Fake good wood
Based on the indistinguishability of hardwood furniture, furniture made of inferior wood is mixed with furniture made of high quality wood. China ancient traditional furniture production materials, such as mahogany, Huang Huali, rosewood, iron pear,? If you meet the above special conditions, it will be easier for you to pass the customs. In addition, even if the natural color does not match the high-grade wood, speculators will arbitrarily change their true colors and pretend to be high-grade furniture. Due to different fashions, from the mid-Qing Dynasty to the 1930s, hardwood furniture was favored by court dignitaries and feudal literati, so fake wood was mostly painted black as red sandalwood. Since 1930s, people have changed their aesthetic view of furniture, and started to advocate natural colors and textures. As a result, the wood color of Huanghua pear with beautiful wood grain suddenly increased, and a large number of people were impersonated. Of course, furniture manufacturers are also very flexible in changing the color of furniture. At the same time, there is more than one false wood color.
Patchwork reform
Many ancient furniture are often poorly preserved and the parts are seriously damaged, so it is difficult to repair them as they are. So someone did a lot of grafting and transplanted the residual structures of different varieties to form an ancient furniture that is difficult to belong to and neither fish nor fowl. However, this kind of ancient furniture, which is neither practical nor collectible, is easily deceived by ordinary people. The above-mentioned forgery technique can also be seen in changing the frame bed into arhat bed. Because there are many upper components on the rack bed, and they are detachable, they are easy to be lost in the handed down generations. Furniture manufacturers often cut off the frame bed seat behind the column and match it with the bed circumference of the three-sided frame bed, and copy it into a arhat bed for sale.
Turn ordinary products into rare products.
The reason why common ancient furniture varieties should be transformed into rare varieties is because "rarity" is an important embodiment of the value of ancient furniture. Therefore, many furniture manufacturers have transformed the half-table, generous table and small square table handed down from generation to generation into relatively rare drawer tables, long tables and Go tables. In fact, speculators' restructuring of ancient furniture varies from device to device, and it is difficult to find it without careful research.
Divide the whole into parts/pieces
Use complete ancient furniture, disassemble it into multiple pieces, and earn high profits. The specific method is to disassemble an ancient piece of furniture, copy it into one or more pieces according to the original parts, then mix the old and new parts and assemble two or more pieces of original furniture with some old parts. The most common example is to replace a chair with a pair of chairs, or even piece together four pieces for the hall. This is called old things restoration. This kind of forgery is the worst, which is not only extremely deceptive, but also seriously damages precious ancient cultural relics. In the appraisal, if it is found that more than half of the furniture parts identified are post-matched, it is necessary to consider whether this situation exists.
Change decoration
In order to improve the value of furniture, speculators sometimes arbitrarily change the original structure and decoration. If someone thinks that Ming furniture that looks "plain" (without decoration and carving) may be earlier. Therefore, the decorations on some precious handed down furniture were deliberately removed to pretend to be earlier furniture. This forgery is also a kind of destruction.
Stick to the skin
On the surface of furniture made of ordinary wood, it is disguised as hardwood furniture and sold at a price. The patchwork furniture is full of colors and inlaid decorations. Those with fine workmanship will look a little messy. It should be noted that some furniture has to be made of non-hardwood for functional needs (such as piano tables, which need to be framed for good acoustics), or for other reasons, it has to be wrapped for unification, which is not forgery.
Packet switching instrument
Adopt "package switch table" to change soft drawer into hard drawer. Soft drawer is an elastic structure composed of wood, rattan, brown and silk thread, which has been handed down from ancient hardwood furniture such as chairs, stools, beds and couches. It is widely used in chairs, stools, beds and backrests, especially in Ming-style furniture. Compared with hard drawers, soft drawers have the advantages of comfort and softness, but they are easy to be damaged. Nine times out of ten, precious furniture handed down from generation to generation has been damaged. Because the craftsmen (rattan workers) who made soft drawers disappeared in recent decades, many soft drawers on ancient precious furniture were changed into hard drawers. Hard drawer (rigid component of jigsaw puzzle) was originally a traditional practice of Guangdong furniture and Huizhou furniture, which had a good technological foundation. If you use the soft drawer frame of Ming furniture and choose the same wood as the original, it is easy to be deceived and mistaken for the original with complete structure and good preservation.
From high to low
In order to adapt to the living style of modern life, high-type furniture is transformed into low-type furniture. Furniture is a practical article, and its shape is closely related to people's lifestyle. After entering the modern society, sofa-shaped chairs, stools and beds have entered the homes of ordinary people in large numbers. In order to meet the need of reducing the height of chairs and bedding, many handed down chairs and tables have been shortened to put cushions on the chairs and make sofa tables in front of the sofas. When many people buy low-type ancient furniture after restructuring, they often mistakenly think that it is a "natural device" handed down by the ancients.