After three cups of tea, it was already 10:30 in the morning, and Li Hanlin was nowhere to be seen.
Shen Yu stood up and was about to say goodbye to Old Tang. Before he could say anything, Li Hanlin and Li Qinger walked into the store one after another.
"Ah, Qinan, you really came to the store. I thought grandpa was teasing me."
Li Qing'er was very happy to see Shen Yu. Today, she changed from her usual heavy make-up to light make-up. Her eyes were dark, her nose was straight, and her lips were red. She paired it with a white dress and pointed beige high-heeled shoes, which made her look particularly elegant and refined.
"Why, you're not welcome. If you're not welcome, I really won't leave. I'll at least have a meal before leaving." Shen Yu replied with a smile.
Li Qing'er threw her satchel on the sofa, "Of course you are welcome, I wish you could have asked for it. By the way, you will follow me upstairs in a moment. I bought you two sets of clothes and shoes when I went to the mall with Sister Yan yesterday. You must know that I am attending an auction. But you have to wear formal clothes, you must have forgotten about this, right?"
Shen Yu slapped his forehead and said, "Thanks to you, Qing'er, I've forgotten about dressing up. Okay, to express my gratitude, I'll treat you to dinner at noon."
Li Qing'er is right. Although there is no explicit requirement to wear formal attire when attending an auction, if you wear a sportswear or a T-shirt and large pants and pull up your pants to go in, you will definitely become the focus of the audience. Shen Yu doesn't want to be in the limelight. .
"You two will talk again later. What did you get? Show it to me?" Li Hanlin sat on the sofa and asked Shen Yu.
Shen Yu carefully placed the two antiques Doucai Tianzi Jar and "Yunshan Returning at Dusk" in front of Li Hanlin.
"Hey, it turns out to be a Tianzi jar."
After seeing the Tianzi jar, Li Hanlin showed a trace of solemnity on his face. He picked up the jar with both hands and looked at it carefully for a while, and said in surprise: "I once saw a piece of Chenghua in a famous private museum. The base of the doucai sea animal pattern sky-shaped jar is exactly the same as yours in terms of glaze color, inscriptions and even hand feel.
"But the body of the can looks like it came from the third generation of the Qing Dynasty. It's really strange."
Shen Yu smiled and handed Li Hanlin a hand-held high-power magnifying glass, "Uncle Li, use this mirror to look at the bottom of the jar and you will understand."
Li Hanlin held the mouth of the jar tightly with one hand and picked up a magnifying glass with the other hand to observe the bottom for a while, and a look of understanding suddenly appeared on his face.
Putting down the mirror, he couldn't help but marveled: "The splicing skills of these two pieces of porcelain are so ingenious that in ancient times it would have been impossible to tell them apart with the naked eye alone."
Shen Yu remained calm on the surface, but he praised it in his heart. This is the strength of a big antique dealer. He can date an ancient porcelain in just a few minutes with just a pair of naked eyes. "This Tianzi jar was collected by the ancestor of the person who sold it to me." It has been passed down for seven generations since the Qianlong Dynasty. It is very rare to find two jars of similar size. It is really incredible that it can be done to such an amazing extent."
Li Hanlin nodded: "There was no magnifying glass in ancient times. It is really difficult to distinguish with the naked eye. Although I can see that these are two different jars, if the Tianzi jar is placed in other people's study and is not allowed to be used, I am sure You would think it is a genuine Qing Yongzheng imitation Chenghua Doucai Tianzi dragon pattern lid jar."
"Uncle Li, can you tell us some of the characteristics of Yongzheng Doucai?" Shen Yu humbly asked for advice.
Li Hanlin was delighted when he heard this, "Shen Yu, you have really grown up. If you don't mind my verbosity as an old man, of course I am willing to tell you.
"The top-notch doucai works from the official kilns of the three dynasties of the Qing Dynasty are comparable to those of Chenghua doucai, especially the doucai from the Yongzheng Dynasty, which is the second peak of doucai porcelain firing since Chenghua in the Ming Dynasty.
