Chapter 51: The Clay Box

The easiest way to deal with this routine is to leave directly and see who is more anxious!

Zhao Tianming didn't say a word, put down the ink, stood up and prepared to leave, it didn't seem to be a fraud at all. He dared to guarantee that the price would fall below a thousand.

"Hey, hey, don't go, don't go, how much can you give, why don't you have to pay back? The stall owner immediately retained.

Zhao Tianming stopped, looked at the stall owner, and said, "Didn't you say that there is no need to talk about less than a thousand? This kind of thing, a box is more than ten yuan, and the more expensive one is thirty or fifty, just when your box is an antique, I don't want more than a hundred. ”

The stall owner was a little embarrassed, and he dared to love that this guy knew a lot about the price of ink clay.

"Is it so cheap?" Huang Qifei was surprised.

Zhao Tianming sneered: "The ordinary ones are about the same price, if it is the Eight Treasure Seal Clay, it will be more expensive." ”

He told his buddies that the Eight Treasures Seal Clay was a tribute in ancient times. The treasures loved by Chinese and foreign calligraphers and painters are one of the famous "Three Treasures of Zhangzhou" at home and abroad, known as the "Five Treasures of Study". In the eighteenth century, during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, it was used for royal procurement.

"Zhangzhou Babao Ink Clay has a history of more than 300 years and is the second batch of Chinese time-honored brands in China. Zhao Tianming said.

During the Kangxi period, Wei Changan, the owner of "Lihua Zhai" in Zhangzhou Mansion, selected eight kinds of precious raw materials such as musk, pearls, monkey dates, agate, coral, gold leaf, plum slices, amber, etc., which were ground into powder, and then aged oil, magenta, and mugwort were added, and special processes such as careful ingredients and scientific processing were adopted to make "Eight Treasures Seal Mud".

"Babao ink mud has eight advantages, such as fresh color, fragrant smell, no soaking in water, traces of fire, no drying in dry days, no mildew in rainy days, no oil seepage in summer, and no freezing in winter. Its color is vermilion, bright and eye-catching; delicate and thick, fragrant smell; The cold does not condense in winter, and the summer heat does not leak; It is not dry in the hot and dry, it is not mildew in the rain, and the imprint is clear and will never fade. Even if it is burned with fire, the glyphs on the paper ash are still legible. ”

"So mysterious?" Huang Qifei was stunned when he heard it, burned to ashes, and could distinguish the glyphs?

"When you see the real Eight Treasures Clay in the future, you will know. ”

After listening to Zhao Tianming's words, the stall owner immediately understood that among the two young people, not all of them were fools, but one of them was knowledgeable. It seems that they can't kill them too much.

"How about a hundred dollars cheaper, nine hundred?" said the stall owner.

Just said that there was no need to talk about less than a thousand, and in the blink of an eye, he slapped himself in the face.

However, Zhao Tianming still didn't take the bait, shook his head and said, "I don't want more than a hundred!"

"Eight hundred!" the stall owner gritted his teeth!

"More than a hundred!"

Again, the stall owner felt a little impulsive to hit someone. I will retreat and retreat, you kid can't take a step back?

"Five hundred! It's really the cost price. Think about it! It is cinnabar ink left over from the Qing Dynasty, and 500 yuan is worthy of its identity. The stall owner said.

Huang Qifei next to him is the first time to see Zhao Tianming's bargaining ability, and he really won't back down at all! However, if you talk about it like this, aren't you afraid that the conversation will collapse?

"More than a hundred!"

The stall owner almost didn't scold his mother! Can you have a fresh sentence?

"Pretty boy, you can add a little more! In that case, it will be really difficult for us to trade!" said the stall owner with a bitter face.

Zhao Tianming relieved himself: "Then add fifty yuan to you, one hundred and fifty, and you can keep the extra penny." I may not understand other things very well, but I know the market of ink clay very well. If you don't believe it, you keep it, and whoever gives you more than one hundred and fifty, I will pay you double. ”

The stall owner was depressed to death, how could he meet such a difficult guy? I thought that it was not difficult for two rookies to get pitted, but who knew that there was a hard bone that almost broke his teeth.

"Fifty is too little, three hundred! Don't say anything. The stall owner lowered his demands again.

The real situation of that box of stuff is clear to him. The ink was made by his old man, and it looks a little old, but it was actually made a few months ago.

Making ink clay is regarded as his family's ancestral craft, which was passed down to his Lao Tzu's generation. When I got to him, I didn't continue to study. What is the future of making ink clay? What is the ancestral heirloom, if you can't mix it up and eat, the ancestral one will still be thrown away.

"Let's go!" Zhao Tianming turned to Huang Qifei and said.

"Really go?" Huang Qifei asked stupidly.

Zhao Tianming nodded: "More than one hundred and fifty, I don't feel worth it." Beyond that, I might as well buy a new one, the color will be a little better than this. ”

Seeing that Zhao Tianming and they were really leaving, the stall owner hurriedly covered the ink and stuffed it into Zhao Tianming's hand: "I'm afraid of you, one hundred and fifty will be one hundred and fifty!"

Anyway, the cost is a few dollars, and if it can be sold for one hundred and fifty, it can be regarded as a big profit.

Zhao Tianming took the ink, looked at it for a while, counted one hundred and fifty yuan for the stall owner, and then continued to walk forward.

The clay box belongs to the enamel colored porcelain, which looks very gorgeous, which is the characteristic of the enamel color.

Porcelain fetal painting enamel is a kind of decorative technique introduced from abroad, which is called "Gu Yuexuan" by later generations, and "rose color" by foreign countries. It is a kind of fine painted porcelain specially made for the Qing Dynasty court, and some products are also used to reward meritorious heroes.

According to Zhao Tianming's knowledge, enamel color is a wonderful flower in China's ceramic decorative arts, occupies an important position in the history of Chinese ceramic development, and is an extremely valuable royal vessel.

In the two hundred years after its birth, it was all royal porcelain, and the semi-finished products of Jingdezhen were fired twice in BJ, and the people almost did not know, and it was only known to the society after the first exhibition of the Forbidden City in the third year of the Republic of China. The production skills of enamel porcelain are extraordinary, the characteristics of the times are distinctive, and there are very few hand-me-downs, which are rare and highly respected by the world collectors.

"What, did you earn it?" asked Huang Qifei secretly after leaving the stall.

Zhao Tianming smiled and nodded: "I earned a little." ”

"How much?" asked Huang Qifei curiously.

"It's hard to say, at least tens of thousands!"

Huang Qifei's eyes widened suddenly, in disbelief: "How much? tens of thousands?

Zhao Tianming told him: "The ink itself is not valuable, but this porcelain box is an enamel porcelain from the Qing Dynasty, although it is not very large, it is very valuable." ”

The vast majority of enamel porcelain is plates, bowls, cups, bottles, boxes, and pots, among which bowls and plates are the most, but each variety has different variations.

Huang Qifei was secretly speechless, no wonder others said that the antique industry was profitable. This Nima is as terrifying as robbing a bank! If you buy more than 100 of them, you will have at least tens of thousands, hundreds of times the profit margin, should you be so cruel?