Chapter 203: Treasure

"Brother, do you think this ivory cup is okay?" The shopkeeper took out an ivory cup, more than 30 centimeters high, with a large bottom and a large mouth, a girdle in the middle, and a dragon-shaped handle on one side, which was also inlaid with many small green beads, and the shape was very simple and exquisite.

"Boss, this kind of thing can't work, dragons are dragons, elephants are elephants, they are different species, and using ivory will destroy the medicinal properties of ambergris. It is better to use jade, if you don't have it, you can also use ceramics instead, but it can't be preserved for a long time. Qin Xuebing really fell in love with this ivory cup, but he didn't plan to use this method before, but when he saw the shopkeeper worshipping the dragon, he had an idea to use this method to fish out the ivory cup.

"Brother, wait a minute, I'll go buy a jade bottle right away." Although the owner of the shop doesn't know what ambergris does, as long as it is related to dragons and is a real dragon, then he is willing to collect it.

And there are many beautiful legends about ambergris.

Ambergris is the saliva of the dragon, according to legend, the Zhou Dynasty got a box after destroying the Shang, the box contained ambergris, the Shang Emperor thought that this thing was ominous, so he tried his best to remove it, who knew that the ambergris turned into a lizard, jumped into the harem, and then a palace maid met it and became pregnant, and soon gave birth to a baby girl, the palace maid abandoned the baby girl.

Later, the Shang Dynasty began to circulate a nursery rhyme: the big bow of mulberry wood, the quiver of grass. It means that the Zhou Dynasty is about to perish. Soon after, the king of Zhou found a couple selling quivers of mulberry bows and grass, and ordered them to be hunted down, and the two fled into the barren mountains. found a baby girl, very cute, so the two raised her to adulthood. Finally sent to the palace, this woman is the later concubine.

There are other versions of this story. Praise. The year of birth and death is unknown. It is said that at the end of the Xia Dynasty, there were two dragons who came to the palace, calling themselves "the two kings of praise", and obtained "Tibetan auspiciousness" through divination, and later the saliva left before the dragon left was stored in a wooden box, until the king of Zhou Li opened it to watch, and accidentally made the ambergris spill outside the court, turned into a "Xuan Yuan" and climbed into the palace, and a concubine ran into this turtle. And she conceived, and in forty years she gave birth to a baby girl.

The baby girl was abandoned and picked up and raised by the Bao people. Later, the Bao people dedicated her to the Zhou You King Ji Gongni, because of the surname, so she was called Bao Xi. became the favorite concubine of King Zhou You and gave birth to a son.

As for the question of whether ambergris is the saliva of a dragon, it has been denied for thousands of years because there is no dragon. It's more about taking ambergris as ambergris.

Ambergris, also known as dragon's belly incense, is a solid wax-like flammable substance with a dark or black appearance, and is a morbid discharge similar to stones at the end of the large intestine or the beginning of the rectum of sperm whales. Burning has a long-lasting aroma.

Ambergris has its own unique sweet and earthy fragrance, which was historically mainly used as a fixative in perfumes.

But today, the shopkeeper decisively believes that ambergris is the spit of the dragon, and ambergris is fundamentally different from ambergris.

The shopkeeper left, Ye Zijing rolled her eyes: "You are really good, fooling people is the same as drinking water, sometimes I wonder if I have been fooled by you." ”

"Wife, I'm fooling around for our collecting business, you should support me."

Qin Xuebing was straightforward and unashamed: "Also, the shopkeeper goes out to buy a jade bottle, and there is room for appreciation, and I am helping him invest." ”

"Qin Xuebing, you are becoming more and more shameless."

Ye Zijing smiled bitterly and shook her head: "Okay, you just continue to fool, I'll see how you fool things into your hands." ”

It didn't take long for the shopkeeper to come back with a small jade bottle, the condition was not bad, it was made of mountain and flowing water, and it was worth hundreds of thousands.

"Boss, your ivory cup is very chic, I like it a lot, can you transfer it to me?" Qin Xuebing was not in a hurry to let Xiaolong spit in order to hang the shopkeeper's appetite.

