Live appraising treasures, I became a national treasure expert?

Chapter 269 Report
Look carefully: yes, it is not imitation. It is definitely a naturally occurring earthy color with a little rust. It is very deep and has penetrated the entire glaze layer.It is roughly estimated that it has been buried for at least a thousand years.

Looking at the quality, it's extremely bright. It must have been dug out of the ground no more than two years ago.

Was it really stolen from the tomb?

After looking at it again to make sure he hadn't missed it, Li Ding'an breathed out secretly: "Brother, are there any similar things in the factory?"

"No more, just this pile, swept out when cleaning the warehouse."

"Sell or not?"

"They are all defective products and not worth much money. If the boss likes them, he will take them all away!"

"Oh, thank you, brother!"

Li Ding'an thanked him profusely and wiped the dust off the tiger zi seriously.

Didn't you say urinal?

With a "pop", Lei Mingzhen's eyes were like glass beads, circling around: "How about you help me choose one?"

See, when he's not acting stupid, he's smarter than anyone else.

But I guess this is the only one...

Li Ding'an didn't say anything, handed him the tiger zi, and squatted down again.

After being left there for a long time, it was covered with dust. You can see the glaze clearly with just a swipe: there is no dirt or rust.

The tire shape is symmetrical and the thickness is even. It is indeed made by hand.The scratch marks on the edge of the package and the bottom of the can can be seen vaguely, which can also be determined to be manual work.

When you pick it up and look at the bottom, you can see circles of fine lines.This is caused by the pottery wheel rotating too fast and the centrifugal force being too large when molding the embryo.It is similar to those seen in the workshop, half handmade and half mechanical.So they are all imitations, not antiques.

But in terms of simulation, it is several grades higher than those. If it is processed using old-fashioned techniques, this pile can be sold as a high imitation.

Well, high imitation?

Li Ding'an frowned and picked up another item. After looking at it for nearly a minute, he picked up the third item.

In this way, he looked at each item one after another. The more he looked at it, the tighter his brows became.

Lei Ming's mouth was almost drooling: he encountered Yang Shen's wax bucket, Lang Shining's oil noodles, or Yu Qian's paperweight in the capital a few days ago. Which one made him frown?

But at this moment, Li Ding'an's facial features were all squeezed into a pile... Haha, I definitely missed something, and it was a big leak!
In fact, that's not the case at all.

The guard was right: if considered as handicrafts, these things are indeed not very good: the color is not correct, the glaze is not bright, and they are not gray but not yellow.The carcass is rough, and the base and unglazed areas on the inner wall even feel a bit scratchy when touched.

But if you think of it as an antique... no, it's a high imitation. It conforms to the characteristics of celadon from the Jin Dynasty.

Because that time happened to be in the period of transition from "pottery" to "porcelain", and the craftsmanship was at this level. From the perspective of modern people, of course it cannot be repeated.But at that time, the general public could not see this thing, and even if you were a junior official, you were not qualified to use it.

In short: the degree of simulation is too high.

It's no exaggeration. If these things were brought to Panjiayuan, they would cost ten thousand each, and there would be many people rushing to get them.After buying it and polishing off the lines on the bottom, then removing the luster and applying patina, who dares to say that this is not Jin porcelain?

It's easy to sell one piece for 60 yuan or [-], and someone like Gao Shengdong is definitely a scammer.

If the skills were higher, an expert of Wu Weimin's level would still be able to discern.

So I just couldn’t figure it out: How could a rural factory produce something like this?
In surprise, Li Ding'an picked up a can of chicken heads and logged into the system again.Looking again, my eyelids twitched: Good guy, the soil from a thousand-year-old pit was actually used, crushed and mixed with porcelain shards from the Jin Dynasty to create a tire?

Just say how come the imitation looks so similar?
To put it another way: the porcelain body composition of this thing is no different from the tiger zi in Lei Mingzhen's hand. If it is dated by C14, it is definitely an object from the Jin Dynasty, and there will be no error.

If you go through the X-ray machine several times and then use the thermal spectrum to measure it, you will get the same result: the last time of the explosion was thousands of years ago.

I have seen countless fakes, and there are also many imitations with extremely high degree of imitation, but that is in the antique market.To see something like this in an antique porcelain handicraft factory is not surprising, but terrifying.

Because raw materials alone are not enough, you also need a formula, and a systematic and complete process flow is required to imitate to this level.

More importantly, it seems that similar objects have not been seen before, which is equivalent to saying: new formula, new process?

After a second thought, Li Ding'an stood up and looked around.

The formula and process are not yet known, but he is at least certain that these things are all made from local materials, whether they are old clay or ancient porcelain pieces.

Because this place happens to be within the scope of the Hongzhou Kiln ruins. From the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Five Dynasties, celadon was fired for nearly 1000 years. What kind of old pit can't be found?
And it happens to be on the north bank of the Yangtze River. The Ganjiang River changed its course several times, and every time the kiln site was changed, the kiln site had to be moved. Can you imagine how many broken porcelain pieces were buried underground?
Based on the level of excavation and archeology in the early 90s, no matter how powerful the Jiangxi Archaeological Institute and Beijing University were, they would not be able to dig them all out.

