Chapter 121: Wholesale Bronze Mirrors
When the young man put it away, the back of the bronze mirror was facing up, Wu Di frowned and glanced at it, and picked it up. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info This mirror is about ten centimeters in diameter, dark yellow, no patina, and at first glance it looks the same as new. The style is a round button, no button base, wide flat edge, and a story painting on the back. On the left side of the picture is a large tree with branches extending to the button. Under the tree stood a man and a woman, and the man was bowing his hands. The flowers and grass are thick, the river is rippling, a few lambs are jumping and playing, and there is a horse waiter standing by the river. It tells the story of Liu Yi's biography.
Wu Di looked at the front again, delicate and bright, and the light could shine on people. He took the bronze mirror in his hand and asked:
"Do you usually surf the Internet?"
The young man didn't expect him to ask this suddenly, and he was stunned for a moment before replying,
"Yes, but not long."
"I think it's the same, this mirror has been exhibited in the Forbidden City, but I didn't expect it to flow into your hands now, hahahaha!"
The young man scratched the back of his head in embarrassment, took out a bronze mirror, put it in front of Wu Di, and said:
"Brother, look at this again, the absolute Song Mirror boutique!"
Wu Di saw that it was also a story mirror, the size, system and newness were similar to the Liu Yi biography, and it was also a round button, but the pattern was different. On the right side of the round button, several pine trees are born next to the mountain rocks, high can reach the sky, the branches and leaves are luxuriant, a person kneeling under the tree, wearing a high-crowned robe, the left hand pulls the wide sleeve edge, and the right hand leads water to wash the ears. A man by the water boon, holding a cow in both hands, staring ahead, as if talking to the earwasher. It expresses the legend of Xu Youchao's father in ancient times.
Wu Di took the two mirrors in his hands, compared them, and put down Liu Yi's writing mirror. These two mirrors have several common features, both of which are thick and heavy, delicate copper, clear ornamentation, and excellent plate molds. In particular, this mirror of Xu Youchao's father adopts a variety of techniques, cleverly matching light water ripples and high-relief figures and trees, with a strong sense of three-dimensionality, highlighting the vivid storyline.
Wu Di put down the mirror with a smile and asked:
"Boss, is there anything else?"
"Brother, how about you talk about these two first?"
"It's as good as new, it's exquisite, and if you still have it, I'm going to get a batch and put it in my own store."
When the young man heard this, he made a gesture to put away the two mirrors, and said angrily:
"You can eat indiscriminately, but you can't talk nonsense! How can you say that my mirror is new? ”
"Don't worry, I'm serious, my uncle has a small shop in Panjiayuan, it's not a trivial matter to eat your two mirrors, hurry up and make a price!"
"Ten thousand euros!"
"Ten thousand euros for two mirrors?"
"Ten thousand on one side!"
"Ten thousand on one side? 10,000 is enough to buy ten or eight of these mirrors! By the way, the mirror is really beautiful, do you have more? If you have one, give me one, and I'll go back and open a counter. ”
"Eight ten thousand euros? Are you sure you're not bluffing me? ”
Wu Di frowned when he heard this, there was really still one?
"I'll do the math, eight 10,000 euros, I'll process it again, and each one can be sold for ...... Okay, you can take it out, as long as it's about the same as these two, I want as much as I want! ”
The young man took out a large package from under the shelf, picked up a small package from it and threw it in front of Wu Di, and said:
"Plus those two, a total of seventeen, I won't take advantage of you, twenty-one thousand euros, pay the money."
Wu Di opened the package and took it out one by one to watch, the more he looked at it, the more excited he became, this bronze mirror of Jin and Song can also be wholesaled?
There are a total of fifteen copper mirrors in the package, which can be roughly divided into three categories, one is round buttons, no button seats, and wide flat edges. One is the eight-out rhombic lace shape, round button, narrow plain edge. There is also a category of square mirrors, which are the least numerous, with only three sides. The colors also vary, but they can be roughly divided into two types, one is dark yellow and the other is turquoise. The size also varies, but most of them are about 10 centimeters in diameter, and only three sides are under 5 centimeters. The value and size of the bronze mirror has a lot to do with it, and it is extremely rare to have less than five centimeters and more than twenty centimeters, so the value of any one of these three small mirrors is almost as good as the sum of the other fourteen pieces!
Among the fifteen mirrors, the patterns behind the eleven mirrors are mythological stories, such as the Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea, Zhong Kui Catching Demons, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, the Boya Fuqin, the Wu Niu Panting Moon, etc., among which there are only three sides of the story mirror of the Tang Emperor's Moon Palace. There are also four sides of the realistic character story mirror such as traveling, viewing, farming, and playing.
