"Have you ever sold those porcelains?" Chen Wenzhe asked with a smile, looking at the porcelain fished from the sea held in Gao Qijing's arms.
"No, I just wanted to inquire about the market situation. I was defrauded of hundreds of thousands, and I have to get it back?" Gao Qijing said with a slightly embarrassed smile.
"Is the recent Hailuo porcelain very popular?" Chen Wenzhe continued to ask.
"It's really popular. I made a little inquiry at the time and it attracted a lot of people's attention. As soon as I saw something was wrong, I left immediately. Now it's better. If we can really find a few ancient shipwrecks, then we can choose
Some fine works are put into museums, and others can be sold." Gao Qijing said with a smile.
Chen Wenzhe nodded, it seemed that there was something else going on, otherwise Gao Qijing wouldn't be working hard to find porcelain from the sea.
However, not everyone can play Hailao Porcelain. For example, there are methods for selling it, and it is certainly impossible to release too much at once.
If Chen Wenzhe were to operate it, he could choose the same approach as the Shendu Cultural Relics Store.
Even if a batch is released from time to time, people who like porcelain from the sea have to queue up to buy it.
After all, not everyone can buy porcelain from the sea these days.
Of course, no one can sell large quantities of porcelain from the sea.
The characteristics of sea fishing porcelain are really special.
The first obvious feature is the large number.
Often the price of large quantities of items cannot be purchased, so special means must be used to deal with them.
In recent years, there have been a large number of "sea salvaged porcelain" incidents of shipwrecks, such as the discovery of the "Nanhai No. 1" shipwreck and the "Wanjiao No. 1" shipwreck.
Coupled with the successful auction by Guardian Auction House in 2005 and 2006, "Hailao Porcelain" has become highly sought after by collectors.
But what followed was that "fake porcelain found in the sea" began to enter the antique market in large numbers.
There is no way, if the price of something is high, someone must find a way to make more of it.
Although Hailo porcelain is hidden in the sea, it is not impossible to find it.
After communicating with Gao Qijing, Chen Wenzhe discovered that Gao Qijing still had some things that he was embarrassed to say.
Thinking about it this way, Chen Wenzhe knew that he might have been deceived quite a bit.
It's just that he is an old man, so even if he was fooled, he would still suffer a lot.
Just like the destination they are going to now is the unexpected gain he got from being deceived this time.
Listening to the details of the sunken ship he discovered, Chen Wenzhe was a little amused.
Gao Qijing must have felt humiliated this time, but it was not without gain.
For example, he gained some experience in treasure hunting, and even talked about the discovery process of Nanhai No. 2.
Just like the legend of South Australia back then, didn't it also show its traces?
Nothing is difficult in the world, as long as there are people who are willing!
He is a thoughtful person, but he doesn't know how to identify, let alone fish for porcelain from the sea.
Although the price of Hailao porcelain has skyrocketed, there are also more fakes, which will cause chaos in the market.
So, even if you have genuine Hailao porcelain, why should others believe it?
And this involves credibility.
At this point, several large foreign auction houses have done very well.
There is nothing we can do about this. The establishment of our country’s auction houses took decades.
And foreign capital has been in business for more than a hundred years, and some even have a history of two to three hundred years.
At this point, we are really not as good as foreigners.
It’s not that we are incompetent, or that we are not smart enough, but quite the opposite, because we Chinese people are too smart.
They are so smart that they don't even consider long-term interests, they only think about immediate gains.
"Boss, if you sell porcelain from the sea, how can you tell it apart from the fakes?"
Just when Chen Wenzhe was silent, Gao Qijing started asking again.
Chen Wenzhe looked at Gao Qijing strangely. This old boy is definitely not short of money now. There must be a reason why he is so interested in fishing porcelain from the sea.
"Do you really want to go to the market and sell Hai Lao porcelain?"
"Yes, we will definitely have no shortage of porcelain from the sea in the future. There are too many porcelains from the sea. The boss collects high-quality products. Those defective products must not be disposed of?"
Chen Wenzhe watched Gao Qijing perform. No matter what the reason was, since he liked it, he would help him.
"This is also simple. If you want to distinguish the authenticity from the fake, you must understand the authenticity of the antiques. The same is true for porcelain from the sea."
Chen Wenzhe said, picking up a fake piece of porcelain from the sea.
This kind of thing is relatively easy to make, but it takes some time.
Therefore, the biggest cost in antique counterfeiting is actually time.
So how to make counterfeit products? In fact, it is very simple. The simplest method is to soak the porcelain in sea water and let the sea water naturally corrode the porcelain.
Of course, the results of doing this are also very obvious.
Think about it, no matter how much you copy it in two years, you still can't achieve the appearance of "ancient porcelain", especially due to the weathering of the years.
In other words, imitations that have been soaked in seawater for just two years cannot be compared with artifacts that have been soaked for two or three hundred years.
You can understand this especially by comparing the tire glaze.
The glaze surface of the fake is as smooth as new, and the glaze surface is not peeling due to salt water corrosion. The feet are wet and there is no oxide layer (no patina), so the glaze cannot feel integrated.
Just from this point of view, we know that the identification method of Haidao porcelain is very simple.
"Hailao porcelain", as the name suggests, refers to ancient shipwreck porcelain salvaged from the sea.
In history, countless ships carrying Chinese porcelain sank in the depths of the ocean due to accidents during the ocean voyage, and the porcelain on board was also buried on the seabed.
As shipwreck salvage technology improves day by day, more and more submarine sunken porcelains are becoming available.
Driven by interests, attention and research on Haidao porcelain has also begun to heat up.
At the same time, driven by commercial profits, counterfeit porcelain from the sea began to appear on the market.
To identify Hailao porcelain, we must first understand the formation process of Hailao porcelain.
Because only in this way can we truly know and understand Hailao porcelain.
Under normal circumstances, when a ship sinks to the bottom of the sea, the cargo on the ship will be scattered on the bottom of the sea as the cargo containers break.
However, some boxes that are more firmly packaged and properly placed will be preserved intact.
Since the packaging is complete, it is not easily corroded by sea water.
The appearance of submarine porcelain in these two cases is completely different.
The former was scattered on the seabed and was buried by seafloor currents and sediment impact.
At the same time, it is attached to the seabed organisms, and over time, it will be on the surface of the object.
Afterwards, different degrees of seabed biological residues, attachments and traces of ocean current and sediment impact will be formed;
Because the latter is stored in relatively complete cargo containers or cabins, or is buried deep under the sea, it is basically not affected by external factors except seawater corrosion.
After this kind of porcelain is shipped to the sea, it can be renewed with simple cleaning.