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Chapter 360 Tourmaline Seal
Yu Yao squatted down, naturally because he saw something worth looking at carefully.

Pu Jie didn't pay attention to the things, but he also squatted down with Yu Yao, and asked mutteringly, "The thing just now, I think it's a bit old... How much do you think they will come for?"

Because it was still on the big episode, Pu Jie naturally wouldn't talk about Geyao Xizi.

"It's not expensive, maybe it was collected from three melons and two dates in the countryside." Yu Yao turned his head and replied in a low voice, and at the same time picked up a blue and white jar at random.

"Maybe there is something wrong with it, and it won't be visible after repairing it for a while..." Pu Jie continued to say, but Yu Yao gave him a look.It's useless to talk too much, even if people use it as a "clip", you have no evidence, and this is not the place to talk.

In fact, what they were muttering, the stall owner on the opposite side didn't hear clearly, but he saw Yu Yao picked up the blue and white jar and said, "There is some oil in this jar, I didn't wipe it on, it was used as an oil jar before it was collected." Woolen cloth!"

The owner of the stall is a man in his forties, he looks very rich, with a red face and a round nose, like a small landlord.

Yu Yao wasn't doing it for the jar, it's just that he stopped suddenly, if he squatted down and picked up the thing he was looking for, it would be easy to buy fried.

"This jar of picture cards is quite beautiful, but the weight is too light, and it doesn't feel good to the touch." Yu Yao smiled, put down the jar, and looked back and forth on the stall again.

This blue and white pot should be an imitation from 30 or [-] years ago. It is an imitation of Ming Jiajing official kiln, but the standard is not high, and there are a lot of loopholes in Yu Yao's eyes.The carcass of this jar was made thicker than that of the Jiajing official kiln, but Yu Yao did the opposite, saying it was lighter.

The stall owner grinned twice, but his eyes changed slightly, thinking that this is too light?Is this a pretentious mallet?
Originally, Yu Yao didn't have so many odds and ends when he went to the stalls, but probably because of the impact of the incident just now, he always felt that the stall owners were trying to plot against people.

At this time, Yu Yao picked up the thing he was looking at just now, and looked at it carefully in his hand.

This is a tourmaline seal, with a statue of auspicious animal buttons carved on the upper part, and the lower part is oval, more than five centimeters high; the oval part.The short diameter is about two centimeters, and the long diameter is more than four centimeters.

The tourmaline seal is placed in the same wooden box with several pieces of agate and emerald.The reason why Yu Yao can hit it is because its main body is sea blue, which is more conspicuous among the red, yellow agate and green and white jadeite.

There are not many tourmaline-like seal handicrafts, and there are few imitations, most of which are a little old, so Yu Yao squatted down.

Tourmaline is a kind of gemstone. It has been called many times in Chinese history. These two words have only been fixed and unified since modern times. It sounds very interesting. In fact, its mineralogical name is tourmaline, which sounds much less interesting.

The biggest feature of tourmaline is that it is rich in color, including red, yellow, blue, green and purple, etc. The richer the color, the purer the texture, the higher the value.

Blue tourmaline and colorless tourmaline are relatively rare, and they are the most valuable colors in tourmaline, while yellow and green are the most common.The rose-purple tourmaline is called "baby's face" in China, and the multi-colored tourmaline is called "watermelon tourmaline".

Overall, the market price of tourmaline is still not comparable to that of some precious stones.High-quality tourmaline once reached a peak a few years ago, and has fallen back in recent years.High-quality tourmaline beads and pendants generally cost a few hundred yuan per gram.

However, there are also top-level tourmalines that have been sold for more than [-] yuan per gram.This cannot be generalized, any top-quality gemstones are quite special, and they cannot be mass-produced, and many accidental factors are involved.

Just judging from the sea blue tourmaline seal held in Yu Yao's hand, it is a high-quality material, but it can't reach the top level of being very pure, rich and eye-catching.

However, this seal has to be [-] to [-] grams, which is not small; the bigger it is, the harder it is to purify its quality. It is not easy to have such a quality with such a size.

Moreover, although the color of this tourmaline seal is not strong enough, it is not refreshing; there are some flocs like cracked ice in it, but it is not messy, and it feels auspicious and auspicious.

Before Yu Yao got started, he definitely didn't know the printed text, and after seeing the quality, he first asked about the price.

The stall owner offered "1 yuan" and seemed to be quite knowledgeable. "Blue tourmalines are lustful. The price I paid was for materials, without including the engraver and year!"

What he said sounded true, but Pu Jie was secretly annoyed at the side: What kind of materials cost money for the carving, maybe you only spent three hundred and five hundred when you received it!
"The tourmaline is a bit transparent, so it's always weird to carve a seal. Besides, why didn't I see the year? It won't be a hundred years if I die, right?" Yu Yao retorted while flipping through the seal.

"This is an idle chapter, and I can't tell the truth, but I feel that the patina is familiar, and it can reach the Qing Dynasty no matter what."

At this time, Pu Jie curled his lips, "Yeah, you can't go ahead, I haven't heard that there was a tourmaline seal before the Qing Dynasty. Even in the Qing Dynasty, it was because the old lady Cixi liked tourmaline, so it was popularized."

Cixi really likes tourmaline, and there is also a ten-jin tourmaline pillow buried with her. It is said that it cost several 10 taels of silver at the time, but after the excavation of Cixi's mausoleum, the whereabouts of this thing is still unknown.

"Little brother, what you said is wrong! At least I know that Qianlong used a tourmaline seal, and He Shen used a tourmaline snuff bottle!"

In fact, the history of the use of tourmaline in China, even if historical materials and real objects can be confirmed, at the latest in the Ming Dynasty, but it was used as an embellishment on utensils, and no independent single piece was found.In the Qing Dynasty, long before Cixi, Qianlong, who liked jade, also preferred tourmaline.

But Pu Jie grinned, "Then why don't you say that this seal was used by Qianlong?"

The stall owner was not annoyed when Pu Jie choked on this sentence, he laughed and said, "I dare to say it, but you have to believe it!"

At this time, Yu Yao suddenly raised his head, with a smile that was not a smile, "I praise you, trust you. Can you give me a little bit cheaper?"

"You little brother, you can really talk. But the 1 yuan, I didn't take it for nothing. If you go to the gem market now and buy a tourmaline carving of similar quality and weight, you will have to spend this money, right? What's more, it's still an old thing from the Qing Dynasty!"

"The literati in the Qing Dynasty used either jade or Shoushan Qingtian for their seals. I have never heard of tourmaline." Yu Yao smiled. This transparent blue material is used as a seal."

"Don't you believe me?" The stall owner chuckled, "Maybe it really came from the Qing Palace?"

Yu Yao took out a cigarette, and handed over one, "Look, you can say it's sure. In fact, I just like this button. It should be called auspicious beast, but it also looks like a silly little tiger. Quite cute."

(End of this chapter)