The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

The "Wangong Bed" is astounding, and the "Wangong Sedan chair" at the front is even more exaggerated!

Wangong sedan, this kind of play can only be seen in Ningshaotai, in fact, it is the top-class sedan chair, which requires eight people to lift it, also known as the "eight lift sedan chair". Eight? One Chinese? Net? ㈠?

The sedan chair is divided into three classes according to the number of carved figures and the level of craftsmanship. One of the sedan chairs in the Yongcheng Exhibition Hall is the first-class sedan chair, and it is also the most luxurious sedan chair in existence.

The whole car is connected with tenon and tenon structure, without a nail, it is composed of hundreds of detachable flower boards, and there is no car door! When welcoming the bride, there is a special sedan chair dismantling master who will follow in the welcoming team to take care of the dismantling, so that the bride can come and go easily.

The sedan chair is carved out of wood, and the vermilion lacquer floor is decorated with gold leaf appliques. It looks resplendent from a distance, like a miniature palace!

The sedan chair is decorated with round carving, embossing, and openwork. There are 25o figures and countless flowers, birds, insects, and beasts. It is also called the "baizi sedan chair".

In addition to the auspicious themes such as Heavenly Official’s Blessing, Qilin Sending Sons, Kui Xing Dian Dou, Domination, and other auspicious themes, there are also "Wan Sha Ji", "Tian Shui Guan", "Tie Gong Yuan", "Water Margin", "West Chamber", Opera scenes such as The Story of a Hairpin, Picking Up a Jade Bracelet...

"Eight carry the sedan chair, this is the level of provincial governors in the Qing Dynasty."

It was Qiu Bo who was talking, and he knew a little bit about history.

Zhang Nan heard this and said, "Except for the top bureaucrats who can ride the sedan chair, in ancient times, only women could ride the sedan sedan once when they were married. This is a half-handed ride.

There is a legend here. It is said that in the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty, Emperor Gaozong of Song Dynasty, who had just ascended the throne, fled to a lake in the Ningshao Plain after being pursued by the Jin soldiers. There was no way to go before, but there were chasing soldiers behind! With good luck, he met a Huansha village girl who hid him in the water, covered with white yarn, and Fang escaped from hunting down.

Later, Song Gaozong's decree to find "rescue driving" village aunts was unsuccessful. In desperation, he decree that Ning Shao Pingyuan women can enjoy half-luan driving when they get married.

This half of Fengyi's special treatment is to take the eight-carriage sedan chair, which can be carved and painted with phoenixes-changing to other places is arrogant and decapitating.

Of course, no one knew whether this legend was true or false, but in the old days, the bride’s right to ride the sedan chair and the wedding parade was preserved, and it slowly evolved into the ten-mile red makeup before liberation. "

"Shilihongzhuang" contains too many things, if the most exaggerated set is assembled, it will not fit in the huge exhibition hall!

"...It can really drain ten miles! In addition to these, at that time, if you marry your daughter, you will also have a lot of land and forests to do with you. Mountain forests are also called'chaishan', which means that even if you marry at your house, our daughter will have daily life. All of the firewood is owned by me, so I don’t need to be angry with my in-laws.

The female dowry is the private property of the daughter-in-law, and the husband's family has no right to embezzle it. Even if the woman dies, these dowries and property can only be inherited by the children of the woman, and no one else has the right to obtain..."

Listening to the words of the curator of agriculture, Zhang Nan interjected: "I heard that the most exaggerated Shili Hongzhuang had a coffin in the end. The curator of agriculture, is there such a thing?"

The agricultural curator smiled and said, "Yes, some have coffins, which means that even though the daughter is married, but she is born, old, sick, and dying, her family is all ready."

Yes, the coffin a hundred years later was taken away at the moment of marriage, what else does my husband have to say?

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In addition to the cannon and the ten-mile red makeup, the Yongcheng Exhibition Hall also has a classic collection of Yue kiln celadon, including authentic secret color wares. The top of the Yue kiln celadon kiln site in the Tang and Five Dynasties is in Yuezhou, Kuaiji Both Shangyu and Cixi in Yongcheng have the top kiln sites, and the celadon burned represents the highest level of celadon at that time.

