Live appraising treasures, I became a national treasure expert?

Chapter 240 Locking the wolf in the henhouse

He looked up and saw that the onlookers were not very close. Ding Licheng lowered his voice: "Teacher Li, how much did you spend?"

Li Ding'an didn't say anything, he just made an "eight" gesture!
Eighty thousand?

"Sigh..."

"What are you complaining about?"

Ma Xianming poked his head, "Who painted it?"

"Leng Mei!"

Ok?
The chief painter of the palace during the Qianlong period, the director of the Ruyi Pavilion of the Royal Academy of Painting... Isn't this worth two to three million?

real or fake?

The words came to his lips, but Ma Xianming swallowed them down: When did Li Ding'an take action?

What's more, Ding Licheng read it again, and there was no way he could make a mistake.

While he was muttering to himself, Ding Licheng turned over the fan again and pointed to the poem on the sunny side: "Jiang Tingxi's poem was written by himself!"

I go……

Doesn’t it mean that this is Jiang Tingxi’s fan?

There is no need to doubt at all, just look at the content of the poem and you will know: A corner of the country divides the land of the Tang Dynasty, and a century-old temple shares the mountains and rivers of the Song Dynasty... The land is divided, and the mountains and rivers are shared. What do you want to do, rebel?
In the political environment of the Qing Dynasty, no ordinary person would dare to write like this, let alone use such objects.Therefore, the words on it must have been written by Jiang Tingxi, and only he can use this fan.

Jiang Tingxi is a master-level painter and calligrapher. The price of his works is not lower than that of Leng Mei. This is another work of collaboration between the two. The effect of one plus one is definitely greater than two.

Secretly surprised, Ma Xianming asked in a low voice: "What about an estimate?"

Li Ding'an said nothing, and Ding Licheng thought for a moment and curled up the three middle fingers, leaving only his thumb and little finger.

Good guy, 600?
If it goes up for auction, the hammer price may be higher, and Li Ding'an only spent [-]?
As soon as the deal was made, it was a house within the fifth ring... Let's not talk about eyesight, just talk about luck. Who wouldn't be jealous?

The key thing is that Jiang Tingxi successively served as the Minister of Rites and the Secretary of the Ministry of Households. He also served as a bachelor of the Hall of Culture and a tutor of the prince... What does this mean: the prince's tutor plus the prime minister and assistant can be said to be the pinnacle of ministers.

If such a highly symbolic thing is used as a gift, it can no longer be measured with money.Combined with Li Ding'an's current popularity and status in related fields, how high does one need to give gifts from him?

He rolled his eyes and said in a lower voice: "Who are you going to give it to...the curator or the secretary?"

What are you talking about?

Just those two people, you dare to give such a thing, believe it or not, a fan can slap you in the face?

Li Ding'an glared at him: "Is there something wrong with my brain?"

Got it: not these two.

Then who else?
The place is inappropriate, and Li Ding'an probably won't say it. Ma Xianming sighed longly: This kind of thing can be regarded as a family heirloom, but it's a pity that Li Ding'an has to give it away...

After staring at the fan for a while, he reluctantly put it back.Then he picked up the third piece, which was the wax bucket.

"It's made of pure gold, it's incised, and it's also been tested with a spectrum... Gee, is it really from the Yang Shen period?"

With emotion, Ma Xianming looked over it over and over again, "This is Camellia, it's very vividly carved, and the calligraphy is also good... But to be honest, I can't tell... Come here, Old Ding!"

Shaking his head, he handed the golden pot forward.As if he was afraid of falling and breaking it, Ding Licheng carefully took it in his hand.

He was not in a hurry to look at it, and first pointed at the flowers on it: "Hand-painted by Yang Shen, hand-engraved?"

Li Dingan nodded.

He pointed to the small words below again: "Is it also handwritten and hand-engraved by him?"

if not?
Yang Shen was originally a painter, calligrapher, and master of epigraphy. This was something he always played with, so of course he would not ask anyone else to do it for him.

Li Ding'an nodded again, but Ding Licheng's eyelids couldn't stop twitching.