Wu Di picked out the more serious patina on both sides and said:
"These two are too bad, they can't be calculated according to that price, and I don't take advantage of you, a total of 20,000 euros, is it interesting enough?"
The lad almost jumped to his feet and shouted:
"Poor? Dude, I really doubt you're in this business! It would be nice to be able to preserve a bronze mirror that is hundreds of years old! If you don't like these two sides, you just don't sell them! These bronze mirrors are smuggled out of my country, and this price is almost not worth you, so I will make a turnover! ”
Wu Di is very sure that the young man regards these bronze mirrors as modern imitations, and now what he says and does is acting. In that case, you might as well tease him again,
"Why isn't such a good thing on the spot? When you meet your favorite wrongdoer, don't say 10,000 euros on all sides, and someone will rob you on the 100,000 euros side? ”
"This, isn't this the right way to come?"
The young man's words flickered a little, and he cursed in his heart, it was so new, connoisseurs knew it was an imitation at a glance, can it be fucking on the auction? If you kid dare to trick me today, I won't let you get out of this street!
"Coming from the wrong way? So you're going to have trouble bringing this thing back? ”
The young man was anxious, and hurriedly said:
"There's absolutely no problem with the origin of things, I mean smuggling, smuggling!"
Wu Di did regard the story mirror of Liu Yi's biography as a fake at the beginning, mainly because preconceived ideas imprisoned his thoughts. It is said that no two porcelains are the same, but who says that bronze must be the same? This kind of thing made from molds can be mass-produced! It's rare now, but it's just because it's not easy to keep! He made the same mistake as the lad!
Antique identification is like this, once it is determined that something is fake, then it must be more and more fake, that represents the value of the bronze mirror exquisite carving, exquisite composition has become evidence of fraud, with the current metal processing technology, what can not be done?
It wasn't until the two mirrors were in his hands at the same time that he had a trace of suspicion, and he launched the book of heaven to give it a try, knowing that he had lost his eyes. Then it was a sentence of random bargaining, who knew that it would lead to such a large number of precious gold and Song bronze mirrors!
Wu Di has used the Book of Heaven to inspect every mirror, and found a lot of surprises from it, these mirrors are not only not fake, but also extremely precious, because several of them are actually treasures used by concubines recorded in the history books!
"Are you sure these weren't dug out of the ground?"
Wu Di continued to take his words to see if he could figure out the origin of these mirrors.
The young man looked helpless and said:
"Even if it is dug out of the ground, turning this big circle, it is enough to wash white, and besides, my mirror has an innocent origin, it is the treasure of a friend in China, and his old man died not long ago, and he dealt with it for me!"
The young man thought that Wu Di had already seen that these mirrors were fakes, and the reason why he still bought them was just because they were genuine, so he didn't hide them, and directly talked about the origin of these bronze mirrors.
The bronze mirror was indeed received by him from a friend in China, and the friend's father was indeed a lover of ancient mirrors, and collected many fine ancient mirrors, including the Rui Beast Portuguese Tang Mirror. The old man died unexpectedly, and did not leave a word, but his son only knew that the Portuguese mirror was a treasure, but he had little confidence in so many similar small mirrors. After all, according to common sense, if you want to own any antique, luck, eyesight, and funds are indispensable.
As soon as the old man died, this guy began to deal with these collections, and when it was his turn to use this batch of bronze mirrors, he had a trace of luck in his heart, so he asked an expert to identify them. As a result, the experts said that it was all fake, and it could only be sold for a maximum of eight thousand! It happened that the young man went back to China during that time, and when he was drinking, he heard his friend talk about it, and then looked at the bronze mirror, and thought that the imitation was good, so he packed it all up and took it to Italy.
After the story was told, Wu Di judged that at least eighty percent of it was true, and he couldn't help but sigh a little, after a lifetime of hard work, he met a bad descendant and a pseudo-expert, and how much hard work was buried!
In fact, they don't know that there is a story behind this story! At that time, the young man's friend found a good level of experts, but the character was very poor, after he identified these bronze mirrors are genuine, he became greedy, and teamed up with others to perform a wonderful show, stunned to say that the seventeen gold, the precious bronze mirrors of the Song Dynasty were fakes! I was going to arrange someone to come to the door to buy it at a low price after a period of time, but I didn't expect that the agency was exhausted, and it was missed that the person happened to have a friend who was pouring antiques, and he was just in time to return to China during that period of time.
Twenty-one thousand euros bought a lot of fine bronze mirrors, Wu Di was in a very good mood, took the burden and was about to leave, the young man stopped him again,
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