Jianbao life

Chapter 761 Another discovery
While Chu Chen was flipping through these thread-bound books, Warren came back with two brocade boxes and put them beside the books.

After Chu Chen had read all twelve books, Warren asked politely, "Chu, are these books real?"

"It is indeed genuine." Chu Chen nodded.

After hearing Chu Chen's reply, Warren immediately smiled, and asked again, "Then how much are these books worth now?"

Chu Chen didn't answer directly, but said, "Mr. Warren, there is something I want to explain first."

Upon hearing this, Warren said quickly, "Please speak."

Chu Chen said: "If I'm not wrong, the reason why you invited me over this time is because you want to sell these things?"

This kind of thing is obvious, and Warren admitted it very frankly: "Yes, this time my company has a big problem. If I don't replenish the working capital, it will definitely go bankrupt within two months. Otherwise, I will also go bankrupt." I am reluctant to sell these antiques."

Chu Chen nodded and said: "Mr. Warren, I also know your difficulties, but in business, you should also understand that the quotation of antiques and other things is just a reference value, and the specific transaction price is definitely impossible. Everything comes with this quotation.”

Hearing what Chu Chen said, Warren couldn't help frowning, and then asked, "Chu, what do you mean?"

Chu Chen replied: "I mean, the price of the specific transaction is determined by negotiation. For example, I can buy the gourd vase imitating the official kiln in the Ming Dynasty with the previous quotation, but like your gilt wall watch The price of something like that needs to be negotiated.”

"After all, such things are not of high value and are relatively common in the market. Although I can give market reference prices, customers may not agree with me when I sell them. I may not sell them at a loss, or keep them in my hands all the time. ?”

Warren also understood that what Chu Chen said was true. If antiques like that gourd vase have a market but no price, then that wall watch has a price but no market. Although the price is high, no one is willing to pay such a price. It is normal for Chu Chen not to buy at the market reference price. After all, he and Chu Chen do not have a particularly close relationship.

So, Warren agreed: "Chu, you are right, let's negotiate the price!"

"Well, if that's the case, what do you think of the price of the item being counted together at the end?" Chu Chen asked.

Warren felt that Chu Chen's proposal would not harm his interests, so he readily agreed.

The two items that Warren brought over are both blue and white porcelain, one of which is a blue and white porcelain pen holder from the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, which is exquisite in shape and neatly made.Cylindrical shape, jade base.The blue and white on the outer wall depicts one of the ten sceneries of Tongjing West Lake, Pinghu Qiuyue scenery.

There are pavilions, lakes, ancient pines, and grass pavilions in the picture, and there are high-ranking scholars who come to visit friends with their pianos in the brook pavilion.In the painting boat on the lake, Gao Shi raised his glass to admire the moon.The brush strokes are delicate, and the characters and landscape layout are elegant and pleasant.There is a seven-character quatrain inscribed in the blank space, and there are signatures and seals.It is a masterpiece of blue and white pen holder about the landscape of West Lake.

Unfortunately, although the pen holder is good, it is a work of folk kilns. It cannot be compared with official kilns in terms of production technology and market value. The market value is not high, and it is estimated that it will not reach 2.5 RMB.

The other piece is a small blue and white jar.This pot has a straight mouth, round shoulders, a full bottom, and a circle foot. The blue and white inscription on the bottom reads the six-character double-line regular script of "Daming Chenghua Annual System". It is very similar to the authentic Chenghua blue and white inscription.

Chenghua blue-and-white wares are mostly exquisite and light, with very few standing pieces. Doucai Tianzi pots and blue-and-white Jiuqiu pots are the classic famous products of Chenghua official kiln porcelain.

This lot is the same as the Chenghua blue-and-white Nine-Autumn Jar in the Palace Museum in Baodao. Flying in the air, it adds a lot of vitality to the picture, presenting an autumnal landscape full of "Nine Autumn Flowers and Butterflies".

Among them, the branches and leaves are soft and beautiful, and the shape is handsome, which is not a kind of tranquility, fun and seclusion.The blue-and-white hair color is pure and elegant, with flashes of gray in the blue. The color is very stable and calm, quite in the style of black and white painting. It contrasts with the white and moist glaze and delicate patterns, which is very refined.It seems that it should be the famous Pingpingqing.

In other words, this jar should be genuine in terms of body, glaze, blue-and-white hair color, artistry and style, but no matter how Chu Chen looked at it, he felt that there was something wrong with this blue-and-white jar.For him, this feeling is obviously not a good phenomenon.

Originally, Chu Chen was ready to use the ability, but he thought that relying on the ability would not improve his level, so he took a closer look at the blue and white pot, but still found nothing wrong place.

