Antiques with golden eyes

When Fan Shigui saw the visitor, he immediately withered like a mouse after seeing a cat. The boss opened his mouth and wanted to say a few words, but when he was swept away by the visitor's sharp eyes, the little bit of "heroic spirit" he had was instantly gone.< /p>

He nodded and bowed and said: "Hey, who called me by my baby name? It turned out to be you, Sasakawa-san? No wonder the voice sounds so friendly. Sasakawa-sama and I haven't seen each other for some time."

"You have been cheating and cheating all day long. If you weren't a child or a neighbor, I, Pan Shichuan, would have to slap you with a big mouth. You are now blindly recognizing the virtues of your ancestors, which is really embarrassing to Uncle Fan!"

"Hehe, even if we just eat together, it doesn't count as random identification. They are all named Fan..." Fan Shigui had a flattering face and a flattering smile.

Pan Shichuan waved his hand with a look of disgust on his face: "Keep the money and get out!"

"Give me money, absolutely give me money!"

Fan Shigui quickly took out 500 yuan from his wallet and pressed it under the broken inkstone, then explained with a smile on his face: "Brother Shen, my brother and I bought this painting "Ancient Temple in the Deep Mountains" for 60,000 yuan. , This matter today is my fault, brother, so I will give it to you as a gift, brother. When we encounter injustice, we draw our swords to help..."

Shen Yu was suddenly confused: "What the hell?"

Fan Shigui slapped his thigh: "Look at what I say, a hero cherishes a hero. If we don't quarrel, we won't get to know each other. Next time we have a chance, we two will go to Zuixianlou to have sex. I'll treat you, brother!"

After saying that, Fan Shigui turned his head and glanced at Pan Shichuan, and finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that he didn't mean to go into details.

"Leave quickly, or if you don't leave, pay me back the five hundred thousand you owe me." Pan Shichuan glared again.

Fan Shigui nodded like a chicken pecking at rice, "Get out, I'll get out right away, I'll get out quickly."

After pushing through the crowd, Fan Shigui ran away, fearing that Pan Shichuan would collect debts from him.

"Misunderstanding, it's all misunderstanding. Okay, let's all disperse." Pan Shichuan bowed his hands to the crowd. Most of the people in the flea market knew him. This one didn't dare to offend, so he immediately went to do whatever he had to do. .

The tourists who were watching the excitement and were not afraid of causing trouble also dispersed when they saw that the excitement was not there.

"Thank you, Boss Pan, for rescuing me. Shen Yu is very grateful!" Shen Yu looked solemn and clasped his fists at Pan Shichuan. He knew this person as the owner of "Tao Gu Zhai", a famous calligraphy and painting shop in the flea market.

Although "Taoguzhai" is not as good as "Bogutang" which has been around for decades, it is still fifteen or sixteen years old and is well-known in the flea market. Its Qing Dynasty calligraphy and paintings are sold at least once a month. Three pictures attracted many business celebrities who like calligraphy and painting to buy them, and they made a lot of money.

When Pan Shichuan heard Shen Yu's name, he suddenly lost his composure: "What is it, Boss Pan? Call me brother! If Mr. Shen hadn't saved my Pan family back then, that Yongle blue vase would have been taken away. Now I don't even know myself." Where is it!

"I, Pan Shichuan, will never forget this kindness in my whole life, and I dare not forget it!"

Shen Yu knew that what he was talking about was ten years ago. This incident was similar to what happened to Uncle Chu in "Baoyu Xuan". Both were saved by his grandfather on the verge of being beaten.

At that time, Pan Shichuan did not have as big a family business as he does now. He just inherited his father's business and opened a small calligraphy and painting shop on the antique street, mainly selling some unknown paintings and antique paintings from the Qing Dynasty.

It was also summer, and someone came to the store to sell him an old porcelain vase passed down from his family, a blue and white plum vase from the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty.

The vase has a short neck, broad shoulders, and wide feet. It has a plain base with no glaze and no markings.

The whole body is painted with broken branches of flowers and fruits, pomegranates, loquats, lychees and other fruits.

Pan Shichuan's heart skipped a beat at that time, but he had been working in an antique shop since he was a child. Even though his heart was filled with joy, his face didn't show the slightest hint of joy. He kept a calm face and observed carefully.

The plum vase is pure white, the workmanship is grand, the glaze is soft and not dazzling, and the firelight fades naturally over time.

The blue and white painters are even more consummate, with rich fruits, soft flowers and leaves, and a suitable layout, which can be called a master's skill.

The more Pan Shichuan looked at it, the more delighted he became, and the more he looked at it, the more he fell in love with it. He actually touched this first-class Ming Dynasty imperial weapon, it was like smoke rising from his ancestral grave.

He himself identified it as an ancient porcelain treasure at that time, and it was 100% a Yongxuan blue and white plum vase with a wide opening. The seller asked for 1.2 million, but after some bargaining, he cut it in half and settled on 600,000 yuan.< /p>

Afraid of missing out on the treasure, Pan Shichuan paid a deposit of 100,000 yuan, all the cash in the store. He needed three days to raise the remaining 500,000 yuan. He then asked three acquaintances of the antique shop owners to act as guarantees and made an appointment with the bottle seller. Pay the money after three days. If you do not buy or cannot pay the balance due to other reasons, the deposit will not be refunded.

