"Master, Master Ding and his proud disciple Sun Xiaochuan were all fired just now!" Shen Ruyue said.
"What?" Gao Yuanshan was shocked.
Shen Ruyue hurriedly walked to him and whispered what had just happened.
After hearing this, Gao Yuanshan's expression changed rapidly, and he looked at Ye Zhiqiu in shock.
"Old Ding, this is too unreliable! This is sixteen million! After playing with antiques all your life, you can't even tell whether they are genuine or not?"
Gao Yuanshan was both angry and vaguely felt sorry for Master Ding.
Master Ding has certain talents, but he is arrogant and cannot listen to the slightest advice from others. Otherwise, his treasure appraisal ability will never be inferior to his own.
Since he was expelled from Qingya Zhai, it won't take long for word to spread throughout the antique world of Jianghai City.
The antique circle is either big or small. Even if those who open antique shops or privately collect antiques do not know each other, they must have heard each other's names through middlemen.
Master Ding suddenly thought that no one would dare to come to him to appraise treasures again in Jianghai City.
"Little friend Zhiqiu, we will be traveling together from now on!" Gao Yuanshan came over and took the initiative to hold Ye Zhiqiu's hand.
Ye Zhiqiu smiled and said: "Master Gao, you are kidding me! I am just in name, I really need you to be in charge! I was just lucky just now, and I will learn more from you in the future!"
"Senior, please give me some advice!"
Gao Yuanshan laughed: "It's easy to talk! It's easy to talk! Let's learn from each other and make progress together!"
"Little friend Zhiqiu, please accompany me to the second floor to take a look, and then help us check to see if there are any fakes!"
Gao Yuanshan took Ye Zhiqiu's hand and walked upstairs.
Ye Zhiqiu frowned secretly. He really didn't want to wade into this muddy water, but seeing that Gao Yuanshan sincerely asked for advice, he really couldn't refuse.
The two of them went upstairs, and the first thing they saw was a dark purple Xuande stove on the shelf.
The two ears of Xuande Lu are gone, and its appearance is covered with dense scratches.
Ye Zhiqiu stretched out his hand and gently picked up the Xuande stove, with the words "Xuande Year of the Ming Dynasty" written in regular script on the bottom.
"This Xuande stove was found under a very secluded stall the year before last when the young master and I were wandering around Panjiayuan in the capital!"
"At that time, everyone thought it was fake! I tested it repeatedly and found it to be real! I won 38 million!"
"After I came back, I did thermoluminescence and molecular identification of the artifact, and it was indeed authentic!"
"Now the price of Xuande Furnace has risen, and the price has reached 46 million this year!"
Gao Yuanshan kept talking, with an excited smile on his face. He was very satisfied with his transaction.
Ye Zhiqiu put the Xuande stove back. He concentrated his attention and felt a cool breath flowing into his eyes, making them feel unusually comfortable.
Suddenly, a gray mist rose in front of his eyes.
"Fake?" Ye Zhiqiu was shocked.
You can never go wrong with the clairvoyant eye!
The Xuande stove worth 30 to 40 million yuan turned out to be a fake!
Unexpectedly, Master Gao also had his eyes pierced!
Ye Zhiqiu glanced at the distant mountains beside him without trace. Although there was a huge wave in his heart, his expression did not change at all.
"Little friend Zhiqiu, how is your appraisal going? Is it true or false?" Gao Yuanshan turned his head and looked at Ye Zhiqiu with a smile.
He was slightly surprised. When others appraised antiques, at least they had to carry simple equipment such as a special magnifying glass and a strong flashlight. Although he couldn't guarantee it, he felt somewhat confident.
But Ye Zhiqiu was able to make a conclusion just by looking at it with his naked eyes and touching it with his hand, which was really unbelievable.
He knows that antique appraisal, like traditional Chinese medicine, also has four steps: "look, smell, ask, and feel."
Observation is to observe the external shape, color, preservation of antiques, etc.
Smell, most antiques are ancient funerary objects. They are buried underground all year round and are corroded by water, soil, air, etc., and have a special smell.
Even some heirlooms that have been circulated on the market naturally acquire a special aura after people have been in contact with them for a long time.
These extremely slight odors can only be smelled by those who are truly authenticated.
To ask, of course, is to ask the seller about the origin and inheritance of the antique. This is the simplest way to identify it. If it is really an object that has been passed down from a large family for hundreds or thousands of years in history, even if it is unreasonable, because of the celebrity effect, the value will definitely increase. Dozens or hundreds of times.
Cutting means touching it with your hands. The craftsmanship of each era is different, and the materials used to make the utensils are different, giving people a completely different feel.
These four steps may seem simple, but they have been lost.
Today's appraisers only stay at the preliminary "looking" stage. With touch and some advanced instruments, they can basically detect authenticity.
If there is any appraiser who can smell the smell of artifacts, he can definitely be called a god, and everyone will worship him.
"Could it be that Ye Zhiqiu has already mastered the profound treasure appraisal technique of 'looking, hearing, asking, and guessing'?"
Master Gao muttered in his heart, then shook his head and smiled to himself.
"How is it possible? Not to mention that this treasure appraisal technique has been lost. Even if it has not been lost, how can Ye Zhiqiu learn it at such a young age?"
"Little friend Zhiqiu, it doesn't matter. If you think it's fake, you can just say it! I'll test it again!" Gao Yuanshan said with a smile.
Ye Zhiqiu smiled slightly: "Master Gao, you are making things difficult for me!"
"I made it very clear downstairs just now. These two misses and the previous discovery that the Jade Pig Dragon was fake were just pure luck!"
“I’m new to antiques and I don’t know how to tell the authenticity!”
Ye Zhiqiu smiled.
"However, I heard that the Xuande furnace is the first bronze vessel made of brass in the history of our country!"
"Emperor Xuande personally supervised this, which is very rare in history!"
"And I even heard that that batch of Xuande furnaces produced a total of 3,000 incense burners!"
Gao Yuanshan nodded.
"Some documents say there are only three thousand, and some records say five thousand. Although the data is slightly different, it is definitely not many!"
Ye Zhiqiu said: "It is said that after Emperor Xuande stopped casting, the officials and craftsmen who were originally responsible for casting still used the original drawings to make imitations."
"Private antique dealers are also counterfeiting."
"There are countless imitations that are comparable to those genuine Xuande furnaces, and authoritative experts cannot tell the authenticity. Therefore, although there are countless Xuande furnaces at home and abroad, none of them are recognized by everyone as genuine."
"It is precisely because of this that the auction price of Xuande stoves in the international market is also extremely low, far lower than other metal objects."
Gao Yuanshan nodded and said: "Yes! The Xuande stove is a treasure of our nation, and it pioneered the use of copper to make incense burners. However, because there are many counterfeiters in later generations, they can completely confuse the fake with the real one, so that it cannot be sold at a good price! It really shouldn't be ah!"
