Blue and white porcelain is definitely famous in the antique collection world, and it is often auctioned for tens of millions of yuan, which makes collectors crazy.

In the past five years, a blue and white porcelain jar was auctioned for a sky-high price of 230 million yuan, creating a world record for Chinese art auctions, and this record was held for five full years, until it was broken by a collection of paintings and calligraphy from the Northern Song Dynasty in 10 years.

However, Wang Zhuo's understanding of blue and white porcelain is limited to knowing that this thing is indeed very valuable, and then there is a popular song that sounds good, also called blue and white porcelain.

Li Shangdong pulled down the light hanging in the air so that Guan Shichen and Qiu Nanyang could watch it carefully, and the two of them each held a magnifying glass and looked around the wine cup carefully, concentrating.

While watching, Qiu Nanyang asked, "Boss Li, where did this thing come from?" ”

Li Shangdong said slowly: "A friend who plays with collecting has something at home, and in order to raise money, he transferred some things. This is one of his treasures, which he picked up from an old village in Henan more than ten years ago, and has been providing it at home, and it would not have been sold if it were not for lack of money. ”

Playing collection, the most pay attention to the origin and provenance of the collection, a good history can make the collection increase in value a lot, and the appreciation space is relatively limited for things with unknown origins. At present, this blue and white porcelain wine cup belongs to something with a relatively general origin and origin, but the price of 500,000 yuan also corresponds to this origin, otherwise it will be higher.

"It looks like a treasure." After studying for a long time, Qiu Nanyang began to evaluate: "Chenghua blue and white carcass is thin, delicate in touch, and has a high degree of porcelainization and thick glaze, this cup is very consistent with the characteristics of Chenghua blue and white." What is commendable is that it is quite well preserved, except for a bumped flaw in an inconspicuous place, there is no other damaged place, although the cyan is a little lighter than the official kiln, but this pomegranate painting is lifelike, and the level is not much better than the official kiln. ”

Wang Zhuo now also understands some of the alternatives in the collection of antiques, even if you want to bargain, you must seek truth from facts when evaluating other people's things, you can't talk nonsense and devalue things worthless, otherwise the seller will have swept you out of the house a long time ago, and you won't be served by any amount of money.

Antiques are like collectors' children, devaluing other people's children to worthless, isn't it a naked slap in the face? Of course, it's another thing to pick up leaks in the stalls, and it's another thing to fool the layman.

Listening to Qiu Nanyang's evaluation, Guan Shichen also nodded again and again: "Boutique, it is indeed a boutique." ”

Li Shangdong smiled slightly and asked, "How is it, Lao Qiu, what do you think of my cup?" ”

"It's an old thing." Qiu Nanyang nodded affirmatively, and then changed his words: "But the price is too high." ”

"Let's not be busy talking about the price." Li Shangdong smiled and waved his hand: "You guys take a look at it more." By the way, I still have something. ”

As he spoke, Li Shangdong took out a stack of paper from the wooden box and a few photos.

Qiu Nanyang picked it up and looked at it, and said in his heart that this Li Shangdong is really doing things without leakage, and on the paper are the signatures of several famous artists who have attained high attainments in blue and white porcelain appreciation, and the photos are also photos of these people and this wine cup.

Li Shangdong still has the same smiling expression: "How about it, these things have some value, right?" ”

Qiu Nanyang nodded, with these things, it immediately added a lot of color to this blue and white porcelain wine cup, and with the reputation of Shang Donglou, it is impossible to make a tanuki for the prince, and use imitation things to pretend to be originals. It seems that the authenticity of this blue and white porcelain is a sure thing.

In this way, there is much less room for bargaining, but the appreciation space of this wine cup has also become correspondingly larger, which can be regarded as a gain and a loss.

"Mr. Guan, what do you see?" Qiu Nanyang's task has been completed more than halfway, and Guan Shichen will be in charge next.

