God-level Golden Hand

Chapter 911 Oracle Bone Inscriptions

Someone asked why such an excellent blue and white water bowl made by the official kiln in the early Qianlong period could not even be sold for 100 million yuan. Is it so worthless?
Xu Jingxing had an answer to this question in his heart, and there were two answers.

The first answer is that the general public is misled by the market conditions of the antique market. The information related to antiques that ordinary people usually receive is what kind of plates and bowls sell for millions, tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of sky-high prices. You will think that antiques are all before you, especially after they are associated with the word official kiln, this misunderstanding is even deeper.why?Because the porcelain produced by the official kiln is exclusively for the royal family, can it be worthless for the exclusive use of the royal family?
But in fact, this is not the case. There are also bargains for official kiln porcelain, even the official kiln porcelain produced in the early Qianlong period is no exception, especially for some relatively unpopular wares.

And this water bowl is a relatively unpopular object, especially in the early Qianlong period, because the water bowl is actually a vessel for pouring water into the inkstone when grinding ink. To put it bluntly, it is a water storage device. Its substitutability is too strong, any plate, bowl or even half a gourd can be replaced, so it was not taken seriously in the early days. Even if it was produced, the shape of the utensils was very common. During this period, the shapes of the water bowls began to become more diverse, among which the water bowls of various bionic shapes were the most common. The functions of such water bowls remained the same, but they looked a lot more interesting.

In addition, this kind of well-shaped water bowl is a water bowl in the eyes of people who know the goods, but it is a small jar in the eyes of ordinary people, and its size is relatively small, so it is very likely to be treated as a bird food jar.

The water bowl that Xu Jingxing got was a product under such circumstances. Although the other elements were impeccable, the functional positioning was too embarrassing. It is not surprising.

As for the other answer, he still made the same mistake as him, that is, he did not take money as money.Yes, this water bowl sells for less than 100 million, and even if it reaches the auction, it will only be 80 million. If it can be sold in private, it will be more than 60. It is not bad, and those moves are millions, tens of millions, and hundreds of millions. The price is indeed insignificant compared to the price, but in the eyes of ordinary people, this is still a lot of money.

In addition, this kind of price of less than seven figures and more than six figures is the most common in the antique market, and it is also the cornerstone of supporting the entire antique industry. On the contrary, those sky-high prices that pop up at every turn are relatively rare. There were only a few times in the auction. For example, how many pieces of the "Guiguzi Down the Mountain Picture Blue and White Large Jar" level auction item have been sold after so many years?Not one of the few?
So Xu Jingxing, who was relatively familiar with the antique market, was not too disappointed.

What's more, there is a lot of aura in this water bowl, and the physical properties are quite strong. It is not an ordinary water bowl. It should be used by a famous calligrapher and painter for a long time, otherwise it will not condense physical properties stronger than ordinary bone china.It's just that it's really hard to find the origin of this kind of object, so I can only continue to be anonymous.

But it doesn't matter if you can find the origin or not. He didn't plan to sell it, but planned to keep it for his own use. After all, it may be a water bowl used by a certain famous person, and he feels comfortable using it.

This blue-and-white water bowl is like this, and the next set of blue-and-white teacups is of similar grade. Fortunately, that set of blue-and-white teacups is a set of six, and the combined market price is about 300 million. Not going to sell.

Of course, he didn't plan to drink tea with that set of blue and white teacups. After all, they are old objects. Who knows what has been stained in this teacup, right?
Besides, don't you think it's wasteful to drink tea with such an old object hundreds of years ago?It's good to keep something like this quietly in your hands, and it feels like a sacrilege to use it for anything else.

But among the harvest of this night, what he valued the most was the bronze vessel.

Bronze ware has a very long history of use. On the land of China, it is said that bronze smelting began in the age of Yao, Shun and Yu. There are also corresponding objects in the sites of the Longshan era in the lower reaches of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River. By the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the bronze culture was already very prosperous. The craftsmanship of some bronze vessels is amazing even to modern people.

After the Bronze Age, bronze is still active in the long river of history, but the vast majority of bronzes were made into ritual or ornamental vessels, which allowed the bronze culture to develop from the stage of practical and ritual vessels to the stage of ritual and ornamental vessels. A small biochemistry of the bronze culture.

Therefore, bronze wares have been defined as heavy wares since a long time ago, and the official also once tightened the trading scope of ancient bronze wares. If it is lost or damaged, it is not just an antique that is broken, it is also likely to be a piece of history, especially the bronzes of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties. In the eyes of archaeologists and historians, they are history books. Many of the current history Both culture and culture are obtained by analyzing unearthed bronzes.

Of course, it does not mean that all bronze wares are very expensive. On the contrary, there are a lot of low-quality ancient bronze wares on the market, and the market value is very low.

But the bronze ware that Xu Jingxing took from Feng Zhihuan was obviously not a low-quality high-end product, but a real good one. Apart from other things, it's not difficult to know just by looking at a series of inscriptions on it that he didn't recognize. This is the real heavyweight.

There were not so many characters engraved on ordinary bronze wares, and there were still so many characters that Xu Jingxing didn't even know.

Xu Jingxing's understanding of characters may not be as good as those professional ancient characters experts, but he is not ignorant. On the contrary, he can write all kinds of common ancient characters fluently and smoothly, not to mention simplified and traditional characters in various fonts. That is the basic skill. He is very good at writing large and small seal scripts, and fonts such as Basiba script and Jin script are not difficult for him. He can even write a little Dongba script, which is relatively remote, and even knows hundreds of oracle bone scripts.

No way, if a sculptor doesn't know seal characters, bronze inscriptions, etc., do you have the nerve to say that you are a master sculptor?
So he recognized it at a glance. The inscription on this bronze vessel is exactly the oracle bone inscription that has fascinated countless ancient writing experts and Shang and Zhou history experts.

And he can be sure that the oracle bone inscriptions on this bronze vessel are absolutely not forged, ordinary people can't forge that kind of ancient charm, even real old masters or imitation masters can't write it, after all, modern people and ancient people have different characters. understanding is completely different.

(End of this chapter)