gifted collector

Chapter 464 The easiest way
Seeing that Bi Jian seemed to be slaughtering himself, Fang Ming knew that he could not "play" anymore, or must he regret it?So he immediately said: "It is true that there are real oracle bones with no characters that are faked by engraving characters later. This is also the usual practice of real masters, and this is also the most difficult part of the oracle bones. Yes, in order to keep the same color as the oracle bone, a series of methods will be used to make it old after the final engraving. But no matter how old it is, it can’t be the same as the real one.”

"Generally speaking, you can use alkaline water to wipe it. If it is old enough, you can usually wipe out the real background color. The identification of such bones can start from the place where the words are engraved, because The color of the engraved place must be lighter than other places. Even if the forger uses rust, smoke or other methods to make it old, it cannot be compared with the words on the real oracle bone. Yes, this is because the color of the words on the real oracle bones is not formed by manpower, but is formed under the natural environment for thousands of years. However, with the development of high technology and the emergence of new coatings, such methods often It's not realistic anymore."

"Yes, in fact, this method is also limited. For example, if I were a person selling oracle bones, I would not want you to wipe them with lye before you bought them. This is absolutely impossible, in fact There is no such practice in the industry regulations, and I wiped it with alkaline water, and there was nothing strange at all.”

Bi Jian has been researching this oracle bone for not a day or two. He has also used methods such as alkaline water, but it has no effect. called.

Fang Ming put the oracle bone flat on the coffee table, pointed to the words on it, and said, "Actually, the most important thing is to start from this word."

"Although the characters engraved later are very similar because of the extremely high level of the engraver, but those who have studied calligraphy will definitely see that such characters are very unnatural and intentional."

"This...is still not very reliable. For example, someone like me who has no study of calligraphy can't see how natural or unnatural it is. Is there any other way?"

Bi Jian sighed, what Fang Ming said was very reasonable.But after playing with antiques for many years, he has studied many things. This is because the identification of antiques often involves knowledge in many aspects. The calligraphy Fang Ming mentioned at this time is also one of them, but it makes him helpless. But he himself didn't know much about this aspect. He even studied it before, but he really didn't have much talent, so he gave up in the end.

Hearing that Fang Ming proposed to use such an identification method at this time, Bi Jian immediately raised his hand and surrendered. As for asking if there is another way, that's just talking.

However, to his surprise, Fang Ming nodded his head and said, "Actually, there is an easiest way."

All eyes were on Fang Ming at once!

Any antiques with characters or paintings can actually be identified based on their style, so there is no problem with what Fang Ming said just now that they can be identified based on the natural and unnatural characters carved on the oracle bones. This method is a bit difficult for people who don't know calligraphy-natural and unnatural, which is difficult for people who don't know calligraphy to distinguish.

However, Fang Ming said at this time that there are other ways, and he also said that there is the simplest way, how could it be possible to prevent everyone from focusing on him.

"Oh, isn't it? Is there an easier way?"

Sikong Zhe touched his nose, it can be said that it is the simplest method, it must be used by anyone who has some basic understanding of antique appraisal, but is there really such a method?

"Look, the shape of this oracle bone is irregular."

"correct."

Jiang Wen even stretched out her hand to touch the oracle bone on the table and said, "Oracle bones are generally irregular."

Fang Ming looked around and found that although he didn't speak, they all looked at him with puzzled eyes. He obviously didn't understand what he was talking about. He scratched his hair. Fang Ming knew that what he said was a little pointless. There is no end, no wonder it is difficult for others to understand.

"Oh, of course the oracle bone is irregular, but I don't mean that. What I mean is that even if the oracle bone is irregular, it was a complete oracle bone at the beginning. For example, if it is a tortoise shell, it is It's roughly oval, and if it's a cow's shoulder carapace, it's basically fan-shaped."

"Yes, there is nothing wrong, but what does this have to do with the identification you said?"

Wu Ze still didn't understand Fang Ming's intentions. In fact, it wasn't just him who didn't understand, Zhou Yafang and others still didn't understand.

"This...is my words so difficult to understand?"

