Chapter Forty-Nine: Each Exhibits of Curiosities
For this pastel porcelain, the layman looks at the beautiful color, while the insider looks at the shape and texture to see the glaze, and uses a pair of eyes to identify whether it is genuine.
Subsequently, the staff took this pastel Zen bottle to the judges' seat, and after several judges looked at it in turn, one of the senior collectors stood up and announced: "This pastel Zen bottle is a folk kiln in the Guangxu period, and it is determined to be genuine, with an estimated value of about 60,000 yuan." ”
The young woman suddenly showed a happy face, and the atmosphere in the venue was lively all of a sudden, and the audience whispered about it, and was surprised and envious, although the style of such a colorful bottle was simple, but similar things could be seen in the craft shop, and the price was only dozens of hundreds, but this one in front of them could be sold for 60,000 yuan, which made people marvel at the charm of antiques.
For players in the antique world, it is commonplace to see such a scene, one by one calm, for them, the things of ordinary players are not the highlights, what is really worth paying attention to is the things in the hands of those collectors and appraisers behind, in the Dou Porcelain Festival, tens of thousands of things that are simply the bottom of the box, everyone who has participated in the Dou Porcelain Festival knows that each of the six games can get the first place that is millions of things.
Despite this, the porcelain brought out by ordinary people to participate in the competition was enough to slowly heat up the atmosphere in the venue.
In the first competition, there were about 100 ordinary people among the more than 200 contestants, and one by one they took the stage one by one to display the precious porcelain that was inherited from the family or obtained by chance in front of everyone, and after the appraisal of the judges, the valuation was calculated.
Since for ordinary players, there have been appraisers from the Appraiser Association who have conducted a preliminary appraisal of their collections before the competition, so only a very few of the hundred or so people have high imitations in their collections.
Two hours have passed, and the appraisal of the collection of ordinary players has just ended, and the highest price in the collection has reached more than 600,000 yuan, which has caused everyone to sigh.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, the first game opened, and the organizers deliberately divided the time of the game into two parts, which was also a gimmick, because everyone knew that the later the later, the higher the price of porcelain.
At the beginning of the afternoon, there was a contestant who had participated in the competition to exhibit porcelain was identified as high as 1 million high price, causing a sensation in the audience, and then, with the production of a piece of porcelain, there are constantly porcelain identified high prices, and there is no shortage of famous works of collection, the highest price has reached more than 2 million.
The price continues to rise, but also let the atmosphere in the field almost burned to the top, some people are staring straight at the big screen, some people are eye-opening, it looks very inconspicuous some porcelain can be worth hundreds of thousands, just like those blue and white porcelain bowls, many people remember in their childhood memories, in the kitchen of their hometown there are such a big bowls, and many are broken when they play, now I think about it is the heart and liver hurt, I knew that those old goods can be worth so much money, It's been hidden in a box like a treasure in the morning.
It's just that it's too late to regret it now, and it's useless to sigh even if you're sighing.
And some people remember that there are still such antiquities at home, and they are secretly happy, thinking that they will turn it out as soon as they get home.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, after the collection of the last ordinary player was appraised, the price was mediocre, but this did not make the audience's enthusiasm diminish in any way, because the contestants from below are people in the antique circle, and what can be taken on such a grand occasion as the Dou Porcelain Festival is naturally a heavyweight thing.
As soon as the next contestant stood up, the staff began to introduce his identity on it, and when they heard his identity, Zhao Zhuo and Ji Xiaofan almost didn't laugh.
The introduction identity is a process that every participant has, but the introduction is filled in by the participants themselves, and of course, it has also been reviewed and confirmed by the organizer.
Most players are relatively low-key, like ordinary people, their introduction identity is very simple, that is, citizens, or the profession is revealed, the name is revealed, and the identity of the more status-based is also very simple, just like Tong Qizhou, just a sentence of the general manager of Tong's jade trading company is worth a lot of names.
But there is no shortage of people who love to be in the limelight, like the contestants in this first antique circle.
This person's name is Zheng Guangyuan, in his early thirties, and he is also a well-known local collector, however, this person is obviously very showy, and he lists a lot of various identities in the identity introduction, including a certain university graduate, a cultural consultant of a certain company, how many years of collecting experience, and have participated in such and such competitions.
In the eyes of insiders, this is completely funny, but in the eyes of laymen, they feel that this person's identity is amazing, and they are looking forward to what a sky-high price he will take out in his hand.
Zheng Guangyuan strode up to the stage, and as the staff helped him open the wooden box, a pastel auspicious bottle suddenly appeared under the light.