Six hundred thousand yuan at the beginning of the 2000s was indeed a huge sum of money, but at this price Pan Shichuan went crazy. There is a saying in the antique shop of Yongxuan plum vase: It has been imitated for many generations and there is nothing new, and the price of a piece from the official kiln is exorbitant.

According to the appearance of this plum vase, if it is resold to wealthy businessmen in the province, it will simply be double the profit.

Even if he sold it to an antique dealer who was better than himself, it was easy to make double the profit, so Pan Shichuan had no intention of continuing the business and closed the store to find his old man.

The old man of the Pan family was shocked when his son came back with a Yongxuan blue and white plum vase. When he heard that it cost 600,000 yuan to buy it, he almost suffered a heart attack.

Without even bothering to ask what happened, Mr. Pan put on his reading glasses and looked at the bottle.

Mr. Pan worked as an apprentice in an antique shop when he was young. It can be said that he has been dealing with antiques all his life. With his experience, he can't see anything wrong with the bottle. It completely conforms to all the characteristics of Yongxuan blue and white porcelain.

Mr. Pan made a decisive decision and raised money!

The two men brewed a pot of Dahongpao and sat down to sum it up. Pan Shichuan went to raise money, and Mr. Pan guarded the treasure at home.

Six hundred thousand is a huge amount of money no matter where you put it. Even though the Pan family has a very deep financial net worth, it comes from all kinds of antiques and real estate. To raise so much cash at once, you still need to borrow it from relatives and friends.

In the past three days, Mr. Pan was the only one at home. An old man who has played with antiques all his life is different from a novice. The more he looked at the precious plum vase, the more frightened he became. He always felt that there was something wrong, because the thing was too real and too new.

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This is not to say that it is a problem with the glaze, but that there is not a single scratch on the whole body of this plum vase. In the six hundred years of Yongxuan Blue and White, this vase has been circulated in the hands of countless collectors. It is not difficult to say that there are no dust, oil stains. After all, this kind of

Babies will not be left out to eat dust.

But bumps and bumps are inevitable. Chips, missing edges, cracked lines, damaged glaze, and loss of color are all normal. But Mr. Pan looked at the bottle with a magnifying glass dozens of times and found only six tiny scratches.

It’s incredible to think about it.

The less they could find anything wrong, the more Mr. Pan felt that something was wrong. The night before the balance was to be paid, Mr. Pan and his wife brought a bottle to invite Zhongzhonglou Zhangyan, who lived in his ancestral home, back.

In terms of seniority, Mr. Pan has to call Zhongchenglou his uncle. The relationship is not that far apart. Mr. Pan’s aunt is the wife of Zhongchenglou’s uncle’s brother, Zhongzhongge.

Zhongzhonglou is an only son, and he has always taken good care of this little brother from his uncle's family. With this kind of relationship, how can he not help when someone comes to ask for help?

Shen Yu was fourteen years old at the time and was living with his grandfather, so he knew what happened very clearly.

Zhongzhonglou was actually over 90 years old at the time, and at first glance he felt that the bottle was a bit too new.

However, the new porcelain is immediately ruled out as old. The glaze of this plum vase is real. It has a simple and old feel formed after hundreds of years of vicissitudes, which is different from the old new porcelain.

Then Zhongzhonglou felt that it was an imitation from the Yongxuan and Qing Dynasties, because the authentic blue and white plum vase from Yongxuan was too rare to be handed down from generation to generation. Most of the authentic items are in the hands of major museums and well-known private collectors at home and abroad.

I have basically never heard of selling genuine Yongxuan blue and white porcelain in a small antique shop.

But he immediately denied his view. The bottle was indeed from the Yongxuan period.

The cobalt material used in the blue and white of the Yongxuan official kiln is an imported material called "Suma Li Qing", which contains high iron content. After the porcelain is fired, the color will be rich and bright, and "rust spots" will often appear.

The most important basis for identification of Yuan blue and white and Yongxuan blue and white is the identification of Sumali green material!

Although this bottle was imitated during the Yongzong and Qian Dynasties, the shape and glaze color were closer to the original, but the iron crystal spots on the blue and white body of the bottle could not be imitated.

Therefore, the rust on the Yongxuan imitation bottle is too uniform and fine, and feels much worse than that of the Yongxuan year. This is because the Suma Liqing was almost used up in the Chenghua year of the Ming Dynasty, and there will be no Suma Liqing in later generations.< /p>

In addition to the relationship between relatives, Mr. Pan’s father once did a lot of help to Shenchenlou. Shenchenlou could not ignore this matter. After washing his hands, he carried the plum bottle to the bedroom. After turning off the light, he quietly played with the bottle and finally found it in the middle of the bottle. Something was wrong with a lychee.

The glaze of the entire plum bottle has a slightly rough feeling here, which is different from the rust on the bottle body. Zhongzhong Lou used a high-power magnifying glass to see everything and understood that this bottle was broken and then repaired.

The current technology of glazing and refiring is not up to the mark. The faker is also a capable person. He painted an image exactly the same as the original with colored pens. It is completely fake and the real thing is fake. Finally, he added a layer of something extremely smooth and similar to water paint, which is heavy and heavy. I don’t even know what the material is, but it’s no different from the original glaze.

Porcelain that is chipped or loses its color is acceptable, as it is a defect that does not cover up its flaws, but this bottle has a big hole in it, so it is considered a remnant.

***The author has something to say***

Yongxuan blue and white porcelain is the blue and white porcelain of the Yongle and Xuande periods, and is known as the pinnacle of blue and white porcelain.