Chapter 15 The sky-high price of blue and white

Judging from the one-third underground, this artifact should be thirty or forty centimeters, which is considered a medium-sized artifact. The blue-blue glaze also has some patterns. In the past, Li Tianbao really didn't know the names of these lines, but he was not idle in the past two days, driving to pull decoration materials during the day, and at night he made up for the identification knowledge at home, although the effect was average, but there was also a small harvest, at least today I knew that the texture on the pattern was called "tangled branch lotus", which is a more common pattern in porcelain, and the other Li Tianbao is not very clear.

"Grass, I really hate less when the book is used, and I already know that I will go to school for two more years."

After a period of scratching, Li Tianbao began to continue to move, practice makes perfect, and the movements in his hands became more and more skillful, but after a while, a pot-bellied porcelain jar has been basically presented, and the texture of the blue glaze entwined lotus is clearer, but from the glaze, there is a clear difference from the blue and white porcelain that Li Tianbao knows, and the color is also heavier, and it is much looser and thicker from the carcass, otherwise Li Tianbao would have made up his mind that it is blue and white porcelain.

After another ten minutes or so, the last piece of porcelain was glued, but this was not the last piece on the porcelain, because this piece of porcelain was still missing about five centimeters, and it was in the mouth of the porcelain jar, and it was not revealed until the last piece in Li Tianbao's hand was pasted.

"Damn, I'm still missing a piece for a long time." As soon as Li Tianbao finished speaking, he was suddenly stunned for a moment, he seemed to realize something.

"Could it be that the blue light in the left eye has not been repaired because the porcelain is missing?" Li Tianbao couldn't help but convuls, if it is calculated according to this theory, when the porcelain is broken but the fragments are complete, the blue light can repair the porcelain.

Li Tianbao couldn't help but get excited in his heart, and the hour's hard work was finally not in vain. Looking at this broken jar that did not pay and thought it was not blue and white, Li Tianbao naturally lost interest.

The door opened with a "creak".

Lin Meiru walked in from outside the house, saw Li Tianbao with his back to her, squatted beside the bed in a daze, and immediately said: "I didn't help with the decoration, I actually hid here, I want to be lazy, right?" ”

Li Tianbao looked back and saw that it was Lin Meiru, but after squatting on the ground for an hour, Li Tianbao wanted to get up and found that his legs were numb, so he hurriedly said to Lin Meiru: "Quick, help me, my feet are numb." ”

"Hmph, this is the price of laziness, see if you dare to help." Saying that, Lin Meiru stepped forward to help Li Tianbao, just because Li Tianbao's body blocked the line of sight, Lin Meiru didn't find the porcelain jar, and when she just lifted Li Tianbao up a little from behind, Lin Meiru suddenly saw the porcelain jar on the bed.

"Yuan Qinghua" After Lin Meiru finished speaking, she couldn't help but let go of Li Tianbao's body, and stepped forward to carefully examine the porcelain jar on the bed.

"What the 'Yuan Qinghua', the master's waist almost broke you." Li Tianbao said and hurriedly got up, rubbing his ass vigorously with both hands.

"Yuan Qinghua!" Li Tianbao suddenly became alert, looked at Lin Meiru's serious and careful appearance, and hurriedly asked, "What is Yuan Qinghua?" ”

"Yuan Qinghua don't know, but you should have heard of Jingdezhen, "Yuan Qinghua", as the name suggests is the blue and white porcelain of the Yuan Dynasty, blue and white porcelain from the Song Dynasty began to appear clues, to the Yuan Dynasty officially formed, today has been more than 650 years, there is no record of "Yuan Qinghua" in history, the world has to say a foreigner for the concept and understanding of "Yuan Qinghua". A foreigner named Perchvar Davide once collected a pair of blue and white cloud dragon pattern elephant ear vases with the inscription "11th year of Zhizheng".

In the fifties of the twentieth century, an American scholar Dr. John Pope identified a batch of blue and white porcelain similar to the inscription blue and white cloud dragon elephant ear vase decoration of the "Zhizheng 11th Year" inscription from the heirloom artifacts based on this pair of chronological vases, combined with the collection of the Topkapi Palace Museum in Turkey and the Adbil Temple in Iran, and named them "Zhizheng type" blue and white.

Later, this pair of blue and white vases became a yardstick to measure many of the same type of porcelain, and the chronological characters on the pair of porcelain vases were used to determine the date, reducing a lot of laborious reasoning and tedious research. The history of systematic understanding and research of "Yuan blue and white" is only 60 years, almost all of the "Yuan blue and white" porcelain has no chronological identity, and the relevant documents and materials that survive are extremely scarce. ’

"Yuan Qinghua, is there any difference between Yuan Qinghua and blue and white porcelain?" Li Tianbao asked.

"It's a tragedy to open an antique shop with you." Lin Meiru did not look back, but continued: ""Yuan blue and white" of course refers to the firing age of porcelain, since the Yuan Dynasty blue and white porcelain has matured, and most of the current collectors collect the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. The quality of blue and white porcelain in the early Hongwu period is not high, and it is difficult to distinguish it from the porcelain of the late Yuan Dynasty, in short, I can't tell you very clearly, but my teacher when I was in school specialized in studying "Yuan blue and white", and I learned a lot about "Yuan blue and white" from him, although I am not 100% sure, but I can have 80% certainty. ”

After listening to Lin Meiru's words, Li Tianbao still asked: "How do you know that this is 'Yuan Qinghua', I just looked, and there is no money at the bottom of this jar." ”

"Stupid, it's because it doesn't have money that I think it's 'Yuan blue and white', didn't I tell you just now, the blue and white porcelain of the Yuan Dynasty has never seen a second one except for one of the two elephant ear vases in the British 'British Museum'. If it weren't for the fact that this porcelain jar has been broken, I don't dare to guess that it is "Yuan Qinghua" immediately, but the fragmentation has an advantage, that is, you can intuitively view the internal situation of the pottery embryo, the "Yuan Qinghua" pottery embryo is relatively rough, which can also be observed from the circle foot, but the exposed circle foot is easy to fake, but the broken porcelain piece will not lie. ”

"So that's the case, since 'Yuan Qinghua' is so rough, the price must not be very good?" Li Tianbao asked.

"Although the blue and white porcelain reached its peak in the Qing Dynasty Kang Yongqian, the 'Yuan blue and white' because of the scarcity in the world, so the price is expensive, a 'Yuan blue and white' 'Guiguzi down the mountain' porcelain jar, that year had been auctioned for a sky-high price of 240 million."

"240 million?! My grass, this thing is so valuable?! Li Tianbao was surprised.

"Don't dream, although you are 'Yuan Qinghua', they are all fragments, and they can be said to be worthless. Even if it is intact, the pattern is a simple entwined lotus, and it is impossible to reach the price of 200 million, but five or six million should not be a problem. ”