Chapter Seventy-Six: Fu Lu Shou Xi Old Birthday Star

Well, listening to Li Guohui's words, Xie Bin also felt that his valuation was too low, but there is no reference price for such an object, and how much money it can sell depends on how much the customers at that time want to own this treasure.

If you really run into a rich person, throwing a billion or two billion is really nothing. And as Li Guohui said, how much can something that even Cixi never owned be worth? It's an answer that no one can give. You must know that Cixi's objects are less than half of Xie Bin's size, and the largest jade watermelon is less than a quarter of Xie Bin's.

If you take into account Xie Bin's unique carving skills, this is simply impossible to calculate. Sometimes even Xie Bin himself thinks it's incredible, these valuable objects really come out of his hands? You must know that these objects carved by Xie Bin can be passed down through the ages.

Just like Yuan blue and white porcelain, it is the mark of that era, which can no longer be changed and regenerated, even if the blue and white porcelain made later is more beautiful and more complete, but there are only so many that belong to Yuan blue and white. Although the price of Yuan Qinghua is so high, there is a big reason for the hype of foreign speculators, but it is undeniable that Yuan Qinghua has its unique charm and value.

And these jade objects carved by Xie Bin are like Yuan blue and white, maybe the skill is not the most brilliant, but it is definitely the most unique, even after hundreds of years, this is still impossible for others to imitate. For this alone, I don't know how much the value of this collection will be improved.

Coupled with the material characteristics of the jadeite itself and Li Guohui's hype, Xie Bin really can't imagine what the transaction price of his work will be.

After discussing the publicity with the old man, Xie Bin returned to the villa and completed the final process of this treasure, which had caused a sensation before it was unveiled.

In fact, there is really no need for Xie Bin to worry about publicity, just have his authorization, and the rest of the things will naturally be arranged by professionals. Li Guohui's Bomeran's auction house is ambitious to catch up with international giants like Christie's Sotheby's, and its own strength is unquestionable.

However, such a key auction rarely faces ordinary customers. Just like Sotheby's or something, when people auction some rare treasures, they don't put too many advertisements on TV and newspapers, at most they just make an announcement.

The main customers are the members they usually accumulate, what level of membership has what level of treatment, Li Guohui's Bomei naturally has no shortage of such masters. All Xie Bin needed was to finish the work, save it, and wait for the auction to begin.

Grinding jadeite by hand is a very physically and energetic job, and in this process, Xie Bin's ability can no longer play any role except for making him more physically energetic, and can only be polished slowly little by little.

It took a full five days to polish alone, and some special places were treated in order to show a stronger effect.

On the day of completion, it seemed that Xie Bin's friends had a premonition, and they all gathered in Xie Bin's villa, quietly waiting for Xie Bin's exit.

It is said that after Xie Bin saw a large number of people in the villa, he was really taken aback, and he didn't know when they came.

Chen Jianjun, the head snake, bore the brunt of the attack, and after seeing Xie Bin coming out of the basement, he took two big steps in front and said with a smile: "You finally came out, have you finished it?" Let's have a good time first. ”

Xie Bin looked at this posture, smiled wryly and turned over and returned to the basement, moved out the ornaments that had just been completed, and put them in the living room.

After this ornament was carved, there were a little more than fifty-three catties left, and Xie Bin carried it easily, but it startled a few people who watched the excitement, especially Zou Xintong, who hurriedly shouted for everyone to get out of the way.

When Xie Bin put the big guy in his hand on the table, everyone sighed in unison: "Wow-"

No wonder, it is indeed very beautiful.

The whole piece of jadeite, even the size of the base, is placed on the table in a variety of colors, especially the three-point red color specially processed by Xie Bin, which is very expressive to bring a piece of jade to life.

This is a very common birthday ornament, Xie Bin himself has made a lot of similar ones, but the material is not as good as this one. I have to say that the objects made of this good material really add a lot of color, especially this is still the best Fulu Suxi.

The whole ornament is an old birthday star with a crane surrounded by cranes on his feet with a purple auspicious cloud holding a cane, and the shape is very ordinary, which is Xie Bin's most regrettable thing, but now he can't be too demanding, and the creativity is not something that is there.

The creative shape is very ordinary, but with this magnificent color, it is different and extraordinarily fairy. The general jadeite is mostly green, and the old birthday ornaments are not nothing, but most of them are green, and sometimes you will feel very monotonous when you see too much.