"Talk about money or not, brother, you have to like it, just take it directly." The shopkeeper is also quite a baby ivory cup, but compared to ambergris, the ivory cup is insignificant.

"That's not good, Xiaolong has already eaten several fish, how can I be embarrassed to take it for nothing."

Qin Xuebing hurriedly shook his head and said, "Boss, you better make a price, at least you can't lose money." ”

"I went to Mingzhu City Antique City to find this thing, and it cost 20,000 yuan, brother, you can give me 20,000 yuan." The shopkeeper doesn't care.

"Cheng, then let's swipe the card first."

After completing the transaction, Qin Xuebing forced Xiaolong to spit and filled a full bottle and handed it to the shopkeeper. The shopkeeper took out his mobile phone and took a few more photos to make sure that someone would believe him when he said it, otherwise he would always hide it himself, and it would be regarded as a joke by others, which would not be too interesting.

Coming out of the store, Ye Zijing couldn't wait to pick up the ivory cup and look at it: "In terms of styling style, it should be from the Yin Shang period, and it can be regarded as an ancient vessel." ”

Qin Xuebing also began to observe on his own and began to comment: "The body of the cup is made of hollow ivory roots, which is quite ingenious due to the shape of the material.

The mouth is thin and the lips are thin, the mid-waist is slightly bundled, and the cut is slightly smaller than the mouth. The whole body is carved in sections with fine gluttonous patterns and deformed patterns, and embedded with turquoise, as the head and tail of the head, decorated with animal faces and animal heads, also embedded with turquoise, with a small round tenon symmetrical up and down to connect it with the cup body.

On one side of the cup, there is a dragon-shaped handle that is the same height as the cup. The body of the cup has a finely carved pattern and is quite decorative, and the upper and lower sides are two plain wide sides, and the middle is separated by a strip of turquoise in four sections.

The first section is three groups of gluttonous patterns, with tails on both sides, and turquoise inlays for eyes, eyebrows and nose. The second section is the upper part of the cup body ornamentation, the two groups of gluttonous patterns have a clear facial structure, a large triangular pattern below the beast's mouth, and there are symmetrical crests on both sides of the triangular pattern, with the head facing down and the tail up. The mouth, eyes, nose and triangular patterns are inlaid with turquoise.

The third section is engraved with three deformation patterns, the eyes are inlaid with turquoise, and the third and fourth sections are separated by three turquoise belts. The three groups of gluttonous eyes and noses in the fourth section are also inlaid with turquoise. The first, second and fourth sections are all decorated with three groups of gluttonous patterns, but the forms are different. ”

"That is to say, this ivory cup uses carving, line carving, inlay and other techniques, which is not strange if it is placed in the Ming and Qing dynasties, but if it is in the Yin Shang period, it will be unbelievable." Ye Zijing couldn't help but admire, Yin Shang, it was more than 1,000 years BC, more than 3,000 years ago.

More than 3,000 years, but such exquisite craftsmanship, it is beyond the imagination of future generations. The huge market value of this ivory cup can also be imagined: "But I can't be sure of the vintage, what do you think?" ”

"It's really a work from the Yin Shang period, I really don't know where the shopkeeper got it from." Qin Xuebing couldn't help but sigh that the tombs of the ancient period were very difficult to find, and even tomb robbers were almost impossible to find the ancient tombs of the ancient period, so there were very few unearthed.

On the one hand, the excavation is rare, the age is very old, and many things are difficult to preserve, so that the whole vessel is very rare, not to mention the fine products.

"After all, I should have missed it for the second time in the flower and bird market." Qin Xuebing felt that he was quite related to the flower and bird market, and last time he bought a piece of wool and cut out a two-color jadeite, and this time he found an ivory cup in the ancient period.

"Congratulations, the collection is richer." Ye Zijing no longer knows how to describe this person's luck.

"Wife, I said the wrong thing."

Qin Xuebing said in a strange voice: "It's our collection that is richer, let's go through the flower and bird market today, find out all the antiques, and leave them to our precious children in the future." ”

"It's getting worse and worse."

Ye Zijing glanced at him, and said, "By the way, should we buy another red arowana to go back?" The old man likes the red arowana very much, but he has to be like a way to guard against the little dragon. ”

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