Chapter 21 Ease of Use

Judging from the naked eye, the tire of this pastel Kaiguang character bottle is pure white, slightly moist, but the texture is rough, although the tire is the mud tire used in the Qing Dynasty, but the texture is not too good, it can only be fired by ordinary kilns.

The third look at the ornamentation, the shoulder of this vessel Shuo animal head pattern, the animal head pattern appeared quite early, but each dynasty has changed, the shape of the animal head pattern is delicate, carefully carved, with an obvious Qing Dynasty style.

The second is the picture of the open light figure on the bottle body, the so-called open light, refers to in order to make the decoration on the utensils varied, or highlight a certain image, often in a certain position of the utensils to leave a certain shape, such as fan, diamond, heart, etc., and then decorate the pattern in the space.

The bottle is lit with a circular pattern, and the interior figures are dressed in Qing Dynasty styles.

Fourth, look at the style, because the kiln was unearthed, so there is no style at the bottom.

The five look at the process, pastel is the late Kangxi Dynasty in the Qing Dynasty on the basis of the five-color bottle to create, the painting method is generally to draw the outline of the pattern on the white porcelain fired at high temperature, and then use arsenic-containing glass white to make the base, and then apply the pigment to this layer of glass white, with a clean pen to gently wash the color according to the different shades of the need, so that the petals and the character clothes have a sense of light and shade.

Due to the opaque effect of arsenic, the glass white has an opaque feeling, and after the fusion with various colors, it produces a powdering effect, the red color becomes pink, the green color becomes light green, the yellow color becomes light yellow, and other colors also become opaque light tones, and the amount of its addition can be controlled to obtain a series of different shades of shade of hue, giving people a sense of pink and soft, so this glaze color is called "pastel", in the expression technique, from the flat filling to the light and dark washing and dyeing; In terms of style, its layout and brushwork have the characteristics of traditional Chinese painting.

Therefore, it is easy to distinguish the pastel style from the color, and the earliest date is the late Kangxi period.

Of course, each generation of pastel is different, and the pastel in front of me looks finely grained and richly decorated, which should be a thing in the Yongzheng period.

Therefore, judging from this on the whole, Zhao Zhuo concluded that this thing was porcelain from the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, and its price was not expensive, only four or five thousand.

Although he said so much, it only took two or three minutes for Zhao Zhuo to distinguish it, and then he wrote down the words "genuine" and "Yongzheng Nian" on the paper.

As soon as he saw Zhao Zhuo write down the answer, Fang Youming couldn't help but squint slightly, looked at his watch, and couldn't help but glance at Yao Wensheng.

Yao Wensheng's expression was still very calm, although Zhao Zhuo's appraisal speed was indeed very fast, and he could even say that he was fast, but it was impossible to give too high an evaluation, God knows if he guessed?

After Zhao Zhuo finished identifying the first piece, he immediately began to distinguish the second piece of porcelain.

Fang Lu couldn't help frowning when he saw that Zhao Zhuo was actually one step ahead of him, because he only distinguished four of the five parts, and the porcelain identification was not sloppy at all, it must be distinguished from the whole to the part, otherwise it may be a fake if there is a mistake.

However, he was confident that his eyesight was definitely above Zhao Zhuo, and there was no time limit for the game, so he continued to distinguish it in a hurry.

As he continued to distinguish, Zhao Zhuo's gaze had already fallen on the second piece of porcelain, which was a pastel open-light infant play pattern vase.

The so-called infant play picture first appeared on the Changsha kiln porcelain of the Tang Dynasty, but because there were few painters who were good at painting babies in the Tang Dynasty, there were few baby play pictures in Tang Dynasty porcelain.

In the Song Dynasty, Dingyao, Cizhou, Yaozhou, Jiexiu, Jingdezhen, Rongxian and so on were decorated with infant plays, and the images of children fishing, playing birds, squatting balls, chasing ducks, and smoking tops were depicted, and the children's coquettish state was depicted vividly.

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, it has developed from a simple image of one or two young children to more than 100 young children, implying the pattern of giving birth to a noble son, five sons and a hundred sons and thousands of grandchildren.

The official kiln porcelain of the Yongzheng and Qianlong dynasties, the picture of the baby play is rigorous, and the children's clothing lines are clear, the eyebrows are clear and the eyes are beautiful, the movements are innocent, and they are more expressive.

The baby play picture on the porcelain vase in front of me has as many as five characters, and the painting is rigorous, but due to the rough quality of the fetus, it can be seen that it is fired in the folk kiln of the Qing Dynasty, and the price is not expensive.

Zhao Zhuo maintained a fixed posture, touched his chin, raised his elbows, and looked from the mouth of the bottle to the bottom of the bottle, and from the bottom of the bottle to the mouth of the bottle, but in two or three minutes, he completed the identification of this piece of porcelain, which was the genuine product of the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty.

Fang Youming's eyes lit up again, and a trace of loosening appeared on Yao Wensheng's calm face, not for anything else, because even if he identified this porcelain, it took a full five minutes.

