The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

Zhang Nan talked a lot, but didn't think that Guan Xingquan asked this at all.

"I said, how to judge this is Jingdezhen."

Zhang Nan was stunned, "This... first determine the age, Wanli can't go wrong. This batch of porcelain bowls is not faint, no rust spots, blue and white hair color is gray in blue, gray is dim, and it is obviously mixed with Zhejiang materials. There are too many colors of Shiziqing in Gan Province; the glaze is white in blue and the enamel is thin. The standard products from Jingdezhen in the late Wanli period..."

Speaking of this green material, Zhang Nan did it all. The development of blue and white porcelain in the Ming Dynasty is very complicated. It can be roughly divided into several periods: Hongwu porcelain, the pinnacle of Yongxuan porcelain, the blank porcelain in the dark period, the exquisite and beautiful Chenghua porcelain, and the Jiawan porcelain in the back light.

Wanli blue and white porcelain is one of the high-yielding households. Among them, officials and people competed for the resources of porcelain clay. Later, there was no money to buy imported green materials and forced the continuous development of domestic resources. By the middle and late Wanli period, this Jingdezhen blue and white had its own characteristics.

"...In the 48th year of Wanli, almost half a century has passed. The green materials are messy and the glaze layer is thin. It is not particularly difficult to judge."

After Zhang Nan finished speaking, Boss Guan licked his lips and said, "What about Zhangzhou Kiln?"

What he asked was the difference between the two. With the characteristics of Wanli Jingdezhen's blue and white, it must be compared with Zhangzhou's goods.

Upon hearing this, Zhang Nan said to Zekou Jingzi who was watching the excitement: "Jingzi, take a spoon out of water."

After explaining here, he said: "If I remember correctly, this Zhangzhou kiln was only available in the early Ming Dynasty. It should have been created for export. In the first one or two hundred years, the glaze of the Zhangzhou kiln was basically the same. Beige ice cracks are well distinguished from Jingdezhen.

I don’t know much about others. The ordinary people who play blue and white are basically playing kilns in Jingdezhen. Many people don’t even know that there are blue and white flowers in Zhangzhou, so many of them are sold abroad. "

There are more foreign sales but less domestic sales, so there are relatively few people playing.

At this point, Sawaguchi Jingzi handed Zhang Nan a spoon: There was a bucket next to it. The spoon was not completely salvaged yesterday. Some of these spoons were scattered on the bottom of the sea. These were taken by the guy who just launched with Zhang Nan. Coming up.

There are no ice cracks on this spoon. "In the late Ming Dynasty, this Zhangzhou kiln was getting closer and closer to the style of Jingdezhen. Especially for this glaze, the cracks were basically gone.

However, the glaze on this spoon is obviously thicker than Jingdezhen's, and the cyan color is much darker. The green material is different and more traditional. It is not like the creative hodgepodge of Jingdezhen's green material at that time. "

Needless to say, you can guess: Zhangzhou is by the sea, so it's easier to get some green materials than Jingdezhen. You don't have to worry about green materials like Jingdezhen.

This was talking about blue and white, a diver came up on the sea, the captain Vita.

Without going to the sun deck, he leaned out his upper body and said to Zhang Nan, "Boss, a few old naval guns were found below, and there were holes in the bulkhead of the cargo hold. Many of the porcelain in the lower layer was smashed. ."

With that said, he handed up a heavy iron bump: This is a rusty shell.

"That's it. Five or six were found after the sand suction pump cleaned the cabin. They were not used on the sunken cannon. There were also a lot of shells from the cannon below, weighing only three or four pounds."

Floating on the water with more than ten kilograms of excess load was a trivial matter to Weta, but Zhang Nan didn't pay much attention to the diving ability of the diving captain, and he was more interested in artillery and shells.

It's a bit interesting, no wonder there is no reef or anything nearby, and the water depth is at least seven or eight meters above: it turns out that the ship was not sunk because it struck a reef, but because of a naval battle!

pirate

It is possible that this area was a pirate den at the beginning, and many cannons equipped by pirate ships were still Western cannons acquired by various methods: the islands in this large area of ​​sea are clustered by Spanish, British, and Dutch people, and each has its own contradictions. It is normal to do business with the pirate group.

The enemy's enemy is a friend, and that's true.

Of course, it is also possible that the Spaniards and the Dutch who were originally ruled by them were fighting. The looting of the opponent's merchant ship was a common method used by the enemy at sea. God knows who shelled the sunken ship below.

Even the Spaniards and the pirate group did it jointly, but I didn't even think about going down a few shots, and actually went through the cargo hold near the waterline, and gave a whole chicken fly!

"Get those cannons up as soon as possible."

Hearing the boss's order, Vita responded, biting on the breather and diving again.

If the cannon is beautiful in appearance, it should be good to put it back in the manor.

At this time, Guan Xingquan weighed the shells he had brought up, and said, "The water here is not deep, and the empty cargo hold may have contained non-organic materials at first. It is very likely that the person who sunk the ship may be salvaged first. NS."

It is possible!

The water depth is only eight or nine meters. Looking at the current situation of the wreck, when the ship first sank, it did not roll over or buckle, but was sitting directly on the bottom. Calculating the height of the hull in this way, the depth of the water is almost half, and the cargo inside can also be taken out by the primitive salvage method.

Those who have spent the whole year discussing life at sea, there are many masters who dive for two or three minutes in one breath~www.readwn.com~ and the water here is shallow, no matter whether you use soil or not, you can figure out how to use a container similar to the diving bell to preserve air underwater. It’s a trivial matter to go up and down to catch items: salvaging items that are only a few meters deep is not a big problem for a gang of pirates or crew members.

The original naval battle was still very likely to be taken prisoners. If you guessed that, those people could figure out what cargo was in the sunken ship, and it became logical to deliberately take away the items in one of the cargo holds.

The only problem is that those porcelains were not dispensable bargains four hundred years ago. Even if Zhang Nan was a pirate leader, he would find a way to get them!

Why did the porcelain stay

Zhang Nan’s explanation to himself was: “Perhaps the weather got worse not long after the salvage, or there were other emergencies, such as the Dutch ship coming again.

The salvage ship had to leave, and then either the salvage ship could no longer find the location of the shipwreck, or the salvage ship also sank. "

For what happened at sea hundreds of years ago, it is necessary, or it can be said that it can only be guessed.

In any case, the group left some for Zhang Nan and the group.

There are cannons underneath, so I simply put on my back and went down for a while. I saw that there were three cannons temporarily exposed in the sea sand. The body of the gun is not round, but has a dozen planes of equal width, similar to an expanded hexagon, and the back of the gun body is also cast with a relief totem.

The three Western-style cannons are of the same type, and the inner diameter of the muzzle is more than eight centimeters.

After a while, after the first cannon was tied with a rope, it was hoisted up by the "Big Shark".

Zhang Nan also simply climbed onto the cargo ship to see the water cannon: a bronze cannon, measuring 82 mm in diameter and 2.95 meters in length. This is a three-pound long cannon. The weight of the cannon should be 700 to 800 kilograms.