Meng Hongchang asked, "Wang Lai's reputation doesn't seem to be very good, right?"

Meng Zitao said: "It's true that the fame is not very big, but this painting is also diǎn in all aspects, think about it, otherwise, it would be impossible to deceive the emperor." ”

Meng Hongchang said, "This is also true, but how much can this painting be worth?"

Meng Zitao said: "It's hard to say, with the level embodied in this painting, as well as the seal of 'Jiaqing Imperial Treasure', I conservatively estimate that there is no problem with hundreds of thousands." Moreover, if I want to sell, I will definitely put it at auction, and as for the final sale price, it is not necessarily. ”

Meng Hongchang listened to the price and said speechlessly: "Hundreds of thousands of dollars have arrived in your mouth, but you just picked up a small leak, so you can pretend it." ”

Meng Zitao smiled: "It's not a habit. ”

Meng Hongchang smiled and shook his head: "I've convinced you." ”

While talking and laughing, the two came to an antique shop, which was very small, with only a table and a few chairs, and a counter. In addition, there are miscellaneous old goods piled up behind the counter, and there are all kinds of goods.

Don't look at the shop, there are a lot of people inside, the table is full of people, and to Meng Zitao's surprise, one of them is the middle-aged man who took the furniture to Duan Shiyi to repair just now.

Seeing Meng Zitao and Meng Hongchang walking in, everyone stopped what they were talking and looked at the two of them.

One of them, an elderly man in his seventies wearing reading glasses, asked, "Is there anything you can do?"

Meng Hongchang smiled and said, "You are the shopkeeper Zeng, right?"

"Yes. ”

"It was Mr. Zhang Jingqiang who asked me to come over, saying that you have a piece of jade for me to take back. ”

"Oh. Shopkeeper Zeng smiled and said, "Mr. Zhang has already called me, I'll go and get the things over now, you sit and wait for a while......"

Speaking of this, the shopkeeper Zeng paused, looked at the seats that had been filled, and looked a little embarrassed: "I'm sorry, I'm a little smaller here." ”

Meng Hongchang waved his hand and said with a smile: "It's okay, we'll be fine standing for a while." ”

Shopkeeper Zeng said sorry again, and then went to get the things.

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Meng Zitao asked, "Shopkeeper Zeng, can we take a look at it first?"

"Absolutely. ”

Shopkeeper Zeng took the two of them to the counter on the side, opened the box and put it on the counter, only to see a flying jade pendant inside.

Meng Zitao greeted the shopkeeper Zeng, took the jade pendant in his hand, and observed it carefully, only to see that its jade quality was moist, smooth as fat, and the skillful use of carving techniques made the Tang people fly. The flying body is light and agile, the posture is beautiful, the head is raised and the arms are soaring, the flying momentum is elegant and light, the skirt is flying, the long belt is fluttering, there is the artistic conception of "neon clothes dragging the wide belt, floating and ascending to the sky".

After a while, Meng Zitao quietly put the jade pendant back, and then whispered a few words to Meng Hongchang.

Meng Hongchang was slightly stunned, and immediately spoke: "Shopkeeper Zeng, forgive me for taking the liberty of asking, did you take it wrong?"

Shopkeeper Zeng frowned, and his face became gloomy: "What do you mean, isn't my jade pendant wrong?"

The shopkeeper's voice was a little loud, and the people at the table next to him also heard it, and they all looked over.

Meng Zitao secretly smiled bitterly, Meng Hongchang's words can be more tactful, and now the attitude of the shopkeeper must be one, two, three.

Meng Zitao said: "Shopkeeper Zeng, can you take a step to speak?"

The shopkeeper said, "No, you don't think it's okay to say anything! ”

At this time, a man in his fifties who was sitting on the side spoke: "That is, how many years has Zeng Lao opened a shop here, even if he has been eye-catching, he has never covered it up." ”

Meng Zitao frowned slightly, what this person said, no matter how he heard it, he felt a little awkward, was it deliberately demolishing the stage?

When the shopkeeper Zeng heard this, he said coldly to the man: "Li Shijiang, if you don't speak, no one treats you as a dumb person." ”

Li Shijiang shrugged his shoulders: "Yes, I won't speak, come and see the head office, right?"

The corner of the shopkeeper's mouth twitched: "The legs are on your body!"

Then, he said to Meng Zitao: "I like to go straight, if you have a problem, just say it, don't make a fool of yourself." ”

Since the other party said so, Meng Zitao also let go and said: "I have to say, this is indeed a good jade carving flying work, but I have doubts about the dating of this jade pendant." ”

"Do you think it's not from the Tang Dynasty, what age is it?" asked the shopkeeper Zeng.

Meng Zitao didn't say it directly, but asked rhetorically: "Presumably you should also know that the jade of the Tang and Song dynasties is easy to confuse, right?"

As Meng Zitao said, the composition of jade in the Song Dynasty is relatively complex, and in the heirlooms of the Song Dynasty, it is very likely that the works of the Tang Dynasty are mixed, for example, the figures with normal head proportions in the Tang Dynasty may be mixed in between, and vice versa.

At the same time, because the Zhao and Song dynasties were in the same historical period as the Liao and Jin dynasties, it is very likely that the jade craftsmen of the Liao and Jin dynasties were the descendants of the Zhao and Song dynasties, so the boundaries of the Zuò style are somewhat blurred, and there is no way to determine.

