Chapter 655

In the three colors of Tang Dynasty, there are many kinds of camel models, such as Xiaotian camel, which is to raise its head up and put on the shape of a long roar, as well as Hu people riding a camel, rhinoceros watching the moon and so on.

In a word, the more complex and lifelike the modeling is, the more expensive it is. Because of the complexity of modeling, it is bound to increase the difficulty of sculpture, so it is rare in the market. Once it appears, the price will be much higher than that of ordinary pottery.

Ma laocai's is a tri colored figurine of Hu people riding camels in Tang Dynasty. Its camels stand on the rectangular floor with their eyes wide open and their heads raised. The hump stands up with a large animal face backpack. In addition, there is a Hu people sitting on the backpack, but the Hu people's arm is broken. It looks like they have gone through vicissitudes.

Part of the camel's body was originally painted with red, black and tawny colors, but it was not well preserved. Now it has fallen off.

The camel's posture, muscle and other aspects of the performance are very wonderful, in addition, Hu people's posture and movements are also very good. How can such a thing be wrong? This is a very strange thing for Ma laocai and his son.

Chuchen said with a smile, "it's not all wrong. It's both true and false."

"True or false? What is true and what is false? " Ma laocai and his son asked in unison.

Chu Chen pointed to the Hu people on the camels and said, "this Hu people figurine is made later. The camels are real."

"How could that be?" Ma laocai and his son said in a daze.

"If you look closely, you can see that this figurine is made of glue and clay, and then made of chemical agents," Chu Chen said. In order to prove the authenticity of this thing, the counterfeiter also made a special flaw, so that this person's arm was broken. Because of the defect, it looked more like an old thing. If you don't believe it, you can use blisters all night. The Hu people will certainly melt. "

Listen to Chu Chen say so, Ma laocai quickly let Ma Xiaoqiang take a magnifying glass, and then carefully observe, but the more you look, the more pale your face is.

Director Jin asked strangely: "Chu Shao, is the counterfeiter a little boring? How much money can he make by adding a villain to such trouble?"

Chuchen said with a smile, "don't underestimate this figurine. If you have one more Figurine, the price will rise several times."

"It's impossible, isn't it?" Director Jin said something incredible.

Chu Chen said: "because there are not many tricolor figurines with knights, which are rare and valuable, the value is much higher. For example, if the tricolor of Tang Dynasty doesn't have the terracotta figurines of Hu people, it will be about 50000 at most. With the terracotta figurines of Hu people, the better market can sell to about 160000!"

"It's so different!" When he heard the price given by Chu Chen, director Jin was surprised. He also understood the mind of the counterfeiter. The cost of adding a villain is very low, but the price can be multiplied several times. For such a good thing, some people with bad intentions will certainly do it.

To tell you the truth, this method is quite common in the antique industry. People in the circle call it "transplanting flowers and grafting trees". I don't know if some friends who often visit the antique market have found that in today's antique market, the complete bowl bottom and bottle bottom of high antique porcelain are quite popular. Why?

The reason is very simple. Many counterfeiters buy back the bottom of the porcelain and then attach a fake body to it. This is called "back to bottom" in porcelain. Nowadays, there are a lot of fake antiques and porcelains in the market. Many of the so-called old kilns use this technique.

The bottom foot is real, the top is fake. Many fake experts and half bottles of vinegar are used to looking at porcelain. First, they turn it over and have a look at the bottom. When they look at the money, they are right, and when they knock it, they are right too. Then they can tell that it is true, but they don't know that it is true.

Of course, there are some collectors who buy things back and then take them to the test center for identification. Because the bottom is true, the test results must also be true. The results are then sent to experts to help him identify them. The experts say that the things are fake, but he is not willing to. This kind of person Chu Chen met is not one or two.

Therefore, I would like to advise friends who like to collect here that they must identify more in this aspect.

To get back to the point, Ma laocai's Terracotta horse riding on a camel is very clever. The camel is real. Only the terracotta horse riding is fake. However, the fake terracotta horse riding is very lifelike, which is quite the style of the Tang Dynasty. Moreover, the counterfeiter has made a remnant. It is easy for people to relax their vigilance psychologically. It is also normal for some people who are not careful to be deceived thing.

After looking at the figurines carefully, Ma laocai collected them in silence. The matter was very clear, but he didn't want to believe it. However, if he really soaked things in water for a night, as Chu Chen said, he was reluctant to give up. If he really soaked the figurines, the loss would be great.

