Antique Dealer

Chapter 102 Liu Shi's Gathering

Qian Min was a little surprised when he heard this, but thinking about it again, Fang Hao is so young, no matter how good he is, how can he not compare to Zhu Junda's rich experience, it should be just Ma Hongfei bragging.

However, he still smiled and said, "Little brother is also an expert!"

Fang Hao smiled modestly.

After bidding farewell to Qian Min, Fang Hao originally wanted to send Ma Hongfei back, but Ma Hongfei tried his best to refuse, saying that he was sober and didn't bother Fang Hao, since there was Duan Hai'er anyway, so Fang Hao didn't insist.

After sending the two of them into the taxi, the two of them did not hurry home and walked along the street.

Shang Xiaoxuan asked worriedly: "Do you think they will break up?"

Fang Hao said: "Brother Fei has a strong self-esteem, even if this time passes, if he sees or hears about it next time, he will definitely break up."

Shang Xiaoxuan said: "I think Sister Hai'er still likes this profession more, and she probably won't change careers in a short time."

Fang Hao said: "This matter can only be coordinated by themselves."

Shang Xiaoxuan sighed lightly: "Hey, I think feelings are the cruelest thing in this world!"

Fang Hao said with a smile: "Don't think too much, I think we will grow old together in an ordinary life."

Shang Xiaoxuan blushed and glared at Fang Hao: "You are really thick-skinned!"

Fang Hao chuckled, and then talked about the previous incident: "You are quite courageous, you dared to hit that guy with a basket."

Shang Xiaoxuan also smiled: "What's the matter, I used to fight with others when I was in high school!"

"Why?" Fang Hao was surprised. In his eyes, Shang Xiaoxuan had always been very well-behaved, but he didn't expect to fight.

"You also know the situation in my family. When my eldest sister was in school, she was scolded as a wild child. It's okay, but she was bullied. After cursing, we started fighting, she was taller than me, and I won in the end!"

Seeing the proud smile on Shang Xiaoxuan's face, Fang Hao felt distressed, held Shang Xiaoxuan's hand and said, "I will be here from now on!"

Shang Xiaoxuan felt a strange feeling in her hands, her pretty face blushed, and she nodded weakly.

……

"Fang Hao, you are here." Liu Shi waved at Fang Hao.

"Why did you call me here in such a hurry?" Fang Hao was immersed in the ocean of study just now, when he was called by Liu Shi on the phone, he thought something important had happened.

Liu Shi smiled and said, "There is a party today, and I want to take you with me."

Fang Hao interrupted Liu Shi: "What does your party have to do with me?"

"Hey, did you see this?" Liu Shi patted the brocade box he carried with him.

"what?"

When Liu Shi opened it, Fang Hao found that inside the brocade box was a three-fish dish with red underglaze. It looked firm and white, with a clean glaze and pure red hair under the glaze: "From the Yongzheng period?"

Liu Shi was stunned, and gave Fang Hao a thumbs up: "Brother Hao, you are amazing, this is indeed from Yongzheng, how did you know?"

Fang Hao said: "It's very simple, you are so serious, usually what you take out is genuine. The artistic style of this plate is in line with the characteristics of the Qing Dynasty. Looking at the red hair color in the glaze, there are only three dynasties of Kang, Yong, and Qian. Only then can such a level be achieved. Among them, Emperor Yongzheng had very high requirements for porcelain, and Yongzheng's underglaze red paintings were very fine, and the main feature is that they are light and calm. The strokes of the paintings are very fine, and they are not blurred at all.

However, the underglaze red in the Kangxi period often turned black.Because at that time, the temperature control was not good.Once the temperature is high, the color will fly.Therefore, craftsmen prefer to lower the temperature, at least they will not burn a white bottle.Besides, during the Qianlong period, although underglaze red was also attached great importance to, it still did not reach the height of the Yongzheng period.On the whole, I guess it is from the Yongzheng period. "

"Excellent!" Liu Shi is now convinced by Fang Hao's vision in antiques.

