Indeed, what kind of life a person lives with money or not is clear in the eyes of the Ming people, especially some old rivers and lakes who directly look at their popularity, they can probably guess what you do and what kind of class you are in society.

Lao Liu is like this, although he doesn't know what happened to Zhou Ming, but he really feels the changes in Zhou Ming. The previous Zhou Ming was at best a poor little literati, far worse than his old Liu, but now he really felt the pressure, so that he didn't dare to reveal his habit of being poor in the past.

Zhou Ming is also a human spirit, of course, he also felt Lao Liu's restraint, but he didn't say anything, and looked at the good things that Lao Liu took out from behind him with a smile. According to Lao Liu, the things hidden behind him are not sold to ordinary people, but to those who have money.

In fact, Lao Liu is not lying, these things he took out are all real, although they are not very valuable, but they are not fakes, for ordinary collectors, they are already rare good things, especially one of them There is also a red pastel Guanyin bottle from the Daoguang period.

Zhou Ming held the bottle and asked the price, but Lao Liu didn't dare to open his mouth, and cautiously tentatively said: "20,000 yuan? ”

Twenty thousand? Zhou Ming put the bottle down noncommittally, picked up another box, and opened it to see that it was a teapot. However, this is certainly not an ordinary teapot, because among this pile of objects, this one is precious, because the jade pen has the strongest sense of this teapot.

Speaking of teapots, people in the antique circle will think of the purple clay pot for the first time, because the purple clay pot is the largest, most important and most delicate classification of teapot art, so that people don't think of anything else when it comes to teapots, but only think of this kind of purple clay pot that integrates highly practical and exquisite artistic taste.

At this time, the purple sand pot in Zhou Ming's hand is pale yellow with dots of transparent sand spots, and the matte effect is relatively strong, a bit like the pear skin color in the copper furnace, but the purple sand pot looks quite rough, but it is very delicate to start, and the feel is very high.

Zhou Ming pinched the bead-shaped button at the top of the lid and gently turned the lid, hearing the rustle of the lid and the body of the pot, he was secretly excited, this is a good pot. Then take out the lid and cover it again, without any bayonet, which shows that the production process of this pot is very exquisite, and the size ratio of the lid and the body is very accurate.

The shape of this pot should be a lotus seed pot, Zhou Ming looked at it seriously, looking at the round figure of this pot and secretly pondering. The shape of the purple clay pot was not so fixed in the early days, as long as it conformed to the basic principles of the teapot, especially the light goods pot with a relatively ordinary shape.

The shape of this pot is rarely unconventional, it is a very ordinary public shape. However, the simpler the shape, the better it will be in the hands of the master, just like jewelry and jade, the shapes that are still in use for thousands of years are often those simple and classic shapes.

And the purple clay pot is similar, the most commonly used shape when people drink tea is often one or two, those flower pots may be more suitable for collection and appreciation, but if it is really used as a practical device to drink tea, it will feel a little awkward.

This kind of lotus seed pot is different, first of all, it is a light product, and the shape is almost not abnormal, but some adjustments have been made in the details, such as the button on the lid is made into a round standard circle, and the body of the pot is slightly raised, and the overall look is the same as a lotus seed standing up.

At this glance, this pot has an idea but is not new, it has no characteristics at a rough look, but you can find the exquisite idea of this pot when you think about it, it seems to be simple but it is full and elegant, the lines are very soft, the curve is unusually smooth, but the overall look will feel very strong. The whole pot is placed there, leading but not provoking, subtle and introverted, and the charm is extraordinary.

Zhou Zhou Ming looked at this pot and secretly pondered, although the shape of this pot is ordinary, but the bearing is extraordinary, especially the details are extremely exquisite, it is an absolute master's handiwork, so who else makes it? Look at the pulp should be before the middle of the Qing Dynasty.

Thinking so, Zhou Ming turned the teapot upside down, and saw a rounded square seal seal at the bottom of the pot, and the two seal characters in it could be determined to be the word "Mingyuan" after identification. Could it really be Chen Mingyuan's pot? Zhou Ming hurriedly looked at the lid of the pot again, and found a circular seal in the lid of the pot, which was also a seal character, but it was a single word "Chen".

This kind of rounded square "Mingyuan" seal and round "Chen" seal are Chen Mingyuan's commonly used seals, and look at the seal of this seal, the layout is reasonable, the lines are clumsy, and the temperament of the whole pot is very consistent, absolutely not everyone can imitate.

So, this pot is Chen Mingyuan's lotus seed pot? Zhou Ming was secretly excited in his heart, Chen Mingyuan is a monument that cannot be avoided in the history of purple sand pots, the word Mingyuan, Hefeng, also known as Shixia Mountain people, Hu Yin, Yixing purple sand famous artists during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, is a famous player with high achievements in pot art and boutique for hundreds of years.