"The overall level of Yongzheng Doucai, whether it is from the layout of the patterns, to the matching of colors and the neatness of the color filling, is already better than that of the Ming Dynasty, but it is still worse than that of the Chenghua Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty, but the best of them is already The fake can be mistaken for the real.
"The reason? Firstly, if you have enough financial resources to produce a high output, there is a greater chance that the output will be higher than high-quality products. Choosing one bottle when burning a hundred is completely different from choosing one when burning ten.
"The second is the large number of people. Tang Ying, a master of porcelain making in the Qing Dynasty and serving as the governor of porcelain for more than 20 years, wrote in his "Pictures on Ceramics" that the porcelain capital stretches for only more than ten miles and is surrounded by mountains and rivers. In a remote corner, there are pottery vendors from all directions. There are two to three hundred folk kilns in the area, and there are no less than hundreds of thousands of craftsmen. There are many people who eat here.
"It is worth noting that Tang Ying did not go to the porcelain capital until the Qianlong Dynasty. In the sixth year of Yongzheng's reign, he assisted in the management of kilns in the imperial kiln factory of the porcelain capital.
"There are so many private kilns, so the official kilns are naturally better.
"The imperial kiln factory of the porcelain capital of the Qing Dynasty was different from the Ming Dynasty. The imperial kiln factory usually only had twenty or thirty people, most of whom were experienced top porcelain craftsmen.
"In addition to the porcelain that must be fired every year, there are also some that are temporarily allowed to be fired by imperial edict. When there is a certain porcelain to be fired at a certain time, we hire people outside to make and bake porcelain. It takes about three days to bake a batch of porcelain. Hundreds of people completed this batch of porcelain craftsmen. After taking the money, they went back to their homes.
“This way we can ensure that the selected craftsmen are the best of the best.
"Speaking of identification tips, the decoration on this jar is bright and elegant, and the colors are all within the frame, even to a surprising degree, so I saw that it belongs to the Yongzheng Dynasty.
"This has a lot to do with Yongzheng's character. Yongzheng had a hot temper, was decisive in killing, and was striving for excellence in his work. Naturally, the people below would not dare to fool him. If you give him a jar filled with colors and frames, wouldn't you be asking for death? ?"
Shen Yu sighed, "It's a pity that this jar is a remnant. I don't dare to ask for it to be the real Chenghua Doucai Tianzi jar. It can be replaced with a complete jar imitated by Yongzheng. In this way, although it cannot be seen with the naked eye, the actual value is It has fallen too much."
"No, no, no, the value of this jar has not been damaged." Li Hanlin said something that surprised Shen Yu.
"No damage? Uncle Li, you must know that this jar is spliced. The body of the Yongzheng Tianzi jar is placed on the bottom of the Chenghua Tianzi jar. No one will pay a high price for this kind of old porcelain jar. Do you want to accept it? I bought it for 150,000 yuan, and I think it would be good to sell it for 300,000 yuan. Even 200,000 yuan is acceptable."
Li Hanlin smiled again. He looked at Shen Yu and said in a very low voice: "First of all, we need to change our thinking. This jar is not a forgery or a fake, but it was accidentally removed for some reason. Broken.
"Then the Chenghua Doucai Tianzi jar has only one bottom, while the Yongzheng Tianzi jar has only one body.
"This made the original collector extremely distressed. He spent countless efforts to find a skilled craftsman to use some secret repair technique to perfectly combine the two porcelains.
"He is not doing it for money, but for art, which is a deep love for ancient porcelain.
"The body of the Yongzheng official kiln dragon-patterned sky-shaped jar and the bottom of the Chenghua Dou-colored sky-shaped jar are simply a powerful combination. How can it be said that the value has been damaged?"
Shen Yu was dumbfounded when he heard this. Jiang Guo was really old. The words of this big antique dealer who had been in the antique business for most of his life were simply impossible to refute.
You know clearly that he is telling lies, but you just can’t find a point to refute.
Not only Shen Yu, but also Li Qing'er looked so surprised that she couldn't open her mouth from ear to ear.
