Song Xiuping thought for a moment and said, "Shopkeeper Meng, have you ever considered light colored porcelain?"

"Light colored porcelain?" Meng Zitao really hadn't thought about this kind of porcelain before.

It is a kind of colored porcelain named after the painting technique.

It is by Xianfeng, Tongzhi years, by Cheng Men, Jin Pinqing, Wang Shaowei and a group of painters by Huang Gongwang pioneered by the year with light ochre and ink rendering of a kind of landscape color painting method, applied to the painting of colored porcelain, painted on the white porcelain, and then dyed with light ochre and a small amount of water green, grass green and light blue and other colors, after low temperature firing.

The light color porcelain color is light and soft, which is quite literati and elegant. The subjects are not limited to landscapes, but also people, flowers, birds and animals. In the early days, most of them were painted by literati painters, and later porcelain painters also joined in and imitated them.

However, although the light color porcelain sounds very famous, there are many advantages, but it is not without disadvantages, because it is fired at low temperature, limited by the color material and firing process, the combination of color material and tire glaze is not close enough, easy to fall off.

In addition, the existence of light color porcelain in the history of porcelain is less than 100 years, and the number of surviving porcelain is huge, in the eyes of collectors, such porcelain is too new, there is no collection value.

Just like in 2004, when Meng Zitao first came into contact with antiques, he met someone selling light colored porcelain, and he found that these porcelain fetal quality is fine, the glaze is pure, the color is bright, and the shape is elegant, but the price is very low.

Compared with the porcelain of the official kiln of the third dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, which started at tens of thousands, it is simply a big road. Meng Zitao even heard that some people sold porcelain from official kilns. The light colored porcelain made by the famous artist is given to the other party as a head.

Then. Seeing the low price of light colored porcelain, Meng Zitao also thought that this kind of porcelain is more acceptable than those official kiln porcelain, and the quality is not low, so there should be a better value-added space, thinking about whether he should buy some.

However, this idea was dispelled by Li Xianle, who believed that the investment in the antique industry would rather be scarce than excessive, and this light colored porcelain looked good. But the market does not recognize, how much appreciation can be?

Meng Zitao thought about it, this is also a reason, at that time he also went to the Internet to check the relevant information, and found that although there are records of light silk porcelain in the auction market, it was only in 1999 that light silk porcelain was on the auction of Guardian for the first time.

And the next year, a landscape map porcelain plate by its founder Cheng Men. The starting price was only 15,000 yuan, and it ended with the genre.

Auctions like this are a barometer of the antique market, and even Cheng Men's works are unsold, not to mention the works of other famous artists?

Plus. If you want to buy light colored porcelain, you have to buy famous boutiques, but this kind of boutiques cost thousands of pieces, and more than tens of thousands. It wasn't something he could afford at the time, and he thought about it in the end. Or give up the plan to acquire the investment in light color porcelain.

In the nearly two years since, the price of light color has indeed increased a bit. However, around 2006, the transaction price of a Chengmen Qianjiangcai landscape porcelain plate was less than 100,000 yuan.

This kind of famous product only has this price, not to mention others, since then, Meng Zitao no longer pays too much attention to the light color porcelain.

Now listening to Song Xiuping mention it, Meng Zitao reacted that light colored porcelain is indeed a good choice.

Because although the value of light colored porcelain is not high now, it has at least three aspects of value.

First of all, aesthetic value. The three traditional painting disciplines of Chinese painting are reflected in the light silk porcelain painting, and in the light silk color porcelain painting, you can more or less see the shadow of the ancient sage painting.

Secondly, literary value. The painters often wrote lyrical expressions on porcelain, and also used words and pictures to truly record the social life of the time.

Finally, historiographical value. In the early days, most of the light silk porcelain was a gift between officials, so the names of historical celebrities in the late Qing Dynasty frequently appeared on the light silk ware. And, on the light colored porcelain, it is common to see the words "so-and-so" written in the Zhushan official party and so-and-so in the Zhushan factory. All these are of high value to the study of history.

Judging from these three points, even if the light color porcelain is not popular now, as everyone's understanding of the collection is deeper, it will become popular sooner or later.

And now the price of light color porcelain is not high, and 10,000 yuan can indeed buy a masterpiece of a famous artist. It is indeed a good idea to give it to Zheng Anzhi as a gift.

Thinking of this, Meng Zitao arched his hand to Song Xiuping: "Shopkeeper Song, your proposal has helped me a lot." ”

Song Xiuping said with a smile: "Where, in fact, I happen to have a pair of Yu Ziming's light color birthday picture stick mallet bottles, I don't know if you are interested in taking a look?"

Yu Ziming is a famous painter of light silk colored porcelain, active in the Tongzhi and Guangxu periods, and his attainments in the painting of figures, flowers and birds are particularly profound. His colored light porcelain is widely praised for its unique nature and otherworldly artistic charm.