What's more, there may be quite a few antiques in relatively good condition...

In this way, everything is right: it is just a handicraft workshop, and the labor cost alone is more than 3000 million yuan a year. How can it lose money, but it has been open for more than a year, and the business is still very good?
Because what they produce is not a handicraft at all, but a high imitation. One piece sells for [-], and [-] pieces is enough to pay a year's salary.

And this tiger piece was most likely dug out of the ground when digging out old mud and broken porcelain pieces.It may be due to worker negligence or other reasons that it got mixed into a pile of imitation porcelain.

Good guy, he is both tomb robber and forgery. Who must be the former boss?

But I can’t worry about that much, let’s study these things first and then talk about it.

Li Ding'an calmed down, then took out his cell phone and called Duan Mu, asking him to drive in directly, saying that he had a batch of antique porcelain that he wanted to bring back.

Lei Mingzhen became even more excited: Do you really want to take them all away?
Doesn’t that mean it’s all leaks?

Seeing Li Ding'an squat down and pick it up, he came to help again.

After a while, the car also drove over.

Several people opened the door and got out of the car, and were stunned again.

Two people were playing with a pile of bottles and cans, some complete, some half-broken, and some broken into pieces.There are quite a lot of things, and there are several piles of them.

Assistant Wen knew more, and Duan Mu also knew a little. At least he could tell that the patterns on the bottom were turned out when the tire was molded on the machine, so he knew it was not an antique.

But the weird thing is, does Lei Ming really seem to have epilepsy?
"Why are you shaking?"

"Ah? Not shaking...happy, oh no, urgent to pee..."

Urgent need to pee...

Lei Mingzhen got nervous at every turn, but Duan Mu didn't pay attention and walked to Li Ding'an: "Teacher Li, do you have to transport all of this back?"

"Yes, I'm not familiar with this place, and it's difficult to find a car for a while, so I can only use your car for a while. It might get dirty..."

It doesn't matter if they get dirty. Duan Mu didn't even bat an eyelid when he gave these two cars to Li Ding'an.

"Teacher Li, you're welcome, just use it!" Duan Mu waved his hand quickly, "I was shocked. Seeing how excited Ming was, I thought they were all antiques!"

"It's definitely not an antique, otherwise it wouldn't be piled here. But it's old mud from a deep pit, so the research value is extremely high...

"The boss has great eyesight!" the guard gave a thumbs up, "The mud wells used to bake this kind of porcelain are indeed quite deep, the shallowest one is 100 meters long..."

"What?"

Lei Mingzhen squinted his eyes, "Is it really antique porcelain?"

"Then what do you think?"

There should be antiques, maybe right under your feet. The question is, do you dare to dig them up?
Li Dingan ignored him and called the two drivers and Duan Mu to help him.

There is a lot of stuff, and the trunk can only hold half of it, and the rest can only be placed on the back seat.The two cars were barely loaded, and they were stacked two levels before they were fully loaded.

At this point, Lei Mingzhen finally gave up: If it were a real antique, he would definitely not pretend like this...

"The front row is empty, just big enough for two people. Assistant Wen, Xiaoyan, please go back to the city first and help us get a room... Please help the two masters to send them to the city. Then you can go back to Nanchang and put them in." Give the things to Mr. Chen..."

Seeing Fu Yan's eyes widening, Li Ding'an grinned: "You don't want to sit because it's dirty? Think about it, it's not easy to take a taxi here, and you might have to walk back: a full twenty kilometers!"

"I'll sit!"

Fu Yan was extremely smart and got into the car in a flash.

Assistant Wen gave in, and Li Dingan waved his hand to tell him you were welcome.

As the dash started, Li Ding'an turned around again and shook hands with the guard: "Sorry, brother, I'll bring you something good next time!"

"Things that are convenient are things that no one wants!"

Li Ding'an smiled and said no more.

Then a few people seemed to be taking a walk, walking slowly towards the national highway.

"Do you think you're cheating?" Lei Mingzhen was dejected, "Do you think you've made a big mistake?"

"So there are so many leaks?"

Li Ding'an's eyelids twitched as he watched him throw the blame at random.

Just thinking about high imitation, I forgot that Lei Mingzhen still had a real thing in his hand.

"Take it easy, this thing is going to fall. I will sentence you to at least three years!" "What three years?"

After being stunned for a moment, Lei Ming was really excited, "Didn't you say it was antique porcelain?"

"It is on the car, but not this one. I'm not lying to you either: this is a celadon tiger from the Eastern Jin Dynasty. So far, there is only one in the Nanchang Museum. This is the second... a serious national-level protected cultural relic! "

What?
Duan Mu's eyes popped out.

Li Ding'an went in and walked around, and picked up something casually, and it became a national treasure?
More importantly, this is not an antique market...

Lei Mingzhen's eyes widened: "I said I missed it, but you said I didn't. My heart went cold. Then you said it's a national treasure?"

"Nonsense, when did I say I missed something?"

