Chapter 624: Rubbing the Cup
However, there were many styles of wine glasses in the Tang Dynasty, among which the goblet was dedicated to drinking.
The wine glass that Pu Jie took out was also a tall glass, and the outside of the glass did not have any ribbed decoration, it was smooth and thin.
The most important thing is that the material of the wine glass seems to be very special. At first glance, it looks like green jade, but the base seems to be light colored, but there are dense cyan veins on it. The dense texture is like a filament, and it is very messy.
"Can this thing be discontinued?" Pu Jie interjected when Yu Yao was still looking at it carefully.
"I don't even understand what kind of material this is. Yu Yao frowned and said, "Where did you get this thing from?"
"I received it, but I made a note first, took it alive, and didn't give any money. ”
"Peers?"
"No, it's my mother's former colleague's neighbor, a middle-aged woman, and it's not an antique one. ”
When Yu Yao heard this, "I'll go, how many turns have you made?" How could such a person dare to let you take it alive?"
"Well, what's this? She loves to be cheap! First she said the price, and I said that I would give an answer within a day, and if I didn't take it, I would have to give her a thousand yuan to delay the time. ”
"Yo, you're pretty generous now!"
"I just saw that this thing was kind of special. Pu Jie lit a cigarette, "This thing is her father's thing, I heard that her father is an old player, and he often goes out of town, and collects some things; I heard that her mom was selling some stuff too. ”
Yu Yao also lit a cigarette, "How can I listen to it, like the old lady's family who collects things?"
"Huh?" Pu Jie was stunned, "This woman's surname is Gong, her mother's surname is Wang, it is said that the old lady is a very elegant person, and now she does not live with her children and has a single household." ”
"It's really surnamed Wang!" Yu Yao thought for a while, "As for whether her wife is surnamed Gong, she didn't mention it." ”
"Leave this alone, it doesn't matter if it's not. Look at this cup first! What period is it?"
"It's kind of like the Tang Dynasty. However, I have never seen this material, and it is not good to judge from the process treatment and pulp. ”
Pu Jie scratched his head, "This should be a kind of local jade, right?"
"It's like jade, but this kind of moistness and light is different from ordinary jade. And this texture as fine as a mess is also very special. Yu Yao looked at it, and his eyes suddenly stopped on the foot of the cup, "······ here"
"What's wrong?" Pu Jie poked his head out.
"There seems to be a mark of inscription in this place. ”
"Hmm, I've looked at it in detail before I came, and I'm looking forward to finding an engraving or something. Pu Jie stared, "I've seen it here, it's like a trace of cyan texture falling off, isn't it lettering?"
Yu Yao looked at it carefully, "Yes, it's not a mark of lettering, it's like an inlay trace, and there seem to be subtle gold marks! The craftsmanship is extremely ingenious, it's not ordinary wrong gold, the traces are very shallow, and now it's basically completely off." ”
"Wrong gold?" Pu Jie shouted, "How can an ordinary cup be wrong gold? That means this cup is extraordinary?"
"Hmm. The key is that I have a new basis for dynastic judgment here!" Yu Yao continued, "Although it is a little dirty, I am afraid that the situation of this trace is a few hundred years old! If I say more, it is really a wine glass of the Tang Dynasty!"
Pu Jie rubbed his hands, "Do you want to brush it clean?"
"Didn't you take it alive? What should I do if I can't return it?"
"You said so, I don't dare to bet!?" Pu Jie smiled, "Besides, 10,000 yuan is also worth betting." ”
Yu Yao thought for a while, "Okay, even if it's an ordinary stone cup, this workmanship and vintage, the foundation can be worth two dollars." ”
Yu Yao didn't dare to use other brushes, prepared a basin of water, and carefully brushed the traces of wrong gold with a nano-fine hair plastic brush.
After wiping it dry, the marks on the feet of the cup are roughly like handwriting, as if three words are arranged horizontally from right to left.
It's just that, because the traces are very shallow, and there is a certain amount of wear and tear around, I still can't see what the word is, and I can only barely see that it looks like a small seal font.
"This wine glass really doesn't look like an ordinary thing!" Pu Jie lit another cigarette, "It's just that you don't even recognize what jade ······ is."
"It's a really special material. Perhaps it is precisely because of the special materials that there is such a fine workmanship, and the wrong gold is added. Yu Yao responded.
Pu Jie nodded again and again, "Yes, the key now is to figure out what the handwriting is!"
Yu Yao rubbed his temples, "If it doesn't work, try rubbing." ”
"Rubbing?, will you too?" Pu Jie was stunned.
"I haven't extended it either, but I haven't eaten pork and never seen a pig run?
Rubbing is an ancient technique, which is to extend the words and patterns on stone tablets or bronzes, generally using rice paper and ink, which is also a simple way to copy.
To say that the technical difficulty of completing a well-established and complete large-scale rubbing is indeed not low, but Yu Yao just wants to borrow the technique of rubbing and identify the traces on the feet of the cup, so it is not very difficult.
The rice paper and ink are ready-made, Yu Yao searched for a video from the Internet again, and studied it with Pu Jie.
The cup foot is relatively small, the traces are relatively shallow and messy, and the cup foot is the place with the most wear marks, Yu Yao tried several times with the cooperation of Pu Jie, but the effect was not good.
But now that they try, they won't give up. When it was time for dinner, I finally made a more satisfactory rubbing.
Although the rubbing still doesn't recognize any handwriting, according to the line traces on the rubbing, the messy lines can be erased little by little.
After completion, according to the main line, adjust appropriately, increase the possible strokes, and keep copying and writing, and the three words are becoming clearer and clearer step by step.
"Isn't it these three words?" Finally, Yu Yao picked up the brush and wrote out three small seal fonts.
Pu Jie likes ancient money, and is still familiar with the small seal font, "What does it mean?"
"Eyes ······" Yu Yao muttered, "There are two meanings, one is an interrogative pronoun, which means where, and the other is a conjunction, which means so. Does it mean to be dazzling and dizzying?"
Pu Jie was puzzled for a moment and was silent.
"That's not right!" Yu Yao suddenly put down the piece of paper that had copied out the handwriting, and picked up the last rubbing, "If you follow these three words, the font size and the spacing of the words are a little inconsistent!"
"The word 'cup' must be fine, are you saying that the purpose and the war are just part of the two words? But the lines around the handwriting are too messy?"
Yu Yao didn't continue to make out the messy lines on the rubbing, and put down his things, lit a cigarette, and pondered.
Before he finished smoking a cigarette, Yu Yao suddenly looked at Pu Jie, "I know!