Chapter 358: Old-fashioned

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After turning around, Old Man Ouyang was also tired, and the two of them returned to the office, just as Lao Li came back from finishing his errands. The three of them chatted while drinking tea www.biquge.info the three of them, Wu Tianyuan couldn't help but ask curiously: "Uncle Li, after turning around, I also have a rough idea in my heart, you have been playing with wood for decades, and now the market is so chaotic, do you have any experience?" ”

Lao Li said honestly: "In fact, there are several kinds of furniture fraud, the first is to use the characteristics of hardwood furniture that are not easy to distinguish, and the furniture made of poor wood is mixed with furniture made of better wood. Rosewood, Huanghuali, Tieli, Ebony, Wenge, Mahogany, etc., although they have their unique physical properties in terms of specific gravity, color, texture, etc. ”

"However, due to the difference in the place of growth, the difference in the age of growth, the transfer of the position of the wood, such as sapwood, heartwood, etc., and the change of the angle of the sawing when cutting the material, there will be a phenomenon that is contrary to the standard wood sample diagram in the book. It is easy to confuse the natural texture and texture, so that the drill camper has an opportunity to take advantage of it. ”

Wu Tianyuan pricked up his ears and listened carefully, this is a meat show. Nowadays, furniture is very expensive, and there are too many dummies, and if you are not careful, you will have to be eye-catching.

"For example, the original natural color and texture of iron wood is slightly similar to wenge, and it is easier to pass it off if it encounters the above special conditions. Even if the natural color is inconsistent with the high-end materials, speculators will change their true colors and pass off as high-end furniture. Due to the difference in fashion, about the middle of the Qing Dynasty to the 30s of the 20th century, because of the favor of the court magnates and feudal literati, the hardwood furniture is expensive black and not expensive yellow, so most of the fake wood is painted black to pass off as red sandalwood. Of course, the furniture dealer is also very flexible in changing the color of furniture, and there is more than one kind of fake wood color. ”

"The second is patchwork and restructuring, many ancient furniture is often poorly preserved, the components are seriously damaged, and it is extremely difficult to repair as it is, so some people are engaged in transplanting flowers and grafts, transplanting the remnants of non-similar varieties, and making up a piece of ancient furniture that is difficult to belong to and is nondescript.

"The third is to change the common to rare products, why the use of common ancient furniture varieties to change into rare varieties, because "rare" is an important embodiment of the value of ancient furniture. Many furniture manufacturers have transformed the half-tables, large square tables, and small square tables, which have been handed down more and are not very valuable, into relatively rare drawer tables, strip tables, and Go tables. It varies from instrument to instrument and is used in a variety of ways, and it is generally difficult to find out without careful research.

"The most deceptive thing is to break it into parts, use complete ancient furniture, and dismantle and transform it into multiple pieces in order to make high profits. An ancient piece of furniture is dismantled, and one or more pieces are imitated according to the original components, and then the old and new parts are mixed to assemble two or more pieces of original furniture with some old components. ”

Lao Li focused on this point, which was the most confusing. "The most common example is to change a chair into a pair of chairs, or even to piece together 4 pieces, all of which are old restorations. This method of forgery is the worst, not only extremely deceptive, but also seriously damaged precious ancient artifacts. If more than half of the components are found to be post-matched during the purchase, you should consider whether this is the case.

"In the same way, in order to increase the value of the furniture, speculators sometimes arbitrarily change the original structure and decoration, and deliberately remove the decoration from some precious heirloom furniture to pass off the furniture of an earlier age."

"The lowest-level method of counterfeiting is called "sticking skin", which is "sticking skin" on the surface of furniture made of ordinary wood, disguised as hardwood furniture, and sold at a high price. The joints of bezel-mosaic furniture are often decorated with color and inlay, and those with fine workmanship can have a chaotic appearance. Of course, some furniture needs to be functional, such as the piano table, in order to obtain a good resonance effect, it is necessary to use non-hardwood as a frame, or for other reasons, it has to be used to use the bezel inlay method for unity, which is not a fake. ”

Old man Ouyang took a sip of tea, took a break, and said: "I saw several deceptions when I was young, and I also paid a lot of tuition, so you can listen to it." One is called the package adjustment meter, which changes the soft drawer to a hard drawer. Soft drawer is a kind of elastic structure composed of wood, rattan, brown, silk thread, etc., which is used on the chair surface, bed collapse surface and side, and Ming-style furniture is more common. ”

"Soft drawers have the advantage of being comfortable and soft compared to hard drawers, but they are more prone to damage. Nine out of ten of the precious furniture that has been handed down for a long time has been destroyed. Due to the number of craftsmen who make soft drawers, the number of craftsmen has been decreasing in recent decades. Therefore, many of the soft drawers on the precious furniture in ancient times were replaced with hard drawers. If you use the soft drawer frame of Ming-style furniture, choose the same wood as the original equipment, and transform it into a hard drawer with Seiko, it is easy for people to be deceived, and the price difference is much higher. ”

"There is also a way to change high to low, in order to adapt to the way of living of modern life, the high furniture is changed to low furniture, furniture is a practical utensil, and its shape is closely related to people's way of living. After entering the modern society, sofa-shaped chairs and stools and bed collapses have entered the homes of ordinary people in large numbers. ”

"In order to meet the needs of the lower height of the seats and bedding, many chairs and tables have been shortened so that they can be upholstered on the chairs, and the sofas are used as sofa tables in front of them. Many people often buy low-grade ancient furniture that has been restructured, and mistakenly think that it is a "natural vessel" handed down by the ancients to today!

"The age of ancient furniture is an important basis for determining the value, and the earlier the furniture, the higher the value. But this is not absolute, only based on the early and late age, can not comprehensively and accurately judge the value of ancient furniture. There is a one-sided view in the market that the earlier the age of the furniture, the higher the value, but this is not the case. ”

Mr. Ouyang concluded: "Take the furniture of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the furniture made in the early Qing Dynasty is quite consistent with the furniture of the Ming Dynasty in terms of styling, structure, workmanship and materials, and has high artistic value. As far as the current level of identification is concerned, it is still difficult to distinguish which ones are in the Ming Dynasty and which are in the early Qing Dynasty without an exact year, so some domestic furniture research authorities refer to the furniture made in the Ming Dynasty and the early Qing Dynasty as "Ming-style furniture".

"In terms of determining value, the two are basically the same. The reason why the furniture in the early Qing Dynasty can be comparable to the furniture of the Ming Dynasty and enjoy the same value is that it has a high artistic value, which also shows that the history of ancient furniture is not the only criterion for identifying its value. ”

Wu Tianyuan has seen a lot of information, because the ancient furniture is a kind of historical artwork with a large body shape and a strong sense of three-dimensionality, it is difficult to leave the real object for evaluation. Therefore, under the condition of the lack of real furniture before the Ming Dynasty, the evaluation of ancient furniture plastic art is mainly based on a small number of Ming and Qing dynasty furniture. (To be continued.) )