Chapter 1590 The Scourge of the Ancient Porcelain Market
"Liu Dabin, don't be afraid, we are not here to trouble you this time, but to send you the God of Wealth. This is Boss Zhang, he plans to buy your land, rest assured, the price will definitely satisfy you. In addition, he also wants to discuss your melamine technology. I can tell you, Boss Zhang is different from me and Lao Hei, he is a serious businessman, and he is the big boss of the HRE Museum, understand, he is here, you don't have to worry about money. Tang Batian smiled and put a bowl of porridge on the table and said, "Hurry up and eat it while it's hot, I know you haven't eaten for a long time, let's talk about things after eating." ”
Liu Dabin glanced at Zhang Tianyuan suspiciously, and suddenly rubbed his eyes and asked, "This Boss Zhang, have we met somewhere?" ”
"Haha, Brother Dabin, you still remember me, I'm Tianyuan." Zhang Tianyuan said with a smile.
"Tian Yuan! Zhang Tianyuan! The eldest son of Zhang Ruhai's family! Oh, you've grown so big, I think you were so little when I went to your house to play. ”
"Brother Da Bin, you are only seven or eight years older than me." Zhang Tianyuan said.
"It turns out that you are Boss Zhang, I heard that the kid of Zhang Ruhai's family has made a fortune and has done a lot of practical things for our village, so the villagers are rich. Oops, I've been listening to Tang Batian and Lao Hei talk about Boss Zhang before, I really didn't expect it to be you. ”
"How is it, Brother Da Bin is relieved now?" Zhang Tianyuan said with a smile.
"Don't worry, of course I'm relieved, oops, although I haven't been back all these years, my relatives over there are still in touch, and you are famous in our hometown." As he spoke, Liu Dabin cried bitterly. Tears fell into the porridge.
"Brother Dabin, don't talk about it. Let's eat first, I'm done eating. Let's have a good chat. Zhang Tianyuan comforted.
"Hey, hey!" Liu Dabin was afraid that Tang Batian and Lao Hei would be drugged in the rice before, but he obviously believed in Zhang Tianyuan's personality, so he didn't care at all at this time, and ate the meal as soon as he picked it up.
Zhang Tianyuan walked out of the room and looked at this place, Liu Dabin has a nickname here called "Mud Maniac", and he said that no matter what kind of mud, it can become a valuable thing in his hand, in the courtyard here. Porcelain from different dynasties is placed everywhere, and even the garbage cans in the courtyard are made of blue and white porcelain.
There are several places in the large grounds, and near the lodgings is a porcelain firing workshop, and a small shed has been built in the courtyard outside the workshop. Dozens of bags of porcelain clay are piled up in the house. The old medicine is weighing the various ingredients. The other half of the hut is filled with porcelain blanks of various shapes that have not yet been fired, some of which have been painted with patterns and are waiting to be glazed.
If it was the gas kiln for porcelain burning in the middle of the house when the factory was booming before, the fire in the kiln must have been fierce. And there will be a number of customer-ordered vases imitating various ages are being fired, and the glazing machine has been working non-stop.
Now it's a bit deserted, there are no workers, and the machines are not running.
The place where he is standing now is Liu Dabin's home. in the living room. It displays the works collected by Liu Dabin and his father Liu Laoyao for decades.
"These porcelains are all real things, and one of the Ming Dynasty oil bottles alone is worth more than one million yuan. This is the original form, and the imitation is made. At least that's the price. Tang Batian followed, as he spoke. Cross your index fingers on both sides and make a 'ten' gesture, which means 100,000.
"I heard Liu Dabin say that he will not make such a bottle again in the last three years, because he made one in the first two years, and when he sold it, he promised that within five years, he would not make a second bottle of the same kind. High imitations can't be too flooded, otherwise the price will come down, just like a plum bottle, and in the end no one even wants it. Tang Batian continued.
Then they continued to walk, and they arrived at Liu Dabin's painting room with high imitation porcelain, where all the painting work of porcelain blanks was completed.
"There used to be young and skilled workers here who painted and painted the porcelain, polished it and brought it back to different historical dynasties. It's a pity that there is no one now. ”
"From the porcelain clay research below to the painting above, more than half of the people have highly educated professional knowledge, and most of them are from Jing~Dezhen Ceramic Institute of ancient ceramics related majors. Then Liu Dabin recruited him, many of them were due to his father Liu Laoyao's relationship" Tang Batian continued: "For these people, he is willing to pay, and the highest-paid employee can have a monthly salary of more than 10,000 yuan. ”
Of course, this level of income doesn't seem to be anything to Zhang Tianyuan, but for ordinary workers, it's really not low.
"No matter what period of work, as long as there are samples, they can imitate them." Tang Batian smiled and said: "I asked Liu Dabin, this kid is very confident in his skills, but he said that due to the few works of the Yuan Dynasty, the genuine products on the market are extremely rare, and those who know how to know them know that they are fake, so they are not easy to sell." But the works of the Ming and Qing dynasties are different, the porcelain industry of the Qing Dynasty is developed, the quantity is large, and there are also official kiln products scattered among the people, many people have the psychology of picking up leaks, and this kind of goods are relatively easy to sell. ”
"And who did he sell all these things to?" Zhang Tianyuan was very puzzled, if these things were so profitable, why did Liu Dabin fall into the current field, this is too miserable.
