super sensory appraiser

Fang Feiyang even put his hands behind his back, and carefully looked up and down the items on the shelves of this store. Not to mention, there are really many types of bronze wares in this store, and the years involved are also very long. There are people from all generations.

Seeing this situation, Fang Feiyang involuntarily launched his out-of-the-air sensing ability, and checked against these "old goods".

Under the "deep analysis", Fang Feiyang showed a slight smile on his face, because most of the old products here are modern imitations.

However, there are still a few bronze vessels with incomplete appearance that belong to the ancient funerary objects of more than 2000 years ago. I don’t know where the store came from. At the same time, judging by Fang Feiyang’s current professional vision, these things still have a certain collection. If you can invite a master of bronze ware restoration with superb craftsmanship to integrate it, the value will be even higher and there will be more potential.

Fang Feiyang looked around, and invisible sensing abilities reverberated in the shop like radar waves. A bronze mirror from the Tang Dynasty caught Fang Feiyang's attention. There was also a problem. In the middle of the bronze mirror was a The holes that were patched, and the workmanship used by those who restored it were crude and poor, and it is a pity that they were repaired.

Zhang Guashan, who was by Fang Feiyang's side, didn't know if he understood it. Since he entered the room, he kept shaking his head after reading a few pieces. He looked like a master appraiser.

Zhang Guashan also said like a veteran of the rivers and lakes: "It is getting more and more difficult to find real treasures in the antique city. It is better to go to the ghost market to try your luck."

Fang Feiyang laughed when he heard the words, and replied: "Now the sellers in those ghost markets are also thieves and thieves. It's also the environment where good and evil are mixed. If you don't pay attention, you will be tricked by others,"

"Khan, the quilts are all unqualified half-baked guys, anyway, it's fine if your big boss hasn't been quilted before,"

Fang Feiyang didn't speak, but put away his out-of-the-air sensing ability, and walked a few more steps in. The shop is quite large, and there is an antique walnut screen near it, and there seems to be another behind the screen. In the Treasure Pavilion, generally the things placed in the innermost are really good things.

After crossing the screen, walking inside and looking up, Fang Feiyang's eyes lit up. There were rows of Xuande stoves of different shapes on the Treasure Pavilion inside. The appearance of these Xuande stoves looked good. There is such a simple temperament.

But Fang Feiyang would not believe that so many pieces of Xuande stoves are high-quality goods. If this is the case, then the owner of this store must be a big player who specializes in collecting Xuande stoves, and it is impossible to put these things in the shop .

"If you are interested in Xuande furnace, then you have come to the right place. My Xuande furnace is the most complete in the antique city. From the Ming Dynasty to the Qing imitation and then to the folk imitation, I can't say that I have a complete range here, but it is also diverse. , "

The shopkeeper looked at Fang Feiyang with a smile, and Fang Feiyang was a little stunned. This shopkeeper was not like other shopkeepers who went up and said that his things were all real things, and he himself said that there were imitations.

But after thinking about it, Fang Feiyang also understood that if he said that these are true, even a fool would not believe it. Although Qing imitation and folk imitation are imitations, they are always old things with a certain value. Sell ​​some money.

There are more than a dozen Xuande stoves, all of different styles. Fang Feiyang looked carefully with the naked eye, and only saw two folk imitations and three Qing imitations. He didn't know whether the others were modern imitations or real ones. .

"Mister, I don't know which one you are interested in, I will show you a hand and you can take a closer look, okay,..."

Seeing Fang Feiyang's earnest observation, the shopkeeper said again that today's business is not good and there are few customers, otherwise he would not be so enthusiastic to explain and serve young people like Fang Feiyang carefully.

Just as Fang Feiyang was about to speak, a voice sounded beside him.

"Hey, why is this broken incense burner so dark? Boss, I think you can work harder when you have nothing to do. Clean your old product with sandpaper. Only when the oil is shiny can you sell it for a good price,"

It was Zhang Guashan on the side who spoke.

The boy casually picked up a Xuande stove, weighed it in his hand, then tilted his head, looking back and forth.

The store owner was smiling and ready to pick someone for Fang Feiyang to start with, but when Zhang Guashan opened his mouth with such a big mouth, he almost suffocated the store owner from internal injuries.

"Young man, if you don't understand, don't talk nonsense. This Xuande furnace can be polished with sandpaper casually. Sanding it carelessly will destroy the patina on the surface of the vessel. It's self-defeating and worthless."

The store owner shook his head and hurriedly corrected Zhang Guashan's erroneous views.

It would be rare for him to talk to such a smart customer as usual, and today's business is slow, so I only need to say a few more words.

Fang Feiyang was also overwhelmed by Zhang Guashan's words. He held back his smile and said, "I said, brother, you are also a senior executive of Dingsheng. You can't say such layman's words in the future. People in the circle will laugh at you if you spread them out. "

Zhang Guashan smiled, didn't take it seriously, and said with a big grin: "It's nothing, I'm just kidding, although I don't know the skills of antique maintenance, but I have also heard the saying that "there is no real Xuande stove in the world". .. Boss, I guess the goods in your store are also high imitations, not worth much money,"

The shopkeeper couldn't laugh or cry when he met Zhang Guashan who was so straightforward.

However, there is one point, what Zhang Guashan said is quite right. In the current Chinese antique collection industry, no one dares to say that they have an authentic Xuande incense burner. 90.00% of the nine incense burners are imitated by later generations. The ancient craftsmen of Jingtai made it, and the newer ones were made in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China.

No one dares to say that they have an incense burner that was poured under the personal supervision of the emperor Xuande in the Ming Dynasty.

In order to make huge profits, from the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty to the period of the Republic of China, the activities of antique dealers to imitate Xuande furnaces have never stopped. The drawings and process procedures are imitated.

These meticulously cast imitations are comparable to the real ones, and experts can't distinguish them. So far, none of the many Xuande furnaces collected in major museums in China can be recognized as the real Xuande furnace by many connoisseurs. The false Xuande furnace has become one of the "unsolved cases" in Chinese archaeology.

300 years ago, when Emperor Xuande of the Ming Dynasty was in power, in order to satisfy his hobby of enjoying incense burners, he ordered to import a batch of red copper from Siam, and ordered the royal craftsmen to refer to the firewood kiln, Ru kiln, official kiln, Designed and supervised the production of incense burners for the styles of famous porcelains from Ge Kiln, Jun Kiln, and Ding Kiln, as well as historical books such as "Xuanhe Bogu Tulu" and "Archaeological Map".

In order to ensure the quality of the incense burner, the royal craftsmen of the palace tremblingly told the emperor that to make a good incense burner, the copper had to be refined six times, one time, less, and after six times, only half of the raw materials would be left. With a strong consciousness, he immediately decreed that the number of times of refining should not only not be reduced, but doubled (refining twelve times), and precious metals such as gold and silver were added, so the craftsman selected dozens of precious metals such as gold and silver, and red copper After more than ten times of careful casting and great efforts, the best copper incense burner was finally successfully produced in the three years of Xuande.

(To be continued)