Jianbao life

Chapter 304 Exchange Meeting (continued)
After carefully looking at the chicken head pot, Chu Chen said: "This chicken head pot has a slightly thicker carcass, a darker color, and a dark gray color. The glaze layer is thick and uniform, and it is blue-gray. The body glaze is not well bonded. There is a phenomenon of peeling glaze. In addition, there is no neck under the chicken head, no hole in the beak, and only a raised decoration on the rear end of the tail opposite to the chicken head. Judging from various characteristics, this should be a Western Jin Dynasty The chicken head pot of the period."

Everyone nodded after listening to Chu Chen's explanation. Most people have seen this chicken head pot, and it is indeed a genuine product. However, the chicken head pot is not difficult to identify, so several people here signaled Chu Chen to continue the appraisal. .

Chu Chen smiled slightly, and then appraised the pen holder, inkstone, Buddha statue, etc. Some of them were true or false, but he identified them one by one. So far, everyone looked at Chu Chen without contempt. up.

You must know that many people specialize in one direction when playing antiques, especially young people like Chu Chen. It is already very good to be able to specialize in one direction. He is an all-rounder and seems to be quite proficient in all aspects.

This is not easy for them, let alone such a young man, how can this not surprise everyone?

Don't say that everyone was surprised, Zhu Dafu felt that he would be impressed after three days of separation, but Chu Chen's change was exactly what he wanted. Chu Chen was his favorite junior. Seeing Chu Chen He was quite happy to grow up so fast.

After more than ten minutes like this, almost everything on the table was appraised by Chu Chen. Looking at Chu Chen, there was already a trace of admiration in his eyes.

Mr. Liu looked at Chu Chen's words showing everyone's demeanor, and he was so beautiful in his heart, and when his old friends praised him one after another, "he has a successor", it made him even more happy.

Seeing the disappointed look in the middle-aged man's eyes, Zhu Dafu smiled and said, "Master Chai, I don't know what you brought here today, can you let us see?"

Shopkeeper Chai was stunned when he heard the words, and then with a smile on his face, he pushed a brocade box beside him to the middle of the table, opened the lid, and said, "It's not a good thing, it's just a black-glazed wooden leaf bowl from a Jizhou kiln. "

"What! Jizhou Kiln?"

"Wooden leaf bowl?"

After hearing what shopkeeper Chai said, everyone stretched their necks and looked into the box.

Jizhou kiln is a world-renowned comprehensive porcelain kiln in Jiangnan area, which has strong local style and national artistic characteristics.It began in the late Tang Dynasty, flourished in the Five Dynasties and the Northern Song Dynasty, flourished in the Southern Song Dynasty, and declined in the late Yuan Dynasty. It has a history of more than 1200 years.

Jizhou kiln occupies a very important position in the history of Chinese ceramics, and has made great achievements in promoting the production of ancient Chinese porcelain industry and accumulating production skills.It is one of the production centers of black-glazed porcelain in ancient China. It produces a wide variety of porcelain, and more than 120 kinds of porcelain shapes have been discovered.According to the glaze, it can be divided into green glazed porcelain, milky white glazed porcelain, green glazed porcelain, black glazed porcelain, painted porcelain, sculptured porcelain and glassware.

In addition, Jizhou Kiln also created unique and unique precious products such as "Konoha Tianmu" and "Paper-cut Tianmu".

At this time, in the box in the center of the table, there is a Jizhou kiln black-glazed "Konoha Tianmu" bowl.The bowl is turned over like a straw hat, so it is also called a bamboo hat bowl. The inside and outside of the bowl are covered with black glaze to the feet. The glaze is bright and deep, reserved and dignified, with an attractive inner beauty.

The interior of the bowl has a reddish-brown wood leaf pattern. The fluffy leaves have clear veins and are natural and vivid. Although it is a single leaf, it is very lovable.

According to historical records, the style of drinking tea in the Song Dynasty was very popular from the court to the folk, so many kilns rushed to invent drinking utensils that could match it, and this Konoha Tianmu bowl was invented for this reason.

According to legend, when a clever potter in Jizhou was thinking about pottery making, he suddenly became interested in the fallen leaves that could be found at the foot of the road. He thought that if he picked them up and put them in a bowl for burning, wouldn't it be more natural flavor? .

So they began to experiment. At the beginning, they may have directly pasted the leaves on the green body. After applying the glaze, they would remove the leaves and burn them in the kiln. This method was not successful.

They then treated the leaves by eroding them into veined leaves, which were then attached to bowls and burned.As a result, when people drink tea from this black-glazed bowl, they will see a lively leaf sinking to the bottom of the bowl, which complements the "green-white" and "yellow-white" tea colors.

As soon as the Konoha Tianmu Bowl appeared, the atmosphere of the scene was ignited. Even some respected seniors couldn't help coming over to have a look at it, which made Shopkeeper Chai's face full of satisfaction.

Although Chu Chen has good eyesight and is the apprentice of Mr. Liu, his age is still there, so he can only let some older ones watch first, and it took nearly 10 minutes before it was his turn.