And suddenly seeing this four-colored old birthday star, no one will be indifferent. The old birthday star itself is green and white, which is nothing unusual, including the bare top of the head, which is also relatively common, and the delicate and expressive crutches are not uncommon in Xie Bin's tasting.

What is rare is a large purple auspicious cloud at the foot, a purple auspicious cloud that is slightly darker than the pink purple but slightly lighter than the eggplant, and sometimes mixed with a trace of green, which looks particularly moving. Especially after Xie Bin's careful carving, this cloud seems to be a real cloud, and it seems to be flying in the wind.

And the most expressive are the three cranes around the old birthday star. The old birthday star with the crane is a traditional shape, and it is more common, and Xie Bin is also not unusual here.

Three cranes, one standing on one leg, with its slender neck raised high, as if singing, and one is about to spread its wings and fly high, its wings have been spread, but it has not yet fully flown up, and it is in a state of wanting to fly but not flying, and its two long legs are still stepping on the clouds. The last one is in the sky, as if playing swooping to tease the other two cranes.

And these three cranes have different expressions, the one flying in the sky is the most naughty, swooping down from the sky and bending its neck to tease the two on the ground; The standing one looked serene and indifferent, amusing himself indifferent to the teasing of the other crane; And the one who spreads his wings and wants to compete with the one in the sky.

And these three cranes, most of them are white, only on the legs are stained with some purple and green, but Xie Bin's focus on decoration is only three points of jade the size of a fingernail, which is the top of the three cranes, red and bright inlaid on the top of the heads of the three cranes, vivid. And this is the only little red jadeite left in the whole ornament.

When designing the drawings, Xie Bin thought that since the existence of the crane was set, why not make the crane appear more real? So Xie Bin very boldly took out all the red jadeite in the whole piece of jadeite, and there were only three points left.

And now it seems that the effect is still very good, or very good, and the appeal shown in this way is definitely much stronger than a large piece of red jadeite blocked there. Now that I look at it like this, it seems that the red essence of the whole ornament is concentrated on the top of the three-point red crane.

Especially on the three cranes, Xie Bin spent a lot of time. The white material of the high ice species is not very suitable for making real objects, because the transparency is too strong, and the sense of existence after making the crane is too weak.

In order to enhance the texture of the three cranes, Xie Bin made a special treatment of the body parts of the cranes, and did not use the general treatment techniques to polish the smooth, but frosted, so that the bodies of the three cranes were much more real, and at the same time made the top of the three-point red crane more vivid and smart, and did not damage the permeability of the object.

And the overall look, but it seems very harmonious, because whether it is the green of the old birthday star or the red and white of the crane or the purple as auspicious clouds, they are all the best of the best, and the three are intertwined with each other, making this work full of auspicious and festive atmosphere.

From an artistic point of view, although the overall shape is not unusual, the layout is also considered to be of superior quality, and if Xie Bin's own incomparable and unique detail processing skills are counted, this work can also be regarded as a masterpiece.

The theme shape is not unusual, but Xie Bin is not rigid at all in terms of layout, especially the demeanor and movements of the three cranes, which are suitable for movement and static, with different demeanors, and a small range of their own world. And the smart auspicious clouds and the smiling old birthday star are a combination of movement and stillness.

In traditional culture, yin and yang are very important theories, whether it is ancient philosophy, science, medicine, or traditional calligraphy and painting art, this theory is almost deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. The so-called yin and yang does not only refer to the two qi of yin and yang, but is a theory that everything is compatible and coexists.

Just like movement and stillness, mountains and water, trees and boats, black and white, thick and light, etc., as long as you can master this size, you don't have to worry about going wrong in the design and layout of the artwork.

Xie Bin himself, whether painting, writing or carving, has always paid great attention to this, so that his works, whether good or bad, always seem so vibrant and lively.

In fact, not only the traditional Chinese culture pays attention to this, but also Western art also attaches great importance to these, just like those famous sculptures, which seem to be standing still, but in the subtle aspects, they are full of extraordinarily strong dynamics.

The most famous contemplative, this work seems very simple, but it is the most complex, because the author not only wants to show the static movements of the characters when they are contemplating, but more importantly, they portray the rotating thoughts of the characters.

The movement is static, but it is necessary to express a very active mind, which is the two extremes of movement and stillness. And the author himself apparently did it, and it was very successful, because looking at the sculpture, one first thought of not a stationary human head, but a brain spinning at high speed.

(To be continued)