"Hmm... well, you never said that, what about this one? It costs tens of millions, but you only used two cigarettes?"

"Repay tens of millions? If you fall, you will have to squat for three years. If you dare to sell, you can start in ten years!"

Li Ding'an sighed softly, "How about I give it to you and you go in and stay with the boss for two days?"

"Holy shit... stealing cultural relics?"

No wonder he asked the doorman how his former boss got in?
"You might as well give it to Lao Lei, and I will directly inherit the billions of family property..."

Li Ding'an was stunned and gave a thumbs up: "You are so filial!"

"How can I be as filial as you?"

The tip of my heart was trembling, but I didn't forget to take advantage. "You dare to let me take this cheating thing. If you drop it, you will have to squat for three years?"

He stretched out his hand, then retracted it: "Wait a minute, where are those in the car?"

"Use your brain, if it's an antique, how dare I pretend like that?"

"Oh, right..." Lei Mingzhen nodded fiercely and looked at Huzi again, "The question is, it's just a small factory in a township, where did this thing come from?"

Li Ding'an spread his hands: "God knows?"

In fact, he still knew a little bit, but it was just a guess, not nonsense.

"Didn't you just work around for a long time?"

Lei Mingzhen stuffed the tiger dice into Li Ding'an's hand, "If we donate this thing, will the bonus be enough to treat us to a meal?"

"Don't worry, it will definitely be enough!"

It’s true that we don’t have much money, and we can only afford tens of thousands of yuan, but do we want to work blindly?

Unlike thin-bodied porcelain and mirror-glazed porcelain, this time there were very few experimental samples.The more than 30 pieces in the car should be enough for him to unveil the porcelain clay formula and sintering process.

It is definitely simpler than specular porcelain, and even much worse than thin-bodied porcelain, but it also means that the research difficulty is low and the research cycle is short.

Combined with the scene in the factory: if you want to achieve mass production of this thing, the threshold should not be high. It is nothing more than following the same pattern: buy a small factory nearby, dig deep wells to collect old mud, and then dig out some ancient porcelain pieces to mix the paste.

There are risks, too: the deeper the well, the greater the chance of uncovering intact artifacts.

The problem is, I am not the former boss, I am willing to make any money, and if I really dig something out, I will definitely hand it over.But I am afraid that too much will be dug out. The cultural relics unit will look at it and say: Hey, are you here?

Don't talk about yourself, even Baoli's factory must stop work when it should stop.

Of course, that will happen in the future, and we must first understand the process technology...

Weird thoughts were running through his mind, and there was another movement behind him. Li Dingan turned around subconsciously.

Two cars were driving along the cement road, the same two cars that had been parked at the entrance of the factory.

I had seen the car before but no one, so I guess I had been in the office building.

After a quick glance, the car was also in front of me. I thought it would pass by in a flash, but I didn't expect both cars to stop.

"Woooo..."

The passenger window was rolled down, but it wasn't the guy who had a problem with Duan Mu, but a man who was a few years older.

However, the two look very similar and may be brothers.

"Xiao Mu?"

Duan Mu was stunned for a moment:
"Brother Guan!"

"When did you come back?"

"yesterday!"

"You came to see the porcelain factory too? Uncle Duan's business is getting bigger and bigger..."

"No, just visiting with friends..."

friend?

Shi Hongguan looked at Li Ding'an and Lei Mingzhen, and smiled again: "Why are you walking? Where is the car?"

"Oh... let's go cheer."

"Would you like to take a ride with you?"

"Thank you, Brother Guan. The car will be back soon!"

"Okay... make a call when you have time, let's go out and sit together."

"Okay, Brother Guan!"

The man was very kind and waved his hand again. Just as he was about to let the driver drive, the back seat window also lowered.

She is a woman, about forty years old, dressed very delicately.

"Boss Tang?"

"Mr. Shi, wait a moment!"

"it is good!"

The woman looked at Li Ding'an with a smile on her face, "This thing is quite strange. Can you show it to me?"

Are your eyes poisonous?

Li Ding'an's heart moved, and he covered Hu Zi with his palm: "Sorry, it's not cooked yet!"

plate?
This is not jade, not to mention there is mud between the toes of the thing?
The woman thought for a while and then glanced in the direction of the factory: "Can I ask where you bought it from?"

"Gift from a friend!"

is it?

The woman smiled and looked at Li Ding'an thoughtfully: "The stuff is pretty good!"

Li Ding'an didn't speak, just nodded, and the woman also raised the car window.

The two cars drifted away...

"Why did the woman ask this thing?"

"I don't know, maybe I'm curious!"

Li Ding'an responded casually, thinking secretly: He must be an expert and recognize this thing.

You didn't dig it yourself, it doesn't matter if you recognize it...

After a second thought, he took out his phone again.

"What are you doing?"

"For safety reasons, please report first!"

"Report to whom, the police?"

"It doesn't need to be so troublesome!"

Li Ding'an dialed the number, and Lei Mingzhen took a glance.The screen displayed a note: Professor Wu!

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(End of this chapter)