Chapter 210: The Silk Pavilion

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Wang Ying carefully unfolded an old painting scroll that had faintly yellowed on the coffee table, but the scroll itself was too long and the coffee table was not enough, so it could only be divided into two parts for Wang Zheng to see. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"In the early Qing Dynasty, one of the 'Four Kings', Wang Shimin's "Landscape Handscroll", unfortunately it is not Wang Shimin's masterpiece, but just an imitation of the landscape painting of Wang Meng, the 'Four Yuan Families'! But even so, the market price of this painting is not less than 15 million!"

"Imitation paintings are still so expensive?"

Although Wang Zheng has read a lot of books on collecting recently, he still knows a little about antique collecting, and he doesn't even know how to get started. Therefore, even if we know the name of Wang Shimin, one of the 'Four Kings' in the early Qing Dynasty, we do not know much about his own status and achievements in the history of Chinese painting.

"Generally speaking, imitation paintings are not as expensive as the originals, and even many imitation paintings are of low value. However, this is also divided into people, like Wang Shimin's imitation paintings, the value is naturally very high. And Zhang Daqian's landscape paintings imitating Shi Tao are even more valuable than the original in many cases!"

Wang Zheng nodded knowingly. Although he was new to antique collecting, he still knew something about Zhang Daqian, the most famous painting giant in modern China, a master of Chinese painting, who was well-known at home and abroad, and was known as the "first person in Chinese painting in 500 years".

Zhang Daqian's imitation paintings are even more famous.

His imitation of Shi Tao's fakes has its charm, expression techniques, and composition characteristics, which are vivid and vivid, and are no different from the real works, and they are alive and well from the "resurrection of Shi Tao". I don't know how many famous painters, collectors, and connoisseurs have been fooled by his mischief.

Chen Banding, a generation of masters, Huang Binhong, a grandmaster of landscape painting, and Luo Zhenyu, a famous modern connoisseur, have all suffered losses in Zhang Daqian's imitation of Shi Tao's paintings.

In fact, Zhang Daqian can not only imitate Shi Tao and Bada Shanren, but also those painting schools other than Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Meiqing and the "Four Kings" (Wang Shimin, Wang Jian, Wang, Wang Yuanqi) in the early Qing Dynasty.

But Zhang Daqian is Zhang Daqian after all, he wants to paint his own paintings, learning from the ancients but not the ancients. Someone asked him to inscribe on the imitation of Shi Tao's painting. He happily wrote: "In the past, I was afraid that it would not enter, but now I am afraid that it will not come out." He was not confined to Shi Tao, but further traced back to the Tang, Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties, crisscrossing hundreds of schools, copying arbitrarily, taking the momentum of the Tang people, the law of the Song people, and the artistic conception of the Yuan and Ming dynasties.

In addition to the four paintings, the other five chests contained five pieces of porcelain and one piece of jade. They are 'Qing Yongzheng Pastel Entwined Lotus Pattern Cup', 'Qing Qianlong Official Kiln Rouge Red Background Pastel Drum Dun', 'One of the Eight Friends of Zhushan Wang Yeting's Pastel Landscape Four Screens', 'Qing Qianlong Doucai Landscape Flower Pattern Plate' and 'Qing Jiaqing Coral Red Ground Enamel Small Bowl Pair'.

The last pair of small bowls reminded Wang Zheng of the pair of Qianlong enamel imperial kilns he made a fortune, and the two sides were almost identical except for the difference in size.

However, the artistic achievements of Jiaqing enamel are not as good as Qianlong, so the price is only half of the former, or even less. 5.5 million is the final price for Wang Ying to buy this pair of small bowls, and it is also the most valuable set of these five pieces (sets) of porcelain.

The remaining jade is a pair of blue and white jade Warring States jade heng, worth 470,000 yuan!

Ten pieces (sets) worth nearly 20 million antiques were put away, Wang Zheng looked at it, beckoned behind him, and soon Wang Fu and Wang Lu, who were waiting on the side, hurriedly walked up and identified the ten pieces (sets) of antiques in turn.

As antique appraisers produced by Shennong System, their ability is naturally beyond doubt.

"Boss, no problem!"

About ten minutes later, the two of them said respectfully.

"Hehe, now you're satisfied. Don't worry, brother, I will definitely do everything without fail!" Wang Ying patted his chest and said.

Wang Zheng smiled indifferently when he heard this, although the relationship between him and Wang Ying has become very familiar in the cooperation again and again, but even so, when it comes to large amounts of money and transactions, it is still good to be 'villain first and then gentleman'.

After all, the brothers still have to settle accounts.

"What about the first-class artifact I want?"

"Such a precious thing, naturally you have to keep it with you to rest assured...... Iron?"

The cold-faced black-clothed man standing behind Wang Ying nodded and brought over a large lockbox he was carrying. After carefully placing it on the coffee table, Wang Yingcai unlocked the code on it and opened the box.

After unpacking, the first thing that appeared in front of Wang Zheng was not the antique he expected, but a red silk package. When Wang Ying unfastened the clasp on the silk wrap, a mahogany box similar in size to a notebook, 20 centimeters high, with a dragon pattern embossed on the lid.

watched Wang Ying carefully move the mahogany box out and put it on the coffee table. From his cautious attitude, Wang Zheng realized that it might really be a priceless thing inside.

