Chapter 287: The Deal Is Complete

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In addition to the luodian lacquer carving, Daqi Tongbao, there are two calligraphy and paintings, and one porcelain. One of the calligraphy and paintings is Lang Shining's "Hundred Horses", a foreign oil painting, Van Gogh's sunflowers, and the other is a rabbit and mouse whisker of the Song Dynasty.

The first is Lang Shining's "Hundred Horses", Fang Qi has seen three of Lang Shining's works, one is the twelve porcelain plate paintings in his own hands, "Yongzheng December Old Summer Palace Pleasure Map", which is painted Yongzheng and his children in the Old Summer Palace to share the joy of family scenes, with the Old Summer Palace as the background, reflecting the original true appearance of the Old Summer Palace.

The twelve porcelain panel paintings are mainly enamel color, the fetal quality is white and firm, and the structure is tight and delicate, just like Hetian beautiful jade. The glaze with a turmeric base exudes a solemn and elegant royal atmosphere, elegant and noble. Moreover, the background of the painting, the scene is grand, the scenery is beautiful, the painting is delicate, and the characters are expressive, which is definitely a priceless treasure at that time.

As for the other one, it was a green sheep picture from the recent treasure appreciation conference, which also caused a sensation at that time, in addition to Fang Qi's collection.

And this picture of a hundred horses is even better than the picture of the green sheep. Horses are often used as a symbol of talent, and horsemen represent officials who govern the people. Paintings depicting Gunma are often used to honor national strength.

The earliest surviving masterpiece is the Northern Song Dynasty Li Gonglin's imitation of the Tang Dynasty Wei Yan's copy of the "Linwei Yan Grazing Map", in which there are more than 1,000 horses and more than 100 grooms, showing the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty and the prosperity of the country. And now there are also Xu Beihong's eight horses and so on.

This painting has a narrative structure in which the three skinny horses appear in the front, middle and back sections of the painting as the protagonists. The frontispiece depicts a groom resting near a tent and a horse resting under a tree, while the middle section depicts and combines the various postures of the horses, with a galloping groom and a horse in the distance, and the last section ends with a bathing horse.

As the skinny horse went from being isolated to being domesticated to the image of other strong horses. It outlines the process of talent being recruited into the imperial court under foreign rule.

No two horses are the same, and each one has a different posture. The horses resting on the ground alone lie on their sides, on their backs, on their backs, on their backs, and so on. According to different angles and the rotation of various parts of the body to create a variety of images, it is conceivable that Lang Shining, who was about forty years old at the time, had made many sketches of horses and left many sketches of horses.

But beyond the actual sketching. Some of the images in the painting are still from ancient Chinese horse paintings, such as the itchy horse in Zhao Yong's "Horse Picture", or the thin horse in Gong Kai's "Horse Bone Picture". Therefore, "Hundred Horses" can be regarded as Lang Shining's attempt and challenge to the tradition of painting horses, and it is also one of his masterpieces.

However, when Fang Qi touched the paper, his face suddenly changed, and he didn't use his ability, with his current vision. Just now, I was 90% sure that it was genuine. But as soon as he touched the paper, the information about the age that came to his hand was only a dozen years, which made his heart suddenly feel turbulent.

Gao Fang, Fang Qi looked at this painting solemnly, and didn't use his ability to find out the flaws in it, but after ten minutes, Fang Qi still found nothing. And Fang Qi also had a middle-aged man sweating profusely by his side.

Because of the atmosphere brought by Fang Qi's solemnity, it gave him a lot of pressure. He didn't expect that Fang Qi's face suddenly changed, and he didn't let go of his brows after looking at it for ten minutes. I couldn't help but sigh after that.

"Mr. Fang, what do you think of this painting?" Hearing that man's words, Fang Qi shook his head and said:

"Is this a high imitation, or a modern high imitation, just find a collector in country M to sell. Look at the next piece. Hearing Fang Qi's words, the man was stunned for a moment, not expecting that he was really moving in the direction he imagined. But Fang Qi said that this high imitation will not be genuine.

"Mr. Fang, this is Van Gogh's sunflowers. Look? Hearing the man's words, Fang Qi did not immediately touch and take the thing, but watched the man open the painting, which was a painting of twelve sunflowers

Van Gogh's twelve sunflowers are usually thought to be Van Gogh, and he used twelve to represent the twelve disciples of Christ. For Van Gogh, the sunflower was the best subject for expressing his thoughts. Summer is short, and the flowering period of sunflowers is not long, Van Gogh also ended his short life like a sunflower, and it should be appropriate to call him a sunflower painter.

Van Gogh's art was great, yet it was not socially recognized during his lifetime. His works contain a profound sense of tragedy, his strong personality and unique pursuit of form, far ahead of the generation, and it is indeed difficult to be accepted by the people of the time. He used the environment to grasp the object, and he re-changed reality in order to achieve the real reality, which contributed to the birth of Expressionism.

