After hearing this, Shen Yu pondered for a moment, and then suddenly smiled elegantly, "If this junior guessed correctly, it should be because of this signature pretending to be Yi Yuanji.
"This painting itself is an unknown copy from the Ming Dynasty. Without this signature, the price of this painting should be much higher, or even several times higher!
"It's a pity that this signature is just superfluous, giving people the feeling that it is purely for forgery to defraud money.
"A copy turning into a fake is like a few grains of sand falling into a good bowl of rice. You can eat it, but you will always feel a little uncomfortable in your heart."
After finishing speaking, Shen Yu shook his head pretending to be regretful.
To be honest, the inscription "Assistant teacher and scattered official, written by Yi Yuanji" in eight-character running script is indeed a failure, which directly lowers the market value of the painting itself.
However, relatively speaking, the other identification inscription on the painting, which is "Six Apes Painted by Ming Dynasty", made Shen Yu a little confused.
It can be said that Yi Yuanji's appreciation of Song paintings was a star chaser, but this appraisal inscription and postscript actually dated a Song painting to a Ming painting.
This big oolong is no longer just driving down the price. To be serious, it is equivalent to selling gold directly as scrap metal.
Generally speaking, putting appraisal inscriptions and postscripts on ancient paintings is done by the ancients, and the prerequisite is that the ancients must be particularly famous and have a very conceited personality.
For example, the famous Dong Qichang.
No matter how famous the calligraphy and painting is, there is no one that Dong Qichang would not dare to write.
Authentic works by top painters such as Wang Wei, Dong Yuan, Fan Kuan, and Zhao Chang all have appraisal inscriptions and postscripts written by him.
An ordinary person would never dare to write like this.
In Shen Yu's impression, his grandfather did not do this.
Because the person who appraises calligraphy and painting has not personally seen the original artist paint, no one can be 100% sure that a certain calligraphy and painting was painted by that person.
After Shen Yu said these words, Zheng Congyun looked at him with stars in his eyes.
What Shen Yu said is absolutely correct. For Zheng Congyun, the most disturbing thing about the "Six Monkeys" is the eight words "Assistant Teacher and Sanli, by Yi Yuanji".
A good "Ming Dynasty copy" turned out to be a fake, who wouldn't be surprised?
If there were no 500-year-old huanghuali ground poles with exquisite carvings on the surface, Zheng Congyun would have paid a maximum of 50,000 for this fake signature. With the huanghuali heaven and earth poles worth hundreds of thousands, he would have paid an additional ten thousand. Wan.
Therefore, Shen Yu guessed completely correctly.
For some reason, Zheng Congyun had a good impression of the young man in front of him, and he had a good impression from the bottom of his heart. He even had the idea of taking Shen Yu under his tutelage.
But this can only be thought of, there is no one with the name "Chongzhonglou" who can be the master of this young man.
Without it, there would be a difference in seniority!
Zheng Congyun's look was very familiar to Shen Yu, because he had seen it at Liu Dongyang, the owner of Bogutang store.
"No way? Mr. Zheng also wants to poach me?"
Without the special ability to appraise treasures, being able to become an appraiser or even the chief appraiser of a super antique store like Bogutang or Wanbaolou would have been a rare thing for Shen Yu.
But now that I have the Golden Eyes for Appreciating Treasures, I can naturally make a fortune by myself.
Besides, how can showing a store to others be as comfortable as being your own boss? No matter how close the relationship is, you still have to act based on the person's face.
And Shen Yu is not short of money now.
It would be nice if he lacked money to gamble on stones. The reason why Shen Yu didn't gamble on stones now was because he didn't want to be too popular. He would wait until he had a suitable status to do something so that he wouldn't attract too much attention from others, or even get burned inexplicably. .
Fortunately, today I officially took the first step. I joined the Chuzhou Collection Association and the Dongjiang Collection Association in one day, which is equivalent to having two amulets to protect me.
Not to mention the improvement of connections, directly establishing relationships with Xiao Zhongying and Mr. Wu is something that many people only dream of.
For the sake of unnecessary talk, Shen Yu didn't want to waste any more time, so he simply negotiated the price directly, "Mr. Zheng, my sister Qin, no, my girlfriend's brother is very interested in your Ming Dynasty painting "Six Monkeys". As for him, his family situation is very good, but he doesn’t have much money, and he’s not afraid of making you laugh. Do you think this painting can be made cheaper?”
After saying that, Shen Yu smiled bitterly in his heart, "Sister Qin, sister Qin, I took advantage of your name in order to catch the leak, but it's also for Yu'an, I hope you don't blame me."
Zheng Congyun, who had already sat on the Grand Master's chair, first took the cup of hot tea handed over by the clerk, and then nodded slightly, "Others come to buy this painting for a penny, but you, Xiao Shen, are naturally different.
"Not to mention the relationship from Congyuan, even I am very close to you. Let me give you 200,000 yuan, and you can give me 1.3 million yuan. This is what I can get after selling this painting. What do you think of that part of the profit, Xiao Shen?"
When Shen Yu heard this, he frowned slightly.
He bargained not to save money, but mainly because there is no one who doesn't bargain when buying antiques, because if you don't bargain, it means that you are very eager to buy antiques, so the seller will subconsciously think that he may have missed a treasure, and created a treasure out of thin air. Some unnecessary trouble comes.
