Yu Yao thought about it, the autumn auction preview is over today, with an interval of one day, and the shooting will officially start the day after tomorrow.

The autumn auction is divided into several sessions, a total of three days, and my two things, both in the same "miscellaneous", are the last day.

At the same time, since Cai Pengxi promised to take the Warring States Bronze Dun, he had to go and see this scene. This bronze piece is going to be auctioned on the first day.

It is impossible for Zhang Yutang to give a reply this afternoon, but it is also impossible to be too late, because he arranged his own arrangement to say that the main owner left, so tomorrow is the most likely.

"I didn't expect him to suddenly pick up another rhino horn cup. In this way, let's think about it separately today, and have breakfast together tomorrow morning, and meet each other?" Yu Yao said to Lao Zhou.

"Okay!" Lao Zhou nodded.

"By the way, I haven't asked, how much did you spend on this Han mirror?"

"One hundred thousand!" Lao Zhou said that this was a little angry, "The Chongzhen pen holder that we got together, I found two or three buyers but didn't succeed, and it hasn't come out yet! ”

"Zou Suo is not in a hurry to find that thing, let's find it slowly. As for this Han mirror, if it is a complete product, although it is not a head mold and the craftsmanship is average, it can be worth about 500,000 yuan. ”

"But if it is split in half, no one will want five thousand!"

"It's not half, and it's hard to see the crack!"

"Pull it down! I can't hold it again, but I used to 'shoulder morality with iron shoulders and write articles with skillful hands.'" ”

"I didn't let you get a fool, I made your thoughts come true, and I felt more comfortable. However, a journalist with a good conscience like you changed careers, which is really a loss for the newspaper!"

"Alright, don't bury me. I'm leaving. ”

Lao Zhou packed up his things and then took his leave.

sent Lao Zhou out, and the takeaway also came, and Yu Yao was hungry at this time.

He put down the takeaway, lit a cigarette first, and thought about this Zhang Yutang, he had a very wild time, antiques and things, most of them were popular goods, and imitations were easy to find. This Han mirror and rhino horn cup, generally play very knowledgeable, but not easy to deceive.

The climbing technique of this Han mirror is first-class, and I don't know what the rhino horn cup will look like.

Zhang Yutang was very adaptable, he didn't answer the phone at that time, he thought of a countermeasure and then called back; he didn't want to be alone, but Lao Zhou revealed that his friend was not bad for money, so he immediately connected the rhino horn cup, and also deduced that the goods would leave Jiangzhou and leave the back road first.

To deal with this kind of person, the general bureau is not good, and this is to buy his things, and it is even more difficult to get back 100,000 yuan.

Yu Yao pondered for a while, and had no clue for a while, so he ate the meal first.

After eating, he sat in the store, picked up his mobile phone and looked at the circle of friends, and saw Pu Jie's famous gun avatar, Yu Yao couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.

Since this Yutang road is wild, you might as well give him a wilder one!

After making up his mind, Yu Yao began to sort it out······

Zhang Yutang called Lao Zhou in the evening, about ten o'clock tomorrow morning. Lao Zhou took the initiative to propose a teahouse, and Zhang Yutang did not object.

The next morning, Yu Yao and Lao Zhou had breakfast together again and summed it up. At ten o'clock in the morning, we came to the reserved teahouse private room.

Zhang Yutang arrived at ten o'clock, Yu Yao looked at him, he looked more wilted, and there was a smile on his face, but he was also looking at Yu Yao, and there was still a hint of cunning in his eyes.

Lao Zhou introduced each other, but he was very vague about both sides, when he introduced Zhang Yutang, he said that he was Lao Zhang, and when he introduced Yu Yao, he didn't even have a surname, saying that he was "my friend, I don't like to show my head".

Zhang Yutang seemed to accept it completely, and there was nothing unusual.

The waiter served tea, and Lao Zhou explained it casually, saying that there was something important to talk about, and there was no need to come in again.

