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Chapter 632 Blooming Blossoms, Colorful Dragon Soaring

"Huh?" Upon hearing this, Pu Jie regained his spirits, "When did it happen?"

"Ming, the 30th year of Wanli, September."

"I'll go!!!" Pu Jie was dumbfounded, "I know you are amazing, but when did you become so powerful? Can you be accurate to which year and month?"

Yu Yao handed the end of the brush to Pu Jie, "Here, it's writing!"

"Damn!" Only then did Pu Jie see that in the middle of the pattern on one end of the brush, there was a column of inscriptions written vertically: Made in September of the 30th year of Wanli in Ming Dynasty.

The main body of this writing brush is painted in brown.On the brown lacquered floor, extremely thin mother-of-pearl and gold leaf were used for inlay.

On the barrel of the pen, there are mainly tangled branches of flowers, densely packed, complicated and gorgeous, which is the so-called "a hundred flowers do not leak the ground".

On the cap of the pen, there is a pattern of clouds and dragons, dragons and auspicious clouds, colorful.

What a blooming flower, a colorful dragon!

That's why even Pu Jie couldn't help exclaiming "too beautiful".

"This is the imperial brush from the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty." Yu Yao asserted.

The lacquering process is extremely sophisticated.The most important thing is that it uses mother-of-pearl and gold leaf as thin as a cicada's wings, so it is not called inlay, but pasted inlay. The difficulty of this craft, even if you don't understand it, can be imagined.

Yu Yao can assert that the objects of the palace are also related to this mother-of-pearl inlay technique.

The gold foil inlay is relatively easy to say, but the mother-of-pearl is relatively brittle, and the inlay on the curved pen shape is too technical.

In fact, throughout the Ming and Qing dynasties, the craftsmanship of thin mother-of-pearl inlays on curved objects was a watershed between court crafts and folk crafts due to its high skill and huge cost.

There are many things inlaid with lacquered mother-of-pearl, but most of the folk crafts are flat, and the shape of mother-of-pearl cannot be so thin.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, thin mother-of-pearl inlays were loved by the court and highly respected among literati.

Before Pu Jie said about Qianlong, indeed, Emperor Qianlong liked this kind of writing brush with lacquer and mother-of-pearl inlays very much. Besides writing, it was also used for entertainment more often.Emperor Qianlong liked to enjoy "Qingbei pen", which can be found in history.

Mussels, mother-of-pearl.

In fact, the word mother-of-pearl was originally a craft term.Luo, snail shell shell; tin, decorative inlay.But now it has become a noun, referring to those specific materials.

Black lacquer inlaid with mother-of-pearl was available in the Tang and Song Dynasties. It was very mature in the Ming Dynasty and reached its peak in the Qing Dynasty. However, after Qianlong, due to various reasons, it gradually declined.

There are actually many colors of mother-of-pearl, besides the common white and transparent ones, there are reddish blood clams, yellowish golden shellfish, and so on.

However, the mother-of-pearl embedded in this brush is transparent.

The reason why the effect of blooming flowers and multicolored dragons is that the transparent mother-of-pearl is worn very thin, so the perspective is excellent, and then a process is added to paint the lacquer floor under the mother-of-pearl with color, which is transparent. It is the background color, coupled with the refraction of light, the effect is even more gorgeous.

The mosaic techniques of mother-of-pearl can be roughly divided into three categories: hard mother-of-pearl, soft mother-of-pearl and engraved mother-of-pearl.Hard tines are thick slices, soft tines are thin slices, and engraved tinsel means that the snail slices should be raised after inlaying, which is one layer higher than the bottom surface.

The thin mother-of-pearl inlay is naturally one of the soft mother-of-pearl techniques.And this pen uses "point screw", which is not only thin, but also finely cut, a bit silky and flake, quite complicated.

Therefore, apart from other things, this brush is worth a lot of money just because of its ingenious technique.

What's more, this is an ancient brush from the Ming Dynasty, and it is not easy to preserve it to this day.

It is not surprising that such a writing brush has a transaction price of more than 200 million yuan at a large auction.

"You're not picking up leaks, you're stealing leaks!" Pu Jie sat back on the chair after appreciating it, lit a cigarette, and sighed.

Yu Yao re-joined the mahogany painting scroll, rolled up the painting, and put it away together, "Tomorrow I will reinstall this painting scroll."

Pu Jie thought for a while, then chuckled, "That's okay, I picked up such a huge bargain for nothing, if someone comes looking for it, it's not impossible to return it 'untouched'!"

Although the two of them had a lot of surprises this day, they were really tired, so they chatted a few more words before going home to rest.

Early the next morning, Yu Yao went to the Seven Star Bridge Antique Market, first found a mounting shop to remount the scroll, and the whole painting was restored as before.

After the shaft of this painting scroll was plugged in and docked, it was actually very firm; although the shaft was polished by Yu Yao with sandpaper, the head of the shaft did not move, and it was re-glued and sealed, and the shaft was wrapped in the framed satin, so it could not be seen.

This repair operation is not too difficult, Yu Yao completed it with his eyes on it, and he was also very careful not to allow the master to fully unfold the painting.

Holding the finished painting, Yu Yaoxin said that since he came, Lao Huang also knew about the small team of the Academy of Fine Arts, so he walked directly to Yimozhai.

As soon as he arrived at the gate of Yimozhai, it happened that Lao Huang had just opened the door and was standing at the gate sprinkling water. When he saw Yu Yao, he asked, "Hey, what brought you here?"

Seeing that Yu Yao was holding a calligraphy and painting box in his hand, Lao Huang said again, "Are you picking up a leak?"

"Go in and talk." Yu Yao smiled.

Lao Huang let Yu Yao into the shop, asked the boy to support the shop, and went into the back room with Yu Yao and closed the door.

"Look first!" Lao Huang stretched out his hand.Yu Yao nodded and handed it to him.

After seeing this painting, Lao Huang's eyes couldn't help but brighten up, "Mmm! I have to take a closer look!"

Yu Yao didn't hide it from him, "It's an imitation, and it's probably the work of that small team from the Academy of Fine Arts."

Afterwards, Yu Yao explained the process, but the matter of the writing brush hidden in the scroll was still hidden.

"I asked you to detain it in your store?" Lao Huang couldn't help asking after hearing this, "Then why did you bring it to Seven Star Bridge?"

"I accidentally broke the scroll, come over and fix it. I just wanted to talk to you."

Lao Huang pondered for a while, and then replied, "You still need to repair a fake painting. This is to prepare for the people behind them to come to find it? However, if the Tan family is behind them, I'm afraid they will have to pay a high price for it, ha ha."

"What? You still want it!"

"I could have it, but if you say that, how can I want it? However, if the girl you mentioned is really the main character painter in their small team, this painting really opened my eyes again. This Although Shangguan Zhou's reputation is not very great, figure paintings are difficult to imitate."

Lao Huang Jianhua is also considered an expert, Yu Yao said, he can quickly see that it is a copy; but, it is indeed a good copy.

"Looking at the appearance, it really surprised me. At such a young age, I can only say that he is very talented." Yu Yao replied.

The two chatted for a few minutes, and suddenly there was a knock on the door; Lao Huang asked, and the young man said outside the door, "Boss, a customer sent a painting and wanted to sell it, can you see it now? "

(End of this chapter)