And in Zhang Nan’s hometown, Yan County, belongs to Kuaiji, just next to Shangyu, very close to the core area of ​​Yue kiln, so there are a lot of Yue kiln porcelain unearthed, and there are many top-quality goods.

Before his rebirth, Zhang Nan liked Yue Kiln very much. This visit to the exhibition hall, the wooden "Shili Hongzhuang" is actually just a fun, because he doesn't play with wood and doesn't understand.

The main thing is to look at celadon: he only used it once before his rebirth, the top "secret porcelain" in celadon. It was a scum bucket, a treasure of a friend.

The dregs bucket, originated in the Jin Dynasty, was used to hold saliva. If it is placed on the table, it is dedicated to holding food residues such as meat, bones, fish bones, and small ones are also used to hold tea residues, so they are also listed in tea sets.

My friend’s scum bucket is a larger one, obviously used to hold meat, bones, fish bones and other dregs. To put it bluntly, it is a spittoon.

Secret-color porcelain and secret-color porcelain are actually the finest among Yue kiln celadon, a kind of special porcelain tribute to the imperial court. The texture and color are like ice like jade.

Regarding the color of "secret color", people had different opinions about it before. However, in April this year, 13 Yue kiln celadon wares were unearthed from the Tang Dynasty underground palace at Famen Temple Tower in Fufeng County, West Qin Province: a record of Famen Temple imperial worship On the account of the artifacts, this batch of porcelain is indeed recorded as "secret porcelain color"-except for two pieces of "secret porcelain" that are blue and yellow, the rest of the "secret color porcelain" is cyan, crystal clear and moist, like the surface of a lake.

Secret color porcelain, only for the royal family: a royal spittoon, if it is not a good relationship, Zhang Nan can't see it from friends!

How much is it worth?

It is not expensive, 80 thousand. But this is the price a friend bought from Tufuzi.

What is the selling price?

They don't sell it at all!

The so-called "secret color porcelain" will sometimes appear in the auction market of later generations, and the price will not change several million. However, compared with the batch unearthed at Famen Temple, it is actually not a secret color porcelain at all, at most it can be regarded as a kiln celadon. It's just a good boutique.

The craftsmanship and color of the **** bucket that Zhang Nan has seen is completely comparable to the batch of secret-colored porcelain from Famen Temple.

It's a pity that Zhang Nan can't appreciate that artifact anymore, but fortunately, there is it in the Yongcheng Exhibition Hall!

Here, all the porcelains he saw in the exhibition hall can be seen by hand, and the director of the agricultural curator and the staff will definitely give this little face.

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A group of people walked to the porcelain exhibition area and skipped the original porcelain to the Yue Kiln porcelain exhibition area.

"Curator Agriculture, can I get started with that secret color porcelain pot?"

A few glass showcases here are locked, and Nong Bosheng smiled and said, "Xiao Zhang, you really know how to pick something. This is the best secret-color porcelain melon-ribbed pot in the country. It’s unparalleled. You have to get started. Yes, but be careful."

Director Nong is very confident, because he has this confidence-there are two secret-color porcelains in the exhibition hall that can be regarded as fighters in secret-color porcelain! One of them is this holding pot, and the other is also on the side: lotus leaf lamp holder.

"Don't worry, if something goes wrong, I will pay 100 million."

The two of them are joking, of course, they are all experts, and of course they don't take things out rashly.

The agricultural curator here said to a staff member: "Xiao Wang, go get the mat."

"Yes, curator."

The key to the showcase is in the hands of the curator of agriculture, but he didn't move for the time being, instead chatting with Zhang Nan.

After a while, the man came back: holding an old thick cotton quilt in his hand, it was probably folded in half.

Zhang Nan took a look and smiled: "Haha, Director of Agriculture, your insurance measures are really good!"

Putting the pot on such a thick quilt makes it difficult to think of problems.

The curator of agriculture opened the showcase himself, untied the two transparent fishing lines used to fix the exhibits, and carefully took out the secret-colored porcelain melon-ribbed pot of Yue kiln and placed it on the double-layer quilt spread out on the ground.

The "tall porcelains" exhibited in the museum are all reinforced and fixed with fishing lines-Jiangnan Province is not in the earthquake zone, but every few years, sometimes you can feel the earthquake transmission hundreds of thousands of kilometers away. The weak influence that comes.

A plate is fine, the pot is still reinforced to prevent it from shaking slightly.

