I'm really the king of leaks

Chapter 598 "Operation"

During Tang Dayuan's visit to Luocheng, what he cared most about was his batch of Hongwu porcelain.Although the Hongwu porcelain from Zhu Yuanzhang's time in the early Ming Dynasty was salvaged porcelain, because this batch was official kiln porcelain, it was very valuable.

At the auction, Zhang Yi believed that there would be stormy waves!
Uncle Chen's suggestion.

It is positioning this auction as a Ming Dynasty special!
But then again.

Although Hongwu Porcelain is precious, as a special sale of the Ming Dynasty, Uncle Chen feels that some calligraphy and painting are still needed to enhance the artistic atmosphere of the auction.

It is best to have a heavyweight calligraphy and painting that can afford this auction.

For example, the famous "Four Masters of Ming Dynasty", Shen Zhou, Wen Huiming, Tang Yin and Qiu Ying.Or, Dong Qichang, Bada Shanren, the most famous outside of the "Four Families of Ming Dynasty", such as Zhou Chen, Lu Ji, Dai Jin, etc.

It is the best to have their paintings to support the scene.

Recently, Uncle Chen has been looking for related paintings and calligraphy of the Ming Dynasty within this range.

However, the search was fruitless.

bring this up.

Zhang Yi suddenly thought of one thing.

In Beicheng, Zhang Yi once bought a special painting from Wang Chang's auction company.

That painting is called "Visiting Friends in Autumn Mountains".

The original is a painting by Tang Bohu, but that painting is a copy from the Qing Dynasty.

However, when Zhang Yi was appraising the painting, he discovered that the painting actually had interlayers, that is, the legendary picture-in-picture.

The main function of the picture-in-picture is to store treasures and protect the precious paintings inside.

Know that the painting is precious.

However, Zhang Yi's identification could not be conducted because he had no access to the painting inside.At this time, it is not yet known what the paintings are.

When Zhang Yi was in Beicheng, Zhang Yi had already gone through the formalities. However, because Zhang Yi had to go to Beicheng to do other things at that time, the painting was still kept by Wang Chang's company.

Even if I don't know what painting it is.

but.

Where can treasured paintings go?
The painting outside is an imitation of Tang Bohu's "Visiting Friends in Autumn Mountains". Is it possible that the painting inside is one of the four masters of Ming Dynasty in "Ming Shu Hua Ji", and "Visiting Friends in Autumn Mountains" in Tang Yin's painting catalogue? "What about the real thing?

If this is the case, it would be perfectly appropriate to take Tang Bohu's paintings as the cultural and artistic connotation of this auction.

I just don’t know if it’s the painting inside or not.

After thinking about this.

Zhang Yi immediately called Wang Chang.

Wang Chang is very concerned about Zhang Yi's affairs.Zhang Yi called, and Wang Chang said that he immediately sent a special car to deliver the painting to Zhang Yi.

Zhang Yi said.

In fact, there is no need to worry so much.

But Wang Chang said that he had already made arrangements, and that the painting should be sent to Los Angeles around [-]:[-] pm.

Talked to Wang Chang.

Zhang Yi put down the phone and asked Uncle Chen.

"Uncle Chen, have you ever had surgery on picture-in-picture?"

Surgery in the antique business is easy to understand.For some special antiques that need to be processed, some methods such as cutting, melting, and stripping are used to bring them back to the sky.The technical content of this kind of work is very high. If you are not careful enough, you may accidentally pay hundreds of thousands of dollars if you go down with a knife.

Sometimes, even if the process of cutting and peeling is very careful, an antique may be directly destroyed due to oxidation.

If an antique is destroyed, it may cost tens of millions.

This kind of work is like walking on eggshells.

With excellent technology, you must also have a strong enough psychological quality.

It is precisely because of this that the image of "operating" comes into being.

For example.

The last time Uncle Chen helped Zhang Yi open the blue and white porcelain tube brought back from the ghost ship, in fact, it was "operation".

Uncle Chen was taken aback for a moment.

Then, he sighed again before answering.

"The modern antique market is really messy. To be honest, you, Uncle Chen, and I have been in the antique business for so many years, and I have never encountered a real picture-in-picture. I have seen some before, and I have moved some pictures in pictures. Surgery. However, those so-called picture-in-pictures are either fakes inside and out, or they are very ordinary ancient paintings on the outside and real fakes on the inside. They are all modern antique fake pictures in pictures, which are really used for collection Picture-in-picture, I have never seen you, Uncle Chen!"

"Then...Uncle Chen, if there is really a picture-in-picture, and the paintings inside may be paintings and calligraphy from the Ming Dynasty, can you handle it?"

Zhang Yi asked.

Uncle Chen looked at Zhang Yi, and he asked immediately.

"You mean, you have a picture-in-picture?"

How well did Uncle Chen know Zhang Yi? He could guess that Zhang Yi must have gotten a baby just by asking.

"Yes!"

Zhang Yi affirmed.

The expression on Uncle Chen's face was excited at first, but the excitement gradually dissipated.

"Xiao Yi, the picture-in-picture market is terrible, and there are many people who have been cheated. Although you are lucky, it is better not to touch picture-in-picture!"

The reason why Uncle Chen said this is because he has seen too many people who have been deceived by picture-in-picture.

It can range from a few thousand yuan to as many as millions of dollars.

Some are obsessed, for a picture-in-picture, betting that the painting in it will be a famous ancient painting, they sell the only house in their family, in exchange for 300 million, and buy a picture-in-picture.

The result, after opening, was a fake.

worthless.

The result was ruin.

Even if the person sued later, there was an agreement signed by both parties before the sale.

After buying and leaving, after the transaction, each is responsible.

The antique business has its own rules, and even if it wins the case in the end, it is impossible for the other party to make full compensation based on the agreement.It is absolutely impossible to get back the money from the original house.

Out of this consideration, Uncle Chen persuaded Zhang Yi so much.

However, Zhang Yi said.

"Uncle Chen, it's fine, the cost is only 2 yuan, if you lose it, you will lose it! Give it a try!"

"2 yuan, that's okay!"

Uncle Chen said so.

However, he secretly felt that the picture-in-picture price of 2 yuan was probably nothing.

Zhang Yineng liked it, which meant that the picture-in-picture was fine on the surface, but it was only sold for [-] yuan, and the things inside were probably fake linings.

"Uncle Chen, the painting will arrive in Los Angeles at eight o'clock in the evening. When the time comes, you can open it and have a try!"

Seeing Zhang Yi being so serious, Uncle Chen felt a little puzzled.

"Xiao Yi, do you think there is a door?"

Uncle Chen asked.

"Yeah, I feel that after opening it, it may be the product that opened the door!"

Zhang Yi nodded and answered.

The thing that gave Zhang Yi confidence, Uncle Chen felt, might be a trick.

"Success, let's try it at eight o'clock in the evening!"

Uncle Chen said.

Wang Chang's people are very efficient.

It wasn't until evening that we had dinner, and it was not yet eight o'clock, when Zhang Yi and the others were chatting in the hotel.

Wang Chang called and said that his people had arrived.

(End of this chapter)