In recent years, there has been an endless stream of news about "cultural relics fraud", such as the "Northern Wei Pottery Figurine Incident", the fake pottery figurines made by Henan villager Gao Shuiwang actually deceived the experts of the National Museum of China, so that the experts spent 900,000 yuan of unjust money; for example, the "2.4 billion golden jade clothes incident", the newly Chinese businessman Xie Genrong spent 20,000 yuan to forge the "golden jade clothes", which was actually valued at 2.4 billion yuan by Yang Boda, former vice president of the Palace Museum, and Xie Genrong made a lot of money.
The emergence of these news not only hit the people's sense of trust in the so-called "experts", but also made some people have the psychology of "imitating the fake", such as the protagonist in today's story, who spent more than 500,000 yuan to create a fake, did not expect to sell 2.6 million yuan on the transfer, and the buyer then sold 220 million yuan, what is the matter?
The story begins in 2009, his name is Zhao Jun, is the owner of a jade shop in Pizhou City, Jiangsu Province, over the years, he has accumulated a variety of jade weighing 1 ton, these jades are good and bad, the quality is high and low, if you sell them separately, you can also earn, but you can not earn enough, so this business-minded boss decided - use them to make a big vote.
So he found 22 workers, and invited Wang Rumian, the director of the former Pizhou Jade Carving Factory, to do guidance, and spent more than 7 months assembling these jade tools into a set of "dressers" (including a jade stool), which at first glance is very exquisite and domineering, and can definitely sell for a good price.
Zhao Jun immediately spread the news of the "jade dresser", many bosses came to visit, many of them directly offered the price, hoping to buy this dresser, but Zhao Jun was not very satisfied with these prices, until a boss Wang from Hebei offered a sky-high price of 2.6 million yuan, Zhao Jun was relieved. However, Zhao Jun honestly told Boss Wang at that time that this was not a real antique, but a "beautiful imitation" they created, Boss Wang did not care much, gave money and left, Zhao Jun did not know what he would do with this dresser, anyway, he made more than 1 million yuan after settling the settlement, and his heart was very beautiful.
Speaking of this boss Wang, although he knew that this set of "jade dressers" was a handicraft, he still directly found Mr. Zhou Nanquan, a famous jade appraisal expert and researcher at the Palace Museum, and asked him to identify this set of "jade dressers". When Mr. Zhou Nanquan saw this huge and exquisite dresser, he immediately nodded his head, and then he identified it from the texture, origin, color, craftsmanship, ornamentation, modeling and other aspects of the dresser, and thought that it was genuine.
Zhou Nanquan immediately issued an appraisal certificate for Boss Wang, which read: "The quality is crystal clear and warm, there is a quaint Qin color and pulp... The craftsmanship is exquisite, the body pattern is vivid and magical, the shape is rare, and it has important collection and research value. And it was determined that the date of production of this product was the Han Dynasty, and named it "Han Dynasty Qinghuang jade dragon and phoenix pattern dressing table", which was very domineering.
Boss Wang took his treasure and appraisal certificate and left satisfactorily, and a few months later, Boss Wang sent it to the "2011 Ancient Jade Auction" held by Beijing Zhongjia International Auction Co., Ltd., and was finally won at a sky-high price of 220 million yuan, setting a record for the highest jade auction that year, shocking people at home and abroad.
Excited netizens immediately inquired about the relevant information of the "Han Dynasty Qinghuang jade dragon phoenix pattern dressing table", but everyone immediately found a big problem - the Han Dynasty people were sitting on the floor, and even the stool was not invented, is this Han Dynasty jade stool funny?
As soon as this remark came out, it immediately triggered a hot discussion on the Internet, and even Shao Xiaofeng, a professor at Nanjing Forestry University who has studied ancient furniture, also stood up and said: "It is impossible for the Han Dynasty to have such a dresser and stool." Subsequently, the owner of Zhao Jun of the jade shop was quickly "found" out, and he also happily admitted that the "Han Dynasty Qinghuang Jade Dragon phoenix pattern dressing table" was from his hand.
Overnight, the reputation of China's "treasure experts" once again fell to the bottom, and the credibility of the cultural relics appreciation team was seriously damaged. But Mr. Zhou Nanquan still insisted that his appraisal was not wrong, and Yao Zheng, director of the Jade Committee of the China Collectors Association, stood up and posted: The Han Dynasty jade stool is indeed a "national treasure that shakes the world", 220 million are cheap, it is a national treasure.
What do you think about that?