Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 909 Inspection Work

The organizer of the Paris Antique Biennale is the French National Antique Traders Association (SNA). According to tradition, SNA has always adhered to a strict and professional commitment to exhibitors.

Therefore, in each exhibition, the committee responsible for supervising exhibits will make strict regulations on art and antique exhibitors, so as to ensure that each exhibit has an impeccable standard.

Of course, in this kind of place, the exhibits of various companies are naturally selected from the best, so so many people have been busy for a whole day to find out that there are only two or three things that are wrong.

One of them was an antique claiming to be made of legal ivory, but it was identified that the ivory was obviously hunted and processed after the international ban was promulgated, so it was immediately removed from the counter and called the police.

After all, the organizer of this event is a French official organization, so it is necessary to carry out a completely legal process to deal with this kind of public illegal situation.

As for the other dagger made of bronze, although it looked very real, after simple research, they found that although this sword looked real, it was not.

Or to be precise, the sword body itself is real, but the gold pattern inlaid on it was made by later generations using traditional techniques, and it is not a real original part.

I have to say that the person who made this thing is indeed cautious enough, at least all the techniques are the oldest, and because gold will not oxidize under normal circumstances, it is really difficult to see the problem.

But in the end, the other party was still very secretive, and Liang En discovered the problem because the purity of the inlaid gold did not match the era of the sword.

However, this cannot be too harsh on the craftsman who completed the work in this area. After all, from the appearance point of view, the difference is very small. If Liang En had not obtained the cards made by jewelry, he would not have seen the problem at all.

It must be said that it is indeed possible for this thing to break through layers of fortifications and finally appear in this exhibition as a fake. After all, the experts here cannot be good at everything, so the possibility of missing this cultural relic Not small.

As for the third thing, it is controversial: it is a stone sculpture carved from white marble, and the content is a statue of the Virgin, but the problem is that there are some traces on the stone sculpture that look like traces of modern machinery.

Some people think that this thing itself has problems, but some people don't think so, but neither side has produced evidence that can convince others.

So without any conclusions, they finally chose to temporarily remove this thing from the exhibition to avoid certain problems in the future.

Fortunately, there is basically nothing wrong with the rest of the items except for these items, and this once again proves that the Paris Antiques Biennale is the top of similar exhibitions.

The inspection work lasted until the afternoon of the day before the exhibition, and Liang En did not go to rest after all the work was completed, but communicated with his own booths.

The result of the exchange is very gratifying. The overall situation of both the Duris family and Lacloche is very good, and the overall preparations are of high quality.

More importantly, Liang En can also find that the jewelry he designed before has become the main focus of this competition, and they are all placed in the most conspicuous places of the booth.

Among them, on display at the Duris family is a set of Atlantis-inspired jewelry designed by Liang En, made of sapphires, aquamarines, spinels, baroque pearls, tourmalines and tanzanites.

Different from the rococo court style jewelry at Lacloche, this set of jewelry adopts a lot of ancient Greek jewelry styles, which is simple yet romantic.

Among them, the simplicity comes from an imitation of the excavated ancient jewelry styles, while the romance comes from various ancient Greek legends.

For example, the brooch in this set of jewelry is made of gold glaze, shaped like a sea dragon, and the core part is made up of two baroque pearls.

The so-called baroque pearls are not round and long as you like. Ordinary baroque pearls are generally not expensive, but this kind of thing often becomes a treasure for designers to show off their skills.

This happens because there are no second pearls of this kind in nature, so for designers, every piece they make is an orphan.

For Liang En, the design of such jewelry is also related to this characteristic of Baroque pearls. For example, in this sea dragon sea dragon brooch, the smaller pearls are used to demonstrate the connection between the tail and the body, while the larger pearls serve as sea dragons. main part.

Although the two special-shaped pearls look ordinary, they look very appropriate after being placed here, and they are integrated with the whole jewelry.

At the same time, Liang En also used some brains when designing the whole piece of jewelry. For example, although this thing is a brooch, it looks like a pendant with two gold chains and several pearls hanging from it.

The reason for this is that this thing is designed to be worn on expensive brocade, so when it is allowed to swing freely, it will glow with the swaying light.

Unlike most of the jewelry currently on the market, Liang En is better at using some slightly ancient memories, such as gold with different colors after adding various trace elements, gold glaze or ancient mosaic technology.

The reason why these skills are less today is not because these skills are too old, but because these jewelry making skills are not conducive to modern industrial production.

To give a simple example, whether it is the mosaic mosaic or the firing work after the gold is glazed, it is very dependent on those professional and experienced craftsmen.

While it's not impossible to do these jobs with modern technology, it's more expensive, so for those modern jewelers, it's natural for them to abandon this practice.

Thinking about it, most people's appreciation of jewelry mainly focuses on the beauty contained in this jewelry, and few people will notice the craftsmanship of these jewelry.

So the so-called old and unpopular production process is purely an excuse. This is because those jewelers want to reduce the production cost of jewelry.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that many modern people buy jewelry not for decoration, but for investment. In this case, gemstones with insufficient particles or parts of non-precious metals are naturally not popular.

This should be a price for the civilianization of jewelry. Compared with those princes and nobles who are really not short of money, ordinary people naturally have to consider a little more when buying jewelry, and these problems will also arise.

"I think we've already prepared everything we can do, and we'll leave the rest to the gods." Du Lisi's person in charge who was approaching here said after crossing his chest.

"Of course, I think everything will go very well this time, at least from my current point of view, we have done everything we can, and I believe that others are unlikely to do better than us."

Apparently, in the previous trips dedicated to this exhibitor, they have also seen the level of other companies, which gave them a lot of confidence.

(End of this chapter)