Chapter 184: Wen plays walnuts
The auction continued, and when the bidding stopped in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the snuff bottle in the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty was bidding again, and the asking price was more than doubled. Not only that, but the asking price kept climbing, and finally it was auctioned off at a price that was significantly higher than the market price.
The male customer who auctioned off the snuff box stood up happily and nodded to those around him. When he saw Shen Yan and Dongfang Yunqi both turning their heads to look at him, he was even more excited and almost screamed.
Bidding through a snuff bottle, the live auction atmosphere was completely hot.
"This is a Qingtian stone, which is the most collectible of the three major Qingtian stones. Donated by Mr. Chen Huayou, general manager of Sufang Group. The auctioneer carefully held up a pale green, delicate and translucent Qingtian stone with a light green color, like a young leaf that sprouts in spring, and said, "Let us applaud Chen Huayou for his charity." ”
Amid the applause of the crowd, a man in his early fifties stood up and nodded his head in thanks with a glorified face.
After the applause, the auctioneer then introduced the Qingtian stone in his hand: "The bluestone is extremely pure, there are no impurities, so it is called 'clear', its quantity is strangely small, its color is elegant, its quality is warm, and its nature is 'mean', it is the most suitable stone of all the seal stones, and it has been favored by seal carvers for more than 300 years. Qingfeng Gate Stone and Changhua Bloodstone, Shoushantian Huangshi are called 'Three Treasures of Seal Stone'. ”
"The size of this piece of sealing blue is 10×10×24cm. The auctioneer suddenly raised Yin Beidao, "Here, I must remind everyone that because the veins of the sealed door green are thin, twisted and twisted, and the amount is extremely small, so each side of the closed door green is relatively small. It is very rare to have such a large party sealing the door and has a very high collection value. ”
"The reserve price of the auction is 100,000, and the price increase shall not be less than 1,000 each time. Start bidding now. The auctioneer announced.
"One hundred and fifty thousand!" As soon as the auctioneer's voice fell, someone immediately raised the auction and shouted.
Then someone shouted, "Two hundred thousand!"
"Two hundred and one thousand!"
"Two hundred and twenty thousand!"
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"Three hundred and one thousand!"
The asking price has been rising, and the atmosphere is getting more and more enthusiastic.
"Five hundred thousand!" suddenly a clear voice shouted.
The enthusiastic bidding suddenly stopped.
The crowd looked along the prestige in astonishment, and saw a young man sitting proudly in the center of the third row in front of them. The young man was about twenty-seven or eighteen years old, with a slender figure, handsome features, and an extraordinary aura.
His name is Xiao Yichen, the only son of Xiao Litong, chairman of Tongyi Group, and he was named the first of the four sons of the new generation in Huahai City. Helian Bo introduced Ye Fan in a low voice.
Ye Fan looked at Xiao Yichen and thought secretly: "It turns out that he was the one who parked Lamborghini at the door of the hall on the first floor of the group that day. Didn't Tongyi Group snatch the patent of the Amali Group's 'Ji Lung Qinghua Tablets'? That day, he entered the Amali Group with a bouquet of roses, probably looking for Li Zhaojun's ......"
His mind was racing, and he quickly guessed that this Xiao Yichen had bad intentions towards Li Zhaojun taking advantage of the fire to rob.
"It's ridiculous, the head of the four sons of the new generation is actually a stupid. With Li Zhaojun's arrogant and competitive character, how could he accept his cat crying mouse fake compassion? I am afraid that I will hate him even more. He thought to himself that he was not worried that Li Zhaojun would be deceived by Xiao Yichen at all.
"Five hundred thousand, one time. The auctioneer shouted, "Five hundred thousand, twice." ”
"Five hundred and fifty thousand. A melodious female voice as pure as the hollow valley orchid shouted.
The voice was so pleasant that everyone couldn't help but look along the sound and fell on Shen Yan.
"Hehe, since Miss Shen likes it, Yichen has no choice but to do it. Xiao Yichen laughed loudly, his voice was warm and magnetic, infectious, and with his handsome smile, he showed the demeanor of the first of the four sons of the new generation in Huahai City to the fullest.
Shen Yan turned to the side and smiled at Xiao Yichen: "Mr. is Mr. Xiao Yichen, the head of the new generation of four sons in Huahai City? ”
"Well, Miss Shen is polite. Xiao Yichen nodded with a smile. Although Shen Yan personally turned his head to talk to him, he was still calm.
Shen Yan didn't speak anymore and turned around.
Since it was Shen Yan's bidding, plus 550,000 yuan was already a very high price, no one asked for the price anymore.
"550,000 three times!" the auctioneer exclaimed in an impassioned voice, "Congratulations to Miss Shen Yan for winning the Qingtian Stone Seal Door, and thank Miss Shen Yan for her contribution to charity." ”
Warm applause rang out, and Shen Yan stood up as usual and nodded around in thanks.
After the auction of the sealed bluestone, a young and beautiful lady presented a beautiful brocade box.
Through the big screen display, Ye Fan saw that the auctioneer carefully opened the brocade box and placed a pair of brown-red peach pits in color.
At a glance, the pair of peach pits are exactly the same in color, size, and texture. Individually, the lines are dense and full and clear, the ravines are deep, the size is large, and the rounded, especially the oily brown-red color on the surface, makes them look very good.
"Hey, Wen plays walnuts!" Ye Fan suddenly came to his senses, and thought secretly, "Master, hasn't his old man been talking about not being able to get a good pair of Wen playing walnuts?"
Although walnut is a food, it is also a small collection variety in the antique shop, and people in the industry call it cultural walnut.
To become a cultural walnut, first of all, the peach pit must have a particularly deep texture. Then pair up and find two that are the same size, pattern, volume and even weight. Finally, it takes decades of playing with walnuts to change their color from light to dark, and finally to old red.
In ancient times, playing walnuts was more popular, and there was a saying: "The literati played walnuts, the warriors turned iron balls, the rich carried gourds, and idlers went to walk dogs." ”
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the style of walnuts in the palace was even worse, and every time the emperor or empress was born, the ministers would select the fine walnuts as birthday gifts.
The Palace Museum of Sijiucheng still preserves more than a dozen pairs of kneading walnuts, whose color is brownish-red, which are stored in exquisitely carved rosewood boxes, which are marked with the words "a certain Belle Gongjin" and "a certain prince prepares".
Although the times have changed, there are basically not many Chinese people who play walnuts now, and even many young people don't know that there is such a thing, but in some deep mansions in Sijiu City, they are very good at playing walnuts. It is a very face-saving thing to send a pair of superb literary play peach pits on the birthday of the old man.
The value of a pair of top-quality cultural peach pits ranges from hundreds of thousands to hundreds of thousands.
"This pair of walnut varieties is a dwarf pile green skin lion head, produced in Zhuolu County Nanjiang, rough appearance, beautiful and meticulous texture, large buckle bottom, diamond-shaped umbilicus, four-petal mouth...... The similarity in size, pattern, volume and weight is as high as 99.9 percent...... There is already a Jiazi vintage...... "Because the walnut is more niche, the auctioneer will introduce it in detail.
"Good thing, it's the best walnut! It must be auctioned off, just for the master and his old man as a birthday gift!" Ye Fan thought secretly.
The so-called master is his ancient martial master.