Chapter 375: Testing
While walking upstairs, Zheng Zheng swept the people in the auction house and asked Liang Wenyan, "Isn't Mr. Liang Wangliang here today?" ”
Liang Wenyan should be Liang Wang's elder in the Liang family, the last time Zheng Zheng came to see Liang Wenyan, Liang Wang was with him, and now that Liang Wenyan has arrived at the auction house, it is a bit unreasonable for Liang Wang not to follow Liang Wenyan. Zheng Zheng swept around and didn't see Liang Wang, so he asked.
Liang Wenyan was slightly stunned by the question, and then smiled: "He still has some things to deal with, so he can't always stay in the auction house." Besides, today is just borrowing this place, and it doesn't matter if he's not there. ”
Zheng Zheng nodded and didn't say anything, but he had another understanding of Liang Wenyan's statement in his heart: It's hard to say whether Liang Wang really has something to do, and it can't be said that Liang Wenyan spent Liang Wang. Although I met with the representative of the client this time, the client's intention to do this is also obvious, that is, he doesn't want this matter to be related to him, and the news that this representative who is close to him is involved in this matter cannot be leaked casually. Liang Wang is not a core figure in the Liang family, and he is not qualified to know about this matter, so he was pushed aside, which is reasonable.
Going up to the second floor, the two walked into the conference room. In the conference room, a middle-aged man sat with a one-foot-wide cardboard box in his hand. This middle-aged man has gray hair, and he looks like an Asian, so it's hard to say which country he is.
However, as soon as Liang Wenyan spoke, Zheng Zheng immediately had a score in his heart: "Mr. Liu, this is Mr. Zheng Zheng, Mr. Zheng, this is the representative of the client, Mr. Liu." ”
Zheng Zheng nodded to the middle-aged man and said, "Hello Mr. Liu." ”
"Hello Mr. Zheng, please be seated. The middle-aged man looked at Zheng Zheng, and opened his mouth to Chinese in a straight and round manner: "My name is Liu Yuanshu...... I heard that Mr. Zheng, you are from China?"
"Yes. Zheng Zheng found a seat not far from the middle-aged man and sat down, nodding.
Liu Yuanshu nodded and said: "The name of the Zheng family, I also heard about it when I was in China before, but unfortunately I have never visited it, I have only heard of the Zheng family's ability, but I didn't have the opportunity to see it, it's a pity." Later, I came to Australia, and I haven't been back for more than ten years, let alone have a chance. I didn't expect to be able to meet the children of the Zheng family today, it's really hard to say about this kind of thing. ”
Zheng Zheng nodded and said New Year's greetings: "If Mr. Liu wants to come as a guest, the Zheng family will definitely welcome him." ”
"Haha...... I will go if I have the chance. Liu Yuanshu nodded with a smile, then looked at Zheng Zheng and said, "Mr. Zheng, you are a child of the Zheng family, thinking that you should be very accomplished in antique identification, right?"
Zheng Zheng said in his heart, "The main topic is here", his face was not in a hurry, and he smiled: "Mr. Liu has a good reputation, I just learned a little bit of skin, and I can't talk about any attainments." ”
Liu Yuanshu waved his hand and said, "Mr. Zheng is too modest...... When I came today, I brought something over and wanted Mr. Zheng to help me take a look, I don't know if it's convenient?"
Zheng Zheng nodded and smiled: "Willing to serve." ”
Liu Yuanshu smiled and nodded, and pushed the box in his hand over.
Zheng Zheng stood up and took the box. After opening it, Zheng Zheng was a little stunned for a while, and then he sighed a little emotionally, and said in his heart that this luck is really interesting......
Instead of an antique, the box contained a pile of blue and white porcelain shards, the largest being the size of a matchbox and the smallest being about the size of a cigarette's sponge head. At first glance, the pile of fragments must be about seventy or eighty pieces up.
This pile of fragments reminded Zheng Zheng of the previous acquisition and resale to Zheng Bei, but in the end, he inadvertently pitted Zheng Bei's "blue and white porcelain TV". And now I have encountered the task of identifying antique fragments, how similar is this to the previous thing?
Looking at the fragments in the box, Zheng Zheng turned to Liu Yuanshu and asked, "...... is this?"
Even if it is an appraisal, Zheng Zheng must first know what the name of this pile of fragments is, so that he can start with it. Although Liu Yuanshu is an interviewer who comes to interview Zheng Zheng, he still has to provide this necessary information.
Liu Yuan said: "When I received it, the seller said that it was a bottle of Yuan Qinghua, but unfortunately it was broken, and the restoration was very problematic, so it was sold at a low price. At that time, I bought it casually and didn't take it too seriously, and there was no one in Australia who was good at restoring antiques, so I kept it there. Today, I heard that Mr. Zheng is a child of the Zheng family, so I brought this thing for Mr. Zheng to see. I don't want to restore them, I just want Mr. Zheng to do an appraisal of these fragments. ”
Zheng Zheng nodded, didn't say much, picked up a small piece of fragment and looked at it a few times, frowned, wrote down the general shape of this fragment, and picked up other fragments.
