Jianbao life

Chapter 315 The Baby in the Field (continued)
Old Hu replied: "Mr., I also think this thing is pretty good. Look..."

The old man was stunned for a while, and then his face looked a little angry, but he probably felt that what he did before was really wrong, so he couldn't say much.

For a moment, all three fell silent.

After a while, the middle-aged man said nonchalantly: "I said, what are you going to do? It's hard to say when someone will come later!"

Old Hu thought so too, so he and the old man looked at each other, and immediately agreed with each other.

"Brother, let the one with the highest price get it, but no matter who gets this jar in the end, he has to give the other party 1000 yuan, how about it?"

"Okay!" Lao Hu nodded and said, "I'll pay [-]!..."

In this way, the two began to compete for the price, but the competition between the two was very fierce, and neither of them would let go. In the end, the old man even increased the money to 32, which made the middle-aged man stunned. .

At this time, Lao Hu had almost reached his limit, but he looked at the pot, faced with the profit of several times in the future, he still gritted his teeth and said: "I will offer 35, if you are higher than 35, I will not accept it." Already!"

The old man shook his head and sighed, then took 1000 yuan from Lao Hu, and left with regret...

After hearing the origin of the pot in front of them, Chu Chen and Lao Yu couldn't help but look at each other. Lao Hu's experience, no matter how you listen to it, feels like a "land mine". Will the thing obtained in this way be an opener?
Old Hu chuckled and said, "Well, when I realize it, I also think I may have stepped on the thunder, but after I came back, I checked a lot of information, and through comparison, I think my red in glaze The pot must be a real thing from the Yuan Dynasty."

"But Lao Hu, could the thing stepped on by the thunderbolt be real?" Lao Yu said with a face full of disbelief.

"No one stipulates that if you step on thunder, you can't step on the real thing, right?" Lao Hu spread his hands and smiled.

Chu Chen is convinced of what Lao Hu said. He has already stepped on two authentic products. It makes no sense that others must be less lucky than him. Big leak.

"What you said is indeed possible." Lao Yu said, "But whether it is true or not, you have to see it to know."

"Then just watch it and see if it's true." Lao Hu said confidently.

"I can't!" Lao Yu waved his hand: "You also know that I'm not good at porcelain, let Mr. Chu take a look first, and if he's serious, then I don't need to confirm it."

"Mr. Chu, please go first..."

After being polite, Chu Chen began to look carefully at the underglaze red pot.

Porcelain in each historical period has its own production characteristics, that is to say, they will leave the imprint of the times of this era.Yuan glaze lihong and Yuan blue and white are in the same era, so in the production of porcelain, such as body, glaze, vessel shape, technology, pattern decoration, etc., they are all processed according to the style and technology of that era.Regardless of the type and variety of the utensils, they are basically the same, and this is what they have in common.

In terms of identification, the identification method of Yuan blue and white and single-color glaze can be applied to Yuan glaze lihong.Of course, these are two different varieties after all, so they can only be used as a reference, and cannot be applied mechanically.

For example, as far as the fetal bones of the two are concerned, the Yuan blue and white ones are finer than the Yuan underglaze red ones, but the fetal bones of this underglaze red pot are consistent with the Yuan blue and white ones. It had to make Chu Chen suspicious, but it is definitely not possible to fully confirm that this is a fake, but the possibility of authenticity has been greatly reduced.

But apart from this point, there are no other problems. The bottom of this tank is in the shape of a concave ring foot, with a wide sole and a shallow foot.The small trachoma and black pockmarks on the sole of the sand tire are clearly visible, and there are swirling patterns, which are flint red and ocher red. These are the characteristics of genuine underglaze reds in the Yuan Dynasty.

After looking at the tire and then looking at the glaze, we can see that the glaze color of this vessel is opacified, bluish in white, and the accumulated glaze is blue, with a jade texture.Underglaze red is uniform in color and looks dark red. There are scattered red spots on the edge of the white line. This is mainly caused by insufficient reduction during firing and the development of copper at high temperature. product deficiencies.

In addition, a few brown and black spots can be seen in the glaze red, and there are some obvious red spots.

Flying red is due to the fact that copper is easy to volatilize at high temperature, and it is easy to diffuse in the glaze.Among them, the phenomenon of flying red is more common in the painting of red line in the glaze, while the phenomenon of flying red is rare in the painting of red and white in the glaze and red in the glaze.

Although the red and white underglaze may also appear red, but it is so obvious like this pot, it is somewhat intriguing.

In addition, Chu Chen also saw pinholes, sticky slag and burrs in the glaze layer, which are basically consistent with the characteristics of the red in the glaze.Then he took out the magnifying glass and observed the bubbles in the glaze layer.

