Chapter Seventy-Six: A Thousand Peaks Green
Zhao Zhuo slowly opened the wooden box, and everyone saw a small blue and blue jar.
The jar is only a dozen centimeters, the body is carved with lotus petal patterns, the lid of the jar is a round button type, and the glaze color of the whole body is green and turquoise, crystal moist.
As soon as they saw this jar, ordinary viewers immediately became disappointed, thinking that Zhao Zhuo was going to make a masterpiece that made people shoot again, but the shape of this jar is not amazing, in the era when the lotus petal pattern was popular, such jars may be found everywhere, but because of the sense of nobility in its shape, the price may be a little higher.
In addition, I really can't find anything suspicious, so the audience is whispering, many people have already made up their minds about this small jar, and the price is only four or five million at the top.
In the arena where there are already two high-priced porcelains of 11 million, four or five million can only be regarded as medium goods.
However, some people have doubts in their hearts, Zhao Zhuo's things that he took out in three places in a row are not ordinary things, and they will always make people look away, so will it be the same this time?
Thinking of the last Yangxian celadon appearance, everyone didn't think it was just an ordinary thing, who knew that the fetus turned out to be purple sand as soon as they got started.
As a result, this doubt gradually spread in the minds of a few people like a ripple, and gradually affected most of the people in the venue.
Xing porcelain silver, Yue kiln jade, because of the influence of jade culture, the cyan of Yue kiln celadon shows a jasper-like texture, in order to achieve the color of jade, the color of porcelain in Yue kiln has been improving, at first it was sugar yellow, and then gradually transitioned to green, forming the color of green tea with green.
The celadon with the color of tea blue is the best in the kiln, however, the green color of this small jar is a little greener than that of tea blue.
This green ripples, like the color of the mountains and forests reflected in the water of the lake, so green that it seems to squeeze out the water.
As we all know, the higher the price of jade with a full head, and if this porcelain has a feeling similar to a water head, it is almost on a par with jade.
The judges couldn't help but be attracted by this green glaze, and stood up one after another, and as soon as one of them picked up the small can, his face immediately showed a hint of strangeness, just because the carcass was unexpectedly thin.
Before the Tang Dynasty, celadon was generally thick and thin, the glaze color was different, and the sense of light was very poor.
However, this thin carcass is only relative to the thick tire, but the fetal quality of this small jar is thinner than ordinary porcelain, but if you distinguish it carefully, this fetal quality is delicate and dense, and it does not look like a fake.
Several judges discerned for a while, and one of the older ones suddenly remembered something, and the hand holding the porcelain trembled violently, then rubbed his eyes vigorously, picked up a magnifying glass and carefully observed it for a while, and finally spit out three words: "Secret color porcelain!" ”
As soon as these three words came out, the contestants in the front row almost bounced a large piece at once, and they couldn't hold it back, especially some old collectors, whose eyes were even more round.
Tang Dynasty celadon, Yue kiln represents the highest level of craftsmanship, of which jade-like celadon is the highest grade, but there is another kind of porcelain above this highest grade, that is, the legendary secret color porcelain.
The secret color porcelain is known as "the nine autumn wind dew more kiln open, to win the thousand peaks of the emerald color", has the reputation of a thousand peaks of emerald color, but also represents the highest level of porcelain in the Tang Dynasty and Ten Kingdoms period, its survival does not exceed 30 pieces.
Moreover, due to its extremely difficult appearance carving process 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 royal supplies, and strict regulations: courtiers and commoners are not available!
The production of secret color porcelain also represents the rise of the prototype of the official kiln, and a piece of secret color porcelain has been priceless.
As soon as the judges identified it as a secret color porcelain, this small jar suddenly changed from a black chicken to a phoenix, and even the ordinary lotus petal pattern on the vessel just now became extraordinary.
Tong Dongyang and the others couldn't help but be stunned, they didn't expect Zhao Zhuo to be able to find such a rare treasure.
In the amazement of the judges, the long evaluation process began, and it took almost half an hour for the judges to reach a unanimous opinion, this small jar is a secret color porcelain genuine, with an estimate of 13 million.
Zhao Zhuo smiled slightly, and in this way, he directly reduced the gap between Tong Dongyang and Tong Dongyang by two million.
The audience was suddenly boiling, and there was no shortage of screams and shouts in the audience, for the audience, although the secret color porcelain was not their own, they were completely as if they were the discoverers, and they were excited.
Secret color porcelain appeared, the fourth game has no suspense, no matter from the point of view of technology, glaze or value, the secret color porcelain represents the highest level of the Tang Dynasty, its status is unshakable.
What's more, its survival can be described as rare, and to a certain extent, it can even surpass the Ru kiln vessels.
