Antiques with golden eyes

"Shen Yu, do you have any doubts in your heart about who this Cheng Yun Palace is? How could he create such exquisite blue and white porcelain?" Li Hanlin stood up with a smile.

Shen Yu scratched his head, "Yes, Uncle Li. To be honest, I have never heard of the name Cheng Yun Palace."

Li Hanlin laughed even louder when he heard this: "It's normal that you don't know, but it's abnormal that you know, because until now, we haven't completely figured out who this Cheng Yun Gong is!"

"Ah? You don't know either?"

Li Hanlin waved his hand: "I can't say I don't know, it's just that I haven't completely figured it out yet, because so far, there are three different theories in the collecting community about who Cheng Yunggong is.

"The first theory, which is also the most widely circulated, is that Cheng Yunggong was a master of porcelain painting in the imperial kiln factory of the porcelain capital in the early years of Kangxi. His writing skills were so extraordinary that the ancients could do it in seconds, and the porcelain he painted even won the honor of Emperor Kangxi. He was highly appreciated and at the same time rewarded him with many gold and silver treasures.

"It's just that he is introverted and doesn't understand the ways of the world. He offended many other craftsmen and even the pottery supervisors in the Royal Kiln Factory with his words. Coupled with the jealousy of some people, he was eventually excluded from the Royal Kiln Factory.

"Cheng Yunggong was so angry that he opened a kiln to bake Kangxi blue and white flowers, and then passed it down from generation to generation. It was not until the end of the Qing Dynasty that there were no more male descendants, and this unique skill of imitating Kangxi blue and white flowers was completely lost.

"The second is that Chengyungong is not the name of a person, but the surnames of three porcelain masters during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty.

"These three people's surnames are Cheng, Yun, and Gong.

"Three craftsmen, Cheng, Yun, and Gong, built a porcelain kiln together, specializing in firing Kangxi blue and white flowers.

"The craftsman surnamed Cheng is responsible for painting and glazing the porcelain, the craftsman surnamed Yun is responsible for finding clay bricks, and the craftsman surnamed Gong is responsible for firing the kiln and controlling the heat.

"Because the ancestors of these three people are all master craftsmen of the Kangxi Imperial Kiln Factory in the porcelain capital, their porcelain-making technology has been enhanced after working together, and their level is comparable to that of the official kilns in the early Kangxi period."

"The third type is that Cheng Yunggong was the general manager of the official kiln warehouse during the Guangxu period. Because he had a bad relationship with the pottery supervisor, he resigned and returned home because he felt that he was not taken seriously. Later, when the Qing Dynasty was in turmoil, he simply found many familiar officials. The kiln master promised to pay a lot of money to open his own kiln and bake Kangxi blue and white flowers.

"It's better to work for the official than to burn for yourself, so Cheng Fang is worse than the Guangxu official kiln.

"These three legends have a market, and they are all possible. It is true that the imitation skills surpass the Guangxu official kilns, but the number of them in existence is not large. Some people have calculated that there are only more than a hundred pieces, so they are favored by many big collectors. .

"Because it is only circulated in a small collection circle and has not entered the antique market, many people do not know about Cheng imitation or 'Chengyungong' imitation.

"Mr. Shen didn't tell you. I guess it's because you majored in appraising calligraphy and paintings and didn't want you to be distracted."

After Li Hanlin said this, he was slightly out of breath. Lin Xifeng, who has good eyesight, immediately brought a cup of warm tea.

After drinking a cup of warm tea, Li Hanlin smiled and said: "I'm old and I can't even speak more than a few words. In the future, the appraisal of antiques will still depend on you young people!"

Lin Xifeng smiled apologetically and said: "Seventy used to be a rare thing, but now it doesn't count. If you live to be more than a hundred years old, there won't be any problem at all."

"It's useless for me to live for such a long time. I will be angry to death if the ancestors in my family are angry." Li Hanlin said bitterly after throwing the tea cup to Lin Xifeng.

Lin Xifeng's flattery slapped the horse's leg as if nothing had happened, and he scratched his bald head, acting like he could say whatever he wanted.

Shen Yu helped Li Hanlin back to his seat and sighed in his heart, "Except for the second oldest of the three sons in Mr. Li's family, the other two are enough for Mr. Li. They can even be compared with his father. ."