The scientific dating of the Song dynasty, the Liao and Jin dynasties relied more on the provision of other dating evidence in the tombs, while the heirlooms basically relied on the oral transmission of the sensibility of the older generation. The Song Dynasty lotus boy was relatively easy to identify, while Feitian could only form a judgment standard based on the analogy of the unearthed artifacts of the Song, Liao, and Jin.

Shopkeeper Zeng was stunned, picked up the jade pendant and observed it carefully, and then asked, "Why do you think so, and what is the reason?"

Meng Zitao explained: "Based on a few diǎn, first, the material used in the Song Dynasty Feitian was more generous than that of the Tang Dynasty, with a length of more than 6 centimeters, and the flaky Feitian showed the same side face posture as in the Tang Dynasty, and the facial features and hair bun were mostly expressed with medium thick yin lines, and the hair strands were thicker and shorter yin lines, which were not neatly arranged. ”

"Second, the Song Dynasty flying hairstyle common high-end cloud bun, there are also not high buns, and there is a square style similar to the Han Dynasty scarf that is high in the front and low in the back, which is carved with a yin engraved line. ”

In addition, there are two kinds of flying bodies, one is the standing posture, the flying shape of the standing posture is close to the boy, and some are more like the boy figure pendant; There are two types of lying postures: one is curled up, and the other is stretched and fluttering. The latter is especially close to the Tang Dynasty Feitian, that is, the shape of this jade pendant. ”

"Also, the flying knives of the Song Dynasty are relatively concise, few details are carved, the thickness of the knife edge is seen, but it is not sloppy, and the long skirt of the lower body is often mixed with streamers or moire......"

Meng Zitao spoke eloquently, clearly organized, and analyzed this jade pendant quite thoroughly, so that the people around him listened to it again and again.

The shopkeeper had just been reminded by Meng Zitao, and he felt that something was wrong, and now after listening to Meng Zitao's explanation, he felt a little uncomfortable, and he arched his hand to Meng Zitao: "I'm sorry, I did make a mistake, and I will take the blame for Mr. Zhang when I turn back." ”

Meng Zitao hurriedly said seriously, and then said: "Shopkeeper Zeng, this jade pendant belongs to the fine jade of the Song Dynasty, I don't know if you still have any plans to make a move?"

Shopkeeper Zeng thought for a while and said, "I'll ask Mr. Zhang what he thinks about this matter first, please wait for a while." ”

"Row ......"

The shopkeeper went to call Zhang Jingqiang, and the middle-aged man came up: "This brother, we can be regarded as having a birth and two acquaintances, and we haven't asked your surname yet?"

"Don't give your surname Meng, Meng Zitao. Saying that, Meng Zitao and Meng Hongchang successively distributed their business cards.

The man looked at Meng Zitao's business card, a little surprised and a little abrupt at the same time, stretched out his hand and said: "It turned out to be the shopkeeper of Meng, I am the king of Qianli, fortunately!"

Meng Zitao stretched out his hand and shook the other party, and said a few polite words.

At this time, Wang Qianli's companion secretly kicked him, he was slightly stunned, and immediately reacted, saying, "Shopkeeper Meng, I don't know if I can ask you for a favor?"

"What's the matter?" Meng Zitao asked.

Wang Qianli smiled and pointed to a general's jar on the table: "I have some questions about this general's jar, I want to ask you to help me take a look, I don't know if it's okay?"

Meng Zitao looked in the direction pointed by Wang Qianli and found that it was a small multicolored general jar, with a relatively complete lid, which looked good.

"Yes, yes, but my level is limited, so don't blame me for any mistakes. ”

"Where, I'm grateful if you can help, please ......"

Meng Zitao looked at the colorful general's jar on the table, and then said, "Mr. Wang, I don't know what is wrong with you?"

"Broken generations. Wang Qianli said: "I don't know what your opinion is. ”

"I think that the broken dynasty should be the late Kangxi period. As for why this is said, it is based on the following diǎn. ”

Meng Zitao explained: "The bottom foot of this general jar is a typical two-layer platform bottom, with a hard texture and straight lines, indicating that the quality of the soil is upper, while the bottom foot of the Wanli period is mostly sandy bottom. It seems that the two-layer platform bottom originated in the Kangxi period and was widely used after Qianlong, which is an important feature of Ming and Qing porcelain judging from the form of the bottom foot. ”

"Second, from the perspective of color materials, we can omit the intuitive contrast between the colors of Kangxi and Wanli, because this contrast is more subjective, often the public says that the public is reasonable, and the mother-in-law says that the mother-in-law is reasonable. So put it on this general's jar, the most intuitive dating feature is that this work uses black color. ”

"And black color is a kind of color material that only appeared in the Kangxi period, and the previous Wanli Wucai did not have the use of black color, and from this diǎn, it can be proved that this general jar can be ruled out as being made in the Wanli period. ”

"Third, the blue and white style of the bottom foot is pure blue, not flashing purple, and it is closer to the color of the cobalt material of the Kangxi official kiln...... To sum up, I think that this imitation of the grand multicolored general jar should be an official imitation work of the Kangxi period. (To be continued.) )