Chapter 692: You Missed It

There are a total of seventeen various xiǎo wooden boxes, most of which are two-layer apertures, proving to be old things from the late Qing Dynasty.

There is one with a ten-layer aperture, and the ten-layer pale yellow sè aperture is particularly conspicuous under the three-dimensional picture.

Ten layers of aperture, one circle of sixty years, ten circles is six hundred years, that is to say, this round xiǎo wooden box was born at least six hundred years, six hundred years ago, basically can be traced back to the beginning of the Ming Dynasty.

"Mr. He, do you want to think about it!"

He Jie had already begun to pay for it, but Lao Tian seemed a little hesitant, and then persuaded again.

"No need, it's okay if it's old, just collect it for yourself!"

He Jie shook his head, he didn't know why he had always wanted to buy these things, maybe it was because these boxes were very similar to the one that the old man had collected, so he had the idea of buying them.

At this time, Li Yang's heart was already beating slowly.

This box is red sè lacquer, and there is a lot of dust on the surface, which makes the box look inconspicuous.

However, even if you use ròu eyes to look at it, you can also find that the face sè of this box is not the same as other red sè boxes, this kind of red sè appears to be thicker, belonging to the bright red sè of the thick yàn, without a little miscellaneous sè, and with a touch of nobility.

Under the stereoscopic picture, the difference between this box and the others is more clearly distinguished.

The other boxes only have one or two layers of red paint, and at most only six or seven layers. But the red paint of this box is as high as more than 200 layers, and each layer of these red paints is very fine, and so many layers of red paint together are only less than ten millimeters thick.

With more than two hundred layers of lacquer and a thickness of less than ten millimeters, Li Yang took a deep breath, he already understood what this was.

Li Yang never expected that in this pile of very ordinary lacquerware wooden boxes, he would see a real red wood box.

Ticking red belongs to lacquerware, is one of the varieties of carved lacquer, also called carved red lacquer or red carved lacquer, this method began in the Song Dynasty, carried forward in the Ming and Qing dynasties. There are now, but they are rare, and few people can master this advanced craft now.

The so-called carved lacquer is something carved out of lacquer.

This kind of craftsmanship is quite complicated, in the process of removing red, you must first brush a red paint on the fetus, and then brush a half dry time, and after dozens of brushes, these paints will become like kraft candy.

Ancient lacquer, that is, pure lacquer, and the current paint is not the same, the current paint is diluted and neutralized, it is very convenient to brush, don't even think about carving paint into a work of art.

At that time, the paint was different, you could brush it layer by layer, and after the brush was thick, you could directly use the paint to carve what you wanted.

However, the ancient lacquer is very viscous, and the curing is very fast, when brushing, each layer must master the time of their curing, can not make the paint completely hard, can not make the paint too soft, each layer of paint brush when the heat must be in place, otherwise it is a waste of work.

Generally speaking, it is remarkable that there are seventy or eighty layers of lacquer in red, and it is rare to have more than 100 layers, and it must be the work of the master jīng products at that time.

After these paints are painted, there is another difficult step, which is to wait for an optimal time.

The lacquer cures easily, and when it dries, it becomes very crisp and cannot be carved with a knife. However, if it is too viscous, the lacquer will stick to the carving knife and it will not be possible to continue carving.

Therefore, it is necessary to complete the pattern carving when the knife is not sticky and not brittle, and it is not easy to grasp the timing, and you have to start again if you make a mistake. Even if you grasp the heat, you have to carve the ornament in a very short time, but if the time is exceeded, the lacquer will become hard, and you will not be able to continue carving, and in the end it will only be a semi-finished product.

It is indeed very difficult to put these crafts together.

In addition, it is also important to note that the more layers of paint you have, the shorter the optimal time, and the number of layers that are reddish is also the most intuitive proof of the level of the craftsman.

The mahogany box in front of me is definitely the work of a top master, and it is rare in ancient times, and it is regrettable that it is damaged.

Li Yang also noticed that there was a layer of scratches on the inside of the box, which should be the place where the commemorative model was marked, and this damage reduced the value of the whole mahogany box a lot, which was very regrettable.

At this time, He Jie had already taken out the money, and Lao Tian shook his head unnaturally.

These seventeen boxes, if you want them together, it will cost 20,000 yuan, no matter how Lao Tian thinks these things are not worth the price. Those in good condition are only a few hundred yuan a piece, at most one or two thousand yuan, and those in bad condition can be bought for one for a hundred yuan, and the rotten ones are cheaper.

Such a bunch of things are not worth such a high price of 20,000 yuan in Lao Tian's eyes, but He Jie is willing to buy it, and he has no choice.

When He Jie handed the money to the person in front of him and began to pack his things, Li Yang's heart was also relieved.