As for putting it on the ground, it's safer than putting it on the table, provided that this one is not even a little old and can't walk—he has to squat, or simply sit on the floor.

After putting things away, the director of the agricultural curator squatted and introduced: "This melon-shaped pot is 25.8 cm high, 11 cm in diameter, and 8.4 cm in bottom diameter. It was unearthed at the Tang Wharf site on Heyi Road in the urban area in 1975. The remnants of a bowl with a pattern of Yunhe and Shou in the Tang dynasty with the words "Zhong Er Nian" were accompanied by a remnant bowl. At the same time, the secret-colored porcelain lotus leaf zhantuotong was unearthed."

Zhang Nan motioned to the person on the side to stay away and squatted down.

Squatting to get started with porcelain is most afraid of people nearby, if you bump into someone and come to Malaysia, it will be lively.

This pot has a flared mouth, a long neck, sloping shoulders, a ribbed belly, short ringed feet, and a long and curved flat ribbon-shaped handle with a polygonal shape facing the shoulders and necks. Because you can watch it online, you can clearly see that the whole body is dense, and the glaze is blue and yellow and moisturized!

Absolutely the best of the best!

After seeing enough, put the pot back on the quilt, and then the agricultural curator carefully put it back into the showcase, and reinforce it with fishing line.

There is no need for Zhang Nan to say anything. The curator of agriculture took out the lotus leaf zhantotong in the same cabinet and put it on the quilt for Zhang Nan to see.

The object is 6.6 cm in height, 11.8 cm in diameter, and 6.6 cm in base diameter. It is a tea set in the Tang Dynasty, composed of a cup and a holder: the cup is an open five-cut lotus shape, with five ridges embossed on the arc abdomen, and the feet are circled.

The support is like a stretched lotus leaf, slightly rolled up on all sides, shallow abdomen, and ringed feet.

The lamp holders are in harmony, and the whole vessel is like an unearthed lotus leaf holding a blooming lotus. The body is dense and the glaze is dripping. It is a treasure of the secret color porcelain of Yue kiln!

In Zhang Nan's eyes, if you look at the firing quality of the porcelain itself, it is a level higher than that of the holding pot!

After reading the two things and putting them back, Zhang Nan sighed with emotion: "Chairman of Agriculture, it's a pity, you can only look at such good things."

"No! Let's say yes. Besides, you can't get secret color porcelain in foreign countries, don't worry about our two, first-class cultural relics, don't even think about it."

"Haha, just talk. I really haven't seen any secret-colored porcelain auctions at the moment. If there is one, I will definitely go to see it, but it's probably not comparable to the two of you.

Nowadays, the secret-color porcelain in some museums is just bragging, and there are more people selling dog meat with sheep's heads on auction outside, and these two pieces are genuine! "

The flattery is true.

Of course people in the exhibition hall like to listen-everyone hopes that the exhibits in their hall are top-notch.

There are many Yue kiln porcelains here. The earliest products of Yue kilns were produced from the Eastern Han Dynasty. Through the Three Kingdoms, the Jin Dynasty, the Southern Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty, the representative objects that lasted for more than a thousand years are: creation, maturity, exhibition, prosperity and In decline, the historical passages of these Yue kiln porcelains can be clearly seen in the exhibition hall~www.wuxiaspot.com~ The agricultural curator also introduced them along the way-this is the exhibition hall, the administrator Xiao Wang simply put the door It's closed.

Old Zhang Nan likes to go to museums. As a collector, he has to study all his life, and the museum is one of the best places to study.

The layman watched the excitement, and the curator of agriculture, a real expert, gave a detailed introduction and answered all questions. Let alone the laymen like Alyosha, even Zhang Nan, an expert, also benefited a lot.

For example, the Yue kiln dating, regardless of the age of the unearthed tombs, the curator of agriculture can judge from the artifacts themselves, and even if Zhang Nan has been a master and collector, his level is not comparable to that of the curator of agriculture.

"Director of Agriculture, do you have any research on Jin Wen?"

This exhibition hall is almost ready, Zhang Nan asked Nong Bosheng in private.

"It's okay, you know the common ones. Why, do you have artifacts inscriptions to identify? Anytime.

The agricultural curator is very straightforward, but Zhang Nan is about to cover it up. (To be continued.)