"Xiao Wei, you have a lot of good stuff here, and it's not just limited to our country's bronzes, right?" After entering the bronzes museum, Gan Yafu's eyes couldn't help but light up.
Although the bronze ware hall is only about thirty square meters in size and only contains forty or fifty items, the bronzes inside are of very high standard, and there are even two items that do not belong to China.
Bronze ware is an instrument made of bronze, that is, an alloy of red copper and tin. It was born in the Bronze Age of human civilization. Because bronze ware appears all over the world, it is a symbol of world civilization.
The earliest bronze ware in the world appeared in the Mesopotamia between 5,000 and 6,000 years ago.
The development of bronze ware in my country was during the Shang and Zhou dynasties. Because of its exquisite craftsmanship, it enjoys a high reputation and artistic value among bronze ware in the world, and represents my country's superb technology and culture in the pre-Qin period.
With its unique shape, exquisite decoration, and elegant inscriptions, bronze ware reveals to people the exquisite casting technology, cultural level, and historical origins of the Chinese nation. Therefore, it is called "a living history book" by historians.
However, in China, the sale and purchase of bronzes is prohibited, and the market has not been opened up. Even for collections, only bronzes handed down from ancient times can be collected. As for the buying and selling of unearthed bronzes, it is illegal.
The bronze tripod placed in the middle of the room made Li Ran, who had just walked through the door with Qin Feng, take a breath of cold air, turned to look at Wei Hua, and said: "Brother Hua, this thing is a national treasure, how dare you?"
Get it?"
As a symbol of social, political and economic power governed by etiquette in ancient times, the bronze tripod made by kings and marquises is undoubtedly the most valuable vessel among bronzes. This is also unique to our country.
As early as before liberation, the value of the bronze tripod was extremely high. There was even a saying that the tripod was worth ten thousand gold. If there was an inscription engraved on the tripod, it would be even more valuable.
However, due to its relatively large shape, not many bronze tripods were lost abroad. If the three-legged tripod placed in the room is real, it must have been bought by Wei Hua privately, which is why Li Ran said this
In that case.
Although Wei Hua has a strong background, he does not have political opponents in his family. When he is in power, he is not afraid of others using this to attack him, but if he loses power, this may be a lever for others to take advantage of.
Therefore, the children of Li Ran and other aristocratic families in the capital have done some dirty things secretly, but in the open, they rarely give people any excuses.
"You don't know much about bronzes, so don't mix things up."
Wei Hua waved his hand and interrupted Li Ran. He looked at Gan Yafu and said, "Teacher Gan, what do you think of this tripod? There are many inscriptions on the inner wall. Is it considered an important weapon of the country?"
"Mr. Wei? Are you testing me?"
Gan Yafu did not have the same status as Mr. Qi. He was more polite to Wei Hua and said with a smile: "I am not the protagonist today. The teacher said, let Xiao Qin do the appraisal..."
"Qin Feng? Do you really want him to come?"
Wei Hua frowned slightly. The reason why he invited Mr. Qi and others was to turn his club into a high-end brand in the antiques industry. Therefore, he didn't really want Qin Feng, an unknown person, to comment.
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"Of course, I don't dare not listen to what the teacher says." Gan Yafu was good at Tai Chi and pushed the matter onto Mr. Qi.
"Okay, Xiao Qin. Come and take a look."
Wei Hua was a little helpless. Although he was well-known in the political and business circles, his status in the antique shop was far behind that of Mr. Qi.
"Mr. Wei, don't look at it, this cauldron is fake."
Qin Feng walked to the side of the tripod and said: "The bronze tripod is made of metals such as red copper and tin. It is very hard and will not be damaged even if it is buried underground for thousands of years. However, the green rust will not damage it even if it is buried underground for thousands of years.
No matter how early it is unearthed, it cannot be eliminated."
Knocking on the bronze tripod with an inner wall of one meter in diameter, Qin Feng smiled and said: "Mr. Wei, the golden light made by your object is brilliant. Doesn't it tell us clearly that it is an imitation?"
Qin Feng's words were well-founded, and everyone in the room nodded secretly. Being able to say these words, it seems that this young man still knows some knowledge about bronzes.
Only Li Ran blushed when Qin Feng said that. He studied in the Department of Museum as an undergraduate, and was placed under Mr. Qi's sect. But now that he is a graduate student, his knowledge is not as good as that of Qin Feng, who has just enrolled for a month.
newborn.
Seeing that Li Ran's face was a bit ugly, Qin Feng couldn't help but smile and said: "Brother Ran, there are specialties in real estate, so it's normal to be confused. If you can show me some porcelain with the inscription "Made in the Qianlong Year of the Ming Dynasty", maybe I can
I will also take it seriously."
"You brat, are you going to kill me?" After hearing Qin Feng's words, Li Ran also laughed. There is an allusion to what Qin Feng said, and many people in the circle know it.
From the mid-1990s, there was a craze for collecting in Beijing. Although collecting requires eyesight and energy accumulated over the years, financial resources are also very important.
Most of the wealthy people in the mid-1990s were nouveau riche who had entered into business in the early years. Those people even threw themselves into the army of collectors without even knowing who Wang Xizhi and Qi Baishi were.
