China is an ancient country with five thousand years of culture, in these five thousand years, the ancients left too many secret things, want to uncover these histories, in addition to consulting historical materials, is to rely on excavated cultural relics speculation, but in the late Qing Dynasty, the invasion of Western powers, resulting in many cultural logistics left out.
Since the founding of New China, China's museums have been committed to the identification and protection of cultural relics, in 1995, an old man from Shandong came to the Beijing Museum with a picture, wanting to sell the heirlooms that have been treasured for many years at a price of 8 million.
But after some identification, the expression of disappointment on his face, the old man brought Zhang Xian's "Ten Yong Tu", Zhang Xian was a Painter of the Northern Song Dynasty, his paintings were exquisite, and when the "Ten Yong Tu" was circulated to the Qing Dynasty, the Qianlong Emperor once personally commented on "Reciting Fen's Writing Miao", and Jiaqing also stamped it.
When Puyi was expelled from the Forbidden City, he smuggled the "Ten Yongtu" out of the palace and hid it in the "Xiao zilou", in 1945, the anti-Japanese war ended, the xiaozilou was snatched up by the soldiers of the puppet Manchu regime, and the "Ten Yongtu" also disappeared from history, until 1995, the old man brought the "Ten Yongtu".
But the experts have an appraisal, it is really difficult to distinguish that this is the real "Ten Yong Tu", there is a very large possibility of folk fraud, experts gave 10,000 price acquisition, the old man's wife had a serious illness, the operation fee is very expensive, 10,000 fast is obviously not enough, the old man did not sell.
He took the "Ten Arias" everywhere, looking for buyers, he inquired around, and accidentally found an institution called the auction company, which was founded in 1994, the reputation is not big, the threshold for auction is not high, and the old man has the mentality of trying it.
The auction company is also very interested in the "Ten Yong Tu" in the hands of the old man, so he invited the most authoritative expert of the auction company, after his appraisal, the expert denied the price of 8 million, the old man was very disappointed, but the expert immediately said "This "Ten Yong Tu" is Zhang Xian's original handiwork, there is no market on the market, I propose not to set the price, for auction."
The old man did not know how much Zhang Xian's "Ten Yong Tu" was worth, but the price of the auction was definitely more than 10,000, he agreed, the auction company reached an agreement with the old man, spread the news everywhere, all kinds of collectors have gathered, the auction in 1995, can be said to be the most grand auction after the establishment of this institution.
After they exhibited the "Ten YongTu", many authoritative experts have been appraised, under the appraisal of dozens of experts, they all agreed with the result of the authenticity, in the auction, one by one high prices made the Beijing Museum frightened, and finally the museum auctioned the "Ten Yongtu" for 19.8 million yuan.
At present, this "Ten Yong Tu" is in the Collection of the Palace Museum in Beijing, and I don't know what kind of mood the expert who identified it as a "fake" is, but it is not that he is not professional enough, after all, 8 million is indeed a very large number, and no one can afford it.