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Because the bid is bold, Phil. Oakley was also very happy, and he directly gave Jin Muchen the box he had originally used to hold these snuff bottles.

This is a peachwood flattened wooden box, both sides are embedded with sponges, and the middle of the sponge is made of many small holes according to the shape of the snuff box, and then these snuff bottles can be placed in this small wooden box according to the shape of each other.

Jin Muchen came out of the big tent with the wooden box and Candace, it was already more than one o'clock in the afternoon, and he was so hungry that he couldn't do it, so he set up a restaurant nearby and had a hearty meal.

Coming out of the restaurant, Jin Muchen was no longer interested in visiting the market, at this time he just wanted to go back early and appreciate the treasure he got today.

It just so happened that Candace was also feeling a little tired, so the two went straight back to the hotel, and it was very dark in Washington in winter, and it was already dark at five o'clock.

After getting tired of being in her room with Candace for a while, Jin Muchen returned to his room, but he didn't feel sleepy at all, he took out the box containing those snuff bottles again, opened them, and took out all those snuff bottles one by one.

Some of the top ones are the ones I saw in the morning with beautiful workmanship and good quality, but these snuff bottles are, at best, handicrafts and have little antique value.

These may be some snuff bottles collected by Phil in China in the last ten years, although the workmanship is very beautiful and the material is good, but it can only be defined as handicrafts.

At best, it's a few hundred to a few thousand dollars, and there are about four snuff bottles in the middle, these are rough workmanship, and the volume is also very large, not to mention the material, anyway, compared to the beautifully made crafts above, these are simply ugly ducklings.

But those who know know that the more such snuff bottles, the more real antiques they are.

But anyone who has ever played with snuff bottles knows that snuff bottles originated and flourished in the Qing Dynasty, and snuff bottles during the Qing Dynasty have such a saying.

In terms of modeling, the earlier the age, the smaller the shape; The later it is, the bigger and more stupid it becomes. The shape of the mouth is also regular, the earlier the wall becomes thinner, and the later the wall becomes thicker. The rule of the ampulla position is: the early one must be a flat abdomen, and the bulging abdomen is late.

Therefore, these big-bellied and stupid-looking snuff bottles must be the works of the late Qing Dynasty, and they should be from the Guangxu or Tongzhi periods.

Don't look at such a snuff box looks ugly, but now if it is sent to the auction, it should be able to shoot more than 100,000 yuan.

But these are not what Jin Muchen cares about, the most important thing for him is the four inconspicuous snuff bottles at the bottom.

First of all, the amber snuff bottle with the Qianlong imperial inscription has the poem of the Qianlong imperial inscription, the carving is exquisite, and the condition is intact, to be honest, he really can't understand, such a snuff bottle, with such obvious characteristics of the times, but the two knife appraisers of the appraisal company actually didn't see it.

He played with this snuffbox in his hand, opened the cap, there were still some tobacco medicine in it, and when he smelled it, his mind was immediately refreshed, this is definitely a rare treasure.

A snuff box of this quality, if it is auctioned in China, it will be at least one million, or even more than three million.

Then there is the black set of cowpea red glass camellia pattern snuff bottles, this type of snuff bottles are absolutely rare on the market, and it is not an exaggeration to describe them as rare.

Because to make snuff bottles, they generally choose a combination of white and blue, or white and red, or yellow and green, as for the black set of cowpea red, it is very rare.

The main reason is that this kind of cowpea red is very close to the cowpea red glaze in porcelain, so it will be very rare.

And even today, when science and technology are so developed, the ingredient ratio and manufacturing process of cowpea red used in snuff bottle glass tires have not been overcome.

So as long as such a black set of cowpea red snuff bottles are circulating on the market now, it must be genuine, because there are no imitations at all.

It is precisely because of this, coupled with the fact that the amount of hand-me-down is very rare, so the price of such a snuff bottle on the market is very precious, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is worth ten thousand gold.

According to Jin Muchen's estimate, if this black cowpea-red snuff box is auctioned, it can at least fetch a price of seven or eight million, and it is not impossible to even exceed ten million.

And the third, this white set of blue glass tire enamel color bamboo magpie picture snuff bottle, it is even more incredible.

In the circle of antique players now, there is such a consensus that the treasure of glass enamel tires is definitely not as valuable as porcelain enamel tires, but this is relative to other antique fields.

As far as the field of snuff bottles is concerned, the snuff bottles made of glass enamel tires are much more precious than the snuff bottles made of porcelain enamel tires.