This baby play picture looks simple, and the style characteristics of each era are very obvious, however, how superb the modern imitation technology is, and can grasp the painting style of each dynasty just right, plus this rough tire is actually easy to be regarded as a fake, so it must be carefully considered when identifying, in order to draw conclusions.

However, Zhao Zhuo not only identified so quickly, but also the answer was so accurate, if the identification of the first piece of porcelain was just a chance, then the second piece was also speculation?

Moreover, this speed is still based on not touching with hands, and if you touch it with your hands, wouldn't it be faster?

If the young man in front of him really has this kind of strength, it is enough to make people jaw-dropping.

Zhao Zhuo did not pause, and after identifying the second piece, his eyes moved to the third piece of porcelain, which was a rather ordinary blue and white porcelain vase.

The appearance of blue and white porcelain was far in the Tang and Song dynasties, matured in the Yuan Dynasty, became the mainstream of porcelain in the Ming Dynasty, and reached its peak in the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty.

Due to the wide range of blue and white porcelain, even in modern times, there are a large number of high imitations of blue and white porcelain in Jingdezhen, whether in the painting style, materials or even in the fetal quality, can reach the point of being fake.

Therefore, this common blue and white porcelain should also be quite cautious in distinguishing.

However, Zhao Zhuo soon saw a flaw in the bottom of the bottle, the blue and white porcelain fell for the "Ming Dynasty Chenghua Year System", although the font is an elegant and smooth seal script, but there is no unique iron silver hook in the Chenghua year, and the glaze is not cloudy, and these two points are an important basis for distinguishing the blue and white porcelain of the Chenghua year.

So, Zhao Zhuo quickly wrote down the word fake, and then identified the fourth piece of porcelain.

Mo Ling stood beside Zhao Zhuo, tilting his head and watching him identify each piece of porcelain, with a thick smile on his face, and did not interject, she had been with Zhao Zhuo for so long, she could be regarded as watching him grow up, so Mo Ling knew best how strong Zhao Zhuo was, so she understood that she did not need to ask herself to identify these porcelain.

And Zhao Zhuo has gradually cultivated a transcendent self-confidence in the recent continuous appraisal, that is, he can firmly believe in his own judgment without Mo Ling's intervention, and this is also an important growth for Zhao Zhuo.

Seeing Zhao Zhuo's identification one by one, the time was only seven or eight minutes, and the short one was only two or three minutes, but every answer was the same as the result of Yao Wensheng's identification.

After the identification of six or seven pieces of porcelain in a row, Fang Youming's eyes had narrowed into a line, carefully looking at Zhao Zhuo's every move, Yao Wensheng's brows were furrowed deeply, and there was even some suspicion in his eyes, the young man in front of him was only in his early 20s, how could he have such a strong identification ability?

Take yourself as a second-level appraiser, if you want to identify these porcelains without relying on your feel, you may not be able to achieve 100% accuracy, even if you can make up for the error by relying on Meng, but the young man in front of you, after every appraisal, is full of confidence to write down the answer, that kind of confidence is by no means pretended, but 100% sure of the results of your identification.

What's even more strange is that the young man's speed is too fast, and it is not one porcelain that is fast, but all porcelain is fast, that is to say, his mastery of each kind of porcelain is very comprehensive, and the appraiser's eyes are smooth, moving up and down, left and right, without the slightest stagnation.

Yao Wensheng is a professional appraiser, although his colleagues in the company can also be described as a hidden dragon and a crouching tiger, but at his own age, he is also confident that he will not lose to others.

However, the strength shown by the young man in front of him made him secretly stunned.

Looking at Fang Lu again, the two frowned in unison, 12 pieces of porcelain, Zhao Zhuo has now identified the ninth, but Fang Lu has only identified the seventh.

The gap between the two is not just two pieces, compared to Zhao Zhuo's calm and relaxed, just with the naked eye, the identification of each piece seems to be easy, every time Fang Lu identifies one more piece, his eyebrows will deepen a little, his eyes are sometimes wide, sometimes he narrows into a line, and his hand is absolutely inseparable from a magnifying glass, and now in the seventh piece, beads of sweat oozed from his forehead, which shows the hard work of identification, and the eyebrows are formed a "Chuan" word.

What made Fang Youming's hearts sink even more was that one of the 7 pieces of porcelain identified by Fang Lu was misidentified, making the fake genuine, and one of them was wrong about the date, turning the Hongwu year of the Ming Dynasty into the Jiajing period.

If Zhao Zhuo's last three things are correct, then this game will definitely be defeated.

The tenth, eleventh, and twelfth pieces, Fang Youming and the others almost straightened their eyes, watching Zhao Zhuo finish identifying these three pieces, and each answer was written, and the hearts of the two sank, not for anything else, just because what Zhao Zhuo wrote was the correct answer.

After Zhao Zhuo's appraisal was completed, Fang Lu was appraising the tenth piece at this time, although his psychological quality was good, and it was not affected by Zhao Zhuo's appraisal speed, but unfortunately there was a clear difference in the strength of the two.

(To be continued)