The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

The technique of soaking bronzes with vinegar is generally only used by archaeological teams and museums, because this is a comprehensive and indiscriminate treatment, which can be described as nuclear bombing!

If tufuzi and private collectors get bronzes, unless they are sure that important inscriptions are covered by patina, they will treat the bronzes with vinegar in some places, which can increase the value of the artifacts. August 1 Chinese? W＝W≤W. 81ZW. COM

But you must grasp the degree well, otherwise you will have nowhere to cry!

Because if the time is too long, the vinegar will basically eliminate everything on the appearance of the copperware, including the patina, including the patina left over by the years. This is fatal to the masters: the value is in the patina, and nothing is there. A layer of things that take a long time to form, how many buyers will recognize your antiques?!

The museum doesn't care: all kinds of records are adequate, let alone not for sale.

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There will be vinegar, which is easy to handle: because you will use the simplest and rude method, you will go directly to the kitchen with the copper plate, put the big copper plate on the ground, and open the vinegar bottle.

This time it was 9 o'clock, and only a few followed up: the bodyguards did not participate in the secrets of the boss, and the fireworks outside was temporarily stopped. My sister had already brought her little nephew and asked Yong Qiang to send home first.

Brother-in-law will not leave for the time being, it depends on Zhang Nan's method of removing the rust.

Zhang Nan first went to find a mask to wear, and he was uncomfortable with the smell of vinegar!

"Would you like a gas mask? Karimi has two."

Upon hearing Guan Xingquan's words, Zhang Nan shook his head straight: "Brother Guan, I am allergic to vinegar. I eat it. It's not terrible!"

"Brother, you were sent by the monkey to make you funny?"

Nothing was said in the latter part.

Even Nicole and Jenny are here. You asked me to wear a gas mask to operate this. Those who know may laugh and break their stomachs, but those who don't know think this is performing "Deadly Poisoner"!

This is vinegar, not a highly toxic chemical.

When a bottle is opened, whether it is white vinegar or rice vinegar, pour it into a large copper plate, and make sure not to spill it out or corrode the outside.

After pouring fifteen bottles, there is still a section from the edge.

"Tang Gui, give me a pot of boiling water."

"Oh."

Comrade Cook Lisuo handed over the kettle, and Zhang Nan poured into it half a pot of at least 90 degrees hot water. This was to control the acidity, and the second was to increase the temperature to speed up the rust removal.

I took a bamboo chopsticks and stirred it: There was a small amount of heat rising, and the clean and tidy kitchen was filled with a smell of vinegar. Zhang Nan was a little uncomfortable wearing a mask.

Heat the vinegar directly and then pour it in faster, but it's too much to eat like that!

o3 During the SARS period, almost all units and buildings used rice cookers with open lids to heat vinegar for fumigation and disinfection, which caused Zhang Nan to be fumigated everywhere!

Painful memories, never make that mistake.

He straightened up and said: "Well, it will take at least half an hour for such a thick patina to be bitten down. It may not be necessary to spend a whole night, it is scattered!"

Others are embarrassed to follow up, but brother-in-law Jiaguan, Nicole and Jenny, and two "landlords" and comrade cooks, plus they are stuffed in the kitchen, which is also crowded.

Zhang Nan was the first to retreat and walked through the door through the dining room to the living room. Xiang Weirong at the back motioned Tang Gui to look at the large copper plate and follow.

Nicole and Jenny were curious, and squatted down for a long time to look at this strangely shaped, but also ancient, heavy and beautiful copperware, and soon couldn't stand the pungent sour smell, and left to the living room.

Sister went back just now because Jianan was still young and needed to go to bed earlier. As for the others, even if they came back today, it was still too early to rest.

When they arrived in the living room, the two women sat down next to Zhang Nan. Andy Lu, who also went to the living room, saw the situation and felt that the chef was a little inappropriate here. They went back to the kitchen and went to accompany Tang Gui. : In fact, he can go to rest, but after a while the boss may need his own help, so embarrassed to leave.

What if the boss is looking for something in the kitchen and can't find it!

Xiang Weirong and Guan Xingquan also left first after making a round in the living room and went to Qiu Bo's dormitory.

The bodyguards just met to play poker: the soldiers in the city will also add some small chips, and it will be the Chinese New Year tomorrow to kill time.

The same goes for the old Americans, and they can play Texas Hold'em together.

Anyway, after talking for at least half an hour, I will come back later if I want to watch the excitement.

The two Nicoles here are asking what the big copper plate is.

I know it's an antique, but I don't know anything else.

"Ellen, how old is that thing?"

"Almost 28oo years ago, high-grade bronzes from the Western Zhou Dynasty in China, used by high-ranking nobles to wash their hands."

"Oh!"

The little meaning of noble or noble: Two women are not stupid, know what that era means!

Around 8oo BC, 28 centuries ago!

