Chapter 281: Crystal "Ashtray"
After hearing this, Sun Zhongyuan said, "What is it? Do you want to bring it here?"
"Well, I was going to take it to Nancheng to let the tiger master have a purpose, so I happened to come to your side first, let's talk about it after watching it. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"
Dajun said more vaguely, and Sun Zhongyuan didn't ask much.
The next night, Dajun and Kuroko went to the hotel in the county seat and stayed in the room that Sun Zhongyuan had booked.
When the two of them arrived, it was already more than 9 o'clock in the evening, they took a plane to a nearby prefecture-level city, and then went to the designated consignment department, picked up the tools for pre-consignment, and took a taxi directly from the airport.
Fortunately, it was not too late, Sun Zhongyuan and Chen Danyang accompanied them to dinner.
After the meal, Sun Zhongyuan originally wanted to let them rest early, but Dajun and Kuroko said that it was best to go to the scene early tomorrow morning to have a look, so let's take a look at things tonight.
When he arrived at Sun Zhongyuan's room, he closed the door, and the army took out the things from his bag, Sun Zhongyuan was stunned, and Chen Danyang was a little dumbfounded.
It's not that things are expensive, but they are taken out, and at first glance, it is actually a round glass ashtray!
It is more than ten centimeters in diameter, round, with low walls, and there are two symmetrical "buttresses" on the left and right, isn't it the mouth of the ashtray for temporarily putting cigarettes?
The whole body is transparent, and there is no line in the light element.
"This is a Warring States tomb, no, to be exact, a Warring States cellar, taken out of it!"
Chen Danyang happened to light a cigarette, and almost habitually dusted the ash inside, "Warring States?
"It's not glass, it's crystal. Sun Zhongyuan said.
The army gave a thumbs up, "Yes, it's crystal." It is indeed a Warring States cellar, because the pottery inside must be from the Warring States period. However, the cellar collapsed at the time, and the pottery inside was basically broken. ”
"But this shape is too modern!" Chen Danyang heard it, "Besides, during the Warring States Period, was there such a clever process? The hardness of the crystal is so great, it is not easy to take out such a shape from a whole piece of crystal!"
"The craftsmanship is definitely fine. Sun Zhongyuan thought for a while, "You should have heard of it, right? In the nineties of the last century, a Warring States crystal cup was unearthed, which is the shape of a modern beer cup! At that time, it was a brick factory digging and pottery was discovered, and then archaeological tombs of the Warring States period were discovered. This 'beer glass' was strange at first, but it was finally confirmed after a rigorous examination. ”
This matter is familiar to people in the cultural relics collecting industry. At that time, it was 1990, a brick factory in a town in Hangzhou was digging and inadvertently dug up some ancient pottery, which caused looting. After the news spread, experts from the Hangzhou Institute of Archaeology believed that there might be a large tomb below, so the archaeological team quickly moved in.
Sure enough, a Warring States tomb was excavated. This Warring States tomb is very well concealed, it has never been stolen and excavated before, and a large number of burial utensils have been unearthed, including exquisite jade and agate objects.
In the process of excavating the tomb, something shiny was found in the earthen pit, and it took more than half an hour to clean up before revealing its true face.
It turned out to be a "glass"! The shape is too much in line with modern characteristics.
This cup is about fifteen centimeters high, seven or eight centimeters in diameter, and more than five centimeters in diameter at the bottom.
It's similar to the beer mug commonly used in modern times, and it is okay to say a water cup, but the wall of the cup is thicker.
The archaeologists at that time were also a little blindsided. Is this someone crossing over? Returning to the Warring States with a modern beer mug?
However, archaeologists are not ordinary people, and upon closer inspection, they found that the cup was not as pure as glass, but also had an amber color.
Finally, after many authoritative identifications, this is a crystal cup! And it is indeed a product of the Warring States!
Whole crystal, borehole-polished. The hardness of the crystal is known, and it is relatively brittle, to complete this crystal cup, under the process conditions of the Warring States Period, it can only be grinding and drilling, and then the arc surface is polished, I don't know how much time it will take. Therefore, ordinary people must not be able to afford it, and it is estimated that it is the stuff of princes and nobles.
This is also the reason why this crystal cup is plain and has a simple shape. The crystal is hard and brittle, it is already difficult to do this step, if you want to add some complicated processes, once you miss, such a large piece of crystal will be scrapped, and all the previous efforts will be in vain.
"What's even more interesting is that I heard that the museum that housed this cup at that time once found a crystal processing factory and wanted to make a replica of the same crystal, but it turned out that several manufacturers were found, but none of them could make it!" Sun Zhongyuan said with a smile.
The army and the sunspot nodded, they had heard of it. Chen Danyang hadn't heard of it, but after listening to Sun Zhongyuan, he also understood that the Warring States could realize this kind of process.
"However, the crystal cup can be understood, the ancients also drank wine and water, what is this thing for, it can't really be an ashtray, right?" Chen Danyang then asked, "Don't talk about cigarettes at that time, tobacco was not introduced to China!"
Sun Zhongyuan shook his head, "It's definitely not an ashtray, but I can't see what it's for." ”
Dajun introduced, "This Warring States cellar is not a tomb, it is mainly pottery, and it is all broken. This thing was found in the pile of debris, we showed the picture to the tiger master, and the tiger said to let you take a look first. There is one more thing, someone sent it directly to Nancheng!"
"There is one more thing, how can this thing be brought, and that thing should be sent to Nancheng separately?" Sun Zhongyuan couldn't help asking.
"That thing, too, was found in a pile of debris. However, it was a metal utensil, and we came directly by plane, and you see this 'ashtray', going through the security check is like playing, and no one will care. But that Warring States metalware had to be driven directly to Nancheng to let the tiger master see it. Dajun explained, "Master Tiger said, it just so happens that we are coming, so I want you to see it first." ”
"Metalware, isn't it bronze?" asked Sun Zhongyuan again.
"What do you say!" said Dajun as he pulled out his phone, "it's a curved mask, with a bronze base and a gold face. ”
As he spoke, Dajun handed the mobile phone to Sun Zhongyuan, "There are pictures here, see for yourself!"
Sun Zhongyuan glanced at it a few times, and suddenly found that there were several notches at the bottom of this metal mask, "How big is this face?"
"The next one has data. ”
Sun Zhongyuan slid to the next picture, looked at the data, and suddenly said to Dajun and Kuroko, "Since it is a cellar, didn't you expect it to be a crystal base?"
Dajun and Kuroko suddenly realized, and said in unison, "Yes, although I got it one after another, but after all, it was in a pit!
It was originally a very simple matter, but in response to that sentence, these two authorities, blind, happened to be "fascinated"!