Antiques with golden eyes

This is a giant banner painting with colors on paper.

Approximately 115 cm long and 38 cm wide.

There is no basis for identification, but the three calligraphy and painting masters in the store unanimously identified it as an unknown painting before the Yuan Dynasty.

In other words, this painting is at least from the Yuan Dynasty.

Moreover, the selling price of this painting is not very expensive.

Price: 600,000 yuan.

Banner, also called horizontal roll or long roll.

It is different from vertical scroll paintings that have a "head" and "foot" hanging on the wall. As the name suggests, the banner is viewed horizontally and cannot be hung on the wall.

So this painting was unfolded and placed on a table in the corner.

What surprised Shen Yu slightly was that there was only half of the painting.

It can't be said to be half a sheet. To be precise, this painting only contains content on half a sheet.

The painting is "Six Cranes Picture".

Of course, Shen Yu guessed the name of the six cranes painting.

This painting actually has no title.

Because of the six cranes, it is a frequent visitor in "crane paintings".

It's like a convention. In ancient times, painters only needed to paint cranes, not just one, but two, and often six.

Half of the six-crane picture is naturally three cranes.

There are exactly three cranes on this painting, one is a red-crowned crane, one is a black-necked crane, and the other is a black-feathered crane.

Three cranes occupy half of the drawing paper.

The other half of the paper was empty, with nothing on it.

That's right, there is nothing.

Not to mention Linghe, there is not even a word.

It was as if the other three cranes flew away secretly after channeling the spirit.

"The painting quality of this painting is definitely not inferior to the previous paintings of "The King Delivering His Son" and "The Fishing in the Flower River", and is even slightly better. I don't know why the price is so low?"

The painting skills of this painting are extraordinary.

The colors are gorgeous but not too gaudy, and the details reveal a true and beautiful nature, and the brushwork is sophisticated.

The concept of the background of the three cranes is also quite clever.

Divided into upper and lower parts.

In the sky, there are several fairy palaces with clouds and fog covering their flying eaves and raised feet.

Below is a lush green bamboo forest.

The three cranes are in different positions. One is combing its feathers by the stream, one is staring back at a huge blue stone, and the other is spreading its wings and is about to fly to the fairy palace in the sky.

The silk feathers of the crane can be seen, the top is shallow and deep, the dark color of the cloak, the length of the beak, the slenderness of the shank, and the height of the knees are all wonderful strokes that cannot be described without being lifelike.

That kind of roar that roars from the sky and towers over the sky seems to be about to pour into your ears.

The sense of space and three-dimensionality are simply amazing.

It's not like looking at a painting, but more like looking at a perfect movie shot.

Rigorous, vivid and lifelike, it seems as if the crane in the painting will fly away on its own if you turn your head.

"Banner? Half a banner?"

Suddenly seeing such a banner, Shen Yu's heart suddenly moved.

Unlike vertical scroll paintings, banner paintings appeared much earlier in ancient times.

"Spring Outing" by Zhan Ziqian, a master of painting in the Sui Dynasty who is known as the ancestor of Tang painting, is a banner painting.

Han Huang's "Five Cows", Zhou Fang's "Ladies with Hairpins" and Yan Liben's "Xiao Yilan Pavilion Preface" are all banner paintings.

This kind of vertical scroll painting, in which calligraphy and painting are mounted and hung on the wall, was only seen in the Ming Dynasty.

"this painting?"

Shen Yu gently picked up the painting with his hands and looked at it. The paper was slightly yellowed and had some cracks. The fiber was so thick that it felt rough on his hands.

Obviously, this is a typical ancient hemp paper.

And there is still some faint "lignin" on it.

As we all know, before the advent of paper and silk, ancient people often used bamboo slips to record text.

When the ancients described a person who was knowledgeable, they often used the phrase "learned and rich with five carts". This was because the ancient bamboo slips were so heavy that they had to be pulled by carts.

In the Jin Dynasty, paper gradually replaced silk and bamboo slips as writing materials.

In the Tang Dynasty, paper began to be used in large quantities, and the popularization of paper was only a matter of the Ming Dynasty.

The first point when appraising calligraphy and painting is to understand that ancient paper is definitely not as beautiful as modern paper.

The main raw material for papermaking at that time was not the current wood pulp. Due to technical reasons, the papermaking materials at that time were mainly hemp, mulberry bark and rattan bark.

Another trick to determine whether ancient paintings are made of ancient hemp paper is whether there are red irregular dots on the paper.

This is the oxidation of the wood raw material in paper, which is called lignin.

This painting has this kind of lignin on it.

"Hey, what is this?"

Shen Yu was originally studying the painting paper, hoping to determine the age of the painting. At this time, a word "Xue" hidden on the peach tree in the Immortal Palace locked his eyes directly!

"Xue, could it be Xue Ji, the master of painting cranes?"

The crane is a fairy bird with a lifespan of a thousand years.

In ancient legends, the crane is second only to the sacred birds Phoenix and Qingluan.

Its status is even higher than that of the Golden Crow and the Peacock.

The recognized masters of painting cranes are Xue Ji and Xue Sitong, who are among the four great calligraphers of the early Tang Dynasty, along with Chu Suiliang, Ouyang Xun and Yu Shinan.

…

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