Chapter Seventy-Five: It is difficult to grow boxwood for a thousand years
Finally, there are three old objects, one wood carving and two jade carvings.
Hu Yang picked up the wood carving, watched for a while, the carving is very interesting, it is an old birthday star image with a cane in one hand and a peach in the other, which is very pleasing.
"Brother Hu, what kind of wood is this?" Andy asked.
Many people in the live broadcast room are old viewers of Populus euphratica, who have seen antiques, and they dare not underestimate something made of wood.
As for the wood carving image, most people can recognize it, and the birthday star is too distinctive, with a protruding forehead, just like a monk fish.
"To be precise, this is a root carving, you should have heard of it, right?" asked Hu Yang.
Root carving is a kind of carving technology in China, with the self-generated form and distortion of the roots of the tree as the object of artistic creation, through the conception of ideas, artistic processing and technological processing, to create figures, animals, utensils and other artistic image works.
In other words, the carving in front of me originally looked almost like this image, which is very rare. β
It is a plastic art that discovers natural beauty and shows creative processing, in the creation of root carving, it should mainly use the natural form of the root material to express the artistic image, and assist in artificial processing and modification.
Hearing Hu Yang say this, everyone was surprised.
The natural roots of the tree look like people? I don't know, I think it's ginseng, it's too strange. Of course, everyone also understands a truth: in this world, there are no wonders!
"It's almost like this, it's magical!" Andy was surprised.
Hu Yang smiled: "The root carving is originally strange, not to mention the roots, the stones are similar, the strange stones that everyone is familiar with are, we may also come into contact with them in the future, so I won't talk about it in detail."
Speaking of which, the root carving is more elaborate on the conception ability and imagination of a carver, and it should be used according to the specific form of the tree roots, and the design should be done well with the technique of modification.
Just like this one, the shape of the Antarctic fairy is carved, and the protruding part should be a tree nodule, and the creator is using this. β
"Antarctic Immortal, I thought it was the birthday boy!" Andy said a little embarrassed.
Brother Song and the others also nodded, their thoughts were the same as Andy's.
Song Ying's little girl openly despised it: "You are so stupid, you are not more serious about reading than me, the Antarctic Immortal Weng is the birthday star!"
In their history books, it seems to have been introduced, and it just so happened that she remembered this.
Belch!
A group of people was speechless: Is that so?
Hu Yang had a black line, and when he saw someone in the live broadcast room, he asked stupidly: Isn't that the old man from Fu Lushou?
"Song Xiaomei is right! The Antarctic Immortal Weng is Shou Xinggong, that is, one of the people in Fu Lu Shou. To correct everyone, Fu Lu Shou is three immortals, not one person, representing blessing, wealth, and longevity, three very precious things in life. β
When those people heard this, they all wanted to shut themselves up, and they felt that they had just asked stupidly.
"Speaking of dendretums just now, you should know that it's the same as our human tumors.
However, nodules are not all harmful, for example, some nodules can be processed into vases, pipes and other works of art, which are very popular. Rosewood nodules are particularly precious, with dark red color, gorgeous lines, delicate texture, dense and oily.
Take, for example, this root carving, which is worth at least a quarter of what it is worth because of the tree nodules. β
Andy whispered, "This can't be the root of rosewood, right?"
"Brother Hu just gave an example, Brother Hua, you are so naΓ―ve. β
Everyone found out that this little sister Song Ying has a very poisonous mouth.
Brother Song also shook his head and said, "This is the root of the lychee tree." β
Populus euphratica then denied: "No, this is not lychee wood, but the roots of boxwood." β
In fact, many root carving works are made of lychee wood. It is a hardwood, it is a fine wood, and it is very resistant to acids. The material is hard and heavy, tough and durable, not afraid of water immersion, and is a good material for wood carving and furniture. Where the old lychee wood is more than 100 years old, its roots are coiled and knotted with good shape, and it has more ornamental value than ordinary mahogany.
But the one in front of me is obviously not, the features are too obvious.
"Boxwood? Brother Song frowned. He remembered that someone once told him that this was the root carving of lychee wood, and his feelings wanted to trap him.
For a while, there was a feeling of "there is always a need to harm the people".
"There is a saying in our industry, called: It is difficult to grow boxwood for a thousand years!
In other words, boxwood is difficult to grow and grows very slowly. It is said that it is not as thick as a bowl in fifty years. Because it is difficult to grow, it is only suitable for carving small figures.
But it has a tough texture, a delicate grain, moderate hardness, and a bright color, some of which are egg yellow, and can be comparable to ivory after being finely carved and polished. With age, its color changes from light to dark.
In the folk of our country, boxwood has always been regarded as a hundred poisons, suppressing evil and warding off evil spirits, and being safe and auspicious. β
"Isn't this work very valuable?" Andy was curious.
"The objects of the Ming Dynasty, although they are only three fingers big and less than ten centimeters high, are still worth two or three hundred thousand. β
Brother Song listened, touched a handful of sweat, and then burst into a foul mouth: "Damn!"
"What's wrong? Brother Song. Andy looked over.
"Ignore my dad, he was almost deceived, the last time someone gave 10,000 yuan, he struggled for a long time. β
This little girl didn't let go of her father when she was scared, so that the people in the live broadcast room had a good impression of her, and she spoke very directly. However, if it scares itself, I'm afraid it won't be comfortable.
"The other two jade carvings, nothing to look at. Actually, they are one thing. Hu Yang looked at the last jade carving and said.
"One thing?"
Whether it is Andy, Brother Song and others, or the audience in the live broadcast room, they didn't expect that those two jade carvings were one thing.
"The quality of the green jade is okay, but it is not a high-end product. This figure carving was originally supposed to sit on the back of the green ox carving. For some unknown reason, they were separated. Populus euphratica said with certainty.
He briefly explained his basis, such as the jade quality of the two pieces of jade, the carving technique was also done by the same person, and so on.
All in all, this jade is the least valuable, probably tens of thousands.
There are too many green jade in China, and ordinary quality green jade is not worth much at all.
Brother Song was not disappointed, and the current result had exceeded his expectations. The total value of these items is almost three million, which is not a small amount for his family.
He is very grateful for the arrival of Populus euphratica, although he can also take it to a special institution for identification, but to be honest, it is not safe. It is not uncommon for some appraisal agencies to know that it is genuine, but they say that it is a fake, and then find someone to buy it back at a low price.