Chapter 119: Blindfolding
As soon as Cai Yi said this, all the people in the room were interested, and even Wang Jiazan and Wang Ma, who had just finished picking up the dishes and chopsticks, sat down, ready to listen to the story of this ancient porcelain expert.
"I remember that it was in 1994, and in the autumn of that year, I received an invitation letter from Nanbo, inviting me to participate in an ancient porcelain exchange meeting, and the participants were all well-known porcelain experts in China. I had just received the title of Research Librarian at that time, so I was lucky enough to receive an invitation. ”
As a college student who has studied in Jinling for four years, Yang Jing certainly knows where Cai Yi is talking about Nanbo, that is, Jinling Museum, one of the three major museums in China, this museum is also known as Nanbo or Nanyuan.
"This highly professional internal exchange meeting, in fact, is a place to learn from each other, so there will be a lot of ancient porcelain and even high imitations in the exchange meeting, which are those who take out their own collections for the exchange meeting, it is the coexistence of these fine products and fakes, let us open our eyes. ”
Among them, a Qianlong tea glaze Ruyi ear halberd olive bottle attracted the attention of almost everyone present. The olive bottle with the end of the tea glaze Ruyi Ear Halberd is the same as today's bottle, no matter from that point of view, it looks like a genuine product with a wide open door, but the knowledge at the bottom of the bottle makes everyone sad, because the bottom of the bottle is actually a regular script with six characters and three lines, and the last word is also a simplified Chinese ......"
Yang Jing was also shocked when he heard it, Cai Yi said that he had heard of this Qianlong tea glaze Ruyi ear halberd olive bottle, and Yang Jing still remembered that such a bottle seemed to have appeared in Guardian's spring auction in 2015, and it seemed to have been auctioned at a high price of nearly 13 million national dollars, which is an extremely rare tea glaze boutique.
Cai Yi continued: "This bottle was provided by the late porcelain master Mr. Shi Shuqing, who was still alive at that time, and also participated in that exchange meeting, and Mr. Shi also gave us a lecture as a lecturer. ”
The bottle that Shi Lao took out made the audience a little confused, of course, there were also a few porcelain masters who thought of the key, but these masters did not say the answer, but let us young people think about it ourselves. ”
That bottle caused quite a lot of controversy at that exchange meeting, and the public said that the public was justified and the mother-in-law said that the mother-in-law was reasonable, and no one could help anyone. Insisting that the bottle is a fake cannot be proved to be any other than the one at the bottom, and similarly, insisting that the bottle is genuine cannot explain the simplified Chinese characters at the bottom of the bottle and the color of the bottle. In the end, it was Shi Lao who came forward to make the answer public. ”
After a pause, Cai Yi picked up the teacup on the coffee table and took a sip of water before continuing: "Shi Lao said that this bottle was entrusted by an old friend named Wu Tianming to keep it during the turbulent years. According to Shi Lao, although his old friend is not famous, he has extremely exquisite skills in the identification and restoration of ancient porcelain, and is a real ancient porcelain master hidden in the people. It's a pity that his old friend was defeated because of bad ingredients in the turbulent years, and finally committed suicide because of the torture. Before committing suicide, he entrusted this bottle to Shi Lao for safekeeping, and also told Shi Lao that he originally had four similar bottles, but he disappeared during a raid on his home, and finally only this one bottle was left in his hand. ”
In the end, Shi Lao told us that this Qianlong tea glaze Ruyi ear halberd olive bottle is indeed a genuine product, and it is also an out-and-out Qing dynasty imperial porcelain, the reason why there is a simplified Chinese character and a slightly dull glaze, is because Master Wu Tianming in order to protect this bottle before his death, and made a fake for this priceless bottle. ”
According to Shi Lao, in order to protect the bottle, Master Wu used a secret method to fake the bottle, and Master Wu made a special transparent glaze and covered it on the surface of the bottle, which made the color of the bottle look much duller. Especially the style at the bottom of the bottle, Master Wu also used a special technique to cover the original style, and then covered it with a fake style, so as to form the current appearance of the olive bottle with the tea glaze Ruyi ear halberd. ”
"In the end, Shi Lao told us that at that time, Master Wu made a clever trick to make this bottle look like it is now, and this trick directly blindfolded a large number of expert-level ancient porcelain experts, which is enough to show that this trick is very clever. And it's easy to break this obstacle, but no one can think of it. The easiest way to get rid of this obstacle is to scratch it with a sharp object, so that the transparent glaze on the surface can be destroyed, so as to reveal the real glaze. However, for such porcelain, it is estimated that no one would think that this method can be used to break this obstacle. In order to completely break this obstacle, it is necessary to mix a special solvent, and then soak the bottle in it, and after soaking for more than 20 minutes, those camouflage will be soaked by this special solvent, and at the same time, it will not damage the real porcelain. ”
Hearing Cai Yi's explanation, Yang Jing couldn't help but sigh that the craftsmanship of those ancient porcelain masters was simply unpredictable, just a simple obstacle method could blind many experts, and it was simple and unbelievable to break this trick.
Of course, using sharp things to scratch ancient porcelain to destroy this obstacle method is probably not something that an ancient porcelain lover would do. Everyone knows that once you do this, if you don't master it well, there is a great possibility that it will damage the glaze of the porcelain inside.
If this kind of bottle worth more than 10 million is scratched for no reason, it will really make countless ancient porcelain lovers crazy!
Cai Yi looked at Yang Jing and then at the bottle, and then said with a smile: "If I am not wrong, this bottle should be one of the four bottles that were lost from Master Wu Tianming's house back then, because of this method of counterfeiting, I have been engaged in porcelain for more than 40 years, and I have only seen it once at that exchange meeting." It is estimated that this method of blinding is also Master Wu's exclusive secret method, and now that Master Wu has long passed away, the only explanation for this bottle is one of the four bottles that Master Wu lost at home back then. ”
"Yang Zi, we can't break this obstacle today. If you're okay tomorrow, you can come to my office, and I'll mix that special solvent for you, and then we'll witness the appearance of a Qianlong five-bat holding a longevity ear bottle. ”
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