Chapter 391: Xibei Goods
Meng Zitao thought that the security guard at the door had not been checked, and felt that the security here was a little lax. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 But when everyone got out of the car and was about to walk to the door of the warehouse, and noticed that there were several guards waiting there, Meng Zitao knew that he was taking it for granted.
This time the inspection was more strict, and he also took an instrument for inspecting metal utensils, which made Meng Zitao a little lucky, if he hadn't listened to Zheng Zongxian's warning yesterday, and before leaving, let the army put away the gun, otherwise, it would be really a bit troublesome to get to this point.
After passing the inspection, everyone entered the warehouse together, and after entering, Meng Zitao and others found that in the middle of the warehouse, a long table was made with a number of chairs, and the first person had already chosen his own position and sat around the long table.
At this time, there were already nearly twenty people sitting at the long table, but basically one person either brought a palm master or a bodyguard, and after all, there were only less than ten people who participated in the competition.
However, Meng Zitao didn't know these people, and after listening to Xu Jianwei's introduction, he learned that among these people, in addition to the famous characters in the antique industry in Yingdu and the surrounding cities, there are also two big bosses who are interested in antiques.
When everyone saw Xu Jianwei coming, many of them got up to greet him, and Xu Jianwei also responded positively, chatting and laughing with a few people.
Meng Zitao and Dajun stood beside Xu Jianwei, only two or three people looked a little surprised, and the others didn't care about them, and no one came to talk to them.
After a while, Xu Jianwei found a few places and sat down with Meng Zitao and Dajun and his bodyguards, and then everyone waited.
Meng Zitao sat in a fairly high position, and the first person sitting on their side was a middle-aged man with an indifferent expression, who looked relatively ordinary.
may have seen Meng Zitao's curiosity, Xu Jianwei whispered a brief introduction to several representative figures for him.
For example, the man sitting in the first place is named Liu Yiping, don't look at him as ordinary, but in fact, he is one of the best figures in the business world of Yingdu, and it is said that his personal assets have tens of billions, of course, this is a legend for everyone, and no one knows how much money he has.
Meng Zitao nodded, it is indeed natural for such a character to sit in the first place.
In addition, sitting opposite Liu Yiping was an old man in his fifties and sixties, the old man was wearing a Chinese-style dress, his hair was gray, his face was rarely wrinkled, and he looked well maintained. This person is one of the leading figures in the antique industry in Yingdu, named Wang Youli, and it is said that there are countless precious collections.
When Xu Jianwei's introduction was almost over, a few more people came, and then Meng Zitao saw a man with dark skin who almost thought he was a foreigner walking to the table.
In addition to the man's dark belly, his eyes are very eye-catching, giving people a more evil feeling, and it is not difficult to guess that it should be the black cat that Zheng Zong wants to get rid of first.
The black cat was followed by several bodyguards, who first greeted everyone, and then asked the bodyguards to bring each of them a bottle of mineral water.
"Okay, there are a lot of things today, time is pressing, I won't talk nonsense, let's still have the same rules as before, let's start now......"
Speaking of this, the black cat clapped his hands, and a bodyguard next to him opened a box, took out two antiques one after another, and put them on the table.
The long table is nearly 20 meters long, and nearly 30 people sit on both sides, which is quite spacious.
The black cat handed over the antiques to Liu Yiping and Wang Youli respectively, and the two began to appraise them, and when they were appraised, they passed on the things to the next one.
Although it was night, the lights in the warehouse were still very bright, and with the tools that everyone brought, it would not be easy to make a mistake under normal circumstances, but the veterans were still as cautious as possible.
Due to time constraints, not many people come, and not everyone is interested in every antique, the speed is relatively fast.
Taking advantage of everyone's identification, the black cat asked people to distribute a bill-like thing, Meng Zitao opened it and saw that the words printed on the paper were relatively simple, in addition to the serial number of the lot, there was also the price.
Some people may think it is strange, isn't this an auction? That's right, this is really not an auction, the way of buying antiques here is in the form of a hidden mark, and whoever gives the highest price in the end is whoever's.
As for whether it will suffer because of this, think about the jade public market, everyone will know. Because everyone doesn't know who has taken a fancy to their favorite antiques, and they don't know how much the other party has paid. In this way, in order to increase the probability of winning the bid, the buyer will of course write a higher price.
