Chapter 30 High-end Market (4)
The three people here spoke very low, and the middle-aged man sat on the side, but he seemed to have not heard their conversation at all. He only looked at the newspaper in his hand, neither admitting nor denying it. This is the operation technique of the big antique shop. They will not let customers check it in the store. It doesn’t matter if you say it in the office. If you don’t buy it, you won’t buy it. Anyway, this job is Jiang Taigong’s fishing wisher.
Experts can tell if it is done. When middle-aged people see Liu Yue's appraisal techniques and skills, they know that she is a master and they have no intention of fooling around. Their family knows that their family affairs are, and of course middle-aged people know that this "Bird Singing in the Empty Mountain" is fake. This is a masterpiece by several experts in their store. It is very fake, so he can only hope that Liu Yue will follow her. If it were Liu Yue to see that the painting is fake, he would not feel that it was strange, but Tang Feng saw it first and found it a bit incredible, because he had never seen Tang Feng look at this painting carefully, and just smelled it and said it was fake. This was a bit outrageous.
Tang Feng said to Liu Yue: "Miss Liu can compare the two ends of the scroll with the middle of the painted silk to see."
Liu Yueyiyan took both ends of the scroll in the middle to compare it with the painting silk itself. After a long time, she frowned and asked Tang Feng, "Why are you so fast?"
Su Qing, who was standing beside her, was anxious to know the result, so she asked Liu Yue: "Are you sure that you are fake?"
Liu Yue nodded and said, "Yes, there is a difference in the degree of Chenghua between the two ends and the middle, which is definitely fake."
Su Qing looked carefully and asked strangely: "Why can't I see it?"
Liu Yue said: "The difference is very subtle. You are an amateur. You can't even see it if you give you a magnifying glass." The Chenghua painting of a painting is carried out with silk and silk. If there is a partial difference in the degree of Chenghua of the same painting, it must be fake. Without Tang Feng's reminder, Liu Yue could see that the painting was fake, but her steps have not come to this place yet. Liu Yue was not surprised that Tang Feng could see that the painting was fake, but was wondering why he could draw the conclusion so quickly.
"Liu Yue, don't you?" Su Qing asked Liu Yue: "The gap is too big. Why do I think he is much faster than you?" In Su Qing's eyes, Liu Yue and Tang Feng are Manchester United and Arsenal. It is possible that whoever loses and wins when the two teams meet, but it is surprising that one side leads with a big score in the first half.
Liu Yue said, "I don't know, I'm already very fast." Then, she glanced at Tang Feng intentionally or unintentionally, and said, "People who hide their own personalities are often very stingy. They are unwilling to share their experiences with others. I wonder if Mr. Tang is such a stingy person?"
"It is entirely possible that I am a stingy person." Tang Feng said: "Don't ask too much, the methods are just different. The method my master taught me to identify ancient paintings starts with the material."
Here is the difference between mainstream appraisal methods and non-mainstream appraisal methods. It is not that Liu Yue will definitely be deceived without Tang Feng. It is just a matter of time. The appraisal method used by Liu Yue is the mainstream method, focusing on picture quality and light on material, step by step, looking at the painting first and then looking at the model, and then verifying. Generally, fake paintings will soon be gone, and this painting is just an exception. So, why is the mainstream appraisal method made of light? Because museums have now handed over the age of the material to
Instruments. Unlike the mainstream identification methods, the Tang family's identification method has been improved by tomb robbers' identification techniques, and tomb robbers' identification techniques are the most important materials. Due to the restrictions on hole robbers, tomb robbers often cannot steal all the things in the tomb chamber at once. Therefore, they all have a habit of getting valuables first. The tomb chamber is dark and the tomb robbers have no time and cannot distinguish them one by one, so they rely more on the identification of materials. Gold ware is always valuable than copper ware.
To put it bluntly, this is the difference between archaeology and tomb robbery. Archaeology is open and upright, wearing gloves, carefully lifting things, then brushing them again and again, and finally put them in the plastic film envelope, classified them and transport them back to do the next analysis and identification. After all, tomb robbers are shameless. They choose a few valuable things with sacks and run away when they can't get them once. They can't take them once and come again for the second time, because they can't guarantee that there is a second chance to come in, so they have to get the valuables first. When these two methods of identification are passed on to Liu Yue and Tang Feng, we see different identification habits. Not to mention who is better or worse, just for this painting, Tang Feng first looks at the starting point of the material closer to the end point.
Liu Yue looked at Tang Feng without blinking and asked, "Can you tell me your basis? For example, what smell did you smell and make you judge?"
"I didn't smell it." Tang Feng shook his head and said, "I just got closer and took a closer look." How could Tang Feng believe the two women say this, but he refused to tell them his tricks no matter what.
There are many old ways to make new paintings. The most common ones include snake, insect, rat, and ants biting and tea fumigation. Snake, insect, rat, and ants biting is to specially bring snake, insect, rat, and ants to bite new calligraphy and painting works, so that the traces of eating by insects can be left behind. Tea fumigation is to hang calligraphy and paintings on the wall, put a large pot filled with tea at the foot of the wall, boil it on fire, and use the gas evaporated from the tea to yellow the calligraphy and paintings, so that the paper and pigments can be brittle and deteriorated, and accelerate the aging. After smoked,
Hang it in a ventilated and cool place to remove the smell of tea. This "Bird Singing in the Empty Mountain" is imitated in an extremely realistic way. Its method of making old is to first use snakes, insects, rats and ants to bite it, and then use tea fumigation to make old, but making fake is to make fake, and there will always be clues left. The tea fumigation method cannot make the whole painting consistent. Moreover, the taste of tea cannot be completely eradicated. Tang Feng, who has a keen sense of smell, can smell it as soon as he smells it.
Tang Feng was afraid that they would ask questions, so he hurriedly said to the middle-aged man: "This painting can be put away, let's take a look at the next one."
The middle-aged man nodded and said, "No problem."
The second painting is an ink painting. The picture depicts: a small boat floats on the quietly flowing river. On both sides of the river bank are some trees and flowers, and in the distance are endless mountains. On the boat, a young scholar standing with his hands behind his back pointed at the highest mountain and said something to the boatman. The inscription contains four large cursive characters - pointing to the country. This painting is very rough, and the silk itself is not good, with rough texture and sparse flange. It is far-fetched to name it "Talking to the Country", but the quality of this painting is not satisfactory. The brush and ink are chaotic and spotted. If it is an oil painting, it has a bit of impressionism. However, as an ink painting, it can only be called freehand painting.
After Tang Feng looked carefully, he asked the middle-aged man: "How did this painting be sold?"
Chapter completed!