Chapter 640 Brother Kiln
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Of course, this hotel is not Jun Yue, but a place where Pi Qiushi stayed. At this time, everyone who should leave had left, leaving only Lao Meng and Sha Qingfeng, who stayed and accompanied Wang Guan and Pi Qiushi to the hotel.
Knowing that Wang Guan was coming, Pi Qiushi also booked the room for him. After completing the procedures at the front desk, several people took turns carrying the statue of Lu Zu to the room.
After calling the waiter to bring tea to the guests, he saw the waiter retreating. The moment he closed the door, Pi Qiushi jumped up on the sofa, and at a sensitive speed opposite to the fat body, he rushed to the side of the statue and looked carefully.
"Brother Pi, what are you doing?" Sha Qingfeng and Lao Meng were a little confused.
"Look at the baby." Pi Qiushi didn't raise his head, continued to study in depth, touched the east and west, and said thoughtfully: "The wood is a bit hard, is it a precious material?"
“Break wood?”
When Lao Meng and Sha Qingfeng heard this, they surrounded each other.
After a while, Lao Meng approached and sniffed the breath, and shook his head and said, "No, this should be ordinary camphor wood. Camphor wood has a special smell, which can prevent some insects from biting, but the smell is also very obvious and it is easy to identify."
"That's right, it's camphor wood." Sha Qingfeng was also very sure.
"It's not a problem with the materials. Could it be that the wood-carved statue was written by a master?" Pi Qiushi pondered again: "But without the carvings, it's hard to identify."
"In addition to the spirituality of the facial features, the overall craftsmanship of this wooden statue is not very good." At the same time, Lao Meng shook his head and said, "It should not be the master's craftsmanship, but judging from the cracks on the surface, it should have been a few years. By the way, can you tell what kind of genre of carving techniques this is?"
“…I can’t see it.”
Sha Qingfeng looked at it for a moment and shook his head directly and said, "Although the most famous Chinese are Dongyang wood carving, Yueqing boxwood carving, Chaozhou gold lacquer wood carving in Guangdong Province, and Longan wood carving in Fujian Province. However, in addition to these four wood carvings, each place has its own unique wood carving craftsmanship."
"Due to the different folk customs, culture and resource conditions in various places, many factions with strong local characteristics and unique talents have naturally formed." While speaking, Sha Qingfeng shook his head and said, "I am not a specialist in this, and the characteristics of the statue wood carving are not very obvious, so it is really hard to judge."
"It's very right." Lao Meng agreed deeply and said a little puzzled: "No matter how you look at it, this statue of god is relatively ordinary, so it's not a treasure, right?" The implication was that he suspected that Pi Qiushi took a look.
When Pi Qiushi heard this, he looked at the wooden statue for a moment and immediately turned around and said, "Brother, don't just visit tea, come and take a look, it seems that things are wrong."
"Things are like this, what's wrong?" Wang Guan smiled and walked over lightly.
"It's not that it's wrong, but not as good as I imagined." Pi Qiushi shook his head slightly and hesitated: "It seems that there is nothing special."
"Haha. Let me see." While speaking, Wang Guan also came over, but instead of watching the statue of Lu Zu, he picked up the small cup that had been worshipped incense before.
Of course. Even if that strong man did not burn incense and worship the gods, but a long time ago, Lu Zu should have enjoyed incense worship, so not only was the front of the statue slightly blackened by fireworks, but even the small cups where the incense were placed were covered with incense ash.
Now that Wang Guan picked up the cup, his hand inevitably had a large piece of black spot. But he naturally didn't care, so he poured the incense ash into the nearby trash can. Then he walked straight into the bathroom to clean it with water.
After a while, Wang Guan walked out of the bathroom with a smile on his face, but the three Pi Qiushi were watching.
"Brother, what is the good thing in the incense burner?" Pi Qiushi opened his eyes wide and observed. Unfortunately, the thing is relatively small and exquisite. After being held in Wang Guan's hand, it was so tight that it was difficult to see clearly.
"A three-legged small furnace, a small incense burner in the shape of a pen barrel." Wang Guan chuckled, and did not rush to light the small furnace out. Instead, he found another clean towel and wrapped the small furnace in it, wiping it very carefully and carefully and slowly.
"It's a pleasing thing again." Pi Qiushi complained, but said with a little surprise: "What a baby?"
"Absolutely." Wang Guan nodded, and continued to rub it carefully, erasing the stains on the stove.
"Hey, we're so dark under the light."
At the same time, Sha Qingfeng smiled bitterly and said, "I just looked at the statue of the gods, but I ignored the incense burner. Is the little brother more careful? No wonder I can get a big leak."
Lao Meng also deeply agreed that some things are like this, especially when it comes to picking and flaws. As long as you think of one step ahead of others, you will win, and then you will not be able to change this result if you regret it later.