"In the past, Liu Dabin actually had his own channels for sales. Most of the auction houses who come to him to order products are auction houses, and they bring samples and he makes imitations for them. These auction houses will put the high-imitation products up for auction. Liu Dabin told me that auction houses are his main customers, and there are some overseas institutions. In addition, there is a black market boss like Lao Hei, in fact, this is all because the factory is no longer good, and Liu Dabin is forced to leave in desperation. If you want to ask me why his factory is like this, I don't really know, but listening to what he means, it seems that this factory is getting in the way of some people's money, and then it is rectified. ”
Listening to Tang Batian's words, Zhang Tianyuan sighed a little, this counterfeiting and selling is so rampant, it is really not the gospel of the antique market.
It is said that there are no less than dozens of antique masters like Liu Dabin in the famous Jing ~ Dezhen alone. Behind every master, there is a team and secret sales channels.
Of course, this statement may be a bit exaggerated, after all, Liu Dabin's high-imitation technology is still the best Zhang Tianyuan has seen so far, at least in Tang Sancai and the purple clay pot, even the King of Concealment can't compare with him.
There is such a story about Jing~Dezhen ceramics in the industry: a certain customs intercepted a batch of porcelain that wanted to leave the country, which was identified as a national first-class cultural relic. When the staff detained the "antiquities dealer" carrying the porcelain for questioning, the "dealer" said that he was carrying modern high-quality imitations, not real antiques, but the customs staff and expert experts did not believe his claim. In a hurry, he had to invite the real author of these "antiques" - the counterfeiting master of Jing~Dezhen, and made exactly the same high-imitation porcelain on the spot, and finally he was released.
There are many versions of similar stories, which are difficult to distinguish between true and false, but they also illustrate the superb antique technology of Jing~Dezhen porcelain from one side.
Although most of these antique masters follow the principle of "making fakes, showing fakes, and selling fakes", they cannot guarantee that their buyers will not sell these high-quality antique porcelain in the name of genuine after buying them.
Zhang Tianyuan knows an expert in the study of ancient ceramics, according to this expert, the real ancient porcelain is not only collectible, but also an important reference for the study of ceramic culture, but the emergence of high antique ceramics has brought a lot of influence to both of them.
He told Zhang Tianyuan, "These high-quality antique porcelain products from Jing~Dezhen have entered the market through various channels. The final result is: spend a high price and buy a high imitation; I encountered the real thing, but I didn't dare to do it. Let the ancient ceramics market fall into a more disorderly state. ”
Whether it is in the international ceramic auction held in Jing~Dezhen, or in some auctions such as the imperial capital, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, there are too high imitation fake porcelain. In addition to harming the rights and interests of bidders, it also undermines the credibility of auction houses. In fact, some auction houses took the initiative to order high antique porcelain in Jing~Dezhen, deceived the appraisal experts, and finally made these high imitation porcelain products flow into the market in the form of genuine products.
However, this growing phenomenon of counterfeiting has affected the entire ceramic art market. Of the 198 works that participated in the International Ceramics Auction held during the Ceramics Fair in the previous two years, 125 were unsold. Among the 73 works sold, the highest price was only 600,000 yuan, less than one-tenth of the "sky-high" price of 7.82 million yuan at the auction five years ago.
"Although the impact on the ancient porcelain market is not so obvious, there are some." The ceramic expert told Zhang Tianyuan that only by correctly guiding these antique masters and formulating market rules can our country curb the downward trend of the ceramic art market.
Of course, there is a reason why this ceramic expert said these words to Zhang Tianyuan, and he hoped that Zhang Tianyuan would not take such a path. After all, the high imitation made by Zhang Tianyuan is really unrecognizable to 99% of experts, and it is a real high imitation.
The two of them wandered around for a while, and heard Lao Hei shouting that Liu Dabin had finished eating, so he turned back again, looking at the things here, it would be better to listen to Liu Dabin himself, it would be more direct.
But as soon as the two of them walked to the door, they suddenly heard someone yelling: "I still want to run!" ”
"It's Zhanfei's voice!" Zhang Tianyuan heard it very clearly, so he asked Tang Batian to stay there first, and he chased after him.
Where did Tang Batian dare to let him take risks, and hurriedly followed, but the problem was that Tang Batian's body could catch up with Zhang Tianyuan, and there was no one in a blink of an eye.
"I'm going, I've heard people say that this Boss Zhang is skilled, I thought it was someone else bragging, but when I saw it today, this really has to be a good reputation, where is this boss, it's clearly no worse than those special forces, this is too powerful." Tang Batian squatted there panting heavily, thinking in his heart.
At this time, Zhang Tianyuan had already discovered Zhanfei, and there was another guy wearing a ghost mask who appeared in another movie and TV series. (To be continued......)