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Chapter 768 Inner Painting Pot, Li Lianying

When the stall owner heard this, he immediately lowered his head to check, and then picked up a snuff bottle from the side of the blue and white pen holder, "Is this it?"

"It's not this emerald, it's another agate." Yu Yao replied.

Beside the blue and white pen container, there is a small wooden box, which is open, and there are two snuff bottles in it, one is emerald and the other is agate.This emerald is of oily green waxy variety, of average quality, and it is something that has been produced in recent years; the other agate is a white agate with a pretty color, which seems to have a certain sense of patina from a distance.

This agate snuff bottle is white and transparent as a whole, with brown on both sides, and the double fish is skillfully carved with this brown color.The lid is matched with southern red agate.

"This..." The young man picked up the agate snuff bottle again, with an unnatural expression on his face, "Okay, let's take a look first!"

This young stall owner is a bit different from ordinary antique stall owners. Yu Yao has already seen it just now. Not only is his quotation true, but his temper is also a bit... not bad enough.

However, Yu Yao didn't know why he was a little strange.

The two handed over the agate snuff bottles hand in hand.Although it is common sense in the industry not to pass antiques as much as possible, there are some things and situations that are more convenient to hand.In fact, in many antique markets, hand-to-hand handover of antiques can be seen everywhere, except for porcelain or large pieces.

Yu Yao looked at the front first.

This is an inside-painted snuff bottle, that is, it is painted backwards with paint from the inside of the pot, and it looks like a normal picture from the outside of the pot.Inside-painted snuff bottles must be made of transparent materials, such as crystal, such as glass-like feeders; and this one, which is very transparent agate.

On the front of the snuff bottle, the painting is "fishing, woodcutters, plowing and reading"; a mountain and a river are cleverly used to divide the picture into four parts, reflecting four scenes.Although small, the characters are vivid and the eyebrows can be seen clearly.

Yu Yao looked at the back again, and it was the inscription.Only then did he understand why the young man was acting strange.

Because the inscription is: Mr. Li Lianying, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, personally played, in the Guangxu Year of the Qing Dynasty.There is also a vermilion seal painted on the back: Xinglin Tangye.

Obviously, the lad probably didn't think it was genuine.

The "Li Lianying" above is naturally the well-known "Li Lianying". His real name is Li Jinxi, and he was later given the name "Lianying" by Cixi, but the folks generally call him "Lianying".

Li Lianying was highly regarded by Cixi. For him, Cixi also broke the ancestral system of the Manchu Qing Dynasty that "the rank of eunuchs is limited to the fourth rank" and named him the second rank.Because of Cixi, Li Lianying was powerful for a while, and he was also the first person to call Cixi "Lafayette", and he licked it extremely well.

Cixi is not a good thing in itself, and Li Lianying, as a dog's leg, needless to say.

However, although Li Lianying is a celebrity with a long history of infamy, he is a big celebrity after all; moreover, the things that the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs "plays with" must be excellent things.

Marks like this are often the hardest hit areas for fraud.

Moreover, this agate-painted snuff bottle is more than just a "gimmick".

The seal represents the author and is also a great master.

"Xinglintangye" is Ye Zhongsan's hall name.

As mentioned before, there are three main schools of Chinese interior-painted snuff bottles: the Beijing School, the Hebei School, and the Lu School.Among them, there are four representative figures in the inner painting pot of the Beijing School, as the saying goes: Ma Shaoxuan who entered the hall, Ye Zhongsan who enjoyed both elegance and vulgarity, Yangchun Baixue Zhou Leyuan, and Wu Changan who was full of civil and military talents.

Ye Zhongsan's inside-painted snuff bottles, genuine products, often fetch high prices at auction.

If these two "gimmicks" are added to a snuff bottle, if it is genuine, the value can be imagined!

However, this is simply the perfect combination of fake "love".

Therefore, this may be the main reason why the young man feels that it is not true.

But Yu Yao doesn't care about these things when he looks at things, what he looks at is the year and craftsmanship.This is the case with the antique business. As long as the eyesight is good, all "blurring tricks" are just clouds.No matter if the fake is confused with the real, or the real matches the fake, there is only one result after seeing through it, the real can't be fake, and the fake can't be real.

The year of this agate snuff bottle should be no problem. From the texture of the paste and the craftsmanship, it is from the Guangxu period.

Moreover, this agate snuff bottle is still a "float on water".

During the Guangxu period, many princes and nobles liked agate "floating on water" snuff bottles.

Floating on the water actually refers to the evisceration process. With such a small mouth and such a big belly, it is not easy to take out the shape of the pot evenly; The inner wall of the paper is smooth; after digging out and throwing it into the water, it will naturally float on the water.

Looking at the skill of this inner painting, it really corresponds to the words "both refined and popular". At first glance, it is beautiful and delicate, and then it is unique in composition, and it has a special charm when viewed deeply.

This thing is no problem!Yu Yao sighed secretly.Although he doesn't like Li Lianying, the value of the things is still very high.He doesn't collect this thing, so it can be handed down completely.

However, after Yu Yao understood it, he felt that the previous idea was unlikely—it is impossible for the young man to conclude that it is not true just because of "Li Lianying" and "Ye Zhongsan". The year and craftsmanship are here!At the very least, he is an antique stall owner and someone in the industry. If he is really unsure, he can ask someone to take a look.

"How much is the minimum?" Yu Yao asked as he thought about it.

"Look at it!" The young man responded.

"Don't tell me your quotation is true, you should come." Yu Yao smiled, "You shouldn't be happy if I said it was too low!"

"Haven't you looked at the pot lid?" The young man didn't quote directly, but asked again.

"Look, it's new, Nanhong with glue injection and coloring." Yu Yao could clearly see the lid of the pot at a glance.However, such a snuff bottle is worth collecting even if it lacks a cap.With such a rear lid, it is a big deal to throw it away and replace it with a higher-grade one.

However, after the young man said this, Yu Yao still took the lid off the snuff bottle and looked at it again.Just now, I saw that it was the cover that was added later, and my attention was focused on the pot, so I didn't take it off.

After taking it down and looking at it, Yu Yao finally understood the problem that he couldn't figure out before.

There is nothing to say about the lid of the pot, it is a post-matching one.But the inside of the spout has been polished!At a glance, you can tell that the electric grinding head is used, and the technique is very general, that is, simply "flare".

This should be when Gaier was added later, the "plug" of Gaier was too big, so it was further processed.Because the Gaier itself is too small, it is definitely not as easy as holding a snuff bottle to "expand" the snuff bottle, so I just did it.

Yu Yao couldn't help cursing secretly, the person who did this is really a stick!It's fine if you can't recognize a good thing, but it's even destructive!
(End of this chapter)