Guan Shichen pondered for a moment, the price of this wine cup did exceed his budget, but the old man who did Shou liked the things in the cup, this blue and white porcelain happened to be a wine cup, and it suddenly added a lot of color, and it would be worth spending more than ten or two hundred thousand yuan for this.

For a rich man like Guan Shichen, who is worth tens of millions, more than 100,000 yuan is not a small amount, but since this money is used on the blade, what is he reluctant to do?

After making up his mind, Guan Shichen put down the magnifying glass with an indifferent expression, raised his head and asked Li Shangdong: "Boss Li, I intend to buy this thing, you can give a reserve price." ”

Li Shangdong thought for a while and said, "Four hundred and fifty thousand, you are Lao Qiu's friend, I will let another ten thousand, four hundred and forty thousand, no less." ”

Guan Shichen sat steadily, and said with a smile: "Boss Li, I bought this thing to celebrate the birthday of an elder, 440,000 yuan?" ”

The number forty-four, the homonym is really not far from death, and it is better to give this kind of gift to He Shou empty-handed.

Li Shangdong was stunned for a moment, and immediately apologized repeatedly: "This and this, I'm really sorry, Boss Guan, it's me who is wrong, it's me who is wrong." I'll give another 10,000, what do you think? ”

"It's still a little expensive." Guan Shichen looked at Li Shangdong and said confidently: "Boss Li, I bet that you can sell me this thing for 400,000 yuan." ”

"This ......" Li Shangdong hesitated for a long time, and finally nodded.

"That's right." Guan Shichen smiled with satisfaction: "Boss Li, make a friend, I will come again." ”

Li Shangdong praised again and again and shook hands with Guan Shichen.

Even if the business was negotiated, Lu Weimin went to the car to withdraw the money at the signal of Guan Shichen, and Li Shangdong instructed the men to replace it with a pot of good tea, and talked to Guan Shichen and Qiu Nanyang.

Wang Zhuo secretly said, a wine cup of 400,000 yuan, this is the deal?

Seeing Guan Shichen and others chatting about some strange things in the collecting world, the wine cup was placed on the table, and Wang Zhuo stepped forward, intending to take a closer look.

Coincidentally, Guan Yingying also came over, the two looked at each other and smiled, each picked up a magnifying glass, and observed it in the light.

Guan Yingying held a magnifying glass in one hand and a pile of document paper taken out by Li Shangdong in the other, and compared the real thing with the content introduced on the document from time to time.

Wang Zhuo just looked at it simply, wanting to see why such a wine cup was worth 400,000 yuan, which was enough to buy two houses where he lived now.

Seeing Wang Zhuo's strange expression, Guan Yingying couldn't help but smile and asked, "Wang Zhuo, what do you think?" ”

Wang Zhuoyi grinned and only said one word: "Expensive." ”

"It's expensive enough." Guan Yingying nodded with a smile and said: "But it is worth this price, blue and white porcelain is a treasure of national culture, China is porcelain, blue and white porcelain is the highest representative of porcelain, it is it that let the world understand China, it is the symbol of our nation." ”

Wang Zhuo nodded noncommittally, and said in his heart that it is not good to use porcelain as a symbol of the nation, this thing is fragile and not strong.

Anyway, Wang Zhuo still felt that the price of 400,000 yuan was a bit dreamy, and he couldn't help but show his perspective and look at the wine cup.

At this glance, Wang Zhuo sighed in surprise, because he found that the material of the body and bottom of the wine cup was not the same, and there was a very fine joint line between the two.

Wang Zhuo was a little puzzled, could it be that the pottery was not made at one time, but the body and bottom were made separately and finally processed together?

"What's wrong?" Guan Yingying asked.