So no matter whether it is an antique stall or an antique store, you are always haggling.
But Zheng Congyun said that he would give up his share of the profits, and Shen Yu felt a little uncomfortable. He was picking on other people's mistakes and making them suffer. You can't do things like this.
"Mr. Zheng, how can I let you suffer a loss? You think highly of this junior, and I am already frightened. If I let you avoid my share of the profits, this junior will be guilty.
"Besides, although this junior is not a rich man, he can still afford 200,000 yuan. So, I'll just buy this painting at the original price." Shen Yu looked at Zheng Congyun and expressed his thoughts calmly.
Zheng Congyun seemed to have expected that Shen Yu would say this, and saw him stroking his beard and smiling, "Xiao Shen, you are not short of the two hundred thousand, do you think I am short of it? And the words you say are like water being thrown out, there is no gain. The reason for coming back?
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"Well, why don't you, Xiao Shen, take some time to teach the guys in my shop about the appraisal of ancient paintings. Although selling antiques requires eloquence, it's impossible without some basic knowledge of antique appraisal."
Shen Yu still wanted to be humble, but Pei Yu'an behind him reminded him in a low voice, "Brother-in-law, let me tell you that this business can be done. You can make two hundred thousand with just a few words. You are not short of money, so you can lend it to my little brother. Brother, I am so poor now that I have to go to a pawn shop to pawn my pants."
Shen Yu thought for a moment and did not refuse, but nodded lightly.
Soon, Shen Yu was surrounded by more than 20 Wanbaolou clerks, some of whom even ran down from the second and third floors.
Shen Yu didn't hide it either. He and Zheng Congyuan each sat on an imperial chair. While drinking tea, they slowly said: "Forgery in calligraphy and painting has existed since ancient times. There is no evidence for the ones that are too old. The earlier ones are The calligraphy of Wang Xizhi of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
Wang Xizhi’s Dharma books and calligraphy treasures were extremely valuable when Wang Xizhi was still alive!
Every time Wang Xizhi wrote a word, someone in the literary circle immediately copied it.
No matter how many dignitaries, wealthy businessmen and businessmen wanted to ask for a single calligraphy from Wang Xi, they could not get it, so they had to buy it from others.
There is no place to buy it because demand exceeds supply.
After someone sees it, this deal can be done!
So imitations and fakes appeared.
The methods for mounting calligraphy and painting include: wash, uncover, mend, and complete!
There are many methods of forgery in calligraphy and painting, including copying, copying, imitation, making, adding, adding, modifying, dismantling, disassembling, replacing, etc.
But one thing is that forgery is forgery, and a fake is a fake. No matter how superb the forgery is, and how difficult it is to tell the authenticity of the fake, the fake is different from the original after all.
Moreover, the deceptive techniques are very powerful but ordinary.
We don't have much time, so I will tell you a few things that you may encounter in the future.
As we all know, what collecting ancient paintings requires is a reputation.
Paintings painted by celebrities are sold at high prices, but paintings by unknown people are useless no matter how good they are.
Therefore, the first thing the counterfeiter has to consider is quite clear. To put it bluntly, it is to try every means to raise the value of the fake.
The most commonly used formula for raising one's worth is the word "天".
Everyone who works in an antique shop naturally knows that most of the calligraphy and paintings before the Yuan Dynasty have no identification, which is what collectors call anonymous paintings.
Since the Northern Song Dynasty, some people have added celebrities' signatures to unknown paintings based on the painting style and then sold them to earn high prices. For example, they can carve a seal with the name of the ancients on the painting, and then imitate the handwriting of the ancients to write the inscription, etc.
However, this is a forced forgery and a low-level method of forgery.
Because forcibly adding inscriptions will inevitably affect the original style of calligraphy and painting, making the calligraphy and painting appear nondescript.
This type of calligraphy and painting also has a name called "fake at first sight", and experienced collectors can tell it is a fake just by taking a look at it.
Even if you are not an experienced collector, you can still tell a fake by comparing it with the handwriting of the seal on the original, so this method of forgery is more about deceiving newcomers who have just entered the industry.
The second is the word "add".
Some people may ask, isn’t adding just adding?
In fact, it is not the case. Jia and Tian are different. Jia belongs to the enhanced version of "Tian", which is version 2.0.
Some ancient paintings don’t have a single inscription on them, while some ancient paintings have a lot of inscriptions on them.
For example, Tang Yinhua painted a painting, and then Shen Zhou, Wen Zhengming, and Zhu Zhishan all wrote poems and seals on it.
The extra recognition will increase the value of the painting.
But in the eyes of the ancients, these celebrity inscriptions were far less profitable than a great shift in the universe.
Therefore, forgers will take those anonymous paintings with excellent painters, or calligraphy and paintings that have inscriptions but the author is unknown, cut out their own inscriptions, add inscriptions by famous artists, and re-frame them.
After such operations, the value of a painting will not double, but will double a thousand or even ten thousand times!
Moreover, this kind of forgery is because the markings were added when the calligraphy and painting were re-mounted, and these markings are all genuine, so it is extremely difficult to distinguish."
Bang!
After saying this, Shen Yu was about to take a sip of hot tea to moisten his throat, but at this moment, he only heard a bang, and the two red painted jujube doors leading to the backyard of Wanbao Tower were suddenly knocked open.<
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"Huh?"
Seeing the person coming, Shen Yu unexpectedly shouted out!
