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Jin Muchen cautiously approached the booth, and after asking Phil, he carefully picked up the snuff bottles.

One of the leftmost snuff bottles is made of amber, burgundy, fully transparent, flat square in shape, with a blue stone lid on the top, a tooth spoon at the bottom, and an oval foot at the bottom. There is also half a bottle of remaining snuff in the snuff bottle.

The two sides of the pot body are carved with a poem in regular script and seven words: "The spring clouds on the city cover the garden wall, and the evening color of the river pavilion is quiet." The forest flowers are wet with swifts, and the water wattles are long and green. The Longwu army was stationed deep, and the Furong Palace was full of incense. When will this money be, temporarily drunk Jiaxin Jinsefang. ”

And the most important thing is that at the end of the sign "Qianlong Jiawu Zhongchun Imperial Inscription".

Just seeing this, Jin Muchen was already shocked in his heart, combined with the soft yellow light emitted by this snuff bottle before, this snuff box had already been judged by him to be genuine, if it was Qianlong's imperial inscription, it would be terrible.

According to the current market situation, this snuff bottle is worth at least millions of yuan!

He took a deep breath and told himself to be calm, and he must not show his skin, because there are many people who are interested in these snuff bottles now, and if he shows any flaws, then when the time comes, he will definitely suffer.

Forced to calm down, he put down the snuffbox as if nothing had happened, and then picked up another.

This is a black set of cowpea red glass camellia pattern snuff bottle, the bottle is oblate, the red glass lid is connected with a bamboo spoon.

The abdomen is black with cowpea red glass, one side is decorated with Taihu Lake stone and begonia flowers, and the other side is decorated with Taihu Lake stone and camellia.

In the glass process of snuff bottle cover, white set red or white set blue is the mainstream, and there are not many people who cover red glass on black ground, so the style of this snuff bottle can be called unique.

And the yellow light emitted by this snuff bottle can be said to be better than the previous one, coupled with Jin Muchen's understanding of Chinese antique culture during this time, the value of this snuff bottle is completely higher than that of the previous Qianlong imperial inscription.

The third snuff box is a white set of blue glass enamel color bamboo magpie picture snuff bottle, the snuff bottle is in the shape of a flat bottle, with Nirvana white glass as the womb. The shoulders are decorated with blue animal face rings, and the abdomen is made of circular light on both sides, embedded with the pattern of bamboo magpie playful spring fired by enamel, and covered with colorless transparent glass. The bottom of the pot is engraved with "Qianlong year" regular script.

The cigarette bottle combines the two techniques of glass and enamel in one vessel, and the decoration technique is unique.

After confirming this snuff bottle, Jin Muchen felt that his palms began to sweat slightly, he never thought that such a baby would appear here.

After putting the snuffbox down, he settled down and picked up the last snuffbox.

This snuff box is a blue and white cucumber bat snuff bottle, the cuff bottle is made of white porcelain,

The whole is a round barrel, it looks like a firecracker standing up, the bottle body is painted with melon ridge texture, and the small melon and vines, branches and leaves in the picture, the melon leaves are rolled, and a small bat lies on the leaf. The lid is made of the same material, and there is also a blue and white bat on the top, and a copper-plated spoon on the bottom.

Compared with the previous snuff bottles, it is not brilliant at all, and it can even be said to be ordinary.

And because of the relationship between the age and the lack of maintenance, it looks very shabby, especially the blue and white glaze and even some glaze cracking, which makes this snuff bottle look much inferior to the previous three.

There is no bottom at the bottom of the pot, open the lid of the pot and shine it with a strong flashlight, you can see that at the bottom of the pot inside, there is a regular script engraved with four words, and the year system of Chenghua.

When he saw this style, Jin Muchen almost threw the snuffbox to the ground without missing it, especially the ancestor who ran into the snuffbox!

It's no wonder that this snuff box, which looks the most inconspicuous and even gives people a dirty feeling, will glow with that kind of yellow and purple light, which he has never seen before, so it should be the so-called domineering!

He quietly put the snuff box back, just as Phil had finished introducing the snuff boxes on his desk, and the people around him who were interested in them also came up to pick up the snuff boxes and check them out.

But these foreign devils are obviously not very knowledgeable, and the objects they mainly look at are the snuff bottles that are placed on the top and in the best condition, and in Jin Muchen's opinion, those things that can barely be called antiques, compared with the following four, can only be described by three words: shabby handicrafts.

However, the happier he was when he saw those foreigners, holding those snuff bottles with exquisite workmanship and complete condition, the happier he was, and the more these foreigners were like that, the more illiterate they were.

