Chapter 64: The Candlestick to ward off evil spirits
The battle between the three of Fang Lu suddenly raised the highest price of porcelain to 5.5 million, which made the atmosphere in the venue very hot, and some audiences who had been watching it from the first scene vaguely smelled some taste.
When the first two races were halfway through, the price was about three or four million, but now it has suddenly increased to more than five million, and there are many more than four million, and many viewers are keenly aware that maybe this third Six Dynasties porcelain competition can appear more than 10 million porcelain!
In the Six Dynasties era, which lasted for more than 300 years, the mainstream of porcelain was celadon, which was not only much better than the original celadon in terms of fetal glaze, but also broke through the simple and regular geometric shapes of the past, and a large number of porcelain plastic products with animal images as the outer outline or local decoration appeared.
Although these porcelains were only some articles or Ming utensils at that time, however, such lifelike shapes are no longer simple supplies in modern times, but can also be deservedly called works of art, each piece of porcelain has precipitated traces left by history, enough to double its value.
The celadon of the Six Dynasties enjoys a high reputation in the porcelain of the past dynasties, all the exquisite shapes, the intact things, can almost be sold at the price of 100,000 hundreds of thousands, and the porcelain festival exhibits are the best of the fines, the collectors do not hesitate to take out the collection that took three years to select, many things make people have a kind of impulse to take it in their hands and can't put it down.
Time passed minute by minute, and the lunch break in the middle was a kind of torment for everyone, and it was hard to stay up until the beginning of the afternoon, and the audience sat down in their seats excitedly.
As soon as the afternoon opened, the price of porcelain created a new high, an old collector took out a piece of Deqing kiln black glaze sheep, because of its shape and proportions like a ruler painting, and the sheep's docile surname expression is very expressive, and that layer of black glaze is not only like lacquer, and the glaze layer of the brightness is also very good, and finally reached a high price of six million.
The black glazed porcelain of Deqing kiln also appeared in the second field, which was a black glazed four-series bird button cover jar with a high price of more than 7 million yuan by Fang Youming, but the original celadon ware has reached the highest level of primitive celadon in terms of technology, and the size is also larger than that of Yangzun, considering various factors, its price is much higher than this one.
Although this black glazed sheep is good in all aspects, in terms of overall craftsmanship, it is only the top grade of mature celadon, and it has not yet reached the top level of the Six Dynasties era, so the price given is also very appropriate.
With the appearance of the antique contestants, appraisers, collectors, and antique dealers appeared, and each of them came up with what he thought was the best collection.
An hour later, Tong Dongyang appeared again.
As soon as Tong Dongyang's name was called out by the staff, the audience erupted in warm applause, and many people even stood up and applauded wildly.
After all, in the first two games, the porcelain that Tong Dongyang took out was worth a lot of money, adding up to more than 10 million, although the second game did not get the first, but in everyone's opinion, it is one of the candidates who have sprinted more than 10 million porcelain.
The box Tong Dongyang was holding was relatively wide, making people feel like a thing that was not high in height, but quite wide and long, but the overall size was not very large, so everyone was whispering, not knowing what kind of treasure he was going to take out this time.
After the staff helped to open the box carefully, Tong Dongyang slowly took out a blue-glazed human riding beast candlestick.
The candlestick, also known as the beast riding vessel during the Six Dynasties, was named because it was more popular at that time to make the candlestick into the shape of Chengren riding the beast.
The candlestick is no more than 20 centimeters high, and a man rides on top of a unicorn, holding the horns of the unicorn in both hands, and wears a high hat with a reticulated curl brim, apparently empty in the middle, which can be used to insert candles.
The man riding the beast has deep eyes and high nose, beard under the chin, and the clothes are decorated with circle dots, which is a very typical shape of the Hu people of the Six Dynasties, and the unicorn under his body is lying on the ground, baring his teeth and eyes, which not only shows the demeanor of the rider, but also shows the ferocity of the unicorn, and the image is very vivid.
Just when everyone was amazed, they didn't expect Tong Dongyang's hand to reach into the wooden box again, and took out a human-riding beast candlestick with a similar shape.
This candlestick is also about 20 centimeters high, and the man's shape is almost exactly the same as the former, he is also wearing a beard, deep eyes and a high nose, a beard under the chin, the clothes are decorated with dotted patterns, and he wears a high hat, which is hollow enough to be used for candles.
But the riding beast under him became a flying lion, this flying lion crouched on his back, his eyes were round, his mouth was open, his teeth were bared, his jaw was bearded, his back was covered with manes, his abdomen was depicted with wings on both sides, his legs were bent under his abdomen, and his tail was in the shape of banana leaves. It has a bulging chest, a curved body, and a cocked hip, and a vigorous and handsome body.
