Chapter 64, Professor Tao
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"My mother, if all of these collections are real, wouldn't they be worth hundreds of trillions?" Zhou Xiaolin couldn't help but exclaim.
"Of course, it can't all be true, but that's the charm of collecting, if you can find real antiques from these collections, it proves that you have vision, luck and strength, and it will naturally make people feel very fulfilled."
Moreover, now with the improvement of living standards, every household is willing to put some decorations at home, so even fake antique collections have a market. If you don't believe me, just look at the prices of these collections. Wang Biao laughed and said that he was familiar with the road here, and obviously had been here many times before.
"Generally speaking, the identification of antiques requires the help of tools such as a magnifying glass, a condenser flashlight, and you need to look at it carefully, taking care of every part.
When using a flashlight, it is necessary to observe from different angles, and some collections have a specified viewing angle when appraising.
These are all preliminary methods, and more careful identification requires the use of modern instruments, such as spectroscopic mass spectrometers, to analyze and determine the composition and age of the collection. Wang Biao said while leading the way.
"Three, welcome. Wang Gongzi, how can you have time to bring your friends over to play today? At this time, a waiter in his thirties came over and greeted the three of them, and he still knew Wang Biao.
"Sister Peng, today I brought my two brothers over for a long time. Leave us alone, we'll just take a look at it. ”
"Prince Wang, then you can pick whatever you want, I won't accompany you if I have something." The waiter surnamed Peng smiled and nodded, and went to greet a few guests who had just entered the door.
At this time, Lin Fan and Zhou Xiaolin had already come to the edge of the hall, looked at those antique and antique items, and found that their prices were actually not expensive, ranging from hundreds of yuan to tens of millions, and the most expensive ones were only tens of thousands of yuan.
"It's so cheap, it's really not expensive." Zhou Xiaolin shouted.
"Yes, as you can see from the price, there shouldn't be anything good on this floor, right? Truly antiques can't be so cheap. Lin Fan also nodded.
"The hall on this floor is full of ordinary collections, so the price is not too expensive. However, there are indeed some genuine items in these collections, but the proportion is very small, and even if they are genuine, the age is not too old, and the appreciation space is relatively small, mainly to meet the purpose of ordinary people's home furnishings.
The collection on the second floor above is even more precious, and the price is tens of thousands, and even tens of millions. Every time I came with my uncle, he would take me up to the second floor, because there was a special treasure smashing field on the second floor.
As for the third floor, I haven't been to it either, but I've heard the uncle say that all of them are genuine, and they can be traded or exchanged, but the price is ridiculously expensive, and ordinary people can't afford to collect them. Wang Biao explained to them.
"Smashing the treasure field? What do you mean? Sure enough, Lin Fan and Zhou Xiaolin were both interested in this after hearing this.
"That is, if you decide that a piece of collection is completely fake, you can smash it on the spot, and then the store will accompany you to lose everything. But if you smash the real thing, you have to pay the store twice the money. This activity is actually a test of a person's eyesight and insight, but there are very few people who really have the courage to smash treasures, but they can occasionally be encountered, so Jizhen Museum has attracted many guests. ”
After listening to Wang Biao's explanation, Lin Fan and Zhou Xiaolin were a little incredulous, they didn't expect that there would be people playing treasure like this. However, presumably such a person is either a real appraiser, or he is panicked with a lot of money, but this idea borrowed a program from Huayang TV.
Just then, an old man with gray hair came in with five or six people. What made Lin Fan and the others feel strange was that the men and women around the old man were relatively young, only about two or three years older than Lin Fan and the others.
"You see, this is a ceramic collection, in the identification of ceramic products produced in different eras and different regions of different kilns have their own different style characteristics, such as the use of raw materials, fire modeling and decoration techniques.
Even if you use modern technology to imitate a fake, as long as you carefully observe and compare, you will still find that the fake is a completely consistent imitation.
Common methods to identify authenticity are: to see whether the knife method is smooth and natural; The glaze has no dazzling floating light; Rubbing with animal skins can reveal very fine lines; The rust on the antique ceramics that are actually unearthed has penetrated into the porcelain, and the rust on the imitation can be removed after repeated wiping; Listening to the sound, the porcelain is different due to the different age of the raw material kiln, and the sound of percussion is also different.
It should be noted that sometimes counterfeiters will adopt the technique of "splicing" in order to achieve the effect of fake and real, that is, a piece of porcelain is made of real and fake parts, usually this happens on some incomplete genuine products.
