The Book of Appreciation

When the young man put it down, the back of the bronze mirror was facing up. Wu Di frowned and took a look, then picked it up.The mirror is about ten centimeters in diameter, dark yellow in color, without copper rust, and looks like new at first glance.The style is a round button, no button seat, wide flat edge, and a story painting on the back.On the left side of the picture there is a big tree with branches extending to the button.A man and a woman stood under the tree, and the man was bowing his hands in salute.Flowers and grass are growing under the feet, the river is turbulent, a few lambs are jumping and playing, and there is a waiter leading a horse standing by the river.It is the story of Liu Yi passing on the book.

Wu Di looked at the front again, it was delicate and bright, and the light could shine on people.He weighed the bronze mirror in his hand and asked:

"Do you usually go to school?"

The young man didn't expect that he would ask this suddenly, he was taken aback for a moment before replying,

"Go, but not for long."

"I think it's the same. This mirror was exhibited in the Forbidden City. I didn't expect it to flow into your hands now, hahahaha!"

The young man scratched the back of his head in embarrassment, took out another bronze mirror, placed it in front of Wu Di, and said:

"Brother, look at this again, it's an absolute masterpiece of Song Jing!"

When Wu Di saw it, it was also a story mirror, similar in size, style, and age to that of Liu Yi's biography, and it was also round buttons, but the pattern was different.On the right side of the round button, a few pine trees grow beside the rocks. They are towering, with lush branches and leaves. There is a person kneeling under the tree, wearing a high crown and robe, holding the wide sleeve edge with his left hand, and washing his ears with clear water with his right hand.There is a person beside Shuibo, holding a cow with both hands, looking forward, as if talking to the earwasher.It expresses the legend of Xu Youchao's father in ancient times.

Wu Di held the two mirrors in his hand, compared them, and then put down the mirror of Liu Yi's biography.These two mirrors have several common features, both of which are heavy mirror bodies, fine copper, clear patterns and excellent molds.Especially this mirror of Xu Youchao's father uses a variety of techniques to cleverly match the light water ripples with the high-relief figures and trees, which has a strong three-dimensional effect and highlights the vivid storyline.

Wu Di put down the mirror with a smile and asked:

"Boss, is there any more?"

"Brother, how about you talk about these two first?"

"It's as good as the new one. It's very delicate. If you still have some, I'm going to get a batch back and put them in my store."

Hearing this, the young man made a gesture to put away the two mirrors, and said angrily:

"You can eat indiscriminately, but you can't talk indiscriminately! You have poor eyesight, how can you say that my mirror is new?"

"Don't worry, I'm serious. My uncle has a small shop in Panjiayuan. It's not a trivial matter to eat your two mirrors. Hurry up and make an offer!"

"Ten thousand euros!"

"Ten thousand euros for two mirrors?"

"Ten thousand per side!"

"Ten thousand per side? Ten thousand is enough to buy ten or eight mirrors like this! By the way, the mirrors are really exquisite. Do you have any more? If you have one, give me one, so I can go back and open a special counter."

"Eight ten thousand euros? Are you sure you didn't bluff me?"

Wu Di frowned when he heard the words, there really are?

"Let me do the math, eight of them are [-] euros, I'll process them again, each one can be sold... OK, you can take them all out, as long as they are similar to these two, I want as many as I have!"

The young man took out a big package from under the shelf, picked up a small package from it and threw it in front of Wu Di, saying:

"Including those two, there are seventeen in total, and I won't take advantage of you, [-] euros, just pay."

Wu Di opened the package and took it out to look at it side by side. The more he looked at it, the more excited he became. Can this Jin and Song bronze mirrors be sold in wholesale?

There are a total of fifteen bronze mirrors in the package, which can be roughly divided into three categories, one is round button, no button seat, and wide flat edge.One type is eight out of rhombus lace shape, round button, narrow edge.There is also a type of square mirror, which has the least number and only three sides.The colors are also different, but they can be roughly divided into two types, one is dark yellow and the other is turquoise.The size is also different, but most of them have a diameter of about ten centimeters, and those below five centimeters have only three sides.The value of bronze mirrors has a lot to do with their size. Those below five centimeters and those above twenty centimeters are extremely rare, so the value of any one of these three small mirrors is almost as much as the sum of the other fourteen pieces!

Among the fifteen mirrors, eleven mirrors have pictures on the back of myths and stories, such as Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea, Zhong Kui Catching the Demon, Cowherd and Weaver Girl, Boya Playing the Qin, Wu Niu panting the moon, etc. Among them, there are only three mirrors of the story of Tang Huangyou Yuegong.There are also four sides are mirrors of realistic character stories such as traveling, viewing, farming, and playing.

