Antiques with golden eyes

"Made in the Jiaqing Year of the Qing Dynasty", there is no problem in using the commemorative mark on the official kiln pastel bowl, Shen Yu can be sure of this.

The chronological mark is the mark that marks the year when the porcelain was made. It can be said that it is the most commonly used mark on ancient porcelain. There is no problem in using this mark on official kiln porcelain.

There is no problem in using seal script for identification. Jiaqing official kilns mostly use seal script and less regular script. This is also a well-known fact in the collecting community.

What made Shen Yu frown was that the handwriting on this small bowl was really too sloppy. Shen Yu didn't know how to describe it, as if it was written by a person who had been sleepy for a day, yawning and closing his eyes.

The official kiln's style does not require excellent calligraphy, but neat fonts are the most basic requirement. After all, official kiln porcelain is for the emperor. If you send it with such crooked calligraphy, aren't you looking for trouble?

Even the pottery supervisor couldn't pass the test. The pottery supervisor was always cautious about things presented to the emperor and must be carefully inspected. There shouldn't be such obvious loopholes in official kiln porcelain.

The writing is not neat and the writing is sloppy. There is only one possibility, that is, this small pastel bowl is not official kiln porcelain.

Folk kilns, and only porcelain from folk kilns, don’t care whether the writing of the name is beautiful or not.

It's just that Shen Yu is a little confused now. No matter how you look at it, this small pastel bowl must have come from an official kiln, and it couldn't have been fired in a private kiln.

Jiaqing folk kilns are no better than Kangxi folk kilns, because Kangxi folk kilns are the pinnacle of folk kiln porcelain in the Qing Dynasty.

If the Jiaqing folk kiln can produce the fine pastel porcelain of the Kangxi kiln, the porcelain of the Jiaqing folk kiln will not be unknown in the market.

The most important point is, how is it possible that the porcelain from Jiaqing folk kilns can have blue gems as big as pearls?

According to Shen Yu's understanding, the value of antiques that can emit precious light as big as pearls is at least around 500,000 yuan. However, porcelain from Jiaqing folk kilns is currently sold for several thousand yuan in the market, and even tens of thousands of yuan is considered expensive.

Those that cost tens of thousands of yuan are often the best among the finest folk kilns.

Official kilns and private kilns may seem to be the same word apart, but their prices are quite different.

"No, I must not have looked carefully enough."

Shen Yu picked up the small bowl and looked at it carefully again. This time he stopped looking elsewhere and only stared at the name of the small bowl. After five minutes, Shen Yu finally saw something.

He touched the seal script with his fingers and found that the thickness of the words "Daqing Jiaqing Year System" seemed to be different.

If Shen Yu guessed correctly about this inscription, a few words should have been added later. The technique was used very delicately, and it was as integrated as if it were made in heaven.

If you didn't look carefully, you would never have noticed it just by picking up the small bowl and taking a few glances.

Antique appraisal and counterfeiting are enemies of each other. A saying often said by masters in the antique shop is "A mountain is higher than a mountain."

Shen Yu often uses this sentence to remind himself and tell himself not to be careless.

Appraisers or old collectors spend their whole life studying a certain antique, starting from the age of twenty to the seventies, which is only fifty years. Many times in the early stage, they have to pay "tuition" and wait until they first get a glimpse of the art of antique appreciation. By then, they are often in their thirties or forties.

But those who make fakes may have studied it for several generations. Whether it is passed down from father to son, grandfather to grandson, or from master to apprentice, generations of people have carefully studied how to make fakes.

For example, Shen Yu, a counterfeiter of porcelain, knows that the division of labor is very clear. There are those who find the soil, those who draw the blanks, those who make glazes, those who paint the porcelain, those who make patterns, and those who fire the kiln. After they leave the kiln, there are also those who specialize in aging. Fiery.

You think you are very good, but the other person is often more powerful. As the saying goes, the devil is as good as the Taoist.

Even though Shen Yu followed his grandfather and saw countless real objects in the hands of collectors, his grandfather Zhonglou also gave Shen Yu advice every day, explaining various identification techniques and the location of possible flaws countless times. I still get punched when I'm stalling, although the frequency is very small.

Later, Bao Yuxuan's work experience greatly helped Shen Yu develop his eyesight, because most of the antiques Shen Yu had seen before were genuine, and there were basically no fakes.