This is Yang Shen. How many of his works have been handed down from generation to generation?
One is the "Shima Spring Poems" collected in the Forbidden City. The cold gold-coloured script is 21 centimeters long and 47 centimeters wide, less than a square foot. With the inscription and signature, it only contains 98 characters.

The second piece is "Illustrated Notes of the Eight Formations of Xindu": In the 11th year of Zhengde, the Wuhou Temple was rebuilt in Xindu County. At that time, Yang Shen was guarding the system for his stepmother in his hometown of Xindu. The county magistrate Han Yi asked him to write an inscription, which was then carved into a stone tablet and erected in Outside the Wuhou Temple, the inscription is in block letters and is still there.

The third piece is Su Shi's original "Bamboo and Stone Pictures of Xiaoxiang" collected in the National Art Museum of China. It contains a five-character poem written by Yang Shen, also in regular script, with 26 characters.

The fourth piece is Yang Shen's "Research on the Monument of Yu". The entire text is in running script. It is one of the calligraphy and paintings that Pu Yi asked Pu Jie to secretly take out of the Forbidden City. It was later brought to the northeast and stored in the Puppet Imperial Palace in Changchun.When the Japanese army surrendered in [-], the puppet soldiers fought for the treasures and were torn into several pieces.

Nowadays, only a small section of the "Yu Stele Textual Research" that is clearly authentic to Yang Shen's work survives in the Forbidden City. The full text contains about a hundred words, only one-eighth of the original work, and it is only the middle section. Only Kangxi, Qianlong, and Jiaqing There is no signature or postscript on the inscription by others, so it can only be counted as half of it.

Therefore, there are only three and a half pieces of Yang Shen's surviving works.

If you ask how much it is worth, Ding Licheng really doesn't know, because apart from that, none of his works have ever appeared, let alone auctioned or transferred.

But he at least understood that if this one was authenticated, it would be the fifth one, and it was a gold-engraved miscellaneous type, which was of great significance.

After calming down, Ding Licheng took out his mobile phone again and opened the electronic archives of the Forbidden City.After five or six clicks, several calligraphy and painting works appeared on the screen: "Poetry of Shimaquan", "Textual Research on Yu Stele", "Picture Notes of the Eight Formations of Xindu", and part of "Bamboo and Stone Pictures of Xiaoxiang" by Su Shi, that is, Yang Shen The poem in question.

Then he flattened the golden pot and placed it next to his mobile phone, then swiped it and stopped at the last "Illustrated Notes of the Eight Formations of the New Capital".

At first glance, the golden pot is in official script, and the mobile phone is in block letters. One is square and the other is flat. They don’t seem to be the same thing.In fact, it has a lot to do with it: regular script evolved from official script. The two are of the same origin, both horizontally and vertically, and both are neat and tidy. Even the strokes of the pen are exactly the same.

If you look closely at the handwriting, whether it is the layout of the lines, the structure of the fonts, or the starting and finishing of the strokes, they are all very similar.

Recognizing handwriting is one of the basic skills of calligraphy and painting appraisers, so based on this, Ding Licheng is sure that it is Yang Shen's handwriting.

Afraid of anything unexpected, he carefully compared it several times. It took five or six minutes before he straightened up and sighed sadly: "It's Yang Shen's pot!"

The voice was not quiet, and in the blink of an eye, a large number of people gathered around him with a "hula-la-la" sound.

Ma Xianming was also a little excited: "Tell me about it!"

"Just look at the handwriting!"

Ding Licheng was extremely confident and lit up the screen of his mobile phone, "Look, are they exactly the same?"

Someone stretched out his neck and took a look, "Yang Shen's authentic work?"

"Yes, there are only four of them in the world: "Shimaquan Poem" is in running script, "Yu Stele Research" is in running script, "Xiaoxiang Bamboo and Stone Pictures" inscribed by Su Shi is also in running script, and only this "Xindu Eight Formations Picture Notes" is in regular script. The most contrasting..."

"Look carefully: except for 'Deng, Ke, Sui' in the first sentence, and 'Jin, Lao, Weng' in the last sentence, the rest of the words on the body of the pot are all in the inscription..."

Ding Licheng pointed his finger at the words on the stone tablet, and the onlookers were comparing them word by word: he was three times as old as he is now when he was admitted to the imperial examinations, he accomplished nothing, he joined the army at seventy - the golden horse old man.

