Play treasure master

Chapter 424
"Understood." Yu Yao smiled, "But if you want to buy it or not, you have to look at it first. In this way, if you don't worry, just hold me in your hand and give me two or three minutes."

"My surname is Li, what's your surname?" The middle-aged man hesitated and did not respond immediately.

"My surname is Yu, and I'm from Dongjiang."

The middle-aged man thought for a while, "You know Qingtian, right?"

Yu Yao nodded, "If I'm not mistaken, what you have in your hand is Fengmenqing and Wutangdong."

"Expert!" The middle-aged man asked again, "What's the year?"

"I can't really see it from a distance, but I probably can't escape to the Republic of China in the late Qing Dynasty."

Yu Yao couldn't tell the truth, but he couldn't say it was a modern product either, the patina was hanging there!

The middle-aged man frowned, "So shallow?"

"I said it's not real, but if you look closely, you may get a better understanding."

"it is good."

The middle-aged man finally took out the brocade box again and took out the seal. However, he really listened to Yu Yao's advice and refused to let him use it. Instead, he showed it to Yu Yao himself.

He first grasped the upper part tightly, and showed the bottom seal to Yu Yao.

After Yu Yao looked at it for a while, he recognized the content of the printed text.

Yangwen seal script: Shun Ju.

No wonder the old man is not interested!
Shunju is the character of Qian Xuan, a great painter in the late Song Dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty.Moreover, this seal has appeared in many works handed down by Qian Xuan.

Qian Xuan is from Wuxing, Zhejiang Province, not far from Shao City.Qian Xuan's greatest achievement is landscape painting, and he also dabbled in flower and bird figures, which had a great influence on the painting circle of Yuan Dynasty, and he is known as the first of the "Eight Talents of Wu Xing". Among the "Eight Talents of Wu Xing", there is another person named Zhao Mengfu.

First of all, judging from the age of Qian Xuan's life, there is no actual seal of Fengmenqing handed down and discovered.

Furthermore, this "Shunju" seal in Yangwen has appeared more than once in Qian Xuan's works collected in the Forbidden City and some large museums.In this way, it is not difficult to imitate the printed text.As for the seal itself that bears the printed text, it is easy to say, because this seal has long been lost, and there is no exact record of its specific shape.

In addition, during the period of the late Song and early Yuan Dynasties, there were almost no such three-dimensional animal buttons in private seals.

Therefore, after the old man saw it, he should have concluded that the "Shunju" seal of Fengmenqing was a fake.

Eyesight makes a difference after all.

From Yu Yao's point of view, the fact that no real object has been found doesn't mean it hasn't appeared.

The thick paste of this seal does not seem to be made later.However, the printed text is consistent with the prints in the handed down works. To determine whether it is a fake, you only need to carefully check the font, knife work, traces, ink pad residue, etc.

As for the three-dimensional lion-shaped animal button, the knife method is simple and the shape is cute. There are few knives used for decoration, but only a few knives are sophisticated and sharp.Moreover, the knife marks and grinding marks are consistent with the patina of the animal body, so it is definitely not a copy of later generations.

Therefore, Yu Yao concluded that this is an ancient seal from the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty!Combined with the printed text, it can be further determined that it is Qian Xuan's private seal!

The display of the middle-aged people is done step by step, first is the seal, then the lion-shaped animal button, and then the three-dimensional vertical surface.

After reading the printed text and the lion-shaped animal button, Yu Yao can already judge that this three-dimensional vertical surface is plain and without lines, so Yu Yao can just simply look at it.

Unexpectedly, one side of the seal had four vertical sides, after seeing three sides, when the middle-aged man showed the last side, Yu Yao unexpectedly discovered that this side was near the middle of the lion button, and four small characters were engraved vertically!
Generally speaking, the inscriptions on places other than the printed text of the seal are engraved in Yin, directly under the knife.This Yang engraving, on the one hand, takes too much effort, and on the other hand, it needs to shovel out a "bottom", which will have obvious unsightly potholes.

Moreover, judging from the patina and traces between the characters, the four small characters engraved vertically are not as long as the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty!It's really like what he said, more like the work added after the Republic of China period!
However, when Yu Yao saw these four words, although he tried his best to control them, his expression changed obviously!
Because these four words are: the best kindness is like water.

Others see it as ordinary, but they can't stand it. Yu Yao suddenly thought of how good the word "water" is!
Not only because of the word "Shangshan", he thought of He Shangshan; but also because Shangguan Yu once told Yu Yao that he got a list from He Yizhuo, on which were famous ancient paintings that He Shangshan had imitated!

Among them, most of them are painted by one person, but there are only three paintings by Qian Xuan!

It is true that Qian Xuan is a generation of masters, but which one in that list is not a master?Moreover, there are people whose names are far greater than Qian Xuan, such as Dong Yuan, and there is only one picture!
This cannot but make Yu Yao think of it.

It is possible that He Shangshan likes Qianxuan very much, and is also good at imitating Qianxuan.

On this basis, if there is an authentic handed down handed down by Qian Xuan on hand, once it lands on a high imitation painting, it will be even more difficult to distinguish the authenticity from the fake!

That's why the three paintings by Qian Xuan were imitated!

Moreover, the four characters "Supreme Goodness Ruo Shui" engraved on the sun are also consistent in terms of age.

However, just because it is a Yang engraving and not a Yin engraving, Yu Yao also speculates that He Shangshan did not engrave characters for the purpose of engraving; it was because this part of the seal may have been damaged when he got it, so he did it like this "Destructive trimming" also just fit into my favorite.

Of course, this is just Yu Yao's guess.However, the old man must have noticed this too. Yang engravings revealed more identification points than Yin engravings. He determined that the inscriptions of the Republic of China period made him further believe that this was an imitation of the Republic of China period.

Still the same sentence, Louer is not so easy to pick up, a slight loss can be a thousand miles away.

If this seal was originally owned by He Shangshan, after it was lost from his hands, it passed through countless hands, but was "let go" time and time again.

"Have you seen it?" The middle-aged man couldn't help reminding Yu Yao when he saw that he was a little lost in thought.

"Oh, watch it." Yu Yao took the opportunity to point to "Shang Shan Ruo Shui", "This place can't even reach the Qing Dynasty."

The middle-aged man didn't speak, but his fat face trembled slightly.

This seal, the place Yu Yao mentioned, is also the place that the previous customers have seen for the longest time, and it should also be the place that they care about the most.

Old Qi's words came to the mind of the middle-aged man again. He slowly put the seal into the brocade box, then put it on the table, and pressed it with one hand, "Now, what exactly are you saying?"

"The craftsmanship is pretty good." Yu Yao smiled slightly, "I still want it, the key is the price."

When he said "craftsmanship", he gestured with both hands casually, but in the eyes of middle-aged people, it naturally meant "imitation".

The middle-aged man pondered, and stretched out three fingers, "This is the number when I came here, you can give it to me!"

"I'll double it for you." Yu Yao said directly without asking what the three fingers meant.

Now the ball was kicked to the middle-aged man again.He originally wanted to be sloppy, but Yu Yao didn't like it!Now he can only report the actual amount of money, otherwise, Yu Yao said that if it is doubled by thirty or three hundred, he would be very uncomfortable.

(End of this chapter)