Chapter 504: Tao Hongzhai Stone Pot
These stone pots are good things, because in the eyes of insiders, they are not just exquisite stone pots carved from Maifan stone.
These stone pots, not only are they exquisitely made, but the most important thing is the pottery character in the lid of these stone pots, with such a mark, which is enough to explain the origin of these stone pots.
The stone pot is actually not long in origin and rise, and the emergence of this thing is actually mainly related to the habit of our Chinese people who like to drink tea.
In the earliest days, we Chinese used porcelain pots or purple clay pots to drink tea, and these two kinds of teapots have become the elegance of many literati and tea lovers in ancient times.
Since ancient times, some people began to collect, and in the Qing Dynasty, because of the love of several emperors in the Qing Dynasty, the tea set of purple clay pot was even more popular, and then later, this trend has continued to the Republic of China.
After entering the period of New China, because of cultural thinking, antique cultural relics were once suppressed, until after the reform, the cultural relics and antiques industry ushered in a new vitality.
Tea utensils such as purple clay pots and teapots have gradually become popular with the recovery of the antique industry.
In the 80s of the last century, there were several brothers in Puhai, all of whom were technical employees of Puhai Art and Craft Factory, and these brothers were also very fond of the research and production of tea sets.
However, at that time, they took a different approach, and instead of using purple sand or porcelain as raw materials in the past, they began to use stone and carving techniques to make stone pots.
And this innovation of theirs. also let them in the domestic tea set industry. found another way out.
When it first started. The teapots made by their brothers were only regarded as beautifully crafted by people, and later a large number of Baodao people came to Puhai to invest.
These people from Baodao also quickly recognized such stone pots and brought them back to Baodao, and these stone pots are generally made of high-grade stone because of their exquisite carvings.
Moreover, drinking tea with this stone pot can not only keep warm. To ensure that the taste of the tea soup remains unchanged, it can have great benefits to the human body, so such a beautifully carved stone pot quickly became popular in the treasure island.
And this craze for new tea sets has also quickly spread to Xiangjiang, Japan, South Korea, and even Southeast Asia.
A large number of orders were sent from those regions to the country, and the brothers looked at the stone pots they had invented. The momentum was so good, and the country at that time also wanted to lighten the burden. Workers are encouraged to be laid off and re-employed.
So the brothers gritted their teeth and resigned directly from the arts and crafts factory, and went to the sea to found a company specializing in the manufacture of stone pots.
And the Tao brothers, as their stone pots become more and more widely accepted by collectors, have also become a generation of well-known masters of arts and crafts in China.
Two of their brothers now not only have the title of special arts and crafts master issued by the state, but also enjoy the special allowance of the state.
This has to be put aside in ancient times, and craftsmen who can mix with such a status are almost all unique masters who can start a mountain and establish a school!
And the stone pot they carved is now worth a lot.
More than 20 years ago, when they were still working as workers in the arts and crafts factory in Puhai, the stone pots they carved and manufactured at that time were sold as handicrafts in the market, and the price was only a few dozen yuan.
And now, the stone pots they made themselves are almost hard to find in the market.
Every day, I don't know how many big bosses carry cash and come to visit, just to ask for a stone pot they made with their own hands.
And the stone pots they made, if they are now put on the auction market, they have to start from a few million casually, and finally sell for tens of millions, or even tens of millions, which is a common thing.
And the stone pots that the capital is facing now are exactly the works they created before.
One of the main reasons why Jin Muchen is so sure is because of the pottery character inside the small round seal on the inside of the lid of these pots!
When he was in New York, Uncle Fang had a few old friends, most of whom were people in the antique circle, and several of them were from the same period as Uncle Fang, who came to the United States from China, and there were also a few who were in the antique business like Uncle Fang.
Among them, there is an old man surnamed Liu, who is from Puhai, and when the country was just reopened, he worked in the state-owned arts and crafts store in Puhai.
Later, after the restructuring, he simply gritted his teeth, resigned himself, and opened an antique shop.
Relying on his ability to climb and roll in the antique circle for many years, he raised a pair of children, and his children were also very competitive, and they both came to the United States after graduating from college and settled down in the United States.
