Jianbao life

Chapter 323 Treasure Building "Ghost City" ([-])
Seeing this, the stall owner also realized that he might have said something wrong, so he humbly said to Chu Chen: "Little brother, I wonder if you can make me more knowledgeable?"

"This should be a jade cow paperweight carefully carved by craftsmen in the Yuan Dynasty." Chu Chen smiled slightly

"What! From the Yuan Dynasty?" the stall owner asked dumbfounded.

Chu Chen nodded and said: "This is indeed from the Yuan Dynasty. The jade wares of the Yuan Dynasty have multi-layer carvings, round carvings, high-relief carvings, shallow-relief carvings, etc. in the processing technology. The technique was brought to the extreme in the Yuan Dynasty. In addition to carving double-layer patterns on the plane, it can also carve multi-layers on jade materials, and the pattern can reach five or six layers. The layers are distinct and have a strong perspective effect."

"Furthermore, the craftsmanship style of jade wares in the Yuan Dynasty has tended to be rough and informal. The carvings like to use deep inscribed lines. The lines are thick and heavy, which makes the decorations raised and raised. However, the lines start and stop markedly, and the lines are uneven, often out of control The traces of the front appear to be rough."

Speaking of this, he pointed to several parts of the jade ox in his hand, and said: "Look at these places, they all show the craftsmanship characteristics of the Yuan Dynasty jade. At a glance, this jade ox does look a bit Rough, but with a delicate taste, a rough beauty emerges spontaneously."

"This jade ox depicts a vivid image. The muscles of each part of the body are strong, the lines are dense and dense, and the majestic state is unobstructed. It can be seen that the craftsman's level is superb. Therefore, I think this jade ox paperweight should be made by the nobles of the palace at that time. The tool used."

"it is good……"

After listening to Chu Chen's wonderful explanation, the old man couldn't help applauding: "Little brother is really an expert in this way!"

As the saying goes, as soon as an expert makes a move, he will know whether there is one. After listening to Chu Chen's explanation, the old man knows that Chu Chen has probably been immersed in this way for many years.
"Mr., you're flattering me. I just have some experience with these things." Chu Chen said modestly.

After listening to Chu Chen's explanation, the stall owner also knew that he had sold it out, but he was still a little puzzled about one point, so he asked: "Little brother, I would like to ask, what is the quality of this jade? "

Chu Chen explained with a smile: "It's very simple. This jade ox should have been unearthed at the beginning. If you look carefully, you can tell that it is full of rust and earth. But after it was unearthed, for some reason, the jade ox was unearthed. The owner has never played with it, and now, at first glance, the quality of the jade is not very good. But this kind of problem is also easy to solve, as long as you play it carefully for a few months, you can show the real jade inside. Jade quality."

"The little brother is right, so you have to look at things carefully." The old man agreed.

"Then... I would like to ask, how much is the market price of this thing worth?" The stall owner asked weakly. What he wants to know most now is how much he sold out. I vomited blood.

"After all, the material is green and white jade, so it's not too expensive." The old man said, "From the perspective of the carver, it's about [-] to [-]."

"Sixty to seventy thousand?!" Although he didn't lose hundreds of thousands, but he worked so hard that he might not be able to get sixty to seventy thousand in a year. This loss still made the stall owner feel distressed.

After that, Chu Chen and the old man exchanged a few more polite words and business cards, and then left.

"Brother Chen, help me look at something later. I think it's from Hainan huanghuali, but I'm not very proficient in huanghuali, so I'm a bit uncertain."

Liu Sizhe walked and talked, and brought Chu Chen to a booth, and saw what Liu Sizhe was talking about.

Chu Chen looked down, and it turned out to be an armrest. The front of this vessel was engraved with the three friends of Suihan, which were either budding or in full bloom, full of spring.The back of the armrest is decorated with the pattern of flowing clouds and Baifu. The cloud pattern is like wishful, continuous, which means wishful and long-lasting, and also has the meaning of clouds and mist. Bats are hidden in the clouds, implying that blessings come from the sky, wishful happiness, and endless stretches.

The arm rest is an ancient cultural article, and it first appeared in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.In the old days, calligraphy was practiced from right to left, and from top to bottom, using the arm rest to prevent the sleeves from being stained with ink.The arm rest has gradually developed from a practical device to an ornamental object, which embodies the unique aesthetic taste of Chinese literati.

Chu Chen looked at the arm rest calmly, sniffed it again, and then asked Liu Sizhe with a smile, "Why did you think of buying an arm rest?"

Liu Sizhe said with a bitter face: "It's not because of Meimei. My dad called me last night. If you don't want your butt to bloom, you have to practice brush calligraphy for three months after returning home. If you want to do a good job, you must first benefit yourself." For utensils, buy an arm and put it back, it can prevent the sleeves from being stained with ink, and it can also be used as a paperweight.”

"Brother, you are really accurate. This is a Hainan huanghuali armrest."