If you want to say that what antique dealers like the most, it is this kind of person. To describe it in a sentence ten years later, it is "foolish people have a lot of money". If you don't kill such a good guy, you will be sorry for your own IQ.
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As a result, various fakes and imitations appeared one after another. Some people invested hundreds of millions, but ended up with a roomful of fake antiques. Feng Yongkang’s family seized this opportunity and made a huge profit.
Pen.
After these arty nouveau riche bought something, they naturally had to show it off, so the joke came out.
There was a boss Dong who made his fortune by wholesale clothing in his early years. He went to Panjiayuan, which was not very prosperous at that time, and spent 30,000 yuan to buy a plum vase.
The shape of this porcelain was very beautiful. Boss Dong, who had read several ceramic appraisal books, thought he had picked up a large leak, so he took out the plum vase at a gathering of people in the antique circle.
It's funny to say that at the beginning, no one in the bunch of nouveau riche people saw anything wrong with their wealth, and all the innocent ones were praising Boss Dong for picking up the slack. There were many envious people.
Since it is a gathering of people in the antique circle, there must always be one or two experts, right? When the plum vase finally fell into the hands of an expert, the guy saw the signature and almost knocked the vase to the ground.
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If it is a small flaw, the expert may just pretend to be stupid to satisfy the show-off psychology of these explosive people.
But this Mei Ping is so wrong. When will the Qianlong Dynasty appear next year? If experts don't point it out, then he himself will not be able to hang out in this circle in the future.
When the expert said that the money knowledge was wrong, Boss Dong was furious and said that the expert was uneducated. However, he called his secretary to check and immediately fell silent. Even the person who had just praised Boss Dong looked sullen.
The party broke up unhappy.
As soon as this news got out, it was immediately laughed at by the real antique dealers, and the self-esteem of the nouveau riche was deeply hurt. They all went to find experts to do appraisals at their homes.
The experts did not say much about the results of the appraisal. But after that incident, the number of "cultural people" in the capital dropped sharply, and Boss Dong was even more secretive about antiques. Basically, whoever raised the issue was in trouble.
"Okay, Xiao Qin, let's take a look at these things..."
Hearing this allusion mentioned by Qin Feng, Boss Wei's face suddenly became a little ugly. Because in those years, although he was not as miserable as Qin Feng said, he did buy a lot of fakes and spent a lot of money.
Also, the old man of the Wei family who conquered the country once did a funny thing. When he was fighting against the local tycoons, the old man found an authentic painting of Tang Bohu from the house of the landlord squire.
The people who wanted to make revolutions were basically not very educated, and the old man was even less interested in these things for writing and drawing. He actually used them to wipe his buttocks, and after using them, he complained that the paper was too hard and uncomfortable.
Later, when Taizu found out about this, he called Mr. Wei over and gave him a lesson. He also issued a document to the entire army asking for the protection of cultural relics. From then on, this kind of thing never happened again.
"Xiao Qin, most of the things I have here were bought from overseas auctions, and there are more than ten pieces of modern antique bronzes. Can you tell them apart?"
Wei Hua's words were a bit difficult for Qin Feng, because the identification of antiques takes a certain amount of time, and there are a total of forty or fifty bronzes here. It would be extremely difficult to identify them all.
Wei Hua, who originally had a good impression of Qin Feng, now just wants this kid to get out of here after making a fool of himself, because he also arranged an interview with reporters during the dinner, so he can't let Qin Feng be the protagonist then, right?
"Okay, then let's make a fool of ourselves. If you make a mistake, don't laugh at me."
Qin Feng raised his eyebrows when he heard this. He naturally felt the impatience in Boss Wei's heart, but Qin Feng was not willing to let Qin make a fool of himself in public.
"By the way, do you have carbon pens here?" Qin Feng turned his head and looked at the etiquette lady by the door.
"Why do you want a pen?" Wei Hua frowned and said to Miss Yi in the cheongsam: "Hurry up and find him a carbon pen."
"Haha, Boss Wei will know it soon." Qin Feng didn't say much and walked straight to the first booth in the room.
"There are many types of bronze wares, but the most valuable ones for collection are nothing more than bronze ritual vessels, weapons, bronze mirrors and miscellaneous wares..."
Qin Feng walked towards the bronze vessels placed on the table and said: "Bronze ritual vessels are divided into four types: food vessels, wine vessels, water vessels, and musical instruments. Boss Wei has a high vision, and these collections are valuable.
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While he was talking, the etiquette lady had already trotted into the room and handed a carbon pen into Qin Feng's hand.
"With good antiques, there are naturally more fake ones. The better the condition, the greater the chance of counterfeiting."
Taking the carbon pen, Qin Feng casually put a cross on an open, high-necked, exquisitely crafted bronze wine vessel with a tiger statue without any scruples! (To be continued...)
ps: ps: The second update is here, and there is also the third update. Brothers, the distance from the first place is still widening. Friends who like to vote monthly at the end of the month should go out. If you can't catch up at the beginning of the month, there will be no chance at the end of the month!