Later, he also took him from China to New York, and the first thing this old man did after coming to New York was to look for antique shops everywhere, so he became friends with Fang Bo.
And this old man didn't bring too many good things from China, but the only thing that made him feel the most proud was the stone pot produced by Tao Hongzhai that he brought from China.
Jin Muchen has also seen that pot, and it is indeed quite exquisitely made, usually even if it is Shen, the old man has it with him, and when he is with Uncle Fang and a few of his old friends, it is indispensable to take it out and show off.
So his pot, Jin Muchen didn't look at it less, and it was with that experience that he knew the mystery of this Tao Hongzhai stone pot.
The stone pot is an emerging breed in the antique circle, and considering the age when this thing was born, this kind of thing even has a vague status in the antique world.
Some people say that he is a literary play, and some people say that he is an antique, anyway, there is no clear definition until now.
But because the material of this kind of thing is better, and the carving is really beautiful, and the artistry is very strong, many antique players prefer to regard them as antiques made by modern people for future generations.
It is precisely because of this that Tao Hongzhai's fame will be so big in the modern stone pot collection world, and it can even be said that it is the only one in the country, and there is no other semicolon!
And the logo of the stone pot in Uncle Liu's hand is exactly the same as the logo on the lid of these stone pots that Jin Muchen saw.
That Uncle Liu also recently explained to Jin Muchen the origin of his stone pot, it is said that in the eighties of the last century, when the Puhai Arts and Crafts Factory got the handicrafts consigned by their arts and crafts store.
But the stone pot has not been sold, he looks very fond of it, and finally gritted his teeth and spent more than 30 yuan, nearly half a month's salary to buy it, who would have thought that because of this pot, after going back, his wife quarreled with him for a month.
But now, when the Chinese New Year's Eve was a few dollars old, the value has now increased by hundreds or thousands of times.
Later, after the Tao brothers resigned from the arts and crafts factory, they founded Tao Hongzhai and began to specialize in making stone pots, and the fame of Tao Hongzhai became bigger and bigger, so that now on the market, their works are hard to find.
This also makes the status of the stone pot in the collecting world not known how much it has improved.
It's just that after the Tao brothers resigned from the Arts and Crafts Factory, their works, the logo inside the lid of the pot, were all changed to the words Tao Hongzhai.
Only when they were still working in the arts and crafts factory, the stone pot they made would have only a simple pottery character in the lid.
And now the pottery characters on the inside of the lids of these pots have already explained everything.
With this word, it proves that the young man should have roughly not told a lie, these pots should be the work of the Dow brothers in the eighties.
As for whether it was bought from China by his grandfather back then, as he said, it's hard to say.
And on the other hand, such a precious thing was placed at the door so casually by him, which already shows the status of these stone pots in his heart.
At least he didn't know the origin of these stone pots so specially.
In this way, it gave Jin Muchen room to bargain with him.
The antique market is so cruel, even if you do get this thing in a serious way, but if you don't understand, then you are blind in front of the connoisseurs, then you can only blame yourself for not being good at learning.
Jin Muchen didn't have to, to teach him this knowledge of antiques, as soon as he listened to the young man's lecture, he turned his head with a smile and asked him.
"Okay, don't talk about other nonsense, you come and tell me, how much do you want to buy these pots?"
"Uh...... Is this one? These pots, after all, have been in my family for a long time, and they were handed down by my grandfather, and I have a lot of feelings for them......"
, if you have feelings for things, you're going to just put them here?
Jin Muchen scolded secretly in his heart, but his face was silent.
"That's it, a pot, 30,000 yuan...... RMB ......"
"Hmm...... That's it, deal! ”
When Jin Muchen heard this offer, he was also stunned, he originally wanted to slaughter him, but seeing that this guy was completely a straw bag and didn't understand anything, he thought about it or forget it.
He can earn 30,000 yuan, but compared to himself, he earns more.
These stone pots, in terms of craftsmanship and material, no matter which one is the best choice, as long as you get the domestic stone pot auction, the price of any one will not be less than one million, even if you give him 30,000 yuan each, you still have to earn.
Thinking of this, Jin Muchen couldn't bear to kill him.
Jin Muchen casually took out the card and handed it to the guy...... (To be continued......)