If there is no red in this, Li Yang will also object to He Jie spending 20,000 yuan to buy this pile of things, obviously things that can be bought within 10,000 yuan have to cost 20,000, which seems a bit wronged. This kind of ordinary red lacquered wooden box can be bought a lot in Panjiayuan, and it is all from the late Qing Dynasty.

However, with that red, it is different, even if it is a damaged red, 20,000 is a super value, and 200,000 or even 2 million Li Yang will agree without hesitation.

The NV man didn't say much, and left with the money after ordering 20,000 cash. These things were indeed handed down from her family, but they were all ordinary, and some people who went to the mén to shovel the land to collect things were reluctant to ask for them.

She came here, purely to try her luck, but she didn't expect to really sell it for a high price, and she left very satisfied at this time, and she left quickly, and the people who bought it in the province would regret it.

"Brother Jie, follow me!"

Li Yang glanced at He Jie with envy, in addition to envy, there was also a kind of relief in his heart.

Where there is a will, there is a way, Li Yang didn't expect that He Jie really picked up a leak, and picked up a big leak, this piece of mahogany box should be a representative work of the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty.

Every emperor of the Ming Dynasty has his favorite things, Yongle likes to pick red the most, that period is also the glorious period of the development of red, according to the time to calculate the number can also be on the number, Yongle is 1403 A.D. enthroned, exactly more than 600 years of history.

"What, so mysterious?"

He Jie was packing up his things, he didn't look good at these things, he just thought that the old man had the same things in his hand, and he would buy them back and study them, as an initial collection, and 20,000 yuan was nothing to him.

"What? You've missed it! ”

Li Yang said in a low voice, He Jie looked at Li Yang in surprise, and said after a while: "You mean, there are real treasures in these things?" ”

He Jie is not stupid, as soon as Li Yang said this, he understood the meaning, seeing Li Yang nodding heavily, He Jie looked down at the pile of square and round, different shapes of xiǎo wooden boxes that were still on the ground.

"It's really fake!"

He Jie's heartbeat couldn't help but speed up, it must be okay to be so cautious by Li Yang, but unfortunately no matter how he looked at it, he didn't know which one was the treasure Li Yang said.

There are seventeen wooden boxes of all kinds here, and He Jie is not crazy enough to think that every value here is a real treasure.

"That's it, take it out first, don't break it!"

Li Yang picked up the mahogany box from the ground and handed it to He Jie, at this time Li Yang finally felt the feelings of the people around him when he picked it up.

Watching a good thing being picked up by others is indeed a little uncomfortable in my heart.

However, Li Yang's heart was more happy, He Jie was happy, and he was also happy for the old man. He Jie's wish has finally been achieved, although this mahogany box is a little damaged, it is also a representative work, with extremely high value, and it is completely weighty to be an old man's birthday gift.

Since it is a birthday gift, it will definitely become the old man's thing in the future, and now the old man's collection is fully open to Li Yang, and the old man's collection is almost no different from Li Yang's own collection.

Thinking about it like this, Li Yang had a kind of excitement in his heart, He Jie picked up the leak and he picked up the leak, the difference between him was not big, anyway, these treasures will gather together in the future.

"What a baby? How much can this thing be worth? Seeing the envious look on Li Yang's face, He Jie's heartbeat became faster, and he couldn't help but ask again.

"This piece is slightly damaged, which affects the value, and I estimate that there is no problem with eight million at auction!" Li Yang thought about it and said softly.

He Jie was already completely there, eight million was not a problem for him, he could easily come up with a few eight million. But the eight million was obtained by him by picking up the leak, so the meaning is different, 20,000 becomes 8 million, this is definitely a real big leak.

Li Yang's estimate is also based on the analysis of the auction records he knows, and if this kind of mahogany box is complete, it will be at least more than 30 million yuan, which may be higher. In 08, Christie's auctioned a complete mahogany box that was almost a big xiǎo, which was also a representative work of the Yongle period, and it was sold for more than 30 million yuan at that time.

Except for the place where the date model was artificially scraped off, the rest of the pieces bought by He Jie are still complete, and the paint surface is a little dirty, but this can be repaired, and after the repair, it can be restored to its original beautiful appearance.

At this time, Li Yang also figured out that if the chronicle was not scraped off, I am afraid that it would not have fallen into He Jie's hands, and it would have been taken away a long time ago.

Even if there is damage, this redwood box has a very high value, definitely more than six million, after all, more than two hundred layers of redwood is very rare, and Li Yang estimates that a high price of eight million is normal.

Besides, this belongs to lacquerware, not porcelain, and lacquerware does not require as much completeness as porcelain.

"Let's go, let's go out and talk!"

After a few minutes, He Jie reacted, and immediately pulled Li Yang and walked out, not even the real red lacquered wooden boxes from the late Qing Dynasty on the ground.

Lao Tian put away the things He Jie threw on the ground and followed closely.