Chapter 153: Leaving Green Bamboo Carvings
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Wu Di turned the flashlight away slightly, and looked at the cup through the afterglow, even under this faint light source, the cup body is almost transparent, genuine! He didn't dare to look more, and even more to avoid the emergency lights on the stall, he put the cup into the porcelain tiles he picked out seemingly casually, and asked:
"Boss, how much do you have to do all this?"
A hint of pride flashed in the boss's eyes, and he smiled:
"Little brother, you are a connoisseur, these are all precious porcelain pieces! Look, there's also a piece of blue and white flowers! I won't make random offers, you give me a total of 20,000 yuan! β
The sparrow squatting next to Wu Di almost jumped up, these broken porcelain cups are worth 20,000, you just go and grab it!
Wu Di smiled:
"I asked for a lot of money to pay back on the spot, and I could only pay 100 yuan for these things. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biqugeγ infoβ
"Hehe, the little brother is a master, I won't tell the story, or I'll quote you the price one by one, you can listen to it first?"
"Okay, I'll hear what the boss has to say."
"Let's talk about that Yuan Qinghua first, although it is not big, but there is still an upper half of the human body on it, so five thousand is not expensive, right? The remnants of that porcelain cup, it's not too much to charge you 10,000, right? The other two, one is the pastel of the Qing Dynasty, two thousand, and the other is the celadon of the Song Longquan kiln, which charges you two thousand, and the largest one is the most worthless, and the imitation celadon in the late Qing Dynasty is only one thousand. What do you think? That's a real price, isn't it? β
"It's good to negotiate if this piece of porcelain costs 10,000 yuan, that piece of blue and white ...... Hehe, I think it's worth a maximum of thirty, and as for the remaining three, can they add up to ten dollars? β
The boss is afraid that the customer will not bargain, and he doesn't care no matter how low the return is, he talks about business, and business is negotiated slowly! Wen Yan smiled:
"Since you understand, I'll tell you the real price, don't give me back, be a man and leave a line, the rivers and lakes are good to meet, isn't it? I should make a little brother to you, a friend, 8,000 porcelain porcelain, 3,000 yuan blue and white flowers, and the remaining three pieces will be given! β
"Don't mind, everything you play with this is bought with money, how about I give you ten yuan for the remaining three?"
The boss faintly felt that something was wrong, but he didn't know what was wrong, and hesitated when he heard it:
"It is said that these three pieces are worth at least fifty, and I said that I would give them away for the sake of the two pieces you want to buy......
"Oh, these three pieces of fifty? Eight thousand porcelain and three thousand blue and white yuan? β
"That's right!"
"Okay, boss, this is fifty yuan, you take it, I want these three pieces!"
When the three of them walked away, Wu Di remembered the stunned expression on the boss's face, and he still couldn't help laughing. That piece of Yuan blue and white is pure nonsense, but the porcelain is real, but it can be said to be fake.
The porcelain of the official kilns of the past dynasties was all taken from its fine products, and all the defective porcelain was destroyed, and the porcelain was no exception. Although 7501 porcelain is precious, it also refers to the whole vessel, if it is a remnant used by a great man, the value is of course immeasurable, but once it is produced as a defective product, and it is smashed, then it loses the aura shrouded in the body, and the general residual porcelain is no different.
Standing under a dim street lamp, Wu Di gently put together the two pieces of Ru kiln pink celadon pieces he had just bought, and they were actually tightly fitted! That's two pieces of a piece! Seeing that it was thirty centimeters in diameter and a rare pink and cyan color, he smiled, this trip to Pingzhou, even if he didn't get anything, there was such a piece, it was enough!
Walking to the other end of the old street, the time was only more than five o'clock, Wu Di was a little hesitant, since he could find such a good thing as Ru porcelain, would there be any treasures that he hadn't found in the stall he had seen in a hurry just now? Immediately shook his head for his greed, in this world, I don't know how many treasures, how can he collect them alone?
"Let's go, go back to sleep, and when you're full, you'll continue to gamble on stones!"
When he turned around, he found the sparrow squatting on the ground and refusing to get up.
