Live appraising treasures, I became a national treasure expert?

Chapter 161 The Coffin Board of the Han Dynasty
Weapons of Shaolin Temple... Is this a novelty?

A lecturer in charge of the test was secretly suspicious and turned on the phone.After searching a few times, I found the relevant link: Shaolin Temple Double Hook, also known as Tiger Head Double Hook, Handguard Double Hook.

Looking at the list again, the appraisal comment is only two words: hand halberd, and then look at the signature, Guo Zhenqiang.

The lecturer frowned: "Professor Zhang, the name Guo Zhenqiang... sounds familiar?"

"I'm a member of the Beijing Collectors Association. I'm good at ancient coins and miscellaneous items. In terms of eyesight and appreciation ability, I must have some. It's no problem to call me an expert."

"Still an expert? But..."

The teacher paused for a moment, then looked at the appraisal results of Lang Xian and Tiger Head Double Hook: "This appraisal... is too refined?"

Professor Zhang glanced at him with a strange expression: Mr. Ge, are you really good at talking?
That's all about the wolf constitution, Li Ding'an did explain it in more detail. Of course, you can also understand that experts cherish ink like gold and are too lazy to write so much.

But what about the latter one?

A halberd is a halberd, and a hook is a hook. The difference is hundreds of thousands of miles. What does it have to do with refining or not?
It's obvious that the experts' eyesight is not good enough, the level of appreciation is not enough, and they have lost sight... To put it bluntly, they are far worse than Li Ding'an.

But after all, he is a student of this department, so Professor Zhang is not good at boasting directly.He just smiled implicitly: "Maybe Li Ding'an has more research on weapons, so he happened to know each other..."

Like this?

Teacher Ge tilted his head, expressing doubts.He always felt that Professor Zhang was fooling him.

He thought for a while, then rolled his eyes to look at the list, "Professor Zhang, can I let him see one?"

Professor Zhang was immediately happy: "Mr. Ge, of course!"

"That's good!"

Well, I have to pick a harder one.

Thinking about it, Teacher Ge's eyes lit up when he saw something.

Just in time, Li Ding'an paused after finishing a piece of wood carving.

Teacher Ge looked at Kongzi and pointed to the list: "Li Ding'an, look at the item numbered 74."

Gao Shengdong, who was next to him, introduced in a low voice: "This is Mr. Ge from the Han and Tang Department..."

"Hello, Teacher Ge!" Li Ding'an greeted, and Gao Shengdong also followed the serial number to find the item.

Li Dingan walked over, and Xing Zongfeng followed behind carrying the camera. As the camera moved, images of 74 cultural relics appeared on the big screen.

It is a piece of porcelain, or a remnant, but this time the information is more detailed: the white porcelain lotus canopy, the sprinkler head of the sprinkler, the date is the Qing Dynasty, and the place of production is JDZ.Also made a note: Ding kiln white porcelain imitated by folk kilns.

The thing is not difficult to recognize, it is a lotus pod with half a thick stem, about five or six centimeters in diameter, the stem is two centimeters thick, and about four centimeters long.

There are indeed eyes on it, and the flower stem is also hollow...

Li Ding'an hadn't read the information, so he didn't know what was written on it.But with just one glance, he had a rough judgment, and his expression became weird.

Since this teacher Ge is from the Han and Tang Dynasties, he must also know porcelain, so there is no reason why he can't recognize this thing?

"What's the matter?" Teacher Ge smiled, "Can't you recognize me?"

"I can recognize it, but it's too..."

Well, it's so easy...

When the words came to his lips, Li Dingan turned a corner again: "It's just too rare... This is a shower for bathing. It should be dated to the Northern Song Dynasty, and the place of production is Xing Kiln..."

What the hell, the information says sprinkler head?

That's okay, because this thing can indeed be used to water flowers and take a bath, and there were porcelain shower heads in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, so we can't absolutely say who is right and who is wrong.

The problem is that the place of origin and year are also given in detail on the list, which is clearly JDZ of the Qing Dynasty, but Li Ding'an said that this thing is from the Xing Kiln of the Song Dynasty?
Moreover, he dared to be so sure just by taking a casual glance, which was very frightening.

Teacher Ge was also very surprised. He narrowed his eyes instinctively, and looked at the photo on the big screen: That's right, no matter how you look at it, it looks like Ding Kiln?
According to his judgment, this should be something from Ding Kiln in Ming Dynasty, anyway, it definitely did not come from JDZ in Qing Dynasty.Therefore, the expert must have made a wrong appraisal, and that's why he specially picked this one, wanting to test Li Ding'an's quality.

But according to Li Ding'an, not only the experts were wrong, but even he was wrong?
"Your student is a bit powerful?"

Surprised, he asked again in a low voice: "Professor Zhang, why do I look like Dingyao... look at it, Xingyao or Dingyao?"

I look... also like Ding Kiln...

I thought so in my heart, but Professor Zhang didn't dare to say it, just shook his head: "It's hard to say!"

