Chapter 487: Magical Chalcedony
Li Yi and the two found a taxi to go back to the hotel directly, on the way, he took the long jade cong from Lu Ningshuang's hand, and looked at it, hey, the old man has taken out all the treasures of the housekeeper!
The jade cong that Wang Lao exchanged for Li Yi was several times higher than his one, and it was at least 30 centimeters or more.
It is brown in color, with a round mouth at both ends and a square cylinder in the middle, divided into twelve sections.
There are obvious traces of chisel in the round hole of the jade cong, and the corner of each section is engraved with a concave tooth-like ornament, and in addition, a small circle is engraved in the concave ornament on the side of the second, third, fourth, and fifth sections at the lower end, as if it were a human eye.
Compared with Li Yi's piece, this jade cong has clear lines and proper proportions, but the shape is much more atmospheric.
Moreover, the ornaments on it also obviously have some mysterious religious colors, so although the two are both jade congs in the Liangzhu period, their value is not the same.
At the same time, the two old men Wang in the small courtyard were a little confused, until now, they still have a little unreal feeling, this small bottle that was fooled back from a roadside stall was really worth 70 million?
But the facts are in front of them, and they are not allowed to believe it, the young man directly gave the money and ran away with the things divided by two, as if he had taken a big advantage.
It shouldn't be......
The old man frowned and pondered for a while, then suddenly startled, ran into the room quickly, and after a while, ran out with something similar to the jade cong that Li Yi was holding now.
"Ahh I was excited just now and took the wrong one, the one I gave him was Liangzhu culture, but I left myself an imitation of the Zhou Dynasty, no wonder that kid ran like a rabbit! ”
Seeing that the old man was so angry that his beard was about to stand up, the old lady comforted him
"With those 70 million, what kind of jade cong can't be bought?"
The old man is so anxious that he wants to jump to his feet, so how can it be the same? Even if you have the money to take back all the jade congs you fancied before, but that thing is a unique product, a unique product!
"No, I'll have to go around the streets and see if I can find that kid......"
"What? I found you and you're going to ask him to come back? ”
"I ...... I'm going to scold him if I don't come back, little bunny! ”
Here, the little rabbit cub carefully studied the jade cong, thanked the old man Wang in his heart, and then put the wool and vase back into the room, and went straight to the metropolitan mall non-stop.
Just now, the fat elephant sent a message that he and Gu Feng had already boarded the plane, and they would arrive in Taipei in a few hours, at that time, they were about to start preparing for the long trip, and there was a family banquet of Chen Xiangfu waiting for them in the evening.
The Met's Jewelry & Antique Market, like the Sanpu Antique Market, is also underground. Although its business area of more than 1,000 square meters is not ranked among the antique cities in the mainland, it has been called a giant in the antique market in Taipei and even the entire Southeast Asia.
The market is arranged in a "back" shape, the stores are adjacent to each other, and under the lights, it looks much more high-end and gorgeous than Sanpu. Moreover, the quality of the goods seems to be higher.
Here, people can find porcelain from the old kiln, gold, silver and bronze ware, calligraphy and painting from the Yuan and Ming dynasties, in addition, Ming and Qing jade, bronze and wood Buddha statues, bamboo and wood tooth lacquer, tobacco, wine and tea sets and miscellaneous, there are also a lot of them.
The first thing the two of them went to was a shop dealing in porcelain miscellaneous, because when Li Yi was still outside, he saw a pair of lantern jars about 15 centimeters tall in the window, which looked like real people.
Enamel color is a kind of fine painted porcelain specially made for the Qing Dynasty court, and its predecessor was cloisonné.
Cloisonné is a handicraft made of blue as the background color on the copper tire, pinched with copper wire, and then filled with red, yellow, green, white and other color glazes.
During the Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty, this method of "painting enamel" was used on the porcelain body, thus creating a new type of overglaze colored porcelain, that is, enamel color.
In the two hundred years after its birth, enamel has been a court porcelain, and its first known to the public was an exhibition in the Forbidden City in the early days of the Republic of China! This shows its preciousness.
The pair of lantern jars in this store are Qianlong's models, with green flowers, clean and neat craftsmanship, and very clumsy shapes, but if you look closely, even if you don't use the spirit card, he can see a lot of flaws.
After lingering in the store for a while, and didn't find anything else, Li Yi took Lu Ningshuang out of the store and walked directly into another store opposite.
This is a jade shop, and in addition to some jade ornaments, there are many chalcedony products on the counter.
At present, many people call the beautiful, crystal clear chalcedony a kind of jade, and it is even linked to agate.
Actually, chalcedony and jade are completely different things, it is a variant of quartz cryptocrystalline, that is, it is actually a quartz ore.
