Chapter 15 Preparation for Porcelain Repair

After opening the door of the basement and turning on the light, Zhao Zhuo and the others saw a room full of porcelain.

From the Tang and Song dynasties to the Ming and Qing dynasties, there are private kilns and official kilns, all kinds of origins, all kinds of styles, just like a big army, although it can't be said to be very comprehensive, but it can be regarded as an eye-opener. There are many valuable items in these collections, but there are few fakes.

Zhou Yongliang obviously rarely brings people here, while introducing the two of them, he is very generous, and even if he likes anything, he can just pick it up and take a look.

Han Tiesheng didn't know much about these either, but fortunately, Zhao Zhuo whispered a few words from time to time, so that he could take Zhou Yongliang's words smoothly.

Zhou Yongliang didn't seem to expect that Han Tiesheng knew so much about porcelain, and he had the meaning of hating to see each other, and he was also interested when he spoke.

At this moment, Mo Ling suddenly said happily on the side: "Big brother, come and take a look at this." ”

Zhao Zhuo turned his head, and when he saw the gold-painted bottle, his heart couldn't help but be shocked, and his pupils contracted suddenly.

This bottle is about 30 centimeters high, and the bottle is in the shape of a celestial sphere, with a purple red glaze applied throughout, and it does not look special on the surface.

However, if you take a closer look, you will find that the glaze color is different, and some places seem to have rain hitting the glass window at the edge of the mouth, and the rain slides down to form a spotted feeling, and it is like the traces left by earthworms crawling over the mud.

The formation of this pattern is due to the use of opaque glaze, the addition of metal elements at high temperature, due to the different densities, the color presented on the glaze surface is some under the glaze, some are above the glaze, and local flow phenomena will occur, so the traces similar to "earthworm mud" are formed.

Jun kiln was fired in the Northern Song Dynasty and was one of the five famous kilns of the Song Dynasty. It was created in the Tang Dynasty, through the Song and Jin dynasties to the Yuan Dynasty, and is a more characteristic variety in the celadon system. Its firing site is centered in Yu County, Henan, and the kiln sites are all over the county.

However, the Jun kiln is not as elegant as the traditional celadon, on the contrary, it is dominated by bright blue, purple and red colors, which is very visually impactful for the Chinese people who are accustomed to white glaze and green glaze.

The gold-painted bottle in front of me is standardized and workmanlike, the shape is chic and interesting, and the glaze color is very positive, which is very rare.

This "earthworm walking mud" is a genuine thing, Zhao Zhuo picked it up again, turned to the bottom to take a look, only to see a rough "five" character carved at the bottom, and his heart was more certain.

Something from the Jun kiln, most of the numbers engraved at the bottom of the utensils are one to ten, according to legend, one, three, five, singular numbers are red, two, four, six complex numbers are cyan, but some people say that the smaller the number, the larger the type, of course, according to Mo Ling's judgment, these are just the marks made by the potters for easy identification.

Such a piece of Jun kiln ware can be sold for a high price of four or five million, but it is a pity that this bottle has a punch, and the crack has been extending downward, almost reaching the length of half a bottle.

In this way, it can only be sold for four or five hundred thousand yuan, which is a pity.

However, the Jun kiln ware is rare, Zhao Zhuo naturally will not let go of this opportunity, hurriedly walked to Han Tiesheng's ear, whispered, Han Tiesheng walked to the desk, pretended to look at it, and sighed lightly: "This Jun kiln ware is really a pity." ”

Zhou Yongliang also sighed: "Yes, this thing is actually rare, but this punch is too troublesome, it wasn't so long when I bought it back a few years ago, who knew that it would slowly extend, and I had also found someone to repair it, but the only way to do it was to repair it, so I had no choice but to give up." ”

"Hot fix?" Han Tiesheng glanced at Zhao Zhuo.

Zhao Zhuo whispered; "The so-called thermal repair is a repair technology centered on Jingdezhen to reconstruct and repair ceramics. Most of them have carried out large-scale damage to the original artifacts, and repaired them by tyre, bottom, repair, glaze, recoloring and aging. Such restoration can achieve the purpose of commercial transactions, but it requires the ceramics to be re-fired and re-fired, and the fire is refined, but in this way, the cultural relics have lost their original historical features, and the restored porcelain is difficult to be identified as genuine again. ”

Han Tiesheng sighed: "It's really a dilemma, I want to preserve it perfectly, but I don't want it to be transformed by modern technology." Speaking of this, he said, "Actually, I have a soft spot for this Jun kiln vessel, if Brother Zhou is willing, I want to exchange this porcelain with you?" ”

Zhou Yongliang hesitated slightly: "Brother Han, there is no way to repair this one, you will suffer if you take it back." ”

Han Tiesheng said with a smile: "Brother Zhou, don't worry, I just can't help but want to take it back when I see this Jun Kiln Vessel." ”

