"Sorry, I have caused so much trouble to Manager Liu!" After hearing Liu Suifeng's words, Zhou Xia also realized that this matter was not over yet. Not to mention the problem of high-quality imitations worth hundreds of thousands, there are still a series of problems to be dealt with. The scale of Tiandi Art Auction Co., Ltd. is not large in size and has been newly established for less than two years. If there are no good items and cannot attract the attention of bidders, the business will naturally not be much better.

"If I were you, I would have chosen to save people. Well, don't think about what has happened. Now there is not much time, we need to concentrate and handle the current situation." Liu Yuqing quickly regained her usual calm and confident appearance.

She then ordered, "You should immediately send this porcelain to the Donghai Antique Calligraphy and Painting Appraisal Center for testing. They have high-tech instruments for the era of non-destructive testing of porcelain. The test report should be issued as soon as possible. After it is done, call me so that you can explain to the customer. As for the compensation issue, you don't have to worry about it, and do your job with peace of mind."

"Okay." Zhou Xia wanted to say that he would pay for it himself, but she would definitely not take it seriously. After all, he is still poor and can't afford to pay for it even if he wants to pay. It would be better to use facts to speak out from now on than to let go of the mouth now. Now that time is tight, he dare not delay for a long time and quickly clean up the porcelain.

"Remember to treat the wound first." Liu Yuqing said with concern again.

Zhou Xia hurriedly thanked her, "Thank you, Manager Liu!"

"Also, although this porcelain is broken, it is still valuable after repair. Don't worry about this matter too much." Liu Yuqing comforted him and said.

Zhou Xia could only nodded gratefully. When he met such a good boss, he could only say that he was lucky. He even had the idea of ​​promising himself, but unfortunately he would not agree.

Zhou Xia packed up his things, and Liu Yuqing also specifically told him to be careful on the way. In fact, his reaction speed was not slow, but unfortunately there was nothing he could do about the previous incident.

Zhou Xia came out with a brocade box in Hongwu underglaze red. The company that had been paying attention to this matter, the soul of gossip burning immediately watched. Liu Suifeng rushed in like a strong wind and slipped away like another gust of wind. They had accumulated enough questions in their hearts. Wang Chao, who had the best relationship with him, asked him where he was going.

"Send it to the appraisal center for appraisal." Zhou Xia replied simply, he didn't want to say too much.

"Send it for identification? Is this a fake?" Wang Chao asked in surprise.

Zhou Xiaxin said that it seemed that few people were fools, but at this time he could only say, "We will not know until the appraisal results are released."

"Fakes are impossible, and most likely high-quality imitations are high-quality imitations." Wang Yanli, a few female in the company, said that she has a low professionalism and is more cautious in using words. There are still some differences between counterfeits and imitations. Forged products generally refer to the worst products on the market, and can only deceive those who don't understand the industry or think about finding bargains when they first entered the industry. The quality of imitations is much higher, especially during the third dynasty of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, because the emperor was good at ancient times and had the best effect, the official kiln made imitations many times, such as Xuande Furnace blue and white porcelain underglaze red, etc. The quality of these imitations is not bad, and it can even be as fake as real.

Zhang Jie said, "Didn't this mean that Master Xu and Manager Liu both had a crush on each other? I think it was Zhou Xia who wanted to shirk responsibility and wanted to treat a live horse as a dead horse!"

Zhou Xia pretended not to hear it, too lazy to pay attention to him, so he went straight out. He was in a hurry and had no time to waste his talk with him!

"Tsk, what can Zhou Xia do? He can actually get so much attention from Manager Liu. He broke five million porcelain just now. He will let him do such an important thing again." Seeing that Zhou Xia's favor was not reduced, Zhang Jie felt envy and jealousy in his heart, and complained immediately. Seeing that he did not respond at all, he even sarcastically mocked him.

"Stop saying these sour words, can you just think that he is guilty and meritorious?" Wang Chao couldn't stand it and replied to him.

"Hurry up and go out to do things. If Manager Liu sees it, he will be scolded again. She is in a bad mood today, and everyone will be in trouble if it makes her angry." Wang Yanli reminded.

So everyone went to work on their own. The preliminary preparations for the auction were quite cumbersome. They contacted the venue, called customers, took photos of the items, printed catalogs, etc.

Sure enough, Liu Yuqing quickly returned to her own office. Even Zhang Jie didn't dare to provoke her. Everyone was secretly glad that she was not discovered by her when she was gossiping just now.

