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Wang Xuemin was called by his old friend, and he also became serious, and looked at the whole root carving again, but the more he looked at it, the more it looked like it was carved from red sandalwood.

The purple-black tone, the deep and elegant shape, especially when he put the root carving on the tip of his nose and smelled it, the faint fragrance made Wang Xuemin feel that his old friend's judgment was correct.

And this root carving is not only of rosewood, but also an old object of some age.

In fact, it is no wonder that Wang Lao did not see it at the beginning, because the red sandalwood is divided into two kinds, that is, the large-leaf red sandalwood and the small-leaf red sandalwood.

The wood grain on the surface of the small-leaved red sandalwood is not obvious, the color is orange-red at the beginning, the dark purple is like lacquer for a long time, the annual ring pattern can hardly be seen, the vein pattern is extremely fine, it is twisted like cow hair, its price is four or five times higher than that of the large-leaved red sandalwood, the number of this kind of red sandalwood is very small, and the large pieces are also very few, and the ones that have been handed down are mostly some playful objects, Ye Jinglan bought this, which is carved from the roots of the small-leaved red sandalwood.

"Yes, that's good, little girl, you brought Lao Wang here to sell, right? If you want me to say you can just sell it to me, I will definitely bid more than him. The more Wang Xuemin's friend looked at it, the more he felt that things were rare, and he had also put away the idea of receiving another object in Lao Wang's hand, and he wanted this one today.

"This" Ye Jinglan looked at Wang Xuemin with some embarrassment, and she didn't know how much this object was worth!

"Lao Chen, it's not necessarily true that whoever gives the price is high! Although this item is not as big as the one auctioned some time ago, I think the quality of this item is not necessarily as bad as that one, and it should also be an object from the Qing Dynasty. Although Wang Xuemin also likes this thing, he is a trader, and he likes to collect but he also knows that the price is very important, so he has to let the little girl sell it to him.

"Are you talking about the rosewood table from the Qianlong period that was bought for more than $35 million at the American auction two months ago?" Old Chen raised his eyebrows and asked, but he was silent.

Ye Jinglan also took advantage of the time they were talking to use the mobile phone system to inquire about red sandalwood.

Rosewood its wood is hard and heavy, sinking into the water, the utensils made of it do not need to be painted to show a natural dark brown, coupled with the remoteness of the origin, extremely difficult to become a material, so it is known as the king of wood in the past dynasties, our country in those dynasties before the Ming Dynasty, even if it is expensive for the royal family, there are only a few, not much material small chess game, painting axis, song board, small frame, etc.

Until Ming Chengzu Zhu Di ascended the throne, in order to promote the prestige of our **** country, he sent the eunuch Zheng He to lead the fleet to the Western Ocean, and loaded a ship full of tea, silk and other gifts, along the way to the country to be given, and when the return trip, due to the emptying of the goods, the hull is a lot lighter, for fear of not being able to withstand the wind and waves at sea, it is necessary to have a ballast cabinet.

After returning to China, some royal nobles began to use these "ballast wood" to make furniture, and later people found that this wood was strong and hard, not afraid of water and insect resistance, so it became more and more popular, and then large-scale logging began.

In fact, there was originally red sandalwood in the Liangguang region of our country, but because of the scarcity of quantity, it was quickly lightened, and then the emperor of the Ming Dynasty sent people to Nanyang to procure, according to the data: "As of the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the vast majority of the world's red sandalwood will be collected in China, stored in Guangzhou and Beijing. The Ming Dynasty had excessive logging, and the Qing Dynasty had not yet recovered, and the source was exhausted. ”

In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, Qianlong also sent people to Nanyang to purchase sandalwood, but most of the rosewood trees were not thick and had not yet become mature, so they had to give up. Therefore, the red sandalwood used in the royal production of furniture in the Qing Dynasty is the inventory of the royal family of the Ming Dynasty, later, the sandalwood is in short supply to the point where it must be purchased at a high price from the private traders, according to the unwritten rules at that time, no matter what level of officials, as long as they see the red sandalwood, they must not let go, buy them all, hand over to the royal weaving institutions, since then the private collection of wood has also been scavenged, to the 60th birthday of Cixi and the marriage of Emperor Guangxu, the wood reserves of the Great Inner have been left little, and finally Yuan Shikai who restored the throne all used up.

Before the Qing Dynasty, people in Europe and the United States have always believed that the red sandalwood has no big material, can only be made of small utensils, and even in the early Qing Dynasty, a large number of Western missionaries came to China, after seeing many red sandalwood vessels, they were all amazed, and they knew that the red sandalwood elite was all in the capital, so they bought it in many ways, transported back to China, due to the inconvenience of communication, the whole piece was difficult to transport, so only buy cabinet doors, box surfaces and other components with patterns, and install wooden frames of other materials to decorate, and now some foreign collectors have some red sandalwood items at that time.

And the red sandalwood furniture is quite time-consuming to make, want to make a particularly high and beautiful red sandalwood handicrafts, each piece of utensils must be handmade, a large piece of furniture often takes more than a dozen craftsmen to spend seven or eight years to complete, but like the objects in this hall are not large, the production process is not particularly complicated.

There is a chisel, two carvings, seven polishing on the red sandalwood production technique, only the polishing occupies seven-tenths of the time of the whole production process, and the tools used in the polishing are also quite peculiar, first coated with wax, and then rubbed repeatedly with knotweed and fine gauze, until it is polished as bright as brocade.

"I'll give 300,000, don't rob me, let the little girl laugh."

After Ye Jinglan read the information, Chen Lao had already begun to say the price, although the lot in the United States was very expensive, but it was a large piece after all, and the carving was much better than this, this was just a root carving, he was almost fooled by Lao Wang.

"300,000? It's only enough to buy a pen holder-sized one, and this carving is the size of a coffee table, and I'll pay 500,000 yuan. Wang Xuemin squinted his eyes and said unceremoniously.

"Worth so much?" Zhang Xia said in disbelief, sticking to her daughter's ear.

Ye Jinglan also understood what they meant, the value of this carving was almost one million, and that was because they wanted to raise the price.

"Two grandfathers, in fact, I still have something here, otherwise you are helping me to see it? If it's good, just keep one for each person? Ye Jinglan spoke out in time, and then took out from her backpack what she had exchanged for from the system transaction, that is, the piece of ink that looked like a stone.

"And? This ink is also obtained today? Wang Xuemin looked at Ye Jinglan with suspicion in his eyes, is his luck really so good? Or pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger at a young age?

But how old is she! How is it possible to eat the antique thoroughly, or is there someone behind her? Someone behind him will sell it cheaply?

Ps. chasing more children's shoes, are there any free appreciation tickets and starting coins~ The countdown to the 515 red envelope list is over, I'll pull a ticket, ask for an increase and appreciation vote, and finally rush a handful!