Fang Ming showed a helpless expression on his face, thought for a while and organized the thoughts in his mind before continuing: "It's like this, when the oracle bones were engraved in the original, the oracle bones were in their original and complete shape. So when engraving, it is natural to choose the most central place, that is to say, regardless of the size of the oracle bone, the characters on it should basically be engraved in the middle.”

"Yes, there's nothing wrong with it, it's normal, but..."

Fang Ming interrupted Zhou Yafang's words with a wave of his hand, and continued: "But we know that the oracle bones are buried in the ground, and after many years unearthed, they are often incomplete. It is impossible to be in the middle of the oracle bone."

"However, when later master forgers used wordless oracle bones to engrave characters on them, they basically unconsciously chose to carve characters in the middle of the incomplete oracle bones they obtained."

"For example, you see, this oracle bone is already long, but the three characters on it are located at the most important position. If you look carefully, you will find that the distance from the front, back, left, and right edges of the oracle bone is very moderate. Yes, even the distance between the ligatures and the words is exquisite, have you noticed that although these are only a few words, they have a coherent feeling, as if the engraver is laying out a picture of words."

"If it doesn't look strange just like this, then imagine what it would be like if these words were placed on an oval tortoise shell or a fan-shaped animal bone, don't you think? Very uncoordinated?"

As Fang Ming explained more and more deeply, the eyes of Zhou Yafang and others slowly lit up. The method Fang Ming said seemed a little complicated when he didn't explain it clearly, but in fact it was as simple as he said. Simple, and has nothing to do with calligraphy, it is analyzed from the layout of characters on oracle bones.

But this is very reasonable. If there are really oracle bones with characters, those characters will certainly not be in the center or in a suitable position after being broken. From this point of view, what about fake oracle bones?Because it was made later, the layout of the later engraving often considers the shape you see now, and the characters are located in the center of the oracle bone!

In other words, when appraising an oracle bone, you can "restore" the oracle bone in front of you into an ellipse or fan shape in your mind. If you find that the layout of the characters on it is weird, then there must be something wrong.

This is completely a subconscious behavior, but for people who are proficient in identification, this is a breakthrough.

They are all veterans, Zhou Yafang and others immediately understood what was going on.

"No, is there such a way?"

Bi Jian shook his head.

"It's really unexpected!"

Wu Ze also sighed, he had never thought of such a method, but the crux of the problem is that this method is feasible.

"Well, I admit that this is indeed a good way."

Sikong Zhe thought about it carefully for a while, and finally he nodded in agreement with Fang Ming's method, and it was indeed a simple method.

"Just now I used this method to identify it. I knew that the oracle bone was fake, so I dared to pick up a knife to scrape it. Otherwise, wouldn't it make Mr. Bi hunt down several streets? I don't care about such things. Dare to do it."

Speaking of this matter, Fang Ming was very happy. This time, he made the appraisal entirely by himself. Because it was fake, Pixiu had no effect at all. It feels so good to feel completely close to his own ability appraisal.

"It's really a long experience."

Bi Jian really couldn't think that the problem that had troubled him for a long time would be solved by such a method in the end, and it really could be solved!

At this time, Sikong Zhe patted his stomach and said, "Old Bi, I think it's getting late now, and your oracle bones have been identified, shall we have dinner?"

Bi Jian was taken aback, patted himself on the forehead, and said, "Ha! Why did I forget about this, let's go, let's go eat."

When he stood up, Fang Ming found that Bi Jian was not going out but going in. He couldn't help being surprised, and whispered to Si Kongzhe, "This...how did you go in? Shouldn't you be going out when eating?"

"Hey, Fang Ming, don't worry, you will definitely not go wrong. You are lucky today. Of course, we are also blessed by you today. Otherwise, we might not be able to eat."

Hearing what Sikong Zhe said, Fang Ming's eyes lit up immediately, it was clearly delicious, "Ha! My mouth is watering when you say that!"

At this moment, Fang Ming thought of Bi Jian's Four Treasures of the teahouse. People who are so particular about food must be equally particular about food.

(End of this chapter)