Chapter 1372 The Four Vajra
The Crouching Tiger Arhat is behind the pine, leaning on the pine tree with his waist, and is resting contentedly. Under him, a tiger is curled up like a big cat. At his feet, his expression was even a bit flattering.
One person and one tiger are drawn with fine brushwork, including the Arhat's clothes, shoes and socks, and the tiger's claws, teeth and beards. Each stroke is extremely delicate. The fine brushstrokes in this painting are actually It has become an extraordinary means of highlighting characters, just like the portraits under a fixed-focus lens. Both the close and distant views are partially blurred, making the delicate and clear portraits more prominent.
"It's amazing." Zhou Zhi flipped through the pages of the album and found that Shi Tao's approach to every painting was the same. The flowers, trees, clouds and mountains in the near and distant views, and the Yanluo River and rocks were all painted freely, and Characters and animals are all depicted with fine brushwork. The combination of the two makes the picture richer, more elegant and infinitely charming: "No wonder Wu Hufan commented that the finer the Shitao landscape, the more wonderful it is, while the people The best things are better than the mountains and rivers! "
"It's a pity that most people in later generations think that freehand brushwork means being willful and careless. They don't know what "dancing in shackles" means and what it means to "follow one's heart without prejudgment." '." Qi Lao said with a smile: "That's why Wu Hufan went on to say that it is really wrong for those who learn from stone masters to seek it from violence. "
In fact, there is basically no doubt about the authenticity of things that have been appraised by Qi Lao and Wang Lao, but Zhou Zhi's view is relatively rough.
Although it has not entered the inner palace and has been circulated in private, it still has the seals of Fang Shishu and Ming Jian on it.
As we have discussed before, Fang Shishu was a relatively famous painter during the Qianlong period. Cui Ruzhuo had his paintings and was very familiar with his seals, so he picked up a big leak from a collector in the island country.
Ming Jian, Zhou Zhi and Cui Ruzhuo did not know each other. According to the introduction of the two elders, he was a monk, calligrapher and painter during the Daoguang period. He became a monk in Jiuhua Mountain and called himself "Jigu". There is his postscript on the back of the album. ——
"The picture of Five Hundred Arhats painted by Master Shi Tao in Jingting Mountain in his early years took several years and was refined throughout his life by Taoist Shi. In the twelfth lunar month of the Gengxu year, Jigu Mingjian inscribed it."
At the end of the album, there is a piece of letterhead, which is written with a brush, "No imperial seal, no famous minister's seal, Taoist Xiaoshi, Zen Master Mingjian, seems to be the only person who can embrace this treasure. The seventeenth year of Meiji."
There is a seal behind it with the two-character seal script "Xiangxue" on it.
"Fujita Denzaburo? He also made a mistake?!" Zhou Zhi couldn't help laughing: "The collectors in this island country are really one after another...honest! The collection that can escape from his hands will not be able to escape. Easy.”
“Densaburo Fujita and Eiichi Anzhai have similar styles. They are both famous for buying money regardless of price. If it is regarded as genuine, then replacing it is just like dirt." Mr. Wang shook his head: "The main character is a tyrant, and it is precisely because of this that they have accumulated countless treasures."
" Can you recognize his seal handwriting?" Cui Ruzhuo was stunned again: "Is this also common knowledge in the collection world?"
"Hehehehe..." The remaining people laughed, and Mr. Ma said: "The four great Vajras of the island country, how come the collecting community doesn't know about them?"
"The four great kings of the island country" Ma Wei said "King Kong" actually refers to four wealthy collectors from the island country who have collected a large number of precious cultural relics from China.
The first one is Sakamoto Goro. This is a serious colleague. He is an antique dealer by profession and a part-time collector.
Sakamoto Goro is very passionate about collecting Chinese antiques and art. He started as an ordinary little person and eventually developed into the founder of the most influential antique exchange meeting "Fu Yan Tang" in the island country. It can be said that he has been a leader all the way. Riding on the rising value of Chinese cultural relics.
The chicken vat cup is his representative and important collection.
