The Empress's Transmigration into a Magnate's Wife

Chapter 527

Mina's face turned pale and then flushed as she stared at Rong Dai furiously, wanting to scold her very much. But Huo Ersi had already come over, forcing her to shut her mouth.

"Mrs. Huo, did you just say there was a problem with this batch of artifacts?"

Huo Ersi's face did not have its usual gentleness. On the contrary, it was a bit cold, revealing anger. But this anger was not directed at Rong Dai.

Rong Dai nodded. A confident smile appeared on her beautiful face as she bent down to take out a celadon ware from the box. It was the same one Mina had picked up just now.

With a loud bang, she directly smashed the celadon ware on the ground. The porcelain pieces shattered instantly with a crisp sound, immediately drawing the attention of everyone in the hall.

"Are you crazy?!"

Seeing her actually smash such a good-looking celadon like that, Mina trembled with anger!

Huo Ersi couldn't help frowning either. There was already some dissatisfaction in his eyes towards Rong Dai, but he didn't say it out loud. He just hesitantly asked her, "Why did you do that, Mrs. Huo?"

Rong Dai looked at him with a confident and calm expression on her beautiful face, "No reason, just because this celadon ware is fake."

"Impossible! You just said you didn't understand, how do you know it's fake?!"

Hearing her say that, Mina immediately refuted her, wishing she could tear apart Rong Dai's mouth!

How could this Eastern woman be so detestable!?

Rong Dai sneered disdainfully at her, speaking mockingly, "When I said I didn't understand, that was to give you face."

"We Chinese women are proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting. Appraising such antiques is simply child's play."

The number of antiques and cultural relics I have played with and used exceeds what your ancestors eighteen generations combined had. How could I not have such basic discernment?

Rong Dai scornfully sneered in her heart. In her previous life, she had seen and been bestowed with many such objects. Over time, she naturally grasped the essentials.

"The workmanship of this celadon ware is so shoddy that calling it a fake is giving it too much credit!"

She said coldly, then bent down to pick up a piece of porcelain from the ground and placed it in front of everyone.

"This celadon vase is an imitation of the Song Dynasty Ge kiln wares. According to research, the characteristics of the Ge kiln wares are obvious."

"First, the crackles. The iron wire and gold thread, iron mouth and foot, because the Ge kiln contains a large amount of iron minerals, this forms such unique patterns."

"The big crackles are iron wires, the small ones are gold threads. The big and small crackles together are called 'scrappy cracked skin'. The cracks are dense but not sparse, curved but not straight."

"This celadon did quite well on this point."

Rong Dai explained calmly. In her previous life, she had seen and used too many of these objects, so even though there were only a few hundred surviving Ge kiln wares in this life, it did not affect her appraisal.

"Second, the glaze color. The glaze color is celadon, uneven in depth, with pink celadon, moon white, ash grey, celadon yellow and more colors. Due to kiln changes, the glaze often shows two or more colors."

"The glaze surface is not smooth, but has a layer of gloss like butter oil. The glaze is relatively deep, turbid and not translucent. The glaze thickness is uneven."

"This celadon is extremely poor in this aspect, with the colors too consistent."

She casually picked up another piece of porcelain to compare. No matter how she displayed them, the colors of the two porcelain pieces remained the same.

"Third, the foot. Due to the special clay composition, the foot ring of Ge kiln wares should have narrow straight edges, deep foot interior and shallow short foot exterior."

"Fourth, the most recognizable feature to identify real Ge kiln wares is pearls and clustered bubbles."

As Rong Dai spoke, her gaze swept disdainfully and coldly at Mina, whose face had turned pale with panic.

If your firing skill isn't up to standard, don't pretend to deliver the genuine article. Who can you blame?

"This is the most amazing part of the Ge kiln wares. The bubbles in the Ge kiln glaze are not easy to imitate, because they cannot be artificially controlled during firing."

"The pearls refer to the fine bubbles inside the glaze of Ge kiln wares, like tiny droplets of water, covering the interior and exterior walls of the vessel."

"The bubbles are larger than the pearls. Their arrangement is relatively tidy rather than interspersed randomly. They are generally arranged in a circle on the interior wall, like a slightly thick ring."

"Although this celadon broke, from the cross section of the shards, I do not see any bubbles. The glaze surface is too flat. This is the biggest flaw."

"Miss Mina, am I right?"

She handed the porcelain shard to Huo Ersi and brushed her hands. Her gaze was cold as she looked back at Mina and asked.