The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

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According to the fragments of the large pots of Cizhou kiln in the Yuan Dynasty that were out of water before, guessing alone, this blue and white plate that can be judged to be out of water is also a product of the Yuan Dynasty, not to mention that Randy, who took over, took the plate out of the bag. , Zhang Nan has discovered that this is a blue-and-white lotus pond waterfowl-shaped diamond mouth plate. Oriental Novel Reading Network

Pan Xin is two waterfowl herons foraging in a lotus pond. Birds, lotus leaves, and flower buds form a visual layout of the two-layer space in the heart. The outer circle is followed by the ruyi cloud head pattern, the water wave pattern, and the tangled branch pattern one after another. The whole plate gives people the biggest visual experience—full!

The blue pattern decorations are full of patterns, but they look very grand.

Taking the dripping plate from Randy's hands, it feels very heavy and the weight is not light!

The glaze is white and gleaming blue, because the sea water on the head is not dry, it looks lustrous and translucent; the blue and white hair color is strong and fresh, showing a verdant indigo color, and there are black rust spots on the thick parts: touch a few places with the strong glaze color. The blue and white glazed surface makes the fingers feel uneven.

Counted as a rich and adversary country, there have been two Yuan Dynasty fine blue and white products before, but I am still a little excited!

Turning it over, there is no mark.

"This is an imported Su Ma Li Qing Yao, with dense composition, multiple layers, and five layers of neatly painted paintings. Guan, this is a genuine'very positive' Yuan blue and white.

Oh!

Vita, you said there is a small half-cabin underneath? "

In the second half, Zhang Nan couldn't help but ask the diving captain who was half-lengthed: If there are a lot of them underneath, that would be a real discovery!

Although the patterns and patterns of this large plate are traditional Chinese paintings and patterns, the painting style has a clear Islamic style.

Blue and white porcelain, knowing that in the Yuan Dynasty, it still does not conform to the traditional aesthetics of the Han people, because the traditionalization of the Han people has always been simple and elegant, and the patterns fired after the blue and white paintings are too fancy.

The Yuan blue and white pattern originally absorbed the elements of Islamization, and this kind of influence actually existed until the Ming Dynasty, but it became less obvious.

This is the blue and white porcelain of the Yuan Dynasty found on a shipwreck on a voyage. It is likely to be the same as the "Black Stone" 500 years earlier. The ship was also going to the nearby Bangka Island, or simply to Belitung. Replenish.

This is not just a question of money, but also the value of nautical archaeology.

The diving captain was still soaking in the sea. He was about to come. Hearing what Zhang Nan said, he quickly said: "Yes, boss, in the second cabin near the bow.

There are not only this kind of large plates, but also other porcelains, and there are also many containers, all of which are Clark porcelain. "

The silt on the seabed protects the main body of the sunken ship. After the silt is initially removed, the head and tail can be distinguished.

This is about Vita's name for Yuan Qinghuayu. Zhang Nan didn't bother to correct it. Ordinary Europeans and Americans basically called blue and white porcelain "Clark porcelain". Who told them to have no idea what blue and white porcelain was 400 years ago!

In 1602, the Dutch East India Company captured a Portuguese merchant ship "Clark" in the sea, and found that the ship was equipped with a large amount of blue and white porcelain that made them stunned.

These porcelains are of course from China, but the Dutch don’t know or understand, but it doesn’t prevent the Dutch who are still using pottery from being such a treasure of this batch of porcelains. They are almost crazy with excitement!

I don't know what this kind of porcelain is called, and I don't even understand the place of origin, so the Europeans named them "Clark Porcelain".

Later, Chinese porcelain was gradually exported to Europe. Because of the sensational and far-reaching impact caused by the goods of the "Clark", the blue and white porcelain was still called "Clark porcelain" by Europeans. It’s really embarrassing for them to pronounce "blue and white" with their tongues.

