Chapter 5 A Perfect Fake
What the?
A high imitation of the Guangxu period?
Xu Lao was a little stunned, his face sank, and he said with a slight anger.
"This little brother, you can eat indiscriminately, but you can't talk nonsense."
Ye Tian did not indicate his intentions, but instead analyzed this cloisonné collection.
"I don't say much about the history of cloisonné, only talk about high-quality workmanship, hammer tires, filament, filling, sintering, polishing, gilding, each step of the process has extremely high requirements, a little careless, ten days and half a month of hard work will fall short, so what can stay must be high-quality."
Ye Tian talked about the cloisonné process, such as a number of treasures.
Lin Yutong looked at Ye Tian with a suspicious look.
"So what? What does this represent, and does this cloisonné bottle not be well-made? ”
"Wrong! It's not that it's not good enough, it's that it's too perfect, it's too well-made. ”
Ye Tian said lightly.
This sound caused everyone to laugh.
"Young man, I really don't know how thick the sky is, my hair hasn't grown, and I still learn what antique experts are here."
"It's a joke, and it's too beautiful."
Of course, the ridicule was all those rich people and passers-by who had just started, Lin Yutong and Master Xu had solemn faces and no smiles.
Because the value of antiques does not lie in what is exquisite and perfect, most of the antiques unearthed now will have a little flaw.
On the contrary, some crafts are machine-made, without any flaws, which can be considered perfect, but they are not valuable.
Good things should have a soul.
An antique is the soul of a craftsman, or Wang Gui's heroic spirit, and there is a soul on it.
Just like an ordinary Qing Dynasty official kiln porcelain, the market price is about tens of thousands, but if this porcelain has anything to do with the emperor or ancient celebrities, the value will increase dozens of times.
Just like the bronze head of the 12 zodiac signs in the Old Summer Palace, now an auction price is often hundreds of millions, and it has become a national treasure-level collection.
Now 3D printing technology, or the current level of craftsmen, can make better than these copper heads.
But these bronze heads once existed at the foot of the imperial city, in the Old Summer Palace, which hid the royal nobility and the national fortune of the Chinese land.
Master Xu has been playing with antiques for half his life, of course he understands this truth, so he asked in a deep voice.
"Little brother, although what you said has some truth, it is groundless and groundless. Besides, we, Boyac, will we sell fakes? Do you have any doubts about Boss Chen's character? ”
"Sister A's character, I naturally trust it, just because this is Sister A's shop. I can't let a small reward bottle smash my sister's signboard. As for the basis, I naturally have. ”
Ye Tian said everything naturally.
Lin Yutong was skeptical, and countless questions had appeared in his heart, who is this kid in front of him?
The cloisonné gift box she was holding in her hand had lost a little weight at this time because of Ye Tian's words.
The young man in front of him is either a liar with perfect acting skills, or a master.
"Tell me, how can you tell it's an imitation?"
Lin Yutong also wants to know the answer.
Just as Ye Tian was about to uncover the mystery, Master Xu took out an appraisal book.
"I'm sorry, this thing is Boss Chen's use of scientific means to analyze the age of the material inside, it must be a product of the Jingtai period of the Ming Dynasty, this is the appraisal, how do you explain it?"
Appraisal under scientific means, in general, is more deterrent and convincing.
Now that the appraisal has come out, everyone was still a little suspicious, but now they completely regard this as a farce.
But the young man in front of him was not in a hurry.
He took out this cloisonné appreciation bottle from the box, with a pine tree carved on it, which looked very imposing.
"I said, it's a high imitation!"
He reiterated again.
Yes, Ye Tian didn't give them a convincing reason.
"The high imitation of the Qing Dynasty has entered a more mature stage, and at that time the foreign powers had just invaded China, they liked the cloisonne bottle quite much, but there are very few genuine products, so the late Qing Dynasty official kiln craftsmen imitated the Jingtai period to appreciate the bottle, and then sold it to foreign devils at a high price."
No one expected that a young boy would talk about these histories not at all like rote memorization, but eloquently, as if those craftsmen were in the imitation of the kiln, and he stood next to him.
"There is no problem with the testimonial! It's just that those craftsmen in the Qing Dynasty, the materials they used in high imitation are from the Ming Dynasty, and the natural instruments will detect the ingredients in it, and they will detect that it is something from the Ming Dynasty, but this reward bottle was made in the late Qing Dynasty. ”
People who really understand antiques will be experts themselves from all aspects of identification, relying on instrument testing, although the accuracy is not low, but the only drawback is that the craftsman will use the materials of the previous dynasty to highly imitate antiques.
Master Xu was stunned.
The young man's speech was reasonable, his breath was steady, and his voice moved the void, and it didn't seem like a joke.
Could it be that this vase is really ......
No way!
Boss Chen's vision will not be wrong!
Ye Tian turned the reward bottle upside down, revealing the bottom of the tire below.
"Hey, this thing doesn't have fetal eyes?"
There were knowledgeable people in the crowd who questioned it.
Yes, after Chen Linghui bought this thing, he has been offering it as a treasure, and he even bid for one million, no one bought it for several years, and by chance Lin Yutong knew about it, so to put it bluntly, Chen Linghui was finally willing to sell it.
From Tao to Lin Yutong, no one has ever questioned the authenticity of this thing.
Even Master Xu was in charge of the care, and he didn't take a closer look.
Chen Linghui's reputation, coupled with that scientific appraisal certificate, seems unlikely to be a fake.
"What is a fetal eye?" Xiaobai, who doesn't know how to do it, asked.
"The so-called fetal eye is the sand hole left by the final shaping of a piece of porcelain, and the size of the sand hole naturally reflects the level of craftsmanship. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, the level of craftsmanship was very mature, and there was almost no sand hole left, almost perfect. ”
"So...... The gentleman just said that this thing was too perfect, and it turned out to be a problem with the fetal eye. ”
The novice player seems to understand the reason.
But for Master Xu, it was definitely a bolt from the blue.
Fake?
Boss Chen's stuff turned out to be fake!
He had never expected this to happen, and he stood there awkwardly, not knowing what to do.
Lin Yutong was also in the clouds, and his head was confused.
"Fake? How can there be fake things in Boya Pavilion, the old man and Boss Chen are forgetful friends. ”
"I'm sorry, Ms. Lin, this may be Sister A's mistake, I apologize to you on behalf of her on behalf of Boyage, you can choose another one here as a birthday gift for the old man."
Ye Tian had a slight guilt on his face.
Master Xu looked surprised and blurted out, "You, you...... Who exactly is it? ”
"Oh, by the way, Master Xu, I forgot to introduce myself, my name is Ye Tian, and it was Sister Ah who asked me to work here."
"Ye Tian? Yes? Are you the new store manager Ye? ”