Zhou Yongliang smiled and said: "Okay, then Brother Han, you can choose another piece of porcelain." ”

So, under Zhao Zhuo's selection, Han Tiesheng finally walked out of Zhou Yongliang's house with two pieces of porcelain, and after getting into the car, Han Tiesheng couldn't wait to ask: "Xiao Zhuo, isn't this porcelain broken?" What are we buying this back for? ”

Zhao Zhuo smiled and said, "Didn't Uncle Han ask me if I could repair the porcelain in the afternoon?" So I wanted to give it a try. ”

Han Tiesheng understood this, but he immediately asked curiously: "Then if it is repaired, how much can this porcelain be sold for?" ”

Zhao Zhuo smiled and said, "About four or five million." ”

"What, four or five million?" Han Tiesheng sighed in surprise when he heard this, and sighed, "This antique is really not something that ordinary people can play with, and all my belongings add up to a few porcelain bottles." ”

Zhao Zhuo couldn't help laughing, and reached out to touch the punch of this gold-painted bottle, if it can really be made perfect, it is also a merit.

That night, Zhao Zhuo took Han Tiesheng's car back to Huaihai City because he had a class, returned the Hongxian porcelain vase and the gold-painted Lianza vase to the rented house, and began to prepare for the porcelain repair.

In addition to the superb repair process, the material is also very important, which is divided into two categories, one is the material for filling, and the other is the material for dyeing.

Repair porcelain, if the fragments of porcelain are still there, it will be relatively easy, after some treatment of the fragments, you can use adhesives to bond them, of course, the adhesive should be colorless and transparent, high bonding strength, strong aging resistance, fast coagulation speed, after bonding joints, it is difficult to distinguish the stubble gaps.

Of course, depending on the nature of the restoration, the difficulty and steps of commercial restoration will be large and cumbersome, and the materials used will naturally be very different.

The most troublesome thing is that some porcelain has been broken for too long, and the broken part can no longer be found, so the gap must be filled with filling materials.

Nowadays, the general choice of materials is mostly resin and quartz powder, which is adjusted to paste filling, but this is aged, once the age is exceeded, the filling part will deteriorate, if not repaired again in time, it is likely to lead to the re-damage of porcelain, even more serious than before repair.

The most important thing in Moling's porcelain repair technique is not in filling in the material, but in the dyeing material.

Dyeing refers to the glaze color, because the glaze of porcelain is very rich, mainly with acrylic acid fast-drying color Xu material using a combination of brush, hand-painted technology, a variety of colors, painting patterns are treated separately.

However, it is difficult to achieve the degree of perfection of the dye, and the combination of various colors is a problem, and it is very difficult to achieve the same glaze color as the porcelain itself, which cannot be distinguished by the naked eye.

The dyes used in the secret recipe that Mo Ling said were naturally not modern chemical materials, but more than 200 kinds of minerals, and a large part of the names of these minerals Zhao Zhuo had never even heard of, and the font written by Mo Ling was also very rare traditional characters.

Zhao Zhuo had to go to the school library, and it took a lot of effort to translate these traditional Chinese characters into modern characters, and then look up on the library's computer, but found nothing, so he had to manually go to the mineral books to search, fortunately, Huaihai University has a mineral processing major, so there are several rows of professional books.

Although each one was as thick as a dictionary, Zhao Zhuo carefully flipped through the pages, looking for the modern name of each mineral.

In this way, it took almost a morning for Zhao Zhuo to list all the names of more than 200 minerals. If it were someone else, it would take a few days.

Luo made a list, and Zhao Zhuo also corresponded to the introduction of each mineral in his mind, and found that the colors of these minerals were actually different, as far as red was concerned, it was divided into 30 categories, such as pink, concubine red, magenta, pink, begonia red, pomegranate red, etc., and many colors were also things that Zhao Zhuo had never heard of.

After determining the names of more than 200 minerals, the next step is to buy these minerals, if you want to buy them all in Huaihai City, Zhao Zhuo alone will definitely not be able to do it.

So Zhao Zhuo found Qin Xin to help, and Qin Xin introduced several CEOs of companies related to minerals, but many of these minerals have not even been touched by these CEOs, fortunately, Qin Xin's face is big enough, after understanding the situation, the other party promised to send these minerals over as soon as possible, but many of them need to be transported from all over the country, and it will take about ten days.

Zhao Zhuo is not panicked, this repair porcelain is not as easy as the repair of paintings, generally speaking, it takes a long time to repair a porcelain, take only one centimeter of cracks or chips, if only by hand, it will take about 20 days to carefully restore, if there are larger gaps or even broken objects, it will take 1 to 2 months to repair, and some even need up to a year, it takes so long to repair porcelain, how much energy is required, This is one of the important reasons for the small number of porcelain restorers.

(To be continued)