Chapter 384: Bronze Bowl
The first is two modern paintings and calligraphy, one is a picture of Li Kuchan's perch, and the other is a picture of Huang Junbi's torrential rain in the mountains and streams.
Although the painting time is not very long, Li Kuchan and Huang Junbi are both relatively famous painters.
Li Kuchan is good at painting flowers and birds, broad brush freehand, pen and ink majestic, hearty, painting style to simple, majestic, bold and famous, once followed Xu Beihong to learn Western painting techniques, and then worship Qi Baishi as a teacher, fusion of Chinese and Western techniques for a furnace, often to pine, bamboo, plum, orchid, chrysanthemum, stone, lotus, fish, chicken, eagle and so on as the theme, with the pen and ink thick and bold, majestic and pressing, the attitude of the majestic vertical and horizontal, the image of the distinctive unique style, set up a new style of freehand flower and bird painting, the long screen is more eye-catching.
Huang Junbi is good at painting landscapes, has a deep traditional foundation, and has studied Western painting since he began to study Chinese painting, and is a Chinese painter who has mastered Western painting. In his early years, his influence in the painting world is considered to be as famous as Zhang Daqian.
Although these two painters are already very famous, Yu Fei doesn't know much about modern paintings, so when Song Xicai asked him if he wanted to make a move, Yu Fei just said that he couldn't see it accurately.
Song Xicai thought that Yu Fei saw that something was wrong, so he reminded himself with "can't see accurately", so he didn't make a move.
In the end, these two paintings were obtained by the same person for 200,000 and 380,000 respectively, in fact, many people know very well that the main purpose of their visit this time is not for these paintings, but for the most precious jade watermelon and Gu Kaizhi's "Luo Shen Futu" during Cixi's lifetime.
The prices of these two paintings are much lower than the prices at auctions outside, which is one of the reasons why many people are willing to participate in such fairs.
The trade fair is not going on with fire. Lao Xiao is not in a hurry, most buyers will be very low-key at the beginning, that is because the things they are interested in have not yet appeared. He believes that the next antiques may make the buyers on the scene go crazy!
"Here's a bronze cup." Lao Xiao said. Because of the state's regulations, the trade of bronzes is very small, so many people have come to the spirit, including Song Xicai.
"What's going on, Brother Song? Aren't you a collector of paintings and calligraphy? Why did you become interested in bronzes? Yu Fei saw that Song Xicai's eyes lit up, and said with a smile.
"Xiaofei, don't you know what your brother Song is collecting for Lu? Isn't collecting paintings and calligraphy all to pretend to be Sven? But now the collection of calligraphy and painting is not new, and if you want to collect, you will collect bronze. Some time ago, I was looking for a few bronzes. I came across one today, do you think it's fate? Song Xicai said.
Yu Fei smiled faintly and said, "Brother Song." Don't you like to listen to what I say, the things here are not safe, let's see before making a decision. ”
To say that although Yu Fei no longer has the chaotic qi now, he has not worked hard in the identification of antiques before. Therefore, the level of identification has improved considerably. He also had a special knowledge of bronzes. Therefore, if it were not for Gao Yi, Yu Fei was confident that he would be able to see the problem.
"This is a bronze bowl of the Qin State during the Warring States Period." Lao Xiao briefly introduced: "Bronze cups appeared in the early Shang Dynasty and were popular from the late Shang Dynasty to the Western Zhou Dynasty. Functionally, it belongs to a shaker. It is now recognized as the best of the human face bowl of the late Shang Dynasty, but unfortunately, this face is not currently in China, but is in the collection of the Ferrier Museum of Art in the United States. The bronze bowl must be an official of the rank of Hou or above to be eligible to use it, so it is a symbol of wealth and wealth. Which boss is interested in this bronze cup, you can go to the front of the stage to watch it. ”
As soon as Lao Xiao's words fell, two or three people stood up and walked to the front desk.
Song Xicai was quite moved. He's in business. Although there is a lot of money, the power is average. The origin of this bronze bowl satisfied some of his heart's desires to some extent.
Yu Fei couldn't stop it, so he also stood up and walked to the front desk with Song Xicai.
