Chapter 236: The Imperial Family?
"Isn't Princess Kako leading the team this time?"
Wu Tianyuan had just returned to the museum, and Yasuda called to inform him that the Japanese royal family was going to exchange the collection in two days, but Princess Yoshiko was grounded because of the last incident and couldn't come!
Wu Tianyuan listened to Yasuda's introduction with a calm face, hung up the phone, and Sun Yuyao asked, "What's the matter?" ”
"Yasuda said that the royal family was very dissatisfied with Yoshiko's attitude of taking the initiative to join the enemy, and this time the substitution came to negotiate, Yasuda was only responsible for communication and introduction, and the main person in charge was an expert named Kazama."
Wu Tianyuan pondered: "It is said that this Kazama is not simple, he is the chief appraiser of the imperial family, and he is also a Taidou-level figure in Japan, so it is very difficult to deal with!" ”
Sun Yuyao said disdainfully: "It's a big deal, let's not change it!" Now there are museums, auction houses, and a special exhibition hall for Japanese trophies, and the effect is better than the average one, believe it or not? ”
Wu Tianyuan laughed, it doesn't matter, but I still have to let Wang Jun check that Kazama to see what the source is.
Two days later, when the Japanese group arrived at the museum, Yasuda introduced an old man in his sixties, with a serious face, and when he saw Wu Tianyuan, he smiled reservedly and said: "Director Wu, please take care of me!" ”
"Master Kazama, Professor Yasuda, please!"
Wu Tianyuan saw Yasuda's secretly envoy's eyes, so he invited someone to go in first, took out this batch of Japanese national treasures, and inspected the goods before negotiating.
Kazama put on his glasses and carefully examined all the collections, and it took two hours before he was satisfied, "Sure enough, they are all genuine, and it is rare to see!" ”
Everyone sat down, Kazama took a sip of tea and said: "According to your requirements, Director Wu, we have prepared three pieces of Northern Song Dynasty Ding kiln, three pieces of Jun kiln, two pieces of Northern Song Dynasty kiln, and one piece of Southern Song Dynasty official kiln, please accept!" ”
Wu Tianyuan went through the collection, and there was no doubt that it was genuine, and he was suddenly dissatisfied: "I remember asking for a three-legged pen wash from the Ru kiln of the Northern Song Dynasty!" ”
Kazama said: "We can't agree to this request!" Although there are a large number of Japanese items that were exchanged this time, there are only eight real heavy objects! The remaining batch of porcelain is not a fine product, and it is already the maximum limit to be able to exchange for these. ”
Yasuda shook his head slightly on the side, saying that he really couldn't help this time, Wu Tianyuan smiled slightly, and said to Lao Ren: "It's rare to come once, you take a few other experts around, I want to talk to Master Kazama alone." ”
Kazama was stunned for a moment, nodded to the others, Lao Ren left with someone, he looked curiously at the early twenties in front of him, but the famous Chinese boy, see what he has to say?
"I heard Yasuda say that Master Kazama is a national treasure-level master, and he has a very high eyesight for identification, especially for calligraphy and painting."
He took out a handscroll and gently handed it to Kazama, "I have something here, please take a look." ”
"It's ......"
Kazama took it in confusion, and his face changed greatly when he opened the three inches, and he stood up in surprise and quickly unfolded it all on the table.
Yasuda also came over, curious why Kazama, who is usually so nourishing, is so out of shape? It turned out to be Mi Fu's research mountain Ming hand roll!
"This hand-masked master Kazama should be the most familiar, right?"
Wu Tianyuan stood up, walked to Kazama's side, and said in a low voice: "I remember that the Idemitsu Museum of Art in Japan also has a picture that is exactly the same, isn't it?" It seems that you still picked up the leakage more than ten years ago, and finally donated it for free, and it has been regarded as the treasure of the town hall. ”
Kazama's face was pale, and his hands trembled involuntarily, desperately trying to identify the details with a magnifying glass. After a while, the whole person seemed to be drained of his soul, and he collapsed on the chair.
Yasuda saw Wu Tianyuan's eyes in his heart, and deliberately excited: "Master? Are you alright? What's wrong with this picture? ”
Wu Tianyuan laughed and said: "It is worthy of being Master Kazama, and his skills have really improved a lot!" The so-called Yan Shan Ming, which you identified as authentic back then, was just the handwriting of Tang An, the team of Tan Jing of the Republic of China! ”
"This is the seal of Hu Jingfang, it should be exactly the same as the one on the handscroll, Professor Yasuda take a look?"