Liu Yuqing had to wait until Zhou Xia's identification results were released before she could contact Wang Dongrui, the owner of Hongwu underglaze Red.

She is more worried about the items in this autumn auction. The company has collected not many fine cultural relics this time. Now the finale of Hongwu underglaze red is unlikely to appear. The influence of the auction will undoubtedly drop by a level, which is not the situation she wants to see. Now the competition between various auction houses is becoming more and more fierce. Whoever has a good source of goods and can produce fine products will have more customers.

When she was shooting from the public, she didn't dare to expect any fine products. In fact, it would be quite good to have genuine products. Most of the pictures sent by collectors showed imitations or fakes, and most of them were removed from the first batch. The collections that were not genuine or fake in the photos were sent to the company, and most of them would be removed from the auction. There were very few that were worth collecting and had room for appreciation.

She could only call some familiar collectors to see if she could get one or two rare collections from them for auction.

This is not an easy task, because the more precious the collection is, the more reluctant the collector will give up, even if the price at the auction will be higher than usual.

Like the Hongwu underglaze red before, she finally fought for a long time to get it from the famous collector Wang Dongrui of Donghai to auction. But how to talk to him now is still a headache. But no matter how difficult this matter is, she still has to face it. Liu Suifeng will definitely not care about this matter. It is already good that he will not take the blame.

She called around but had no results. But she was not the one who gave up easily. She secretly cheered herself up and continued to work hard. As long as she had a little intention, she would visit her in person.

Liu Yuqing put down the phone and took a sip of tea. She was still thinking about how Zhou Xia was doing.

After Zhou Xia left, he went directly to the Donghai Antique Calligraphy and Painting Appraisal Center. Porcelain is a delicate and fragile item. Even if the Hongwu underglaze red has been broken, it is still of great value. For example, he will definitely not be able to squeeze into buses or subways when commuting to and from work.

The Donghai Antique Calligraphy and Painting Appraisal Center is located next to the Donghai Antique City. It is an independent appraisal institution. It has imported advanced detection instruments and has close communication with the Donghai Museum and major auction houses. It has obtained a lot of research data on antique calligraphy and paintings. It has a huge database to support it. Combined with the data detected by high-tech instruments, and after careful comparison and analysis, it can more accurately identify the age of antique calligraphy and paintings.

But as far as the general situation in the collection industry is concerned, experts would rather believe in their own vision and experience, and they would be more face-saving and would not easily use high-tech for appraisal, otherwise they would not have a good vision and their appraisal skills would not be strong. Unless they were really unable to get a piece of collection and had a very important relationship, they would be sent to the appraisal center for appraisal.

The staff of the appraisal center usually receive the most common collectors. After collecting, they are worried about gains and losses, and they don’t have much confidence in their own vision. They often use the collections to evaluate them everywhere, wanting to determine their value. Among them, most of them are fake and imitations, and many of them are relatively bad fakes, which means they will not buy them if they are a little more knowledgeable.

Zhou Xia brought Hongwu underglaze red that had been smashed into more than ten pieces for the appraisal. When registering at the front desk, he said, "I want to identify what era this porcelain is from."

The beautiful receptionist at the front desk looked him up and down for a while. Seeing Zhou Xia's appearance, he didn't seem to be burning with too much money.

Those who have always done identification are completed collections. She has never seen anyone use porcelain fragments for identification. Her eyes seemed to say, "Isn't this guy crazy?"

Fortunately, Zhou Xia has been very thick-skinned now and has no concern at all. She asked the girl at the front desk to register him and asked him to make an appraisal immediately and issue a certificate.

The customer is God. Although the receptionist felt that there was no need to appraise the broken porcelain, and the value was not too high anyway. But she would not be so stupid as to refuse the business that was sent to the door for free, and she would soon help him with it. Then she took him over and handed it over to the appraiser Wang Mingyang, a middle-aged man in his forties. Seeing Zhou Xia come to appraisal with the broken porcelain, she felt a little incredible.

But after carefully observing the pieces of porcelain, the expression on his face suddenly became solemn. He asked him in a trembling voice, "When was this high-quality imitation of Hongwu underglaze red? It was so fake that it was so real. If it weren't for being broken, it would definitely be a big hit by most people."

Although Zhou Xia systematically identified it as a high-quality imitation from the 1990s, at this time, he still replied calmly, "This is what I want to find out when I come to your appraisal center this time. You have high-tech instruments here, so you can definitely identify them, right?"