Indeed, as Ding Licheng said, of the twenty words, there are fully sixteen in the stone tablet.

Although the fonts are different, there is no difference in the writing methods, starting and finishing strokes, and stroke trajectories between the two.Looking at the handwriting again, I dare not say that they are exactly the same, but they are at least [-]% or [-]% similar.

Combined with the test results from the "mid-Ming Dynasty", the answer is unquestionable: it is Yang Shen's handwriting.

There were three great talents in the Ming Dynasty and so many "families". The price of this thing would definitely not be low, maybe tens of millions.

Thinking of this, those who had followed Li Ding'an not only regretted it, but also wanted to bang their heads against the wall: Why did Li Ding'an shake their heads when he asked them to pay.

The more I thought about it, the more unbalanced I felt. Someone said sourly: "Since Yang Shen's handwriting is so easy to recognize, why hasn't anyone noticed it before?"

"Yes, let's not talk about Tibetan friends and tourists, but what about the experts in the audition?" Are they easy to recognize?

Ding Licheng laughed angrily: "Is it because what I just said was not clear enough: There are only four works by Yang Shen in the world, and they are all collected in the cultural and museum departments. There are no works of his in circulation among the people. What does this mean? It means that it is not clear at all. No one studies his work…

First, there is no data and reference objects, and there is nothing to study if you want to. Second, it is useless to study it: at least experts in the antiques and appraisal circles will not waste their efforts and never come across his works in their lifetime. What is he doing?

You think I can read quickly because I deduce the cause from the effect: if you know that this is Yang Shen's authentic work, then you can compare it with his works, of course it will be faster... If you don't believe me, just ask, who can say that they know Yang Shen? Whatever the handwriting is, I’ll call him daddy! "

"You are such a big talker, who are you?"

"Ding Licheng, leader of the Forbidden City calligraphy and painting group!"

"Shall I go to...the Forbidden City?"

"What's wrong with the Forbidden City? You are the team leader. I thought you were the dean..."

"Don't talk nonsense if you don't understand..." The person next to him poked him, "Teacher Ding is ranked at least in the top ten among the national calligraphy and painting appraisal experts..."

I rely on?

This person immediately didn't dare to say anything and subconsciously shrank outward.

Things happened so fast that Li Ding'an didn't even have time to open his mouth.

After thinking about it, I thought it would be better to explain it.Otherwise, it will appear that the organizer is unprofessional and the two previous experts are too amateur:

"This thing is indeed relatively unpopular and difficult to identify. It's just luck that I can recognize it."

Li Ding'an first pointed to the identification certificate: "Instruments such as C-14 and spectrometers are indeed unreliable in identifying porcelain, calligraphy and paintings, but objects such as gold are relatively stable and not easily oxidized, but the accuracy is very high: Because what is tested is not the material itself, but the residues and patina...

So at least I can confirm that this is indeed an object from the middle Ming Dynasty.And it just so happens that I studied Ming and Qing archeology, and I have done more research on Ming history! "

Ma Xianming twitched his lips: This is the same rhetoric again, is it just right every time?

Li Ding'an ignored him and pointed to the words on the pot: "The age of admission... You can understand the literal meaning. The author has won the Jinshi. This is one of them."

Second, joining the army at 70... No matter how cruel and unprincipled the emperor of the Ming Dynasty was, it was impossible for a 23-year-old man to join the army. Moreover, he had also been promoted and served as an official, so there was only one possibility: to be exiled from the army for crimes... ...Thirdly, if you count it backwards, it is three times as much as it is now...which means he was around [-] years old when he won the exam. "

"Fourth: The Jinma Old Man... This knowledge point is a bit unfamiliar. If you are not good at history, you will definitely not understand it: "Liangdu Fu" by Ban Gu of the Han Dynasty: There is a Jinma Stone Canal Office inside, and the Yuefu Association is established outside... Liu of the Tang Dynasty Su's "New Accounts of the Tang Dynasty·Kuang Zan": In the early Han Dynasty, there were Jinma and Shiqu, while in the later Han Dynasty, there were Lantai and Dongguan... The lyrics of Xu Xuan's "Willow Branch" in the Song Dynasty: The Jinma poet composed a small poem, and the Liyuan disciples sang new lyrics...