Teacher Ge looked back: With a professor like you, you talk all the time?
Professor Zhang couldn't laugh or cry, and explained in a low voice: "You are teaching archeology in the Han and Tang Dynasties. Don't you know that the Ding Kiln and the Xing Kiln are in the same line, and they use the same firing process? Although there are some differences, there is no difference in this item. Not much performance."

"Yeah, I feel the same way..." Teacher Ge deeply agrees, "But you are that student, so you're sure it's Xing Kiln?"

He is not a normal person...

Thinking this way, Professor Zhang casually said: "Maybe he has other judgment methods?"

"It's possible... How did he decide in that era?"

"I don't know, but in my opinion, the age is even more difficult to judge. Because from the Song Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, the Ding kiln has been burning things. Although the craftsmanship and characteristics have changed over time, it is not very obvious. Therefore, If you want to make a clear judgment, you must look carefully, and you may have to use other methods..."

Teacher Ge squinted his eyes: use the instrument, or "other methods"?
It's not just him and Professor Zhang who are not sure, as long as teachers and students who know a little about porcelain have similar thoughts: Li Ding'an's conclusion is tantamount to directly overturning the original appraisal result.

So who is right and who is wrong?

Teacher Ge looked at it for a while, but still couldn't figure out why, so he asked directly: "Li Ding'an, you said this is the Xing Kiln of the Song Dynasty? Why can't it be the Ding Kiln of the same period or later?"

Ding kiln?

Don't say it, it's really easy to confuse...

Li Ding'an thought for a while: "The main reason is that the firing methods are different, resulting in subtle differences in appearance: both use the over-firing method, and both use the 'make-up soil' coloring technique, but the Xing kiln uses The most popular is the "casket body firing method", while the Ding kiln uses naked firing without a box.

It is precisely because there are more or less buckled boxes that the temperature difference between the two furnaces is several hundred degrees. Therefore, from the perspective of glaze medicine, the Xing kiln is a low-temperature glaze, and the Ding kiln is a semi-high temperature glaze.Therefore, there is a difference in the enamel of the two, the most intuitive one is the color difference:

Because the temperature is not enough, the porcelain of Xing kiln will be slightly gray or light yellow under strong light, so it is also called "like green" and "like snow" in history, but Ding kiln is different, it is pure white..."

After a short pause, he turned his head again: "Brother, can I borrow a flashlight and a magnifying glass!"

"of course can!"

The engrossed doctoral student who was listening handed over the tools. Li Ding'an first turned on the flashlight to shine on the glaze, and then brought the magnifying glass closer.

It wasn't very clear at first, but Li Ding'an adjusted the angle several times before a subtle light yellow layer appeared on the surface of the enamel.

For a split second, Teacher Ge was stunned, Professor Zhang was also stunned, and so were the students from the Department of Ceramics.

They stared at the big screen, all opening their mouths in a daze.

I'm not surprised that Li Ding'an knows a lot, because what he said is just basic knowledge, and anyone who knows porcelain can understand it.

The question is, with so many professors and graduate students present, who can spot such a difference without the help of tools?

Under normal circumstances, it is not only necessary to borrow instruments, but also professional optical instruments.Don't look at it, even Li Ding'an adjusted it several times before finding the right angle?

So, student Li's eyesight is really amazing... I don't have to admire it.

Teacher Ge was stunned for a long time: No wonder Professor Wu dared to let him go up and accept so many people's doubts?
Not only does this student have something, but he also has quite a lot...

Sighing, he asked again: "What about that era?"

"Mr. Ge, since we have confirmed that this thing came from the Xing Kiln, we can basically confirm that it is roughly after the Sui Dynasty and before the Ming Dynasty, right?"

"of course!"

Because the Xing kiln did not start firing white porcelain until the Sui Dynasty, and it stopped firing at the end of the Yuan Dynasty.

"Then let's look at the shape of the vessel: there was no such shape in the Sui and Yuan Dynasties, but similar kettles and showers were unearthed in the Tang Dynasty, but there are porcelain pillars for support under the lotus pods, and the lotus stems are relatively thick. , completely different from this kind. Only the Song Dynasty discovered this kind of utensil..."

"Is there a real object unearthed?" Teacher Ge frowned and lowered his voice, "Professor Zhang, why don't I have any impression?"

Professor Zhang didn't dare to say anything, because he didn't have any impression.

"It's not a real thing, but a painting: a picture of a boy bathing is engraved in a brick carving of a tomb from the Song and Jin Dynasties found in Qingshui County, Gansu Province, and there is this kind of shower on it...

The other is a ball fan on silk made by Su Hanchen, a court painter during the Huizong period of the Song Dynasty, "Lady Bathing Makeup Picture", and the painting is also similar to the shape of the utensils... Now it is collected in the Baodao Palace Museum..."

Hearing what Li Ding'an said, no one said anything, at least the students didn't dare to say anything.

There were few tombs in the Song and Jin Dynasties, and most of the lectures in the courses were about architecture and structure, and the murals and brick carvings were also mainly focused on the more prominent content.Therefore, even if this painting appeared in the teaching materials, no one would care about the shape of the shower on it.

As for the Forbidden City Museum in Baodao, it is even less accessible...

Professor Wu nodded in satisfaction: "Continue!"

"Okay, Professor Wu..."

