"No wonder, it looks a little demonic, not like authentic. Lao Huang said.

"Demon energy" is also jargon, saying that this item has a demon spirit, which means that something is not quite right.

"Hindsight!"

Ye Qiushuang slowly discovered that this old man's identification ability seemed to be really not very good, and he was even worse than her. At the beginning, she listened to Zhao Tianming's introduction, and thought that Zhao Tianming was worried about her face, but who knows, it turned out that she was just worried about the old man's face.

Lao Huang didn't continue to quarrel with her, and talked about the matter: "The color is not very right." ”

Zhao Tianming couldn't help but scold him! Pretending to be too much, right?

"You haven't seen the real Xuande furnace, how do you know that the color is wrong? What is the real color? ”

Zhao Tianming didn't brag about this, after the first batch of Xuande bronzes were baked, there were thousands of pieces in total, and in the following days, they were not recreated.

Legend has it that Emperor Xuande saw this batch of incense burners that he personally asked, each of which was abnormal in atmosphere, full of treasure, and had a great sense of achievement. Most of these incense burners were displayed in various parts of the court, and a small part was also rewarded and distributed to the emperor's relatives, prominent ministers and temples with large scale and flourishing incense.

These Xuande furnaces are only known by ordinary people, but not by their shape. After hundreds of years of ups and downs, the copper incense burner cast in three years of real Xuande is extremely rare.

Nowadays, although you can often see the so-called Xuande furnace in museums, in fact, it is almost always imitated later.

"I haven't seen it, but it is rumored that the most important thing in the Xuande furnace is the color. The two things we saw, no, they didn't have snowflake gold. The old yellow mouth said stiffly.

His words are not wrong, the Xuande furnace is the most wonderful color, its color melts inside, and it glows from the gloom.

The reason why the color is so good is that in addition to copper, precious materials such as gold and silver are added, so the furnace quality is particularly delicate, dark purple or black-brown.

From the information in the history books, it can be known that the general furnace has to go through four refining, while the Xuande furnace has to go through twelve refining, so the furnace quality will be more pure, such as baby skin. The gilt or gold-inlaid Xuande furnace is shining with gold, giving people a feeling of being extraordinary.

The "snowflake gold" in Lao Huang's mouth is the expression of thinking that copper contains gold.

Some people believe that the "snowflake gold" spots on the surface of some copper furnaces are the embodiment of the gold content in the copper. Some people believe that if the specific gravity of the Xuande furnace exceeds that of copper, it must have a gold component.

In fact, "snowflake gold" is a kind of color spot, not gold in copper, because even if gold is added to copper, the finished product cannot be in a state of separation of gold and copper.

Zhao Tianming shook his head: "It's hard to say, some of the imitations in the back are not even much worse than the authentic ones." ”

In order to make huge profits, from the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty to the Republic of China, the activities of antique dealers imitating Xuande furnace have never stopped.

Just after the Xuande furnace stopped manufacturing, some officials in charge of the "division of casting" summoned the original furnace craftsmen to imitate the Xuande furnace in accordance with the drawings and process procedures.

These carefully cast imitations are comparable to the real ones, and the authority of experts cannot be distinguished, so far there are many Xuande furnaces in the collections of major museums in China, and none of them can be recognized as the real Xuande furnace by many connoisseurs.

Identifying the authenticity of the Xuande furnace has become one of the "unsolved cases" in Chinese archaeology.

"It is said that the real Xuande furnace, put on the fire for a long time, the color is brilliant and changeable, if it is placed on the fire for a long time even if it is thrown in the sludge, wipe off the mud, it is the same as before, the fake Xuande furnace, even if it is cultivated with fire for decades, once it is defired, it is described as withered. Ye Qiushuang said.

Her words are also exquisite in the history books, and they are also a truth recognized by the antique world.

"What really puzzled me at first was the shape, the authentic Xuande bronzes, which should be incense burners, no bowls. But then I realized that I was wrong both times. These two bronze vessels, they are incense burners, not bowls. If you look carefully, you will find that the bottom is actually sufficient, but it is not obvious, and the wear and tear make people ignore it. Zhao Tianming said.

"Such a small incense burner?" Ye Qiushuang said in surprise.

"What's so strange?" said Lao Huang.

Zhao Tianming explained to them: "This should be an incense burner placed in the study. ”

The custom of burning incense has a long history in our country, usually people incense their clothes for etiquette, and more often the ancient literati like to burn a pillar of incense in the study room of reading and writing, creating the artistic conception of "red sleeves and incense to read at night".

It can be said that in the past, the ancient literati were actually the ancestors who pretended to be coerced.

The current rich second generation and the like can only play with luxury cars and the like, compared to the style of the ancient literati pretending to be forced, it is simply a child playing with mud and sand, without any connotation.

Since it is an incense burner placed in the study, it is naturally impossible to make it too big, and it is best to put it on the desk, or even carry it with you.

"I think it's supposed to be an imitation of the Qing Dynasty. The arts and crafts of the Qing Dynasty have made great progress and development, so the imitation of Xuande furnace is also beautiful, and follows the lost wax casting method of the Ming Dynasty, but compared with the Ming Dynasty in modeling, it is only dexterous. The tires are also heavy, with dark red, orange and yellow colors. Zhao Tianming said.

And the two pieces they saw were orange and yellow in color, which also conformed to the characteristics of the Qing Dynasty's imitation of Xuan.

The most important thing is that Zhao Tianming also found a key place, which can be proved to be the imitation of propaganda works of the Qing Dynasty.

"Look at this, there is a worn style, very vague, but if you look closely, you can find the words 'Shui Yunju'. Zhao Tianming continued.

Those three words are already small, and they are more worn, so they are even more blurry, and if you don't look at them carefully, you really can't see them.

You must know that the imitation of the Ming Dynasty in the Qing Dynasty, in addition to the imitation of the Ming Xuande model, there are also seal scripts such as "Sleeve Cloud Residence", "Water Cloud Residence", "Fengyue Couple" and so on.

Ye Qiushuang took a look, and sure enough, he found a trace.

If this is the case, these two Xuande furnaces are also very valuable, and two or three hundred thousand yuan is a conservative price.

Lao Huang had to admit that Zhao Tianming's eyes were vicious, and he specially picked these small details.

But for their antique business, the small details are the most important. Whether it's true or not, we have to look at it from a very subtle point. Otherwise, if you only have a wealth of knowledge and do not have this eyesight, you will also be blind.

However, on the whole, Lao Huang and Ye Qiushuang were happy, and this time it was completely good luck that they picked up the treasure.

"How far is the relocated old mansion?" Zhao Tianming asked.

Lao Huang pointed ahead: "About a hundred meters ahead, go to the right hand, and turn left at the next intersection." ”