Generally, there are air bubbles in the glaze of ancient porcelain, which is formed because the carcass, glaze and space gas are blocked by the glaze surface during high-temperature firing.The size, number and layout of the bubbles in the glaze are all due to the different tire quality, glaze, kiln temperature, fuel and firing technology in different periods, showing different sizes and arrangements of bubbles.

Ancient porcelain experts in our country have wonderful descriptions of the bubbles in the glaze in various periods, such as "gathering foam and collecting beads" and "few like stars" mentioned above, all of which are conclusions drawn by them after careful observation .

All things are formed, of course they will die, and this kind of bubbles in the glaze is no exception. In this case, there is a special term in the ancient ceramics circle, called "death bubbles".

"Death bubbles" in the glaze refers to a phenomenon in which the bubbles in the glaze die out by themselves over time under the catalysis of nature. As time goes on, black spots appear in the traces of burst bubbles.

The longer the porcelain survives, the more dead bubbles it will become.Of course, the death of air bubbles has a lot to do with the technical production of tire glaze. A good kiln mouth has a thick glaze layer, which has a strong protective effect on air bubbles.

However, the death of air bubbles is an irresistible law of evolution in nature. Therefore, no matter how thick the glaze layer is, there will always be "death air bubbles" in it after a certain number of years.

According to the long-term research results of underglaze red porcelain appraisal experts in the Yuan Dynasty, there are no death bubbles in the Republic of China and modern porcelain in the late Qing Dynasty. This is a very valuable experience.

Under a magnifying glass of 30 times, Chu Chen saw a small number of "dead bubbles" in the glaze, and the burst bubbles were dark brown.And this is the typical feature of Yuan Lihong.

Seeing this, Chu Chen frowned lightly. Judging by the "death bubble", this jar should be genuine, but what happened to those two places just now?This made him a little confused for a while.

After a while, Chu Chen shook his head secretly. Although he said that he has not found any successful imitation of the phenomenon of "death bubbles", but everything is not absolute. Youdao is that the masters are all among the people, and no one can be [-]% sure about it. This must not be imitated.

Of course, it may be the fetal bone and flying red that were suspected before, or it may be an accidental special case.

The glaze red in the Yuan Dynasty is the same as the blue and white flowers in the Yuan Dynasty. The inner walls of the bottles and jars are mostly not glazed, and the inner walls are made of sand.

This in-glaze red pot does have obvious seam marks, and when Chu Chen touched it with his hands, he could clearly feel the seam marks on the inner wall, which were raised by about 1 to 2 mm, irregular in thickness and size, and round and delicate. texture.

Then Chu Chen looked at the tank towards the light carefully, and saw that the sand tire on the inner wall of the tank was slightly yellowish. In the tire, you can clearly see wall trachoma and small small stones on the inner wall. The upper part of the abdomen has not been repaired, and the lower part of the abdomen At the end, there are mostly tire-repairing swirl marks, and sparse trachoma are clearly visible on the inner wall of the bottle.

Chu Chen pointed a bright flashlight at these sparse trachoma, and he could see star spots flashing inside, emitting bright light, which is also called cloudy and sunny spots.

In the end, Chu Chen took a closer look at the decoration of the red jar in the glaze. Judging from the pattern of clouds and dragons chasing pearls carved on the porcelain, the idea of ​​the master porcelain maker can be described as vivid. Cans picture superb artistic connotation.

On the whole, if the doubts about the fetal bone and the phenomenon of flying red are removed, this underglaze red jar should be a fine underglaze red in the Yuan Dynasty. Unfortunately, there has never been an "if" for the identification of antiques. two words.

Yu Shang Chu Chen naturally used his supernatural powers on the glazed red pot, but the result was not only what he expected, but also something he hadn't thought of at all, which made him sigh for a while.

"Mr. Chu, I don't know about my red jar, what do you think?"

Lao Hu asked a little nervously, although he had some doubts about Chu Chen's eyesight because of his age, but after all Chu Chen was wearing the hat of Liu Lao Gaotu, so he was still very concerned about Chu Chen's conclusion.

From Lao Hu's narration, Chu Chen learned that this red pot in glaze had spent all of Lao Hu's savings, so when he saw Lao Hu's hopeful eyes, he really couldn't bear to tell the result.

It’s just that Lao Hu will have to face this matter sooner or later, so Chu Chen still said truthfully: “This underglaze red jar is complete in appearance and has a very high artistic level. [-], but if I were to rate the underglaze red jar from the Yuan Dynasty, I would only give it a zero."

Hearing Chu Chen's conclusion in the first half, Lao Hu couldn't help showing a bright smile on his face, but when he heard the last part, he couldn't help but exclaimed.

"What? Zero points? How is this possible!"

(End of this chapter)