Chapter 101 Instrument Testing

"Oh, you really got it?" Liu Yufei's face was obviously a little surprised and curious, and he couldn't help but ask: "Come on, tell me what kind of mystery does those two things have, which is worthy of your satisfaction. Not to mention that tiles, just say that your piece that has been broken into several pieces and sticks back does not have a good look, and you can actually make a lot of money? For this reason, you spent 3,000 yuan. I thought you were kind-hearted and helped the old lady."

"You only know how to make money." Jia Sidao first despised Liu Yufei, and then briefly told Liu Yufei about the purpose of going to Shanghai and what the old man said. Liu Yufei was shocked and sighed. Why didn't he take a few items at that time?

"Good boy, you can do it. This is fine. It seems that your luck is indeed invincible. I am going to follow you to Henan this time. "When I thought about it, Liu Yufei slapped Jia Sidao on the shoulder and said happily, "Think about it, with your luck, coupled with my vision and strength, our trip to Henan will surely be rewarding, right?"

After looking at Jia Sidao, Liu Yufei couldn't help but smile embarrassedly when he saw that the other party seemed to be looking at him with a very strange look, and said, "Well, Brother Jia, what I said just now means is that you are still very powerful. However, compared with me, it's just a little worse than that."

As he said that, he made a little gesture with his thumb and index finger of his right hand.

It made Jia Sidao very happy.

"Okay, just your vision. If you encounter nephrite or jade or something, you can trust you once. If you encounter porcelain, I might as well believe myself." Jia Sidao said angrily.

"You can't say that if you encounter good porcelain, your vision will be empty. Just a little bit of Taoist practice you have just entered the industry may not be credible. If you really want to be foolproof, you should spend some money to use advanced instruments to conduct a systematic appraisal. The results obtained in this way are scientific and credible, and they are reassuring." Liu Yufei has his own understanding of porcelain. "Otherwise, even the so-called experts will have times of being able to get it."

"Scientific identification?" Jia Sidao asked hesitantly, "that would cost a lot, right?"

Otherwise, the appraisal fee is very cheap and the appraisal is very convenient, then it doesn’t matter if it’s a pity in the antique market. You should know that if Yuan blue and white porcelain or five famous kilns are naturally there is a systematic data base in the testing bureau. As long as you use a piece of porcelain to test, analyze various parameters and indicators, and compare them with those standard instruments, you will naturally know whether the thing is fake.

Of course, Jia Sidao's supernatural perception can also identify some of them, such as the texture of the body, but compared to advanced instruments, it is still very inferior.

Even so, Jia Sidao has a greater advantage in identifying porcelain than others.

But Jia Sidao has not been exposed to too many standard equipment so far. Thinking of what the old man said, if you want to get some results in the collection line, it is obviously not enough to just take the things you have collected. You also have to go to the museum more, read more real things, read them over and over again, especially get started more; in addition, you naturally have to go to the market more, and you can't say that you can stop going there after you have been there once. There are different things in the same market. You must learn to observe the market, read more, listen more, and buy less. You can be considered a qualified collector.

Looking back now, these words are like alarm bells, ringing in Jia Sidao's heart.

"How much money is the second best," said Liu Yufei. "You won't use ordinary porcelain for testing, right? And once you can be selected and taken there, the testing money will not matter compared to the value of the porcelain itself."

This is also the reason why the antique market is very chaotic and the water is very deep.

It’s not that the country cannot detect the authenticity of antiques, but that every antique is tested with instruments, and the energy and expenses spent are not affordable to ordinary antiques.

"It's like last year, in Chichester, England, an old man was moving to collect miscellaneous items and accidentally discovered a pair of authentic hunchbacks from the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty in China. In the end, he auctioned a high price of 760,000 pounds. If it was exchanged for RMB, how much would it cost?" Speaking of this, Liu Yufei also pointed to the information of the hunchbacks in front of him, as if he had some meaning.

