Chapter 33: The Ink Jade Xuanwu Seal
The Chixia Mountain Antique Market is the busiest on Saturdays, with no stalls from Monday to Friday, and Saturdays are more lively than Sundays. Because many of the goods collected by the stalls were put out for the first time on Saturday, and only the leftovers were picked on Sunday.
The old worms who come to the stall know this, so they come early in the morning on Saturdays.
However, since the past two years, the Chixia Mountain Antique Market has also learned the old way in the Beijing and Tianjin areas, and has made a ghost market in the early hours of Sunday, and the stalls can be sold at three o'clock in the morning on Sunday.
In fact, it is a formality, and it is also a gimmick to prosper the market.
Ghost markets have a special era background. Looking at antiques, it must be the most appropriate under natural sunlight, this flickering with a flashlight to shoot around, the hit rate must be lower. But the effect of this ghost market is very good, and the reason is that many people like this atmosphere.
When Wu Duo and Chang Song came to the stall area, it was already half past nine. It's not early, and there are a lot of people.
The two of them started from the west and walked east.
The biggest advantage of the stall area of the Chixia Mountain antique market is that no matter whether it is true or not, at least it is mostly the category of antiques. Those Bodhi, beads, fruit pits, and handicrafts have specially concentrated greenhouse areas.
Wu Duo "tried" a lot of things at the beginning, but he didn't come across a really good thing.
It's not that it's not old, but it's not that the old ones are valuable, and many things are the so-called old people, too common, and how old they are are not of much value.
After walking around a small half of the stalls, the best thing Wu Duo encountered was a blue and white jar from the Yongzheng Kiln, and the picture was a very representative "Flower Longevity" of the Yongzheng Dynasty.
The so-called longevity between flowers is a group of floral patterns around the tank in the middle, and the interval is marked with the word longevity. This kind of ornamentation is very distinctive, and it is also very elegant and beautiful.
This jar is a full product, but the stall owner has killed 6,000, and the price is not down. This is also regarded as the market price, the blue and white jar of Yongzheng Min's kiln Huajian Shou is a thousand things. When Wu Duo saw this, he didn't ask for it.
At this time, Chang Song fell in love with a green and white jade flower stamp on another jade-based stall. When he took it and looked at it repeatedly, Wu Duo also came up.
The biggest feature of the flower monogram is that the content of the print is relatively "flower", which may be a variant word, a symbol, or a certain pattern.
Flower monogram was mainly popular in the Song, Jin, and Yuan dynasties.
For example, the apron of the famous Song Huizong, like a "one" and a "π" of a variant of aliens, is actually combined, and the content of the seal can be interpreted as "one person in the world".
Of course, Song Huizong's monogram is a monogram, which is handwritten, not sealed.
However, during the Song, Jin and Yuan dynasties, from the emperor to the commoners, many people liked to make flower monograms.
The flower stamp that Chang Song is holding in his hand is very simple, with a rectangular base and a bridge-shaped button. The volume is not large, with a long side of three centimeters and a narrow side of two centimeters.
As soon as Wu Duo saw the quality of jade, he knew that it was Hetian jade. However, this year, although he didn't think it was new, he couldn't eat it for sure.
I can't understand the content of the printed text, and it looks a bit like a traditional "Ye" character when viewed vertically.
The stall owner was a young man with a mustache, who was quite capable of blowing, saying that this was a Song Dynasty thing, and it should be the property of princes and nobles; Chang Song asked the price, and it was less than 30,000 yuan.
Wu Duo took it and tried it, and when he heard it, he didn't expect this thing to be a bit old, roughly in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, but it was an ordinary folk private seal.
Those who play jade generally know a saying, the old is not as good as the new, just on such things.
With the same material, if modern handicrafts are well-made, they may not be cheaper than old things.
Mainly because such old goods are too ordinary, the craftsmanship is not sophisticated enough, and after years, there are often many damages, even if there are no major defects, small bumps are inevitable.
Another important point is that the cost of antiques is sometimes very low, ordinary old goods, relatively easy to receive, and the shipping price may not be high.
"Yuan Fang, what do you think?" Chang Song asked when he saw Wu Duo holding something and pondering for a while.
"Thirty thousand is too high. Wu Duo put the thing back on the stall, Chang Songxu liked it very much, and immediately grabbed it in his hand again.
"And how much do you say it's worth?" asked the stall owner.
"Three hundred. Wu Duo's face did not change.
"Don't make a fuss. ”
"How can this thing get to the Song Dynasty? The jade is not white and has cotton, which is a few hundred pieces of goods. This has a "high level", and Wu Duo is also hard to speak.
It's kind of refreshing.
"What about you talking about serious!" the stall owner hooked his hand at Chang Song, "Does he have the final say?" If he has the final say, you can return it to me, there are still people waiting to see it!"
"Are you all true or fake?" Chang Song also noticed the change in Wu Duo, it was not that he had not visited the stall together before, how could he be so hung now.
"If you don't believe me, I'll do as you please. Wu Duo smiled and turned to look at the other things on the stall.
"Dude, it doesn't matter if he says it counts, you really want too much······" Chang Song nodded, but he still didn't let go, and began to grind with the stall owner.
Wu Duo looked at it, and suddenly found a jade seal near the stall owner's feet.
The volume is not small, the bottom edge of the square must be more than four centimeters, and the height should be more than five centimeters.
It's pitch black, it looks like black jade, and there are turtle-shaped buttons on it, which are not really seen from a distance, but this turtle-shaped button is a bit special, more like Xuanwu.
"Dude, show me the black button mark at your feet!" said Wu Duochong, the stall owner.
"Yes, you two don't specialize in jade seals, do you?" the stall owner pursed his lips, picked it up, leaned over and handed it to Wu Duo.
Wu Duo also leaned over to pick it up.
Antiques and other things, logically speaking, it is better not to hand over hands, but in fact, when you go to the antique market, in addition to porcelain and large items, it is not uncommon for stalls to be handed over hand to hand.
Wu Duo took it and took a closer look, this should be something like jade, or it can be said to be black jade, but it is definitely not Hetian ink jade, nor is it something like black onyx; the weight is still relatively overwhelming, and it is impossible to be a coal spirit.
This seal button is indeed a Xuanwu shape, because the neck and tail are still relatively long. The knife work is relatively concise, not something that comes out of the modern electric carving head.
Looking at the inscription, it is four words, but Wu Duo doesn't know it, and he can't even recognize what font it is, it should be a kind of seal script, but it is not the most common small seal.
As for the vintage, it looks like it has been put into the ground, but it is difficult to judge when it was unearthed.
Yes, my eyesight is still poor!
Wu Duo put the middle finger of his left hand on it.
Hearing this, Wu Duo couldn't help but be stunned after calculating the year.
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