Wang Mingyang nodded with a wry smile, and then he realized that his own disobedience was naturally not bad at the appreciation of antique calligraphy and paintings. Otherwise, he wouldn't have helped others with an appraisal. Why was he so excited and asked them instead!

He also knew that the Hongwu underglaze red has always been imitated by later generations, and there were many masters in all eras. There was no need to say much about imitations made by official kilns in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Various imitations emerged one after another during the Republic of China. Later, in the 1980s and 1990s, a large number of underrated high-quality imitations appeared.

Wang Mingyang roughly guessed the experience of this Hongwu underglaze red. There was no doubt that the collectors were also shocked and then accidentally broke it. Only then did he discover the secret. In order to truly figure it out, he thought of sending it to the appraisal center to use instruments to determine the specific imitation time.

He really wanted to hear Zhou Xia tell the story, but unfortunately Zhou Xia didn't want to mention it too much. After all, this was not a glamorous thing. He just asked him to do an appraisal as soon as possible and issue a certificate.

Wang Mingyang had no choice but to concentrate on his work and use high-tech instruments to detect the age of this porcelain.

The most commonly used thermal radiation detection in the past was, but it was said that the demon was one foot taller than one foot taller. People later found that it could be cracked by a few more security inspections. Of course, X-rays should not be too much, otherwise it would be detected, indicating that it was porcelain from three thousand years ago. If it weren't for a fake ghost, it would be afraid.

Falsification methods are progressing, and scientific and technological testing methods are also progressing. Now the appraisal agency has adopted newer technology to non-destructively detect porcelain age.

Zhou Xia also wanted to see if the identification of high-tech instruments in the appraisal center is consistent with the identification of the system.

His archaeological identification system is equivalent to carrying a high-precision identification instrument with him, and it is faster and more accurate.

Finally, Wang Mingyang took out the appraisal results through careful analysis and comparison. It was a high-quality imitation product from around the 1990s.

Zhou Xia also found some advantage. His own archaeological identification system can be accurate to the year, while modern high-tech instrument identification still has certain age errors, so he can only identify an appraisal time. There is no doubt that the more accurate the identification date, the better, and it is best to know the best ones made on any day. In this way, it can more accurately reflect the historical value of a cultural relic, what major historical events have happened in history, and if the cultural relic is indeed created at this time, its value will be greatly improved.

This result made Wang Mingyang feel very excited. "In the 1990s, a batch of Hongwu underglaze red products were indeed released. Just like this one, I was willing to invest in the cost and fired completely according to the retro method. If it was a complete porcelain, if it was not produced with high-tech methods, it would be easy to get a look. This is a study and opened my eyes."

Zhou Xia nodded, and he also gained a lot from it.

Wang Mingyang quickly issued the certificate. This was no longer a complete porcelain, and he could also write the truth on the certificate with confidence.

Zhou Xia spent an extra thousand yuan on this certificate, but he thought it was worth it. At least, when facing Wang Dongrui, the former owner of Hongwu underglaze Red, there was an additional proof.

After obtaining the appraisal certificate, Zhou Xia thanked Wang Mingyang and came out of the appraisal center with strange eyes from the receptionist.

Zhou Xia immediately called Liu Yuqing and made a brief report, "Manager Liu, the results from the appraisal center have been released, and the certificate has been obtained. After the instrument inspection, it was proved to be a high-quality imitation product from the 1990s."

After Liu Yuqing had an appraisal, she expected such a result. After having this certificate, she would explain it to Wang Dongrui better. She immediately replied, "Okay, you can bring the porcelain and the certificate back to the company later. Now you will treat the wound first. If you have done the appraisal so quickly, you will definitely not have time. If you have to do your job, your body is also very important."

Zhou Xia hurriedly said, "Thank you, Manager Liu. Actually, this is just a minor injury and it doesn't hurt. So let's do this first, I'll buy some medicine and go back to the company later."

Only then did he have time to deal with the wound on his body, so he went to a nearby small clinic to treat the wound. The scratch on his hands was fine, but he just scratched some skin. The place where the skateboard in the back would hit him a little more severely, and it was already bruised and swollen. Fortunately, it was all trauma, so apply some medicine and it will be cured in a few days.

After the processing was completed, Zhou Xia ate a bowl of noodles nearby and then cooked it back to the company.
Chapter completed!