Chapter 140: You're Gone

Zhang Nan also asked about the house, and planned to contact the department store tomorrow to get things done as soon as possible. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

In the afternoon, with some special gifts bought in Xi'an, the four of them drove to Weng Qianhui's house.

First of all, I had a polite conversation with the mother of the Weng family's sisters and brothers, and then went to see the things that Weng Yeming bought on behalf of him.

Three main rooms, one for one, and dinner in their mother's room, which was larger. But this will be Weng Yeming's room interesting: it is full of boxes and pockets, looking at the whole grocery store.

Fortunately, Weng Yeming is still a little "tidying up", more than messy, otherwise it is estimated that there will be no place to put his feet.

"Brother Zhang, look, it's all here. There are calligraphy and paintings, porcelain, coins and everything, as well as two official hat chairs in their early four years at the latest and early Qing Dynasty and a matching coffee table, I let my relatives in the furniture factory see it, absolutely Huanghuali..."

A set of chairs is very well preserved, the so-called "four heads", which means that the chair comes out at both ends of the head and the front end of the left and right armrests. This is the traditional title of the folk carpenter, from the vulgar to the elegant, and now it is the standard name for this type of chair.

There are very few decorative carvings on the two chairs, except for a flower pattern enclosed by a pair of claws in relief on the backrest, and a small cloud on the door of the pot on the other subtle carving.

There is little decoration, this is because the characteristics of the Huanghuali four-headed official hat chair are not in the decoration at all, but in the thin components and large curvature!

The curved and slender elements had to be cut out of thick wood: the chair could have been made quite stout from the raw materials, but it had been cut to a slender and delicate effect at the expense of the same size.

Moreover, its front and rear legs are made of wood, the hind legs are directly extended to the brain, and the front legs support the goose neck.

Zhang Nan doesn't understand wood, but he can still understand the style: this pair of chairs is really good!

I also tried the skeleton of the chair, and it felt very hard, and there was no shaking at all, indicating that the tenons and tenons everywhere still bite tightly. The most commendable thing is that the soles of the eight feet of the two chairs are basically not rotten, and the state of preservation is first-class.

After carefully studying it for a while, he said to Weng Yeming: "Ye Ming, these two chairs are typical Ming Dynasty styles, and nine times out of ten they are Ming Dynasty products, but the possibility of the early Qing Dynasty cannot be ruled out." ”

As he spoke, he pointed to the slender four-corner coffee table and said: "This coffee table should not be the original match, I think it will be in the middle of the Qing Dynasty at the earliest." ”

When Weng Yeming heard this, he was a little nervous: "I just let that relative see a chair, the bicycle is not easy to bring, will it be a loss?"

He was bought for the original price of the whole set of tables and chairs.

Seeing that the young man was a little nervous, Zhang Nan smiled and said, "How much money did you spend in total?"

"300 yuan, the main knowledge of buying things. ”

"It's not a loss, it's okay. ”

Nowadays, sometimes a mahogany official hat chair is cheaper than two newly made stools, 300 yuan, which is already a high price, but the furniture of the Ming Dynasty is originally small, and the seller is also a person in the circle, so the price cannot be lowered.

If you are in a demolition household, you can get 50 yuan for three things.

After looking at the chair and looking at the others, Weng Yeming took out the painting scrolls from the cloth covers: Zheng Banqiao's paintings, Yu Youren's characters... However, among them, Zhang Nan likes Mr. Qigong's 1972 landscape the most.

Now that Mr. Qigong is still alive, his paintings, calligraphy and paintings appear relatively often, and they are only private transactions, and the auction is still a matter of 93 years.

There are not many calligraphy and paintings, only 12 pieces of all kinds, which are still collected by the stall owners after Weng Yeming became the master of Pan's homeland: he doesn't want it at all, and he can't look at ordinary calligraphy and painting.

The porcelain didn't move for a while, Weng Yeming took out a box, which was wrapped in cloth with more than ten silver dollars, most of which were all kinds of rare layouts of Longyang, and only one was very distinctive: Yuan Shikai's high-tasseled China-Republic of China commemorative coin, with the original light.

Although the price of this kind of play is not sky-high in the future, the Republic Signature Edition and the Flying Dragon Signature Edition are expensive to death.

Twenty years later, the silver dollar was still quite common - but at that time it was mostly imitations and fakes.

In '87, there were no high imitations, and even the newly minted counterfeit silver dollars were still largely absent from the market.

I took out a magnifying glass and looked at it carefully, absolutely the original version and the real thing.

"A bit pricey, 50 bucks. Weng Yeming said.

According to the appreciation space in the future, it is not as good as buying official kiln porcelain, but Zhang Nan likes coins, so he didn't say much - silver dollars are always silver dollars, and there is no time to be cheap!

Wrap it in cloth again, hand it to Guan Xingquan, and wrap it in him.

There are many porcelains in this area: all the dynasties of the Qing Dynasty have arrived, and even the very rare Shunzhi official kiln porcelain has a piece, which is a small yellow glazed dragon bowl.

At the beginning of the Qing regime, the wars in various places had not yet subsided, and the porcelain production centered on Jingdezhen had weakened from the late Ming Dynasty to the early Qing Dynasty, and was in a state of stagnation.

The Shunzhi meeting was still in ruins, and it was still busy destroying the Southern Ming Dynasty, and the Qing government had no time to take care of the production of official kilns. Therefore, among the hand-me-down porcelain of the Shunzhi period that is now circulating, the utensils belonging to the official kiln are very rare, and the categories are also few, only a few kinds such as blue and white, colorful, yellow glaze, and eggplant purple.