Wang Zhuo thought about the wording for a while and asked, "Sister Guan, have you seen the movie "Ghost Love"? ”

"I've seen it." Guan Yingying said: "Did you think of the part where the hero and heroine make pottery? That's right, porcelain is made in the same way as that. ”

Wang Zhuo smiled: "I thought the bottom was post-processed." ”

"Haha." When Qiu Nanyang heard Wang Zhuo's words, he interjected and said: "Wang Zhuo, the ears of the porcelain are post-processed, but there is no bottom, in that case, it will be burned out." ”

Wang Zhuo nodded, with Qiu Nanyang's popular science, he had already determined that there was a cat hidden in this wine cup.

Quietly glanced at Li Shangdong, and found that this little middle-aged man had no different color and talked and laughed naturally, Wang Zhuo was a little suspicious, could it be that he didn't know it?

Thinking about it, there is really this possibility, Qiu Nanyang is a master invited by Guan Shichen, didn't he see the flaws in this wine cup, in the words of the insiders, this is "eye-catching", and he was deceived by fakes. Since Qiu Nanyang can be deceived, of course Li Shangdong can, and those experts may not be able to.

Of course, there is another possibility, that is, Qiu Nanyang and Li Shangdong were originally a gang, and they set up a trap to cheat Guan Shichen's money. However, Wang Zhuo felt that the surname might not be too big, because coincidentally, the three of them were talking about an anecdote about helping the idle and the seller to collude to deceive the rich businessman, Wang Zhuo felt that Qiu Nanyang and Li Shangdong were not like the kind of liars with high psychological quality, they could deceive people while teaching the bitter master how to see through the deception.

Thinking of this, Wang Zhuo suddenly had an urge to tell the truth, and for the sake of prudence, he carefully turned the wine cup upside down, picked up a magnifying glass and observed it carefully.

Not to mention, no matter how closely he observed, he couldn't see any clues, the joint between the body and the bottom of the cup can be said to be seamless, and only by using the perspective ability can he see the truth.

Wang Zhuo thought about it, and he understood the reason, the body of this wine cup must be a fake made later, and the bottom of the cup with the inscription is probably a genuine product, it seems that the bottom of the cup is the most difficult to fake, so the initiator came up with this method and deceived everyone.

At this time, his cousin Lu Weimin walked up with an inconspicuous suitcase, and the guy in Shang Donglou took out two money detectors and wanted to check the money on the spot.

Seeing that the suitcase in Lu Weimin's hand was about to be handed over to the guy in Shang Donglou, Wang Zhuo hurriedly stopped it loudly: "Brother Min, wait a minute!" ”

The sound landed, and the entire tea room suddenly fell silent, and everyone looked at Wang Zhuo in surprise, not knowing what he was going to do.

Lu Weimin reacted the fastest, and with a slight force of his hands, he lifted the suitcase back into his hands.

Wang Zhuo thought quickly in his mind about how to properly solve this problem, and in an instant, he came up with a set of plans.

"Mr. Guan, Uncle Qiu, I think there seems to be something wrong with the bottom of the cup, can you take a look at it again?"

Guan Shichen and Qiu Nanyang both stood up quickly when they heard this, looked at Wang Zhuo suspiciously, walked to the table without saying a word, and each picked up a magnifying glass to re-examine it.

Li Shangdong's expression also became a little nervous, he can make 100,000 yuan after this business is completed, but don't make any mistakes.

After watching it for a long time, the two didn't see any problems, Wang Zhuo pointed at it with his hand and said, "See, there is a white mark there, very thin." ”

Its naked eye and magnifying glass can't see any flaws at all, but if they don't say so, can they tell them that they have a clairvoyant eye?

Guan Shichen and Qiu Lu looked solemn, and looked at it for a long time, but unfortunately they still couldn't see it, Guan Yingying handed over a small flashlight, but it couldn't shine it.

"Wang Zhuo?" Guan Yingying looked at Wang Zhuo with an inquiring look, wanting to hear what he had to say.