This bottle is more than 30cm high, the mouth of the can is introverted, the shoulders are full, the straight cylindrical round belly, and the feet are lying down. The front and back of the bottle are painted with the picture of the seven children of the baby's play, the children in the courtyard play among the travertine, the flowers and trees, or hold the jade chime, or hold the wish, the demeanor is vivid and natural, the hair is combed in a bun, the face is round, the body is plump, and the clothes are gorgeous.
The clothes of the fourteen children before and after are not repeated, and the colors of each piece are varied, and the folds are fine and smooth.
Just looking at the picture, people can't help but feel the faint and ancient meaning coming, and then look at its tire glaze, the tire color is white, the glaze color is light green as the base, and the neck is painted with a twined branch lotus treasure bottle halberd diagram, decorated with jade chime, meaning auspicious every year. The ears are delicately decorated with blue color dragons, simple and exquisite.
Zheng Guangyuan then turned the bottle over, and everyone could see that the bottom of it was evenly covered with turquoise green glaze, and the six-character seal script was signed with the year number "Daqing Dao Light Year System".
There have been a lot of pastel porcelain in the first scene, but there are only a few that are as complex and delicate as the picture, and the shape of this bottle is also very atmospheric, which has attracted many people's speculation, and it is estimated that it will set a new high in price.
Zheng Guangyuan was obviously confident in what he had brought out, standing triumphantly in front of the platform, spinning the bottle around in front of the camera so that the audience could see it clearly.
Of course, he didn't know that there was an ancient spirit watching by his side, and Mo Ling's action was more convenient than anyone else's, and he stayed on the stage all the time, looking at the porcelain on the stage.
Ji Xiaofan whispered: "The pastel bottle made by Daoguang in the Daoguang period seems to be a relatively high-grade porcelain in that era, if it is genuine, the price must be more than two million." ”
Zhao Zhuo's eyes were sharp and extraordinary, and he was pondering carefully from the moment he took out the porcelain vase, and then shook his head slightly and said, "It's a pity that this is a fake." ”
Ji Xiaofan couldn't help but be secretly surprised: "Is it a fake?" But judging from the shape, glaze and drawing, it looks like a genuine product. ”
Zhao Zhuo smiled slightly: "Pastel was first created in the late Kangxi period, burned in Yongzheng, Qianlong, is a major variety of porcelain production in the Qing Dynasty, its use of 'glass white' has a unique opabite effect, can make the color painting appear shade concave and convex changes, increase the expressiveness of the painting, so that the picture is soft and soft, rich in Chinese painting style, of course, pastel each dynasty experienced, its characteristics will be different. The age of the highest grade of pastel is the Yongzheng Qianlong period, and in the Jiaqing period, its heirloom products are much inferior to the utensils of the Qianlong period, and no matter the modeling, the ornamental theme is based on the previous dynasty, there is no major breakthrough. In the Daoguang period, although there were pastel porcelain in both official kilns and private kilns, the porcelain industry at that time had entered a stage of decline, and even the technical level of official kilns had certain defects. ”
Speaking of this, he pointed to the porcelain on the platform and said: "If the pastel porcelain in the Daoguang period has a white glaze, it often has a wavy glaze, which is generally called 'wave glaze'. However, in order to achieve this effect, the imitators also have to make the carcass light and thin, because once the tire is thick, this concave and convex feeling will be weakened a lot, however, the genuine pastel porcelain in the Daoguang period has a thick carcass. ”
Ji Xiaofan couldn't help but suddenly realize when he heard this, although he didn't touch it with his touch, but staring at the inner tube from a distance, he could indeed feel that the layer of white was much lighter.
Zhao Zhuo continued: "There is not only one loophole, the picture of this pastel porcelain vase is indeed very expressive, and the decoration is also quite ancient, but if you look closely, the lines are thicker and more sluggish, and the bottom of the genuine product in the Daoguang period is slightly darker than that of Jiaqing ware when it is turquoise green glaze." And this one is shallower than Jiaqing's utensils. Therefore, a cursory look will indeed mistake it for the real thing, but it will not stand up to scrutiny. ”
Ji Xiaofan nodded again and again when he heard this, and couldn't help but praise: "Brother Zhao really knows the porcelain of every dynasty well." ”
At this moment, the porcelain also arrived at the judges' bench, and after careful identification, several judges gave a reply that it was a fake.
Hearing that the thing was identified as a fake, Zheng Guangyuan couldn't help but be taken aback, straight is impossible. However, after one of the judges explained the flaws of the fake in detail, Zheng Guangyuan's originally confident expression immediately turned red, and he was embarrassed to stay here for a long time, so he quickly picked up the porcelain vase and left in a hurry.
There were bursts of sighs from the audience, and people in the antique circle couldn't help but shake their heads, this identity introduction was originally a double-edged sword, easy to be in the limelight, but it was also easy to hurt yourself, after all, no matter how eyesighted people are, there are times when they look away.
(To be continued)