The height and width of this bronze cup are more than 20 centimeters, which is relatively small among bronze cups. Rectangular mouth, abdomen oblate and round, the center of both sides is convex, surround the pan pattern, the flow is snake-shaped, the top of the flow is decorated with the head of the beast, the mouth of the mouth is covered, the cover is in the shape of a heavy eaves roof, the phoenix bird perched on it, four flat feet. The surface part of the vessel has turquoise rust, the shape is beautiful, the decoration is clear, fine and chic, and the shape does have a typical Qin style.
There shouldn't be any problem with what Lao Xiao said, but Yu Fei always felt that something was wrong in his heart, as if he had missed something. I couldn't help but sigh in my heart, if only the chaotic qi was still there, there was no need to doubt at all, just guide a chaotic qi to investigate.
"Xiaofei, how's it going?" Song Xicai asked in a low voice.
Yu Fei made a silent gesture, and there were three or four other people watching at the front desk at the same time, so it was not suitable to talk about it.
At this time, an old man in his sixties took a good look, put away the magnifying glass and turned back to his seat.
"By the way, Brother Song, did you bring a magnifying glass?" Yu Fei asked.
"Oh, bring it!" Song Xicai hurriedly handed the magnifying glass to Yu Fei, he was inferior to Ye Jianjun in the identification of antiques, and he was all counting on Yu Fei. Although he also has a magnifying glass in his hand, it is purely an ornament, just for show.
Yu Fei took a magnifying glass and looked at the surface of the bronze cup carefully, because his age was too young, others just thought he was pretending, and one even scoffed! To know that the antique appraisal industry, just learning the theory is just useless, many people who come here today have spent a lot of money on all kinds of antique appraisal training courses, and some even went to more than one, more exaggerated and got a few qualification certificates. But when it comes to identification, these things are useless, the most important thing is to look at experience, and the more things you can get started, the level of identification will go up.
These people saw that Yu Fei's age was too young, and thought that he had only read a few books, but they didn't know that the number of antiques that Yu Fei had in his hands was probably not what they could imagine at all. Take visiting the Palace Museum as an example, ordinary tourists are not allowed to get started at all, but Yu Fei is different, with the aura of chaos, as long as he wants, any antique, no matter how tightly preserved, he can play with it. So his eyesight is also constantly improving, although he still doesn't have much confidence in himself, but with his current appraisal ability, it is not too much to be named an appraiser.
"Huh? What is it? Yu Fei's eyes suddenly froze, and then he understood what was going on.
"Brother Song, shall we go back?" Yu Fei straightened up and said.
"Don't look at it anymore?" Song Xicai said uneasily. Because Yu Fei only looked at it for a few seconds with a magnifying glass, it seemed that he was just making a look.
Yu Fei didn't answer but returned to his position on his own, and Song Xicai also followed.
Because it took a long time to watch, some people in the audience couldn't bear to urge.
"I said Lao Xiao, don't grind, time, time!" A middle-aged man who was obviously familiar with Lao Xiao looked at his watch after speaking. His goal was Cixi's emerald watermelon, but he didn't want to waste time on them.
"How's this thing? Can you make a move? Lao Xiao has already announced that the bidding has begun, and Song Xicai is quite moved.
"This thing is an imitation." Seeing that no one was paying attention to the left and right, Yu Fei whispered in Song Xicai's ear.
"Imitation?" Song Xicai was surprised, but fortunately, Fei Yan quickly blocked his mouth in time.
"How is that possible? I looked full of real. Song Xicai said.
"It's not surprising that you can't find it, this bronze green paint looks very old, and the ornamentation is very clear, and it does look like an old object. But in fact, it is just a high imitation. Because it has a fatal flaw, the fan soil on this bronze bowl was put in the back. And I just used a magnifying glass to see that it was white. Yu Fei said.
"White?" Song Xicai asked suspiciously: "What does white mean?" ”
"The white description is a big problem." Yu Fei explained: "Ancient bronzes were all made of pottery, so it is impossible for them to be white at all. The white color is quartz sand, and this bronze bowl should have been made after liberation. ”
"What?" Song Xicai was very surprised. He didn't expect that this bronze bowl with such a simple shape would be made after liberation, and he didn't expect that there would be imitations at such a trade fair!
Yu Fei is not surprised at all, now the counterfeiters are experts, they know very well what aspects the identification experts will identify, so they have done targeted tricks, ordinary collectors can't find it at all if they keep the experience taught by experts! Moreover, there are fakes even at Sotheby's auctions, so what's so strange about fakes appearing in such a private transaction? (To be continued......)
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