As Tong Dongyang's wooden box opened, both the audience and the contestants watched with almost bated breath, and everyone knew that what he took out was definitely not a rare item.

And Tong Dongyang obviously did not let everyone's expectations be disappointed, and after the box was opened, he took out a Shuanglong beast ear celadon jar from it.

This device is more than 40 centimeters high, the mouth is slightly oval, folded along the sharp lip, slightly tied neck, the shoulder is directly closed to form a flat bottom, and there are two symmetrical dragon-shaped animal ears at the shoulder position.

The overall shape of the porcelain is beautiful and atmospheric, that is, it has a rough wind, but also has delicate points, especially the two dragon-shaped ears, which are delicately carved with scales, and the porcelain is also carved with fine lines such as water ripples.

And under the jar, there are also some spots dyed with sauce brown markings, which makes a different color in the cyan.

Regardless of what you can understand, what you can't understand, have praised it, just the shape of this vessel has a sense of dignity, and Shuanglong is vivid, the shape of the vessel is orthodox and dignified, and compared with many porcelain that has appeared before, there is almost no trace of damage to the glaze layer, which shows the style of this vessel thousands of years ago.

Ji Yuan couldn't help but praise lightly: "It's really a rare Western Jin Dynasty Yue kiln." ”

Zhao Zhuo secretly said that Ji Yuan's eyesight is outstanding, and he can tell that this is the Yue kiln ware of the Western Jin Dynasty at just a few glances, of course, there have been a lot of Yue kiln porcelain on the field, but the characteristics of the Yue kiln porcelain of each dynasty are different, and there are so many fakes, to identify it in such a short period of time, it takes very experienced experience.

This porcelain has a tight fetus, and the glaze is blue and delicate, especially the fine patterns and dragon ears on the surface, and its attainment is already close to the level of real porcelain, but it still has the color of the original celadon.

In addition, there is a special process such as sauce brown markings on the body, which adds a lot of points to it.

Of course, the most popular thing about this piece of porcelain is the perfect glaze.

The original celadon has been produced as early as the Shang and Zhou dynasties, but it was not stable until the Jin Dynasty, the glaze is too thin and has no texture, the adhesion of the glaze layer is poor, and there are many shrinkage glaze points or glaze spots, which affects the beauty of porcelain. Therefore, the kiln workers are constantly modifying the glaze recipe and firing process, hoping to make more perfect porcelain.

As long as you compare the porcelain of the various dynasties after the Shang and Zhou dynasties in detail, it can be clearly found that the glaze of the porcelain of each dynasty is thicker than that of the previous dynasty.

But then the problem came again, that is, after the glaze layer was thickened, the glass phase was stronger, which made the original glaze expansion coefficient and the porcelain expansion coefficient different and caused by the glaze opening problem more prominent. This kiln disease also makes the glaze layer very easy to fall off, so most of the porcelain from the Western Jin Dynasty and the Northern and Southern Dynasties has open pieces and the glaze layer is seriously peeling, and even many of the original and exquisite porcelain have become mottled.

It was not until the late Northern and Southern Dynasties to the Sui Dynasty that the potters had found a balance and completely overcame the problem of peeling glaze, and the Chinese ceramics were finally shaped and began to last for thousands of years.

This typical piece of Yue kiln celadon ware, the shape is large, thick and heavy, just from the shape of the perfect thing, and although the glaze layer has an open piece but does not peel off, it is very well preserved, so it is very rare.

And although there are not a few beast ear jars in the Western Jin Dynasty, there are not many that can use dragons as animal ears, and it can even be said that this is a unique product that suddenly appeared.

Therefore, the judges did not dare to peep, and walked to the table one after another to begin to identify this porcelain.

Identification of the original celadon, the most afraid to see is the unique product, because once there is a unique product, its shape, size and the like are inconclusive, many counterfeits are also to see this, specially manufactured unique products to win high prices.

But there are also some unique products that are looked away by the seller and fall into the hands of buyers, but when they go to identify, they are rare unique products, so as to make a lot of money, which is of course a very small number of people who have taken great luck.

After careful evaluation by the judges, they finally gave this Shuanglong beast ear celadon jar a high price of 6.5 million.

Zhao Zhuo also bowed his head slightly when he heard this: "This price is quite fair, porcelain like this has a complete glaze, but it is indeed a rare boutique, and it is not worried about not being able to sell." ”

Ji Yuan said with a smile: "Yes, modern people look at things first to see the shape, the reason why the original celadon is rarely interested in the auction is precisely because its glaze layer is seriously peeled, which affects its beauty, but like this one The glaze layer is intact, it attracts attention." ”

Cui Shiyan said: "Yes, the original celadon can be auctioned at a high price, either it is a unique product, or it is a good shape, because in that era, basically the decoration and the like were very simple." ”

Although Jing Yao didn't speak, she also bowed her head lightly on the side, expressing her approval.

