"Yes, it doesn't conform to the logic of fraud at all..." Mr. Ma nodded in approval, and then froze: "It doesn't conform to the logic of fraud, that's not possible, it's possible..."
"It may be the real thing, but it's more likely to be a random fabrication." Zhou Zhi said: "Don't forget, everyone, there are many fabrications on the stalls outside. You can even find the Five Baht Tongbao. Do you believe it? Don’t believe it?”
Everyone couldn't help laughing.
"So this is also the biggest difficulty in the identification of porcelain. We can only regretfully cast doubt on some orphan pieces among the genuine ones. As long as there is a feature on the porcelain that we have never seen before, we will treat it as a fake and almost always treat it as a fake. Ten, even if you miss the real thing, at least you keep your cash.”
"Yes, because of this, no one dares to touch this plate." Mr. Ma said: "The base is a pastel painting, and there are period stamps superimposed on it. Who has seen it?"
Everyone looked at each other and shook their heads.
"I have seen them before." Zhou Zhi smiled and said: "Not only have I seen them before, they are almost exactly the same."
"Ah? Where have you seen it before?" Mr. Ma was surprised and asked quickly.
"When the two old men were in the National Cultural Relics Appraisal Working Group, they wrote a report "Guidelines for the Appraisal of Some Domestic Pastel and Cinnabar Porcelain of the Early Period."
"Aren't the two old men from the calligraphy and painting team at that time? How could they write such a report?"
"Isn't it because of the misunderstanding we just entered? The old idea of nine truths and one falsehood has caused the Jilin Cultural Relics General Store to identify a batch of porcelain of this type as fabricated imitations of the Republic of China."
"After discovering this problem, the two old men rescued this batch of porcelain and wrote such a work report to remind all units to pay attention to similar situations."
"Their basis is that there are more than a dozen pieces of this type of porcelain in the Forbidden City collection. The size of the porcelain is not large. Most of them are dishes, tea balls, and small appreciation items. They usually have a single-color porcelain outer wall, and a white ground inside and at the bottom. With the addition of pastels, two-thirds of the base paintings are added with the four-character cinnabar period mark.”
"The two old men also specially reminded that although the craftsmanship, painting, carvings and glazes on these small porcelains are extremely exquisite, the handwriting is not like that of official kilns. We ask everyone to pay special attention to this point."
"Where did you see this guide?"
"This material was included in the annual report of the working group in 1983." Zhou Zhi was also dumbfounded: "It's just the annual report of the calligraphy and painting group. I don't know if this guideline will eventually be conveyed."
"Then there is no designation." Mr. Ma felt puzzled: "Why do you think of reading the 1983 annual report of the Cultural Relics Working Group?"
"Look at the pictures." Zhou Zhi said: "Haven't I been entrusting Brother Fei and Sister Wanqiu to search for old paintings from various places? Many of the ancient paintings appraised by the working group back then are collected in the National Museum, and due to historical reasons, they have been allocated to the National Museum of China. One batch earns foreign exchange for local industries, so those annual reports are important clues.”
"Yes, I heard you tell me about this." Mr. Ma nodded.
"This batch of porcelain is extremely rare," Zhou Zhi said: "There are less than twenty pieces in total from the Forbidden City and Shenyang, and they are all small pieces of porcelain. Generally, they cannot be put on exhibitions. Even if they are, only the front side will be displayed. I will show you what the bottom of the device looks like.”
"I have handled a lot of porcelain at the National Expo, especially the less popular porcelain, which everyone pays special attention to." Mr. Ma said: "Why haven't I seen these porcelains in Xierku?"
Museum warehouses have strict management measures. In addition to the cumbersome entry and exit regulations, there are specific requirements for air purification, disinfection, smoke, liquid detection, fire extinguishing, monitoring, temperature control, humidity control, cold light sources, etc.
