133 Luo Feng’s Single Product Record Broken! Valued at 240 Million! (4)
“Indeed. Any regular painting from primary school students would’ve been burned to ashes a long ti ago, and as such, any painting that manages to survive until now indicates that they had been drawn by great artists. These sort of paintings would usually retain high collectible value even since ancient tis!”
“That’s right! Items that can survive until the present day are all items of high quality! Hence, they are very valuable!”
“Hmm, doesn’t this painting look a little familiar?!”
“Yeah, I seem to recall my teacher ntioning sothing like this in class!”
“An expert sits quietly, leisurely reading while incense burns in the background?”
“Wait, now that you ntion it, I seem to recall sothing like that!”
“I’ve seen a replica in my school!”
At this mont.
So art students and top students had an epiphany, but they were quickly wrought with confusion.
Why has this appeared here?
Does this an that there are two of this artwork?
“Huh? What are you guys saying? The host just dug this out, and yet you’ve claid to seen it before?”
“Could this situation be scripted after all?”
“Host, you should’ve made sure that the artwork hasn’t been unearthed before if you wish to script this scenario!”
“I reversed image searched the drawing, and I found that it’s currently located within a museum!”
At this mont.
An old man from the Dongshan Museum suddenly received a call about a certain painting stored in his premises.
Apparently soone has dug out the exact sa thing?
What could be the aning of this?
The old man was dumbfounded.
He imdiately tuned into the stream that had been ntioned.
There should only be one copy in this world, he thought.
How could there be another one?
Whose was the real one?
Whose was fake?
Luo Feng noticed the barrage of ssages and explained with a grin, “This painting of mine is indeed Wang ng’s ‘Reading in the Village’. I’m aware of another copy that exists at the Dongshan Museum, but neither are fakes! Both are equally as authentic!”
“Host, what do you an? How can both of them be genuine?”
“I rember back when ‘Reading in the Village’ was first auctioned, it seed to be unsold because there was no evidence to prove it was a fake, but there was also no evidence to prove it was genuine!”
“So the one the host dug up is definitely genuine?”
“No need to rush, guys, I’ll explain it to you all!” Luo Feng hurriedly answered.
“The matter is simple. This painting was originally presented to the Ming emperor by Wang ng, but the handler had further processed the painting for unscrupulous purposes!”
“He sliced the painting into two halves and spliced it with a copy of the artwork, keeping the actual lower half for himself, and leaving the actual top half for the emperor!”
“Therefore, half of both paintings that current exist are fakes…”
“However, if joined together, the final painting would probably be worth hundreds of millions!”
“So, do you all finally understand what I an when I called both copies authentic?”
In the antique world, there is much controversy over this painting. Huang Huangshi’s opinion is very sharp. He believes that this work was not only not painted by Wang ng, but was also a fake copy from the late Ming period.
Unfortunately, there were no other known genuine Wang ng works that could be compared, making it difficult to distinguish between genuine and fake works from aspects such as inscriptions, seals, records, and circulation.
“Although this painting is only from the end of the Yuan and beginning of the Ming dynasties, it has a great reputation, but unfortunately it is incomplete, and thus, is only worth a little money!”
Luo Feng had a twinge of disappointnt in his voice.
Had the handler of the artwork not split it in two to deceive the emperor, Luo Feng would likely have the original copy in his hands, and would not be stuck in his current awkward situation, where the cost of his goods had been significantly reduced.
“Damn, so this is how it is, huh?! Damn, these ancient people are really f*cked up!”
“Yup! If they weren’t so greedy, the price of this painting wouldn’t have been reduced so much!”
“But here’s the big question, how co a painting ant for the emperor is stored within this ancient tomb?”
“Did the owner steal it from the Imperial Palace?”
“You’re thinking too much. The painting probably didn’t even make it into the palace to begin with. Since the painting was split into two halves, perhaps this is the portion that didn’t make it to the palace!”
Of course, during that peaceful era, such a painting could not have been circulated from the palace.
There could only be one explanation, that it was a reward from the emperor.
Luo Feng was not too attached to the painting, especially after noting its price. With that, he began shifting towards the last wooden box instead…
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