"Li Ding'an, what is this?"

A female graduate student pointed at something, which was blue-gray in color and in the shape of a long column with a diameter of about five centimeters and a length of about ten centimeters.

The stubble is obvious, it should be broken, so it is easy to recognize: this thing is carved out of stone.

It is a little far away, but you can roughly see a word engraved on the stone pillar. It is estimated that the age is not short, and the handwriting is a little fuzzy. It looks like the word "Hou".

At the same time, a simultaneous camera of the real object appeared on the big screen.Looking at the list again, experts concluded that it was a medicinal pestle from the Qing Dynasty.

This is a bit perfunctory, and it also shows that the eyesight of these experts is really not good: because ancient medicine pestles are rarely made of stone.

Not to mention tiger bones, rhino horns, and medicinal materials such as gold and stone minerals. Even if they are rhizomes, they can't be pounded with a stone pestle a few times. The crushed stone residue is definitely more than medicinal powder, so how can this medicine be used?
Therefore, most of the medicine pestles are made of metal, including copper pestles unearthed in the Shang, Zhou and pre-Qin periods.

It would be even more nonsense to say that this one is earlier, something from the Stone Age...there are words engraved on it.

This is probably the reason why this female graduate student is a little strange...

While thinking about it, Li Ding'an also came over.

The shape of this thing is a bit strange, the upper half is thinner, and the lower half is thicker.The shape is very well-proportioned, and the left and right are also very symmetrical, obviously carefully polished.

If you look closely, there are still lines at the bottom, which look like lines, or hair... um, hair?
Li Ding settled down for a moment: Why does this thing get more and more wrong the more it looks?

Instinctively, he looked at the character again: this is not the back, but rather like the character "月" in Han Li, with a slight curvature at the top, and the vertical hook is missing on the right side, and it just so happens that the right side is the broken stubble.

There seems to be traces of strokes on the bottom, roughly like a horizontal stroke.

What is Yuejiayiheng?
"and"?
I made a fuss, this is Mr. Jiao... just say why it doesn't look right?Um, or Han Li?

Li Ding'an was taken aback: In the Han Dynasty, this thing was not for women to solve their physical needs, but for sacrifices...

Besides, this thing is made of stone?

In an instant, he regained his energy, picked up the object, and turned on the system.

That's right, this thing is indeed from the Han Dynasty, but the most symbolic part of the front end just happened to be lost, so it's not easy to recognize.

The most important thing is, the system prompts that this thing is newly unearthed?

Good guy, is this the Han tomb?
If the non-staff archaeological team did it, this life would be over...

Li Ding'an remained motionless, as if in a daze, and the discussion began again in the examination room.

"Is this...can't you recognize it?"

"It is estimated that this thing is really difficult to judge..."

"But it's powerful enough... At least most of the graduate students couldn't recognize the shower just now."

"I'm still a graduate student... Ask the lecturers present, before Li Ding'an spoke, who would dare to say that it was fired from the Xing Kiln?"

"This is..."

While discussing, Li Ding'an raised his head again, and raised the thing in his hand to Lin Siqi: "Where did you get this?"

Lin Siqi narrowed his eyes and looked at it: "Stone sculpture? Oh, it was excavated by the Municipal Bureau of Cultural Relics from Tsinghua University. They said it was of no research value, so... um, let's deal with it..."

The Municipal Bureau of Cultural Relics... Tsinghua University... dealt with it... amazingly, Senior Sister Lin!

He sighed, and handed the things in front of Wu Xiang: "Teacher, do you think this character looks like the character 'and' in official script?"

"And" character, or official script?
Looking at Xingzhuang again, Wu Xiang also reacted: Is this a reproductive totem?

Well, Qing University dug up...haha, Han Tomb?

Tsk tsk... Li Dingan's eyesight?
To be honest, if Li Ding'an didn't remind him, even if he could recognize it, it would take a lot of time...

Wu Xiang was filled with emotion, and directly put the list in his hand: "I guess there are quite a few more, look for it...Gao Shengdong, Xing Zongfeng, stop taking pictures, come here to help...Bai Ru, come and register..."

There are quite a few more...meaning, the tomb of the Han Dynasty was really dug from the Qing University?

Li Ding'an was stunned, and subconsciously took the list.

Other professors and students are at a loss:
"What's going on, is it wonderful to watch?
"There should be something wrong with that stone pestle."

"It's probably a good thing, maybe it's from the Shang and Zhou Dynasties or the Stone Age."

"Is there something wrong with your eyes? Are there engraved characters in italics?"

Is it italic script... Why does it look a bit like official script, but also a bit like bronze inscription?
Teacher Ge frowned: "Professor Zhang, does that word just now look like 'hou' written backwards, or 'si'?"

Professor Zhang shook his head: "I don't know!"

Through the screen, it must not be as clear as seeing the real thing. Professor Zhang really didn't recognize it.

But as soon as Professor Wu said "Gao Shengdong, don't shoot", he knew that he had found something good.

And not just one...

While guessing, an exclamation came from the side: "Li Ding'an, what do you think this is... a coffin board from the Han Dynasty?"

(End of this chapter)