Just like just now, a few people were watching things together, but the three of them focused on the wooden statues, but they ignored the incense burner of the statues. For an expert, whether it was careless or not careful, this was a failure in itself.
"Brother Sha has won the award. In fact, at the beginning, I didn't pay attention to the statue, but noticed that the incense burner is more special." At this time, Wang Guan naturally explained: "After all, three-legged small furnace in the shape of a pencil is rare, so I took a special look at it, and then I felt that even if the small furnace is covered with incense ash, it has a special aura..."
Wang Guan is now very experienced, and any things that cannot be explained can be classified directly as intuition. Anyway, intuition is somewhat mysterious in terms of superpowers, but it can be accepted by everyone.
Taking the present as an example, after listening to Wang Guan's explanation, the other three people tried their best to recall, but they did not remember any special charm on the small incense burner in the shape of a pen, but they did not doubt Wang Guan's words.
After all, intuition is hard to say. Sometimes it is very effective, sometimes it is not accurate at all. When it is effective, it is naturally very magical, and when it is not accurate, it is a scumbag. Obviously, judging from Wang Guan's joyful expression, his "intuition" should be effective.
The next three people naturally looked at Wang Guan with a urgency, and their faces were filled with urging expressions, telling him not to keep it in hiding, and quickly shine the things out and let them watch them.
"Yes, that's OK."
At this moment, Wang Guan turned the small incense burner in the shape of a pen on the table, and then smiled and said, "Look, the things are not simple. As for whether it is an authentic imitation or a fake, we need to ask the three elder brothers to carefully identify it."
While speaking, Wang Guan loosened his fingers and left the table. At this moment, the other three looked over and saw a very delicate bamboo tube-shaped incense burner on the table.
Of course, this is definitely not the point. The point is that the incense burner seems to be very incomplete, with spider web-like cracks of different sizes on the surface, as if they are stacked layer by layer. However, the moment they saw these web-like cracks, Pi Qiushi and the other two could no longer calm down. Not only did their eyes shrink, but their breath became a little heavier.
"Ge Kiln!"
After a while, the three of them realized and reached out to each other. The three hands met in the air, but they stopped one after another. It was not just polite, but because they were afraid that the incense burner would be damaged during the mutual snatch, so they could not afford to pay.
Ge Kiln, one of the five famous kilns in the Song Dynasty, has very obvious characteristics, namely large and small openings.
These openings are known as gold wire and iron wire. Among them, there are small openings in the large openings. The color of the openings turns black and blue, which is called iron wire. The color of the openings turns golden and gold wire. This special style is very in line with the aesthetic view of the world.
Of course, the aesthetic view mentioned here is naturally the incomplete beauty.
At the beginning, a potter must have accidentally put the glaze incorrectly, and then many lobes appeared during the firing process, and a kiln of porcelain was naturally destroyed.
However, since it has been made into a big mistake and there is no room for recovery, then just make the mistake. Anyway, the burned porcelain is just cracked on the surface and the interior is relatively strong, so it can be used. So I simply sold it at a low price on the market...
Then a miracle happened. Compared with porcelain with good quality, this kind of porcelain with open pieces is undoubtedly a very novel thing. Regardless of ancient and modern times, people always have a curious attitude, but the price of porcelain is not expensive, so they simply buy one back.
In this way, those porcelains that open the pieces will naturally be sold out in a short time.
Seeing this, no matter how slow the potter is, he should understand that the opportunity to get rich has come. Then he went back and devoted himself to studying the principle of opening porcelain, and slowly finally formed Ge Kiln porcelain, one of the five famous kilns in the Song Dynasty...
The above is purely Wang Guan’s speculation, but it is also relatively reliable, at least in line with the laws of market development. I guess even those who pioneered the invention of Ge Kiln porcelain would not have expected that this kind of porcelain would be so popular in future generations.
From the Northern Song Dynasty to the later Southern Song Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty, Ming Dynasty, Qing Dynasty, and modern times, people have never forgotten their pursuit of Ge Kiln porcelain, and imitations are naturally common.
As for authentic products, they are definitely hard to come by. Anyway, according to statistics, genuine Ge kiln porcelain is very rare, with about 100 pieces in the world, far less than the number of Yuan blue and white porcelains. Moreover, in the international auction market, every piece appears, the transaction price is generally more than one million US dollars.
When counting the quantity, you can ignore it. After all, no matter who gets this kind of precious items, they will generally be secretly disclosed. Naturally, it is impossible to count accurate numbers. It can only be said that one item is calculated.
However, it is also certain that more than 95% of the Ge kiln porcelains that appear in the antique market are modern imitations. The other 4.9999 are imitations from the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, and only 0.0001% are genuine ones left.
Of course, it's just possible, and no one dares to ensure the correctness of this probability.
Chapter completed!