Therefore, the so-called Golden Horse refers to the place where the country collects books, and the second refers to the place where the imperial court compiled books... If it was in the Ming Dynasty, it only represented one place: the Hanlin Academy!It is not difficult to understand this golden horse old man's sentence: The author served as an official in the Hanlin Academy...

In the Ming Dynasty, one could not just enter the Hanlin Academy casually, because it was the only way to become a prime minister, and one had to be a first-class scholar among the new scholars, that is, the number one scholar, the second best scholar, or the third best scholar.In addition, there are also scholars of the second grade, but there are only a handful of them. Regardless of the rank, all Ming Dynasty scholars who have entered the Imperial Academy are all figures who have left their names in history...

Did it become clear immediately?So this sentence is also the most critical.At this point, it is enough to explain the problem: active in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, passed the imperial examination at the age of 23, passed the first-class Jinshi, entered the Hanlin Academy, and was sent to the army for crimes at the age of 70... So many clues, the point is so clear, I want to If I can’t think of Yang Shen anymore, my studies at Peking University will be in vain! "

"Hahaha..." There was laughter all around.

Someone else raised their hand: "Teacher Li, this is wrong. Yang Shen's encyclopedia says: He was exiled to Yongchang, Yunnan Province by Emperor Jiajing when he was 36 years old. Wasn't he 70 years old?"

"That's because his father is Yang Tinghe. Even if he dies, his disciples and old officials are still all over the government and the public, and some people are covering for him. For the rest of his life, he was either in his hometown of Xindu or traveling around the country, but he didn't go there a few times. Yongchang doesn’t count at all.

If you look at the poems he wrote, you will know: Sichuan is the most popular, followed by West Lake, and Yunnan is third... There are records in "History of the Ming Dynasty" and "Biography": Shizong hated his father and son because of the discussion of etiquette. very.Every time I asked how Shen was doing, the cabinet ministers responded by saying that he was old and sick...

He also stayed in Yunnan for several years, but most of the time he stayed in Kunming, accompanying the Duke of Guizhou and a group of officials in Kunming, reciting poems and singing poems, instead of actually serving as a veteran guarding the border in Yongchang County, close to Myanmar. ... "Ming History Biography" still records: Zi Zhi may return to Shu or live in Huicheng, Yunnan, and the big officials will treat him well.

It wasn't until he was 70 years old that a calligraphy and painting by a famous artist that he had written a poem about in Jiaxing came to the court and happened to be seen by the emperor. Jiajing didn't know how unrestrained he lived.Then in anger, he ordered the Jin Yiwei to escort him back to Yongchang from his hometown in Sichuan... "Ming History Biography" still records: When he was seventy years old, he returned to Shu, and sent a commander to arrest him and return him to Yongchang...

Including Yang Shen himself, he also wrote poems expressing his feelings: He has grown old after more than seventy years of life, and it is clear that the law allows him to retire.After returning home, he became an old man in Bajiang, and he became a prisoner in the Yunnan Sea... There is another poem: The Yan River is unintentionally filled with snow, and the Hengshan Mountain is intentionally covered with clouds.God, through his yellow cotton coat, took pity on me and joined the army at seventy... So joining the army at seventy was not what others said, but his own..."

Li Ding'an spoke eloquently, and everyone was stunned: At first glance, it doesn't seem difficult, as long as you know Yang Shen's life.

But if you think about it carefully: Good guy, who would pay special attention to a person's historical research if they have nothing to do?
Just like what Ding Licheng said just now: What's the use of studying him?

Thinking about it this way, even if Li Ding'an didn't memorize the entire "History of the Ming Dynasty", he probably memorized half of it, including "Book of the Later Han Dynasty", "Book of the New Tang Dynasty", and "Book of the Song Dynasty"... Otherwise, where would he know it? "Golden Horse" is the Hanlin Academy?

So based on this erudition, it is really not luck for others to pick up mistakes...

There was deep silence for a while, and then someone raised his hand again: "Expert Li, how much is this worth?"

Li Ding'an thought for a while, but shook his head: "I don't know, because nothing of the same type has ever been auctioned, and I haven't heard of anyone selling it."

