Chapter 39 Secret Color Porcelain
"Only 100,000?" The old man was surprised when he heard this, "Manager Feng, you're not joking, are you?" Last time, it was 300,000. ”
Not to mention that the previous one was okay, as soon as he said it, Manager Feng couldn't help but pull up the word "Sichuan" on his forehead, but because Zhao Zhuo was not angry, he just said: "This one is only worth so much money, 100,000 is enough, if you take it to another house, I will give you 7 or 80,000 at most." ”
The old man said distressedly: "If I had known, I would have brought the other two, and maybe I would be able to make up a million." ”
"A million?" Everyone was taken aback, and Zhao Zhuo said: "Old man, it's not realistic to be a million, if you are not in a hurry, you can take it to the auction house to try." ”
"Hey, I'm just in a hurry for this time, my wife is going to have surgery, I was more than 300,000 yuan last time, and it is only enough for the upfront expenses, and now I urgently need this money for later treatment." The old man said urgently.
Manager Feng's face softened, and he sighed: "Old man, it's not that I don't help you, but this pawnshop has the rules of a pawn shop, and I really can't help it." ”
Zhao Zhuo thought for a while and said: "Otherwise, I'll help you identify it, if it's genuine, I'll help you contact the auction house and let people buy it off-site first, so that the money can be handed over to you first." ”
Manager Feng saw that Zhao Zhuo was willing to help, and immediately said: "Mr. Zhao is a member of the appraiser association, and he has a wide range of contacts, so you can rest assured that Mr. Zhao will help." ”
"Okay, young man, then you come with me." The old man immediately rejoiced, pulled Zhao Zhuo and walked out, Li Chengliang and others hurriedly followed, although I don't know if the two antiques that the old man said can be worth a million, but how can I stand by and watch this kind of thing?
It didn't take long for Zhao Zhuo and his party to come to the old man's residence, which was an old mansion that looked dilapidated and old, obviously experienced a lot of wind and rain, and there was a pair of big red and black couplets hanging in front of the door.
After walking into the house, I saw that the house was empty, and there was no place to sit, and everyone couldn't help but feel sad, this Liu Lao's family was not rich, and he had no children under his knees, in order to treat his wife, whether it was savings or furniture and electrical appliances at home, he sold out of his savings, and went to the street every morning and returned late to sell some small things, in order to be able to make up the surgery fee.
Zhao Zhuo sighed secretly when he saw it, thinking to himself, even if the old man had fakes in his hands, he would have to spend a lot of money to buy them, anyway, he could earn back one million at any time, and the old man's life and the impression he gave people like this were priceless.
Liu Lao quickly walked out of the back room, and walked over with a thing, wrapped in a layer of red cloth, he carefully put the thing on the table, uncovered the red cloth, and saw that it was a wooden bag inside, the texture was very ordinary cork, old, natural texture, and there were some traces of wear and tear on it.
Liu Lao stretched out his hand and stroked the bag sleeve and said: "These things are all treasures handed down from our ancestors, and they have always been the heirlooms of our Liu family, I didn't expect that there would be a day when they were lost, but these are really not worth mentioning compared to my wife's life, Mr. Zhao, you can help you take a look and see how much it can be worth?" ”
Zhao Zhuo opened the sac, and then saw a three-legged disc on the yellow satin.
This plate is a disc, yellow, green, brown glaze, outlining the bird lotus pattern. The color is round, the workmanship is beautiful, the whole is dignified and generous, and the beauty of the ancient rhyme arises spontaneously.
Zhao Zhuo took out the small dish, rubbed it with his hand, weighed it again, and couldn't help but nod and said: "It's genuine, if you take it to auction, it should be able to fetch about 400,000 yuan." ”
In the Tang Dynasty, the era from pottery to porcelain really crossed over, and the difference between pottery and porcelain was white and hard or translucent, and the biggest key was the temperature of fire. Although there was porcelain in the Han Dynasty, the temperature was not high, and the fragile texture could only be regarded as the original porcelain, but in the Tang Dynasty, not only the glaze was mature, but the fire temperature could reach more than 1,000 degrees Celsius.
Although this three-color small dish is not a fine product smelted by a famous kiln, it is quite appreciative from its glaze color and shape, and in recent years, there are many similar three-color porcelain, so the price is easy to grasp.
Hearing that this small dish could be sold for 400,000 yuan, Liu Lao was immediately overjoyed, asked everyone to wait for a while, and immediately went inside to get another piece of porcelain.
Li Chengliang couldn't help but ask: "Wood, can this small dish really be worth 400,000?" ”
Zhao Zhuo smiled and said, "I estimated it a little higher, but 300,000 should be able to be photographed." ”
The big head couldn't help but suddenly said on the side: "Manager Nafeng said that the porcelain he received for the first time is a fake, but these two pieces of Liu Lao are genuine, could he be mistaken?" ”
Zhao Zhuo said: "I can't make a conclusion if I haven't seen it, but whether it's a fake or a genuine product, I believe it can't hide it from the eyes of their boss. ”
As he was talking, Liu Lao walked out with another thing, and when the red cloth was removed, another wooden capsule was revealed, but as soon as he saw this sac, Zhao Zhuo felt that his eyes lit up.
