"Huh?" Pu Jie suddenly felt like he heard this, "When?"

"Ming, the thirtieth year of Wanli, September. ”

"I'll !!" Pu Jie was dumbfounded, "I know you're amazing, but when did you become so powerful?"

Yu Yao handed the end of the brush to Pu Jie, "Oh, it's writing!"

"Damn!" Pu Jie saw that in the middle of the pattern at one end of the brush, there was a column of vertically written paragraphs: September Gong system in the thirtieth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty.

This brush, the main body is painted, mainly brown. The brown lacquered floor was inlaid with a very thin layer of raden and gold leaf.

On the pen barrel, it is mainly entangled with flowers, dense turns, complex and gorgeous, which is the so-called "a hundred flowers do not leak the ground".

On the cap, there is a cloud dragon pattern, a dragon and auspicious clouds, colorful.

What a flowery, colorful dragon!

So even Pu Jie couldn't help but exclaim, "It's so beautiful."

"This is the imperial pen of the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. Yu Yao asserted.

The craftsmanship of the lacquer is extremely sophisticated. The most important thing is that this is made of luodian and gold leaf, which is as thin as a cicada's wings, it is not called inlay, it has to be called sticking inlay, and the difficulty of this process can be imagined even if you don't understand it.

Yu Yaoneng asserted that the things of the court were also related to this luodian sticking process.

This gold leaf inlay is relatively easy to say, but the luodian is relatively brittle, and it is embedded on the curved pen shape, which is too technical.

In fact, throughout the Ming and Qing dynasties, the thin luodian sticking and inlay process on curved objects, its high technique and huge cost, is a watershed between court crafts and folk crafts.

There are a lot of things inlaid with lacquer luodian, but most of the folk crafts are flat, and the repair of luodian cannot be so thin.

During the Ming and Qing dynasties, thin luodian stickers were loved by the court and were also highly regarded among literati.

Before Pu Jie said Qianlong, indeed, Emperor Qianlong liked this kind of lacquer sticker inlaid with luodian brush, in addition to writing, more often used for fun. Lord Qianlong likes to play with the "green shell pen", which has a history.

Green shellfish, luodian.

In fact, the word luodian was originally a craft word. Snails, conch shells, shells, and titan, ornamental inlays. But now it's a noun to refer to specific materials.

Black lacquer inlaid luodian, the Tang and Song dynasties have, the Ming Dynasty has been very mature, the Qing Dynasty has reached its heyday, but after Qianlong, for various reasons, it gradually declined.

In fact, there are many colors of Raden, in addition to the common white and transparent, there are also blood clams with red, golden shellfish with yellow, and so on.

However, the Raden embedded in this brush is transparent.

The reason why there is a flowery and colorful dragon effect is because the transparent raden is very thin, so the sense of perspective is excellent, and then a process is added, and the paint under the raden is lined with color, which is the background color, and the refraction of light makes the effect even more gorgeous.

In terms of general categories, the inlay techniques of Raden can be roughly divided into three categories: hard dan and soft dan and engraved dan . Hard dan is a thick slice, soft dan is a thin slice, and engraved dan is a convex screw piece after inlay, one layer higher than the bottom surface.

Thin luodian sticking inlay, naturally one of the soft ten techniques. And on this pen, the use of "point snails", not only to be thin, but also to cut fine, a little silky and flaked, quite complicated.

Therefore, this brush is worth a lot of money if nothing else, just this ingenious technique.

What's more, this is an ancient pen of the Ming Dynasty, and it is not easy to preserve it to this day.

It is not surprising that such a brush has been sold for more than two million at a large-scale auction.

"You're not picking up leaks, you're snatching leaks!" After Pu Jie finished admiring it, he sat back on his chair, lit a cigarette, and couldn't help sighing.

Yu Yao re-docked the mahogany painting scroll, rolled it up, and put it away, "I'll go and reinstall this painting scroll tomorrow." ”

Pu Jie thought about it and smiled, "It's okay, I picked up such a big bargain for nothing, in case someone comes to look for it, it's not impossible to return it 'as it is'!"

Although the two were pleasantly surprised that day, they were too tired, and after chatting a few more words, they both went home to rest.

Early the next morning, Yu Yao went to the Qixingqiao Antique Market, first found a framing shop to reinstall the painting scroll, and the whole painting was restored as before.

Although the shaft rod has been polished by Yu Yao with sandpaper, the shaft head has not moved, and it has been re-glued and sealed, and the shaft rod is rolled up in a framed silk, and it cannot be seen.

This repair operation is not difficult, Yu Yao is staring at the completion, and he is also very careful, he has not let the master fully unfold the painting.

Holding the finished painting, Yu Yaoxin said that since he came, Lao Huang also knew about the small team of the Academy of Fine Arts, so he walked directly to Yi Mo Zhai.

As soon as I arrived at the door of Yimo Zhai, it happened that Lao Huang had just opened the door and came out, and he was standing at the door sprinkling water, when he saw Yu Yao, "Yo, what kind of wind blew you here?"

Seeing that Yu Yao was holding a calligraphy and painting box in his hand, Lao Huang said again, "Are you picking up a leak?"

"Let's go in and talk about it. Yu Yao smiled.

Lao Huang let Yu Yao into the store, asked the young man to support the shop, and closed the door with Yu Yao.

"Let's take a look first!" Lao Huang stretched out his hand. Yu Yao nodded and handed it to him.

After looking at this painting, Lao Huang's eyes couldn't help but light up, "Well!

Yu Yao didn't hide it from him, "It's imitation, and it's probably the work of the small team of the Academy of Fine Arts." ”

Subsequently, Yu Yao told him about the process, but the matter of the hidden brush in the painting scroll was still hidden.

"What did you want to detain in your store?" Lao Huang couldn't help but ask, "Then what are you doing with it at the Seven Star Bridge?"

"I accidentally broke the scroll, so come and fix it. Just got to talk to you. ”

Lao Huang groaned slightly, and then responded, "An imitation painting, you still have to repair it, this is to prepare the people behind them to find it?" However, if they are the Tan family behind them, I am afraid that they can only be recycled at a high price, hehe." ”

"What?

"I could have asked for it, but if the girl you said was really the main figure in their small team, this painting really opened my eyes again. Although Shangguan Zhou's fame is not very large, it is difficult to imitate the figure paintings. ”

Lao Huang Jianhua is also a connoisseur, and Yu Yao can quickly see that it is imitation, but this is indeed a good imitation.

"Looking at the appearance, I was a little surprised. At such a young age, it can only be said that the talent is very high. Yu Yao responded.

The two chatted for a few more minutes, and suddenly there was a knock on the door, Lao Huang asked, and the young man said outside the door, "Boss, a guest has sent a painting and wants to sell it, can you see it now?"