Chapter 5 High Melamine
Zhou Xuan said this, which stunned Liu Qingyuan, and then raised his head to stare at him and asked, "What did you say?" ”
"I say!" Zhou Xuan said clearly, "I said that none of your three pieces of porcelain are from Mingguanjiao!" ”
Liu Qingyuan Huo stood up and walked to the wooden shelf.
Fu Ying was startled and looked at him nervously, but saw Liu Qingyuan and said in a deep voice: "Then tell me, what evidence do you have to say that it is not?" ”
Zhou Xuan picked up the blue and white cloud dragon pattern longevity bottle in the first position, slowly turned a circle in front of Liu Qingyuan, and then said: "You see, the heyday of blue and white ceramics is Xuande, Xuande blue and white is known for its fine soil, clean glaze, neat shape, dignified and thick, delicate fetal quality, fine sand bottom, various shapes, strong blue and white, and beautiful patterns. The cutter interface is rare, and the carcass is thick and firm, but you always look at this bottle. ”
Zhou Xuan held the bottle to the unobstructed place of the light, and said: "Look at this bottle, the carcass is a little thin, the sand at the bottom of the bottle is slightly thicker, and there is that during the Xuande period, the blue and white pigment is mostly imported Su Nibo green material, with a little less domestic material, Xuande blue and white naturally scattered, forming a heavy condensed crystal spot, deep into the fetal bone, you see that although the blue and white color is bright, but obviously it is painted on the surface of the general, and the color of the Xuande blue and white deep into the fetal bone is quite different, third. ”
Zhou Xuan turned the bottom of the bottle upside down again, pointed to the mark at the bottom and said: "Xuande color porcelain has an annual model, generally a six-character regular script, there are also four words, the position of the writing is uncertain, the word 'de' is written in regular script without a 'heart' on a horizontal, the seal is written 'de' word, 'heart' has a horizontal, you look at it, this 'Xuande year' four-character regular book in this 'de' word, there is a horizontal above the heart, it stands to reason that there should not be this horizontal?" ”
Fu Ying was a little stunned, and temporarily hugged the Buddha's feet, but she didn't expect that Zhou Xuan was really telling the truth, but she didn't know whether what she said was true or false.
Of course she didn't know, Zhou Xuan had been reading books hard for the past few days, and he hadn't been so serious in school back then, but he happened to see the blue and white porcelain column, just these points, almost all of his old bottoms were upside down, if he wanted to be added again, there would be a danger of revealing his original form.
Zhou Xuan put the bottle back on the shelf, and took down the glazed red chrysanthemum pattern bowl, turned it over, but the bottom of the bowl was the "Ming Dynasty Chenghua Year System" style, and said: "You are old and see that this chrysanthemum pattern bowl is the Ming Dynasty year, the 'big' word tip is round and the head is high, the word 'Cheng' is hard until the waist, the word 'system' is big and small, and the word 'clothes' is not over the knife." ”
Zhou Xuan put the bowl back on the wooden shelf, picked up the last glazed red cloud dragon pattern amphora, turned the bottom upside down and said: "Look at this again, this is the 'Ming Longqing Year System', but I don't know that the Longqing Year is generally 'made in the Ming Longqing Year', not the system, so I don't think these three pieces are Ming Dynasty porcelain." ”
Liu Qingyuan's eyes lit up, patted Zhou Xuan's shoulder, and said with a smile: "Little brother, not bad, it's almost impossible for a person of your age to study porcelain so thoroughly, alas, there is no successor, but you can see that it is not Ming Dynasty porcelain, can you tell which era of the product it is?" ”
In Liu Qingyuan's opinion, this matter is much more difficult, but for Zhou Xuan, it is the simplest thing.
Liu Qingyuan was embarrassed to find these fakes casually, Fu Ying, as long as the common sense of these Ming blue and white porcelain is understood by the general veterans in the industry, but it is learned to get outsiders, and it can only be said that Liu Qingyuan is a little surprised, but not overly surprised, but can identify the origin and year of the fake, that is the university asked, that is, the extremely advanced experts are not absolutely sure, and it is common for everyone to miss in the industry, and it is not uncommon for the boat to capsize in the gutter.
Of course, Liu Qingyuan was also aroused by Zhou Xuan's words, not because he wanted to embarrass him, how could he not do Fu Ying's girl's matter?