Among the porcelain, the Yuan blue and white enamel porcelain is particularly precious, but the surviving genuine products are rare, it can be said that nine out of ten pieces circulating on the market are fakes or defects. ”
Hearing that the old man was explaining the method of identifying ceramic collections, Lin Fan and the three of them also listened carefully beside him, while Wang Biao nodded again and again: "This senior should be a professor at a certain school, and he is very pertinent." ”
"Beauty, which school are you from?" At this time, Zhou Xiaolin actually began to hook up with a girl standing next to him.
The girl turned her head sideways to look at the three of them, her eyes stayed on Lin Fan's body the most, and then she said with a smile on her face: "We are graduate students from the Department of Archaeology of East China University, and we came over with Professor Tao today to learn some knowledge about identifying antiques. Why, are you also students? Which school? ”
"We're from Eastern State University, but we're only in our junior year. Or senior sister, you are amazing, don't you have to deal with ancient tombs when you study archaeology, aren't you afraid? Seeing that the girl's eyes kept looking at him, Lin Fan had to answer her hard, making Zhou Xiaolin secretly depressed next to him, while Wang Biao covered his mouth and snickered.
"I know the most about ceramics, but I also know a little bit about other antique collections, so I'm going to share the most basic knowledge with you today. If you want to become a collector in the future, you should go down and work hard.
Ancient jade has heirloom jade and unearthed jade, heirloom jade is the jade by several generations of collection and play, generally maintain the original color, these jade have a certain history to follow, we can use this according to the type of jade pulp source technology and other aspects of one by one.
The other is unearthed jade, which has been unearthed and flowed into the market in recent years for some reasons, because they have been buried underground for a long time, and usually produce Qin color due to the influence of groundwater, soil environment, etc.
If it is really an ancient jade unearthed after many years of burial, if you smell it carefully, there will be some earthy smell, and if it has been soaked in chemical potions, it will have a pungent smell.
There are also particularly cruel counterfeiters who will heat the jade and poke it directly into the body of the animal to form a blood stain, in this case, it is necessary to distinguish from the surface of the jade, the cracks, the red silk texture, etc.
In addition, the pulp of jade is also a very important identification point. The pulp formed by ancient jade in the long historical process is very natural and beautiful, and the pulp produced by people will inevitably be a little loose, and it is difficult to achieve completely natural formation. ”
At this time, Professor Tao led the students to the jade collection area on the other side, and pointed to some of the jade objects inside to introduce them. And Lin Fan and the three of them were fine, so they followed behind and listened to Professor Tao's lecture.
Although Professor Tao also saw the three of them, he didn't say anything, and continued to explain the relevant antique appraisal knowledge, because these are the most basic, and they may be found in a random bookstore.
"To identify calligraphy and painting collections, we should observe and identify them from the aspects of paper and ink/color, painting style, and smoothness of brushstrokes.
First of all, you need to have a good understanding of the author's stylistic skills in each period, and it is best to look at some of his works that have been confirmed as authentic in museums and other places, to understand his habits, and even to observe the seals he used.
Sometimes, the imitator may copy the author's calligraphy and painting style quite well, but when using the seal, there are flaws because of the ink.
Paper is a link that can be easily faked, such as yellowing, breakage, wrinkles and other historical traces are common old methods.
Generally speaking, the ancients paid attention to ink, especially the masters, who had a collection of high-quality ink, even after experiencing the vicissitudes of history, if you smell it carefully, you will still distinguish the comfortable fragrance of the good ink of the deep years and the slightly pungent smell of modern imitation ink.
In addition, you also need to understand the historical process of some materials used in calligraphy and painting. For example, before the Tang Dynasty, there were only scroll murals, and after the Tang Dynasty, there were vertical scrolls; In the period of the Later Tang Dynasty, there were cloth murals (silk wooden frames).
The frame was introduced to China after the Republic of China. Knowing this history can help you easily spot it when you are fooled by sellers.
There is another situation that needs to be noted, that is, "old paper and old ink make new paintings", in which case it depends entirely on how much you know about the writer. Although Professor Tao only popularized some antique appraisal knowledge, the three of them gained a lot, including Wang Biao, and they also felt that they benefited a lot.
"Today, I'll take you to the second floor to see, there is a treasure smashing field here, I heard that there happens to be a Tibetan friend who is going to smash treasure here today, I got their invitation, so I took the opportunity to bring you over to see and see." At this time, Professor Tao suddenly said the purpose of bringing the students over today, causing Lin Fan and the three of them to look at each other, and then their eyes lit up.
Wang Biao just said before, there is a treasure smashing field here, Lin Fan and Zhou Xiaolin felt interesting, they didn't expect something to happen occasionally, but today they actually let them encounter it, so naturally they have to see it. >