Now, he can sell it to other people like jade. Maybe he will make a lot of money by then. If he bubbles, he will lose all his money.

After a while, chuchen asked with a smile, "Mr. Ma, I heard that your collection is still very rich. You don't want me to take a pen holder back, do you?"

Mingmazi also looked discontented and said: "that's right, Lao Ma, I won't tell you that two of your three things are fake. We Chu Shao came all the way from the capital, so you let Chu Shao only see a penholder. That's too much to say!"Ma laocai was not embarrassed when he heard that he was embarrassed, but he felt too depressed. In fact, these three things were carefully selected by Chu Chen. If they are all genuine products, the market value should be between 500000 and 600000. Even if Chu Chen spent 400000 to buy them, the money would be enough for his future life.

However, Ma laocai did not expect that two of the three things were fake, leaving only the pen holder with the lowest value, which made him feel depressed and want to vomit blood.

Now that his goal has not been achieved, even if Chu Chen and Ming Mazi do not say, he will take things out. However, he had some difficulties in which one to choose, the enamel snuff bottle in the reign of Emperor Qianlong? hate to part with or use! The character of Fu Shan? hate to part with or use! Blue and white bowls in the reign of Emperor Kangxi? Still reluctant!

"Ah! The world is changing too fast. How can this young man have such good eyesight that it's hard to sell high-end imitations? Are the people in the capital powerful? Get it! It's better to be in place at one time! "

"Old horse, what are you going to do? Give me a letter quickly!" Ming pockmarked beside a strong urge.

Ma laocai came back and said, "I have a pair of Qing Dynasty huanghuali cabinets at home. Chu Shao, are you interested?"

Huanghuali is a very popular item in the antique industry. Of course, Chu Chen is not interested in it, so he nodded and said, "please take me there quickly, Mr. Ma!"

"OK, you come with me..."

With that, Ma Xiaoqiang pushed Ma laocai to a storage room.

Ma Xiaoqiang opened the door with the key, then pressed the light switch in the storage room, and then invited Chu Chen and others in.

The room is full of furniture, but it doesn't look very good. Ma laocai explained with a smile: "I didn't do much furniture business before. On the one hand, it occupied too much space. On the other hand, it was better furniture. The capital was too much. The hardwood was only the huanghuali cabinet, and the others were all cork furniture. If Chu Shao liked it, I could sell it to you cheaper ！”

Furniture in the antique market can be divided into two categories: cork and hardwood. But how do you tell cork from hardwood? This is a problem that has been bothering us all the time.

In fact, "cork" and "hardwood" are not based on the hardness of wood. Hardwood includes red sandalwood, yellow pear, mahogany, chicken wing wood, Hercules, ebony and so on. Cork, also known as "firewood", includes nanmu, beech, cypress, walnut and so on.

The hard and soft furniture here is relatively speaking, a considerable part of cork furniture or firewood furniture is very hard.

Hardwood furniture, generally speaking, is not the name of science, it is a name of literature, or a name of sociology, which corresponds to no tree. The name is "red sandalwood", "huanghuali", "mahogany" and other hardwood, no tree is called red sandalwood, no tree is called huanghuali, no tree is called mangrove.

And cork furniture is the name of science, it can find the corresponding tree. For example, walnut furniture in the North has walnut, elm furniture has elm, nanmu furniture in the South has nanmu, beech furniture has beech, and gingko furniture has gingko. Trees can be found in all of them. It's a scientific term.

When you see this, you should feel a little strange. Why?

In fact, the truth is very simple. This is because all the hardwood furniture materials in our country are imported from outside except Huanghua pear, which is produced in Hainan.

Before we saw the wood, we didn't see the whole picture of the tree, only the trunk, so it didn't have its inherent name, so we gave it another name, which is a literary name. Literary names usually sound good, such as red sandalwood, which means red spirit.

Later, the custom of calling the wood transported in from outside as "hardwood" and the local wood as "firewood" was formed. Later, "firewood" was also known as "cork", which formed the two kinds of division of "cork" and "hardwood" in the furniture market.

In the antique industry, many people don't really understand cork furniture. They generally think it's not as valuable as hardwood. This seems reasonable, in fact, because do not really understand the wrong understanding of cork furniture.

Red sandalwood, yellow sandalwood that is needless to say, the current market situation, small and general are often tens of thousands, larger, better workmanship, that is tens of millions, which do antique do not want to spend some money to buy a yellow sandalwood, red sandalwood furniture, pick a bargain?