Because of this historical reason, Zhang Nan never corrects the western name of blue and white porcelain by the guys. Anyway, in the Western world, the frequency of making blue and white porcelain is not high. It doesn't matter if the guys' name is changed or not.

I have already stocked up good quality porcelain for export, and there are always a few other good products. I didn't expect that there are half-cabin Yuan blue and white flowers waiting for me!

This is not only rare, it can be considered a lifetime.

"I'll go down and take a look." After Zhang Nan said this sentence, he turned to Guan Xingquan behind him: "Notify the Big Shark, send Chen Jianghua over in a small boat, and tell him that there is the most positive Yuanqinghua here!"

When Guan Xingquan heard this, he turned and walked: After spending so many years with Zhang Nan, he knew what "Zhongzhen Yuan blue and white" means---one of the top products in porcelain!

The blue and white cobalt materials used in blue and white porcelain in the Yuan Dynasty mainly include imported materials, domestic materials, and mixed materials. The imported cobalt materials are mainly "Suma Liqing", which belongs to the high-iron and low-manganese type. The blue and white color is blue and bright with iron. Rust spots. The domestic materials are basically high manganese and low iron type, with lighter hair color and no iron rust spots.

Zhang Nan said that the academia now generally divides Yuan blue and white into two types: Zhizheng Yuan blue and white and Yanhu Yuan blue and white.

The Zhizheng Yuan blue and white is a pair of elephant-eared vases with the inscription "Eleventh Year of Zhizheng" collected by the British Daweide Foundation as the standard utensils for dating. That pair of bottles is also called the "Daweide Bottle".

No matter how many people think that there is a problem with the bottles, they are the standard for this standard.

Comparing the two, the "to-positive" era is relatively late, and it is generally believed that the main firing period of this type of Yuan blue and white is the late Yuan Dynasty, about 1341-1368. However, since the twelfth year of Zhizheng (1352), the vicinity of Jingdezhen was affected by the war, and the burning of "Zhizheng Yuanqinghua" with obvious official background has stopped.

The latter is mainly based on a blue-and-white peony pattern tower-shaped bottle that was unearthed in a Yuan dynasty tomb buried in 1975 in the sixth year of Yanhu in Xichi Kiln Factory, Huangmei County, Hunan Province. In the early period, it was also before about 1340.

However, this kind of age judgment is just a term. Without any supporting materials, no one can say that there was no "Su Ma Liqing" in the early Yuan Dynasty, and the blue and white of domestic green materials were not burned in the later period: Judging from common sense, domestic green materials were burned. The blue-and-white porcelain made is much more fired with imported blue materials.

But in reality, the grades of domestically produced blue and white materials seem to be rare!

The difference caused by raw materials is not only the color, but also the style.

The styles of the two types of Yuan blue and white are very different, because the "to the positive type Yuan blue and white" adopts imported cobalt material, which not only has gorgeous hair color and iron rust spots, but also has a halo phenomenon. In the modeling and painting skills It is also different: the patterns are dense, the levels are various, and the shapes are generally taller.

Because the latter uses domestic materials, the color is relatively "plain", and the decoration is relatively simple and sloppy.

Judging from the current Yuan blue and white porcelain unearthed in China and found abroad, the most positive-shaped Yuan blue and white porcelains are mostly for export, as well as some furnishings and temple supplies.

As for the domestically produced green materials, there are a lot of daily-use utensils, and they are also exported: not to the Arab world, but to Southeast Asia, such as those found in the Philippines and Indonesia.

It’s very interesting. Almost all the blue and white blue and white flowers found in the Philippines are burial objects in tombs. They are small and of poor quality. It seems that this kind of export was to meet the special needs of certain people in Southeast Asia for burial objects at that time. Tailored.

How many are there now to the positive type Yuan blue and white?

The whole world adds up to less than 400 pieces. At least Zhang Nan said that the academic circles think so. The Turkish Topka Museum and the National Museum of Iran are the places with the most positive-type blue-and-white collections.

