Riding the wind of rebirth

The 1980 million in 370 is not too much now multiplied by five. If it reappears in the auction market, it may be normal to exceed [-] million.

That auction was very famous. Qiu Yanzhi was from Taicang. He was a famous collector before liberation. Later, he took his collection to Hong Kong Island. After he died of illness in 1980, his family auctioned all his collections through Sotheby’s. The most famous one is It is not this big blue-glazed bowl, but two Chenghua Doucai Chicken Crock Cups, which were purchased by island buyers and the British Museum for 410 million Hong Kong dollars and 520 million Hong Kong dollars respectively.

That auction was a heartbreaking event in China's ancient porcelain industry. With the national power at that time, not to mention private individuals, even national teams such as the Forbidden City and the National Museum could only stare at the loss of national treasures.

"It doesn't matter, let's wait for the opportunity." Zhou Zhi said: "Isn't Hong Kong Island currently experiencing immigration? Maybe there will be a chance?"

"I'll pay attention to you." Lin Wanqiu said with a smile, "It would be a pity if we don't get it all together."

"Bring purple and hang red, you will be endless." Zhou Zhi said in a low voice.

"You still dare to make a request?!" Lin Wanqiu said angrily, "It would be nice to find Yuan Jun, but you still dare to bring purple and red!"

The color of Jun kiln is produced by the kiln transformation, which belongs to the kind of luck in the kiln mouth. Among them, the utensils with purple, red and rose kiln transformation are the most expensive.

Not to mention the Song and Yuan Dynasties, even the Jun kiln flower pots from the rose kiln in the Ming Dynasty can be sold at sky-high prices in later generations.

There are several pieces of Song kiln porcelain here in Zhouzhi. If you want to join the Jun kiln, it must be from the Song and Jin period. Today, there are only a dozen or so pieces of this piece that are well-known in museums all over the world. It is true that they are required to wear purple hanging red. A little too much.

"It depends on what matters, what matters." Zhou Zhi shook his head. In fact, he didn't have much hope: "After several years of collecting, the biggest gain is to learn how to cultivate one's morality and be content."

"That's true." Lin Wanqiu is very familiar with Zhou Zhi's mentality, and has handled a lot of good things in the past few years. Every time, she will first inform Zhou Zhi, firstly to look at the goods for inspection, and secondly to win over Zhou Zhi's relationship. , Quote a suitable reserve price and choose from Zhou Zhi first.

But Zhou Zhi would often refuse. If the price was not suitable or the collection was not to his liking, Zhou Zhi would not do so even if he knew he could make a lot of money by changing hands. He would leave the profit to Lin Wanqiu, and then get some consulting fees Done.

Because of this, the friendship between the two became deeper and deeper. Lin Wanqiu admired Zhou Zhi more and more, and Zhou Zhi trusted Lin Wanqiu more and more. As an insider who could see Zhou Zhi's "important collection", except for the fourth cousin, Lin Wanqiu is No.1.

"If Mr. Ma comes to see these, I'm afraid he will be envious." Lin Wanqiu said with a smile.

In more than ten years, Ma Ye will use his own collection to establish the first prestigious private museum in China and gain a huge reputation.

But now he has met a strong competitor, Zhou Zhi.

Many collections that should have belonged to Guanfu in the previous life, such as several pieces of Ming and Qing furniture by Mr. Wang, and the long-necked vases of the Southern Song Dynasty official kilns, were cut off by Zhou Zhi in this life.

And in this life, if Zhou Zhi didn't make a move that day, the purple plum vase that the two of them got together in the ghost market, might fall into the hands of Ma Ye.

"Master Ma..." Zhou Zhi said with a smile, "His Seahorse Club was abolished, and now he's always hiding in my Miantang house."

"Ha," Lin Wanqiu laughed, "Speaking of which, you two have similar temperaments, like Mr. Mengchang."

Appreciating the collection along the way, discussing knowledge, and chatting about the current situation of mutual friends, I came to two tricolor figurines before I knew it.