Then, without waiting for Jia Sidao to reply, Liu Yufei continued: "However, you probably didn't expect that at the beginning, the old man did not expect the pair of moon-bowing bottles to be sold for much money. That's all, the old man didn't know much about moon-bowing bottles. However, an independent auctioneer's estimate of this was only between 300 and 400 pounds. Even though the experts from the auction house later made an appraisal, saying that the vases were "not the imitation that was earlier, but the authentic Chinese moon-bowing bottles". The auctioneer only started bidding for 5,500 pounds.

However, both the elderly themselves, experts and auctioneers obviously underestimated the price of the pair of hunchback bottles. After the auction started, the price was quickly pushed to more than 350,000 pounds. In the end, a London dealer bought the pair of hunchback bottles for 760,000 pounds.

Can you say that such a pair of moon-holding bottles are enough to determine the price of an expert?”

"How do you know about this? Are you really interested in porcelain?" Jia Sidao didn't care much about the British old man in the incident. If you don't say a lot of things like this, there are still some similar things. It's not very other. However, Liu Yufei suddenly became interested in porcelain, which made Jia Sidao pay more attention to it.

"What's so strange about this? I usually look at any example of someone getting rich overnight at auctions. Especially this kind of inadvertent rise to wealth. I want to keep all their prior behaviors in my mind. Maybe one day it will be my turn." Liu Yufei said arrogantly.

"Do you know the specific performance of the pair of Moon-Bearing Bottle?" Jia Sidao asked, "Or why did that British old man move? Then you go home and act according to those details. Your wish may really come true."

"This,..." Liu Yufei touched his head, and for a moment, he couldn't speak. "That pair of moon-holding bottles seemed to be in the center of the pattern of a group of children gathered in the port to welcome dragon boats. It seemed that only one of them was intact, while the other one had traces of damage and repaired after the bottleneck. The others were not impressed by them.

By the way, even the old man himself didn't know how this pair of moon-bearing bottles came from.

Experts at the auction all suspected that it was taken away from the Chinese imperial palace by Western invaders at the beginning of the last century.

As for the reason why the old man moved, he naturally needed to move into the sanatorium for physical therapy because he was sick. Before moving away, he cleaned up his house and sold some unnecessary items to make some pocket money. And this pair of moon-bearing bottles is exactly the same as many "mistakes" that the old man sorted out.

I am not that old yet, so I might as well collect more things while I am still young. When I get old and can’t walk anymore, I accidentally discovered that there are other things in my collection that I have ignored their value. I guess that is also a wonderful thing......"

As he said that, Liu Yufei showed a fascination expression. Jia Sidao could only turn his head and ignore it. However, what Liu Yufei said was not unreasonable. Even an expert would also slap his eyes when he started using antiques. Even if Liu Yufei likes jade, how many collections he has, and how good his eyesight is, when he encounters jade products, Liu Yufei did not say anything about the number of times he slaps his eyes because of his face, but Jia Sidao could take it for granted and would definitely not be missing.

As for the experience of going to Yangzhou to collect the Moyu Birthday Star last time, but not achieving the goal, there are countless.

"By the way, Brother Jia, your agate tree is still there, right?" Liu Yufei suddenly asked. Jia Sidao immediately returned a look of asking knowingly. Liu Yufei smiled embarrassedly and said, "If you want to know the specific species of the agate tree, you can take the cut fragments to the Cultural Relics Inspection Bureau to try it. Maybe you can really detect which tree it is. As for collecting, the more you know what you have collected, the more fun it will be to collect. Otherwise, if others ask in the future, you won't know what your collection is, how embarrassing it."

"That's true." Jia Sidao nodded in agreement, "However, this agate tree should belong to the fossil type. If you want to take it, you should go to a place like the Geological Research Institute."

"Hehe, it doesn't matter. I have an acquaintance at the Henan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology. How about it? Should I just take some samples to try when I go back?" Liu Yufei said with a smile. As a result, Jia Sidao was a little moved. If the whole agate tree was transported over, even if there was hope that it could detect which tree it was, Jia Sidao would not be too happy. Now it is not too troublesome to just carry some samples cut when cutting the agate tree.
Chapter completed!