At christie's auction in London in 2005, a porcelain jar of "Ghost Valley Down the Mountain" turned out to be a surprise to the world with a transaction price of 230 million yuan. However, to this day, domestic collectors still can't laugh, because their collection of Yuan Qinghua is not recognized by cultural experts at all.
A collector once made a joke with a senior ceramics identification expert. Knowing that this expert regularly goes to Baoguo Temple to find treasures, the collector fiercely wrestles a piece of yuan blue and white porcelain with a complete pattern into three pieces of A, B and C, and takes out a piece of armor and places it in the antique shop of Baoguo Temple, waiting for the expert to find it. Sure enough, if this expert got the treasure, he was happy to buy it and go home. The next day, the collector came to visit and took out the C porcelain piece for expert identification, and the expert shook his head, even calling out that there would be no real yuan qinghua. Waiting for the collector to take out the B porcelain piece, the three pieces of A and B C are combined, not bad at all, and the experts are dumbfounded.
Another anecdote about collectors fighting with experts is even more eye-catching. At a cultural relics appraisal meeting, a museum cultural relics appraisal expert was praised in the face of a porcelain, at this time he heard that the owner had not paid the appraisal fee, and immediately changed his mouth to call it a fake. Later, the collector was not convinced, found the expert's door, carefully took out a photo of the Yuan Qinghua porcelain vase taken in the Forbidden City and asked the expert to palm his eyes, the expert determined that there would be no Yuan Qinghua in the folk, calling this object a copy of the "Cultural Revolution", and the collector laughed and left.
It is not that collectors intend to live with experts, and in the face of the "national treasures" they have protected with their hard-earned money, some cultural experts are really annoyed. At present, only 300 yuanqinghua pieces recognized by cultural experts have survived, scattered in museums around the world. Experts believe that in addition, they are all imitations, so they all deny folk collections. It can be seen from this that the limited understanding of yuanqinghua by experts in the cultural and cultural circles and the prejudice against folk yuanqinghua.
In fact, in the more than thirty years of reform and opening up, due to the "excavation movement" such as cities and road construction in various places, there are indeed many yuanqinghua buried deep underground that have reappeared in the sky and scattered among the people. At that time, it was just that the Chinese people had not really realized the value of Yuan Qinghua. Until the world-renowned auction in 2005, the domestic folk yuan qinghua began to gradually surface. However, in the face of these ancient porcelains with no historical records and no inheritance records, the disapproval of experts has put the Yuanqinghua collection of "Famous Earthquake Rivers and Lakes" into an embarrassing situation.
So, why don't experts recognize these folk flowers?
First, China's yuanqinghua research started late, and it has only been more than 50 years. In the past, it has always been believed that there was no blue and white porcelain in the Yuan Dynasty, and the Yuan Qinghua has always been regarded as the Ming Dynasty Qinghua, and the experts have insufficient understanding of the Yuan Qinghua, so that many experts cannot understand the Yuan Qinghua at all.
In addition, due to the relatively small number of Yuanqinghua porcelain in domestic museums, in recent years, most experts have contacted very limited Yuanqinghua physical objects, let alone in-depth research, in this context, their appraisal judgment must be very limited.
Third, the preciousness of yuanqinghua has become rare in the eyes of experts, and it is taken for granted that such a precious yuanqinghua folk cannot exist, so that there is a subjective distrust of the real yuanqinghua owned by folk collectors. In the face of an unknown origin of yuan qinghua, their first reaction is to doubt and deny.
At present, Yuan Qinghua continues to appear in the folk, and these "illegitimate children" who do not have a "hukou" cannot "recognize" their ancestors and return to their ancestors due to the non-recognition of experts, let alone enter the auction "game". In fact, there is no shortage of fine products in a certain number of yuan qinghua in the current folk collection.
The embarrassing situation of not being recognized has caused many yuan qinghua to be lost overseas, and even damaged. At present, many domestic yuanqinghua porcelain recognized by connoisseurs is being continuously sold abroad as modern handicrafts, which makes many folk collectors feel sad. Therefore, it is called on cultural experts to keep pace with the times, deepen research, and continuously improve the level of appraisal, and at the same time, when facing the yuanqinghua of folk collectors, they must not wear "colored glasses", discuss things, do not misjudge, do not make mistakes, give the real yuanqinghua of the folk a "name" that they should have, and let them "recognize their ancestors and return to their ancestors".
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