Chu Chen smiled faintly, then skipped over the "freshly unearthed" bronzes before him and looked over the things beside them.
As it turned out, although most of the items at the stall were fakes, there were still some good things. For example, the bronze wine ewer from the Bronze Official Kiln currently in Chu Chen's hand.
The Bronze Official Kiln was a famous Tang-dynasty kiln and a local kiln of Xingcheng. Its products were mainly celadon, with a wide variety of household utensils.
The Bronze Official Kiln's glaze colors included celadon, yellow, and white. It also pioneered underglaze painting and painted decoration on porcelain. Brown or green spots were used beneath celadon glaze to form geometric patterns, while clouds and geometric designs were painted beneath white or yellow-green glaze. This had left a bold and brilliant mark on the history of ceramics.
A wine ewer was an ancient drinking vessel. This one had an outward-flaring rim, a constricted neck, sloping shoulders, a curved body that narrowed toward the bottom, and a ring foot. One side of the body had a short spout, while the opposite side had a curved dragon-shaped handle, with dragon-shaped grips symmetrically arranged on both sides of the handle.
The body looked rather dirty, making it difficult to judge its condition without cleaning it. However, that applied only to other people. Under Chu Chen's special ability, he could see that the entire body was covered in pale yellow glaze, while the inner and outer rim, neck, body, and curved handle were decorated with deep brown glaze.
Celadon with brown splashes was a common decorative style among Bronze Official Kiln porcelain. Celadon-and-brown-splash wine ewers had elegant shapes, and their decorative patterns often possessed an exotic flavor. They were usually made for export to West Asia and Southeast Asian