Chapter 185: Exam
At one o'clock, Dean Han and a dozen old people appeared in the hall, followed by dozens of staff members lined up in a neat line, each of whom held an antique in his hand. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
The crowd gradually quieted down, and most of them had strange expressions on their faces when they saw those antiques, as if they were expecting, as if they were afraid, and even had a sense of relief.
Wu Di touched Wang Yuwan beside him, and bowed his mouth forward, Wang Yuwan shook his head with a complicated expression, and said softly:
"Look, the mystery will be revealed soon."
Dean Han motioned to the staff to put the antiques on the long table, then walked up to the rostrum, clapped his hands, and after everyone quieted down, he said with a smile:
"Alright, let's move on to the fourth item of the conference, the one that everyone loves and hates! If you succeed, you will ascend to the sky in one step, and you will be awarded the honorary title of special appraiser, and if you fail, you will wait to go back and eat fried meat on the main board! Well, there are a lot of new little guys, so I'll go over the rules again. These forty pieces of collections, divided into porcelain, bronze, calligraphy and painting, miscellaneous four categories, there are true and false, each piece has a number, after a while everyone will receive an exam paper, compare the number, write their own judgment on the top, really draw the right number, fake on the fork, the old imitation to write the imitation age! Now, all of them are available, divided into four columns by invitation number, starting at both ends of the long table, and each item is limited to three minutes! I will add another thirty minutes to you in total, for a total of two and a half hours, so that you don't have to scold me behind my back, Old Man Han is inhumane! Alright, hurry up and get in line! Remember, don't disgrace your Master! ”
Wu Di looked at the antiques placed on the long table by the staff, porcelain, jade, calligraphy and painting, bronzes, and ancient money, covering almost all the major items of antiques, and couldn't help but be a little excited, no wonder Chi Menghua said that the afternoon game was very important to them! Don't say any honorary titles, it's just such a rare opportunity to test yourself comprehensively, you can't miss it!
Wu Di's team was assigned to the west end of the long table in the south, he was ranked seventh, and each team played ten people at the same time, and his corresponding first collection was a blue and white plate.
Everyone stood up, Dean Han looked down at his watch, and said:
"It's one o'clock sharp, and I announce, the treasure appreciation begins!"
With Dean Han's order, forty young and middle-aged people with white gloves and solemn expressions picked up the antiques in front of them one after another and looked at them carefully.
Wu Di didn't make a move, he first bent down and carefully looked at the blue and white plate. This plate is really large, with a diameter of more than 35 centimeters! It should be an ornamental piece. The ornamentation is a swimming fish playing in the water, each dynasty has it, although the shape of the fish is different, but it can not be used as the main basis for judging the dynasty.
Looking at the glaze again, the blue is white, giving people a clear and transparent feeling, which is the characteristic of the early Yuan blue and white flowers. The glaze is relatively smooth, warm and jade-like, and has a soft luster, which also conforms to the characteristics of transparent glaze. Moreover, because the glaze layer is thicker and the glaze surface is smooth, it is not very smooth, and the glaze point and needle eye, which is commonly known as the black light spot, are more obvious. There is also a tear-stained place on the inside of the plate, which is gray-green. Wu Di knew that it was because the glaze layer was too thick, and the phenomenon of dripping glaze appeared.
The naked eye can see that there are sparse and uneven large bubbles on the upper layer of the glaze, round and transparent, look closely with a magnifying glass, there are dense small bubbles in the lower layer, which appear to be gray-white and there seems to be fog in the bubble.
On the edge of the large handicap, there is a slight glaze peeling phenomenon in one place, and the glaze peeling place can be seen that the tire glaze is not tightly combined.
The bottom foot is exposed, but there is no money. There are patches of rust spots on the surface of the carcass, which are very similar to the commonly known "sesame black spots", which is caused by the accumulation of iron elements in the fetal soil used and the precipitation of the carcass surface during the firing process.
After seeing all the features, he put down the porcelain plate, straightened up and looked at the time, and it took a full five minutes! There were already two people waiting behind him!