Yasuda hurriedly took the seal, carefully checked it for a long time, and deliberately incredulously: "It's really exactly the same!" Don't? ”
Kazama suddenly came back to his senses, stood up violently, grabbed Wu Tianyuan, and pleaded: "Director Wu, this matter ......"
Wu Tianyuan patted Kazama's arm and said in a low voice: "Don't worry, since I don't want to make extraneous branches, now it's just the three of us, Professor Yasuda is my good friend, I also admire you very much, I just want to be a friend!" ”
Kazama looked at Wu Tianyuan's demonic smile, sighed secretly, and said in a low voice: "As long as Tianyuan-kun can keep this secret, we will be good in the future...... Friend...... Friend! ”
Yasuda looked at the two people on the side, and secretly raised his thumb, high, really high!
This time, I was worried that the old-fashioned old man Kazama was going to do bad things, so he really bit the conditions at the beginning and deliberately lowered the price. I didn't expect Wu Tianyuan to resolve the crisis in a few words, and now he still grabs the old guy's fatal handle!
Bullshit royal appraiser? A piece of Tan Jingfang has been regarded as a treasure in the Idemitsu Museum for more than ten years! It is worshiped by tens of thousands of Japanese every year, and once the news spreads, he Kazama can only commit suicide by caesarean section to thank the world!
"That's it, since Tianyuanjun likes Ru kiln pen washing, then as long as you are willing to give up an official kiln and a brother kiln, then ......"
Wu Tianyuan said innocently: "But what if I like the official kiln and the brother kiln very much?" ”
Kazama had a headache, gritted his teeth and said, "Then as long as you give up the three kilns, the kiln will be yours!" ”
"No problem!"
Wu Tianyuan laughed, and made a lot of money by exchanging three fixed kilns for Ru kiln three-legged pen washing! Now I finally have the first Ru kiln in my hand, Fenghua, and I am very excited.
Ru kiln, one of the famous crafts of traditional Chinese porcelain, the main representative porcelain of the Northern Song Dynasty in China, one of the five famous kilns, named after the production in Ruzhou, the kiln site is in Qingliangsi Village, Daying Town, Baofeng County, Henan Province, Ru porcelain ranks in the Song Dynasty "Ru, Guan, Ge, Jun, Ding" five famous kilns of the first place, in the history of Chinese ceramics known as "Ru kiln for the leader".
Ru porcelain shape is simple and generous, with precious agate as the glaze, the color is unique, there is "agate for the glaze ancient legend" praise. With the change of light, look at its glaze color, just like "the rain after the sky and the clouds break", "the thousand peaks of the blue wave and the emerald color come" wonderful, the soil is fine, the body is like the Dong body, its glaze is thick and the sound is like a chime, bright but not dazzling.
The surface of the vessel is a small opening piece of cicada wing pattern, which has the characteristics of "pear skin, crab claw, sesame flower", and is called "like jade, non-jade, and better than jade" by the world. Since the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, the court Ru porcelain utensils, the inner library is hidden, regarded as a treasure, and Shang Yi Zhou Ding is more expensive. It is called "even if you have a lot of wealth, it is not as good as a piece of porcelain".
It was only 20 years before and after the kiln opening, and because the firing time was short, there were not many generations, and in the Southern Song Dynasty, Ru kiln porcelain was already very rare. There are less than 100 genuine works that have been handed down to this day, and only 87 and a half are known, including 17 pieces in the National Palace Museum in Taipei, 19 pieces in the Forbidden City in Beijing, 8 pieces in the Shanghai Museum, 7 pieces in the David Chinese Art Foundation in the United Kingdom, about 10 pieces scattered in museums and private collections in the United States and Japan, and two pieces scattered in Chinese mainland and half in a museum.
There are less than 10 museums in the world that have a collection of Ru kiln porcelain. In 1992, an 8-centimeter-diameter Ru kiln plate sold for $1.54 million at an auction at Sotheby's in New York. Later, at an auction in Hong Kong, a Ru kiln three sacrifices set a sky-high price of 50 million Hong Kong dollars.
On April 4, 2012, Sufby, Hong Kong held an auction of "Chinese porcelain and handicrafts", and the 900-year-old "Northern Song Dynasty Ru Kiln Azure Glazed Sunflower Wash" was sold at a sky-high price of 207.86 million Hong Kong dollars after 34 bids, which was more than 3 times higher than the reserve price before the auction, setting a new world auction record for Song porcelain and one of Qiu Guofu's proud achievements. (To be continued.) )