Ji Xiaofan muttered on the side: "In that case, wouldn't Tong Dongyang take the first place this time?" ”

Ji Yuan smiled: "This is not necessarily, isn't your brother Zhao still making a move?" ”

Zhao Zhuo smiled and said meaningfully: "Good things are naturally the last shot, I'm afraid Grandpa Ji won't be able to see it in this scene." ”

Ji Yuan laughed and said, "It's okay, I'm willing to wait." ”

The competition for primitive celadon is in full swing, but there are not many porcelain that can obtain high prices, even if the collection of some insiders is mostly in the hundreds of thousands, and occasionally there are millions of things.

The price of porcelain seems to have peaked with Tong Dongyang's appearance, and the price gradually began to decline, occasionally ups and downs, but it was always far from the high price of 6.5 million, and at this time, it was finally Tong Qizhou's turn to appear.

Tong Qizhou stood up, and someone immediately responded with warm applause, after all, Tong Qizhou's identity and status in the whole Baicheng are still very high, and he does charity every year, has more TV, and naturally recognizes more people.

The porcelain he brought was obviously larger than Tong Dongyang's, and the two staff members carefully lifted the wooden box to the wooden table, then lifted the top and took out the contents inside.

As soon as the collection was displayed in front of everyone's eyes, everyone couldn't help but show surprise, and their eyes were full of amazement.

This is a blue glazed lotus petal pattern lid jar, straight mouth, short neck, the largest part of the neck is lower, the flat bottom is formed after the belly is bulging, there are six Arhat Buddha statues on the shoulder, each Arhat is sitting on the lotus seat, the lotus flower is slightly convex and adducted, and the double lotus petal pattern carved on the jar body is combined into one, the lotus petal is covered and tilted downward, and the lotus petal pattern on the lid of the jar is reflected.

Looking at it from a distance, it is as if the Arhat is sitting on the lotus, and the whole big pot is like the three thousand worlds of Buddhism, coupled with the full blue and blue color of the glaze, under the illumination of the light, the Arhat is like a living thing, and the lotus seems to be in full bloom.

Everyone's eyes widened, and they couldn't help sighing, Tong Dongyang couldn't help but be slightly stunned, he didn't expect Tong Qizhou to find such a good thing, and old collectors such as Chen Caiyuan, who knew the goods, couldn't help but bow their heads, although they had not yet reached a conclusion on the price, but they had already determined in their hearts that if this thing was genuine, then the price must be above the Shuanglong beast ear celadon jar just now, because this is also a unique product.

During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Buddhism flourished, and a large number of temples and Buddha grottoes were built in various places, and the number of monks and nuns soared. Decorations with Buddhist colors and meanings can be seen everywhere. For example, on the architectural decoration, there are signs such as flying sky and lotus flowers.

The same is true for porcelain, where a large number of items with Buddhist decoration have appeared, including lotus statues, lotus bowls, lotus jars, etc., but this is the first time that a porcelain with six arhats sitting on the shoulders has been seen.

However, from the simple porcelain shape and pattern, it can be clearly distinguished that this is also the porcelain of the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

Ji Yuan suddenly asked Ji Xiaofan: "Xiaofan, tell me, is this porcelain from the Southern Dynasty or the Northern Dynasty?" ”

Ji Xiaofan was stunned by the question, looked at it carefully, scratched his head and speculated: "It looks like something from the kiln." ”

Ji Yuan smiled but didn't answer, and looked at Zhao Zhuo, and Zhao Zhuo said bluntly: "It should be Northern Dynasty porcelain." ”

Ji Xiaofan couldn't help but wonder: "But it doesn't look much different from the Yue Kiln porcelain that appeared just now." ”

Zhao Zhuo explained with a smile: "The period of the Three Kingdoms and the Northern and Southern Dynasties was a period of great turmoil in history, and the development of the porcelain industry in the north and south was uneven. In the more stable south, with the early Yue kiln in Zhejiang as the center, inherited and developed the achievements of the Eastern Han Dynasty celadon, the north is due to the impact of years of war, so the development of celadon is relatively rare, the start between the two is different, there are naturally some differences between them, the simplest is to look at the porcelain fetus, the porcelain fetal material in the Northern Dynasties period has a high content of alumina, so there is often a phenomenon that the degree of porcelain is slightly lower due to insufficient temperature, so the color of the porcelain fetus is slightly lighter than that of the south, and the porcelain fetus in the south is grayish-white. But the north is white. ”

Ji Xiaofan couldn't help nodding when he heard this, stared at the porcelain fetus and said: "Sure enough, the color is whiter than the Yue kiln porcelain, but if you don't compare it carefully, it's really difficult to see." ”

Ji Yuan said with a smile: "Although the experience is not necessarily accurate, but the accumulated experience is difficult to change, remember the tire color of the Yue kiln of the Southern Dynasty, and be able to accurately distinguish the tire color of the porcelain of the Northern Dynasty." Moreover, the porcelain fetus is only a part of it, in addition, the luster of the northern celadon glaze is better, the glass texture is stronger, you look at this piece of porcelain, under the illumination of the light, the surface shows the texture of the double dragon beast ear jar does not have, from the side, you can clearly see the clam light, so it is not wrong to conclude that it is genuine, after all, it is impossible for any modern technology to make the clam light. ”

(To be continued)