The second one is the Fujita family, whose founder is Denzaburo Fujita. He and his son founded the Fujita Museum of Art, which is one of the most prestigious private art museums in Japan.
Densaburo Fujita was an important industrialist in the modern history of the island country. He was a wealthy businessman in the brewing industry. After participating in the overthrow of the Reform Movement, he became an important minister of the Reform and gained huge wealth in many industries such as mining and securities.
He is also a lover of East Asian traditional art and spends huge sums of money to collect national treasures from China and Japan. He is known for being quick and ruthless when purchasing cultural relics, and almost never asks the price. The famous Yaobian Tenmoku tea bowl is an important collection of the Fujita Museum of Art.
The third person is Linyushanren, whose collection includes kilns in the north and south, and is known as the most comprehensive private collection of Song porcelain.
The black-glazed partridge-spotted bowl from the Ding kiln, the azure-glazed plate from the Jun kiln, and the oil-dropped Tianmu tea bowl from the Jian kiln are all remarkable collections.
The fourth one is Eiichi Anzhai, a famous second-generation rich man. His father also saw that this kid was not a business material, so he actually did not designate him as his successor. However, by mistake, after his father passed away, he took over the Anzhai industry.
He was indeed consistent, leaving the management of the industry entirely to professional managers, and devoted himself wholeheartedly to the collection of ceramics.
He has only one standard for collecting: beauty. He despises the official kilns of the Qing Dynasty the most. He travels to major auctions all year round and uses the surplus in his company's accounts to buy ceramics.
The Southern Song Dynasty oil-drop Tenmu tea bowl, Longquan flying celadon, Ru kiln narcissus basin, and Southern Song Dynasty Jizhou Konoha Tianmu bowl, which are classified as national treasures in Japan, are all in his collection.
In the end, the "taste of home comfort" that is talked about by islanders was formed.
These collectors all have one thing in common, which is their special preference for Song porcelain.
The ones with the richest collections are undoubtedly Fujita and Anzai.
However, in the eyes of ordinary people, these people are all great collectors and big shots, but here in Zhou Zhi, they are also ordinary people.
Because Zhou Zhi and Ma Ye have dealt with two of the "four great kings", Anzhai and Sakamoto.
Zhou Zhi had just finished the college entrance examination and had not even received the admission notice, so he went to Hong Kong to participate in an appraisal meeting hosted by Lin Wanqiu, and it was identified that "Dainikkyo·Zhenyan Menzhu Xinpin" was written by An Hai, a calligrapher from the island nation. It is authentic and has been recognized by Anzhai and Sakamoto with detailed and reasonable appraisal opinions.
This triggered a fierce competition among all parties for the "Dainikkei·Zhenyan Menzhu Xinpin" at the auction, which reduced the number of competitors for the return of "Chunhua Pavilion Post" to the country, and finally successfully let the Chinese representative Take it.
Overall, after Zhou Zhi’s brief interaction with Eiichi Anzhai and Goro Sakamoto, he actually had a feeling of “nouveau riche” about them, and his impression was average.
First, when appraising the porcelain, the two of them lacked knowledge about the dragon pattern on Chinese porcelain and did not recognize the "Yinglong pattern" on the blue and white porcelain. Zhou Zhishang, who was a high school student at the time, was A lesson.
When Zhou Zhi identified the authenticity of the Dainikake, there was a fight at the auction. Because the two had not been able to raise enough funds before, An Zhi made things difficult for Zhou Zhi to identify his qualifications and participate in the auction. , to buy time to raise funds domestically.
In the end, he used words to control Zhou Zhi, making him admit that the bid of 28.5 million Hong Kong dollars was the last move, and then bought the "Dainikkei" at a higher price. Afterwards, he even exaggerated it in the media and boasted about the two. How they battled wits and courage at the auction and finally returned the national treasure.
Although Zhou Zhi was not mentioned by name, as the "strongest competitor" of the "Dainikkei", there were certainly no good words for him from the mouths of the two people and the media in the island country.
(End of this chapter)