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Lin Xuan arrived at the bulletin board and took a quick look at it. There were indeed a lot of things written down on it.

There are actually paintings by Huang Binhong and Qian Weicheng, whose prices have soared in recent years.

A few years ago, the paintings of both of them were not very valuable.

But prices have soared in recent years.

Lin Xuan is not interested in this kind of paintings because most of them are hyped up by people.

Only the paintings, calligraphy and paintings of celebrities who are qualified to receive history textbooks are truly valuable.

What is the difference between chasing unpopular antiques and speculating on stocks? If you are not careful, you will be trapped.

Although his price has risen now, but...the market will always forget about him.

Lin Xuan continued to read, and found that blue and white from the Ming and Qing dynasties was the mainstream.

Mainly Jingdezhen porcelain.

Anything more would be a bit nonsense.

One of the Xuande stoves caught Lin Xuan's attention.

Xuande furnace is a batch of cultural relics with rich history.

It is said to be a batch of cultural relics because according to records, it swept across the Pacific Ocean and Asan Sea during the next year.

The kings of these places sent a shipment of brass.

Zhu Zhanji, Emperor Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty, participated in the design and manufacture of the copper incense burner, referred to as "Mao furnace" in the third year of Xuande's reign in the Ming Dynasty.

The Xuande Furnace is the first bronze vessel in Chinese history made of wind-milled copper.

But unfortunately, now, there is not a Xuande furnace in the whole country, including the Forbidden City.

If it exists anywhere, it should be buried with the tombs of these emperors from Xuanzong to Xianfeng.

Christie's once had a Xuande stove for auction, but it was fake and was imitated during the Qianlong period.

People in the industry know this well.

However, it is currently kept in a museum as a genuine item.

At present, Xuande stoves in the market are all imitations made during the Qing Dynasty.

but!

Even if it is an imitation, the price is as high as tens of millions!

In the era before Xianfeng, the imitation Xuande furnaces whose appearance reached more than 70% of the level recorded in history books were priced above Doufang.

Of course, there were also a large number of copper incense burners after that, because the brass incense burners in later generations were all made according to the standards of Xuande furnaces.

Therefore, Xuande furnace changed from the name of an ancient cultural relic to the name of an object.

Even if this Xuande furnace is a modern product, you can't find anything wrong with it in the antique market.

Lin Xuan looked at it and shook his head.

However, something caught Lin Xuan's attention.

Someone wants to produce a 150-year-old rosewood scroll.

This does not mean that the tree was cut down when it was one hundred and fifty years old, but that it was one hundred and fifty years since the scroll was made.

Rosewood? It’s quite valuable.

Lin Xuan suddenly remembered that he bought a painting, and there might be Zheng Banqiao's calligraphy underneath.

Lin Xuan patted his forehead and turned around to find Sun Kai: "Sun Kai, there is someone who has a pair of rosewood scrolls. This person is..."

Sun Kai: "Hey, he's not selling scrolls, he's the mounting master, Master Chu Wenhan."

"He has been hanging a pair of scrolls here. He comes here every day to listen to plays and other things. If someone asks him to frame them, he will come here.

Lin Xuan: "I knew I wanted to find a framing master."

"Abreu, go down and bring up the painting."

Abreu hurried downstairs to get it.

Lin Xuan: "Aren't you going to open a shop in the framing business now?"

Sun Kai: "Harm!"

"Think about it, what should be framed for those paintings that cost more than ten or twenty yuan a piece? Can't we just print a framed pattern and be done with it?"

"More expensive paintings are just framed by machines."

“The low-end market has been eaten away by mechanization, and the current mounting industry only deals with mid-to-high-end business.

"What kind of store should I open?"

Lin Xuan nodded after listening.

Indeed, it is like carving a seal.

In the past, carving a private seal on the side of the road cost five yuan including materials and labor.

Materials cost fifty cents.

What now? Others charge four yuan for materials, free mechanical labor, and five yuan for engraving.

Does the engraver still charge five yuan? Isn’t that enough?

Therefore, the low-end market was quickly eroded.

Those Mr. Nanguo who cheated on his job had no choice but to change careers.

Those who stayed were all the best among us, all masters, with impressive skills in engraving seals, and the machinery was basically completed.

For example, some people can use reverse patterns to engrave anti-counterfeiting marks inside their private seals.

Some people can do microsculpture.

The key point is that machinery can only handle the engraving of a single material, and in the seal industry, expensive seal materials have different textures.

