My system is not decent

Chapter 1212
In the antique business, many appraisal certificates and certificates are of no value to the appraiser, and can only be used as a reference. Why?
Many appraisers don't look at these things, they just look at the real thing.

No matter how famous the certificate issued by the appraisal agency is, it can only be used as a reference, because many things are not as real as seeing them with your own eyes.

Especially for appraisers, it is better to trust their own eyes than to believe in the so-called verification certificate.

If it doesn't match the real thing, or if the details are wrong, it's doubtful, it's wrong.

Just like this ancient porcelain that is "more expensive than a chicken cup", it has attracted a lot of controversy in the art circle.

Some people in the circle directly said that the beauty pillow, with its feet stacked, was similar to the Dingyao baby pillow of the same period.

However, this way of showing the innocence and loveliness of children is quite strange when applied to beauties.

In addition, some people pointed out that the bottom of this lot is processed after the 1980s by grouting and electric firing.

In fact, without analyzing these aspects, the problem is very simple. Chen Wenzhe directly compares the three works that appeared here.

The first is the white-glazed pillow for sleeping women in the Ding Kiln of the late Tang Dynasty in a private collection in Europe. She is hand-carved and painted with a slightly yellowish white transparent glass glaze. It should be a model of original carving.

Comparing with the white-glazed sleeping female pillow unearthed in 1985 from the Ding Kiln site in the Northern Song Dynasty, the two pieces have the same shape.

Although one is purely hand-carved and the other is molded, it can be clearly seen that the mold is based on the original hand-carved one in the late Tang Dynasty, and then molded. The shape and proportions are similar to those of the late Tang Dynasty. That original piece agrees.

The last beauty pillow sold for nearly [-] million yuan in Australian auctions. First, I saw that the proportions of this piece were out of balance. The head was too big, and the buttocks and feet were completely copied versions of the baby pillow.

See the three baby pillows preserved in the Forbidden City on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, which are completely different from the previous two beauty pillows (lying female pillows).

The most critical point is that the angle of the pillow surface is not right.

These points are enough to explain the problem, because the porcelain pillows of the ancients are practical utensils used to cool off the heat.

The height of the porcelain pillow and the angle of the pillow surface are all summed up by old Chinese medicine practitioners for thousands of years, and there is no possibility of any mistakes.

If you sleep for a while on the piece auctioned in Australia, it is estimated that the cervical spine will not be able to bear it.

Some modern people who imitate beauty pillows do not understand the true meaning of porcelain pillows, thinking that it is just an object, how can they know that it is a practical device?
Therefore, the pillows made cannot be used for sleeping, so it is possible to say that only porcelain pillows that can sleep comfortably can be true.

There are so many problems, so this high-priced beauty pillow is considered a fake by many people.

And this is not the most outrageous thing, because there are even more outrageous.

Afterwards, someone directly posted that this auction was simply a game of their own making, speculating, selling, and buying!
This is not only what Chen Wenzhe thinks, but also has this tendency in practice.

This piece, named Song Dynasty Ding Kiln Beauty Pillow, finally sold for HK$60 million after more than 3.5 bids.

After adding a 13% commission, the transaction price was close to 4 million Hong Kong dollars, or about 3.164 million yuan.

This is the highest transaction record for an Australian artwork, and also the highest transaction record for a Ding kiln work in the world auction history.

Such a high price is naturally attractive. If more people are attracted, if it changes hands again, will it be more valuable?

Even if you don't sell it and use it as a mortgage, only [-]% of the value is mortgaged, that's a big deal.

However, often things have two sides.

This piece of porcelain has been hyped up, which has brought traffic and high value, but there will be more discussions and questions.

For Chen Wenzhe, he doesn't look at other things, but only looks at the carving techniques, and there are many problems.

For example, open face is suspicious, because she looks like the open face of a Buddha statue, not like a noble lady.

Then there is the questionable posture, the head of a beautiful woman, the buttocks of a doll.

Ladies usually lie on their sides, but the posture of this beauty pillow is lying on the stomach like a baby pillow, with feet crossed.

The third is big feet. During the Song and Jin Dynasties, women began to bind their feet, and the three-inch golden lotus was popular, and "natural feet" were hardly seen.

The feet of this Song beauty are as big as a child's pillow.

The last thing is that the clothes are wrong. Women in the Song and Jin Dynasties wore "bearers" like double-breasted robes.

This one is not a beige, but a "shirt" commonly seen by children.

In addition, the opening orientation of the stomata is also in doubt.

From the photos alone, I feel that the form of this Ding Kiln 'Beauty Pillow' is not accurate, and its shape is very awkward.

The decoration, including glaze color and pattern, is not sure.

So many people think that this is a game of self-buying, selling and making!

According to the information collected by Chen Wenzhe, this beauty pillow was unearthed near Quyang County, Beihe a few years ago.

It was dug up by tomb robbers and sold to antique dealers for hundreds of thousands.

Due to the incomplete head, the antique dealer hopes to sell it at a price of 1000 million yuan after simple repairs.

But in the end, for some unknown reason, it was sold to a company for only about 100 million yuan.

After that, the beauty pillow, which was restored twice, appeared in the Cong Shang Art Exhibition that opened on December 2012, 12.

The exhibition is held in a cultural company in Shendu, and most of the exhibits are contemporary calligraphy and paintings and ancient artifacts collected by the company, including this beauty pillow.

Later, it was suspected that this company smuggled beauty pillows to Australia for auction.

Although it is impossible to determine whether the auction was in collusion with this cultural company, it is certain that five or six people who raised signs at the auction site were insiders of this company.

Among them were the two directors of this company, and in the end, one of them was sensible enough to bid successfully.

No matter whether this beauty pillow is a hyped sky-high price or not, judging from the market reaction, the final result is indeed worth [-] million yuan, which seems not unacceptable.

The main thing is whether the thing is right or not. As long as the thing is right, someone will buy it worth [-] million yuan.

After all, there is a large Ding kiln bowl in front of it. No matter how low its price is, how can it be inferior to a large white porcelain bowl?
You must know that the auction site was very popular at that time. Even if the final transaction price was deliberately raised and hyped, some of the prices in the middle were real quotations.

If you are not greedy, there is absolutely no problem in selling it for [-] to [-] million.

Through this beauty pillow, and looking at the beauty pillows in Jingzhi Temple, we can draw a conclusion that the value of this batch of Ding kiln porcelain in Jingzhi Temple is immeasurable.

You can't buy porcelain of this level, but it's pretty good if you can take a look at it.

The reason why Chen Wenzhe pulled out so many things is mainly to understand the beauty pillow.

The number of beauty pillows handed down from generation to generation is too small, and the world knows even less about her. In addition, her value is huge, and any detail must be understood.

(End of this chapter)