Antique Dealer

Chapter 280
Liu Jidao has always believed that instead of hiring Fang Hao, it is better to hire his master.

Of course, although he had opinions in his heart, Fang Hao was invited by Kong Yi, and Fang Hao hadn't made any mistakes, so he couldn't express any opinions. He just waited for Fang Hao to make mistakes, and then he would say a few words at the right time.

He felt that he didn't have any objections to Fang Hao, but simply didn't want Hunzi to enter the company to hold an important position.

However, Fang Hao didn't make any mistakes, but when faced with this anonymous painting, he actually gave the correct answer immediately, which made him wonder, Fang Hao couldn't be fooled, right?
In contrast, since Zhu Yingshou met Fang Hao at the salon held by Xing Shu, he always felt that this young man was very powerful, his speech was methodical, and he always targeted him.

Therefore, I am not surprised that Fang Hao can make such a judgment.

Now he really wants to know the basis for Fang Hao's judgment: "Can you tell me, what is the basis for this judgment?"

"Then let me say a few words. If there is any mistake, please correct me."

Fang Hao pointed to the peddler’s burden on the scroll: “Everyone, please look at the leather hats hanging high on the peddler’s burden. This kind of hat, especially the square hat in the middle, can still be seen among Mongolians today. There are several wine utensils and a black falcon with sharp claws and beaks standing at the front of the pole, all revealing some information about the living habits of the northern nomads.

Therefore, although the drawing method in the picture is inherited from the people of Song Dynasty, Yidan daily necessities inadvertently reveals its creation time.This is a period when Mongolian and Han people lived relatively harmoniously, so I judge that the creation time should be the late Yuan Dynasty. "

"The analysis is good." Zhu Yingshou applauded for Fang Hao's grasp of the point: "Then who do you think the author might be?"

Fang Hao said: "It's hard to judge, but judging from the style of writing, it is likely to be learned from Liu Guandao."

Liu Guandao was a painter in the early Yuan Dynasty. He was an all-round painter who worked on Buddhism, Taoism, figures, historical paintings, genre paintings, landscapes, flowers and birds.Characters from the Jin and Tang Dynasties, vivid and lifelike in shape, and Guo Xi from the landscape;

Zhu Yingshou looked serious, nodded and said, "Go on."

Fang Hao continued to analyze: "The characters on the scroll are vivid and lifelike, and when you scroll through the scroll, you feel like you are in the dialogue of the characters, and the gestures, eyebrows, and nostrils are all dynamic, which can be called a magical brush.

The shape of the horse in the picture is even more vivid and vivid.The brushwork is fluent and skillfully uses techniques of lifting and pressing, light and heavy, turning and roundabout to vividly show the musculoskeletal and glossy texture of the horse, and vividly outline the horse's expression, erect ears, staring eyes, flying mane and tail, and lifting. The expression of moving nostrils and neighing.

The painting skills of figures and horses all have Liu Guandao's creative style, but the description of the scenery is different from Liu Guandao's. His flat and remote forests, concise painting techniques and bleak atmosphere should be learned from Li Cheng in the Song Dynasty.And the bleakness of this scene is also related to the Nong Ming uprising and social chaos in the late Yuan Dynasty. This is another reason why I think the creation period of this painting is the late Yuan Dynasty. "

"Good! The analysis is excellent!" Zhu Yingshou smiled and applauded loudly. Fang Hao's performance did not exceed his expectations.

Liu Jidao looked at Fang Hao with complicated eyes. When he first saw this painting, he didn't understand it deeply, and even some of his views were wrong.Compared with Fang Hao's performance, the gap is too obvious.

Thinking of his previous prejudice against Fang Hao, he couldn't help but secretly blush. He questioned Kong Yi's vision before, but now thinking about it, he feels a little ridiculous.

Not to mention Liu Jidao's impression of Fang Hao was greatly changed, and everyone discussed it for a while, but in the end they still couldn't confirm who the author was, so they could only shoot in the name of the anonymous author.

Anonymous paintings are very common in the painting and calligraphy market.

The so-called "anonymous painting" refers to the painting that is not signed and the real name of the artist cannot be confirmed.

The reason for the anonymity is quite complicated.

Before the Yuan Dynasty, most of the works of court painters were not signed; among literati painters who had special backgrounds, they often did not leave their signatures; as for the works of folk painters, it seemed to be the practice not to leave their signatures.In addition, in the process of dissemination of works, there are various reasons caused artificially or unintentionally, resulting in the disappearance of the author's name from the painting.