Chen Mingyuan was born in a purple sand family, and the purple sand utensils he made including the purple sand pot are all exquisite, and more importantly, he also created the trend of engraved poems on the body of the pot, making the purple sand pot no longer an ordinary practical device, but has become an artistic carrier that can carry personal feelings and cultural accomplishments.

Chen Mingyuan signed his works to engrave inscriptions and seals at the same time, the style is elegant, there is a Tang Dynasty style, his works are famous at home and abroad, at that time there was even a "overseas competition for Mingyuan disc" said, greatly expanding the influence of purple sand pottery in the history of Chinese art.

Such a person's works will naturally not be low in recognition in the modern market, although they are not as good as Gu Jingzhou, but they have also sold more than 30 million sky-high works, and as for the auction records of several million, they are even more numerous, and this does not count those private transactions that have not been auctioned.

Discovering this, Zhou Ming was very excited, because this was the first time he touched the purple clay pot, and the first time he could touch Chen Mingyuan's work. What's more, it was found at a stall? If you encounter such a good thing on the stall, there is a more than 90% chance that it will be missed.

To put it bluntly, it is just to buy a high-priced object at a low price, and the craftsmanship and artistic content of this Chen Mingyuan lotus seed pot made by Zhou Ming in Zhou Ming's hand are very high, and the market value is more than 1.5 million yuan. But now does Lao Liu, the owner of this pot, know the value of this pot? Do you dare to offer a price like 1.5 million?

Zhou Zhou Ming looked at the pot quietly, and finally asked unhurriedly: "Brother Liu, what is the origin of this pot?" ”

"Hehe, it's not that you don't know that most of my things here are collected from the countryside," Lao Liu replied with a smile.

Zhou Mingxin said that most of the real things you have here are collected from the countryside, and they are almost the same, and as for those fakes, they are wholesaled from the countryside in Henan Province. However, Zhou Ming didn't debunk it, and smiled indifferently, "What price?" ”

"Hmm-" Lao Liu cautiously looked at Zhou Ming twice, pondered for a moment before replying, "How about 60,000 yuan?" Said hurriedly explained: "I found someone to see it, and they said that this knowledge belongs to Chen Mingyuan." ”

Zhou Ming laughed, "That's right, the style is Chen Mingyuan's, but unfortunately the pot is not Chen Mingyuan's, just an imitation of the Republic of China, you see this pot body, so regular, it must be driven by a mechanical runner to rotate out, if it is purely handmade, it is absolutely impossible to make zuò so neat." ”

"How is this possible?" Although Lao Liu didn't know if what Zhou Zhou Ming said was right, he still had to refute it, even if what Zhou Zhou Ming said was true, he couldn't just admit it, otherwise the price would be suppressed all of a sudden.

However, Zhou Ming didn't give him a chance, and grabbed the conversation with a smile, "It's impossible, Chen Mingyuan was already famous all over the world during the Kangxi period, and at that time, there were many people copying his works, and there are still people imitating it until modern times, go to the cultural relics store to see, more than 90% of Chen Mingyuan's purple clay pots are imitations, and many of them are modern imitations, you are still an old imitation of the Republic of China, not bad." ”

Lao Liu actually really has no bottom in his heart, if he can be sure that this pot is Chen Mingyuan's, he will never put the pot on the stall and sell it, either to the auction house or to the antique shop, since he didn't do that, he just wants to use Chen Mingyuan's money to get to know passers-by, which can be seen from his offer.

Sixty thousand dollars! 60,000 yuan to buy a pot of Chen Mingyuan, it was more than ten years ago, and the level of buying is still relatively low. Such a high level as this lotus seed pot, let alone put it more than ten years ago, even if it was placed hundreds of years ago, it was not cheap.

So as soon as Zhou Ming heard Lao Liu's offer, he probably guessed his psychological price, so after saying a bunch of things, he didn't wait for Lao Liu to refute, "30,000 yuan, this price is already on the high side, that is, the imitation level of this pot is not bad, otherwise I don't want 3,000 yuan." ”

"It's too low, it cost me thirty-five thousand ...... when I received it," Lao Liu hesitated and shook his head.

Are you willing to spend 30,000 or 50,000 yuan to collect such a purple clay pot from the countryside, which you can't even look at? Zhou Ming smiled secretly in his heart, it would be good for this old Liu to recognize a seal character "Chen", and he couldn't recognize the two seal characters "Mingyuan" so complicated. I didn't even recognize the money and spent 35,000 subordinates, who would believe it? Three hundred and five is about the same.

Thinking like this, Zhou Ming smiled, "Brother Liu, you said this to a pure layman, although I am not an insider, but I will not fall for your evil, just 30,000 yuan, for the sake of our friendship, I will give you a slightly higher market price, otherwise let alone 30,000 yuan, you will sell it for 3,000 yuan." ”