When people misunderstood him the most, it was when he had the most confidence in his creation. As a result, he left behind a work of art that will last forever. He directly influenced Fauvism in France and Expressionism in Germany, to the lyrical abstract portraiture that emerged in the early 20th century.

In his first works, the mood was often low, but later, a large number of his works became low and loud and bright, as if to use cheerful songs to comfort the suffering of the world, in order to express his strong ideals and hopes.

"He spent all his energy pursuing one of the simplest and most ordinary things in the world, which is the sun." Not only are his paintings full of bright colors in the sun, but he also depicts the sun itself downwards more than once, and several times he depicts sunflowers. If people truly love each other, life will last forever. That's what Van is. High aspirations and beliefs

"Sunflowers" is painted in a brilliant combination of yellow colors, which can be called the embodiment of Van Gogh and can also be said to be his masterpiece. Intense golden yellow is often the dominant color in his paintings, as Van Gogh's fiery personality fell in love with the sun, the birthplace of warm colours.

The sun became the object of his praise, and its light seemed yellow to him. The yellow petals are like the sun radiating dazzling light, and the golden petals give people a warm feeling, which makes Van Gogh full of passion to paint those flowers facing the sun. The stamens are painted fiery red, like a fiery ball of fire.

The heavy brushstrokes make the picture sculptural, and the dazzling yellow color fills the whole picture, causing people to be greatly invigorated. Giving full play to the emotional factor of color and making it an important means for him to express his thoughts and feelings is an important feature of Van Gogh's art.

"It's a rare piece of genuineness, a good thing." Hearing Fang Qi's words, the man couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, if this thing was fake, he was worried that Fang Qi was deliberately finding fault.

And the last one is the rabbit and mouse whiskers. The rabbit and rat whiskers had an extremely glorious 'history' in the Song Dynasty, and it was named after its silky flow patterns. Although it is a tea drinker, the rabbit and mouse whiskers are much larger than the teacups and teacups in our concept, and they are comparable to the bowls that people in G City eat. And the value is also extremely high.

The shape of this rabbit and mouse whisker is plain, the color is not gorgeous, the temperament is dignified, dark brown, almost black, and outsiders may think that it is a farmer's rice bowl when they look at it. However, a closer look can tell that its glaze is delicate and moist, faintly flashing dark blue and light brown like rat's whiskers, and the bottom is engraved with the word "for the emperor". Tap it like a wooden sound.

Song Huizong once said, 'The cup is green and green, and the rabbit is the best'. Due to the thick fetal bones of the rabbit and rat whiskers, the tea is not easy to cool.

At that time, the aesthetic realm of the Song Dynasty, which advocated nature and simplicity, was extremely high, so the Jianyang tea cup with a strong folk atmosphere prevailed, and it was as famous as Ding, Jun, and Ge, which showed the preciousness of this tea cup, at least it was also a thing for the upper-class social figures.

During the Tang and Song dynasties, the tea ceremony was quite prosperous, but at that time, it was not like making tea now, but boiling tea. At that time, the tribute tea was to grind the delicate tea buds 16 times, dry each time, add water, and then roast it with a simmer for seven days and nights to become a paste tea. After so many processes, the tea brewed is as white as snow, and the black and brown color of the rabbit and mouse whiskers are in harmony, so at that time there was a saying that "the tea is white, and it is appropriate to be black".

The famous rabbit and rat whiskers of the Song Dynasty have not survived much, and they are extremely rare in public and private collections at home and abroad. Moreover, there is an inscription at the bottom of this cup, and even the rabbit and mouse whiskers in the collection of the Palace Museum do not have the word 'for the emperor', which can be called a national treasure. Moreover, the information from Fang Qi's hand indicates that this is a tea cup fired for the emperor by the official kiln of Jianyang in the Southern Song Dynasty, which is recorded in history.

In fact, many of the collections are the most popular things in ancient times, whether it is the blue and white of the official kiln, or enamel color, snuff bottles, calligraphy and painting, lacquer carving, the value at that time was not ordinary people can play. There were also all kinds of weapons, things that were really valuable, and they had to be valuable at the time.

As the saying goes, the premise of a valuable antique is that it is worth a lot back then, and the big bowl used by the average farmer will not be worth much in another 2000. Just like appreciating treasures some time ago, many of the things Fang Qi saw were ordinary supplies during the Republic of China, and they were not worth anything at all. Even the ordinary plowshares left behind by the Song Dynasty can only be regarded as cultural relics, and collectors do not have much to want.

Of course, it would be a different matter if the emperor used it to plow the land, and there were some things that were given special meanings, such as the Nine Curved Beads. This thing was a rare thing at that time, and it can be said that if this thing appeared in the Ming and Qing dynasties, with the fame of Confucius, this thing would also be priceless.

"Hehe, I'm very satisfied with these things, in the future, our deal is completed, if nothing happens, we don't want to see you again." Hearing Fang Qi's words, the man couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, looking at the only painting in his hand that had been returned, they could make a fortune again, after all, the value of this hundred horse diagram was not low, no matter how bad it was, it would be at least tens of millions of things. (To be continued......)