For example, warehouses displaying calligraphy and paintings are called paper cultural relics warehouses, with a temperature of 20 degrees and a humidity between 50 and 60 percent, while warehouses storing porcelain and pottery are called silicate cultural relics warehouses, and the humidity should be reduced to Forty to sixty percent, the rest, such as animal materials, metal materials, etc., are all different. Xierku is a large warehouse that mainly stores pottery, porcelain, and stoneware.
"Because they are not in Xierku, they were loaned to the Ceramic Research Institute of the Ministry of Light Industry in 1985, and they should be in Jingde now."
"An important piece of knowledge for authenticating ceramics is to identify the 'Ministry of Light Industry' models. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, craftsmen became obsessed with imitating the models from the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong dynasties. It is estimated that this allocation is also related to the export of imitations to earn foreign exchange." .”
"You have borrowed such a precious thing for ten years and still haven't paid it back?" Mr. Ma immediately expressed his dissatisfaction.
"That's right. How many things have the National Museum borrowed from various museums that have not been returned for more than ten years?"
"This is different, I still have to follow the old man..."
"I have already told them. Mr. Ma, you will take the things back to the old man to see. It will also serve as a reminder to them."
"Rare items like these that are inherited in an orderly manner can easily be lost on the market and then damaged due to lack of attention. Compared with other common cultural relics, they need more protection."
"Ah? Why didn't you give it to the old man?"
"Xiaomiao and I are going to the United States soon. The Hundred Flowers Award exhibition is being held there. The Hundred and Eight Dragons carved by Sichuan South Red just won the gold medal. We have to go and congratulate the masters of the Suzhou Jade Carving Factory."
"Little brother, do you have a way to make Sichuan South Red?" The eyes of the man who had just brought Zhou Zhi fried liver lit up: "We can talk about this matter..."
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"These are the same as those discussed by Mr. Ma." Zhou Zhi pulled Mai Xiaomiao to stand up and put the few items he found on the table: "These snuff bottles are given to the two old men as a filial piety. Mr. Ma gave me the keys to his car. Me, Xiaomiao and I will withdraw first.”
"Wipe your mouth." Ma Ye handed Zhou Zhi the key and reminded him.
After Zhou Zhi and Mai Xiaomiao left, everyone started chatting: "Is what he said just now true? Then he put down the plate and left?"
"If this is true, it is a rare item from the Yongzheng Dynasty. It costs three thousand yuan..." Someone said and couldn't help but slap their thighs in annoyance: "It's not a lot of money. If I had known I had taken it first!"
"There are a lot of similar things on the stalls outside. You can go there now." Someone immediately joked: "You need to be able to find gold in the sand."
"Master Ma, who is this young man?"
Mr. Ma picked up the small plate and looked at the bottom carefully: "You can find chestnuts in the fire and gold in the sand. This is true. I really want to be sure of picking one up in the antique city. It's not enough to just have the knowledge of cultural objects. It's not enough." It’s not okay to mess around in the market.”
"In the Forbidden City, those who work for the National Museum are very discerning, but not vicious enough. If a genuine product is placed in front of him, he can give a lot of analysis, from the soil to the shape to the pattern to the glaze, every part is... There are a lot of big articles, but if you mix this genuine item among nine imitations and let him choose, he will feel that there are problems here and there, and he will definitely not dare to do it. "
"To put it another way, for those who have been around the art and toys market for a long time, there are actually not many opportunities to get hands-on good products. Most of the time they are common products and defective products. Even if you go to the National Museum or the Forbidden City, there is still a distance, and there are still a lot of things in between. With laminated glass, it is almost impossible to have the opportunity to make a personal judgment. ”
"And there are many places that we can't see at all, such as this plate." Mr. Ma carefully placed the plate on the table in the normal way: "In the National Museum of the Forbidden City, this is a standard official kiln rouge purple interior painting powder Cailai Fu Dishe, who would have guessed that there is a broken branch of longevity peach on the ground, with a four-character cinnabar year mark on it? "(End of this chapter)