Although the people on the scene are all elites in the industry, and the price will only be set within a certain range and will not exceed the market price, the origin of these antiques has more or less problems, and the normal transaction price is lower than the market price.
Now that the transaction price can be infinitely close to the market price, and may even be higher than the market price, what is there to be dissatisfied with?
Moreover, there is another advantage of doing this, everyone will not have conflicts because of too fierce competition in the auction process, so as not to cause extraneous branches.
Getting back to the point, everyone at the scene either appreciated it by themselves, or asked the palm master to help identify it, and soon it was the next one's turn.
When it was Meng Zitao's turn, Xu Jianwei said with a smile: "Brother, I will rely on you today, if you think it is feasible, it will be feasible." If you like it, just tell me directly. ”
Meng Zitao smiled, didn't say anything modest, and picked up the object to identify it.
Liu Yiping, who was a little bored, noticed this scene and was a little surprised, could it be that this young man is still a palm-eyed master, and this Xu Jianwei is too bold, right?
As mentioned earlier, the most important thing in the antique industry is eyesight, and this can only be obtained by long-term accumulation, so the experts of antiques are basically people of some age, and they have not heard of someone inviting a young man in his twenties to be a palm master.
Not to mention that Liu Yiping felt strange, other people who noticed this scene also had similar thoughts.
Meng Zitao didn't care what they thought, he observed intently.
The first thing is the unearthed vessel, which is a wrong silver bronze bird-shaped top ornament in the Warring States period, which is exquisitely shaped, exquisite workmanship, and the thing is real, just because of the preservation relationship, the value is about 80,000.
"How's that?" Xu Jianwei asked.
Meng Zitao gave a gesture of yes, and Xu Jianwei asked people to pass things to the next one.
Seeing that Xu Jianwei really took Mencius's conclusions as the main thing, Liu Yiping felt even more incredible, Xu Jianwei believed in this young palm-eye master so much?
In fact, Meng Zitao also asked Xu Jianwei this question, and Xu Jianwei replied that he believed in Zheng Zongxian, since Zheng Zongxian said that he was powerful, there would definitely be no problem?
But obviously, Meng Zitao didn't believe Xu Jianwei's words, he felt that even if Xu Jianwei didn't have much to do with the black cat, he must have investigated him, otherwise, how could anyone trust others so easily?
Not to mention Liu Yiping's doubts, after half a ring, another antique passed to Meng Zitao, this is a porcelain vase, belonging to the Northern Song Dynasty Xingyao, the thing is also genuine, and the value is similar to the bronze just now.
After everyone has appraised it, the black cat motions for everyone to start writing down their own prices.
At this time, everyone pretended to write down the label and price, even if they didn't want it, they wrote it, this was done to confuse the public, everyone had some bad taste in their hearts, and wanted to make others pay a little more money, as for their friends, there was always a way to inform.
After everyone wrote the price, they tore off the paper, left the stub, and handed it to the black cat's bodyguard, and then continued to take out the next two antiques.
Meng Zitao didn't expect that what the black cat took out next was a pair of heavy weapons, Tang San's painted pottery horse warriors.
Tang Sancai must have known many people, at the beginning, when a large number of discoveries, people did not know the value of these things, because it was a dark weapon, so most of them were broken, or became the cornerstone of the Longhai Railway, a very small number of Tang Sancai was taken to the antique shop of the Beijing Liuli Factory, the famous gold and stone scientist Luo Zhenyu found them, and they were searched for in large quantities, and the value of Tang Sancai began to be recognized by the world, and quickly flowed overseas.
In the 80s of the last century, the price of Tang Sancai soared rapidly in the international market, in 1989, a Tang Sancai horse was auctioned in the United Kingdom for 4.955 million pounds, such a high price became a weather vane, so that the world is fond of Tang Sancai.
However, according to China's current "Cultural Relics Law", "the cultural relics handed down can be auctioned and traded, and the unearthed cultural relics are prohibited from being bought and sold", therefore, for Tang Sancai, it is impossible to have such a large transaction and auction in China, which is generally carried out privately in the circle. Or someone specializes in smuggling it abroad to sell it for a high price.
In China, the value of Tang Sancai is far worse than that of foreign countries, in addition to the reasons mentioned above, there is also because of the proliferation of fakes.
Since the discovery of Tang Sancai at the beginning of the last century, it has attracted the attention of our country and the world art circles, especially after the 80s of the last century, Tang Sancai's research is even more hot, and many experts have made the research results public.