The deck sailor was still preparing diving equipment for Zhang Nan. Guan Xingquan came back and said, "He came here, but the motor lifeboat of the cargo ship is not fast. It takes more than an hour."

Zhang Nan nodded, and carefully put the large plate that was still watching into a plastic water tank: it was filled with fresh water.

Good things, try to desalinate.

Boss Guan looked at Zhang Nan's actions and asked: "Is this from an official kiln?"

"It should be, as long as it was fired in the first year of Yanyou or after 1314, it must be an official kiln."

"Why?"

Guan Xingquan was puzzled. Just now he thought it was because it was exquisite and was still a "straight blue and white", so he casually asked if it was an official ware.

As a result, Zhang Nan judged it from the age, which is a bit strange.

When Zhang Nan heard this question, he stretched his hand into the water tank and drew a circle on the third layer of ornamentation on the plate, and said, "This is the Ruyi Cloud Head Pattern, it is the Ganoderma Ruyi Head..."

After he finished speaking, Guan Xingquan understood why: The official ware and folk ware in the blue and white porcelain of the Yuan Dynasty can only be distinguished from the ornamentation, and it has nothing to do with the level of craftsmanship and the type of blue material.

The reason is that starting from the first year of Yuan Yanyou (1314), Yuan Ting clearly stipulated that the two-horned five-claw dragon pattern and the patterns of unicorn, luan phoenix, white rabbit, and Ganoderma lucidum were not allowed to be used by officials and concubines!

Who decapitated!

As for the meaning of "waiting", it is probably the same virtue as "other violations of this regulation" and "the final interpretation right belongs to XX".

This is the reason for this rule. All the blue and white wares of the Yuan Dynasty with banned decorations were not fired by the official kilns themselves, but were also official wares ordered to be produced by the private kilns. However, the blue and white porcelain of the Yuan Dynasty without these decorations should also be official kiln ware.

This is troublesome, because "Yes" is an official kiln, and "No" is not necessarily an official kiln. If the latter situation occurs, except for "bad goods", you have to guess!

What's more interesting is: The five-claw dragon is exclusively for royal use. What about fewer claws?

In the Ming Dynasty and the Braid Dynasty, the "less" could probably be regarded as "Python, Jiao", and the ministers could use it, such as the princes, but the grass folks would not use it.

But not in the Yuan Dynasty: come to a large jar with a blue and white dragon pattern in the Yuan Dynasty and look at the four-claw one.

Happy?

Happy!

Dragon, the proper official kiln...

Wrong, wrong, something wrong!

Yuan blue and white three-claw and four-claw dragon patterns, as well as relatively thick utensils, are basically folk kiln products used by officials and generals.

In Yuan Dynasty porcelain, three-clawed and four-clawed dragons flew all over the sky, flying around into the homes of the people.

Generally speaking, there are many general kilns in the Ming kilns. If you think that all the Yuan blue and white flowers are sky-high, it would be ridiculously wrong!

But as long as the workmanship is good, it can be regarded as domestically produced green material, and hundreds of thousands of pieces are also the starting price.

Of course, compared with the "most positive" type that has been speculated, the price of domestic green material and yuan blue and white is still a bit different.

It's not too much worthless, but before Zhang Nan's rebirth, the speculators probably hadn't had time to fry the domestic greens of the Yuan Dynasty: it's not a good fry anymore, they are out of stock!

Except for some small, crudely crafted, intact, high-grade domestic Qingyuan blue and white wares that seem to be inferior, there may even be fewer "to the right"!

It doesn't look good, no matter how you fry it, it won't drop!

And the grade...

It is not in some museums in China, but in the hands of people you can think of. Anyway, there are basically no foreign museums, because they were not exported.

Zhang Nan had a local Tibetan friend in his life. He was more than a dozen years old, and even his son and himself were good friends. He was from the same town as the **** boss who sold yellow sand. He started playing small and collecting things in the early 1980s. .

