A few days ago, I wrote an article "The old man in Meixian County spent 100,000 yuan to buy a "bad pen holder", and thought he had found a treasure, what was the result? After the publication, Baidu's reading volume exceeded 120,000, and the number of headlines read also reached more than 75,000, and everyone's response was very enthusiastic. Careful readers find that the seal engraved at the bottom of the pen holder "Qing Xi Leng Bajia, Mi Feng Nian Bamboo Section, Dao Guang Nian Yang Ji" is obviously problematic. Xiling Eight Houses refers to the seal carving school of Xiling in Hangzhou in the Qing Dynasty, which is the name of posterity, and there is no name for "Xiling Eight Families" during the Daoguang years of the Qing Dynasty, and the "Xiling" in the seal is engraved as "Xi Leng", so Xie Bo's pen holder is undoubtedly imitated by posterity. Some readers said that the reason why the appearance of this pen holder looks exactly like the rotten bamboo pieces is because the pen holder is made of bamboo pieces in a circle and coated with a layer of cement slurry. I fed back the reader's message to Sheber, who knew that his pen holder was a high imitation and said that he did not regret buying the pen holder. Is the pen holder made of bamboo pieces coated with cement slurry?
In order to find out whether Sheber's pen holder is made of bamboo pieces coated with cement slurry? Is it that Xie Bo's old eyes are dizzy and blind, knowing that he has bought fake goods, but he is hindered by his face and insists that he does not regret it? In order to be responsible for the reader, I went to Xie Bo's house again, carefully examined this imitation Qing Dynasty pen holder, and took a close-up of the pen holder from different angles, enlarged and carefully studied the details of the pen holder, trying to find a satisfactory answer from it.
The pen holder looks like a bamboo piece, could it be that the bamboo piece is made of a layer of cement slurry?
It is not difficult to see from the reader's message that the bamboo fibers of Xie Bo's pen holder, the thickness transition of the cracks of the bamboo pieces and the changes in the depth of the cracks, the wormhole and the natural vascular bundle mouth exposed after the bamboo barrel at the top of the pen holder are seen open, etc. are all done exquisitely, so many people express surprise and admiration for the high similarity between the pen holder and the bamboo pieces, and even some people suspect that the pen holder is made of sawn rotten bamboo pieces in a circle, coated with a layer of cement slurry. It is normal to have such doubts, because we have never seen such a realistic purple sand pottery, so it is difficult to believe that someone can make such a realistic purple sand pottery.
After reading the reader's message, I also beat the drum in my heart, worried that I had lost my eyes last time. Because on the last National Day, I mainly went to shoot Xie Bo's imperial "Kangxi Dictionary", and it took more than an hour from the opening of the "Kangxi Dictionary" to the end of the shooting. Later, I also photographed the porcelain and silverware from Sheber's collection, and finally Sheber took out the pen holder, because Sheber was in a hurry to go to the party, and I hurriedly took a few pictures and went home, too late to look at the pen holder carefully.
In order to prevent being deceived, but also in order to be responsible for the reader, the night I saw the reader's message questioning, I called Xie Bo, and the next day I went to retake the rotten bamboo pen holder, and by the way, I also photographed the kaolin pen holder and the Tang San colored pottery figurines.
On October 19th, I went to Xie Bo's house to retake the pen holder, I shot it at various angles of front and back, left and right, up and down and diagonally, the details of the pen holder have been fully displayed, you can take a closer look, whether the cylinder is made of cement slurry inside the rotten bamboo pieces.
Bamboo pieces have its natural elasticity and toughness, and the pen holder made of purple sand is relatively hard, lacking toughness and elasticity; after the details are enlarged, we can see that the pen holder is still different from the natural bamboo piece in some places, especially after the outer side of the pen holder is enlarged, the grainy feeling of purple sand is revealed, which is not available in natural bamboo pieces. Therefore, the suspicion that the pen holder is made of cement slurry in bamboo pieces is superfluous and can be completely ruled out.
The bottom painting is full of snakes, exposing that the pen holder is an imitation, or the posterity is doing it under the guise of the reputation of the predecessor
In the center of the bottom of the purple sand pen holder there is a square Yang carved calligraphy seal, on which is engraved "Qing Xi Leng Bajia, Mi Feng Nian Bamboo Section, DaoGuang Nian Yang Ji" 15 characters, the font is neat and beautiful. Xiling Bajia refers to the qing dynasty seal carving school centered on Hangzhou Xiling, composed of ding jing, Jiang Ren, Huang Yi, Xi Gang, Chen Yuzhong, Chen Hongshou, Zhao Zhichen, Qian Song and other eight seal engravers. According to some readers, the Xiling Eight Houses were the titles of their descendants, and there was no xiling eight families at that time. Yang Fengnian is always recognized as the most famous pot-making female artist in the Qing Dynasty, and the sister of Yang Pengnian. Xie Bo's purple sand pen holder at the bottom of the "Xiling Eight" carved "leng" into "cold", exposing that this pen holder should not be a work of Yang Fengnian during the Daoguang years of the Qing Dynasty, but an imitation of posterity.
The pen holder is poured out of the cement mold, and the bottom model is a computer body?
Some readers left a message saying, "The pen holder is poured out of the cement mold, selling for 10 yuan or so, the bottom computer body, Xiling are written as Xi Leng."
First of all, the font of the bottom paragraph, the letter is not controversial. Let's first look at the picture below, the upper part of the picture below is the traditional characters typed out by the computer, and the lower part is the bottom of the pen holder, and the words of the two are indeed very similar. You may wish to carefully compare and see what are the differences between the two. I believe that careful readers will naturally understand whether the words at the bottom of the pen holder are typed by the computer.
Is the pen holder poured out of a cement mold?
Please take a closer look from all angles of the pen holder, pay attention to the thickness transition of the bamboo crack of the pen holder and the change of the depth of the crack, and then look at the mouth of the natural vascular bundle exposed after the bamboo barrel is sawn open at the top and bottom of the pen holder.
I think that if you can carefully look at the details of the various parts of the pen holder from different angles, you will naturally come to the correct conclusion, and I can say more than a few photos.
In summary, we can almost certainly say that Xie Bo's purple sand bamboo pen holder was made by posterity under the guise of Yang Fengnian, a famous female pot-making artist during the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty. It is difficult to verify who the pen holder came from, but this is actually not the most important, the most important thing is that the production process of the pen holder is rare in the world. Therefore, although the pen holder is fake, its collection value is still unquestionable. Just like the previous news reports on counterfeit Nike shoes produced in a certain place in Fujian, the quality is better than the shoes produced by Nike's original factory and durable, it is no wonder that Xie Bo knows that the purple sand pen holder is a high imitation of posterity and has no regrets.