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Chapter 465 Eternal Lantern and Immortal Medicine (36)

Chapter 465 Eternal Lantern and Immortal Medicine (36)

Mo Liming has already observed the three pieces of Ru kiln porcelain, two bowls and one bottle, one of the bowls has a particularly strange shape, it is a so-called "lotus bowl", according to his Mo Liming's thinking, This lotus bowl should be related to Buddhism, because the lotus is a sacred object in Buddhism, and he also imagined it. When making the Ru kiln porcelain bowl, it should be such a symbol. It is related to Buddhism, because the ancient emperors believed in Buddhism and Taoism, so they made related utensils to entrust their best wishes.

Since the lotus bowl is related to Buddhism and was passed down from the Song Dynasty, then it is only right that there is a "Buddha spirit" stored on it, but in the end, Mo Liming even had a little bit of "Buddha spirit" on it. He didn't even sense "breath", so he became a little suspicious, thinking that the thing might be wrong, either it was an old imitation of a certain age, or it was a new contemporary imitation.

Although Mo Liming had doubts, he was still not sure whether the thing was real or not. After all, he hadn't come to a definite conclusion before, whether everything related to Buddhism contained For "Buddha spirit", the current bowl is only shaped like a lotus flower. I feel that it is a bit far-fetched to associate it with "Buddha spirit".

Under this circumstance, he can only reserve his opinion, let's continue reading, and then analyze it according to the specific situation.

In fact, Mo Liming was extremely suspicious from the very beginning. He felt that Mr. Shao took out three pieces of Ru kiln fine porcelain and sold them to Lin Chenhui. Porcelain is comparable to national treasures. Such three fine pieces of Ru Kiln porcelain cannot be obtained at sky-high prices.

Although he was very suspicious, Mo Liming was quite optimistic about the three pieces of Ru kiln porcelain, because the three pieces looked very good, antique and full of charm. It seems that something bad is coming.

In this way, the only thing I have to do is to read carefully, what is the name of those three things, if they are fake, then I have to show evidence, I can't just rely on my own guesses, it's terrible No one will be convinced.

"Boss Shao, that's great! These three pieces of Ru kiln porcelain are exquisite!" When Boss Shao moved the three pieces of Ru kiln porcelain out of the wooden box one by one, people's eyes suddenly brightened. It must be that the eyes are stared straight, and there is a lot of praise.

Boss Shao smiled and said proudly: "Hehe, Mr. Lin, I have these three pieces of Ru kiln porcelain in my collection. To be honest, I have kept them at home for a long time. If you hadn't come to look for them If I discuss it, I will never take it out. Because I know you are a big boss, I am very relieved to do business with you. "

"Boss Shao, don't worry, as long as the item is good, the price will definitely not be a problem!" Lin Chenhui nodded vigorously, and replied solemnly, Mo Liming could tell that at this moment, Lin Chenhui was extremely excited up.

Following Lin Chenhui's focused gaze, Mo Liming also concentrated his gaze, his eyes fixed on a piece of porcelain without blinking.

"Brother Mo, how do you feel?" Afterwards, Lin Chenhui excitedly pointed to the three pieces of Ru kiln porcelain and suddenly turned his head to ask Mo Liming.

Mo Liming squinted his eyes, smiled slightly and said, "It feels very good. Mr. Lin, let's take a good look first."

"Well, Mr. Lin, Mr. Mo, please take a look, and just give me an answer after reading it." Boss Shao said very politely.

Lin Chenhui nodded quickly, and replied, "Boss Shao, thank you. Let's have a look first."

"Okay. Please do as you please." Boss Shao said very politely.

Then Mo Liming and Lin Chenhui focused on the three pieces of Ru Kiln porcelain. Mo Liming chose the lotus bowl first, and he was most interested in this porcelain bowl.

At this time, Lin Chenhui took out a pocket-sized precision magnifying glass from his pocket and inspected the porcelain in detail.

In this regard, Mo Liming has a much greater advantage. He does not need to use scientific instruments such as high-power magnifying glasses to inspect the stone. He can just use the "seven-eyed Buddha spirit" on his left eye. Once the "spiritual light" is expelled, it can be observed in the most detailed way from above.

"This time the utensil is beautiful! It's a fine product!" Lin Chenhui couldn't help admiring from time to time while inspecting the stone.

Boss Shao, who was standing aside, had a smile on his face, looking so happy.

"This 'lotus-style warming bowl' is even more exquisite in my opinion!" Lin Chenhui said full of praise, "The lotus warming bowl, with its elegant shape and gentle opaque glaze color, is even more rare among the few Ru kiln wares handed down from generation to generation. Precious."