"Can you compare it with other people's works, such as the other two Ming Dynasty talents? Teacher Ding, there must be a similar collection in the Forbidden City, right?"

"There are some collections, but there are a lot of forgeries made by Jie Jin, most of them from the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty. 90.00% of the ones in circulation today are of this kind. It is difficult to measure with instruments, so it has no reference value."

"What about Xu Wei?"

Ding Licheng couldn't help but pause: There are quite a lot of Xu Wei's original works, which are collected by the Forbidden City and the National Museum of China, and there are also many in private circulation, but they are not the same thing as this one.

He was about to explain when someone clicked on his mobile phone and said "fuck" again: "Xu Wei's ink-on-paper scroll "Sketching Scroll" was auctioned by Jiade Autumn in 2017. The starting price was 6000 million, and the final price was 700. Ten thousand?"

"Look at the photo: it seems like there's more than one painting?"

"Oh, yes, it's a scroll... There are five paintings in total, but the largest one is only three and a half square feet, and the remaining four are all one-square-foot sketches. On average, 300 million per square foot?"

"That's a painting, so it's hard to compare, right?"

"There are also words: at the 2020 Baoli Summer Sale, Xu Wei's "Four Tang Poems in Cursive Script", four square feet on silk, sold for 300 million. Going forward, in 2018 Christie's Shanghai auction, Xu Wei's "Five Character Poems in Cursive Script" The vertical scroll... signed with 27 characters, was sold for 400 yuan, an average of 50 yuan per character... What's wrong with me?"

The onlookers were stunned: One word costs 50. Even if compared to this, wouldn’t the twenty words above cost tens of millions?And that’s not counting the value of gold itself…

But Li Ding'an secretly shook his head: The donkey's head is not the horse's mouth, there is no comparison at all.

If we only compare the categories, Xu Wei's is calligraphy and painting, but this one is miscellaneous, so the former is definitely more expensive.Because the cultural and historical value of calligraphy and painting antiques is relatively high, and secondly, they are difficult to preserve, so the price is of course high.

But if we compare uniqueness and uniqueness, this one is of course more valuable: there are very few pure gold cultural relics, and more than 80.00% are Buddha statues, and the rest are gold pots, gold cups, and gold cups.There are even fewer words on them, and apart from the seal, there are only gold ingots.

But there are only a few words on it?

A wax bucket with so many words engraved on it suddenly appeared... I dare not say that it is the only one in the world, but the same type of study artifacts that have been handed down to this day can be regarded as treasures in the museum.

Therefore, this is the most valuable thing about this thing. Next are the various added values ​​brought by Yang Shen, including various families, Ming Dynasty talents, Sanyuan grades, etc.

"There is no comparison, because it is not the same category!" Li Ding'an shook his head categorically, "But a word is definitely not worth 50, because it is engraved on it. Just like bamboo slips and rubbings, even if they are from the same writer, they are still words Similar to antiques, but compared with calligraphy and painting: one underground, one in the sky..."

Like this?

There is something wrong with the relationship, but since it is said by an expert, there must be some truth to it.

Everyone onlookers thought so, but Ma Xianming curled his lips: Li Ding'an's concept was purely a secret exchange.

Why do we have to compare it with calligraphy and painting instead of comparing it with this cultural relic of the same material and use?

It’s not like there aren’t all kinds of study objects made of gold: the National Museum has a pure gold Wufeng pen holder, and the Forbidden City has a gold pen washer with a lotus gourd.

Although it is a royal item, there are no words on those two pieces, so this wax bucket cannot be much lower.If I had to estimate the price: Ma Xianming dared to chew on it for 2000 million.

Look at the price on the invoice: 110 million, and it was issued just now.

This is not just a house. How much does a villa on the Sixth Ring Road or a large flat in the city center cost?

Ma Xianming didn't know what to say: This is a cultural fair, not a street stall in Panjiayuan. All objects must be appraised twice by very professional experts before they can be placed here.

But Li Ding'an can still pick up the leaks?
On the other hand, when I think about it again, I find it a bit funny: If Li Ding'an is allowed to be an expert here, wouldn't it be like putting the wolf in the henhouse?
(End of this chapter)