"Do you have a bigger place here?"

"Bigger?"

"It's the kind of furniture like a table that is two or three meters long, or even longer!"

"That's ...... You come with me!"

After the words fell, Wang Zheng took Wang Ying, who carried the box, and went upstairs to Wang Zheng's study together.

When he had not yet made his fortune before, Wang Zheng had been eager to wait for himself to buy a house in the future, and he could make other living, but he must have a spacious and comfortable study.

Therefore, whether it is the villa in Zaohua Valley or the villa in Yingke Valley, the most luxurious room is the study. For example, now, Wang Zheng's study in front of him covers an area of more than 100 square meters, in addition to the basic things such as desks and bookshelves, there is also a long table five meters long and one meter wide by the window.

There are four treasures of pen, ink, paper, inkstone, and study, as well as paper for writing, as well as some calligraphy for practicing calligraphy.

"You also like calligraphy?"

Looking at the handwriting of a serious line of calligraphy on the white paper pressed by the paperweight on the table, Wang Ying asked with a smile.

"I don't like it too much, but writing two strokes when I'm upset can calm my mind!" "I cleaned up the table and put aside the messy paper, paperweights, and notebooks.

However, after Wang Zheng took the felt away from the table, Wang Ying, who saw the surface of the table, suddenly widened his eyes.

"Obediently, my God, this is a serious old mahogany! How much wood does it take to use such a big table!" Looking at Wang Ying's cautious expression, as if he was stroking some priceless national treasure, Wang Zheng secretly felt funny.

Having seen too much of this precious wood, he was no longer as amazing as he was at the beginning.

Even in his study, in addition to this long table, the desk and bookshelf next to him, as well as the chairs he sat on, were all made of precious woods such as small leaf red sandalwood, sea/south yellow pear, and old mahogany, which were handmade by Chen Ren and them!

Now with the improvement of his net worth, his extensive knowledge, and most importantly, the improvement of his life concept, Wang Zheng is no longer in the state of 'nouveau riche' at the beginning, and he has also begun to pay attention to his taste of life!

"Wang Zheng, shall we have a discussion?"

Looking at Wang Ying, whose eyes lit up and licked his face, Wang Zheng immediately said vigilantly: "What do you want to do?"

"Hehe, don't be so nervous, I don't mean anything else! How about I exchange this first-class relic for your table?"

"Do you know how much my table costs?" Wang Zheng said with a smile.

"Of course I do! But my antique isn't bad!"

As he spoke, Wang Ying put the red box on the long table and opened it, and on the red cushion inside, a roll of cloth stacked on top of each other, with a faint yellow surface, like silk, appeared in front of Wang Zheng.

Wang Ying took out a pair of white gloves from his pocket and put them on himself, and then carefully took the corner of the cloth roll and spread it to the right.

A line of traditional Chinese characters appeared in front of Wang Zheng, and the content was, '...... on November 18, the forty-fifth year of Qianlong', and after a large paragraph of text, Wang Zheng found the words 'Lanting Eight Pillars'. And until Wang Ying occupied the entire five-meter-long table, the handwriting on this cloth scroll seemed to have no end.

"Have you finished reading this part? I'll roll it up when I'm done, or I won't be able to read the rest of it!"

"How many are there?" Wang Zheng nodded.

Wang Ying smiled slightly, "What we see is only a quarter of it!"

"A quarter?" Wang Zheng was taken aback, if calculated in this way, the length of this cloth scroll is almost twenty meters. It was the first time he had seen such a long piece of art.

In fact, Wang Ying did not talk nonsense, after a large paragraph of text of nearly two meters later, a picture finally appeared, and after a picture scroll of nearly four meters, there was a large paragraph of text, and this time the text was longer, close to eight meters!

After the entire masterpiece of nearly 20 meters was displayed one by one in Wang Ying's hands, Wang Zheng actually had a faint feeling of relief.

"Now let's tell me what it came about, right?"

Wang Ying smiled and nodded, "Its full name is "The Complete Scroll of the Imperial Seal Supplementing the End of the Shilan Pavilion Tu Ti Silk Scroll", which is 31.6 centimeters long and 31.6 centimeters wide. The whole article is divided into three parts, the first part has 621.6 centimeters, all of which are words, there are 12 paragraphs such as Qianlong's edict, the imperial inscription poem, and the preface to the poem of Dingwu Lanting; the second part is 'imitation of Li Gonglin Lanting Map', 366.7 centimeters long, there are 60 silk characters in the picture, and 1185 small characters of names and poems and texts; the third part is 'promotion of words', 726.2 centimeters long, there are 13 paragraphs such as Sun Xuan's preface, Liu Gongquan's book, Mi Fu Ba, Song Gaozong's imperial book, etc.! The Treasure of Jiaqing Imperial Tour', 'Treasure of the Three Editions', 'Jiaqing Appreciation', and 'The Treasure of Xuantong Imperial Tour' are the seals of the Emperor of the Five Directions!"

“…… In the year 2,000 and 4, it was sold for 35,750,000 Chinese coins at the Guardian auction, creating the highest transaction price in China's weaving and embroidery category at that time! And now, ten years later, with the current domestic art market, the price of this unparalleled treasure in the world is too much to say, and the price of doubling is always there! I believe that even if it is 100 million, it is not impossible!" (To be continued.) )