This bag is half a meter long, it is a fine red sandalwood, and it is different from the bag of the jade gourd pendant that the big head bought, this is a whole piece of carved material, the pattern is staggered, the structure is dense, and the whole body is purple-red-brown.
Mo Ling's eyes widened when he saw it, and he said: "Big brother, it's rare to see such a good rosewood, maybe it's the most expensive of several pieces of porcelain." ”
Zhao Zhuo also nodded, slowly opened the capsule, and then saw a small blue and blue can.
This small jar is only a dozen centimeters high, the body of the vessel is engraved with lotus petal pattern, the shape of the vessel is flat and round, the shin is tied, the outer foot is open, the round button cover, its glaze is green and blue, crystal moist, like the crystal clear water of the quiet lake.
Zhao Zhuo has seen a lot of porcelain, but he has never seen such porcelain, and its shape is a thing from the Tang Dynasty.
The most famous kilns of the Tang Dynasty are the Yue kiln and the Xing kiln, the Yue kiln mainly manufactures celadon, its porcelain is as clear as ice, crystal warm and moist as jade, the color is green with green and the tea blue is similar.
Xing porcelain mainly produces white porcelain, its soil is fine, the wall is firm and thin, and the shape is stable.
This small jar looks noble, the scratches are smooth, the glaze is uniform and smooth, and it has a bit of the color of the official kiln, however, it is a little different from the color of the ordinary celadon produced by the Yue kiln.
Zhao Zhuo frowned slightly, picked up the small jar, and touched it with his hand, only to feel that the carcass was very thin, and the porcelain fetus was delicate and dense, and it didn't look like a fake.
When Li Chengliang and the others saw Zhao Zhuo's identification, they were silent on the side, but their necks were stretched out, and they seemed to want to find out.
Liu Lao is face is looking forward to it, a small dish can be worth 400,000, so isn't such a big jar worth more?
Just when Zhao Zhuo pondered for a long time, and was a little unsure whether it was genuine or fake, Mo Ling, who had not spoken, suddenly burst out three words: "Secret color porcelain!" ”
"What, Mystic porcelain?" Zhao Zhuo couldn't help but gasp when he heard this, and information about the secret color porcelain surged out of his mind like spring water.
The so-called secret color porcelain, the first theory is that it originated in the period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, when the Qian court of Wu Yue controlled the Yue kiln, in order to maintain its rule and seek political protection, it ordered the Yue kiln to burn porcelain for worship, and the secret was not revealed, and the common people were not allowed to use it; And the glaze formula, the production process is secret, these fired porcelain, it is called "secret color porcelain", and it will be paid tribute to the powerful Tang Dynasty.
The porcelain of the Yue kiln was originally called sugar yellow, a bit like the yellow of brown sugar, and then gradually transitioned to green, and when it came to the secret color porcelain, it reached the color of green and blue, which was greener than ordinary celadon.
However, no one knows how green this secret color porcelain is, and all the secrets are revealed in the Tang Dynasty underground palace of the Famen Temple Tower in Shaanxi Province decades ago.
Famen Temple is located in Fufeng Famen Town, Shaanxi Province, which is named after Li Yuan, the ancestor of Tang Dynasty, and enshrines the Buddha's finger relics in the temple. This relic is the treasure of Buddhism, and it is made up of seven letter sets, one by one, and the innermost letter contains the relics.
Because the tower of Famen Temple suddenly collapsed, the state found that there was an underground palace under the tower when the rescue surname was excavated. From the time this underground palace was buried to the time it was discovered, no one bothered it in between, and it was buried for 1,113 years. All the items were buried at that time, and the text is clearly written, and a total of 2,499 cultural relics have been unearthed.
On the warehousing list of these items, it is clearly written that "there are seven porcelain secret color bowls, and two silver edges inside; There are six porcelain secret color plates (plates) stacked (plates). ”
It was not until this time that the secret color porcelain was truly revealed to the world.
Before the discovery of secret color porcelain in Famen Temple, the crown of ancient Chinese porcelain was Ru kiln porcelain, and Zhao Zhuo occasionally got the flower pouring of Song Renzong in Zhuangyuan Village was Ru kiln porcelain.
Ru kiln porcelain as the first of the five famous kilns of the Northern Song Dynasty, its and agate glaze, forbidden to burn in the palace, the number of survival is extremely rare, according to the number of records in the world about 100 pieces, however, the number of secret color porcelain is not more than 30 pieces!
Ru kiln porcelain in addition to the royal room, the ministers of the court and the wealthy people can also use. However, due to her extremely difficult appearance carving and decoration technology and strict glaze annealing technology, the yield of secret color porcelain is low and the processing time is long, although it has become the world's most rare and precious palace special imperial supplies. And it is strictly stipulated: courtiers and commoners are not available!
Therefore, in a certain sense, the emergence of secret color porcelain, porcelain began to have court characteristics, although the concept of the official kiln was formed from the Song Dynasty, but only the secret color porcelain of the Tang Dynasty, but began to have the prototype of the official kiln, Ru kiln porcelain in the late Northern Song Dynasty Huizong period of court porcelain, about 900 years ago, but the secret color porcelain as the palace porcelain, but more than 1100 years ago.
Whether it is history, status, or color modeling, the secret color porcelain is not inferior to Ru kiln porcelain, and the number is even rarer, all of which also makes each piece of secret color porcelain a rare treasure, priceless!
(To be continued)