Fang Hao said: "I've seen things too. What's the matter? I don't know about this party, but the antiques are worth more than whoever took them? That's too boring."

Liu Shi rubbed his nose: "It's similar to what you think, just take some antiques for everyone to taste, and then exchange ideas. Originally, I didn't want to go to this kind of party, but my dad forced me to go, saying yes You can accumulate some contacts. You also know that I don’t know much about antiques, so I can only ask you to go with me, so please help me.”

As he spoke, he arched and bowed.

Fang Hao said with a smile: "Okay, let's go together, just let me see how many good things there are."

Seeing Fang Hao's promise, Liu Shi suddenly smiled, and then said: "Let's wait here for a while, and my dad's driver will pick us up later."

After a while, the driver arrived in a Mercedes-Benz, and then took the two of them to the meeting place. To Fang Hao's surprise, this was the club where Xing Shu held the salon before.

After getting out of the car, Liu Shi took Fang Hao to a middle hall, maybe they came early and there were not many people in the hall.

Liu Shi looked around and saw a few acquaintances, so he took Fang Hao over to say hello.

"This one is a bit awkward."

"My classmate Fang Hao." Liu Shi introduced the two parties. The person who spoke was Zhang Jing, who had just graduated from a foreign university with a master's degree. Relying on his family relationship, he founded a technology company, mainly doing business in the field of big data.

Zhang Jing knew that Liu Shi was still in school, so he just greeted Fang Hao without asking any further questions.

Liu Shi looked at the booth on one side: "There is a bronze vessel over there, who brought it?"

Zhang Jing said: "It was brought by Liang Xuanyi, said to be from the late Shang Dynasty, and worth tens of millions."

Liu Shi was a little speechless: "No way, he dared to bring over tens of millions of bronze wares. He is really not afraid of spreading the word. Someone will trouble him?"

Zhang Jing chuckled: "It's not like you don't know his character, and who knows whether the bronze vessel is real or not."

Both Liu Shi and Fang Hao were curious about the bronze ware, so they greeted Zhang Jing and walked to the booth.

When Fang Hao went there, he found that it was a bronze vessel, which was a kind of wine vessel in ancient times.It is more common in the late Shang Dynasty to the middle Spring and Autumn Period. "The Book of Songs · Zhou Nan · Juan Er" sang: "My aunt drinks that golden scorpion, and I will never cherish it forever." Among them, the golden scorpion, that is, the bronze scorpion, is mostly made by the lost wax method.Generally, there are two types: square and round. Fang 罍 is more common in the late Shang Dynasty, while round 罍 extends from the Shang to the early Zhou.

The cross-section of this bronze shackle is square, with a square mouth and straight neck, curved shoulders and a bulging belly, and square feet that are set aside.Both sides of the shoulders are decorated with animal heads and ears, which stand abruptly in the air; the front and back are decorated with high-relief animal heads on the top, and a beast head is placed on the bottom of the abdomen.

It is said that the quantity of Fang Zhen is extremely rare, and there are only a few pieces in existence.It is worth noting that there is an inscription pattern engraved on the inner edge of the mouth, which is undoubtedly the family emblem.

The family emblem is also called "clan inscription", which is a pattern expressing the name of the clan. Guo Moruo called it "the family emblem of the engraving system".

The inscriptions began with single-character family emblems. There were few inscriptions on bronzes before the mid-Shang Dynasty, and one-character or family emblem-like inscriptions appeared at the beginning of the middle period.Later, it was simplified and refined into characters, and the number of characters gradually increased. By the Western Zhou Dynasty, there were dozens to hundreds of characters, and there were even long inscriptions of two to three hundred characters in the middle of the Western Zhou Dynasty.

Therefore, even if there is only one inscription pattern engraved, the status of this bronze 罍 at that time was very important.

(End of this chapter)