"Lao Zhang, when will the owner come?" Lao Zhou took a sip of tea.

"Oh, he's been very busy these days, so he can't come! I wrote him a note, put on his ID card, and gave me carte blanche to do things!"

Lao Zhou nodded, but said in his heart, it turns out that there is no partner, eat alone.

Yu Yao lit a cigarette and said expressionlessly, "Then let's look at things first!"

"Good. Teacher Zhou is right, what a happy person!" Zhang Yutang smiled, opened his bag, and took out a small square brocade box.

After putting the brocade box on the side of the tea table, he also took out a pair of disposable gloves from his bag, "The owner said that this is a rhino horn cup in the Ming Dynasty, which is easy to fade, so let's wear gloves." ”

He was right. Since the Ming Dynasty, many rhino horn cups have been dyed with a dyeing process, in order to be bright and beautiful, and natural plant dyes are mostly used. At the time, it may not have faded, but today, many of them do. Of course, there are also unstained ones.

Yu Yao nodded, didn't say much, put on gloves, opened the brocade box, and directly picked up the rhino horn cup and looked at it.

The body of the cup is reddish-brown, and it does fade slightly.

The shape is very simple, it is a short straight cup. It's just that the mouth is slightly larger than the waist, and there is a slight curvature in the mouth. Flat bottom.

Generally speaking, the whole rhino horn will be made into a knight cup, with a wide mouth and a small bottom. And the small cups similar to this shape are mostly intercepted in one section.

Although the shape of this cup is simple and the volume is not large, the carving on the outer wall is very outstanding.

The outside of the mouth of the cup and the foot are shallowly carved with cloud patterns, and the body of the cup is full of bas-relief. There are mountains and forests, thatched huts by the stream, before the thatched huts, there is a small bridge to cross the stream, and in the open space, there is a stone platform, and there are two people playing on the stone platform.

In the blank space under a mountain stone, a square seal is engraved: Jiang Lieqing system.

Objectively speaking, the carving of this cup is really not weak, although it is certainly not as good as Jiang Lieqing's genuine product, but the knife technique and charm are still in place.

But Yu Yao didn't need to study the carving anymore, and he had already judged that this was a fake!

Because the material used to make this cup is not rhino horn at all!

It's the black donkey's hooves.

This black donkey's hooves, in addition to the legend that can restrain the "big zongzi" and deal with the danger of the ancient tomb, is also the best raw material for imitating rhino horn.

There is a key point in identifying rhino horns, which is caviar patterns. The rhino horn is a bamboo silk pattern when looking at the vertical pattern, but from the cross-sectional point of view, the top of the fiber is dense, like a fish egg, so it is called caviar pattern.

The caviar pattern is not a horn or horn, but a horse's hoove. The black donkey's hooves, or the "nails" of the black donkey, are closer in color and texture than the caviar pattern.

Of course, the black donkey's hooves and rhino horns are not the same thing after all, and there are still differences. The caviar pattern of the donkey's hooves is a little sunken, while the rhino horns are prominent, and the donkey's hooves have a fishy smell after rubbing, but the rhino horns have a unique fragrance.

Therefore, if you want to use the hooves of a black donkey to imitate rhino horns, you have to soak them in a special potion. After treatment, the fishy smell is gone, the fiber head can also expand, and the caviar pattern will be more prominent, more realistic.

How to make potion potion, it is estimated that each family has its own recipe, of course Yu Yao does not know. But this one, the level is undoubtedly extremely high, not only does it have no fishy smell, the caviar pattern is distinctive, and it is also a little faint aroma.

Moreover, the cup-making process and relief knife work are all superior, and they have gone through a series of processes such as ancient dyeing, meticulous aging, pulping treatment, etc., which are very confusing.

I don't know where Zhang Yutang got it, and the cost must not be low.

It's just a pity that it ran into Yu Yao.