Chapter Ninety-Four: Treasure Appreciation Fun Facts (Part II)
When it was almost noon, Fang Yong saw the farmer brother he and Kang Lianbo had seen before the opening ceremony, and the eldest brother was walking towards the treasure table with his blue and white cup.
Fang Yong patted Kang Lianbo and said to him, "Xiaobo, isn't that person the one we saw in the morning with the blue and white cup?" β
Kang Lianbo said: "It's really him, I didn't expect him to come to appraisal, I don't know what his expression was when he learned that his collection was a fake." β
The eldest brother dressed as a peasant came up to the stage, put his blue and white cup on the treasure table, and said to the porcelain experts Zhang Tai and Zhang Lao: "Please let the experts identify me." β
Zhang Lao didn't look at it carefully at all, he swept it with his eyes, and only said: "Your collection is too new." β
At this time, the middle-aged man dressed as a farmer smiled and said, "Yes, I washed it with water several times before I came, it must be new!" β
When everyone heard him say this, they all burst into laughter.
But he was a little puzzled and said, "What are you laughing at?" This blue and white cup is a treasure handed down from my ancestors, and it is a blue and white cup in the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty. β
Zhang Lao smiled and asked, "How do you know that this is the Yongle Blue and White Cup of the Ming Dynasty?" β
Seeing Zhang Lao ask him, the middle-aged man dressed as a farmer said, "Don't you look at the four words written under the cup?" ββYongle year! β
At this time, Zhang Lao picked up the blue and white cup, flipped it over, and sure enough, four simplified Chinese characters were printed under the cup "Yongle Year System". Zhang Lao said with a smile: "The wisdom of the ancient working people in my country is so strong that they can even write simplified Chinese characters hundreds of years later. β
The crowd laughed again.
The middle-aged man dressed as a farmer still didn't understand, and said, "This is what I brought from my third grandfather's house when he died." If you think about it, my three grandfathers all lived to be more than 90 years old. His old man's stuff is also an old thing! And the condition is so good, how can it be valuable! β
I don't know who he learned the word "appearance" from, and he still uses it. At this time, Zhang Lao was reluctant to entangle him anymore, so he said: "This collection of yours is actually mass-produced. If you go to the porcelain market, you can buy several for a hundred dollars! β
Zhang Lao waved his hand at him and motioned for him to go down. Then ask the staff to call the next treasure bearer to come to the stage.
The middle-aged man dressed as a farmer saw that Zhang Lao asked him to go down, and his face was full of reluctance. As he walked down, he muttered, "Impossible! This is obviously something from the Ming Dynasty, and this expert is too irresponsible to even see the real treasure. "It seems that this old man is still immersed in his treasure and can't extricate himself!
Then came a young woman, dressed in a beautiful dress, straddling a small bag. walked in front of Zheng Lao, a jade identification expert, and took out a "white jade cicada" from his bag.
Put the white jade cicada on the treasure appraisal platform in front of Zheng Lao and let Zheng Lao evaluate it.
Fang Yong saw that this white jade cicada was about six centimeters long, three centimeters wide, and about 1.5 centimeters thick. The texture of white jade, the surface is slightly calcified and distributed as a whole, the carving is ancient and clumsy, full of antiquity, and the overall shape is strong and powerful, showing the chicken bone white that collectors highly respect.
Fang Yong could see at a glance that this was not an ordinary product, it was probably something from the Han Dynasty. Hurriedly opened the consciousness detection, only to see the red mist on the white jade cicada, and the light points of the aura were colorful and flowing, which was very beautiful. Absorb it into the sea of consciousness with the Divine Technique of Mind, and then listen to Zheng Lao's comments.
Zheng Lao also spoke highly of this white jade cicada, saying that this object is an antiquity of the Han Dynasty, and the edging carving is very decent.
Cicadas are in the subject matter of jade carving, almost throughout the entire history of jade carving.
The jade cicada is divided into yin and yang. The living wear it to take its auspiciousness, wear it with you, you can defend yourself and protect your body, avoid evil and protect your house; The deceased takes it in his mouth and regenerates it.
The princes and nobles of the Han Dynasty believed that people could be 'reborn' once after death, as long as a cicada-shaped item with a finely processed white jade texture was placed in the mouth of the deceased, it would be like a cicada metamorphosis into a knowledge.
In addition, the habit of "drinking dew and not eating" of the cicada is a manifestation of noble temperament, and the characteristics of its "high" hissing on the tree are homophonic with the good wishes of "high ascension".
Judging from the carving and system of the piece, your collection should be worn by the living, which can be named "Cloud Dragon Pattern White Jade Cicada", which is very symbolic and collectible.
After listening to Zheng Lao's judgment, the young woman thanked Zheng Lao. Very solemnly, he put the white jade cicada in his bag, and left the treasure platform with joy.
At noon, the organizing committee prepared a sumptuous lunch for the experts and specially invited guests, and the treasure appraisal activity was only for the weekend, and there were many treasure holders who came to appreciate the treasure. Due to the tight time, the experts were also very dedicated, had a hasty lunch, and took a short break before coming to the treasure appraisal venue.
The treasure appreciation activity was carried out in an orderly manner, and at this time, a man who looked like a boss came up, holding a long scroll in his hand, so that people could know at a glance that he was here to identify calligraphy and paintings.
He came to the front of Wang Zexian and Wang Lao, carefully untied the red rope tied to the scroll, and unfolded the painting on the treasure table in front of Wang Lao.
After Wang Lao glanced at it, his face was a little ugly, and he said to the treasure-bearer who looked like a boss: "May I ask where you got this painting from?" β
The boss didn't expect Mr. Wang to ask him like this, so he said: "A customer sent it, I see that it is very good, so I want to ask you to appraise it." β
It turned out that this was Master Xu Beihong's famous painting "Jiufang Gao", I don't know who copied it, and the copy was very unpresentable, and it was also regarded as a genuine work and flowed to the market. This collection is very easy to identify, and you don't need to look at it to know that it is fake, because the real work is now in the Xu Beihong Memorial Hall.
Wang Lao rolled up this "famous painting" slightly with his hand and said, "This one is copied, take it!" If you want to see the real thing, go to the Xu Beihong Memorial Hall to see it! β
The boss suddenly showed a look of disappointment on his face and silently left the treasure table.
At this time, Wang Lao introduced to everyone the means of counterfeiting famous calligraphy and painting.
Generally, there are three forms and ways: one is "made in the door", that is, famous relatives and students are faked; the second is "outside the door", that is, the society relies on the falsification of famous publications and exhibitions; The third is "fabrication", that is, fabrication out of thin air, but this kind of fraud is easy to be recognized.
Wang Lao said that the biggest danger hΓ i is "made in the door", which is forged by famous relatives and students, using the seals left by famous families, and this kind of fraud can be almost chaotic.
In the past, if it was said that the counterfeiter directly used ink to fake, but with the progress of science and technology, there are now high-tech counterfeiting methods such as watermark ink, computer engraving, framing and aging, and copying of old rice paper.
Finally, Wang Lao also called for the introduction of a regulatory legal system and the establishment of a regulatory agency as soon as possible, and to intensify the crackdown on and punishment of counterfeiting.