Because the highest firing temperature of Tang Sancai is about 1100 degrees, its production process is not complicated, the production of raw materials can be seen everywhere, the tire glaze formula has long been disclosed, imitation masters have come out in large numbers, and some are experts in Tang Sancai's research.
Imagine, connoisseurs use modern technology to "clone" out of the imitation and the real thing? The answer is yes, the basic characteristics of the genuine three colors, high imitation three colors are possessed.
It can be said that the similarities have reached more than 99%, and the remaining 1% are relatively special characteristics, which cannot be imitated at present, because this special feature can only be formed in thousands of years, and human power cannot imitate it for the time being.
But even so, not to mention ordinary collectors, even experts are difficult to distinguish the authenticity, and when fakes are rampant, will anyone still buy it? This is also a reason why the price of Tang Sancai in the domestic market has not been able to rise.
It can be seen from the Tang Sancai market why Meng Zitao attaches so much importance to that imitation master and wants to catch him as soon as possible. Otherwise, when imitations are flooded, the market will run out.
Getting back to business, after a while, a Tang San painted pottery horse warrior was passed to Meng Zitao.
Meng Zitao observed carefully, only to see that the Tang San painted pottery horse in front of him is about 40 centimeters high, about 50 centimeters long, most of the body is decorated with blue-green glaze, the horse's head is equipped with light brown chewing ornaments, and the horse's chest is pasted with round carved palace bell pepper flowers. After the horse seat, the word "heart" is pasted with scripture mud, and the shape of the horse gives people a sense of shock of the Tang Dynasty.
In addition, judging from the characteristics of the surface of the horse, it should be an unearthed cultural relic, and the preservation is also very well-preserved, after thousands of years, the color is still gorgeous, and it is really a very precious Tang San colored pottery horse warrior.
Although he thought that this pottery horse warrior should be genuine, but Meng Zitao still used a special ability for the sake of safety, which made him stunned, but he didn't expect that this genuine product in his eyes was actually a high-imitation Xibei goods, which made him not know what to say.
Fortunately, Meng Zitao's psychological control was relatively strong, and there was no stunned look on his face, and then he hurriedly carefully identified it, he was lucky, and immediately discovered a fraudulent phenomenon. At this time, someone next to him urged him to hurry up, and he could only put down and observe.
Xu Jianwei asked, "Brother, how about this Tang Sancai?"
Meng Zitao said softly: "There is a demonic spirit. ”
"Huh?" Xu Jianwei was obviously stunned, although he recovered immediately, he still let Liu Yiping and Wang Youli notice.
Liu Yiping and Wang Youli reacted differently, Liu Yiping was thoughtful, and Wang Youli was still confident, but his eyes seemed to be shining with inexplicable brilliance.
At this time, Xu Jianwei asked in a low voice, "Brother, can you tell me in detail?"
Xu Jianwei's reaction just now gave Meng Zitao a feeling of surprise and incredibleness, and Meng Zitao estimated that Xu Jianwei didn't expect that he could see that something was wrong, which made him feel very interesting.
Meng Zitao whispered: "So far, there has been no report of Tang Sancai's heirlooms, almost all of them are unearthed, and their glazes are generally visible with traces of soil corrosion, the difference is only the degree and method of corrosion. ”
"Under normal circumstances, the pores on the surface of Tang Sancai appear naturally on the glaze surface at will, or all over the body or locally, the size and depth of the pores are different, some are dense, and some are as few as the morning star. The degree of corrosion varies, and some can only be detected by careful observation. Under a magnifying glass, some of the soil bite pores are observed, and the glaze on the edges of them has a slight erosion transition. ”
"But the Tang San painted pottery horse warrior just now, although the fine holes on it are realistic, if you look closely, it is still a formality, giving people a rigid feeling, which cannot exist in the real thing......"
In addition to the flaws in the soil bite, Meng Zitao simply said a few reasons, the reason for this is because he did not want to tell Xu Jianwei more details, lest the imitators know about it, and the level of imitation will be increased because of this.
In the end, Meng Zitao said that another pottery horse was about to arrive in front of him, and to his surprise and reasonableness, this pottery horse was actually genuine.
After everyone finished appraising, the black cat told everyone that since the two Tao Ma were a pair, they could not be quoted separately, which was also thought of after Meng Zitao learned that Tao Ma was true and false, and now, among these people, there must be someone who is going to be unlucky...... (To be continued.) )