Jianbao life

Chapter 649 One True Two False
In Tang Sancai, there are also many shapes of camels, such as the roaring camel, which raises its head and makes a roar to the sky, and there are barbarians riding camels, rhinos looking at the moon, etc.

In short, the more complex and realistic the shape, the more expensive it is.Because of the complex shape, it will inevitably increase the difficulty of sculpture, so it is rare on the market. Once it appears, the price will be much more expensive than ordinary pottery.

Ma Laocai’s is a three-color figurine of a Hu man riding a camel in Tang Dynasty. The camel’s eyes are wide open and its head is neighing. It stands on a rectangular base with a hump standing upright. On top of the pack, the barbarian's arm was broken, and it looked as if it had gone through vicissitudes.

Parts of the camel's body were originally painted in red, black, and yellow-brown colors, but they were not well preserved and have fallen off now.

To say that the demeanor and muscle performance of this camel are very wonderful, and the demeanor and movements of the barbarians are also very good.How could something like this be wrong?This is something that Ma Laocai and his son find very strange.

Chu Chen chuckled and said, "It's not all wrong, it's both true and false."

"True or false? Then what is true and what is false?" Ma Laocai and his son asked in unison.

Chu Chen pointed to the Huren on the camel and said, "This Huren figurine was made later, and the camel is real."

"How is this possible!" Ma Laocai and his son said dumbfounded.

Chu Chen said: "If you look carefully, you can see that this Hu figurine is made of glue and clay, and then made old with chemicals. In order to prove the authenticity of this thing, the forger even deliberately Made a little flaw, and made this person's arm broken, because of the defect, it looks more like an old thing. If you don't believe it, you can soak it in water overnight, and this barbarian will definitely melt."

Hearing what Chu Chen said, Ma Laocai quickly asked Ma Xiaoqiang to take a magnifying glass, and then observed carefully, but the more he looked, the paler his face became.

Director Jin asked strangely beside him: "Young Master Chu, isn't this fake person a bit boring? How much money can you make if it's so troublesome to add a villain?"

Chu Chen said with a smile: "Don't underestimate this little Hu figurine, if there is one more, the price will increase several times."

"Is this impossible?" Chief Jin said incredulously.

Chu Chen said: "Because there are not many tri-colored figurines with knights, rare things are more expensive, and the value is of course much higher. For example, this Tang tri-colored figurines, without this Hu figurines, would be about 16 at most. With Hu figurines Human figurines, in a better market, can sell for about [-]!"

"It's so different!" Hearing the price given by Chu Chen, Director Jin was surprised, and he understood the intention of the forger. The cost of adding a villain is very low, but the price can be doubled several times, so good Things, some people with bad intentions, of course they will do it.

To be honest, this kind of method is quite common in the antique industry, and people in the circle call it "transferring flowers and trees".I don’t know if some friends who often visit the antique market have noticed that, in today’s antique market, the bottoms of complete bowls and bottle bottoms of authentic Gaogu porcelain are relatively tight. Why?
The reason is very simple. Many counterfeiters buy back the bottom of the porcelain, and then attach a fake body to it. This is called "bottom connection" in porcelain.At present, there are many fake antiques and fake porcelain in the market by using the method of embedding flowers and wood.Many so-called old kiln porcelains use this trick.

The bottom foot is real and the top is fake.Many fake connoisseurs and half-bottles of vinegar are always used to turning over the bottom first when looking at porcelain. When they see that the money is right and the sound of knocking is also right, well, based on these two things, he dares to conclude that it is real. it is true.

Of course, there are still some collectors who bought things back and took them to the testing center for appraisal. Because the bottom line is true, the test results must also be true, and then take the results to experts to help him identify them. Experts say things He was still not happy that it was a fake. Chu Chen met such a person and it was not just one or two people.

So, here is my advice to friends who like to collect, they must be more discerning in this aspect.

Closer to home, speaking of it, Ma Laocai’s figurine of a Hu man riding a camel is brilliant, the camel is real, only the figurine riding is fake, but this fake riding figurine is very realistic, quite like the Tang Dynasty style, and the counterfeiter has made a broken weapon, which makes it easy for people to relax their vigilance psychologically. It is normal for some people who don't look carefully to be deceived.

After Ma Laocai looked at the terracotta warriors carefully, he silently put away the things. The matter was very clear, but he still didn't want to believe it.However, if it was really like what Chu Chen said, soaking things in water for one night, he would be reluctant. If the figurines really had to be soaked, it would be a big loss.

