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Chapter 468 "Three Manufacturing" of Bronze Wares

"Amitabha."

This made Fang Ming confused. Didn't he just say that the Buddha statue in front of him is from the heyday or late Tang Dynasty?Why do you say it's not true?What the hell is going on here?

Zhou Yafang, who was standing aside, didn't understand what kind of medicine Fang Ming was selling in this gourd. Although she didn't speak, she looked at Fang Ming with an attitude of why did you say that.

"what!"

Fang Ming knew that what he said before caused a misunderstanding, so he quickly said: "That's right, this Buddha statue does seem to belong to the style of the high Tang Dynasty or the late Tang Dynasty, but I still think it is fake. We know that the Buddha statue is Because it is relatively large, it is not as simple to identify as Little Buddha, and some details will be ignored."

If it's just a small Buddha, it can be placed on the table, so it can be carefully studied and played with, but the Buddha statue in front of you is three meters high, and a person feels insignificant standing in front of it, so how can you seriously appraise it?

This is actually a difficult problem in antique appraisal. Small things can be appraised in the hand and played with day and night, so it is easier to identify them. At the same time, because the smaller the thing is, the more difficult it is in terms of craftsmanship. , if you are not careful, you will show your feet. In this sense, it is relatively easy to identify.

The big ones are different. Standing in front of it, I feel that I am one size smaller, so it is not easy to look at it carefully. At the same time, all the parts of the big things are magnified countless times. It is also much easier to say, which also brings great difficulties to identification.

The big Buddha in front of me is such a situation.

The big Buddha in front of me is made of copper, and bronze ware has always been an important traditional artifact, so there have been many fake masters in the past dynasties, and there have been many masters in this area in modern times alone, and they are all famous. number.

According to the region, it can be divided into "made in Weixian", "made in Xi'an" and "made in the imperial capital".

Antique bronzes in Weixian County started 400 to 500 years ago. There are many old craftsmen in the Qing Dynasty in this place, such as Fan Shouxuan who is good at carving flowers and inscriptions; And his son Wang Hai and so on.

The antique bronze wares in this place have several characteristics. First, they are generally made according to the catalog of "Ancient Mirror of the Qing Dynasty". The characteristics of Zhou bronze wares; second, in terms of technology, the "segmented assembly method" is used, that is to say, the various parts of the bronze wares are first cast out in sections, and then "assembled" into a whole. It will form a "seam" that is not a pattern mark, and this kind of seam is often connected with tin.Another situation is that if the wax mold is used to cast, the final copper ware is often heavy, and there will be blisters at the same time; third, the way to make rust is to soak it in hydrochloric acid first, then bury it in loess, and then remove it. Cover with a wet sack to allow the copper to rust naturally.

There is heaven above and Suzhou and Hangzhou below. Suzhou and Hangzhou have always been places like heaven. It is said that the living environment here is better than other places.Perhaps because the social life and economic conditions here are better than other places, Suzhou is also a famous place for imitating bronze wares. Even historically, the imitation of bronze wares here is earlier than the imperial capital.

After the late Qing Dynasty, the famous coppersmiths here included Zhou Meigu, Jin Runsheng, Liu Junqing and others. Among them, Zhou Meigu most often imitated Shuokeng copper ware, and Liu Junchao was good at imitating Shengkeng copper ware. A large part of the bronze wares imitated by individuals are exported abroad.

Bronze wares, including coins, are divided into raw pits and cooked pits, so raw pits refer to the gradual chemical changes on the surface of copper wares due to the interaction of various environmental conditions, and slowly appear over time. Or green or red or blue or purple rust.As for the cooked pit, it means that some collectors "clean" the copper ware in order to make the surface of the copper ware more beautiful or to prevent corrosion, and then wax the copper ware after removing the surface rust. A bright and rich color will appear on the surface of the surface. Many bronzes that can be seen in museums are treated in this way. The characteristics of the treated copper are that it is difficult to corrode again and can last for a long time keep it up.

The characteristics of the imitation bronze wares in Suzhou are: first, they mostly imitate the bronze wares of the Shang Dynasty in Yin Ruins in Anyang; Therefore, the final bronze ware is white, and the skin color of the bronze ware is made by mixing lacquer and color; third, it is also assembled in a segmented way, and the casting marks that appear are not polished, and blisters often appear; Fourth, the imitated bronze wares are basically different in size from the real ones; fifth, the patterns are relatively smooth, which is due to better copper quality and better craftsmanship; fifth, if there are The inscriptions are generally engraved deeper; sixth, a feature to be noted is that the mouth and edges of the imitation bronze wares produced in this place will be relatively "hard", and what is lacking is the soft and round, often "cut hand". "a feeling of.