"Boss Lin, how much did you pay for the pen holder imitating the picture of the return of the herdsman in the wind and rain?" Zheng Congyuan came to the Eight Immortals table at this time, picked up the blue and white porcelain pen holder and played with it, and couldn't put it down.

Lin Xifeng said bitterly: "The negotiation was for 150,000 yuan, but the other party refused to sell it and sold it to the guy from Dongjiang who came to shovel the land for 500,000 yuan. I bought it back for another 1.5 million yuan." .

"But now that Mr. Qian and Brother Shen have seen it, I'm relieved. Cheng Fang's items can't be compensated at all, and it's impossible to make tens or millions of dollars."

Hearing this, Zheng Congyuan wanted to say something. He opened and closed his mouth a few times, but finally did not speak. After Lin Xifeng put the blue and white pen holder into the brocade box, he turned back and quickly took out a scroll from the drawer of his tall square table. .

When Shen Yu saw this scene, he secretly praised himself. The antique Zheng Congyuan brought was indeed a calligraphy and painting.

What Shen Yu didn't expect was that Zheng Congyuan strode up to him and heard Zheng Congyuan say loudly: "Brother Shen, you have been learning the method of calligraphy and painting appraisal from Mr. Shen all year round. Don't you know what the price of ancient paintings was in ancient times?"

Seeing Zheng Congyuan looking at his eyes, Shen Yu immediately blinked and rubbed his temples pretending to be unintentional, "I don't know which dynasty or generation of ancient paintings Mr. Zheng is referring to? Is it the Ming and Qing Dynasties or the Song and Yuan Dynasties? Or the Sui and Tang Dynasties? Ancient paintings?"

Zheng Congyuan hesitated for a moment, "Then please trouble Brother Shen to talk about the period before the Yuan Dynasty."

Shen Yu glanced at the scroll on the Eight Immortals table and thought: "Could it be that Boss Zheng has found an authentic work of a famous person from before the Yuan Dynasty?"

Suppressing the doubts in his heart, Shen Yu smiled and said, "Mr. Zheng, I may not know anything else you asked, but I happen to have research on the prices of calligraphy and painting in ancient times.

"Tang Junzai, a great connoisseur of the Yuan Dynasty, said in his "Painting Appreciation" the value of ancient paintings in the Yuan Dynasty.

"The so-called "De Bo Shi" painted three pieces of paper, which is comparable to Wu Sheng's painting of one or two pieces of paper.

"Wu Sheng painted two pieces of paper, and Yi Gu Lu painted one piece of paper. It's like this."

"This sentence contains a lot of information. Paper means painting, and Bo Shi is the nickname of Li Gonglin, a great painter in the Northern Song Dynasty. He was the first painter in the Song Dynasty and was known as a master of all generations.

"Wu Sheng refers to the painting sage Wu Daozi, which means that in the Yuan Dynasty, three paintings by Li Gonglin could almost be replaced by one or two paintings by Wu Daozi.

"And who is Gu Lu? It is the collective name of Gu Kaizhi and Lu Tanwei.

"Gu Kaizhi is the originator of ink painting, known as the Three Masters, and ranks first in the "Xuanhe Painting Book".

"Lu Tanwei is the founder of the application of calligraphy to painting. It is Lu Tanwei who invented calligraphy and painting on a painting. He is ranked second in the "Xuanhe Painting Book" and only two paintings by the painting saint Wu Daozi can be replaced.

One of theirs."

"It can be seen that in addition to the artistic value of calligraphy and painting itself, the age of creation is also one of the important factors affecting its price.

"In my personal opinion, although the paintings of the two seniors Gu and Lu are good, they are definitely inferior to those of the painting saints. The value of the paintings also has the meaning of ranking based on seniority.

"But the calligraphy and paintings before and including the Yuan Dynasty, whether they are unknown paintings or paintings by famous artists, are extremely precious, and each one is worth collecting."

Zheng Congyuan laughed loudly when he heard this: "Listening to your words is better than ten years of reading. With Brother Shen's words, I feel relieved. I won't worry about anything. Then please ask Brother Shen to help me take a look at this ancient painting that Zheng bought.

Right?"