Riding the wind of rebirth

The inside and outside of this rhinoceros picking box is covered with cloud patterns, and the lacquer is very thick and crystal clear. From the round carved section, you can see four obvious "black lines".

Turning over to look at the bottom of the vessel, there is a four-character inscription of "Qianlong Nianzhi" in regular script filled with gold in the middle.

"How much does this cost?" Lin Wanqiu asked.

Originally, she was from an auction house, and pricing was her specialty, but this girl mainly focuses on overseas markets, and the prices are completely different from those in China. It is not an exaggeration to say that they are two independent systems, so she still has to ask Fei Guan for advice.

"[-] yuan, after all, it's civilian utensils." Fei Guan said: "The price of civilian utensils in the Qianlong Dynasty couldn't afford it."

Zhou Zhi frowned, took the box back and looked through it carefully, always felt something was wrong, but couldn't tell what was wrong.

I was puzzled, but now is not the time to study seriously, so I said: "This one opens exactly five grids, and it's just right for me to put my small items."

"Isn't there one less?" Lin Wanqiu had seen Zhou Zhi's collection, and knew the five small pieces that Zhou Zhi was talking about, namely Fangxiang in the Spring and Autumn Period, Gangmao Yanmao in the Han Dynasty, Weng Zhong, Si Nan, and a knife equaling five thousand mother coins.

In Zhou Zhi's three-piece Han Dynasty evil-proofing set, Gangmao and Yanmao have a unique design and are connected together, so this can only be counted as five pieces in total.

This lacquer box is round, with a small circle in the middle, surrounded by five compartments like a plum blossom with five petals. In fact, there are six spaces in total, so Lin Wanqiu teased Zhou Zhi as "one short".

Zhou Zhi was also embarrassed to say that he took this box because he felt that there were still details to be studied, which would make everyone look inadequate in front of the Yang family and his son, so he had to joke: "Leave the space in the middle, and put a seal like the seal of Empress Lu just right." suitable."

Lin Wanqiu immediately rolled her eyes: "I can't miss you!"

The jade seal of Lv Zhi, the founding queen of the Han Dynasty, is the earliest empress seal in China. The jade is crystal clear, the carving is exquisite, and the calligraphy is elegant. cultural relics.

So Zhou Zhi said that the center of the lacquer box lacked a piece of jade of the same level as Lu Zhi Yuxi, which immediately attracted Lin Wanqiu's irony.

"It's a really strange question." Zhang Cheng asked: "Why did the jade seals start to get bigger after the Song Dynasty, while the previous seals were very small?"

"That's not necessarily true, is it?" Fei Guan said, "Isn't the imperial jade seal made by Qin Shihuang and He Shibi quite big?"

"Eh?" Lin Wanqiu said with a startled laugh, "I really haven't thought about this problem before, if the Chuan Guoxi is really made of He's Bi, then the volume shouldn't be the same as that in the TV series, because there is a big circle in the middle of He's Bi If there is a hole, you can only cut off a piece on the side to make a seal."

"I'm on Brother Cheng's side on this issue." Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "Leaving aside legends, judging from the unearthed cultural relics, the seals unearthed during the Qin and Han Dynasties, whether metal or stone, are indeed small."

"I think this has something to do with the extensive use of bamboo slips at that time."

"Is the seal used on the bamboo slips? That's why it's small?" Fei Guan disagreed: "Is there any unearthed bamboo slips to prove it?"

"The bamboo slips of the Qin and Han Dynasties were not used like that." Zhou Zhi said with a smile: "The text was written on the bamboo slips, then the bamboo slips were rolled up and stuffed into a cylindrical container. Then the opening was sealed with sealing mud and the seal was sealed. On top of the sealing mud.”

"This is an effective secrecy measure. There are quite a few such seals unearthed in our country."

"The ink pads at that time were not well developed. Until the early Song Dynasty, black ink was often used on seals."