It was estimated that the time was almost up, so Wang Zhuo said: "Sister Guan, I suspect that the body and bottom of this wine cup are not integrated, but are post-processed. ”

"How is this possible?" Li Shangdong laughed angrily: "Little brother, my blue and white piece, at least six famous people have helped to palm it, and there is also the word of Xue Lao's inscription, you say it is a stall?" ”

In the world of antiques, counterfeiting methods are endless, and one of them is to glue the fragments of the real thing together with the fake and sell it as the real thing. However, this method is easy to see flaws, so it is often only placed on the stalls by counterfeiters to deceive those who visit the stalls to "pick up leaks".

"Boss Li, I didn't say that your blue and white is a stall, I just suspect that it is not too old." Wang Zhuo observed Li Shangdong's expression, and felt that he was not pretending, and it seemed that he had indeed been deceived.

It's not too old, and it's also a term that Wang Zhuo has learned today, which means that the year is not enough, but in fact, it is implicitly pointing out that this is an imitation, not an antique.

"Not too old?" Li Shangdong couldn't help but shake his head again and again, glanced at Wang Zhuo again, and decided not to talk to this stunned young man.

"Boss Guan, what do you think of what you say......" Li Shangdong asked Guan Shichen what he meant.

Guan Shichen frowned slightly and was silent.

Guan Yingying asked softly on the side, "Dad, why don't we go to a few more houses?" ”

Although the authenticity of this blue and white porcelain has not yet been determined, things have taken a turn and turn, and the father and daughter of the Guan family feel that it is not a good omen, and Guan Shichen also has the idea of thinking about it again.

Seeing that Guan Shichen revealed that he wanted to leave, Li Shangdong suddenly became anxious, but he couldn't stop him from leaving, nor could he take the initiative to reduce the price, so he had no choice but to cast a look at Qiu Nanyang for help.

Qiu Nanyang shrugged his shoulders slightly, and made a gesture of helplessness, Wang Zhuo said conclusively that there was a problem at the bottom of the cup, and he couldn't insist on anything, after all, it was Guan Shichen who took the idea, if he talked too much, Guan Shichen suspected that he and Li Shangdong had any interests colluding, and the gains outweighed the losses.

Seeing that the cooked duck was about to fly, Li Shangdong was really angry, and finally couldn't help but complain to Wang Zhuo: "Young man, look at what this is called, a good deal will let you mess up." ”

Qiu Nanyang also complained, but he was not familiar with Wang Zhuo, and the words were not spoken in his stomach.

Wang Zhuo turned a blind eye, because he had a clear conscience in this matter, as long as he messed up this transaction, he would achieve his goal.

But seeing the reproachful gaze cast by his cousin Lu Weimin, Wang Zhuo finally remembered that this matter was not something he had a clear conscience about, it also affected Guan Shichen's opinion of Lu Weimin, it seems that if he doesn't reveal the true face of this wine cup, it really won't work!

"Boss Li." Wang Zhuo looked at Li Shangdong, "If I can prove that this cup is fake, will I be fined ten for one false?" ”

Li Shangdong was laughed at again, and he no longer left any affection for Wang Zhuo when he spoke: "Children, there is no such rule in the antique world, don't talk nonsense if you don't understand, you can't afford to compensate for the loss if you damage the reputation of our store."

Wang Zhuo shook his head and said: "Boss Li, I'm really sorry, you smashed the signboard yourself, but I don't have to pay for it." ”

After speaking, he suddenly reached out and grabbed the porcelain cup on the table, pinched the cup with both hands, and smiled lightly at Guan Yingying, who was looking at him dumbfounded.

"Smack!"

With a crisp sound, the blue and white porcelain wine cup of the folk kiln in the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty was broken in two by Wang Zhuo.

The four exclaimed.

Wang Zhuo stared at the two-petal wine cup in his hand and laughed silently.

I saw that the stubble was new, but the round bottom of the cup was only connected to one side of the two wine cups, and it was not broken in half.

Facts speak louder than words, this is exactly what Li Shangdong said about "stall goods"!