Judging from the various characteristics displayed by this blue-and-white Tanhua Ji: Excursion Enlightenment Character Story Bottle, it should have been a fine piece of Wanli blue-and-white porcelain. But the moment he saw it, Chu Chen was certain that it was a fake through and through.
Actually, it was not just Chu Chen. Of the people present, only Su Yilin, who could not see the object clearly, and Yuan Hongjian, whose experience was still limited, could not identify its authenticity at a glance.
Although Su Yilin could not immediately determine whether it was genuine because of his eyesight, once he took the blue-and-white bottle into his hands for another appraisal, he soon sensed that something was wrong.
Su Yilin let out a long sigh and said, "Ah, I really was careless. I can't even identify something like this anymore!"
Seeing that everyone else had noticed the problem with the blue-and-white bottle, Yuan Hongjian eagerly asked, "Teacher Chu, what exactly is wrong with this blue-and-white bottle? Why do I feel that there's nothing wrong with it, whether in terms of the body and glaze or the painting techniques?"
Chu Chen smiled faintly. "Elder Yuan, let me ask you something. What kind of blue pigment was used on this bottle?"
Yuan Hongjian immediately replied, "The blue-and-white coloring is richly vivid with reddish-purple tones, so it should be Huiqing material."
Chu Chen continued, "Then do you know when Huiqing material was used?"
Yuan Hongjian frowned and thought for a moment before saying, "Huiqing material was an imported raw material used by the Imperial Kiln Factory during the late Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty, as well as during the Jiajing, Longqing, and Wanli periods. It was not until the twenty-fourth year of Wanli, when the Huiqing material was exhausted, that they began using Zhe