The two candlesticks were obviously a pair, and they were placed side by side on the table, and the people in the field suddenly let out bursts of exclamation, not to mention how plump and realistic the shape was, as if it were real and illusory, as if everyone could see that the porcelain master pinched out the shape with his hands, and fantasized about the heroic pattern of the Hu man riding the beast in his head, and the blue-yellow glaze applied to the whole body alone seemed quite full and perfect, and there was hardly any trace of the years of experience.
Although the porcelain of the Six Dynasties period was mainly southern celadon, the finished products were mainly Han people, however, in the Eastern Han Dynasty, due to the division of the Xiongnu, the leader of the Southern Xiongnu Hu Han Evil Shan surrendered, and the handsome people moved inward, resulting in most of the Hu people moving into the Central Plains.
After the beginning of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Wei and Jin dynasties, with the continuous division of the Xiongnu, more Hu people moved into the Central Plains and the south, so in the porcelain of the Six Dynasties, there were also many porcelains that reflected the life of the Hu people.
It's just that because the social status of the Hu people at that time was very low, the number of such porcelain itself was quite small, not to mention such a porcelain with charm, it was already rare for such porcelain to get one, but I didn't expect Tong Dongyang to be able to make a pair, and the effort spent was unimaginable.
There was a lot of discussion about how much the pair of candlesticks would go up to, and many of them were even in a state of ecstasy, compared to these people, although the contestants also had an element of excitement, but most of them seemed very calm.
To become a qualified collector, the exercise of the heart surname is essential. After all, if you are greedy for the story of the seller's boasting, you will only suffer a loss, so no matter what you are facing, you must first be calm.
However, this is not something that everyone can do, not only novices, many veterans, after encountering a rather rare porcelain, will often fall into a state of madness, do not buy it is not enjoyable, and the night is haunted by dreams.
And because the profit and value-added space of the antique itself is huge, many novices have fallen into shopaholics, spending a lot of money to buy a bunch of fakes, such things happen every day in the antique circle.
And being able to sit here and compete, and being able to take out a piece of millions of porcelain, looks simple, but it is a decade of hard work on the stage for one minute and off the stage.
Zhao Zhuo is also carefully appraising, with his current vision and knowledge, he can not only judge the authenticity from the characteristics of the porcelain itself, but also judge from the ancient charm exuded from the porcelain.
A few minutes later, he finished identifying the two candlesticks, and said with a faint smile: "What a pair of candlesticks to ward off evil spirits, Tong Dongyang has taken great pains for this game." ”
Ji Xiaofan also bowed his head and said: "Yes, that unicorn and a lion are indeed quite charming." ”
Zhao Zhuo smiled and said, "That's not a lion, it's an evil spirit." ”
"Ward off evil spirits?" Ji Xiaofan said in surprise.
Zhao Zhuo explained with a smile: "Evil spirits are a kind of mythical beasts in ancient Chinese legends, like lions with wings, ancient fabrics, military flags, hooks, seal buttons, and bell buttons are often used as images to ward off evil spirits. During the period of the Six Dynasties, the carvings of the image of warding off evil spirits were very popular, and many princes and nobles had them listed in front of their graves to show their prominent status. Like this kind of carved candlestick to ward off evil spirits is called the candlestick, in the Six Dynasties period, especially in the Western Jin Dynasty unique utensils, the most special thing about the candlestick is the use of the image of the Hu people, plus this evil spirit, its owner should be the Hu people at that time in the status of the nobles. ”
Ji Xiaofan suddenly realized when he heard this, Ji Yuan said with a smile in the back: "Xiaofan, you can't just rely on mixing in the ghost market, although you can practice your eyesight, but you lack a lot of knowledge, the price of antiques is not only in the antiques themselves, but in how to use antiques to speculate the value behind them, if you just look at the antiques and ignore the things behind them, then the price you estimate is far from the real price." ”
Ji Xiaofan nodded again and again when he heard this: "Grandpa, I know, I will definitely read hard in the future, and integrate my vision and knowledge." ”
Cui Shiyan said with a smile: "Old Ji, Xiaofan's knowledge is good in the younger generation, I was at Xiaofan's age, but I still haven't touched the door." Blame me, my junior brother, like jumping out of a stone, God knows how he knows everything? ”
Hearing Cui Shiyan say this, Jing Yao couldn't help but say: "Director Cui is right, I've been with Zhao Zhuo for a long time, and even I feel that knowledge is too lacking. ”
Ji Xiaofan suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, and said in surprise: "It turns out that even Miss Jing has this feeling, I followed Brother Zhao to the ghost market a few times, and I didn't dare to speak out when I went later, he could see the truth at a glance, it really felt like a hero was useless." ”
Everyone couldn't help laughing, but Zhao Zhuo had a wry smile on his face, and he didn't know what to say for a while.
(To be continued)