Play treasure master

Chapter 625
However, there are many styles of wine glasses in the Tang Dynasty, among which the high-footed glasses are specially used for drinking.

The wine glass that Pu Jie took out was also a high-footed glass. There was no edge decoration on the outside of the wine glass, it was smooth and very thin.

Most importantly, the material of the wine glass seems to be very special.At first glance, it looks like sapphire, but the base seems to be light-colored, but there are dense cyan textures on it.The dense texture is like filaments and very messy.

"Can this thing be dated?" Pu Jie interrupted and asked while Yu Yao was still looking at it carefully.

"Dating? I don't even understand what kind of material it is." Yu Yao frowned, "Where did you get this thing?"

"It's accepted, I just signed a note first, and I took it alive, but I didn't give any money."

"Coming together?"

"No, it's the neighbor of my mother's former colleague. She's a middle-aged woman, and she's not an antique shopper either."

Yu Yao heard, "I'll go, how many corners have you turned? How could such a person dare to let you take him alive?"

"Hey, what's the matter? She likes to be cheap! Let's talk about the price first, and I said that I will reply within one day. If I don't accept it, I will have to pay her 1000 yuan for the delay."

"Hehe, you are quite generous now!"

"I just think this thing is a bit special." Pu Jie lit a cigarette, "This thing belongs to her father. I heard that her father is an old player, and he often travels out of town and collected some things. ;The old man died later, and her mother distributed most of the things to her and her brother. I heard that her mother also sold some things. "

Yu Yao also lit a cigarette, "Why do I sound like an old lady's family where I collect things?"

"Ah?" Pu Jie was taken aback, "This woman's surname is Gong, and her mother's surname seems to be Wang. It is said that the old lady is a very elegant person. Now she doesn't live with her children and lives alone."

"The surname is really Wang!" Yu Yao thought for a while, "As for whether her wife's surname is Gong, she didn't mention it."

"Don't worry about that, it doesn't matter if it's right or not. Take a look at this cup first! What period does it look like?"

"It's a bit like the shape of the Tang Dynasty. But I've never seen this kind of material, so it's not easy to judge from the process and patina."

Pu Jie scratched his head, "This should be a kind of local jade, right?"

"It's like jade, but the smoothness and light feeling are different from ordinary jade. And the texture as thin as messy silk is also very special." Yu Yao looked at it, his eyes suddenly stopped on the cup foot, "here······"

"What's wrong?" Pu Jie poked his head over.

"This place seems to have traces of engraving."

"Huh? I looked at it in detail before I came here, and I was looking forward to find some lettering or something." Pu Jie stared at it, "I've seen it here too, it looks like traces of cyan texture falling off, isn't it lettering?"

Yu Yao took a closer look again, "Yes, it's not the traces of engraving, it's like traces of inlays, and there seem to be subtle gold traces! The craftsmanship is extremely ingenious, it's not ordinary misplaced gold, the traces are very shallow, and now it has basically fallen off completely."

"Wrong gold?" Pu Jie called out, "How could it be possible for an ordinary cup to be wrongly gold? That means this cup is extraordinary?"

"Well. The key is that I have a new basis for dating here!" Yu Yao continued, "Although it is a little dirty, I am afraid that the situation of the traces will be hundreds of years less! If you say more, it will not be good It's really a Tang Dynasty wine glass!"

Pu Jie rubbed his hands, "Do you want to clean it up? See if you can tell what was wrongly written?"

"Didn't you take it alive? After swiping it, what should I do if I can't get it back?"

"You said that, I still dare not gamble!?" Pu Jie laughed, "Besides, 1 yuan is worth betting."

Yu Yao thought for a while, "Okay, even if it's an ordinary stone cup, the workmanship and age are worth two dollars."

Yu Yao didn't dare to use other brushes, so he prepared a basin of clear water, and carefully brushed the traces of wrong gold with a nano-fine-haired plastic brush.

After drying, the traces on the foot of the cup were indeed roughly like handwriting, as if three characters were arranged horizontally from right to left.

However, because the traces are very shallow, and the surrounding area is also worn to a certain extent, I still can't tell what the characters are, but I can barely see that it looks like a small seal script.

"This wine glass is really not an ordinary thing!" Pu Jie lit another cigarette, "It's just that you can't even recognize what kind of jade it is..."

"This material is really special. Perhaps it is because of the special material that it is so exquisitely crafted and the wrong gold is added." Yu Yao replied.

Pu Jie nodded again and again, "Yes, the key now is to find out what the handwriting is!"

Yu Yao rubbed his temples, "If it doesn't work, try a rubbing."

"Rubbing? You will too?" Pu Jie was startled.

"I haven't tried it before, but haven't I eaten pork and haven't seen a pig running? Once can't do it twice, can I still try it a few more times?"

Rubbing is an ancient technology, which is to rub down the text and patterns on stone tablets or bronzes, usually using rice paper and ink, and it is also a simple way of copying.

To say that it is not difficult to complete an excellent and complete large-scale rubbing, the technical difficulty is not low, but Yu Yao just wants to use the rubbing technology to identify the traces on the foot of the cup, so it is not too difficult.

Both rice paper and ink are ready-made, Yu Yao searched a video from the Internet, and studied it with Pu Jie.

The foot of the cup is relatively small, the traces are shallow and messy, and the foot of the cup is the place with the most wear and tear marks. With the cooperation of Pu Jie, Yu Yao tried it a few times, but the effect was not good.

But now that they have tried, they will not let it go.When it was time for dinner, I finally came up with a relatively satisfactory rubbing.

Although the rubbings still cannot recognize any handwriting, according to the line traces on the rubbings, the messy lines can be smeared little by little.

After completion, according to the main line, make appropriate adjustments, add possible strokes, and keep copying and writing, so that the three characters become clearer and clearer step by step.

"Is it these three characters?" Finally, Yu Yao picked up the brush and wrote three small seal characters.

Pu Jie likes ancient coins, and he is quite familiar with Xiaozhuan script, "Mu Yuan Cup? What do you mean?" (Yuan Yuan Yuan)
"Muyuan..." Yu Yao pondered, "Yuan has two meanings, one is an interrogative pronoun, which means where; the other is a conjunction, which means so. Muyuan, does it mean let People are dazzled, dazzled?"

Pu Jie was puzzled for a while, so he didn't make a sound.

"No!" Yu Yao suddenly put down the piece of paper on which the handwriting was copied, and picked up the last rubbing, "If you look at these three characters, the size of the font and the spacing between the characters are a bit inconsistent!"

"The word 'cup' is definitely fine. You mean that Mu and Yuan are only part of two characters? But the lines around the handwriting are too messy?"

Yu Yao didn't continue to identify the messy lines on the rubbings, and put down his things, lit a cigarette, and became meditative.

Before finishing a cigarette, Yu Yao suddenly looked at Pu Jie, "I know! It's really not!"

(End of this chapter)