Chapter 39: The Garlic Bottle in the Late Qing Dynasty
A slightly older man from the expert group held the microphone and said to Ye Tian, "Actually, I have a question to ask you, how do you know the background of his painting?"
Ye Tian smiled and said, "This is something I heard from a senior in the school accidentally mention. He only said a few words, but I don't know which painter it was. But today I saw the works of the Song Dynasty people and felt that he was talking about at that time."
Xue Ju, who was beside him, smiled slightly. His smile had no intention of ridicule. He just simply felt funny. The corner of his mouth slightly raised, as if he realized that the situation was not right now, so he let it go again.
After a while of the intermission, the second treasure appraisal competition began. The staff came out this time was a man. He was holding a tray with a glass cover on it, and the glass cover was covered with a layer of red cloth.
Ye Tian took a look and did not see any light coming out. In fact, Ye Tian's eyes did not see any antiques, but those valuable and long-standing ones.
Only then can you see that there is yellow light emitted, and there are some antiques. Ye Tian can also absorb some spiritual energy from it, but there is nothing.
Ye Tian wrinkled unconsciously and thought to himself, "It seems that this treasure may be a relatively ordinary thing."
"No. 1, come forward to appraise the treasure." It was not until Ye Tian had already stood up from the stool that the etiquette lady took the red cloth away.
Ye Tian glanced at it and thought to himself, "The garlic bottle from the late Qing Dynasty?"
Ye Tian even felt that he had read it wrong, "Isn't it a problem for this expert group to come up with such a simple bottle?"
Although Ye Tian was very confused, he didn't say it out loud. He always felt that this matter would not seem as simple as it seems now.
Ye Tian walked up and looked at the treasure carefully for the first time, including glazing of garlic bottles, etc. These techniques actually began to become more and more mature in the mid-Qing Dynasty.
However, the work done by this garlic bottle is not exquisite, and it is even a bit casual.
Ye Tian suddenly noticed a small detail, and then the jade on his chest began to get hot again. Two memories that did not belong to him seemed to pop up in Ye Tian's mind.
The most expensive part of this garlic bottle is not the age or the workmanship, but the meaning it represents.
In the Qing Dynasty, the official kiln was made many fine products, and most of the ceramics made from the official kiln could be directly used by the emperor, so its innovation is still very good.
However, with the decline of the Qing Dynasty, the government's investment in official kilns began to be weak, and a large number of Western objects were favored by Lord Lafayette, and the official kilns were also suppressed by some foreign pressure because they were not valued.
The reason why the garlic bottle that was treasured today is that it is the last batch of porcelain fired from the official kiln.
Because the difference between the work style of the official kiln and the folk kiln is that even if the picture is not very exquisite, it may be sold at a low price if it feels valuable.
However, the official kilns emphasize the face of the official family. What they make is exaggeratedly that they are carrying the face of the entire royal family and doing things. Therefore, any product with problems is not allowed to be circulated.
This garlic bottle can be said to be a disaster. When Ye Tian looked at this garlic bottle carefully, he only noticed his style and year, but did not notice the pattern on it.
There can be said that there are two patterns on this bottle in symmetrical places. Ye Tian just noticed that one of them was the intersecting flowers.
In ancient times, this kind of pattern may have been more common because the production process is relatively simple. It is a pattern made of a few flowers of different colors. This one looks more colorful.
But its focus is not this, but on the other side, where it should have been a symmetrical pattern, a small fork was made into the pattern.
This mark is really inconspicuous. If you don't look carefully, it is easy to mix the fork and pattern together.
Since there is a small fork on this surface, it proves that this is a batch of porcelain to be processed.
The story that suddenly flashed through Ye Tian’s mind was related to the preservation of this porcelain.
Is every porcelain marked with forks actually a bad luck? They will be transported aside first and piled up randomly. It doesn't matter if they are broken in the middle.
Because someone will specifically smash these unqualified products, the porcelain has a less obvious depression just below the bottle mouth.
This is when it was placed aside, the large porcelain fell down and knocked on the garlic bottle. It was probably covered by large porcelain fragments at that time, so it was able to guarantee itself.
But what is shocking is that when such a large porcelain fell, this small garlic bottle was in peace. It can be said that this is a miracle.
Ye Tian gently touched the groove with his fingers. Sure enough, although the groove did not look very obvious, it felt touching.
Ye Tian realized that it seemed that it was the first time he had come into contact with an antique for so long. Although this antique can be said to be in a mediocre appearance, and there was no spiritual power that Ye Tian could absorb.
But the grooves on its body and the story in its mind gave Ye Tian a new feeling.
Ye Tian put the porcelain under his command right, bowed slightly to the expert group, bowed slightly to the reporters below, and then returned to his seat to start writing the discussion.
Ye Tian still felt that after sitting in his position, he felt that after a porcelain was hit by another hard thing, the first thing that happened was to be broken.
Secondly, even if it does not break, subtle cracks will occur at the hit position, which is a natural phenomenon. However, this garlic bottle just turned into a groove, which is really incredible.
Until Xue Zun had already walked onto the treasure appraisal platform, Ye Tian had not been able to get out of his thoughts. It was not until the expert group held Mike and said, "Now the timing starts, drip..." The sound of the timer brought Ye Tian back to reality.
Ye Tian sighed, took out his pen, and began to write on the paper. Perhaps it was the first time he had so many feelings and shocks about a treasure.
He couldn't stop holding the pen, and wrote nearly 2,000 words in one go, and he focused on highlighting the magic of the groove.
Chapter completed!