It was a Saturday, and the school tour party went to the Panjiayuan Market again, observing around as usual, hoping to earn some pocket money. Although his savings are enough for a while, he can't sit in the classroom every day. At this time, the PHS in the trouser pocket suddenly rang, and when I took it out, it was a strange number that I had never seen before.

The call was from Wu Pingdong, who met for the first time a year ago, and You Fang gave him his PHS number, but he didn't expect the old gentleman to keep it. On the phone, Wu Lao asked him what he was doing, was he free? You Fang hurriedly replied: "It's okay, just hang out outside, Professor Wu has anything to say." ”

Wu Pingdong politely invited You Fang to his home, wanted to ask him for help if he had something, and told him the detailed address on the phone. You Fang picked up the phone and left immediately, took a taxi, took the subway, and then took a taxi to arrive at Wu Lao's residence near Yanyuan as quickly as possible.

Wu Pingdong lives alone in Yanjing, and his wife was also an accomplished cultural relics worker, and the two were college classmates when they were young, and their relationship was once very good. Later, his wife went to the United States for further study, and then found an opportunity to stay in the United States, and got a green card a few years later. With a wealth of professional knowledge and the savings left by his ancestors, he engaged in the antique industry, and his business is getting better and better, and he opened an antique dealer in New York more than ten years ago, called Jade Chong Pavilion.

As the saying goes, distance produces beauty, but if the distance is too far away and the separation time is too long, the beauty will disappear. His wife asked Wu Pingdong to go to the United States to develop a career with her many times, but Wu Pingdong insisted on staying in Yanyuan. When the wife officially became an American citizen and the Jade Chong Pavilion was successfully opened, the couple divorced, and there was no quarrel about the breakup peacefully, but each other's fate came to an end. Wu Pingdong also has a daughter, who grew up and was educated in the United States, and is a typical banana person.

Wu Pingdong's home is elegantly furnished, but it is a bit messy, with books and various pictures everywhere. Wu Pingdong opened the door to welcome him in, and You Fang saw two antiques on the coffee table in the living room, a black glazed porcelain jar and a bean green glazed porcelain bowl. You Fang was stunned, and instinctively felt that there was something wrong with these two things, so he went directly to the coffee table as soon as he entered the house.

Wu Lao sat down on the sofa and asked with a smile: "It's really from an antique worm, as soon as I entered the house, I rushed to the two of them, did you see something, is it true or false?" ”

You Fang was very cautious this time, did not speak easily, put on a pair of white gloves on the coffee table, held two things and looked at them carefully, and then said: "You can't simply say whether it is true or false, one is a real porcelain and a fake, and the other is a half-truth." ”

Wu Pingdong sighed: "Make it clear, I'll listen to you." ”

You Fang pointed to the black glaze jar and said: "This is something from the Yaozhou kiln of the Northern Song Dynasty, not a fake, but its shape is relatively peculiar, round at the bottom and narrow at the top, which does not conform to the style of the vessel at that time." In fact, it is not a porcelain jar, but a porcelain vase with a neck and a mouth edge, the mouth edge of the bottle-shaped vessel is the most easily defective in circulation, it has been cut off from the neck and re-ground to become a porcelain jar that looks intact. ”

Then he pointed to the bean green glazed porcelain bowl and said: "This bowl only has the bottom of the circle foot is real, the upper bowl body is modern splicing, the technique is very ingenious, there is no trace of splicing on the surface, but I have seen this kind of sticking." If you don't believe it, boil it in alkaline water overnight, and then take it out and put it on the fire to roast, and the bottom of the whole bowl will fall off. ”

Wu Pingdong looked at his watch and nodded slightly in surprise: "What you said is good, it only took a minute and a half, and it was just an eye, I didn't take any instruments, not even a magnifying glass!" ”

You Fang smiled shyly: "Actually, it's not exactly the use of eyes, if you have experience, you will be proficient, and if the shape of the jar is wrong, it is a flaw." The soles of the porcelain bowls are the thickest, and they are the easiest to preserve among the remaining porcelain tiles, and they are usually used by counterfeiters, because the bottom has a real sense of style, and even the insiders are easy to eye. ”

Wu Pingdong asked: "You just said that the splicing technique of this bowl is very skillful, and there are no traces on the surface, how did you see it?" ”

You Fang stretched out his middle finger and flicked it at the mouth of the bowl: "Although the traces of the splicing are invisible, the glaze of the bowl body and the bottom of the bowl is still slightly different. ”

Wu Pingdong was really surprised this time, sat up and approached and asked, "It's okay to listen to the voice!" Why can't I hear it? ”

You Fang smiled: "Ordinary people can't hear it, just look at the glaze." This requires a lot of repeated experiential comparisons of genuine products, and requires not only a keen sense of hearing, but also a mastery of the rhythm. Speaking of this, he inexplicably remembered his father You Zuming, who was proficient in guqin music, not only a hobby of elegance, but also a "professional" skill, while continuing to say: "Professor Wu didn't invite me to see these two things, right?" At your level, you won't be blinded by them, and if you really accidentally walk away, tell me what's going on, and maybe there is a way to recover your losses. ”

Wu Pingdong shook his head: "Do you think I bought it from Panjiayuan?" Mistakenly, a while ago, the police smashed a cultural relics counterfeiting and smuggling gang, and confiscated a batch of real and fake things, these two pieces of porcelain I took out from the warehouse of the Cultural Relics Bureau, and planned to be used for teaching purposes, and the few graduate students I brought with me practiced their eyes. …… Although the protection of cultural relics is not the same as the appraisal of antiques, it is also necessary to have common sense and experience in this area. ”

You Fang was a little puzzled: "Then what is Professor Wu looking for me?" ”

Wu Pingdong stood up: "You don't always have to call me Professor Wu, I'm much older than you, just call Mr. Wu politely." Come with me and show you something. ”

Walking into the study, Wu Lao turned on the computer and called up a series of pictures and English materials, which showed photos of Fang Tian Qingyuyin from all angles. Above is the double dragon twist carving, below there is the yang carved straight seal six characters "the treasure of the eight signs", the surface of the lettering there are traces left by cinnabar, it turned out to be a jade seal used by the Qianlong Emperor.