After watching it for four or five minutes, Zheng Zheng put the fragments in his hand back into the box and sat down. He closed his eyes and frowned slightly, no one knowing what he was thinking.
Liang Wenyan and Liu Yuanshu on the side waited for five minutes, Liang Wenyan couldn't sit still, coughed lightly, gently tapped his fingers on the table, and asked, "Mr. Zheng...... How's it going?"
Zheng Zheng opened his eyes, smiled at Liang Wenyan and Liu Yuanshu with a little apology, and said: "There is already a result...... He looked at Liu Yuanshu, shook his head slightly, and said: "It's a pity that these blue and white porcelain pieces are fake, not the real Yuan blue and white porcelain, you have bought a fake." ”
Liu Yuanshu glanced at Zheng Zheng with interest and said, "Regardless of whether it is true or not, Mr. Zheng's vision is really eye-opening for me...... The identification of these Yuan blue and white porcelain pieces can actually see the results with the naked eye in such a short time...... The children of the Zheng family really live up to their reputation and admire it. ”
This Liu Yuan's words are good, but the meaning in this is not good. The meaning of his words is clearly that Zheng Zheng made a conclusion just by looking at it with the naked eye, which is not professional at all. It is troublesome enough to identify the whole piece of Yuan blue and white porcelain, let alone identify these fragments, which is more difficult. Zheng Zheng came to this conclusion, and the result is really untrustworthy.
When Liang Wenyan heard this, he immediately glanced at Zheng Zheng a little nervously, slapped his eyes at him, and motioned for him to bring this field back.
Zheng Zheng naturally knew what Liu Yuanshu meant by this, and he also saw Liang Wenyan's eyes very clearly. He shook his head slightly, rubbed his temples that were a little swollen, and said, "You are right, it is difficult to identify this kind of mutilated fragment without the help of other instruments, and it is also a very laborious thing to see with the naked eye." But everyone's time is so precious, so why waste everyone's precious time...... I used a more clever method to determine whether these broken porcelain pieces are Yuan blue and white porcelain vases. ”
Picking up a piece of fragments, Zheng Zheng said: "There are so many fragments, it is indeed very troublesome to restore them, and if there is a problem with the restoration procedure, it will be scrapped." However, as long as you memorize the general shape of each piece and put it together in your mind, you can also reconstruct a rough idea. ”
"I wrote down the shapes of the pieces and put them together in my mind to get a rough shape. It is from this general shape that I can tell that these fragments are not fragments of the Yuan blue and white porcelain vase, because ......"
Zheng Zheng put down the fragment in his hand, clapped his hands, and said, "Because there is no such statue in the statue of the Yuan blue and white porcelain vase...... If you really want to say it, the combination of these pieces should be called 'Yuan blue and white porcelain hot water bottle liner' is more appropriate. ”
Zheng Zheng knew that this interview was directly related to whether he could participate in this event, so he had to show some excellent skills to calm the scene. If you check these porcelain pieces one by one, I don't know how much time it will take, and it will be a little worse to suppress this Liu Yuanshu. Therefore, Zheng Zheng used this method.
It is said that this method is a trick, but it is not a very clever way. Just memorizing the shape of the pieces and then putting them together in your mind to make a rough idea is a tricky task. This requires the operator to have a strong memory ability, but also to have an understanding of the statue of the blue and white porcelain vase of the Yuan Dynasty, otherwise there is no specific idea to piece together those pieces.
It may seem easier to do this than to use professional testing equipment to inspect the fragments piece by piece, but those who understand the truth know that this is the most difficult way to do it. I haven't been in the antique industry for some years, and I don't have enough knowledge to do this.
The reason why Zheng Zheng played this dazzling skill was to take the lead and let this Liu Yuanshu pay attention to himself, so that there would be no hindrance to this matter.
Seeing that Liu Yuanshu was surprised but didn't speak, Zheng Zheng continued: "After I saw the number and size of these fragments, as well as the patterns on these fragments, I felt that there was something wrong. Because the Yuan blue and white porcelain with this pattern did not make such a large pattern, and the statue has such a large porcelain vase, it will not have this pattern on it. And these fragments basically do not have a particularly large arc, and most of them are slightly arced, which is also very wrong. Because the blue and white porcelain vases of the Yuan Dynasty are mostly thin-necked and wide-bellied, or short-necked and big-bellied, there is no statue straight up and down. ”
"So after I looked at the pieces, I pieced them together in my mind. The shape of the patchwork is not any kind of bottle in the Yuan blue and white porcelain vase, if it is really said, it is ninety percent similar to the shape of the inner tank of the hot water bottle. Therefore, even if I didn't look carefully at the authenticity of these porcelain pieces, I could judge that these fragments were fragments after a fake was broken, and they had nothing to do with the real Yuan blue and white porcelain. ”
After speaking, Zheng Zheng nodded to Liu Yuanshu and sat down by himself.
Liang Wenyan looked at Zheng Zheng, and then looked at Liu Yuanshu with a nervous face, looking very worried about what Liu Yuanshu would say next.