Moreover, although chalcedony and agate are both made of quartz, there are obvious differences between the two.
Chalcedony is a recessive crystal of hydrous quartz, which is closer to crystal, but agate is a gel of dehydrated silica. Therefore, the sense of transparency of chalcedony is extremely strong, while agate is much inferior to it.
There are many colors of chalcedony, among which blue and green are the most valuable, although its price can not be compared with jadeite and Hetian jade, but a rare natural blue-green chalcedony bracelet is no problem to sell hundreds of thousands of soft sister coins casually.
In addition to a few basic colors, chalcedony often comes in a variety of colors, and some even have peculiar natural patterns and patterns.
These, combined with its more transparent texture than glass, make chalcedony look very beautiful. Therefore, in the eyes of people like Lu Ningshuang, who don't understand jade and don't care much about the price of jewelry, chalcedony jewelry is a very good choice.
As soon as he entered the store, Lu Ningshuang took a fancy to an ornament on the glass counter, while Li Yi stared at the pile of chalcedony rough stones piled up in the corner of the counter.
Like most gems and semi-precious stones, chalcedony is also taken from the rough stones, but the rough stones of these gems are much smaller than the rough jadeite, and it is often necessary to judge not the texture of the contents, but how to cut it to obtain greater profits!
Many shops that sell chalcedony will put a few pieces of chalcedony rough to prove that they are selling genuine goods, but like this one, there are such a large pile, most of them can be bought and sold.
Sure enough, as soon as the boss saw that Li Yi was interested in the rough stone, he opened the drawer, put the tray containing the rough stone on the counter, and looked slowly, there were many more.
The rough stones in this house are not very large, and many of them are in the shape of pebbles the size of eggs.
Most of these rough stones can faintly see the internal crystal material through the leather shell, and some of them will appear on the leather shell, and in the depression, the flesh of the chalcedony is directly exposed, which is much more crisp than the wool of the window.
These rough stones, except for the special color they look at, Li Yi swept them all away, and what he focused on was the kind of rough stone with a thicker shell, although some textures could be faintly seen, but the specific situation could not be determined.
Soon, he found a piece.
The rough is basically round in shape, similar in size to a green apple, and brownish-yellow in color. On its leather shell, it is almost covered with all kinds of long or short lines, and because of the effect of the internal material, the whole leather shell looks very smooth, as if there is a faint layer of oil floating on the surface.
Picking up the rough stone and looking at it for a while, Li Yi guessed that this should be a relatively common piece of carnelian or blood chalcedony, but its oiliness should be relatively large, although the permeability may be affected a little because of this, but compared with ordinary chalcedony, the oily material is obviously more precious.
After two more glances, he opened the spirit card, and then in an instant he was dragged into a magnificent and colorful fantasy world!
Here, beige is the thick earth, and in this land, green grass, yellow stones, and even a blue lake grow.
At this time, there was a drizzle of ice crystals in the sky, and the source of the rain came from the light blue sky of flowing clouds above the peaks of the black majestic mountains in the distance.
It's a natural miniature landscape!
Li Yi played with the original stone in his hand, and accidentally found that if he turned the sky and the earth upside down just now, he could see another strange picture with completely different feelings!
How could there be such a miraculous stone?
Li Yiwei pondered it and put this piece of rough stone in his hand. He had never paid attention to chalcedony before, mainly because of its low price and almost no gambling properties. But now he is not short of money, and it is obvious that Lu Ningshuang likes this kind of beautiful thing very much, so he naturally wants to do his best to pick a few excellent ones for her.
It is an irregularly shaped brownish-yellow rough stone about the size of an adult's fist. The shell of this rough stone is very thick, and except for a faint hint of oiliness in one place that seems to be a scar, the rest of the stone looks no different from ordinary stone.
Because the shell is so thick, although you can tell that there is material inside, you can't see anything about the color and texture.
After discovering that this was the case, Li Yi was not polite, and directly activated the spirit identification card.
However, as soon as his gaze saw through, he couldn't help but be stunned, the color of this chalcedony was so weird!
Generally speaking, whether it is jadeite or chalcedony, as long as it is a natural thing, its color cannot be too uniform.
The color of this chalcedony is also uneven, but this unevenness is only relative to the whole piece of material. On the contrary, the color of this piece of material in a certain part is not only very uniform, but also the color of these parts also shows a gradual color!
From Li Yi's direction, the first thing that appeared was a slightly pink lilac band about a finger wide, followed by pink purple, and then red purple, purple red, dark purple, and eggplant purple......
The whole color is like a gradual ladder, leading his gaze higher and deeper......
PS: Four more 12000, ask for a monthly pass! (To be continued.) )