The same goes for mounting paintings and calligraphy.

Lin Xuan took the painting and walked to the door of Zhu Wenhan's room.

"Da da da!"

"Please come in." The voice coming from inside was full of anger.

After Lin Xuan opened the door, he saw a tall and thin middle-aged man, leaning on a chair and humming.

Seeing that he was not an acquaintance, Chu Wenhan knew that business was coming to him, so he stood up hurriedly: "Hahaha, do you have any work? You can ask for it here."

Lin Xuan handed over the painting: "My painting is a bit special, would you like to take a look first?"

Chu Wenhan: "Haha, the old Yanjing thing is no longer popular now, and we don't want you either. It's awkward to say that."

Lin Xuan smiled: "I couldn't agree more."

Chu Wenhan took the things and looked at them, and saw Sun Kai walking in: "Ouch, Xiao Kai."

Sun Juan walked in: "Uncle Chu."

"Yo, novel!"

Chu Wenhan: "Are you friends?"

Sun Kai: "Yes."

Chu Wenhan: "Let me take a closer look at this painting."

Sun Wei was surprised: "Bashan people (there is a big mountain in the middle of Bahe Mountain. Chapters will be blocked if you beat them continuously. Please appreciate your spirit)!"

Zhu Da, a native of Bashan, is the ninth grandson of Zhu Quan, the 17th son of Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty. After the death of the Ming Dynasty, he became a monk, converted to Taoism, and lived in Qingyunpu Taoist Temple in Nanchang.

Good at calligraphy and painting, he adopted the calligraphy method of Huang Tingjian in his early years.

Flowers and birds are mainly freehand ink paintings, with exaggerated and strange images. The pen and ink are condensed and resolute, and the style is majestic and meaningful. The landscape painting is based on Dong Qichang's style, which is concise, quiet and solemn, and has the charm of sparseness. He is good at calligraphy, poetry and prose, and rarely uses ink.

Bashanren is a master with similar painting abilities as Tang Bohu.

Paintings are extremely expensive in the market.

There are eight Chinese-language book-sized paintings, and the price is tens of millions.

A serious painting in the central hall can cost tens of millions. If it is a double central hall, the price is over 60 million.

Just a single page with a simple drawing of a myna costs over 10 million.

For a painter of this level, a painting as big as the one in the middle hall would cost less than 50 million?

Sun Kai shook his head: "No, it's not a painting by a Bashan person."

Sun Kai has been influenced since he was a child, so he can still understand the paintings of Xiaoshan people.

After all, this is a super celebrity who has an independent TV series biography in modern society. Historically, there are not many people who are purely painters and calligraphers and have personal TV series in modern times.

Sun Kai had seen quite a few paintings of this kind of celebrities.

Lin Xuan nodded: "It is indeed not from Bashan, but imitated by someone in the early Qing Dynasty."

Sun Juan looked at it carefully and nodded: "It is indeed a replica."

Lin Xuan smiled: "Use the best materials to help me frame this painting."

Sun Wei was surprised: "Isn't this a loss? Is this a painting handed down from the ancestors of the Lin family? This is understandable."

Chu Wenhan: "I don't know much about painting, I can probably read it."

"I don't see many problems with this painting, but it has been framed three times."

“And the materials are used better every time.”

"If this is some stupid painting, no one would frame it, right? Let alone three times!"

Lin Xuan was a little surprised. Unexpectedly, Wenhan analyzed the painting in three parts based on its mounting characteristics.

Yes, the words below were originally framed.

But at that time, when Zheng Banqiao first wrote this calligraphy, the price of a painting was usually five taels of silver.

This size is relatively large, only about thirty taels of silver.

The mounting material is slightly inferior.

The other painting was earlier, suspected to be made by a disciple of the Eight Banners. It was not short of money and was framed very well.

When the third frame was formed, the system did not prompt, and Lin Xuan did not know.

Chu Wenhan: "Well, it seems to have been framed fifty years ago."

Fifty years ago?

Which time...it will all be clear.

Sun Kai suddenly realized: "In the early years, Master Qi Baishi, a representative figure in the literary and art circles at that time, studied the paintings of Bashan people and embarked on the path of painting art."

"Qi Baishi is most famous for his shrimps, but his most expensive painting is the eagle in "Heroic Independence."

"It was painted after the painting techniques of the Bashan people."

"In that era, to get rid of ghosts and ghosts, some people used fake paintings of Bashan people to cover up the real paintings."

