Chapter 368 The Secret of Calligraphy and Painting

Old Man Shou glanced at Zhu Suisui.

"Wait for me here, go and get your treasures out."

No one is better than an old man.

Even if Zhu Suisui has superpowers, she is not good enough to deal with a big shot of Shou Laotou's level. She can tell the real from the fake, but it is Shou Laotou who has to do the real work.

After a while.

Zhu Suisui took out some treasures from the house.

For items like the Song Dynasty Jun Kiln and the Xiaoqinlu, Zhu Suisui had an idea of ​​their value. After all, Yan Ziqing was sure of them, and he didn't just say it casually, unless there was something else going on.

These are the two things that Old Man Shou mentioned first.

It is similar to what Yan Ziqing said, but more detailed, including its year, origin, and even the production process. For example, he described the Song Dynasty Jun kiln and pigments clearly.

He stroked the two items and couldn't help saying, "You are lucky. If it were in the past, both of them could be sold at a high price. Now it depends on whether you can meet a collector in this field. If you can meet one, there is no limit to the price. Generally speaking, this small Qin furnace can be sold for at least 3,500 yuan, and your Song Dynasty Jun kiln can be sold for at least 5,000 yuan. If it is less than this, don't sell it and keep it."

Times are different now.

These values ​​may not be able to be sold.

Because everyone is short of money, they only have a few dozen dollars a month, and if you ask them to spend thousands of dollars to buy these, they will find it difficult to sell them.

This circle is still small and the country has just started to develop, so it all depends on fate.

In fact, if you really come across something you like, it is impossible to judge its value.

Old Man Shou believes that some things can be left behind.

As long as you have enough money, your business will improve naturally when you develop better in the future.

Zhu Suisui nodded and touched the small stove. "Master, so this small stove is not a Xuande stove?"

Hearing this.

Old Man Shou rolled his eyes. "Do you think the Xuande furnace is something random? You should know that in our antique circle, the Xuande furnace is a legend. The real Xuande furnace is the copper incense burner designed and built by Emperor Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Zhanji, in the third year of the Xuande reign of the Ming Dynasty. The copper used at that time was all imported from Siam. Then the Minister of Works and the craftsman Yu studied the five famous porcelains and various historical records. It took three years to make the Xuande furnace."

"In the beginning, Emperor Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty refined the red copper twelve times to ensure the quality of the incense burner. In this case, the red copper was refined less and less each time. After the whole set was finished, two-thirds of the raw materials were burned!"

"When the copper was cast, dozens of expensive metals were added. As a result, the Xuande furnace has a very good anti-oxidation ability. As long as it is properly preserved, the real Xuande furnace you see today will be the same as a new one."

Speaking of this.

Old Man Shou sighed again, "Even my father has never seen a real Xuande furnace. But according to my father's legend, our ancestors once passed down a secret book. But when it was passed to my father, the book was incomplete. There was only one saying in it that someone in the Hai family had seen a real Xuande furnace, which used wind-milled copper."

"Wind grinding copper?"

Happy Suisui year.

What kind of copper is this? I don't think I have ever heard of it before.

Old Man Shou nodded and said, "The main components of wind-milled copper are red copper and gold. Its color is purple-red. The higher the gold content, the lighter its color will be. The Xuande furnace made of this copper will have to go around it when the breeze blows, which is also called a line of sky."

I wish Sui Sui knew what a line of sky means.

Just insert a stick of incense into the incense burner, and after it is lit, even if there is wind, the incense will not be moved, and the smoke will always be a straight line.

However, Zhu Suisui only knew this situation and did not know that there really was such a stove.

No wonder the Xuande furnace is so rare.

Zhu Suisui sighed, "It would be great if this was a real Xuande furnace. I would definitely get rich."

Old Man Shou had a blank expression on his face. "Then don't count on it. I've never seen one. There were only 3,000 Xuande furnaces made. If you go to museums all over China, even if you see one with the word Xuande furnace written on it, they are all imitations. Not a single one is real."

Three thousand.

It sounds like a lot, but it is indeed difficult to preserve it intact until now.

Maybe a lot of it has been leaked out.

It is a pity that we have no chance to see such Dengfeng products.

The one in my hand is undoubtedly a fake.

Seeing the regretful look on Zhu Suisui's face, Old Man Shou said helplessly: "Your one is not bad. If I am not mistaken, it should be a replica made during the reign of Emperor Kangxi. In fact, the year of the Xuande furnace can be distinguished by the six large characters below."

For example, in the Kangxi period, the "year" in the six words "Made in the Xuande Period of the Ming Dynasty" would be written particularly long.

There will be some differences for other years.

After all, this cannot be imitated, and each dynasty has its own aesthetic.

Except for the Yongzheng official kiln which imitated the Ming Chenghua kiln, every stroke was exactly the same as the original, so it is difficult to distinguish the real from the fake, and the only way to distinguish them is from the pigments.

Zhu Suisui learned a lot from the conversation, including some knowledge about incense burners.

She listened with great interest.

In fact, Old Man Shou also saw that Zhu Susui was willing to listen. If she was unwilling, no matter how much he said, she would not think about it. But Zhu Susui was different. She really had some talent and was interesting.

Finished talking about the small piano stove.

Old Man Shou set his eyes on the rags and the calligraphy and paintings.

Both of these items were judged by Yan Ziqing to be antiques of little use.

One of them was obtained from Hai Chenyan in exchange for a bamboo tube.

green mist.

The Jun kiln pottery from the Song Dynasty also has this color, which means that its value would only be over 5,000.

The other piece of rag was picked up by Zhu Suisui for five dollars.

Purple mist.

Before Zhu Suisui, he was not sure whether it was priceless or insignificant, but after the incident with the imperial tomb in Guangzhou, he could judge that the purple mist was definitely of high value.

But what on earth is it and why is it so high?

Zhu Suisui didn't know.

Old Man Shou sighed, "I don't know what kind of luck you have. On the surface, this calligraphy and painting is just made by an ordinary painter in the Republic of China, but in fact, there is something special inside."

Upon hearing this, Zhu Suisui became excited.

She knew she must have missed something.

Now I am waiting for class to start.

Old Man Shou touched the painting. The paper used was three-layer rice paper. Generally, painters use raw rice paper, while cooked rice paper is much thicker, but its permeability is not as fast as raw rice paper.

Although this painting is made of rice paper, it is still quite good. However, people who are knowledgeable can still tell at a glance that this painting is not worth much.

It is a deliberate imitation.

The reason why Old Man Shou could see the difference in this painting was because there were too many suspicious points in it.

People who know the business won’t buy it, and people who don’t know the business won’t buy it either. It’s as if people are deliberately not allowed to buy it. When something is abnormal, there must be something wrong.

At this moment, Old Man Shou felt the thickness of the calligraphy and painting, and became more determined in his heart.

He looked at Zhu Suisui, "I plan to cut this painting in half, but I can't guarantee whether there is anything hidden inside. If I cut it in half, there will be nothing inside, and the painting will be ruined. What do you think?"