Now that it is like this, he can still sell it to other people like jade, and he may make a fortune at that time. If it is soaked, it will really lose everything.

After a while, Chu Chen asked with a smile: "Mr. Ma, I heard that your collection is still very rich. You don't want me to go back with a pen holder, do you?"

Ming Mazi also said with a dissatisfied expression: "That's right, old horse, I don't say that two of your three things are fake. We, Young Master Chu, came all the way from the capital, so you can let Young Master Chu just look at it." Putting on a pen holder, that would be too unreasonable!"

Ma Laocai was too embarrassed to hear the words, but felt too depressed.In fact, these three items were carefully selected by him before. If they are all genuine, then the combined market value should be between 60 and 40. It is said that it is enough for the needs of life for a period of time to come.

But after much thought, Ma Laocai did not expect that out of the three items, two of them were fake, and only the pen holder with the lowest value was genuine, which made him want to vomit blood in depression.

Now that he has not achieved his goal, even if Chu Chen and Ming Mazi don't talk about it, he will continue to take out the things.But which one to choose, he had some troubles, the enamel snuff bottle from the Qianlong period?reluctant!That picture of Fu Shan?reluctant!An official kiln blue and white bowl from the Kangxi period?Still reluctant!
"Hey! This world is changing too fast. Why is this kid so good at such a young age? It's hard to sell him some high-quality imitations. Are the people in the capital really good? Come on! Let's do it all at once. !"

"Old Ma, what are you going to do, give me a letter!" Ming Mazi kept urging beside him.

Ma Laocai came back to his senses, and quickly said: "I have a pair of Qing Dynasty huanghuali cabinets at home, Mr. Chu, are you interested?"

Large huanghuali pieces are very popular in antique shops. Of course, Chu Chen would not be uninterested, so he nodded and said, "Then ask Mr. Ma to take me there quickly!"

"Okay, you guys come with me..."

After finishing speaking, Ma Xiaoqiang pushed Ma Laocai and led everyone to a storage room inside.

Ma Xiaoqiang opened the door with the key, then pressed the light switch in the storage room, and then invited Chu Chen and others in.

There are all furniture in the room, but not many look good. Ma Laocai explained with a smile: "I didn't do any furniture business before. First, it takes up too much space. Second, better furniture and funds Too much pressure, the only hard wood is the pair of huanghuali cabinets, and the rest are cork furniture, if you like it, Young Master Chu, I can sell it to you at a lower price!"

Furniture on the antique market can generally be divided into two categories, softwood and hardwood.But how do you tell the difference between softwood and hardwood?This is a question that has been troubling everyone.

In fact, "softwood" and "hardwood" are not the only standard based on the softness and hardness of the wood texture.Hardwoods include red sandalwood, huanghuali, mahogany, chicken wing wood, iron wood, ebony and so on.Cork, also called "firewood", includes nanmu, beech, cypress, walnut and so on.

The hardness and softness here are relative terms. A considerable part of cork furniture or firewood furniture is very hard.

Hardwood furniture is generally not a scientific name, it is a literary name, or a sociological name, and its name corresponds to no tree.There is no tree called red sandalwood, no tree called huanghuali, and no tree called mangrove.

And cork furniture is a scientific name, and it can find trees correspondingly.For example, walnut furniture in the north has walnut trees, elm furniture has elm trees, nanmu furniture in the south has nanshu trees, beech furniture has beech wood, and ginkgo furniture has ginkgo wood.It corresponds to a tree, which is a scientific name.

Everyone should feel a little strange seeing this, so why?

In fact, the truth is very simple. This is because all the hardwood furniture materials in our country are produced in Hainan and South China except for huanghuali. The rest are not produced in our country and are all imported from outside.

Before seeing the wood, we have not seen the whole tree, only the trunk, so it has no inherent name, so we give it another name for the wood itself, which is a literary name.Literary names are generally nice, such as Zitan, which means that the purple air comes from the east.

Later, the folks formed the custom of calling the wood imported from outside as "hardwood" and the local wood as "firewood".Later, "firewood" was also called "cork", which formed the two divisions of "cork" and "hardwood" in the furniture market.

In the antique industry, many people do not really understand cork furniture, and generally think that it is not as valuable as hardwood furniture.This seems reasonable, but it is actually a misunderstanding caused by not really understanding cork furniture.

Needless to say, for red sandalwood and huanghuali, in the current market situation, small pieces usually cost tens of thousands, while larger ones with better workmanship cost tens of millions. Who makes antiques? Don't want to spend some money, buy a piece of furniture made of huanghuali or red sandalwood, and pick a big deal?
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