You Fang frowned and asked puzzledly: "What does Wu Lao mean by this, there are too many places where the pictures on the computer can be artificially processed, and the color and pulp can't be seen at all, do you want me to identify this?" This is not possible, it needs to be in kind. ”

Wu Lao explained: "I didn't invite you here today to identify cultural relics, and this thing doesn't need to be identified by you and me, but I want to ask you something." You also mentioned that the auction of the beast head in the Old Summer Palace in the first half of the year was Christie's to set up a loophole, and Mr. Cai Mingchao made a move to disrupt the auction, the purpose was to break the game, but it answered some of my previous doubts. ”

Hearing this, You Fang immediately reacted, and couldn't help but interject: "Could it be that someone wants to auction this jade seal?" ”

Wu Pingdong nodded with appreciation: "In the middle of next month, Sotheby's London auction house will auction this jade seal, which has attracted a lot of attention, and as far as I know, there are several big buyers in Hong Kong and Macao who want to auction it back and then present it to the national cultural relics department." …… When I heard about this, I suddenly remembered a series of things in recent years, and I thought of what you said that day, and I felt that there was something strange in it. ”

In October last year (note: the conversation between the two was at the end of October 2009, and the 'last year' here refers to 2008), Sotheby's Hong Kong auction house auctioned a white jade seal of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty at a special auction, magically creating a sky-high price of 63.38 million Hong Kong dollars, which is the highest transaction record for white jade artifacts in ancient China. It is said that this jade seal was snatched by the British and French forces that year, and then various controversies and discussions continued, causing great attention and sensation.

Most Chinese know what the jade seal of the Son of Heaven symbolized in ancient times? It is sure to pique a lot of interest. If it is a bureau, then this bureau is very successful, because in the next short period of time, ancient Chinese jade seals appeared one after another in the international auction market, and all of them were Qing palace jade seals-

In April 2009, Paris auctioned a jade seal of Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, which was bought by a Chinese for 16.8 million yuan.

Not long ago, in September 2009, a topaz seal of Qianlong Tian of the Qing Dynasty was auctioned in New York, and it is said that it sold for more than 40 million yuan.

Soon after, in mid-November 2009, this Qing Qianlong "Eight Expeditions Treasure of Remembrance" Tian Qing jade seal appeared and will be auctioned at Sotheby's London auction house.

Wu Laogang said this, You Fang interjected and reminded: "You missed a piece, in June last year, a 'Treasure of Kangxi's Imperial Pen' Panlong Jade Seal was auctioned for 5.6 million euros in France, equivalent to nearly 60 million yuan, and suddenly created an amazing transaction price." That is the so-called 'first surprise of opening the shed and rejuvenating the gang' in the 'intra-disc ball game' of the Jianghu technique. ...... the 'threshold' was settled, and then in October last year, the 'Qianlong Imperial Pen' Bai Yuxi you just mentioned was pushed to the auction in Hong Kong and sold for 63.38 million Hong Kong dollars, and it has begun to fish for loopholes. Next, one after another went out in turn, and it was a jade seal that drove the whole auction, and all the other lots were borrowed, and the total turnover was very large. ”

Wu Lao nodded and said, "I also have the impression that you mention it, and I have only paid attention to the Qianlong jade seal in the past few days." fried blue and white and fried jade, Christie's and Sotheby's took turns. They are multinational art business giants, and they are inextricably linked with Western museums, private collectors, and even major consortium families, and the behind-the-scenes bosses have complex backgrounds and are very tired. ”

You Fang sneered: "Anyway, it's such a trick, it's easy to see through it." ”

Wu Lao shook his head and said, "It's not simple at all, it involves too many things." You specifically mentioned last time that Cai Mingchao stirred up the auction of the beast head in the Yellow Old Summer Palace in order to break the game. However, Mr. Cai took pictures but refused to pay, and the loss of economy, reputation, and image was very large, and this method could not be used again and again. I called you here today to ask, is there any other way to break the situation, that is, to disrupt this auction in the middle of next month? ”

You Fang was stunned, he never expected that an archaeology professor at Yenching University would want to take care of the London auction. In his impression, like the intellectuals who teach in universities, the way to meddle in things is nothing more than to write articles and appeal with emotion, and gentlemen talk without using their hands. And listening to what Wu Lao meant, his old man's plan was not to talk about it, but to really want to do it, and stirred up the auction of Sotheby's Qianlong "Eight Expeditions of the Elderly" auction in London. Is it possible for them to be old and young?

Seeing that You Fang didn't speak for a long time, just staring at the photos on the computer screen, Wu Lao sighed: "Asking this kind of question is really embarrassing for you, a child." "The implication is that there is no way to forget it, this kind of thing is really too difficult.

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