Among the anonymous paintings, some of them are of high standard, vivid and colorful, with distinctive features, and also have extremely high artistic value and collection value. For example, the anonymous work "Autumn Picture of the Han Palace" of the Song Dynasty auctioned in 10 years, the transaction price was as high as 1.68 million .

Of course, this painting cannot reach such a high level, but it is still possible to achieve a transaction price of 1000 million at the auction.

After this anonymous painting, the appraisal continued, and in the end, including several works that Fang Hao had never seen before, there were no problems.

150 calligraphy and painting works, even if they have been appraised before, it will take a lot of time to do it again, and everyone feels a little tired, especially Zhu Yingshou. After leaving, Kong Yi also sent someone to send Zhu Yingshou home.

Kong Yi invited Fang Hao to stay and have dinner before leaving. Originally, Fang Hao wanted to go back to study woodcarving and planned to decline, but Kong Yi secretly told him that a piece of Jun kiln porcelain was found to be suspicious in the porcelain field, and he wanted him to do the same. Take a look, it's just that there are too many people talking now, so I want to wait for dinner to come to the appraisal.

That being the case, Fang Hao had no choice but to stay, and told Shang Xiaoxuan again, Shang Xiaoxuan told Fang Hao to just busy with her own business, and she could just take a taxi back by herself.

It was Jiayi expert Gu Nan who discovered the problem with the porcelain. When he appraised a Ming Xuande sacrificial red glaze plate, he found that there were no problems in other aspects, except that the handle seemed a little heavy.

This piece of porcelain was collected by him, and he has studied it for a long time in his hands, and he knows all the details like the back of his hand, so he can feel that there is a problem with the weight.

But what surprised him was that, except for the wrong weight, the other parts were exactly the same as the previous one, as if it was carved out of one bone.

But because of the surprise of the weight, he felt that something was wrong no matter how he looked at it now, but Linghuman didn't find the problem, so he didn't dare to act rashly, so he found an opportunity and secretly told Kong Yi.

Kong Yi didn't think that Gu Nan would be wrong, but being able to escape Linghuman's eyes also showed that the forgers were of a high level.This is not difficult to understand at all. If it can't be hidden from the eyes of experts, what's the point of spending a lot of money to make a fake.

After dinner, for the sake of confidentiality, only Kong Yi, Gu Nan, Fang Hao, and Linghuman knew about this matter. They didn't want people to notice, and returned to Jiayi one by one. Kong Yi also told the security guard not to talk to anyone. People bring up things that they've been to.

The security guards here are all sent by the security company under Kong's name, and generally there will be no problems, but if there is indeed a problem with the porcelain, Kong Yi will decide to investigate everyone in the company carefully.

When Kong Yi took the porcelain out of the safe, a bright and moving sacrificial red glaze plate appeared in front of Fang Hao.

The high-temperature copper-red glaze was created in the JDZ Imperial Kiln Factory in the Yuan Dynasty. However, due to the extreme difficulty of firing, the craftsmen repeatedly improved the color glaze, adjusted the firing conditions and kiln temperature, and it was not until the Yongxuan period that the beautiful copper-red glazed wares were completed .

During the Xuande period, the red glaze porcelain was further developed. The glaze was slightly thicker than the Yongle red glaze, and the red was slightly black. Eye-catching, so it is also called "ruby red".

The sacrificial red-glazed porcelain fired in the Xuande year of the Ming Dynasty is the best among red-glazed porcelains, and has epoch-making significance in porcelain aesthetics.After Xuande, red glaze was rarely fired, and this technique was gradually lost.

Speaking of the successful firing of Caihong glaze, there is another story. It is said that Emperor Xuanzong suddenly wanted to use a set of bright red porcelain to worship the sun god, so he ordered the kiln supervisor in JDZ to step up firing.

However, the kiln workers tried many times, but they couldn't burn sacrificial vessels that satisfied the court.The kiln supervisor supervised and whipped the kiln workers every day, threatening to kill people if they couldn't burn them any more.

Cuilan, the daughter of one of the veteran kiln workers, learned that her father was imprisoned and about to be executed because of poor firing.Grieving and angry, she jumped into the raging kiln fire and protested the atrocities of the kiln supervisor with her own life.

Two days later, when the kiln workers opened the kiln that Cuilan jumped into, they were surprised to find that the fired pottery was as red as blood, and the sacrificial vessel was actually fired!People say that it is Cuilan's blood that stained the pottery red, so this red ceramic is called Jihong.