This is mainly due to the extremely low firing power of glass fetal enamel.

Because it is a secondary firing, the glass is first fired into a certain shape, and then the enamel is used to paint; After that, when the temperature is high, the glass will be broken, and the temperature will be low, and the enamel color will not come out.

Therefore, the production of glass fetal enamel in the Qing Dynasty was the least, and it was extremely precious, especially for such a very small snuff bottle, which required a very superb firing process.

Now, even in the Palace Museum, there are only about 20 such glass enamel snuff bottles.

Therefore, this also leads to such a collection, which is in urgent need of the market, and once the real product appears, it is easy to be hyped into sky-high prices, with a price of more than 10 million, which is an easy thing to do.

As for the last blue and white cucumber bat snuff bottle, it is not to mention, although both the shape and the blue and white painting on it are much worse than the previous snuff bottles.

But this does not affect his value in the slightest, the value of such a snuff bottle is mainly reflected in his status in the rivers and lakes, it is the ancestor of all snuff bottles in the world, the snuff bottle with the knowledge of the Kangxi era of the Qing Dynasty, it is said that such snuff bottles, there are only more than 20 in the world.

The bottom of this snuff box is engraved on the bottom of the pot, the Chenghua year, everyone may feel strange when you see it, if it is a thing of the Kangxi year, how can it be written on the Chenghua year?

This is mainly related to the habits of the time, the masters of the Qing Dynasty were very fond of the porcelain of the Ming Dynasty, especially the things of the Chenghua year, blue and white, pastel, in short, the imperial porcelain of the Ming Dynasty, in the eyes of the masters of the Qing Dynasty, it is a good thing, in the eyes of people who understand porcelain, the porcelain of the Chenghua year, can be said to be a peak of porcelain in the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, these masters of the Qing Dynasty liked to forge porcelain in the Ming and Chenghua periods, for example, Kangxi liked to ask the manufacturing office to sign the blue and white used for him with the base of the Chenghua year.

Yongzheng likes to sign the pastel he used with the same base of the Chenghua year, which shows that these two Qing Dynasty emperors loved the porcelain of the Ming Chenghua period.

According to the records of historical books, the snuff bottles made by the palace office during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty generally have such characteristics, the shape is mostly firecracker tube type, and the color is only blue and white and glaze red.

And there is generally no money knowledge, and those who have money knowledge are also written in the Chenghua year system.

And one of the most critical features is the bat portrait on the snuff bottle, you must know that the bat portrait during the Qing Dynasty was very popular in all kinds of porcelain and small objects.

Starting from Kangxi, to Yongzheng, Qianlong, Jiaqing, Daoguang, Xianfeng, Tongzhi, Guangxu, almost all the emperor's porcelain will have bats on it.

However, the bat statues on the porcelain of each generation of emperors are different, among which the bat shape in the Kangxi period is characterized by the fact that the bat wings are very pointed, and they must be open.

And this is vividly reflected in this blue and white cucumber bat snuff bottle, not only on the body of the pot, but also on the lid.

With so many characteristics superimposed together, Jin Muchen concluded that this blue and white cucumber bat snuff bottle was a work of the Kangxi period, and looking at the four regular characters of the Chenghua year system engraved in the pot, Jin Muchen basically concluded that this snuff bottle is not only the treasure of the Kangxi year, but also the kind with the style.

Such a snuff bottle, if you really want to assess, can definitely be classified as a national treasure, although the status is lower than the gold fixture he found before, but it is definitely a rare good treasure.

If it is really put up for auction, such a small snuff bottle can definitely fetch an astonishingly high price, and it can even be said that the price of the first three snuff bottles together is not necessarily as high as this.

As soon as he thought of this, Jin Muchen couldn't hold back his excitement in his heart, he really chose to come to Washington this time.

At first, the purpose of coming here was just to relax and take a stroll by the way, he really didn't expect to bring some treasures back from here, but now it seems that his luck in New York disappeared for a while, as if in Washington, suddenly recovered.

On the first day of coming, he was able to pick up such a good treasure in such a big market, and when he thought of this, Jin Muchen even couldn't wait for tomorrow's trip to the Pasque market.

The water in this market is very deep, and there are really a lot of treasures in it, all waiting for someone to find out.

Jin Muchen kept playing with these snuff bottles until late at night and didn't fall asleep, and finally simply threw the four good snuff bottles into the purple jade space, and the rest were still put back in the box.