And at this time, he has already issued a nirvana order in his heart for these snuff bottles, and he must definitely take them!

"Mr. Phil, can you tell me about the origin of your snuff bottles?"

Jin Muchen pointed to the bottom of the snuff bottles and asked the stall owner Phil, Phil shrugged his shoulders, then put on reading glasses, looked at the snuff bottles a few times, and finally took out a photo album from under the table and began to flip through it.

Finally, I turned out a few black and white photos, Phil was still very young at that time, these photos were taken by him in the capital, and the capital in that photo was completely the same as it was decades ago.

"Well, these are the first time I went to China, I think I collected them in 1978, and I ...... at that time."

Hearing this year, Jin Muchen was no longer interested in what Phil said later, because the year was right, which was very important.

In fact, there has been no clear definition of such antiques in the early years, as early as the seventies and eighties of the last century, this thing can only be identified as a cultural play, until the nineties, it was defined as an antique.

The reason why it is defined as an antique is also because after the opening of the country in the seventies and eighties, a large number of foreigners came to China to Taobao, took away a lot of snuff bottles from China, and then competed for high prices in the international auction market, which attracted the attention of domestic cultural relics experts.

It was not until the 90s that researchers at the Palace Museum published a book "Selected Snuff Bottles of the Palace Museum", and at this time this snuff bottle was officially recognized as a precious antique from top to bottom, from official to non-governmental.

And when the identity of snuff bottle antiques is defined, there are few good snuff bottles in China and lost overseas.

Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and Japan are the most popular collectors in the collecting world, while in Europe and the United States, the most popular place to collect snuff bottles is the United States.

In the American collecting world, snuff bottles have a particularly high collecting status, and many American collectors like this thing very much, so snuff bottles are particularly sought-after in American antique circles.

Even the Americans founded the world's largest snuff bottle collection organization as early as 1964: the International Chinese Snuff Bottle Association!

Does that sound very sad? A treasure that originated in China, and in the end it was actually some white-skinned and big-nosed foreign devils, who were the first to set up a collection and protection association!

There are several theories about the origin of snuff bottles, but according to official research, the earliest origin of this thing should be in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, when the Italian missionary Matteo Ricci came to China to preach and brought a lot of Western gifts to Wanli.

At that time, there was snuff from the West, which was packed in small porcelain boxes or small glass bottles with exquisite workmanship, and at that time the function of those small boxes and small bottles was the medicine box, and these pill boxes were the origin of later snuff bottles.

The snuff bottle that really has the concept of finished products should be from the Kangxi period, with the development of people's aesthetic taste, and the Kangxi Emperor's love for Western technology.

In the thirty-fifth year of Kangxi, with the help of the German missionary Jilian, the Qing Palace Office established a special institution - the glass factory!

After that, snuff bottles, which are practical and can be used by people, began to become popular quickly in Sijiu City, and in the Qianlong period, it developed to its peak.

Now, as far as the whole world is concerned, the places with the largest collection of snuff bottles are the Forbidden City in Beijing and the Forbidden City in Baodao, with a total of more than 4,000 snuff bottles in both places.

The largest private collection is in the United States, where there are probably thousands of snuff bottles scattered by collectors.

Of course, these collections can be said to be good and bad, some of them must be hard-to-buy fine products, and more may be some shoddy handicrafts.

But today, Jin Muchen never thought that he would be here and meet the ancestor of the snuffbox!

"Okay, everyone's pretty much done, let's put down what we are holding! Let's start bidding! I'm a little hungry, let's hurry up, finish early, I'll go have lunch. ”

As soon as Phil saw that the time was almost up, he beckoned the potential buyers to quickly put down their items and come to the auction.

Jin Muchen glanced at the blackboard next to his desk, which said the appraisal given by the appraisal company, these more than 30 snuff bottles, the total estimate given was 80,000 US dollars.

And the minimum expectation of the old Phil below is 100,000 dollars.

When he saw this offer, Jin Muchen really didn't know how to describe how he felt in his heart.

It stands to reason that he should be happy, such a good baby was actually valued so low, this time it is destined to be a big leak to pick up, but seeing such a treasure, the pearl is actually covered with dust, Jin Muchen scolded the appraiser of the appraisal company for being blind.

Such a good baby, he actually gave an estimate of 80,000 US dollars? Could it be that he really saw these snuff bottles as handicrafts?

I really don't know how that appraiser got into that appraisal company?

And this Phil is obviously Ye Gong Haolong's second knife, he is likely to see that other people's collection of snuff bottles is small and cute, so he began to collect this thing, but he has never carefully studied the history of this snuff bottle, otherwise, he would never be here today!