Chapter 0038 – Treasure Appraisal (III)

To be honest, let Zhuang Rui treasure appreciation, purely duck on the shelf, a little difficult.

Zhuang Rui and Uncle De contact time is relatively long, know this line of antiques, not to say more than read a few books, know some theoretical knowledge can jack up the arm on the battlefield, which needs to be the usual accumulation and a lot of contact with the real thing, but even then, it is also often hit the eye on the pawn.

As the saying goes, “the chaotic world of gold and antiques” every time the antiques began to flourish, fakes and forgeries are also followed by more.

In modern China, the early years of the Republic of China that would be considered a flourishing period of antiques, when Sun Dunying, Zhang Zongchang and other warlords have excavated the tombs of Kangxi, Qianlong and Empress Dowager Cixi and others, a large number of valuable cultural relics have been unearthed, coupled with Puyi and other people to monitor the theft of a lot of rare treasures from the palace, a time when the folk collection of the boom, and even many foreign speculators have come to China to buy cultural relics, and the fake imitations were also popular at that time. Counterfeiting antiquity was also popular at that time, the famous painter Zhang Daqian is a good imitation of the master of counterfeiting, he imitated Shi Tao’s paintings, it is difficult to distinguish between the real and the fake, can be described as one of the best.

After a dozen years, China’s earth disaster after disaster, war and chaos, although there are still a very few people in the protection of some precious national treasures, but people will not even be able to eat, and who take these things as a treasure it, during this time, a large number of valuable cultural relics lost to overseas, which also let some of the experts later on the domestic heartbreaking.

To the nineties of the last century, the spring breeze of reform and opening up blew all over China, people’s standard of living is also increasing, entertainment and cultural life gradually enriched up, and out of people’s eyes for nearly half a century of antique art fever and slowly began to heat up to the end of the century, the number of people who love to collect is a straight line up, just in the domestic auction house a year’s turnover of the amount of money in the billions of dollars, not to mention that most of the fine art is sold in foreign countries, not to mention that most of the fine art is sold in the foreign country. Most of the fine arts are sold abroad.

Marx once said: “Ten percent of the profits, the capital on the stupid; a hundred percent of the profits, the capital on the forgetful; and three hundred percent of the profits, then on the gallows things to do out.”

See this line of antiques is so hot, a lot of lawless elements also moved the mind, silent for more than half a century of those grave robbers are also back to their old jobs, there are some people who have the best skills, simply do the old, for a time, all kinds of fakes and antiques into the market, and do the old counterfeiting of the person’s skills, almost can be faked to the real, that is, some of the deep attainments of the experts, are often rumored to hit the eye of the loss of the thing to come.

Famous folk collector Mr. Ma Weidu once said, in the early eighties, the capital of various scrap furniture stores, everywhere piled up sandalwood, Huanghuali and other tables and chairs and benches, it would be cheap, five dollars a piece of money, randomly pick and choose, is also responsible for your delivery, but to the end of the eighties, the early nineties, the antique market is flooded with fakes, Mr. Ma is also Mr. Ma also paid a lot of tuition fees, so it is obvious that the level of those counterfeiters is very high.

The reason why Zhuang Rui know these, or thanks to Yang Wei, Yang father is an antique enthusiast, the reason why it is called an enthusiast rather than a collector, because he has collected a lot of things in the past ten years, full of piles of a house, the money has not been less, a few million are thrown into it.

However, to be honest, the father of Yang’s professional appreciation level is really not good, but also particularly like to go to the market to pick up leaks, one to two to accumulate, the collection of objects is also quite considerable, but then asked a few experts to his home identification, but found that a room of miscellaneous antiques, actually none of them is true.

I do not know is not care about this money or good mentality, the father of Yang did not give up this hobby, just from then on rarely appeared in the antique market, and the number of times in the auction house appeared significantly more up, but its antique world in Zhonghai is also famous, engaged in some of the feeling of their own hand objects to do old to do a better level of the people, that is often drilling to the Yang family, the old man is also every now and then then and then pass out a number of hit the eye! Anecdotes.

Often walk by the river, no not wet shoes, even those in this line of work in the decades of rolling people are often look away, Zhuang Rui naturally do not feel at home a few days ago to read a few books on antique appreciation, you can distinguish the table stacked objects true or false to his heart rely on, or this pair of eyes, but now he has to do, is to find an eye can see through the object, and then through the inside of the Whether or not there was an aura to determine if it was genuine or fake.

Most of the things that Boss Wang and Song Jun took out were bronze or jade, the aura in Zhuang Rui’s eyes was not yet able to see through, so now he turned to Boss Lu’s side and took a closer look.

Lv shopkeeper in front of only three objects, see Zhuang Rui came over, Lv shopkeeper got up to give the position, in order to facilitate the Zhuang Rui appraisal, sitting on the side of the Lv shopkeeper Xu Wei, but also exaggeratedly move the chair under the seat to the side of the face of the playful look at the Zhuang Rui, in his eyes, the eyes of the young and unassuming Zhuang Rui actually dared to offend the Miss Qin, they must take the opportunity to teach this young man how to behave.

Zhuang Rui did not care about Xu Wei’s gaze, his attention is now in front of the three objects attracted, Zhuang Rui first picked up a height of about 20 centimeters of the sprinkling of Guanyin statue of the wood carving to observe up, can not see what wood is used to carve, but the shape of this wood carving is very beautiful, the Guanyin face is lifelike, the surface of the carving of the wood carving of the ghost of the light is quiet, hold in the hand, only to feel the slippery ripe can be pleased with the pulp color is thick, reveals A kind of warm old gas, give a person a sense of vicissitude.

These days Zhuang Rui also read some books on antique appreciation, according to the book above the introduction, with this wood carving of carving, pulp, should be an old object of some years, but compared to their own level of half-assed appreciation, Zhuang Rui is still willing to believe in their own eyes, slightly lowered his head, Zhuang Rui will be in the eyes of the release of the aura on top of the wood carving.

“Lean ……”

After recovering the aura, Zhuang Rui couldn’t help but burst a foul mouth in his heart, the aura in his eyes now, can only penetrate the woodwork about less than a centimeter away, but as long as this thing contains aura, it can still be absorbed, but after the aura enters, this wooden sculpture doesn’t have the slightest reaction, making the Zhuang Rui, who wanted to replenish some of the aura, a great disappointment, although Zhuang Rui can’t be sure that the object with no aura is necessarily a fake. is fake, but he also chose to believe in the aura in his eyes.

Lifting his head, Zhuang Rui looked at the wooden carving in his hands and said, “This wooden Guanyin statue has fine carving, thick pulp, like an old object ……”

“Of course, this statue from the carving to the pulp, certainly is the real thing, no need to hold in the hand, I can see.”

Zhuang Rui words have not fallen, was next to Xu Wei spoke out to interrupt, Xu Wei has also been observing this wood carving, the heart is also determined that this is a genuine, after hearing Zhuang Rui’s words, can not help but speak out to taunt Zhuang Rui good luck, picked up a bargain.

Lightly glanced at Xu Wei, Zhuang Rui did not pay attention to him, continued: “However, I personally feel that this thing is later to do old, to put it bluntly is, this object is a fake.”

When these words came out, apart from Boss Lv who did not move his face, everyone was taken aback, and Xu Wei was even red in the face as he looked towards Boss Lv, hoping that he would speak up to refute it.

“Xiao Zhuang, there are two more objects there, take a look at them as well!”

Surprisingly to everyone, Boss Lv did not say anything more, but only asked Zhuang Rui to review the remaining two pieces as well.