Ru kiln lotus-style warming bowls use lotus flowers or lotus petals as decorations and shapes of utensils, which became popular with the introduction of Buddhism, and then adopted the habit of leaving mud unstained, implying cleanliness, and were widely used in various utensils.The shape of this vessel looks like a lotus flower in bloom, with gentle and graceful lines, elegant and beautiful.The original vessel should be matched with a holding pot, which is a wine warming vessel, which was common from the late Tang Dynasty to the Song Dynasty.

"Mr. Lin, Mr. Mo, you may have noticed that there seems to be a flaw on the mouth of this bowl. In fact, this is not a defect that has been handed down, but it is like this when it was fired, so it is natural. , can be accepted."

Just at this time, Boss Shao's voice was heard to add on purpose: "The Ru kiln was once used in the palace, and because of the method of mining and firing, the mouth was flawed, so there was 'the palace ordered Ruzhou to make celadon. 'For this move, one of the reasons why the Ru kiln was selected is that the branch firing is full of glaze. Another purpose of branch firing is to prevent the bottom of the vessel from collapsing. The nails used in Ru kiln are small, and the nail marks left are like sesame seeds. The traces are, also known as 'sesame nails'. The fine grained lines on the glaze are also known as 'crab claw marks'."

"Well, yes." Hearing this, Lin Chenhui quickly nodded and replied, "Boss Shao, your analysis is very incisive, and every sentence makes sense."

"Hehe, Mr. Lin, you're overwhelmed, I'm just talking casually." Boss Shao waved his hands hurriedly and said.

Mo Liming also nodded and said, "I have learned."

Of course, Mo Liming knew about the words Boss Shao added to the commentary just now, because he had already obtained such information by searching for relevant information before.

He knew very well that the powder blue glaze and sky blue glaze in the Ru kiln made the Ru kiln porcelain in the Weizong era of the Song Dynasty one of the most precious human national treasures in the world today, and it is also a milestone in the history of porcelain, representing the entire exquisite culture of the Northern Song Dynasty. s level.
The Ru kiln is a monochromatic green glaze system. According to Zhou Hui (Qingbo Magazine) of the Southern Song Dynasty, the green glaze of the Ru kiln is mixed with agate powder. The composition of agate is silicon dioxide, which is one of the raw materials for the glaze.

"Mr. Lin is so optimistic about this batch of porcelain, it must be very difficult for these three pieces to come from!" Mo Liming thought to himself, the more he looked, the more he felt that the three pieces of Ru kiln porcelain in front of him were exquisite and beautiful.

Looking at it this way, he is right to be more and more inclined towards things, but he still doesn't quite believe how these three national treasure-level antiques have been leaked into Boss Shao's hands, but this possibility is not out of the question. This is the place where the Ru Kiln ruins were discovered. If it is said that genuine Ru Kiln porcelain is found around here, outsiders will believe it.

Didn't Lin Chenhui make an agreement with that Mr. Liu before that, they have already discovered another Ru kiln site, and they are waiting to go there to explore the treasure at night.

Mo Liming thinks so, if what Lin Chenhui and that Mr. Liu said is true, then the present and the three national treasures should be genuine.

"There's really no need for them to lie to me." Soon, Mo Liming affirmed in his heart.

So he immediately went to inspect the three pieces of Ru kiln porcelain carefully, to see whether they matched the characteristics of the genuine ones after passing the appraisal.

As far as he, Mo Liming, knows, the basic identification method of Ru porcelain, from the point of view of handed down products, mainly has five characteristics.
The five characteristics are to look at, one is the color of the body, the other is the color of the glaze, the third is the nail, the fourth is the shape of the vessel, and the fifth is the opening pattern.

The body of Ru porcelain is delicate, and the soil contains a trace amount of copper. Looking at the light, it is slightly red, and the color of the body is slightly yellow in the gray. It is commonly known as "fragrant gray body". Ruzhou Confucian Temple, Qingliang Temple and other kiln sites; Ruzhou Zhanggong Lane Ru kiln wares, the body is off-white, slightly whiter than other kiln mouths, which is the main feature of Northern Song Dynasty official kilns.
Ru porcelain is above the glaze color, the glaze is sky blue, pink green, the glaze color is moist, and the hand feels like jade, with the typical characteristics of blue like sky, surface like jade, and morning stars.

Ru kiln utensils used by courts in the Song Dynasty were generally fired with full glaze. In order to avoid contamination of impurities in the kiln, they had to be packed in saggers, and the utensils should be padded with washers and nails to prevent them from sticking to the saggers.