Because it is a political and economic center, the imperial capital has always been a center for imitating various antiques, and the same is true for bronze wares.

In fact, the imitation bronze wares in the imperial capital have formed their own characteristics to a certain extent in order to cater to the preferences of foreign antique dealers. The most obvious is that the bronze wares imitated in this place are often more gorgeous, and at the same time, the shape is also more peculiar. This is In order to satisfy the preference of novelty hunting, the most heavy and gold-plated utensils of Shang and Zhou Dynasties appeared the most.

The most famous ones are the so-called "Wanlonghe" and "Waizuiyu". Both of them have repaired bronze wares with the eunuchs of the Qing Palace, which shows that the technology is quite excellent.

The mantle of Crooked Mouth Yu was inherited by Zhang Taien, who later changed his name to "Wan Long He". He was also known as "Bronze Zhang". Zhang Wenpu, Wang Deshan, Liu Junqing and others, among them, Zhang Wenjing, who is the nephew of Bronze Zhang, developed the method of soaking lacquer leather in alcohol and then reconciling the color to make rust, which can be called "little bronze Zhang".

With so many masters participating in the imitation of copper wares, there are more bronze wares appearing in the antique market, and even real appraisal masters may not be able to see them.

"Amitabha. Donor Fang, come and listen to me."

Although Yitong is not a professional antique dealer, he actually has a wealth of knowledge in the appraisal of antiques. This is like the fact that many monks and Taoists understand Fengshui and the like.

The big Buddha in front of him had actually been carefully appraised after he got it, and at the same time, he also found some experts to appraise it. Basically, he concluded that it was real, and it was Tang's Buddha statue.But now Fang Ming said that this is not true.Yitong really doesn't understand a little bit.

The identification of copperware is actually a very complicated matter, generally speaking, it includes copper quality, rust color, pattern, inscription, font, smell, sound, etc. These are important criteria for identifying copperware.

For example, copper, if you see that a piece of copper is brass or even white copper, it must not be a bronze before the Song Dynasty.This is because the color of copper is red. If you add lead, zinc and nickel, you can get brass. If you add more, more than half, it is white copper.This point can be used to identify bronze wares, mainly by looking at the soles of bronze wares.

"Fang Ming, tell me in detail. I also think the Buddha statue in front of me is real. In fact, the rust color of the Buddha statue is also very consistent. Look at the base, the rust color is like a pool of green water. , quite good, I think it is at least a thousand or hundreds of years old, if it is Tang's, it is also right in terms of time."

Although there were many believers in the main hall, Zhou Yafang still looked at it carefully for a while, and some people beside him thought it was strange, but they saw a few young monks beside them, and they stopped coming up. Fang Ming and others were talking again. I deliberately lowered my voice, so I am not afraid that people around me will hear it.

Fang Ming shook his head and said, rust color is a very important judgment criterion in the appraisal of bronze wares, but it is often difficult to prove, and the judgment methods are uneven. "

The rust color of bronze ware is an aspect of judging the length of time that copper ware exists. Its formation is related to the way copper ware spreads. There are three main ways of spreading copper ware, one is buried in the soil, the other is dropped into water, There is another kind of inheritance.

The so-called burial means that the bronzes are buried in the soil and dug out later; falling into the water means that the bronzes were once stored in water or in a relatively humid environment; handed down means that they have been passed down in the hands of various players.

Many people think that the rust color of copper ware is different because of the different ways of spreading, but in fact there is not much difference.However, even so, there are many kinds of rust colors. At present, the rust colors that can be seen are green, red, black, blue, purple, etc., and among the green rusts, they are often divided into ordinary green, glass, etc. Green, malachite green; red rust is also divided into cinnabar including cinnabar spots, in addition to flowing gold and the like.

Of course, with the passage of time, the rust color is different in subtle places.For example, the rust color of copperware that has been buried for thousands of years is pure and moist. If it is green rust, it looks like emerald, and if it is red rust, it looks like emerald.If it is a bronze ware that has fallen into water, the green rust is like a melon skin, and the red rust is like a ripe persimmon.If it is handed down from generation to generation, the same time is relatively poor in terms of rust color, mainly because the rust color formed in the air cannot be compared with that buried in the soil or submerged in water.

"Therefore, my point of view is that when appraising copper ware, rust color is of course an important basis for making appraisal judgments, but it cannot be used as the only basis. In this case, mistakes are likely to occur."

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