"Is this painting a leak? Mr. Zheng, couldn't you just see it away???"
Shen Yu originally wanted to say that you may have misunderstood, but Zheng Congyun is a senior in the industry and has been dealing with antiques all his life. As a junior, Shen Yu still needs to have at least respect for his seniors, so Shen Yu said it half way It stopped immediately.
Zheng Congyun did not answer Shen Yu's doubts, but asked instead, "My friend, you know me from Congyuan. I heard you speak just now and you also own an antique shop. I wonder what your surname is?"
Shen Yu bowed slightly, and replied politely with sincere eyes: "My surname is Shen, by the way. Mr. Zheng, you said that Boss Yi's painting is a flaw, where do you start?"
Zheng Congyun's face was full of smiles, but he didn't reveal any words in his mouth. He was even a bit enigmatic, "I can only tell you that this painting is indeed a leak, and it is worth hundreds of thousands or even millions." As for where to start talking about this 'leak', it depends on your own eyesight, little friend."
Shen Yu's face was full of surprise, and he thought to himself, "No, right?"
Just help the other party out of thin air and pick up a million-level leak for nothing?
Now is not the time to be modest. After breathing a sigh of relief, Shen Yu slowly came to the appreciation table.
After looking at the painting up and down several times, Shen Yu's eyebrows frowned unconsciously.
There is nothing surprising about this painting, it can be said to be ordinary.
To put it bluntly, it is an ordinary ancient landscape and figure painting.
The distant view shows high mountains and deep ravines, and the close view shows slow business travelers, late fishing boats, shepherd boys returning home, and smoke from Maocun cooking.
The painting work is quite fine and the brushwork is average.
It would be too much to say that it has no redeeming qualities, but at the level of 18,000 yuan, let alone Gu Kaizhi's original work, the single-wheel painting skills are far inferior to the second- and third-rate painters of the Qing Dynasty.
"Is it possible that some of the poems on this painting were written by a famous ancient artist?"
This painting is huge, one meter long and two meters long, with a lot of blank space, so there are many poems on it. Shen Yu counted up to sixteen poems.
After thinking about it carefully, Shen Yu felt that it was really possible.
For example, if an ordinary person's work has poems written by celebrities such as Shen Zhou, Tang Yin, Dong Qichang, and Zheng Banqiao, the value will immediately increase tenfold or even a hundredfold.
This is not only known to modern people, but also to the ancients. For example, in the Ming Dynasty, there were countless people outside Shen Zhou’s house who wanted to visit Shen Zhou, with the purpose of obtaining one of his poems.
Thinking of this, Shen Yu lowered his head and looked at the first poem.
[Smoke locks and dust condense on the four empty walls, and the green lanterns are about to burn and melt into the night.]
[The cool sound blows through the bamboo and the wind is like rain, and the broken shadows shake the window and the moon shines on the pines.]
Shen Yu knew that this poem was a seven-character ancient poem by Wen Zhengming. The handwriting was very sloppy, and the regular script was written like cursive script. Even if Shen Yu ate the painting, he would not think it was Wen Zhengming. Inscribed in his own hand.
Look down again.
[Reminiscing about the number of plum trees in the mountain hall, the cold jade pistils are growing on the southern branches.]
[Mountains are illuminated by the moon, and the morning breeze blows, leaving me with a bitter desire to return just for the fragrance.]
This is not a poem but a line, which Shen Yu is also very familiar with. It is one of the four lines written by Duan Sheng to his husband, Zhao Mengfu, who resigned from office and returned home. Although the calligraphy of this line is better than that of Wen Zhengming's A little better, but not much to praise.
Be patient and continue reading.
[Three thousand miles of weak water in Penglai, ten thousand years of Queen Mother Bat Peach.]
[The phoenix sings and dances, and the title of Zhijiao is brought to the longevity statue.]
This poem is written by Tang Yin, and Shen Yu is also familiar with it. No one can inscribe a birthday poem on a landscape painting, it is just a random word.
Shen Yu didn't bother to read the rest, because his own calligraphy was better than the calligraphy on the paintings, not even a little bit better.
"The painting is average and the poem is wrong. Could it be that there is a painting hidden in the painting?"