The Battle of Wenquan Pass, which broke out in the ancient Greek and Persian empires, was born 32 years later; Alexander the Great was born more than 400 years later; Gaius Julius Caesar only came into the world nearly 70 years later !

28oo years ago, it was said what they were doing at that time, except for China, probably only the ancient Egyptians were in the "third intermediate period", and they started to clash with the Assyrians who had established a powerful army at that time.

To put it bluntly, Babylon and ancient Egypt are fighting, the former finally beat the latter to death!

As for ancient India, then hehe...

The ancient civilization of India was only discovered in 1922. You can imagine what the ancient Indian civilization thousands of years ago left India today!

Of the four ancient civilizations, only the history, culture and people of China have been handed down, and the other three are already non-human beings!

People change from crop to crop, let alone culture.

The Chinese civilization is not the oldest in the world, but it is the only one handed down!

This is the greatest thing about Chinese civilization!

As for ancient Greece in the West, the Cretan civilization disappeared in about 14oo BC;

From 11oo BC to 1ooo BC, the Dorian invasion destroyed the Mycenae civilization, and the history of Greece entered the "dark age".

It was not until the first Olympic Games was held in 776 BC that the ancient Greek civilization began to enter a period of prosperity.

For Westerners, about 28oo years ago is a very important period: because the ancient Greek civilization, one of the main sources of Western civilization, actually started at that time, and then lasted about 65o years: 8oo BC- 146 BC.

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That era is so far away, and two American women can even imagine how honorable the owner of the utensils is to use such an exquisite piece of art as a toilet utensil in such a remote era!

I didn't ask where it came from, so I can't make it!

"The Prom of the Moulin Rouge" is hanging in front of my eyes. For two American women, it is not surprising that any unexpected artwork is taken out of the hands of their men.

No way, it is difficult for Americans to distinguish the difference between cultural relics, antiques and works of art. &1t;br>

"Ellen, why are you pouring vinegar into that big basin?"

It was Jenny that asked: Americans didn't eat rice vinegar, but sometimes they also eat fruit juice vinegar and red wine vinegar. Of course, this would be strange to Zhang Nan's behavior.

Zhang Nan didn't say the reason for doing this in the kitchen just now.

Sitting in the middle of the two beauties, I feel that the women are fragrant and smell very good, much more comfortable than the pungent vinegar smell just now!

"I am removing the patina covering the inside, which covers the text cast in the copper plate below.

This is a professional job that most people can't do. "

"Chinese characters 28oo years ago?"

"Of course it is Chinese characters! Could it be letters?" Zhang Nan scraped Jenny's nose. "It is the grandfather of the grandfather of the Chinese characters we use now...

After many evolutionary exhibitions, many characters are written differently from the present, but they are just not easy to recognize. They are Chinese characters.

And some of them are exactly the same as the writing of Chinese characters today, such as the works made..."

Nicole and Jenny are also learning Chinese, and they can still understand these: Chinese characters are currently the only highly developed morphemes that are still widely used in the world, and Western cuneiform scripts have developed mature and highly cultural morphemes in history , Egyptian holy book characters and Chinese characters in China!

The first two words are now recognized by only a few professional scholars, because they are already "dead"!

Only the Chinese characters are still there. Starting from the Shang Dynasty's oracle bone inscriptions about 13oo BC, then the Qinwen and Jinwen, then the Qin Dynasty's Xiaozhuan, and then the Han Dynasty's official changes, and the Tang Dynasty's regularization into the handwriting standard used today— -Block letters.

Chinese characters are the characters that have been used continuously for the longest time so far, and they are also the only characters that have been passed down to the present in the major character systems of the ancient times!

"It's so wonderful to know what people are doing 28oo years ago, that kind of exploration!"

Nicole smiled and said: "Understand, things are dead, but words are alive."

"That's the reason."

Zhang Nan has been chatting for a long time. At this time, he looked at his watch and said, "Almost, let's see how it is."

When I went back to the kitchen, I saw all four people were there, but none of them moved the copper plate on the floor~www.wuxiaspot.com~A Nan, the inside seemed to have changed color. "

It was brother-in-law who was talking.

Adding one of these vinegars will make the color originally red, but it will become a little turbid. There are a lot of black **** at the bottom, which is a small amount of corroded patina.

What changed is the original patina commonly known as "patina", which has been completely blackened.

"Normal, see how much you bite off."

Zhang Nan squatted down, still picked up the chopsticks he had just used, and struck a few hard strokes on the bottom of the basin, and suddenly a piece of scum was raised!

"It's still almost impossible. I guess it won't be done in three or five hours. I knew I would do it tomorrow."

The vinegar has worked, but the patina has not been completely gnawed down, so I can only continue to soak.

Zhang Nan is not like the people in some museums, who dare to soak things overnight before talking! Seeing this situation, I can only sleep until midnight tonight.