golden ear

Chapter 340
After turning around, Mr. Ouyang was also tired, and the two of them returned to the office, just as Lao Li came back after finishing his work.The three of them were chatting while drinking tea, Wu Tianyuan couldn't help asking curiously: "Uncle Li, I have a general understanding after going around. You have been playing with wood for decades, and the market is so chaotic now. Do you have any experience?"

Lao Li said honestly: "Actually, there are mainly several types of fake furniture. The first is to use the characteristics of hardwood furniture that are not easy to distinguish. Furniture made of poorer wood is mixed with furniture made of better wood. Red sandalwood, huanghuali , iron, ebony, chicken wing wood, mahogany, etc., although in terms of specific gravity, color, texture, etc., have their own unique physical properties."

"However, due to the difference in the place of growth, the difference in the growth period, the shift of the position of the wood, such as sapwood, heartwood, etc., and the change of the angle of the saw when cutting the material, there will be differences that are contrary to the standard wood samples in the book. Phenomenon. It is very easy to confuse the natural color and texture, so that the operators have an opportunity to take advantage of it."

Wu Tianyuan pricked up his ears and listened carefully, this is a meat show.Nowadays, furniture is very expensive, and there are too many dummies, and if you are not careful, you will have to drill holes.

"For example, iron wood, the original natural color and texture are slightly similar to chicken wing wood. If the above-mentioned special conditions are met, it will be easier to fake. Even if the natural color is not consistent with high-grade materials, speculators will change their true colors and pretend to be high-end. Furniture. Due to different fashions, from about the middle of the Qing Dynasty to the 20s, because of the favor of the court dignitaries and feudal literati, hardwood furniture was more expensive than black and yellow, so most of the fake wood was painted black to pretend to be red sandalwood. Of course, furniture dealers are also very flexible in changing the color of furniture, there is more than one fake wood color.”

"The second is patchwork and reconstruction. Many ancient furniture are often difficult to restore due to poor preservation and severe structural incompleteness. Therefore, some people have made a lot of efforts to transplant the remaining structures of non-similar varieties to make a piece of ancient furniture that is difficult to attribute and neither fish nor fowl. furniture.

"The third is to change the common ones into rare ones. Why use common ancient furniture varieties to change them into rare ones? Because "rare" is an important manifestation of the value of ancient furniture. Many furniture dealers have handed down more and less valuable half Tables, large square tables, small square tables, etc. have been transformed into relatively rare drawer tables, bar tables, and chess tables. The techniques vary from device to device, and it is generally difficult to ascertain without careful research.

"The most deceitful thing is to break it into parts, use complete ancient furniture, and dismantle it into multiple pieces to make high profits. After dismantling a piece of ancient furniture, imitate it into one or more pieces according to the original components, and then put the old and new ones together. Parts are mixed and assembled into two or more pieces of original furniture, each containing some old components."

Lao Li focused on this point, which is the most confusing. "The most common example is to change a chair into a pair of chairs, or even put together 4 pieces, pretending that they are all restored from old objects. This kind of forgery is the worst. It is not only extremely deceptive, but also seriously damages precious pieces. Ancient cultural relics. If it is found that more than half of the components are after-fitting during the purchase, it should be considered whether this is the case.

"The same method is to change the decoration. In order to increase the value of the furniture, speculators sometimes change the original structure and decoration arbitrarily, and deliberately remove the decoration on some precious handed down furniture to pretend to be earlier furniture."

"The lowest level of counterfeiting is called "tiepizi". The surface of furniture made of ordinary wood is "tiepizi", disguised as hardwood furniture, and sold at a high price. The seams of inlaid furniture are often decorated with color and inlays. If it is fine, its appearance can be confused. Of course, some furniture needs to use non-hardwood as the frame in order to obtain a good resonance effect due to functional needs, such as piano tables, or for other reasons. It is a fake."

Mr. Ouyang took a sip of tea, took a break and came over to answer the conversation: "I have seen several deceptions when I was young, and I have paid a lot of tuition fees myself, so listen to what you say. It is called a switch bag trick, changing the soft drawer into a hard drawer. Drawer. Soft drawer is an elastic structure composed of wood, rattan, brown, silk, etc., which is handed down from generation to generation in hardwood furniture such as chairs, stools, beds, and collapses. Ming-style furniture is more common.”

"Compared with hard drawers, soft drawers have the advantages of comfort and softness, but they are more easily damaged. Nine out of ten of the precious furniture that has been handed down for a long time have been damaged. It has been decreasing day by day for decades. Therefore, many soft drawers on ancient precious furniture have been changed into hard drawers. If you use the soft drawer frame of Ming-style furniture, choose the same wood as the original equipment, and use the same wood as the original equipment to remake it into hard drawers. Be deceived, the price is much different."

"There is also a kind of changing from high to low. In order to adapt to the living style of modern life, high-type furniture is changed into low-type furniture. Furniture is a practical object, and its shape is closely related to people's living style. After entering the modern society, sofa-type A large number of chairs, stools, and collapsed beds entered the homes of ordinary people."

"In order to meet the needs of the reduced height of seats and bedding, many handed down chairs and tables have been shortened so that cushions can be placed on the chairs, and sofa tables can be used in front of the sofa. Many people often buy low-profile ancient furniture that has been modified At that time, I mistakenly thought it was a "natural weapon" handed down from the ancients to the present!
"The age of ancient furniture is an important basis for determining the value. The earlier the furniture is, the higher the value is. But this is not absolute. The value of ancient furniture cannot be judged comprehensively and accurately based on the age alone. There is a one-sided view in the market, that is, the older the furniture, the higher the value, but this is not the case.”

Mr. Ouyang concluded: "Taking Ming and Qing furniture as an example, the furniture made in the early Qing Dynasty is quite consistent with the Ming Dynasty furniture in terms of modeling style, structure, workmanship and materials, and has high artistic value. Based on the current appraisal level It is still difficult to distinguish which ones are from the Ming Dynasty and which ones are from the early Qing Dynasty without the exact year. Therefore, some domestic furniture research authorities collectively refer to the furniture made in the Ming Dynasty and the early Qing Dynasty as "Ming-style furniture". furniture".

"In determining the value, the two are basically treated equally. The reason why the furniture in the early Qing Dynasty can be compared with the Ming Dynasty furniture and enjoy the same value is mainly because it has a high artistic value, which also shows the history of ancient furniture. It is not the only criterion for judging its value."

Wu Tianyuan has read a lot of materials. Since ancient furniture is a kind of historical artwork with a large body and a strong sense of three-dimensionality, it is difficult to evaluate it without the real object.Therefore, under the condition of lack of real furniture before the Ming Dynasty, the evaluation of ancient furniture plastic arts mainly focuses on a small amount of Ming and Qing furniture.

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