What made Yang Jing and Wang Jiazan a little dumbfounded was that there were so many people coming with Cai Yi. There were more than 30 people, young and old, filling up the small room to begin with, and there were still people who hadn't squeezed in.
"I'm so sorry. When Old Lu saw that I wanted to prepare that special solvent, he insisted that I tell him everything. As a result, when I told him about your bottle, this big mouth told everything out. As a result, everyone in the hospital who had nothing to do came here..." Cai Yi apologized to Yang Jing in a low voice while fiddling with the bottles and jars.
Of course Yang Jing would not say anything, Wang Jiazan smiled and asked in a low voice: "Uncle Cai, are your staff here idle all day long?"
"Nonsense!" Cai Yi glared at him, then lowered his voice to the minimum and said, "Just understand it yourself, and don't make any noise when you get out!"
Wang Jiazan and Yang Jing looked at each other and smiled quietly.
The Palace Museum is very large and has many functional departments. After all, it is the largest museum in the country and a formal vice-ministerial unit. The director of the museum is usually the deputy minister of the Ministry of Culture, and his level is quite high.
Just like Cai Yi, although he is the director of the Ancient Porcelain Research Institute, he is a senior official at the department level. However, the vast majority of employees in the museum are employed by public institutions rather than civil servants.
The museum has a lot of employees. There are hundreds of internal and external security guards who can come into contact with tourists, not to mention the internal staff like Cai Yi who specialize in researching and restoring cultural relics. The museum has more than a hundred experts with the title of associate researcher and above. Others include business department staff who are in charge of the warehouse keys and curatorial staff, as well as people from departments such as credit, education, journals, and service centers, plus the students taught by those experts. There are so many people.
It is like the people who come to Cai Yi's office now, all of them are experts from the institute and their graduate students or doctoral students. When they heard that a specially forged Dakaimen Qianlong blue and white porcelain had appeared, they all came over to see how this porcelain was forged, and also wanted to see how Director Cai removed the disguise of the porcelain.
This situation is extremely rare even in the Palace Museum, and the fact that Director Cai was able to do it himself is enough to show that the grade of this porcelain is very high.
Even if Cai Yi looked at the entire Palace Museum, he was one of the best in ancient porcelain. There weren't many porcelains that he could personally handle.
After fiddling with it for a while, Cai Yi said to Yang Jing, "Yangzi, this situation today is very rare even in our museum. I would like to take this opportunity to explain it to the students. The things passed down by our ancestors need to be passed on by them. The more knowledge they know about this, the better."
Yang Jing smiled and nodded, saying, "Uncle Cai, just make the decision based on what you think. In fact, I also hope that your students can learn more knowledge from you."
Hearing Yang Jing's agreement, Cai Yi smiled, stood up, clapped his hands and said loudly: "Everyone, yesterday I had the honor of seeing a counterfeit authentic Qianlong blue and white porcelain in the hands of a younger generation. This porcelain itself is indeed a genuine piece, but it was counterfeited artificially in a turbulent era in order to protect this precious blue and white porcelain. I have seen such porcelain once more than 20 years ago..."
Cai Yi immediately explained to the people in the room the story of the Qianlong tea-leaf glaze Ruyi handle olive vase that he encountered when he went to Jinling to attend the ancient porcelain exchange meeting in 1994. This incident was considered a grand event even in the expert circle, and although several ancient porcelain experts in the room had heard of it, they had never experienced it in person. As for the students, they had never even heard of it.
"Now, this Qianlong blue and white five-bat-holding Shouguan ear vase is almost identical to the Qianlong tea-leaf glaze Ruyi ear and halberd-protruding olive vase. You can take this opportunity to observe and learn from it. Xiao Liu, you take a look at this vase first. Xiao Zhao, Xiao Wu, Xiao Li, and the rest of you, take a look at this vase together. But you have to tell me the characteristics of this vase."
Hearing Cai Yi's words, a young man about 27 or 28 years old, wearing black frameless glasses stood up, put on gloves, picked up the bottle and looked at it carefully, and several other young men also came over.
In fact, Cai Yi’s on-the-spot teaching method is a bit bad. After all, he has already revealed the authenticity of the bottle, so the students will naturally be biased.
But there is nothing that can be done about it. Who let Cai Yi’s colleague, who was so talkative, tell this matter out in advance?
However, with this bottle, these students can witness with their own eyes how a genuine blue and white porcelain is counterfeited and how it is unmasked. This is also a rare learning experience for these students.
These students are all knowledgeable people. After all, to be able to learn from these experts, their own level of antique identification and restoration must be very high, otherwise these experts would not have taught them.
This on-site learning lasted for nearly two hours. More than 20 students looked at the bottle one by one and talked about it again and again, so it naturally took a lot of time.
The big gathering at the Ancient Porcelain Research Institute even attracted the attention of the director. The biggest boss of the Palace Museum happened to be working in the museum today. After hearing about the on-site teaching activities, he also rushed over to observe.
However, this big boss came quietly and left quietly, with a smile on his face.
After the big boss left, the atmosphere at the scene became more lively. In this situation, Cai Yi began to teach everyone at the scene how to mix the solvent. This kind of counterfeiting technique is actually a skill that these ancient porcelain experts and those future ancient porcelain experts should master. As the saying goes, more skills are better than less, and learning more is good for everyone.
To prepare that kind of solvent, a total of seven or eight different raw materials are needed. After the solvent was prepared, Cai Yi put the Qianlong blue and white five-bat-holding Shouguan ear vase into the basin of solvent in front of everyone, allowing the solvent to soak the entire bottle.
After soaking for about twenty minutes, Cai Yi took out the bottle wearing gloves. Before he wiped it with a dry cloth, he could see with the naked eye that a lot of oily substances were slowly dripping down the surface of the bottle.
After Cai Yi wiped the bottle inside and out with a clean cloth, a dazzling piece of Qianlong blue and white porcelain suddenly appeared in front of everyone.
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