Chu Wenhan quickly overturned this conjecture: "This conjecture is wrong."

"When this painting was framed for the second time, there should have been two pieces of painting paper stacked together."

"It should be a work from the Kangxi and Qianlong periods, and it is covered under this poor imitation of the Eight Mountain People."

"Later, it took too long and the framing was damaged."

"Someone discovered the secret underneath, but in order to preserve the secret, they reframed it."

Chu Wenhan looked at it carefully: "This mounting should be done by Luo Dengrong, a master of southern style mounting."

Lin Xuan probably understood: "Later, before those years passed, the person who knew the secret had passed away."

"This painting was regarded as an ordinary and relatively well-preserved forgery of the Eighth Mountain people in the early Qing Dynasty, and was preserved?"

Chu Wenhan nodded: "That should be the case, but if you want to be sure, you need to verify it."

"Xiao Wei, bring me a glass of cold water."

Xiao Juan went to the front desk and brought a glass of cold water.

Chu Wenhan dipped his little finger with long nails into the water glass.

Then gently place it on the drawing paper.

The watermark penetrated through the first layer of drawing paper and penetrated downwards.

Paper becomes transparent when exposed to water, but is easily damaged.

However, as a master of framing, Qing Wenhan is also a master of restoration.

If the inference is wrong, Chu Wenhan can restore the rice paper fiber by fiber.

He wasn't worried at all about whether his authentication method would damage the paper.

After the upper layer is transparent, the ink marks below are revealed.

Chu Wenhan: "There are ink marks below."

"This is not a painting, this ink mark should be part of a word.

"There cannot be words below this position in the composition of Chinese painting, so this is a piece of calligraphy, not a painting."

Lin Xuan: "It's just as I imagined. I infer that the characters below are Zheng Banqiao's, and the characters are rare and confused."

Zheng Banqiao is a very scary person.

The horror is that he openly sold his paintings before his death, but not many of his works were circulated after his death.

As expected, those who cannot get them are always in commotion, and those who prefer them are confident.

In the late 1990s, Zheng Banqiao's paintings were sold for tens of thousands of soft-meet coins, or US$10,000 a painting.

By the turn of the millennium, the price had reached three million soft sister coins.

In 2011, the price had reached more than 10 million. In the same year, the last time a private collector bought Zheng Banqiao's painting was for 40 million.

Afterwards, the public never saw Zheng Banqiao's authentic work again.

Almost 100% of the existing authentic works of Zheng Banqiao are collected in state-owned museums.

It is already 2021. If large characters with the size of Zheng Banqiao are sold.

The starting auction price is 100 million.

Chu Wenhan: "Pan Jiayuan bought it?"

Lin Xuan nodded, confused: "How...do you know?"

Chu Wenhan stamped his feet: "Last time I went to Panjiayuan, I saw this painting but didn't take a closer look!!"

"It's a big loss. This is a huge leak! You can brag about it for a lifetime."

"You don't want to frame this painting anymore. Tell Sun Kai's father and sell it to him."

"If you ask him to go out and pretend that he picked it up, do you believe that his father would pay 300 million to buy it?"

………………Please give me flowers…………

After hearing this, Lin Xuan said: "Huh? No need to frame it. Sun Kai, this thing was sold to your dad."

After saying that, he laughed.

Sun Kai knew Lin Xuan was joking: "Come on, my dad has been in the antiques industry all his life, and he always tries to pick up the pieces and gets cheated.

"He is good at buying antiques at affordable prices. If he talks about picking up missing pieces, that's a joke."

“Even if he took Zheng Banqiao’s authentic work and said he had missed it, others would think he had been deceived again.

"Hahahaha!" Several people laughed.

Chu Wenhan: "Well, here I am, peeling off the painting outside to determine what's underneath."

"In order to avoid disputes in the future, Mr. Lin, are you right?"

Lin Xuan nodded: "First the villain, then the gentleman is the way to do business, let's reveal it.

Chu Wenhan, who works in this industry, carries some small tools with him. After taking out a knife, Zhu Wenhan started to work.

With Chu Wenhan's ability, he can completely separate the mounting materials and paintings according to the different fibers.

However, the painting above is not valuable, and since it needs to be reframed, the rotten framing is not valuable either.

Chu Wenhan was not polite, he cut boldly and very accurately.

After cutting it and mounting it, Chu Wenhan carefully peeled off the surface.

Rice paper is divided into several layers, how to combine two paintings into one?

