My identity as a collector was exposed by the village flower

Chapter 394 Special Collection Hobbies

The manor owner pointed to the half-meter-high porcelain vase in the living room, told everyone that it was brought back from China by his grandfather, and asked Fang Xing and others if they were interested.

In his opinion, the most famous Chinese artwork is porcelain.

Therefore, he first introduced the porcelain vase to everyone.

At first, his grandfather bought it for two hundred dollars.Two hundred U.S. dollars a few decades ago, and it was still in China, is not a small sum!At that time, the average salary in China was only more than ten yuan.

"Plum bottle. This kind of bottle existed in the Song Dynasty." Jackie Chan walked over and said.

His ability to identify treasures is very low, but at least he knows the style of porcelain vases.

Plum vase is a type of bottle with small mouth, short neck, wide shoulders, thin bottom and round feet. It is named for its small mouth and only plum branches can be inserted.

In history, there are all major kilns in Meiping vases, and its shape can be said to be the most beautiful in the world, so the shape of Meiping vases can be regarded as the first shape of Chinese porcelain.

Xia Yu opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but she had some scruples, so she still didn't say it.

Fang Xing didn't have such scruples, so he corrected him directly: "Brother Jackie Chan, the plum vase is from the Tang Dynasty."

"It existed in the Tang Dynasty? Porcelain wasn't popular then, right?" Jackie Chan was surprised.

Tang Sancai was famous in the Tang Dynasty.

Tang Sancai belongs to pottery, not porcelain.He remembered that in the Song Dynasty, porcelain developed rapidly.Porcelain may have sprouted in the Tang Dynasty, but the technology should be immature, so there was almost no porcelain at that time.

As for the plum vase, a type of porcelain vase, Jackie Chan thinks it should have originated in the Song Dynasty.

"It is indeed the Tang Dynasty, and it was popular in the Liao and Song Dynasties. However, the plum vases at that time were slightly different, with a slightly fatter body and not as graceful as we see now."

This has something to do with the aesthetics of the Tang Dynasty.

Everyone knows that the Tang Dynasty regarded plumpness as its beauty, whether it was a woman or a variety of statues, it was almost the same.

In fact, the plum vases of each dynasty are slightly different.

For example, in the Song Dynasty, the body is generally tall and thin, the shoulders are inclined downward, the feet are long and close to a straight line, the bottom is relatively small, and the minimum diameter of the body is from above the shoulder to the lower part of the mouth. There are various processing techniques, often with sharp edges and corners. turning point.

The Yuan Dynasty inherited the shape of the Song Dynasty, but the shoulders are more plump, with a lid, the lid is bell-shaped, and there is a cylindrical spout in the middle. The lid can be turned upside down and used as a wine glass.

The shape of plum vases in the Ming Dynasty is relatively low in proportion; the mouth is round and thick, without obvious corner turning; the shoulders are raised upwards, with full and strong lines; under the abdomen, it is vertical, and some are slightly retracted; The end of the part, slightly outward.

The plum vases of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty have particularly plump shoulders, almost in a straight line, and are straighter below the waist.

"Obviously, this plum vase, in terms of style, is imitated from the Qianlong period." Fang Xing said burningly.

"Is it an imitation?"

Upon hearing this, Jackie Chan immediately lost interest.

"Hmm! Judging from this porcelain vase, if it is genuine, it must be a high-end product at that time.

For the blue and white porcelain of the Qianlong period, whether it was an official kiln or a private kiln, the high-end products were carefully washed with fetal soil, and uncrushed porcelain stone particles could not be found in the fetal bones of small and medium-sized utensils.The fetal bone is white and dense, and there is no flint red at the junction of the fetal glaze..."

In addition, Qianlong blue and white was known for its "stable, vigorous, and calm" in the Qing Dynasty, and it was painted with domestic blue materials.

The hair color in the early stage is not much different from that of Yongzheng blue and white, slightly dizzy, but more stable than that in the Yongzheng period; the color in the middle stage is stable and bright, and it is pure blue;

Finally, the Qianlong blue-and-white regular script has a dignified font and neat writing. The early inscriptions and the Yongzheng period are just like the same hand.The strokes of the blue and white seal script are straight, consistent in thickness horizontally and vertically, and the corners are skillful without leaving traces.

"It is a very serious imitation, but it is a real imitation. It was burned after the founding of the People's Republic of China." Fang Xing continued.

They all spoke Chinese, and the owner of the manor didn't understand.

But from the expressions of Fang Xing and others, it can be seen that these people are not interested in the porcelain brought back by his grandfather.The manor owner was slightly disappointed, but quickly managed his expression.

"Come on, let's take you to the collection room!" the manor owner said.

It is said to be a collection room, but it is actually a utility room where old items are placed.But it is reasonable to say that it is a collection room. After all, the things left by the ancestors are basically placed there.

It's messy inside, with a lot of stuff.

The door opened, and a mouse jumped out, which was trampled to death by Xu Qing.

The manor owner looked at Xu Qing in a daze, and Xia Yu and the others also raised their thumbs.The live broadcast room is full of 666, who said girls are afraid of mice?It is fiercer than a man.

"Fuck! I'm so afraid of this thing."

"Regardless of gender, many men are also afraid of snakes, mice, cockroaches, etc."

"That's right, you can't say that men are cowards just because of this!"

"Women always say they are afraid, but they are more excited than anyone else when they see it."

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Jackie Chan said in surprise: "Your collection is very special! There are so many mirrors."

At a glance, there are at least twenty or thirty mirrors, the largest one is more than one meter high, and the smallest one is as big as a palm.

When someone saw this situation, they felt hairy in their hearts.In some horror movies, mirrors are quite evil, especially when they are placed from all angles, reflecting various figures.

Fang Xing picked up one and found that the frame was made of agate.

To be honest, the mirror itself is worthless.The real artistic value is the frame.Whether it is the material, or the engraving on the frame, etc., it is worth some money.

This kind of mirror is different from Chinese bronze mirrors.

Bronze mirrors are very valuable, and it is not uncommon for them to fetch tens of millions.

"What kind of material is this?" Xia Yu also picked up a mirror as big as two palms, and made the handle very strange.There is also a cover on the mirror, which can be opened when in use and closed when not in use to protect the mirror.

"Silicified wood, or water washed petrified wood."

Fang Xing explained that the silicified wood was washed into the river by floods and glaciers after being exposed by the movement of the earth's crust. Together with the sand and stone, it was washed and honed by the torrent for tens of millions of years to remove the softness and leave the firmness, and to remove the roughness and preserve the essence.

Those with fine texture are like jade agate, those with bright color are like the morning sun and sunset, those with strange and abrupt shapes are like animal vessels, and those with fine texture can be seen with knotted tree galls.

The special law of the inner texture of the trees, the variability and incompleteness of the local form, the uplift due to the external geological changes, the water and the sand, the roughness and the Zen, the quality is the top and the bottom, and the quality and shape are all ready to be a wonderful thing.

"In China, water-washed petrified wood is a kind of strange stone. Unexpectedly, the cover they polished into a mirror surface is quite beautiful." Fang Xing said.

The remains of petrified wood on the earth are extremely rare, and most of them are plants from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, and they are also vegetation types during the emergence of angiosperms.

"How much?" Yuanyuan asked.

Seeing that Yuanyuan was interested, Xia Yu handed her the mirror.

The owner of the manor thought for a while and offered a price of [-] US dollars.

(End of this chapter)