"Is it true that I feel wrong?"

Chu Chen muttered to himself, just as he was about to use his supernatural ability, he suddenly thought of a way to judge whether it was genuine, so he quickly looked at the jar to the light, and after looking at it, he really found something tricky in it.

Generally speaking, the glaze of Chenghua blue and white porcelain is white and plump, with unique enamel, moist as fat, and translucent. important feature.But the jar in front of me does not have this phenomenon, and it can be seen from this that this Chenghua blue and white jar should be a fake.

After confirming the judgment in his heart, Chu Chen was even more surprised, because the maker of this blue and white pot was really amazing, except for that place, he was able to imitate it so realistically.To be honest, he has never met anyone with such a superb craftsmanship in imitating ancient porcelain, except for Zhang Huoni.

"Wait! Couldn't this be imitated by Zhang Huoni?"

When Chu Chen was secretly surprised, he suddenly thought of something related to the "nine autumns" on the jar.

The ancients called it "Nine Autumns" because there are ninety days in autumn, so they collected nine kinds of autumn grass in one picture. The nine kinds of flowers are: budding crabapple, elegant mirabilis, quiet thyme, and gorgeous periwinkle Flowers, blooming chrysanthemums, elegant purple snowflakes, fragrant osmanthus, yellow hollyhock and gentian.

These nine kinds of flowers compete to bloom on the same utensil, and they are colorful and competing for splendor, which is too beautiful to behold.It means celebrating the Nine Autumn Festival and celebrating the harvest together.Hence the name "Nine Autumn Maps" or "Nine Autumn Celebrations".

In ancient poems, there are many mentions of Jiuqiu, and now Chu Chen thinks of "Planting Chrysanthemums" written by Shi Zhu of the Song Dynasty: Planting chrysanthemums in the early spring to help vegetables, benefiting Qi and lightening the body to carry old pictures.In the end, I took advantage of Jiuqiu to strengthen my color, and I was drunk when I was young.

The reason why Chu Chen thought of this poem was a coincidence. Some time ago, he got a piece of fire clay from a box and left a piece of paper. Because he was worried about what details were hidden in it, he kept the few pieces of paper by his side. When you have time, take it out and look for the clues like a guessing game.

However, it was too difficult to find any useful clues from the densely packed small print. After so many days, he didn't find any useful information.Until yesterday when Wu Ke was defending, he changed his method again, so he combined a line from "Changing Chrysanthemums" "Using Jiuqiu to restore the color".

Chu Chen had never read this ancient poem before, and at first he just felt that this sentence had some charm, and he didn't think about the direction of the poem at all, until after discussing with Vincent, he was sitting in the cafe very bored, thinking wildly Only then did I realize whether that sentence could be a sentence in an ancient poem.

So, after returning to Randy's house, Chu Chen used his computer to search online, and he really found out that it was a sentence from "Planting Chrysanthemums".This made him a little excited, but at the same time, he couldn't figure out what Zhang Huoni wanted to express with this sentence or this poem, because there were too many extended meanings.

It wasn't until now that Chu Chen saw this Chenghua blue and white jar that was so realistically imitated, that Chu Chen felt that perhaps that line of poetry referred to this Qinggong jar.

Thinking of this, Chu Chen quickly searched the inside and outside of this blue and white pot carefully, because if it was the work of Zhang Huoni, he should have left his unique mark, but after searching around, He didn't find it, which made him feel a little surprised.

Chu Chen frowned and thought to himself, "Did I think wrong?"
Warren next to him saw Chu Chen constantly looking at his blue and white porcelain, and thinking hard from time to time, which made him nervous.

You must know that among the many antiques he bought, apart from the few that had been appraised by Chu Chen the day before yesterday, only the few in front of him were genuine ones that had been appraised by experts.He has now put his hope of revitalizing his business on these few antiques, and he really doesn't want any accidents to happen to the Chenghua blue and white pot in front of him.

So Warren, who looked nervous, asked quickly, "Chu, is there something wrong with this blue and white pot?"

"Not sure yet, wait until I have a look!"

Chu Chen shook his head. The reason why he said this was because he thought that if the thing was not made by Zhang Huoni, then he would definitely not be able to spend a lot of money to buy a fake one back.And if the thing was made of Zhang Huoni, it meant that there might be some clues hidden in it, so he would definitely buy it back no matter what.

Next, Chu Chen searched inside and out again, but the result was still the same as before, which made him really puzzled, but in order to avoid mistakes, he immediately used his ability.

The result of the ability made Chu Chen very speechless, because there is indeed a specially made interlayer at the bottom of the jar, and there is a very small key in the interlayer, and I don’t know where this key is used. of……

　Notebook is broken, depressed!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)