"Fifth brother, you see how exquisitely carved this pen holder is, you can help me take a look, I want to buy it."
"Oh, is the sparrow going to work hard? I'll see, I need to support this matter. β
"No...... But ......"
The stall of the sparrow squat is the first one at the corner of the street, the business is bamboo and wood carving, the pen holder held in the hand by the sparrow at the moment is a wood carving, Wu Di looked at it twice, the general boxwood, that is, the hollow part is not bad, it looks exquisite, but it is a pity that it is made by the machine.
"If it's cheap, it's good to buy it back and put it on the desk."
Wu Di returned the wood carving to the sparrow, glanced at the stall, picked up a black root carving, weighed it, and said with a smile:
"This thing is interesting......"
"At first, I thought it was red sandalwood, but unfortunately, although it weighs about the same weight, it is not. But I don't know what it's made of. β
Wu Di glanced at the boss and said in his heart, you are honest. He pressed several parts of the carving with his thumb and said with a smile:
"This is mostly carved from the roots of a tree called iron birch in the dense forests of the northeast, boss, how can you sell it?"
"Iron birch? This thing was handed down from my ancestors, and I just turned it out of the ancestral house, if you want, two ...... No, a thousand bucks. β
Wu Di didn't bargain, he counted a thousand and handed it to the boss, looked at the stall for a while, picked up a bamboo pen holder, and asked:
"How much does this cost?"
"This one is cheap, a hundred."
Wu Di nodded, put down the pen holder, picked up the next one again, and asked:
"How much does this cost?"
"This one is different, take a closer look, this is the most expensive in my stall, if you want it, little brother, 30,000!"
The sparrow looked at this one, which was not as good as the one of a hundred, and was a little crippled, and couldn't help asking:
"The one just now is obviously much better-looking, why is this broken one so expensive?"
"Little brother, this is an antique! Cai Shimin, do you know? In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, Jiading bamboo carvers were the best round carving figures. This is his work. Look, there's his money here, and this bag of pulp ......."
"And what about the one I have?"
"Your one, only a hundred."
Wu Di smiled and put down Cai Shimin's pen holder, the speech is like this, nine truths and one falsehood, let others think that it is true, in order to catch the wrong. The boss's entire stall is probably to set off this one. He picked up another pale yellow bamboo carved pen holder seemingly casually and asked:
"And how much does it cost?"
"This piece is imitation, don't look at it is carved by new bamboo, but it is also the handwriting of a famous artist, and it is imitated by the work of Wu Zhifan, a famous bamboo carver during the Qianlong period, look at this knife work, if you want at least five hundred."
As soon as Wu Di heard the price, he knew that the boss was gone. This pale yellow bamboo carving, on the surface, looks not long in time, and even the vermilion skin has not had time to become dark, but it is definitely not carved by new bamboo, but a real old thing.
This technique is called "bamboo carving to stay green", is the most difficult one in bamboo carving, a piece of green work is completed, less than a month, more than a year or even several years. It is a carving technique that only leaves bamboo Qingyun when bamboo carving, the material used is the wax moon moso bamboo that grows for several years, when performing art, the bamboo green outside the ornament is removed, only the fibrous bamboo muscle is exposed, due to the obvious difference between the bamboo green and the bamboo muscle in texture and color, so the work can obtain the artistic effect of pen and ink charm. This kind of bamboo carving, not only exquisite, but also the appearance of moist, with the passage of time by the years, the green yun is yellowed, and the unique charm of its pattern will become more and more magical and simple.
Bamboo carvings generally have arm rests, screen cores, pen holders, incense sticks, poems, fan bones, insect tools, stationery, etc., especially arm rests.
The first master to leave a name in history was Zhang Xihuang in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. And this nameless pen holder, which the boss said was an imitation of Wu Zhifan's work, is Zhang Xihuang's work from a style point of view, worth at least two million or more! In fact, how much is worth is second, the key is the quantity, Wu Di remembers, the master seems to have inadvertently mentioned that in the entire collection world, Zhang Xihuang's works will not exceed five at most!
Wu Di was too lazy to bargain, so he counted six hundred yuan directly, motioned for the sparrow to take the one he fancied, and got up to leave.
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