
Originally from the late 17th century, due to the appearance of crystalline, white and translucent oriental porcelain in Europe, Germany, Austria, Italian city-states, France, England, the Netherlands and many other countries immersed in the fanatical race to discover the mystery of porcelain-making.
In 1709, the German Meissen porcelain factory was the first to successfully try to produce hard porcelain similar to oriental porcelain, while in France, in 1745, Louis XV granted a special license to the Vansenne porcelain factory, the predecessor of the Sèvres Royal Porcelain Factory, founded in 1740, and provided support for the firing of porcelain in various aspects: the early products were mainly imitations of German Meissen porcelain, as well as Chinese and Japanese porcelain.
Later, with the support of Madame de Pompadour, the mistress of Louis XV, in 1756 the factory moved to Sèvres, a small town southwest of Paris on the Seine.
The proximity of the factory to Versailles made it easier for Madame de Pompadour to participate directly in the production and management of the Royal Porcelain Factory: in 1759 Madame de Pompadour financed the purchase of all the property rights of the Porcelain Factory, which continued until the French Revolution in 1793.
"Yes, it turned out to be the factory of Louis XV's mistress. ”
"Xiao Zhang, don't look down on this little Cupid, the original price is estimated to be a few gold louis. ”
"That's not cheap, I can't afford it. Zhang Nan joked.
"It's not expensive, the French people at that time were crazy about Roman and Greek sculpture, and this kind of naked-porcelain was actually a copy of ancient Roman sculpture, which would be cheaper than Greek marble sculpture.
I'll give it to you, it's just a small thing, and no one wants a dollar outside. ”
Curator Nong is telling the truth: today's Chinese people are probably going to spend 1 yuan on this thing except for those who wear bell bottoms?
There is only a factory emblem and the words 1760 on the base, except for the agricultural curator, the whole country is estimated to be able to recognize the emblem of people can count it on one hand!
As for how much it can be worth abroad?
Director Nong doesn't care: can mass-produced things be more expensive?
Zhang Nan didn't say much: Qianlong official kiln bowl is more than a dozen yuan, how can you expect the agricultural curator to draw inferences from one another?
That's it for the "French official kiln".
Hand the little cupid to Jobo, who took it and walked out - the ceramic thing, and put it in the car first.
There are also several wooden boxes painted with vermilion lacquer and gold on the painting table, thousands or tens of thousands before rebirth.
But Zhang Nan didn't plan to ask for it: he didn't play with wood, and it was someone else's dowry, so he didn't have the habit of moving this kind of thing to his home.
Looking at Zhang Nan's appearance, Nong Bosheng said: "Not interested in Shili red makeup?"
Zhang Nan shook his head, "Don't play with wood." As he spoke, he knocked on the drawing table and said, "But this table is handmade and has a good year, what kind of wood?"
Painting tables, tables for painting, Ming-style furniture, after the Ming Dynasty, also been manufactured. Generally, the more common and large size is about 1.8 meters in length and about 80 centimeters in width.
One of these two is oversized, more than two meters long and more than 90 centimeters wide, and the other is relatively common, with a length of 80 centimeters, but it is also large.
The material is very thick, the pulp is natural, and there are no signs of damage and repair.
"The small one should be from the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the wood is average, beech, but the middle hall board is a single piece, which is very rare!
The big one should be from the early Qing Dynasty, with the legacy of the Ming Dynasty. Small leaf red sandalwood, double piece hall board, exquisite materials, good things. ”
Tang board, that is, the meaning of the tabletop board - one meter eight times eighty centimeters size of the painting table top, remove the four sides, the middle panel is a whole piece of wood!
Needless to say, cow break!
As for the small-leaved red sandalwood, it has not been cheap for hundreds of years.
"I asked for these two tables, and I asked for a price. ”
"Hey, don't you play with wood?" Curator Nong was surprised.
"When I go home to practice calligraphy, I don't have this table. (To be continued.) )