The stall owner had very good ears, and after hearing Liu Sizhe's words, he quickly said with a smile: "Let me tell you, I got this thing with great difficulty from an old lady whose ancestors were high officials. This thing has been handed down for hundreds of years, if you don't believe me, you can take a closer look at this carver, this patina, such an old-fashioned and exquisite huanghuali armrest, it is rare!"

Chu Chen chuckled and said, "It's quite suitable to buy this thing as an arm, but if you want to appreciate it, forget it."

"Hey, brother, what are you talking about, why can't you appreciate such exquisite decorations?" The stall owner said with some displeasure.

"Oh, then why do I smell this thing is a pungent sour scent?" Chu Chen said with a half-smile.

Hainan huanghuali has a unique mellow aroma, which is very unique, and this pungent sour aroma can only appear in Vietnamese huanghuali.

The stall owner is also thick-skinned, and said with a smile: "If things are kept for a long time, there will always be some changes in taste. Just buy them and take care of them at home."

Hearing what Chu Chen said, Liu Sizhe immediately understood that the thing he was looking at should be a fake, so he chose another arm rest that he had been looking at before, and asked the stall owner, "Boss, how much is this?"

"You, you are amazing, this is a very famous person in the Qing Dynasty..."

Liu Sizhe waved his hand and interrupted: "Boss, tell me, where is this Taoist Zhi famous?"

"This..." the stall owner said hesitantly: "Since this person can leave a name, his reputation must not be much worse."

Chu Chen smiled secretly when he heard the words, Liu Sizhe really asked the right question, the stall owner really didn't know who Taoist Zhi was.

This Zhou Zhiyan's real name is Zhou Hao, his courtesy name is Jinzhan, his nickname is Xueqiao, he is also called Zhiyan, and he is also called Zhiqian. Call himself "beard idiot".

Zhou Zhiyan is a bamboo carver as famous as Wu Zhifan of the Jiading School.On the basis of Zhu's painting method of carving bamboo, he came up with new ideas and changed the previous method. He usually used bas-relief and flat engraving as the main method. Bamboo creates a concave-convex texture.

This technique is called "flat pattern engraving" by later generations, and there are very few imitators later.

"Bamboo People Record" compares the bamboo carvings of the Qing Dynasty with the poetry of the Han and Tang Dynasties, and compares Zhou Zhiyan to Du Fu in the prosperous Tang Dynasty. He is considered to be the No. 1 pioneer of bamboo carvings in the Qing Dynasty.

"Come on, there are a lot of names left in ancient times, isn't everyone famous?" Liu Sizhe said with a sneer, "Don't make such fake things, come for a real price, I don't want it if it's expensive!"

The stall owner said with a smile: "I am innocent, how can it be expensive, two thousand, how about it, cheap?"

Liu Sizhe was overjoyed when he heard the words, but his face still showed great astonishment: "What, two thousand? It can be worth two thousand if you just leave a name, and I'm not a fool, no, I think five hundred is about the same."

"Brother, five hundred is too low, I..."

While Liu Sizhe and the stall owner were bargaining there, Chu Chen looked at the things on the stall, but after a while, under the guidance of Bao Jue, his mind was attracted by something.

What attracted Chu Chen's attention was a scroll on a calligraphy and painting stall next to him. If this scroll was placed in a prominent position, Chu Chen would not care about it, but this scroll was thrown in the middle of the pile of junk by the stall owner. , this is interesting, did the boss sell the real product as a counterfeit?

Thinking of this, Chu Chen moved to the calligraphy and painting booth next to him.

The business of this calligraphy and painting stall looks deserted, but in fact, this is normal. The light in the ghost market is too dark, and it is not easy to verify the authenticity of calligraphy and painting. Use a strong flashlight, the color may be distorted. That's right, when I went home and saw it was not the case at all, I could only sigh at that time, it was not a crime of war!

The stall owner was a young man. When he saw the business coming, he immediately said with a smile on his face: "Brother, I'm not bragging. I have a lot of good things. Just pick what you like, and the price is satisfactory to you."

Chu Chen didn't say much, nodded to the stall owner, and looked at it on his own.But he didn't look at the scroll where Baojue reacted first, that would be too obvious.

Unfolding the next few pictures, Chu Chen found that they were just printed matter, and they were shoddy printed matter, without any artistic beauty, but this is normal, otherwise these things would not be so casually picked up by the stall owner. piled up here.

But in this way, Chu Chen became more interested in that scroll, because in terms of its size, this work is likely to be quite a leak.

Just as Chu Chen was about to pick up the scroll, the transaction next to him had already been completed. Liu Sizhe walked up to him and said hello, "Brother Chu, I'll go see if there is any good brush."

"Okay, let's go!"

After Liu Sizhe left, Chu Chen picked up the scroll.

However, as soon as the work was in his hands, Chu Chen was shocked. What he didn't expect was that the scroll was still a silk book, which means that the value of this work is not much lower in terms of the carrier of calligraphy and painting.

(End of this chapter)