Affected by the general environment, the price of Yu Ziming's works is not high, which is much worse than that of famous artists like Cheng Men, which is more in line with Meng Zitao's requirements.

Therefore, Meng Zitao didn't think much about it, so he agreed, he was not worried about the problem of short-term manpower, because he had some money in his heart. In addition, don't say that he has no intention of sparing Yan Tong'an, even if he agrees to reduce the punishment, a piece of light colored porcelain will be sent away, isn't that a joke?

Everyone had almost eaten, and Meng Zitao went to settle the bill, originally Song Xiuping had the idea of helping to settle the bill, but before he could say it, he was euphemistically blocked back by Meng Zitao.

When I came to the antique city, I had seen the excitement before, and I saw that only Meng Zitao and them came back, and I was a little strange for a while, why not only did they come back, but they also came back with Song Xiuping, could it be that Song Xiuping also killed his relatives in righteousness?

For a while, there was a lot of discussion around.

Meng Zitao and the others didn't care about these boring things, and followed Song Xiuping into his antique shop, and immediately saw what Song Xiuping said, but it was a pair of mallet bottles.

This pair of bottles is about 30 centimeters high, which is a typical "mallet bottle" style, and the whole shape is dignified and delicate. The whole bottle is glazed with white glaze, the glaze is moisturized, and it is pink and white. It is decorated with light red color, painted two birthday stars holding scrolls, there are mountains and rocks standing behind, and inscribed with Bai Juyi's "Nine Old Picture Poems", after the fall of the year and the name of the author.

Generally speaking, the identification of light colored porcelain, in addition to its glaze characteristics and the degree of aging, mainly depends on its level of painting.

In addition, I just talked about the shortcomings of light colored porcelain, so the integrity of the picture is also a special place to pay attention to.

After careful identification, this pair of mallet bottles has no problems in these aspects, which can be called Yu Ziming's masterpiece.

Meng Zitao was very satisfied with this pair of mallet bottles, and asked, "Shopkeeper Song, please ask for a price." ”

Song Xiuping thought about it for a moment, and then made a gesture: "What do you think, shopkeeper Meng?"

"How much?100,000?" Meng Hongchang asked.

Song Xiuping said with a smile: "Eighteen thousand, if it is one hundred thousand, I will wake up laughing in my dreams." ”

"What! Such a beautiful pair of bottles, it only costs 18,000? Isn't this an antique?" Meng Hongchang looked a little shocked, and muttered in his heart, this can't be because Song Xiuping wants to ask for mercy, so he deliberately gave a low price, right?

Meng Zitao said with a smile: "Of course this is an antique, but now the market of light color is like this." ”

Speaking of which, he explained the price factor of the light color bottle to Meng Hongchang.

"That's right. Meng Hongchang thought for a while and said, "Xiao Tao, you said that if I invest in this kind of porcelain, will I make any money?"

Meng Zitao was a little surprised and asked, "Why do you think that?"

Meng Hongchang said: "I just think this thing is more exquisite, compared with other antiques, the real value and the market value are relatively different, according to the law of the market, these two values will be similar sooner or later." So I'm going to invest some, what do you think?"

Meng Zitao said with a smile: "To be honest, I am also going to receive some light colored porcelain and wait for it to rise." ”

The reason why he came up with this idea was because like the pair of light colored porcelain in front of him, in 04, it was estimated that it was worth about 3,000 yuan, and it rose five or six times in just four years.

Meng Zitao felt a little regretful when he thought about it, if he had known this, he would have collected some light colored porcelain and hid it at that time, although he would not become a rich man now, he would not be anxious about money.

But after a while, he knew that he was taking it for granted, because even if he had the heart to collect at that time, it would be in vain if he didn't have the money.

Fortunately, the price of light color porcelain is still at a low level, with the development of the antique market, it is estimated that it will not be long before the price can rise.

"Since you also think that this business can be done, then I will definitely charge a few more, maybe the future pension money will count on this. Meng Hongchang said with his hands on his hands.

After listening to the conversation between the two, Song Xiuping was also a little moved, so he took over and said: "Because of the defects, I think that ordinary light colored porcelain, even if it is value-added, the amplitude will not be much, if you want to receive it, you have to accept those fine works." ”

Meng Zitao nodded and said: "Although the number of light colored porcelain is very large, the number of fine products in it is limited, and these fine products are the main force of appreciation. In addition, now that the price of light colored porcelain is expensive, and there are fakes, you don't understand anything, so you rush into it, isn't that asking for your own hardship?"

Meng Hongchang said regretfully: "This is also the case, it seems that I can't make this fortune!"

Meng Zitao smiled: "If you really want it, if you have a suitable one in the future, I will keep it for you." ”

Meng Hongchang shook his head: "Isn't this snatching money from you?"

Meng Zitao said: "Nonsense, aren't you going to give me money......" (To be continued.) )