Treasure Hunt: I Can Possess Infinitely

Chapter 135
On Chu Wen's side, the underwater transport planes have arrived at the bottom of the sea where the sunken ship is located.I saw more than half of the sunken ship was submerged by sand, and the exposed hull was a bit rotten.

It is a little difficult to salvage the treasures of this sunken ship.

After all, the sediment on the ship must be cleaned first, and the process of cleaning the sediment will inevitably cause seawater turbidity and other phenomena, which will further hinder the progress of salvage.

Zhou Zuosong looked at the picture for a while and judged: "This should be a bird ship from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, also known as the green eyebrow. Its characteristic is that the bow is shaped like a bird's beak. It is one of the ancient Chinese sea ships. It is a type of ship, and it is one of the four ancient ships in my country."

He told Chu Wen that the four ancient ships were the bird boat, the sand boat, the blessing boat and the Guangzhou boat.

The ship is not small, more than 20 meters long, and the original mast has rotted away.

The underwater machines that arrived at the scene began to work. Zhou Zuosong's mouth twitched when he saw that the machines were almost demolished.But he couldn't say anything.

You must know that Chu Wen is not an underwater archaeologist, he only cares about the treasures on the boat.

After a period of cleaning, I finally saw the first treasure, which was a feeder.

The so-called feeding utensils are actually glazed ware, or glass ware, from the Ming and Qing dynasties.

"This is not the authentic ancient colored glaze. The real colored glaze was actually lost in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties. The glazed ware at the back is closer to the glass ware, and its transparency has been improved a lot. Especially this kind of painted enamel material was invented in the Qing Dynasty. Created." Zhou Zuosong explained.

The definition of colored glaze in ancient and modern times is different.

The glass mentioned today refers to artificial high-lead crystal glass.The ancient colored glaze is a by-product unintentionally refined by Taoist priests during alchemy, and the ingredients of the materials are different.

I have to say that although ancient Taoism pursued unreliable things, Taoists invented a lot of things.Like the earliest gunpowder, they also made it.

It is no exaggeration to say that they are the earliest chemists in our country.

Someone may ask, is the ancient colored glaze precious, or the colored glaze explored in the Ming and Qing Dynasties is more precious.

In fact, there are very few glazed wares left before the Song and Yuan Dynasties, and the quality is generally not high.In terms of exquisiteness, it cannot compare with the colored glaze developed later.

Zhou Zuosong also told Chu Wen that compared with porcelain and jade carvings, the price of ancient glazed vessels has hardly risen, and their collection value is far underestimated.

"So, these things are not very valuable?" Liu Lixian asked.

"That depends on your understanding of the word value. To our boss, it may not be a big deal. But to many ordinary people, it is very precious.

Like the one you see now, it is not a big problem to put it at an auction for 80 million. "

There are two main reasons for the high price of ancient glazed wares.

First, the ancient colored glaze is made of special materials, and its production process is quite complicated. Dozens of processes are required to complete the process of coming in the fire and going in the water. In some cases, the production process alone takes ten to 20 days, and it mainly relies on handwork.It is very difficult to grasp each link, and it can be said that the difficulty of grasping the heat is half by skill and half by luck.

Only one item is released, and the yield rate is only 70%.More importantly, ancient colored glaze cannot be recycled, that is to say, once a little problem occurs, it will take dozens of days and dozens of processes, and the efforts of so many people will be wasted immediately.

Second, colored glaze is not only a material, but also a cultural product. More importantly, colored glaze products are unique, and no two colored glaze products are exactly the same.

As soon as the words fell, the underwater robot gently picked up a small bottle that was not as big as a palm.

"This is a snuff bottle, have you heard of it? It is worth a little more than the one just now, and can reach more than a million..." Looking at the screen, Zhou Zuosong kept explaining.

For some things that cannot be clearly seen, we can only talk about them after they are salvaged.

Afterwards, a piece of exquisite feeding utensils was found, and Zhou Zuosong's expression gradually became shocked.Because this batch of feeders is almost all high-quality goods, and some of them are extremely precious, the Palace Museum can't find a few of them for comparison.

"What? This thing is very valuable?" Seeing Zhou Zuosong's expression, a fool could guess some information.

"Let me put it this way! This feeder can be used as a treasure in any provincial museum. It is the best feeder I have ever seen."

Zhou Zuosong's knowledge is not as good as that of the curator above and other seniors, but he can definitely be called knowledgeable.

"Just this fist-sized bottle?" Liu Lixian and the others couldn't understand.

"Can the value of an antique depend on its size? In many cases, the smaller it is, the more exquisite it is, and the more valuable it is." This is the opposite of gemstones.

The smaller the antique, the more difficult it is to make, and the higher the technical content contained in it, the more artistic it is.

"It is a burden bottle with glass body and painted enamel. In the past two years, one piece was auctioned in the United States, and the auction price exceeded [-] million Hong Kong dollars.

Although the two are not the same, in my opinion, this fugu bottle is as good as that one, and even better in some ways.This shipwreck should not be simple. "Zhou Zuosong concluded.

The reason why glass body painting enamel is precious and handed down in a small amount is inseparable from its difficult production process.Among the six materials of painting enamelware, the glass tire is the most difficult.

Its firing temperature is generally around 850 degrees. At this time, the pot body and the color of the enamel are close to the melting point. Only in this way can the pot body and the color be better combined.

At this time, it is also difficult to control the temperature. If the temperature is slightly lower, the color cannot be completely melted, and the desired effect cannot be achieved.

And this kind of high-temperature firing has to go through no less than five times, and each time is a test.The reason for firing four to five times is because the coloring temperature of each color enamel is different, starting from high temperature and ending at low temperature.

Zhou Zuosong was also very curious. No matter how you look at it, the boat loaded with so many high-quality materials looks like a tribute to the capital.

However, according to the situation at the time, it was unlikely to take the sea route.If you really want to take the waterway and pay tribute to the palace, you should also take the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal!

And even if it really takes the sea route, the deviation is too great, right?Almost ran to Chaoxian Peninsula.

Of course, it is not absolutely impossible.

One thing Zhou Zuosong was quite certain of was that the items on this ship must be tributes, and they were dedicated to the royal family.Zhou Zuosong has seen similar imperial feeding utensils in the Palace Museum, which are exactly the same and very similar in style.

On some feeders, there are dragon painting enamel.

The pattern of the dragon could not be used casually in ancient times!To be beheaded.

When all the feeders were cleared out, there were more than 500 pieces in total.There were still some broken ones, which were still salvaged at Zhou Zuosong's request.

(End of this chapter)