Liu Yuqing drove back and drove back, but Liu Yuanshan was still wondering. In recent years, there were only a handful of calligraphy and painting works with auction prices of over 100 million yuan, but not without them. But if the price is 400 million yuan or 50 million yuan, it is really a rare fine product.

If Zhou Xia really used these two calligraphy and painting works as collateral, the value would not be lower than the amount he offered.

Liu Yuanshan immediately thought of another question. In this way, it was not that the Liu family helped Zhou Xia and the like. Instead, Zhou Xia gave the Liu family a huge favor.

For a moment, Liu Yuanshan sighed lightly, and his emotions were very complicated.

In the auction industry, it is about connections and good things. Everyone wants them, but they don’t have any relationships or enough favors. It is really difficult to get good things from collectors to their own auctions.

If everyone can take out good things like Zhou Xia, like a big sale, then all the auction companies should be smiling.

Liu Yuanshan looked at the beautiful porcelain pieces at hand again, and this feeling became even deeper and deeper.

After a while, Liu Yuqing returned home and rushed straight to Liu Yuanshan's study.

Liu Yuanshan was not in a hurry to look at the paintings, but asked her first, "Why did Zhou Xia make any other requests with these two paintings?"

Liu Yuqing smiled and explained, "He has some requirements, because the source of these two calligraphy and paintings is a bit asked about him. It is very likely that they were unearthed recently. He hopes that we can keep the secret and not make a lot of noise in the short term. If we want to go to the auction, we have to find another way to the source. And we cannot disclose his information."

Liu Yuanshan smiled and said, "This is easy to deal with. It is also necessary. Does he have any other requirements?"

"No, grandpa, aren't you curious about what these two works are?" Liu Yuqing replied, and Yang Yang's box that Yang had just brought in.

"You'll know if you look! If you want to say that Zhou Xia is really amazing, Yu Qing, you are not young anymore, and you should consider some things." Liu Yuanshan nodded. This way, his evaluation of Zhou Xia was a little higher. It was not because he felt that Zhou Xia did not ask for anything, but because Zhou Xia was smarter, unlike some people who would be complacent once they had achieved something and were completely unaware of life and death.

"Grandpa, look at what you said. I want to spend more time with you at home!" Liu Yuqing's face turned red with a rare moment. "Let's look at these two paintings first!"

Liu Yuanshan laughed and was worried about Liu Yuqing's lifelong affairs. However, Liu Yuqing is a very independent person and has a relatively picky vision. Even Zhou Nanming, after the Liu family's family's relationship, had very good conditions in all aspects. It was difficult to catch her eye. With the current situation of the Liu family, there was no need to complain that the daughter of the family had any marriages for interests and other things, so she let Liu Yuqing go by herself. She even wanted to strive for a higher position in the auction company. They all agreed. However, she is twenty-six years old. Everyone still hopes that she can find someone she likes as soon as possible, not to start a family, but to feel at ease when she falls in love. If you say you don't worry about her personal problems at all, it must be fake.

This is Zhou Xia! Although he is a little grassroots, his behavior reveals a sense of great spirit and talent, which is even more amazing. Liu Yuanshan thinks that if he can accept him as his grandson-in-law, it would be a good choice.

Of course, he also respected Liu Yuqing's own opinions very much. If she had no feelings for him, she could not force her.

At present, what Liu Yuanshan wants to know most is the quality of the two calligraphy and painting works that Zhou Xia found this time. Zhou Xia’s performance was remarkable before. Even people like Liu Yuanshan who have been so sophisticated and used to the scene can give a thumbs up.

The two boxes that Liu Yuqing took home were one big and one small. Without thinking, you can know that the calligraphy and painting works in them were one big and one small.

Liu Yuanshan first chose to look at the small box. The biggest surprise is always to stay in the end.

At this moment, he didn't pay much attention to Liu Yuqing's slightly shy expression, and his energy was all focused on this brocade box.

Liu Yuanshan is an expert in appraisal and is very fast to enter the state. He put on gloves and carefully took out the silk inside. The first impression this gave him was that it was quite good. The reason was that the material of the silk was undoubtedly from the age.

Speaking of the tricks of identification, Liu Yuanshan couldn't finish it for three days and three nights. However, some things must be accumulated through time and experience, especially in the antiques and cultural relics industry, where you can become a true master.

Take the silk in front of you as an example!

It is not the level that modern new products can reach. It has an extremely strong characteristic of the times, that is, it is mono-silk.

Liu Yuanshan is a veteran in appraisal. Before he opened the painting, he inferred from the material of the silk that this painting is most likely a work from the Tang Dynasty or before the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

Appraisal of calligraphy and painting works based on the material of silk is a very important factor, and it can even be used as a basis for grading, although it cannot be used as the only basis.

The single silk like the one in front of you appeared in calligraphy and painting works in the Sui and Tang dynasties and before. Before that, there had never been a work of double silk. For example, the silk used in the "Spring Tour" scroll of Zhan Ziqian in the Sui Dynasty was woven with single silk; the warp and weft lines used in the "Swift Fan Lady" scroll of Zhou Feng in the Tang Dynasty were different, all of which were woven by combining several silks. This weaving method is relatively rare in calligraphy and painting silk. It shows that the silk used in calligraphy and painting before the Jin and Tang dynasties was woven with single silk. Until now, in calligraphy and painting before the Jin and Tang dynasties, there has never been a double silk thread.

After the Five Dynasties and the Song Dynasty, with the advancement of silk paper making technology, some changes occurred. In addition to single silk, double silk also appeared.

Each two threads of the warp thread of this double silk are in a group, and there is about a gap between each two groups. The weft thread is a single thread. When the weft thread and the warp thread interweave, one thread in each group of warp threads sinks below and the other thread floats above. For example, the warp thread of the "Sketching Rare Bird Picture" scroll of the Five Dynasties is forty-eight double threads, and the weft thread is single thread; the warp thread of the "Xianglong Stone Picture" scroll of Zhao Ji in the Song Dynasty is forty-eight double threads, and the weft thread is single thread, etc.

In the later Ming and Qing dynasties, and even in different periods, the characteristics of silk paper were different. If you really talk about it, you could write a book.

Moreover, when Liu Yuanshan looked at this single silk, it did not look like the single silk from any era after the Tang Dynasty, so he subconsciously felt that this painting was very likely a work from the Tang Dynasty and before.

If you are more specific, you have to make a more in-depth appraisal of single silk. Of course, the most important thing is what the content on the silk paper is. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to Qidian to vote for recommendations, monthly tickets, and mobile phone users please read it
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