In fact, in ancient times, some particularly precious treasures were accompanied by tragic stories. They were often endowed with the meaning of accusing the cruelty of the ruling class and the difficult survival of the people, or arousing people's love for the treasures.

Closer to home, Fang Hao has never seen this piece of porcelain, so he took it into his hand and observed it carefully.

This sacrificial red glaze plate has an open curved belly and ring feet. The whole body is covered with ruby ​​red glaze, and the color is delicate and red.The edge of the mouth is melted at high temperature and the copper red glaze flows downward to expose the white fetal bone, commonly known as "the edge of the lamp grass".

White glaze is applied inside the ring foot, and the six-character double-circle regular script of "Daming Xuande Year System" is secretly engraved.According to research, this kind of Xuande gemstone red glaze plate is divided into two types: engraved and blue and white, and the engraved one may be slightly earlier than the blue and white one, and it is even rarer.

Looking at it this way, Fang Hao can't see any problems with this sacrificial red glaze, but this piece of porcelain does feel a little strange to him. As for where the blame is, he can't find it for a while.

While Fang Hao was appraising, Kong Yi and the others whispered beside him.

Linghuman looked at Gu Nan: "Little Gu, are you sure the weight is really wrong?"

Gu Nan replied with certainty: "I may have poor eyesight, but I always feel good in the hand, especially this Cai Hong glaze plate, because after I collected it at the beginning, I put it in my place for several days of research. The data can be said to be familiar, but it’s a pity that I didn’t weigh it at the beginning, otherwise it can prove that it is not the original one.”

Gu Nan felt a little regretful, but after all, there were a few people who deliberately weighed porcelain when they were studying it.

"As a matter of fact, it just needs to be proven that it's not the same porcelain."

Kong Yi put down the first shot catalog in his hand, pointed to the picture on the Cai Hong glaze dish, and asked, "Mr. Linghu, take a look, is there any difference between the picture and the real thing?"

Linghuman looked at the photo, at first glance there was nothing wrong with it, it should be the same piece, but after all he is an authority on porcelain appraisal in China, and it's not for nothing. It doesn't feel the same.

But the difference is different. The photos are still photos, and they are still processed photos. The light and shadow effects must be distorted. It is obviously unrealistic to point out the difference between the two based on the photos in the catalog.

Linghuman looked at it for a while: "It does feel that something is wrong, but the photo above is distorted. Do you have the original picture?"

Kong Yi said: "I have asked the staff to send it to my mailbox, and it should arrive in a while."

Linghuman nodded slightly, and looked at the photo carefully, trying to find something from it.

At this time, Fang Hao put down the magnifying glass in his hand and let out a sigh of relief. Seeing that everyone was looking at him, he directly gave a conclusion: "I think the authenticity of this Cai Honggla is open to question." .”

Linghuman just met Fang Hao today, and he hadn't heard of it before, but today he learned something about Fang Hao from some expert consultants. He said that for every antique sold in the store, a sales agreement will be signed, and the fake one will pay three.

As we all know, after the sale of antiques is completed, the goods cannot be returned. Fang Hao's behavior, at best, is keeping pace with the times, at worst, it is breaking the rules and affecting other people's business.

Linghuman did not agree with Fang Hao's approach, but he also felt that the current society is full of material desires and counterfeit goods, and the industry regulations should indeed be changed, but the change does not happen overnight. Fang Hao's approach is a bit radical.

Disagree or disapprove, Linghuman does not want to impose his own ideas on others, nor will he point fingers at Fang Hao.

In addition, Fang Hao, as a calligraphy and painting appraisal consultant, Linghuman did not expect Fang Hao to have an intersection with him today, and did not expect Kong Yi to invite Fang Hao over, which surprised him greatly.

Now, after Fang Hao appraised this piece of porcelain, he immediately came to a doubtful conclusion. Is this opportunistic, or did he discover something?
Kong Yi hurriedly asked: "Teacher Fang, what's the problem?"

Fang Hao said: "Just now I used a magnifying glass to observe, and the change of the glaze is wrong. The real Xuande sacrificial red glaze should have the characteristics of Jun kiln glaze, with hairspring-like red spots."

The reason why Fang Hao discovered this is still due to the system mall, where all kinds of antiques that can be exchanged can be zoomed in to observe every detail.

He had just carefully checked the details of several pieces of Xuande sacrificial red-glazed porcelain in the mall, and found this difference.