After the fourth game, Zhao Zhuo and Ji Xiaofan drove to the old site of Xiping Village, and halfway through, Ji Xiaofan told Ji Yuan and others about the game.
As soon as they arrived at the excavation site, Ji Yuan and others greeted them one after another, in addition to Ji Yuan, Cui Shiyan and Jing Yao, there were also several old appraisers in the museum.
Ji Yuan couldn't help but say urgently: "Xiao Zhuo, quickly take that secret color porcelain and take a look." ”
When he took out the secret color jar, Ji Yuan took it into his hand, and saw that the emerald fruit on the porcelain jar was like the pine green on the top of a thousand peaks, which was difficult to describe in words, and everyone was also an expert in identifying porcelain, and they had seen this secret color porcelain in other museums, but the appearance of any new secret color porcelain was enough to shock everyone again.
Everyone leaned their heads to watch, and from time to time they let out a sound of amazement, Ji Yuan couldn't help but praise: "Xiao Zhuo, you sell well enough at this level, if I knew that there was a secret color porcelain that had been in my house for so long, I really couldn't help but secretly open it to see it." ”
Everyone laughed, and the smile on Cui Shiyan's face was even stronger, because compared to Ji Yuan and the others, he knew that Zhao Zhuo had another killer weapon in his hand.
Ji Yuan smiled, cleared his throat and said, "Xiao Zhuo, is this secret color porcelain yours?" ”
Zhao Zhuo shook his head and said: "It's not, but the right to dispose of this porcelain is now in my hands, because the owner of this porcelain also needs money, so it is probably going to be auctioned." ”
Ji Yuan was immediately overjoyed and said: "Xiao Zhuo, you see otherwise, you will notify me when this porcelain is auctioned, if our pavilion can have such a secret color porcelain, it will be a great joy." ”
The old appraisers nodded again and again, and Zhao Zhuo agreed: "Grandpa Ji, don't worry, I will be the first to inform you when the auction comes." ”
Of course, Jing Yao knew what Ji Yuan had in mind, so she asked: "But if it is a directional auction to the museum, this price will be much less, I wonder if your buyer will have an opinion?" ”
Zhao Zhuo smiled slightly: "In terms of price, I think we can seriously discuss it, as long as it is within a suitable range, it should be no problem." ”
Ji Yuan nodded approvingly, but said to Cui Shiyan in surprise: "Director Cui, you're too quiet, aren't you, don't you say you're not interested in this secret color porcelain?" ”
Cui Shiyan laughed and said: "Of course I'm interested in secret color porcelain, but Ji Lao, you are an elder, and your Baicheng Museum is rich and rich, how dare I fight with you?" Moreover, the treasure of our museum is not comparable to the secret color porcelain. ”
"Didn't you recently excavate a group of tombs from the Qing Dynasty? Could it be that something good has been unearthed? Ji Yuan asked in surprise when he saw that he didn't even pay attention to the secret color porcelain, and he looked like he was rarely fighting.
Cui Shiyan smiled incomprehensibly and said, "Old Ji, I will keep this matter a secret first, and when you see it, it will definitely be an eye-opener." ”
Ji Yuan couldn't help laughing and said, "Okay, you and Xiao Zhuo really deserve to be senior brothers, and they both like to sell guanzi, okay, then I'll wait for the time to open my eyes." ”
As he spoke, he returned the secret color porcelain to Zhao Zhuo, and everyone's topic returned to the excavation of Xiping Village.
At this time, the open space around the Yuan family's mansion was already full of things that had been moved out of the cellar, and scaffolding had been erected, and corresponding protection measures had been taken for these things.
However, although the staff searched for these antiquities carefully, they did not find any related objects, not even a single piece of paper.
After a while, the cellar has been emptied, Zhao Zhuo and others came to the cellar again, the cellar was built in a boxy way, built by a large number of green bricks around, quite firm, the ground was also paved with pieces of green bricks, the whole cellar can be said to be clear at a glance.
Zhao Zhuo's gaze swept over the cellar, and he suddenly asked, "Could it be that the things are not hidden in those materials, but in these bricks?" ”
Ji Yuan and the others suddenly brightened their eyes, and they also felt that this was very possible, so everyone looked carefully in the cellar, occupied a corner, and carefully checked whether there were any green bricks that were loose.
Because the bricks must have been built together during the construction of the cellar, if there are any signs of loosening, it is likely that they were moved later.
However, Cui Shiyan and the others searched for it, and even knocked on each brick to see if there were hollow bricks, but in the end they did not find anything suspicious.
Zhao Zhuo's eyesight was several times better than everyone else, and he had carefully inspected each piece, and he had found no abnormalities, but there was no reason why the clue was broken here, and his gaze moved upward along the bricks on the four walls and landed on the top of the cellar.
(To be continued)