The method is actually very simple. Peel the original painting thin and put the two pieces together. Wouldn't it make it not thicker?

It's actually not difficult to separate.

Chu Wenhan: "I rarely do divestiture work. Usually, counterfeit traders ask for help, and I don't bother to deal with them."

Rice paper can be peeled off, but it is an excellent method for forging calligraphy and painting!

For example, you get a junk painting from the same period by Tang Bohu in the Ming Dynasty.

You can completely peel off the top layer of rice paper.

Then find someone who is proficient in the imitation paintings of Tang Bohu and use Ming Dynasty ink to redraw a painting imitating Tang Bohu.

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In this case, you take it out for carbon 14 testing.

Both paper and ink are from the Ming Dynasty.

As long as you don't pull the painting aside to see the layers of rice paper, it's easy to fool people.

It would be fine if it was just a lie, because most people would not dare to fake the works of a painter of Tang Bohu's level.

At most, some second-rate painters can be placed there.

But the problem is that as the rice paper becomes thinner, its functionality drops dramatically.

Water resistance, moisture resistance, smoothness, insect resistance, all aspects have become worse.

If you put this kind of painting at home, you don't even know why it gets broken.

Chu Wenhan peeled it off very carefully.

Most of it is already determined when you peel it off.

Zheng Banqiao's "It's Rare to Be Confused".

Sun Kai: "I remember that "Rarely Confused" seems to be collected in the Dayang Museum. The National Museum displays rubbings made in the country of Hin.

These people who resell cultural relics are the most abominable.

Since there were rubbings from that era, it was obviously from China.

Why did you go to Dayang Museum?

It hasn't been resold yet.

For money, ancestors can sell things.

This is also the reason why according to the current law, grave robbing gangs who have been involved in tomb robbing gangs for more than six years and resell cultural relics out of Congress are punished by death.

Sun Wei: "Now that this kind of confusion is rare, I am afraid that not only collectors from all walks of life, but also the National Museum and even the Forbidden City may come looking for it."

Lin Xuan: "If you pay me, I'll sell it. If the price isn't enough, it's better for me to collect it myself."

The year before last, it was reported on the Internet that someone drove into the Forbidden City, which triggered a huge social response.

Seven years ago, someone in the Forbidden City entertained visitors with a blue and white tea cup from the Qing Dynasty. One of the tea cups was broken into pieces, which caused a huge disaster.

Although the bad guys are only a small group, their scale is so large that there will always be bad guys.

Private collectors are different. Private collectors themselves clearly know whether they will protect it well.

Chu Wenhan had already stripped it all off and was sweating profusely.

He rubbed a towel in the copper washroom in the room and wiped his sweat: "As I get older, my speed has slowed down. If it had been five years ago, I would have peeled it off a long time ago."

Lin Xuan admired it: "No one else in the world has your skills. Separating them one by one according to fiber is simply an experimental level of mounting skills."

Chu Wenhan smiled: "It's actually not as complicated as imagined. Of course, it's not simple either."

"The characters on this painting are very beautiful. They are larger than the one called "Rarely Confused" in the Dayang Museum."

"I suggest using a blank rice paper from the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty and peeling off a layer to fill the gaps in the paper."

"Because Zheng Banqiao was famous for his two sleeves of breeze, the mounting was a little more elegant, using two colors of bamboo instead of silk, and it was mounted directly with paper.

"I expanded the painting to a length of three meters, which can be used to hang in the nave."

"If you want to draw a scroll, use a pair of yellow pear flowers and trees."

Chu Wenhan: "But according to my plan, the price is relatively high, and the material cost will be more than three million."

Lin Xuan nodded: "Just do as you say, I will give you six million."

Chu Wenhan: "Okay, I'm not being pretentious. This job requires at least a month's rest for the eyes and hands."

"Then come like this."

"Our business is not easy to do. Mr. Lin, you and I will go to the police to file a case later, so as not to cause problems in the future. Let's go to the notary office to notarize it and insure it by the way.

Lin Xuan smiled: "The times are developing too fast, and now the framing industry has developed so modernly."

Chu Wenhan pointed out the window and laughed loudly: "Look at their antique trading club, they are all performing percussion on the stage. Our industry must not innovate! Hahaha."

"Don't worry, the paintings that have been insured by me all have very high prices and have not been damaged. The insurance company is happy to do this insurance. I and Yanjing Christie's professional insurance

The insurance is cooperative and not troublesome. "

Lin Xuan: "Okay, come as you said.",