Wang Yuwan patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile:
"Don't worry, it's the same for everyone. Look over there, Yan Ju has been standing there for five minutes in that pastel! ”
Wu Di touched the porcelain plate with his left hand, then shook his head at Wang Yuwan with a wry smile, and moved a position forward. This blue and white should be genuine in his judgment, but the key lies in the word "damn should", there should be more things in this world! Because the Book of Heaven told him that there should be no should, only truth and falsehood, and this one is the modern fake!
The teacher is not good, Wu Di is not discouraged, but this first thing is so difficult, and he doesn't know how many heels to plant for the rest! No wonder Old Man Han dared to promise the honorary title of special appraiser, it seems that he is sure, no two people can take it!
The second piece is an ancient jade pendant, at this time a middle-aged man is watching, Wu Di took advantage of the waiting time to glance at the examination room, many people have already seen sweat on their foreheads, but this is just the beginning!
However, Dean Han was still creating a tense atmosphere on the side, and this old guy was patrolling around, urging everyone from time to time, three minutes is up, don't delay others for the exam! The most annoying thing is that he also deliberately shouted loudly:
"Once again, I would like to remind you that there are a lot of things here, and your master was eye-catching back then! If you can't see it again, tsk, this master and apprentice, this face ......"
Many of the dozen or so old men who were scattered next to them and timed everyone blushed a little, and Bai Guangming also muttered lowly, but no one could hear what he said. Wu Di noticed that a few young people heard this, their bodies obviously stiffened, and thought with a wry smile:
"There's not enough time, and there's a crow making noise next to you, so it's really hell that you can get good results!"
The next few pieces are easy, at least that's what Wu Di thinks. As for the others, just look at one of them, who has stood for more than five minutes in front of a peony picture that Wu Di only looked at for half a minute, and you can know the difficulty of this exam.
The pastel in front of Wu Di was the one that Yan Ju had stood for ten minutes just now, and he only looked at it for half a minute, and he knew why Yan Ju had stood for ten minutes, and he couldn't make up his mind.
Pastel porcelain, also known as soft color porcelain, is one of the four traditional famous porcelains of Jingdezhen kiln. Pastel is a method of painting in which overglaze (on porcelain) is painted at low temperatures. Pastel porcelain is a new variety of glaze color created in the late Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty on the basis of colorful porcelain, influenced by the production process of enamel colored porcelain.
It is said that this kind of porcelain is the easiest to break the dynasty, because it is only available after Kangxi, but it is precisely because of this that it increases the difficulty. There is a lot of room for new technology to improve, just like the current mobile phone generation, and there is often a phenomenon that one dynasty produces several generations of products. Only Wu Di knows, the Qianlong Dynasty pastel technology has changed no less than five generations, the characteristics of each generation are cross-covered, and even many of them are the same as those of the previous dynasty, which has caused confusion in judgment.
The peach pattern Tianqiu bottle in front of me has a straight mouth and a slight skimming, a short neck, a round belly, and a circle of feet. White glaze is applied all over the inside and outside. The bottle body depicts a peach tree in pastel, with lush branches and leaves, winding up along the abdomen from the bottom of the bottle, and eight large and full peach fruits fall down the branches. White glaze is applied to the inside of the ring foot. The outer sole is signed with Qinghua seal book "Yongzheng Year System of the Great Qing Dynasty" six-character three-line paragraph.
Fortunately, it is eight peaches, Yongzheng's reign is short, and the technology of pastel is not updated much, so it will not be as difficult to judge as the Qianlong Dynasty. Wu Di let out a sigh of relief.
Regarding the peaches on the pastel, 8 peaches were generally painted in the Yongzheng period, and 9 more were painted in the Qianlong period, so there is a saying in the industry that "Yongba Qianjiu". However, this is not absolute.
The painting method of pastel porcelain is generally to draw the outline of the pattern on the white porcelain fired at high temperature, and then use arsenic-containing glass white as the base, and then apply the pigment to this layer of glass white, and gently wash the color according to the different shades of light and shade with a clean pen, so that the petals and the clothes of the characters have a sense of light and shade.
Due to the opaque effect of arsenic, the glass white has an opaque feeling, and after the fusion with various colors, it will produce a powdering effect, the red color becomes pink, the green color becomes light green, the yellow color becomes light yellow, and other colors also become opaque light tones, and by controlling the amount of its addition, a series of different shades of shades can be obtained, giving people a sense of pink and soft, so this glaze color is called "pastel".
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