Moreover, the types of Ru kiln porcelain are very regular, not so many.

Ru kiln wares mainly include daily-use utensils such as bottles, statues, cup holders, bowls, plates, washers, dowry, narcissus basins, etc., and a few are decorated with piles of flowers and printings. , and printing, molding and other processes.

The opening of Ru porcelain is a must.

At the beginning, the formation of cracks is a kind of glaze defect produced by the utensils under high-temperature firing. The jargon is called "glaze collapse".

The art craftsmen of Ru kiln transformed this uncontrollable and ever-changing glaze disease into a natural and beautiful decoration through artificial manipulation, and the control is just right, which can be described as a unique skill.

The glazed slices are relatively fine and dense, mostly in the form of oblique cracks, and the depths and depths are intertwined and overlapped, like silvery fish scales, or in the shape of cicada wings, giving people an orderly arrangement of layers.

The tiny trachoma in the glaze show caviar, sesame flower and crab claw patterns.

There are also typical orange peel glaze, borneol glaze, tea foam, and some wicker-like splits are caused by the molecular arrangement of the mud in a certain direction when the hand-drawn billet is rotated.

In short, Ru kiln porcelain is extremely delicate and difficult to imitate.

This skill is basically lost.

Thinking back to the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, Jin soldiers invaded and the Song Dynasty moved south. Due to long-term military disasters and wars, Ru Kiln was destroyed and the skills were lost.

Although the folk kilns in the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties continued to fire, they were unsuccessful due to various reasons.

From the 27th to the 30th year of the Republic of China (1938-1941), the capitalist Li Shaochu tried to imitate Ru porcelain by building a kiln at the former site of Ru Kiln in Yanhedian, Mangchuan, Ruzhou, but failed.

Feng Xianming, the former president of the China Ancient Ceramics Research Association, said: "The glaze color of Ru kiln is the most difficult to imitate, much more difficult than Ding, Jun, Yao and other kilns, and it is not easy to imitate. Therefore, there are no authentic products handed down from generation to generation."

Just like in the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, Sun Hao, the supervisor of the Qing Dynasty, said in a poem: "The celadon was selected without carvings, and it was not the Yuan family that started to cultivate it. The famous king paid tribute to Shaoxing, and the color of the vase and the furnace ball changed. The official brother matched with you, not your couple, and the price was in Dingzhou at that time. The dish worm is the beetle of the cup, and it is difficult for people to keep it for a long time. Gold plates and jade bowls are treasured in the world, and the best is to turn them from the soil. The empty kiln smoke is cold, but the ancient grass grows in the wild coal spring."

The poet spoke highly of Ru porcelain, but also expressed his emotion for the loss of Ru porcelain.

According to the relevant knowledge about the identification of Ru kiln porcelain formed in his mind, Mo Liming looked at it very carefully for a long time, and the results showed that the three pieces of porcelain all fit their characteristics very well, that is to say, the three pieces of porcelain now It is very likely that they are all genuine products.

"Brother Mo, what do you think of these three pieces of Ru kiln porcelain?" Later, Lin Chenhui mysteriously pulled Mo Liming aside, and then the two of them communicated in a low voice.

Mo Liming replied with a smile: "In my opinion, everything is right. Whether it is the shape of the vessel or other detailed aspects, it seems that there is nothing wrong with it."

That's all he can say. He can't say that the thing is a fake. If it is a fake, he has to produce evidence, but he can't detect it at all.

After hearing Mo Liming's answer, Lin Chenhui seemed very happy, nodded solemnly and said: "Well, I think so too. Those three items are flawless! They are genuine products Undoubtedly?! Hehe, now that I have your opinion, what else do I need to consider? Just go and discuss the deal with Mr. Shao and forget it!"

He was beaming with joy, looking impatient.

Mo Liming shook his head humbly and said, "Mr. Lin, this is just my personal opinion. I think things are so precious. You should think carefully before making a decision."

"I don't believe in myself, so I should believe in you. You have such good eyesight, how could you miss it?!" Lin Chenhui nodded solemnly and said.

Mo Liming smiled and remained silent.

"Then it's settled." Lin Chenhui said, "Brother Mo, go out and wait for me. Boss Shao and I have negotiated the price."

"Oh, yes." Mo Liming nodded hurriedly.

Then he said goodbye and left, leaving Lin Chenhui in the room to discuss business with Boss Shao.

"His three national treasures are probably worth a lot, right?!"

When walking out of that room, Mo Liming thought secretly.

(End of this chapter)