Lin Wanqiu didn't pay much attention to it at first: "You still play this? Is it from the Northern Wei Dynasty? Generally, foreign collectors keep it at home, and Eastern players are quite taboo."

Tang Sancai, Han figurines, and cave statues of the Five Dynasties, there are quite a few fine works, and these art treasures were once highly sought after.

However, domestic collectors seldom collect them. The reason is that these objects are "Ming Utensils" and funerary objects, and it feels unlucky to keep them at home.

Also, if you place a Buddha head in your home, should it be considered pious or profane?It goes without saying.

"Look carefully." Zhou Zhi smiled.

"Did I read it wrong?" Lin Wanqiu carefully looked at the pair of three-color figurines of civil and military officials again, and also checked the bottom feet: "Judging from the clothes, this should be the three-color figurines of civil and military officials from the Northern Wei Dynasty. Above the three princes and kings, it is very exquisite."

"I don't know the domestic market. If it is sent overseas for auction, this pair will cost at least 200 million dollars."

Zhou Zhi smiled and said: "That's a pity, this is a fake."

"Fake?" Lin Wanqiu was startled, and then squatted down to verify it carefully: "Where is the fake?"

"It's fake..." Zhou Zhi was speechless all of a sudden: "This pair of tomb figurines is so exquisitely made. Even the soil used comes from the soil layer of the Five Dynasties, and the colors are mostly mineral materials and inorganic solvents. It can't help it."

"Then how can you determine that it is a fake?" Lin Wanqiu was curious.

"It's very simple, because the masters who made them are still there." Zhou Zhi laughed loudly and told Lin Wanqiu the origin of the pair of figurines as a story: "Master Gao Huowang's craftsmanship has fooled even researchers from the National Museum and the Forbidden City. of."

"But it's not without flaws." After speaking, Zhou Zhi pointed to the buckle of the warrior's bright armor and the golden tortoise on the waist of the civil servant: "Mr. Wang found that the weathering of the golden color on these two figurines is worse than the cinnabar, which is a suspicious point. "

"In addition, after testing, the acid content of the soil flowers at the bottom of the two figurines is significantly higher than that of the same period of pottery figurines, indicating that they were formed by old craftsmanship." Zhou Zhi smiled a little complacently: "This test is my idea, so we finally It was determined that the pair of figurines were fakes, and followed the clues to catch the criminal and discovered the original author, Master Gao Huowang.”

"This craftsmanship is really..." Lin Wanqiu couldn't help but be convinced: "It's still a master who can find clues from Jincai."

"Fortunately, Master Gao is already a master of three-colored pottery restoration in the Forbidden City, and he has an establishment." Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "The source of criminals has been cut off."

"Actually, the country should raise these people. They are all master craftsmen." Lin Wanqiu said, "Even if they imitate the two off-packs in the VIP hall of the airport, they are all masters."

"That's right, especially the pair of phoenix-ear pots imitating the Ru kiln. The clam light can almost fool most people." Zhou Zhi said, "However, the pottery figurines made by Master Gao are purely sold as handicrafts, and criminals take them for sale. Crime has nothing to do with him."

"But if the person who copied the porcelain this time was a criminal who knowingly committed the crime, he would not be able to escape prison."

"That's really a pity." Lin Wanqiu sighed: "By the way, the earliest porcelain in your place is from the Song Dynasty?"

Zhou Zhi replied: "Porcelains of the Tang and Five Dynasties generally refer to Xing Kiln and Yue Kiln. Xing Kiln is white porcelain, like silver like snow, and Yue Kiln is celadon porcelain, like jade like ice, and finally developed into Northern China Porcelain Series and Southern Porcelain Series respectively. .”

"I have some collections from the Hutian Kiln here, from the Five Dynasties to the mid-Northern Song Dynasty. The types of porcelain are celadon, from blue and white porcelain to later shadow celadon." (End of this chapter)