The appearance of this Konoha Tianmu bowl is very good, almost no wear marks can be seen, which makes Chu Chen always feel that it is too perfect, and the feeling of this bowl is not very good in his heart, but this cannot be used as evidence of a fake. Because some unearthed utensils with excellent glaze color also have such appearance, and the floodlight of this bowl is also soft, which is also a typical feature of unearthed utensils.

Because the porcelain clay of Jizhou kiln comes from Jigangling on the other side of the Ganjiang River and around the kiln, or a mixture of the two.Moreover, its production site is on the sand dunes beside the Gan River, and it is impossible to prevent sand from entering the china clay. Therefore, the sand content in the carcass is large, which makes the carcass loose and strong in water absorption. It looks like pottery when it is rough, but it has a metallic sound when knocked.

Chu Chen tapped on the edge of the bowl with his fingers, and the sound was indeed as recorded.It is precisely because of the high sediment content in the tire that the phenomenon of knife blocking and knife jumping often occurs during tire repair, and knife jumping marks can be clearly seen in the bottom of the device and the contents of the ring foot.And the bottom of this bowl does have knife marks.

Next, he touched the surface of the bowl with his hands, and he could clearly feel the vertical undulations.Then when he slightly raised the bowl to look sideways, he could see texture phenomena such as vertical strips of glaze layer hanging unevenly.With a magnifying glass, you can also see that there are many lack of glaze pores on the glaze that cannot be seen by the naked eye, and it looks rough and dry, like a "rain flower stone".

All these things mean that this bowl should be a genuine product, but Chu Chen always felt that this bowl didn't feel good, so he simply used the Lingbao Eye, but the result made him shake his head secretly.

Seeing Chu Chen put the bowl back into the box, shopkeeper Chai's expression changed, and he smiled and said, "Nephew Chu Xian, you should take a good look at it. What do you think of my bowl?"

Judging from the performance just now, shopkeeper Chai is a bit of a small-hearted person. Chu Chen felt that if he told the result, no matter whether he accepted the final result or not, he would probably bear a grudge against him. Therefore, he seemed a little hesitant for a while.

"Nephew Chu Xian, you can speak up boldly, even if you say something wrong, it doesn't matter." Shopkeeper Chai said with a smile. He is very confident in his collection, and he doesn't believe that it can be a fake. , he still hopes that Chu Chen will say that his things are wrong, and then he can humiliate Chu Chen.

This person wants to kill himself, so there is no other way, so Chu Chen shook his head lightly and said: "I can't see this thing for sure!"

As soon as the words fell, and before the others could react, Shopkeeper Chai jumped up and said, "No way? How could it be wrong? Take a look at this bowl. Is there anything wrong with it?"

"Xiao Chai, don't worry!" An old man who seemed to be in his 60s persuaded. The old man's name was Wang Xiangong, and he was a senior antique collector with a good reputation in the capital.

"Old Wang, I spent 20 yuan to get this wooden leaf bowl. Why don't you think I'm in a hurry?" Shopkeeper Chai said loudly.

Everyone heard that this bowl cost 20 yuan, but they didn't think it was expensive, because in terms of its appearance, the market price of this bowl should be around 30 yuan. It can be said that Boss Chai picked up a small leak.

"Xiao Chai, calm down first, loud voices can't solve the problem, right?" An old man surnamed Qu said with a frown.

"I'm very calm! I just want to ask, what's wrong with this wooden leaf bowl?" Then, the shopkeeper Chai picked up the wooden leaf bowl, looked it over and over again, then glared at Chu Chen and said, "Are you talking about it?" Look, such a good thing, where is it not allowed!"

"Do you look like you are asking people for advice?" Mr. Qian also came over and said, "Bring me something to take a look at!"

Seeing that Mr. Qian came forward, shopkeeper Chai could only put the bowl back into the box and wait for Mr. Qian and the others to appreciate the result.

Mr. Qian picked up the bowl, looked it over carefully a few times, then frowned, put the thing back into the box, and said to Mr. Liu and the others: "You guys should come and have a look, this thing is really weird! "

Seeing that Mr. Qian was not sure about the authenticity of this bowl, shopkeeper Chai couldn't help feeling tense, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.The others were all very surprised. You must know that Mr. Qian is a leader in the antique industry in the capital, and even he is not sure of his judgment. How can this not make them surprised and curious?

And Mr. Liu's reaction was similar to Mr. Qian's. After observing for a few minutes, he frowned and thought about it, flicked the edge of the bullet, and finally discussed with Mr. Qian carefully, and then the two raised their brows at the same time. Wrinkled into Sichuan characters.

Afterwards, several old seniors took a closer look at it a few times, and their attitudes were also different.

At the same time, Zhu Dafu frowned and asked softly: "Xiaochen, what's wrong with this bowl? Why didn't I find anything wrong?"

Chu Chen smiled slightly, and said, "This wooden leaf bowl is indeed a very good imitation, but I will do an experiment later, and you will know where the problem lies."

(End of this chapter)