Wu Di picked out the one with serious copper rust on both sides, and said:

"These two are too bad to be calculated according to that price, and I won't take advantage of you. The total is [-] euros. Interesting enough?"

The lad almost jumped up, and cried:

"Bad? Dude, I really doubt that you are in this line of business! The bronze mirrors that have been around for hundreds of years can be preserved like this! If you don't like these two sides, you just don't sell them! These bronze mirrors But for those who worked so hard to smuggle out of our country, you won't earn a penny at this price, so I'll try to make a turnaround!"

Wu Di was very sure that the young man regarded these batches of bronze mirrors as modern imitations, and what he said and did now were acting.That being the case, why not tease him again,

"Why isn't such a good thing in the auction? When you meet someone you like and take advantage of it, let alone [-] euros, you can grab [-] euros?"

"This, isn't this the wrong way?"

The young man’s words flickered a little, and he cursed inwardly, it’s so new, an expert would know it’s an imitation at a glance, can it be approved for auction?If you kid dare to tease me today, I will keep you from walking out of this street!

"It's not coming from the right place? So there will be trouble taking this thing back?"

The young man was in a hurry, and said quickly:

"The origin of things is absolutely fine, I mean smuggling, smuggling!"

At the beginning, Wu Di really regarded the mirror of the story of Liu Yi's biography as a fake, mainly because his preconceived ideas imprisoned his thoughts.It is said that no two porcelains are the same, but who stipulates that the same must be true for bronzes?This kind of thing made by mold can be mass-produced!It is rare now but because it is not easy to keep!He and the lad both made the same mistake!

Antique identification is like this. Once something is determined to be fake, it must become more and more fake after looking at it. The exquisite carving and exquisite composition that represent the value of the bronze mirror have become evidence of fraud. With the current metal processing technology, what Things can't be done?

It wasn't until he touched the two mirrors at the same time that he had a hint of doubt. He activated the book of heaven to try it out, and knew that he had misread it.Then it was a casual bargaining sentence, who knew that it would lead to such a large number of rare gold and Song bronze mirrors!

Wu Di has checked every mirror with the heavenly book, and found a lot of surprises. These mirrors are not only authentic, but also extremely precious, because some of them are treasures used by concubines that are recorded in the history books!

"Are you sure these weren't dug out of the ground?"

Wu Di continued to repeat his words, to see if he could figure out the origin of these mirrors.

The young man looked helpless and said:

"Even if it was dug out from the ground, it's enough to clean it up after turning around. Besides, my mirror has a clean history. It is a collection of a friend's old man in China. His old man passed away not long ago, and he disposed of it for me! "

The young man thought that Wu Di had already seen that these mirrors were fakes, and the reason why he wanted to buy them was simply because the imitations were real, so he didn't hide anything, and directly told the origin of these bronze mirrors.

It is true that he received the bronze mirror from a friend in China. The father of that friend is indeed a lover of ancient mirrors, and has collected many fine ancient mirrors including Tang mirrors with auspicious animal and Portuguese patterns.The old man passed away unexpectedly, without leaving a single word. As a result, his son only knew that the grape-patterned mirror was a treasure, but he had no confidence in so many similar small mirrors.After all, according to common sense, if you want to own any antique, luck, eyesight, and funds are all indispensable. Doesn't he think that his old man has the financial resources to collect them in batches?

As soon as the old man passed away, this guy started to deal with these collections. When it was his turn to get the batch of bronze mirrors, he had a little luck in his heart, so he asked an expert to appraise them through his connections.As a result, experts saw that they were all fake, and they could only sell for ten thousand and eight thousand at most!It happened that the young man went back to the country during that time. When he was drinking, he heard a friend talking about it, and looked at the bronze mirror. He thought it was a good imitation, so he packed it all up and took it to Italy.

After the story was told, Wu Di judged that at least [-]% of it was true, and he couldn't help but feel a little bit sad. After a lifetime of hard work, he met an unworthy descendant and a fake expert, and all his hard work was ruined!

In fact, none of them knew that there was another story behind this story!At that time, the young man's friend found a good expert, but his character was extremely poor. After he identified that these bronze mirrors were genuine, he became greedy and played a wonderful show with others. Precious bronze mirrors from the Jin and Song Dynasties are said to be fakes!I was planning to arrange for someone to come to buy at a low price after a while, but I didn’t expect that the tricks were exhausted, and the person happened to have a friend who was selling antiques, and he just happened to return to China at that time, but the bamboo basket was empty, and it was cheap. Wu Di this lucky guy!

I bought a lot of high-quality bronze mirrors for [-] euros, Wu Di was in a very good mood, and was about to leave after taking the bag, when the young man stopped him again,

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