Shen Yu took out pure cotton gloves from his pocket and put them on, then pinched the drawing paper.
At the same time, Zheng Congyun, who had always been expressionless next to him, suddenly showed a look of appreciation on his face. He didn't know whether he appreciated that Shen Yu was a person who loved painting and followed the rules when looking at paintings, or he felt that Shen Yu's appraisal steps were in line with his wishes.
Shen Yu pinched the surroundings of the drawing paper several times, but felt a chill in his heart. The thickness of the drawing paper was normal, and the thickness alone could completely rule out the possibility of the painting being hidden within the painting.
At the same time, masking can also be eliminated.
Although the painting skills of this painting are average, it does not give people the feeling that the artistic conception is divided into two, so there is no half-realism and half-coverage, such as the cover-up painting of Dongjiang Wu Lao.
"No, why is the ground pole in this painting so heavy?"
Shen Yu originally wanted to roll up the painting and see what clues were on the back of the painting, but he didn't know that something was wrong with the earth pole just after it touched the sky and earth pole, because the weight of the earth pole in this painting was very wrong.
Too heavy!
Ground pole?
Shaft head?
Looking at the pitch-black shaft head, a sharp edge suddenly flashed in Shen Yu's eyes.
Immediately afterwards, his heart suddenly became enlightened, and he felt as if he had cleared away the clouds and seen the blue sky.
"Shen Yu, Shen Yu, you put all your attention on the drawing paper, but you forgot that the details are also one of the important references for antique appraisal. These days, you rely on your special ability to find items, and your own appraisal level has deteriorated a bit. No, you can’t do this!!!”
Shen Yu warned himself repeatedly in his heart.
"The axle head is so black. Could it be that the axle head in this painting is made of dark wood?"
Gloomy wood was also called ebony in ancient times. It is said that there is a box of gold in the house, which is not as good as ebony.
Of course, people nowadays have distinguished dark wood from ebony.
If the scroll head of this painting is really made of dark wood, then this is really a leak, or a million-level leak.
The so-called axle head is the two objects protruding from the left and right sides of the ground pole.
This is a necessary "small part" for mounting calligraphy and painting.
The shaft head is not just for good looks, but also plays an irreplaceable role.
Because most of the current paintings and calligraphy are mounted on scrolls or hanging scrolls, the existence of the scroll head allows people to hold the two ends to stretch the calligraphy and painting. No matter whether it is unfolded or rolled up, it will not cause damage to the calligraphy and painting.
The second point is more important. The axle head can increase the weight of the ground pole. When hung on the wall, the calligraphy and painting will appear extremely smooth and beautiful. Without this small part, the calligraphy and painting will be wrinkled and ugly.
The shaft head is mostly made of wood, and the material varies according to the value of the painting itself. Generally speaking, paintings by non-celebrities use ordinary wood, while famous paintings use rosewood, rosewood, chicken wing wood and even dark wood.
Golden nanmu is a precious wood that is rare for ordinary people to see.
There are also gem materials such as coral, agate, crystal, amber.
Of course, there are also ones made of porcelain, jade or tooth horn.
Tusk horn is the collective name for ivory and rhinoceros horn.
The corners of modern teeth cannot be touched, and the bottom of the prison will be penetrated if touched.
Ancient ivory and horn products cannot be bought and sold by modern people at will. In many antique novels, the protagonists buy ivory and rhino horn antiques as easily as buying food. This is pure nonsense.
In reality, ordinary collectors basically dare not touch the tooth corners among the bamboo wood teeth corners. If they do, it will be troublesome.
Even if they are sold at many street stalls, they are fake.
Selling fakes to fool people may be fine, but selling antiques like ivory and horns will be a big problem if caught.
The shapes of the shaft head include flat head, bamboo head, round head, moiré head, wishful head and more than ten shapes. The shaft head in this painting is an ordinary round head.
Shen Yu's technique for mounting calligraphy and paintings has actually begun to gain a glimpse, and disassembling the axle head is as easy as picking something out of a bag.
In just ten seconds, Shen Yu had already held the two axle heads on the left and right sides of the ground pole.