It is also understandable that the people who interact with Zhongzhonglou are all big collectors with high status in the antique industry. Even if these people buy fakes, they will throw them away quickly and will not lose face by displaying them at home.

But there are a lot of fakes in Baoyu Xuan. This is not to say that Baoyu Fake to the extreme.

These people are cheating your antique shop, because antique shops are rich. Even the so-called high-priced purchases from street stalls outside are only tens of thousands of dollars, while Baoyuxuan purchases antiques for tens or even millions. How can it not make people jealous? ?

After a series of experiences, Shen Yu's identification skills have naturally greatly improved.

It can be said that Shen Yu saw more antiques in Baoyuxuan in one year, including genuine imitations and fakes sold in the store, than many antique lovers have seen in a lifetime.

But Shen Yu never dared to be arrogant or complacent. He knew that he was only in his twenties after all, and the rice he ate every day was not as much salt as the salt that generations of fraudsters ate.

The craft of treasure appraisal may sound easy, but it is actually very difficult to do. It can be said to be extremely difficult.

However, Shen Yu was able to deduce that the small pastel bowl in his hand was probably someone who deliberately changed the official kiln into a private kiln. As for what method was used and why it was necessary to hide the value of the small bowl, Shen Yu would not know for a while. Can't figure it out.

Putting the small bowl on the appraisal table again, Shen Yu felt that today's birthday gift was this Jiaqing official kiln over-branched melon pastel bowl.

Seeing that Shen Yu was silent for a long time, Gu Qingqing asked softly from the side: "Brother Yu, is the pattern painted on this bowl a leprosy melon?"

Shen Yu smiled and said: "Qingqing has good eyesight, he is a leprous."

When Liu Dongyang was still concentrating on writing and drawing on the account book, Shen Yu whispered a few words in Gu Qingqing's ear in a very low voice, "The birthday gift has been found."

Gu Qingqing was very smart and immediately nodded with understanding.

"Brother Yu, isn't it nice to celebrate your birthday with a bowl containing leeky melons?" Gu Qingqing thought for a while and finally expressed her doubts.

Shen Yu shook his head: "On the contrary, birthday celebrations with skinny melons represent good luck. Qingqing, you don't know something. Skinny melons are also called bitter melons, but they also have a nice name: brocade lychee."

"Jin lychee?"

"Exactly, there is an ancient poem that goes: 'Yellow rhizome leaves are green, the fragrance of the wind attracts butterflies by the fence; the fruit is strong and separated, and the small characters are newly stolen brocade lychees.' The 'brocade lychees' in Ye Shenxiang's masterpiece refers to the leprous melon. Unexpectedly Right?

Gu Qingqing covered her mouth and laughed softly: "I can't even associate Legua and Lychee to death."

"Look at the melons on this bowl, do they have endless branches and vines?"

Gu Qingqing looked where Shen Yu pointed, and saw a lush scenery. He couldn't help but curiously asked: "Brother Yu, does this have any meaning?"

Shen Yu solemnly said: "Of course, the continuous melons and colorful butterflies are combined to form: claws and continuous. This is a very auspicious word, "dié" has the same pronunciation as butterfly, which is actually a small melon. meaning.

"The continuous flow of melons refers to the fact that although the fruits of small melons are small when they are first born, they will gradually grow bigger and grow more and more through the melon vines, symbolizing that the family is passed down from generation to generation and the population is prosperous.

"So, if this bowl is given as a gift for a birthday or a baby's 100th birthday, it is definitely a generous gift. Who doesn't want his family to be prosperous and filled with descendants?"

"So, isn't this small bowl tailor-made for me? Brother Yu's bowl doesn't have a price tag on it, can you be sure it's genuine?"

"I dare not say 100%, but I can say that 99% are Jiaqing official kilns. I have learned calligraphy and painting from my grandfather since I was a child, but I have also dabbled in porcelain and miscellaneous things. But after all, I am not specialized in this. I My opinion is that you can buy it."

Shen Yu once again looked at the small pastel melon bowl on the appraisal table, while silently reciting a treasure appraisal.

A ball of blue precious light condensed three inches above the small bowl, as big as a pearl.

Sure enough, after absorbing the precious light from the blue and white porcelain vase, I used my special treasure identification ability again. Not only did it go smoothly, my eyes no longer hurt.

After making sure that there were no problems, Shen Yu no longer cared about the issue of identification.

"Okay, then choose it!" Gu Qingqing looked very confident in Shen Yu.

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