Hearing this, Linghuman immediately took a magnifying glass, stepped forward to observe carefully, and found that there were indeed some problems with the changes, which did not conform to the characteristics of the genuine product, but I must be wrong, the difference is actually not too obvious, it can be said that it may be It was caused by some problems during firing, and it cannot be determined that there is a problem with something.

Fang Hao continued: "Another point is the problem of the vertical glaze at the bottom. Generally speaking, for all relatively fine and regular ruby-red glazed utensils, the condensed glaze near the bottom foot is cut off abruptly, and the vertical glaze is blue-gray. However, the vertical glaze of this object has a black tone, which is close to the imitation of the Qing Dynasty.

Of course, if it's just these two points, it can't prove that there must be something wrong with it, so I say doubtful. "

After Linghuman read it carefully, he only said two words, "Admiration!"

Fang Hao was modest.

At this time, Kong Yi received the original photo that had not been processed. The change of the glaze surface could not be seen because a magnifying glass was needed to identify it. Significantly different.

In fact, Kong Yi didn't need to confirm the authenticity of the porcelain, all he needed to know was whether it was the same piece of porcelain, and now that it was confirmed that it was not the same piece of porcelain, his face immediately became gloomy.

It was a very serious matter that this piece of porcelain was subcontracted. It meant that there were insiders in the company, and there were major loopholes in the management of the vault, which would definitely be fatal to Jiayi.

If you can switch packages and replace the sacrificial red-glazed porcelain today, will you be able to evacuate the vault tomorrow?

Fang Hao can understand Kong Yi's anger very well. If he encountered such a thing, he would definitely be very angry, so he feels that there are advantages to having fewer people. At least everyone in his shop knows the basics and will not Something like this happens.

Kong Yi suppressed the anger in his heart, sent the three of them downstairs, and sent someone to take Linghuman and Gu Nan home without a car. Before leaving, Linghuman took the initiative to leave Fang Hao's phone number and address, and asked Fang Hao Fang Hao readily agreed to visit his house if he had time.

In the blink of an eye the next day, Shang Xiaoxuan made a sumptuous breakfast, which was delicious in color and fragrance, and made Fang Hao feast on it. She said with a smile, if this continues, she will have to increase the intensity of exercise.

After breakfast and rest for a while, Fang Hao sent Shang Xiaoxuan to the company. Originally, he wanted Shang Xiaoxuan to drive by herself, but Shang Xiaoxuan was not happy. First, the car belonged to Fang Hao, so she was embarrassed; second, she After learning to drive in school, I have never touched a car and am afraid of driving on the road alone.

Fang Hao didn't force it, and this matter can only be done slowly.

After sending Shang Xiaoxuan to the company, Fang Hao was about to go to the store to have a look, but just as the car drove out, Fang Hao received a call.

The call came from an unfamiliar number. Fang Hao parked the car and picked it up. The other party was a man who said he had a piece of porcelain in his hand and wanted to sell it. He asked Fang Hao if he was interested.

Fang Hao has two mobile phone numbers for work and personal, and the mobile phone number for work is known by many people, so it is normal for strangers to know.It is impossible for him to go to the other party with just one phone call.So I told the other party that if it was convenient, I could take the porcelain to his shop.

But the man said that it is not convenient to take the porcelain with him now, he can send the photo to Fang Hao's mailbox, and if Fang Hao wants it, he can go to his house to trade.

Fang Hao thought about it and said yes.

The man told Fang Hao his home address, and hung up the phone. Fang Hao immediately received the photo sent by the other party to the mailbox.

The photo shows a gourd bottle with sky blue glaze. The glaze color is light and bluish, clean and elegant, like the blue sky, hence the name sky blue glaze.

The overall workmanship of the gourd bottle is fine, with a double-circle pattern on the bottom "Made in the Jiajing Year of the Ming Dynasty".It doesn't look like a problem, but considering the distortion of the photo, I still can't confirm the authenticity.

But just based on this photo, Fang Hao felt that he could go there.

So, Fang Hao called the other party back, mainly concerned about the price, if the price is not suitable, then there is no need to go.

The other party said that he sold it sincerely, and he could give Fang Hao a price of 45 yuan, which was already the lowest price.

According to the appearance in the photo, 45 yuan is not expensive, so Fang Hao agreed to go to the other party's house now.

Half an hour later, Fang Hao parked his car near a small alley. He asked the people around him and walked towards the man's house.

(End of this chapter)