Zhou Xuan smiled, this time he didn't even need to take down the bottle and bowl to make a look, and said: "That Yunlong pattern longevity bottle is the tenth year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, but the glazed red chrysanthemum bowl is a private cellar system in the Ming Wanli year, although it is a fake, but it can be regarded as something of some value, and the last Yunlong amphora, hehe......" Speaking of this, Zhou Xuan smiled.
Liu Qingyuan stroked the beard on his chin, blinked his eyes and asked, "This one, what year is it?" ”
Zhou Xuan smiled and said: "Last year's! ”
At this moment, even Fu Ying was stunned, and Liu Qingyuan was even more stunned, and only said after a while: "Little brother, how did you find out?" ”
Liu Qingyuan stared at Zhou Xuan and said: "These three pieces of porcelain were bought back last year, although they are fakes, but the color quality and craftsmanship are considered to be of the highest quality, and there is also the value of collection, a total of eight thousand US dollars were spent, the chrysanthemum pattern bowl and the cloud dragon pattern longevity bottle I also recognized the year, on the cloud dragon pattern amphora is a little suspicious, when I bought it, I have always confirmed that it was fired during the Ming Zhengde period, until last month an old friend came to see, some doubts, but also uncertain, and finally found a friend from the New York University Chemical Research Office to test the ingredients, In the end, it was confirmed, hehe, it was fired last year! ”
Liu Qingyuan's eyes were full of light, and he seemed to be several years younger, and he pulled Zhou Xuan to see his other collections.
Fu Ying bit her lip and said, "Uncle Shi, where is my jade......
"Don't shout!" Liu Qingyuan shook his hand and said, "Put it on the table, you girl, it's really difficult for you to be me, even if I don't have this little brother, I still have to do it for you, although I am in a hurry for two months, I still do it in time, don't bother my old man now, I want to talk to the little brother!" ”
Although Liu Qingyuan let Zhou Xuan look at the others, he was a little curious and asked, "Little brother, I just want to ask you, how did you judge that the cloud dragon pattern amphora was a fake fired last year?" ”
Liu Qingyuan has been immersed in this industry for nearly 50 years, and his eyesight skills are by no means comparable to ordinary connoisseurs, usually the first thing collectors have to learn is counterfeiting, and only by being able to make can they know and understand how fakes are made, and the forgery techniques of porcelain are usually worn, peeling, coloring, rusting, obsolescence, etc.
Therefore, the fakes made by ordinary methods cannot be concealed from Liu Qingyuan, but he is a connoisseur of the older generation, and Liu Qingyuan can't distinguish the high imitation porcelain made by modern high-tech means.
This cloud dragon pattern amphora is the use of high-tech techniques to make high melamine, and the new porcelain is old, the identification of high melamine is more deceptive because of its different techniques, and the difficulty of identification is also greater.
Liu Qingyuan was fooled before he specifically learned about the use of high-tech techniques to make high imitation porcelain, there are four techniques, the first is "old tire new painting", the more common is the use of the middle and late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China white tires, painted on the glaze color such as pastel, so that its value doubled.
The second is the "old glaze new tire", this is because the imitators have used Jingdezhen in recent years to unearth some past glazes, and use the old glaze water to decorate the new tire.
The third method is "old parts and new equipment", which is also known as "replenishment" in the industry. Counterfeiters went to ancient kiln sites to collect a large number of "garbage" fragments, and then pieced together a complete fake. The porcelain made in this way, even if the scientific and technological experts use the method of multi-point sampling, the analysis results obtained may be "genuine", which can be most fooled by expert and veteran collectors.
The fourth is "refire", which refers to the incomplete old utensils, the defective parts are smaller, such as the punch of the body or the knock of the mouth of the vessel and other defective parts are repaired, and then put into the kiln for re-firing, after the kiln is intact, the price will increase several times or even dozens of times.
And Liu Qingyuan's cloud dragon pattern amphora is made of old glaze new tires, he is not surprising in this technique, Liu Qingyuan is surprised that Zhou Xuan recognized it as a fake, and it was not surprising to recognize high melaline porcelain What surprised him the most, what surprised him was that how was he sure that it was a new tire fired last year?
Liu Qingyuan got the definite result by himself, which was only known by a friend at New York University who used a scientific instrument to go through a detailed laboratory test, how could Zhou Xuan identify it with the naked eye? I really can't think of it!
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