They were still busy fighting and killing people, and even the Manchu emperor didn't have the heart to ask for any good porcelain - the chairs were still unstable and in no mood.

Because of this, most of the Shunzhi porcelain that has been handed down today is common for the daily utensils and offerings produced by the people's kilns.

"Ye Ming, the end of the Shunzhi Dynasty 18 years, if you compare the few Shunzhi official kiln heirlooms with the relatively many Kangxi official kilns, you can find that the two are very similar in terms of modeling, tire glaze, ornamentation and style font. From this point, we can deduce that most of the Shunzhi official kilns that have been handed down should be dated to the late Shunzhi Dynasty. ”

Put this slightly ordinary yellow glazed bowl in the box, Zhang Nan said again: "There are too few official kilns in Shunzhi, and there are not many people who like and understand them, so although it is rare, I feel that the price in the future will not even be as good as the official kiln porcelain of the Kang Yongqian Dynasty, which is a very strange phenomenon." ”

"Well, Brother Zhang, I only spent 10 yuan on this bowl, which is cheaper than a Qianlong bowl. ”

The people who will do it don't seem to look down on the Shunzhi official kiln, which is really strange.

"Next time, if you still encounter Shunzhi official kiln porcelain, as long as it is not too broken, don't let it go. ”

"Okay, Brother Zhang. ”

Those large and small boxes are all official kiln porcelain, mainly from the middle and late Qing Dynasty, but they are all very exquisite, especially the vases of ornamental vessels.

After all, the official kilns of the "first three Qing" are a minority, and there are relatively few sold, and most of them are still the official kiln porcelain of Tongzhi and Guangxu years.

Weng Yeming is quite reliable, he has a notebook and another account book to record, and the notebook notes "What things were bought on which day, and what prices were there." ”

In the ledger, it is classified according to the different attributes of antiques.

Those plates and bowls are one by one, Zhang Nan just looked at it in general; the ornamental ware is carefully looked at, they are all official kiln artifacts of the Dynasty, although not every piece can be regarded as a fine product, but at least there is no imitation of the Republic of China.

In the end, Weng Yeming took out a flat paper box, opened it and said: "Brother Zhang, this is a good thing, a blue and white lotus pattern plate in the Xuande official kiln." ”

Zhang Nan picked it up and looked at it carefully, and said while looking at it: "Ye Ming, this kind of bouquet of lotus is a traditional pattern on porcelain paintings that has lasted for a long time since the Song Dynasty, and it can often be seen on the celadon of Yaozhou kiln in the Song Dynasty and the porcelain of Yongle and Xuande official kilns in the Yuan Dynasty and Ming Dynasty, which means 'a clean and honest'..."

This plate has a straight mouth, a lip edge, a hoop foot, and a sand bottom. The center of the plate is decorated with a bunch of lotus patterns, the inner and outer walls are painted with entwined flower patterns, and the inner and outer edges of the mouth are decorated with curly grass patterns and continuous back lines.

The blue and white color is bright, the enamel is also thick and smooth, and the unglazed outsole is white and delicate. The ornamental paintings are also relatively vivid and natural, and the painting is elegant at first glance.

Only Zhang Nan was talking in the house, and no one else was listening: when an expert looked at the utensils, the others generally did not bother. Even people who don't know how to do it generally can't speak - Zhang Nan's serious and committed appearance is contagious.

After a few minutes, Zhang Nan put down the plate and put a magnifying glass in his pocket.

"I bought it at the price of Xuande porcelain?"

These words made Weng Yeming chuckle in his heart, "Well, it cost 500 yuan." ”

Zhang Nan grinned: "Ye Ming, you're gone." ”

Although Zhang Nan was praising Weng Yeming for doing a good job, there was a problem in the last one: 500 yuan, which is Weng Yeming's salary for half a year!

Zhang Nan promised to give him 10% of the hardship fee for buying on his behalf, if this plate was a fake, then Weng Yeming really didn't know what to do.

"The old man who bought things was Pan Jiayuan, he shouldn't lie to me. He has a lot of things, and he can't cheat me once, so I bought more than 3,000 yuan of things from him. ”

Antique dealers will never target old customers, otherwise they would have bought 10,000 yuan a year from them, and they could have earned four or five thousand. As a result, because I sold someone else's fake goods once, I made a 500, but in the end I broke off my business!

Seeing that he was a little anxious, Zhang Nan hurriedly said, "Don't worry, Ye Ming, the person who sold your plate may not see the problem." I said that you are distracted, but I didn't say that this is a fake, this should be an imitation of the official kiln of Yongzheng or Qianlong. It's not strange that you and that person can't see it, I don't blame you, how can you not look away in this business for a lifetime..."

Before, the sister and brother were eager to break a penny into two petals, but now although they are rich, it is all Zhang Nan's money, and it is not practical to use it.

"Brother Zhang, I really didn't see anything wrong at the time, can you tell me about it? I'll go back and find that guy!"

Hearing his words, Zhang Nan said: "Did you and that person explain in advance that if there is a problem with the thing, you can return it?"

"Well, as I said, that person is also an old capital, patted his chest and said that this plate is definitely a genuine Xuande official kiln, and if there is a problem, he swallowed it, and many people who practice stalls have seen it. ”

"That's fine, I'll tell you what's the problem, and you'll get the money back in two days. But this plate is actually not bad, you can buy it for 30 yuan. ”

If there is no prior agreement, you can only think that you are unlucky, but since the person said big things in public, and they are all in a circle, they have to spit out the money. (To be continued.) )