Chapter 214: Wax Stone Old Silver (Text)

Wang Yuyuan saw one of the small ornaments, crystal clear, like frozen wax, and couldn't help but touch it.

"How slimy!"

"It's oil!" Wu Chen smiled, like this kind of stone, it needs to be coated with wax oil to be more polished, Wang Damei has no experience in stone maintenance, so she directly started to touch it, and she was tricked.

"You say this can also be considered jade? It's better to call it a stone! Xu Shaodong was very disdainful of this kind of behavior of calling jade at every turn.

"This Huanglongyu looks really more suitable for being called a stone." Wu Chen agreed, in fact, even stones are not cheap, like Shoushan stone, bloodstone or something can also be on fire, there is no need to rely on jade!

"Hehe, it's not to raise your value! Changing the name makes it easier to fool the public. Zhou Xuan took out a wet tissue and handed it to Wang Yukite.

"Well, now on the market, the price of Huanglongyu is about the same as Shoushan stone. Sometimes packaging is important, a loud name, more conducive to hype. ”

Wu Chen nodded, these should be well known to everyone, "But after all, it is a fresh variety, and it does not have the historical accumulation of jadeite and Hetian, and now the price is still a lot worse!" ”

"Having said that, striking iron has to be its own, and there is a certain reason why Huang Longyu can stand out." Although Xu Shaodong was a little disdainful of Huang Longyu's name change, he still had some affirmation of the stone itself.

"You mean the structure of itself?" Wu Chen didn't care about it at first, but later he heard from his family that these things were now on fire, so he learned about it.

"The main component of this stone is muscovite, and there are many trace elements that determine the color, what is called jade, in fact, because of its crystal structure, it is similar to jadeite and Hetian jade. And in terms of hardness, it is about the same as jadeite, which can reach 7 degrees. ”

"That's one thing, but that's not the main thing."

Xu Shaodong nodded, but he had his own unique opinion.

"The most important thing is that the so-called Huanglongyu is mainly colored yellow and red! In Chinese culture, these two colors have always been the most noble and mysterious colors, and they are generally exclusive to the royal family or religion, so these two colors of good stones are particularly favored! Tian Huang and chicken blood are the best representatives of the two colors! ”

"Okay, it's just different, huh." Wu Chen made a joke, which provoked the second daughter to also brush Xu Shaodong one after another.

"That's, anyway, buddy is also a new star in the antique world!" Xu Shaodong laughed and enjoyed this feeling very much! Speaking of which, he is not without purpose. His master, Ma Lao, has a deep study of color, and has published several series of books on porcelain and jade "color", which have had a wide influence in the industry.

"Let's go, let's go. There are other people in the store" A few people made a fuss, especially the two women, who were already good-looking, and this smile was even more beautiful.

Even the boss was dumbfounded, and secretly cursed in his heart, these two boys are too good!

"Hey, there's a serious antique shop here!" After walking a few more storefronts, Xu Shaodong saw an antique shop with antique written on it, smiled, and pulled everyone inside.

Similar to the average antique shop, there is a shelf at the entrance to the street, on which a lot of scattered objects are placed, and there are all kinds of things.

Wu Chen is no longer a rookie, he glanced at it, but he didn't even glance at the goods, and walked in.

Xu Shaodong didn't even look at it, and walked directly inside.

The space inside is not large, separated by several rows of wooden shelves, full of all kinds of old objects, most of them are some wood carvings, splendid and other local traditional products, there are also some old bronze pieces, old silverware or something, what is even more outrageous is that there is actually a "old man statue", look at the swarthy face, I don't know that the road is stolen from the old temple!

This kind of stuff is especially easy to have!

Since the last time he got the seal of Wenshan Gong in the wood carving, Wu Chen has been particularly concerned about this kind of statue, so he deliberately walked over, pretended to get close to smell it, and looked into it up close, and it was empty! Even the wood is ordinary old camphor wood!

It's been a lot of years, and the poor old man has enjoyed the fireworks in the temple for many years, and he was brought here to show off.

Looking at Mu Xiang's old man's face that seemed to be smiling, Wu Chen shook his head helplessly, turned around and saw Xu Shaodong and the two women picking up silverware on the longboard in the middle, so he leaned over.

"This old bracelet is a good handiwork!" Xu Shaodong saw that Wang Yuyuan was holding a small round bracelet with several small blue stones embedded in it.

"Oh, you know that, too?" Zhou Xuan glanced at him.

"Uh...... I understand a little, I understand ...... slightly" Xu Shaodong choked for a moment, very depressed, is my brother I not like to play this business, "This is a filigree process plus inlay, this kind of craft is more common in the south." ”

Wu Chen happened to come over, and when he saw that he was deflated, he laughed and praised him: "What is filigree craft?" ”

"Ha, you're asking the right person!"

Xu Shaodong immediately resurrected with full blood, although most of the silver jewelry was used by women, but it was also a branch of miscellaneous, and he had worked hard.

"Filigree craftsmanship is generally inlayed, dotted or enamel. It is to use silver wire weaving, stacking, pinching, and welding to make various flat or three-dimensional patterns and ornaments. ”

"Isn't that similar to the workmanship of copper cloisonne?" Wu Chen really asked for advice, he didn't have any special hobby for gold and silverware, and it was not an exaggeration to say that it was a shortcoming.

"The essence is the same, but the use is different. The characteristics of this process are that it can be made into larger jewelry with less silver, and it is very delicate and exquisite. And in order to get rid of the limitation of a single color of silverware, it is often used in combination with inlay, gilding, dotted emerald, or enamel. In the Qing Dynasty Yunnan silver jewelry, there are many jewelry of this type. ”

"Yunnan? You're saying that this is also from Yunnan? As Xu Shaodong came out with a string of terms, Zhou Xuan was impressed by him! Even if it's back, it's hard work!

"Hehe, that's just because there are more silverware in Yunnan and other regions, everyone has this impression, in fact, Jiangnan, including the Lingnan area, the craftsmanship is similar. In addition to the filigree process, it is generally the hammer chisel process. Xu Shaodong saw that Zhou Xuan's eyes were shining with little stars, and he became more and more proud, after years of hard work, isn't it just for such a moment!

When is the man most excited, the candle night in the cave room, the nomination of the gold list, the nectar in the long drought, and the old acquaintance in another country, isn't this all hungry and thirsty for a long time, and once proud!

"Alright, don't stink! Let's talk about what is the hammer chisel process. Wu Chen unceremoniously interrupted Xu Shaodong, he is Xiaobai, Zhou Xuan and Wang Yuyuan, two girls, usually like some jewelry, and they know a little bit.

"Rely on ......" Xu Shaodong complained dissatisfiedly, lowered his head in the pile of things, and found another bracelet, "Look, isn't this much thicker?" ”

Wu Chen saw that it was a silver round bracelet, and there were two intertwined fine lines on the outside, because of the time relationship, the appearance was a little black, and it was heavy, he still liked this kind of textured thing! He took it in his hand and looked at it.