Chapter 483 The situation is not optimistic
There are a lot of porcelain in the store. Hou Wu heard about high imitations before, but he didn't pay much attention to it.
He didn't check the porcelain in the store by himself. After all, he had seen the good things when he collected them before, so there was no need to read them again.
He believed in his eyesight very much, but this time he understood that he really had a look.
This piece of porcelain does have loopholes that were rumored before. Only these few loopholes can prove that this is a high imitation.
The two Forbidden City staff members who came with Luo Hao had picked up the pinhole camera and explored the interior of the celestial ball bottle.
Sure enough, there is Lu Chao's name left in it.
This is more solid evidence, proving that this is a high-quality counterfeit. Hou Wu looked at this celestial ball bottle and didn't know what to say.
"Mr. Hou, as President Zhou's instructions, we will take away your porcelain and seal it first. Please forgive me!"
The staff of the Forbidden City said to Hou Wu, and Hou Wu nodded silently.
In fact, it’s okay if he doesn’t want the people from the Forbidden City to take it away in their antique shop, but since it’s a fake, he definitely can’t sell it. Even though he knows it’s a fake, he still deliberately cheats people, which is equivalent to smashing their Rong Baozhai signboard.
Hou Wu couldn't do such a thing.
After reading all the porcelain, including the ones in stock, Luo Hao breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, only this one is a fake, and no other fakes appear.
When Hou Wu heard Luo Hao say that there was only one, he was relieved. He was really worried that there were many such fakes in the store. Not to mention the economic losses, Rong Baozhai’s iron-word signboard of a hundred years would probably be destroyed in his hands.
The celestial ball bottle was put in a box, and one of the Forbidden City held it specifically. Luo Hao did not return to the Forbidden City Museum, but went nearby and went to other antique shops to see it.
All day, Luo Hao spent his entire day in these antique shops. He looked at the things from fifteen shops. Among the fifteen shops, he found another fake Lu Chao.
In fact, there are other fakes in these stores, but Luo Hao didn't say that his task was to find Lu Chaogao to imitate, not to fight against fakes.
Every store has its own way of survival, not every antique shop, like his Jubaozhai, insists on not selling fake goods.
In the evening, Luo Hao went to the Palace Museum again.
Experts from the Palace Museum, Cultural Relics Bureau, and the major museums are now taking action to find fakes from Lu on the market.
Luo Hao found two items in one day, and the one who found the most. Shang Xin and Li Zhirong and others found one, experts from the Cultural Relics Bureau found one, and experts from the Palace Museum also found one.
Adding the previous two pieces, now I have found seven pieces in Beijing.
President Zhou has always been in contact with the outside world. Three items have been found in Shanghai City, two items have been found in Tianjin City, one item in Wucheng, Guangcheng and Shenzhen City. In just a few days, a total of thirteen fake Lu products were found.
Thirteen items don't sound much, but this is just the beginning, and there are a large number of shops and auction companies, as well as museums that have not screened.
In addition, there are those collectors.
The place that truly has the most good things is not museums, but collectors. They are afraid there will be more high-quality fakes in their hands.
Their screening is the most difficult. Collectors all over the country cannot come to the door for identification one by one.
Not to mention whether others are willing or not, the workload alone is not something they can do.
I can only wait until I have the opportunity to send it to me together before giving it an appraisal.
"Everyone, the situation is not optimistic. Judging from the number of fakes found now, at least hundreds of fakes in the Lu market are already in circulation!"
Hundreds of pieces are still the least budget.
There are very likely to be more. Each forged product is of no low value, at least tens of millions. This means that the fake products made by Lu Chao have brought them at least one billion in revenue.
"Director Zhou, I suggest you check the blue and white porcelain auctioned and circulated on the market after 15 years. The thirteen pieces found so far are all 15 years, and they are all blue and white!"
In the conference room, an expert spoke, and Dean Zhou nodded slightly.
This kind of investigation is indeed more targeted, but it requires screening for private collectors. After all, most of the people who have won the bid are private collectors.
I just don't know if they can cooperate with the work.
"Luo Hao, thank you for your hard work today, I found two of them directly. Unexpectedly, a place like Lian Rongbaozhai was deceived and beaten!"
President Zhou said to Luo Hao again, Luo Hao had been busy all day today, and he had already known this.
He praised Luo Hao's selfless spirit very much.
"I should do it!"
Luo Hao nodded, and was also feeling in his heart.
In the next market, blue and white porcelain is likely to suffer a major blow, and the news of a large number of high-quality counterfeits will definitely not be concealed.
Once the market knows that this kind of popular person that was originally popular will instantly become unpopular. Even if it is true, no one dares to buy it now.
High imitation and counterfeit products have such dangers.
"I'll be here today, and I'll continue to work hard tomorrow!"
President Zhou said a long story short, and everyone did not keep the meeting for a long time. They were busy for a day and were very tired. They didn’t let everyone rest well. How could they deal with the screening for the next few days?
Luo Hao took Li Zhirong and Shang Xin back together. The two of them asked in detail on the way, and the fake Luo Hao found.
Their item was found at an auction company and was preparing to bid for. If they were found one month later, the item would probably be sold away.
The police will track their origins of these thirteen fakes.
However, it is not so easy to check. The one that Shang Xin and the others found today was auctioned by the owner of the porcelain three years ago.
Now that I have something to do, I need funds, so I took it out for auction. I also thought it would be a value-added and I made a profit.
This fake product must not be able to continue auctioning, and the original owner also lost a lot of money for it.
To investigate this porcelain, we must also check it from the auction three years ago to see who sent it to the auction, and then track it all the way to find the source.
The same is true for the two pieces that Luo Hao found. Rong Baozhai cooperated very well. He explained clearly where the porcelain he received was, while the other one was not so cooperative, and he was even unwilling to let Luo Hao and the others take away the high-quality counterfeits.
If it weren't for the police's intervention in the end, they wouldn't have brought anything.
However, thirteen fakes appeared. If you follow up with all your strength, you will definitely find some clues. It depends on where Lu Chao is. If he is in China, it would be better. If he is abroad, it would probably take some effort to arrest him.
Chapter completed!