Later, he also set up a battlefield and set up a machinery factory. The business has grown bigger and bigger, and the financial strength is strong: he especially likes porcelain, and the people are bold. Zhang Nan's hand is much larger, and even the goods dealers from other provinces will take the initiative to deliver the goods.

The local government hopes that he can open a private museum. Although it was not opened due to funding and other reasons, it can be regarded as a brand of collectors in Jiangnan Province.

Zhang Nan has been to his house several times and knows how rich his collection is: the four-story buildings of the two bosses at the front and back of the house, each building will not be less than 200 square meters per floor: one of them is not inhabited, from the basement to the top floor, Pile of collections.

It is a pile, not a display.

The silver dollar classification of various varieties is packed in bamboo baskets, and the heads are covered with a thick layer of ash; the porcelain of a certain variety of other people is only one, and the other is the room!

Even the stairs, that are piles of Qing Dynasty dishes and bowls on one side of each step: there is no way, there are too many, there is no place to put it.

Now Zhang Nan is wealthy, and sometimes he would play "unreasonable batches" in collecting antiques, which may have been learned subconsciously: people have accumulated over decades, and more than half of the money earned by business has become collections.

When "Treasure Hunt" went to Yan County, the leaders of the Propaganda Department and the Director of the Management Committee accompanied the experts and film crews from Beijing to that home to show the strength of Yan County's folk collection.

The TV is not dripping. People don't need TV to increase their reputation. They play low-key and lively in the circle. As a result, they surprised the film crew and the experts from Beijing!

In the "high-end" collection of porcelain, the "five kilns" are basically not played in the south. Generally, the early ones are Yue kilns and Longquan kilns, and those were official kilns in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

What if it is Yuan Qinghua?

There are not many people, right?

In the hidden treasure building, all other rooms and aisles are piled up, but there are really good friends and leaders who want to show their faces to visit. You can't always move things to the "front building", right?

Not to mention the inconvenience to move around, but also easy to damage.

There is still a large living room in the Tibetan Treasure Building. It is decorated with some fine products, and even the chairs are top-quality mahogany furniture from the Qing Dynasty.

As soon as the expert arrived, he hadn't sat down yet, and saw a mahogany slatted table facing south, with a blue-and-white pot with a height of about 30 centimeters and a regular shape and beautifully decorated paintings placed on each end~www.readwn.com ~ Take a closer look: domestic green material yuan blue and white!

It's intact, even the lid is there.

Where did you come from for a chat?

The Tibetan friend told these people from Beijing: Seventeen or eighteen years ago, an antique businessman in Jingdezhen sent it here admiringly.

As for the price at the time...

No one asked, he wouldn't say if he asked, or he would just break it at all.

In fact, even this way...

No one would tell the truth, and even Zhang Nan would not.

However, Zhang Nan and a few good friends in the local circle also knew something that those from Beijing didn't know: not a pair, that buddy has four pairs of blue and white pots with full styles and similar decorations!

As for the question of where it came from, Zhang Nan's knowledge of the origin is equivalent to not knowing, because the origin of the other party's explanation is reasonable, and you don't care where it came from, it's not yours anyway.

However, according to Zhang Nan's guess, there is a situation that is more likely: the funerary objects are still funerary objects from the same family cemetery, so there can be four pairs.

However, they have been hidden in other people's homes for at least 17 or 8 years. Don't go into the details of the problem. It's because of the sentence: As long as it is reasonable, it is reasonable.

As for why I didn't see it on TV?

Treasure hunts, treasure hunts, real collectors and players, basically don't put good things on the TV, and they can't make it at all.

Otherwise, there won’t be so many trusts: Yanxian treasure hunts. At least half of the four people in the "Final Finals" are trusts. The "civil treasure holder" who wins in the end is actually a veteran broadcaster, director, etc. of the local radio station. It's not his at all.

Trust, everywhere.

Of the two types of Yuan blue and white flowers, Zhang Nan prefers the "straightforward type" because it is big enough and colorful enough, so this will be so happy.

Dress neatly and get into the water.

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