"So the change from the small seal to the large seal is actually closely related to the widespread use of paper. One proof is that the county government pottery seals unearthed in the Sui and Tang Dynasties are obviously stamped with ink on paper, and their shape is more than that of the Qin and Han seals. Just one size bigger."

This inference is quite reasonable, so everyone agrees with Zhou Zhi's statement for the time being.

It is most reliable to carry out the identification in daylight. As the sunlight deflected, everyone simply moved all the things to the place where they drank tea just now, and continued to identify them one by one.

After removing a lot of less valuable items, the remaining porcelain was basically appraised in the morning. Besides Zhou Zhi, Fei Guan and Zhang Cheng also collected several items, mainly three generations of blue and white, pastel and enamel porcelain.

The rest are from the third generation or younger to the Republic of China and are of average value.

Zhouzhi already had quite a few of these porcelains, and they were all top quality like the big swivel vase, so he didn't have much interest.

As for the box of women's clothes, Zhou Zhi felt that the MTV for Guan Tingting could be used as a clothing reference, and it could be donated to the school later, so he spent another 5000 yuan to collect it.

After cleaning the clothes and removing the suitcase, eight porcelain plates were found under the box.

The porcelain plate is inlaid in the frame made of rosewood, and the surface was torn apart when it was first discovered.

After taking a closer look, I realized that the surface of the strip screen was covered with a layer of glass, and now it was only the glass that was broken.

Zhou Zhi caressed his heart: "Oh, I was almost scared to death. It would be a pity if it was crushed."

"It's 1.2 meters by forty, which is not too small, but it won't scare you to death." Fei Guan said, "There are no old porcelain paintings, and they are not worth much."

Only then did Zhou Zhi realize that this thing is really worthless now.

But whether it is worth money or not depends on the person. Zhou Zhi pointed to the two inscriptions "Yeting's" and "Pingyin" painted on the porcelain plate, a little dumbfounded: "This person, Wang Yeting, don't you know him?"

Everyone shook their heads, and Lin Wanqiu said: "I know Wang Dafan who paints porcelain plates. He is a master at painting monks with the 'ground pastel' technique. He participated in the Panama International Exposition in [-] and won a gold medal."

"Yes." Zhou Zhi nodded, "He is also an important figure in porcelain panel painting, and the floor-to-ceiling pastel technique he created is very suitable for use with light crimson color. It can be said that he brought light crimson color back to life by himself."

"Then he should probably live until after the founding of the People's Republic of China?" Zhang Cheng was taken aback by Zhou Zhi's expression just now, but when Lin Wanqiu mentioned the age of the author of the porcelain plate painting, he couldn't help feeling that Zhou Zhi was making a fuss.

In [-], my Qing Dynasty was destroyed for three years...

The witty words in the new line said that these things are probably hot to the touch because the anger has not subsided.

Seeing that only Zhou Zhi was interested in these porcelain plates, Yang Ting had no choice but to do it himself. Together with Zhou Zhi, he lifted the pictures on these porcelain plates one by one, and leaned against the wall of the main room.

"The painter is not bad." Fei Guan's perception of these drawing boards improved slightly: "It seems to be better than the hanging screens in the Qing Palace."

There is a famous chain of contempt in the antique circle, that is, those who play with calligraphy look down on paintings, and those who play soft films look down on those who play hard films.

In terms of artistic level, poetry and calligraphy are higher than painting, and painting is higher than porcelain.

In fact, it is easy to understand that calligraphy is the specialty of literati and officials, who are the personal participants in the creation;
Most paintings serve them. Except for a small number of participants who are originally literati, even those who are not literati must try to be as close to their tastes as possible.

Porcelain is different. Most of the painters are uneducated porcelain craftsmen, and their painting skills are inherited from their ancestors. It is impossible for them to explain the theory of art, study and understand the pursuit of artistic conception.

Even for Jingde, who made official kiln porcelain, the level of painting skills shown on the porcelain was quite different from the painting quality of the same period.

This is the great difference between an artist and a craftsman. (end of this chapter)