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Chu Chen was taken aback, then secretly laughed at himself for judging others by his own standards. To him, antiques several hundred or even a thousand years old that were still in fairly good condition were nothing unusual—he had seen countless examples. But to most people in the antique industry, such cases were truly rare.
Many ancient paintings over a thousand years old on the market had undergone restoration. Even those that had not been restored bore a strong air of age. This painting, the Xia Mountain High Seclusion Painting, was completely different. It looked as though it was at most two or three hundred years old. In particular, the entire painting did not bear even a single artist's seal. It had only one collector's seal, and that belonged to an obscure collector from the late Qing Dynasty.
Under such circumstances, if an expert was careless, it was possible to misidentify it. Then again, the artistic conception of this painting was right there. Unless, as he had previously suspected, the appraiser was not well versed in calligraphy and painting, it would truly be rather difficult to get it wrong.
After thinking for a while, Chu Chen still could not figure out the reason. He simply stopped worrying about it. As long as he knew this was an opportunity to find a bargain, that was enough.
After discussing the painting for a while, everyone found a famous restaurant and began enjoying dinner.
While everyone was ordering, Chu Chen called Old Liu and told him the appraisal results of Shi Tao's painting. At