Chapter 13 The Rules of the Antique Shop
Ren Jingtian's vision was much higher than Yu Lifei's, and he saw Yu Lifei pointing to the halberd lid jar, and he took it in his hand and looked at it carefully. The whole body of the jar is painted in glaze red, and there are eight symmetrical halberd wheels on the upper shoulders of the abdomen, each of which is painted with a lotus pattern.
The lotus pattern and Sanskrit are painted in the middle of the abdomen, and the shape is unique, which is a ritual vessel used in Buddhism when doing the dojo. The porcelain is written in Sanskrit in ancient India, and there are five Chinese characters written on the bottom and lid of the jar, which means that it can eliminate disasters and difficulties, and be auspicious. It is probably because the kiln temperature is high, and the red hair color in the inner glaze of the jar is dark red, with a slight redness and halo.
As the saying goes, blue and white are precious, and red in the glaze is the most. The glaze of this jar is green and white, and the underglaze bubbles are sparse and bright. The carcass of this tank is thick and heavy, and flint red and flax spots can be seen at the bottom of the vessel, and the fetal foot feels smooth. This jar is currently rare in China, and the most famous collection of blue and white is in the Palace Museum in Beijing, which has the same theme as this vessel.
But Ren Jingtian also knows that there are too many imitations now, and if such things can be seen on the stalls, then he will not be so many times. I have been fooled, and I have learned a lesson, so I can't let others be fooled and fooled again. At that moment, he made up his mind that he couldn't let Yu Lifei be fooled.
"Less, this thing is very ordinary, and it takes up space, what are you buying it for?" Ren Jingtian said that there are many rules in the antique shop, for example, Yu Lifei is talking about this thing with the stall owner now, and he can only watch from the side. Even if he and Yu Lifei are friends, some questions can't be said.
The antique market inherits the tradition since ancient times, that is, it is mainly based on stalls, supplemented by stalls. The first time many people go to the antique market, they feel that it is dirty and messy, full of people, selling everything. There is usually one rule to pay attention to when visiting a stall, that is, when walking.
If you walk into a stall and suddenly want to leave, then you should continue to move forward, or go backwards out of the stall, but don't step out of the stall because the stall is small. There are two main problems with this, the first is disrespectful to others. The second and most important thing is that the antique shops sell special goods, which are "priceless". Priceless here means that the price is not easy to measure, not priceless. Once you scratch it, it's hard to say, and you can often see quarrels and even fights in the antique shop, mostly because you have broken something.
When I arrived at a stall, I started to look at things, and there was a rule called: "Don't look at the things in your hands, don't ask". The hand mentioned here is not in the hands of the antique dealer, but it means that the other buyers and officials in this stall have already held in their hands do not look at or ask.
Many newcomers don't understand this rule, to a coin stall, see someone else is holding a book of coins there to see, just come over to see, at a glance to see a like, go up to get someone to take a book and say: "Dude, let me take a look at this", at this time if people are polite, will say to you: "Please wait for me to read you and then read", if you are not polite, you can directly scold you for not understanding the rules.
If you wait for others to read it, it is best to wait for the seller to take back the thing, and then you want to see it from the seller's hand, it is best not to take it directly from the hands of the previous official, mainly because some of the officials are not clean and steal, so as to steal things, if he takes the things and hands the rest to you, you will not be able to say clearly if you find that there is something missing.
When the previous officer has already selected a few things in his hand and is bargaining with the boss, if you are on the scene, please be quiet, there are some good things, see that someone is bargaining and go over and ask, "What to buy, let me see". Or ask the boss directly: "How much do you sell this thing for?"
This is not advisable, because when the two sides talk about the price, it is actually a psychological contest process, you are so mixed, so that the two people are nervous, the buyer will think, what is this kid doing, don't try to pry it. The seller will think, what does this person mean, he wants to make trouble, if he runs that buyer away, who will I sell!
In the antique industry, there is also a taboo, that is: when a buyer has chosen something to bargain with the boss, suppose a thing boss asks for 1000, and the buyer also reaches 800, if you play it when people are deadlocked, say to the boss: "Boss, I want this thing for 1000", then you are very wrong. If the boss of the seller you met at that time also knew the rules, he would refuse you and even sell to the buyer at a price of 800.
In addition to the rules for looking at things, there are also rules for buying things. There is a saying in the antique industry: "If you don't buy the bid, it's a big taboo in the industry." If you don't bargain with the seller, once the price is opened, if the seller agrees, you have to buy. Otherwise, it is not uncommon for someone with a hot temper to cause death.
In addition to the rules for looking at things and buying things, there are also rules for returning goods. There is no one who does not buy fakes when playing antiques, and there is no one who never returns them when he buys fakes. Buying fakes and returning goods always accompanies novices from naivety to maturity.
Antiques are special commodities, and any thing is transferred with questions of authenticity, price, and so on. In the old-generation antique shop, the general rule is that the purchase and sale are all based on eyesight, the true and the false are in their own destiny, and the real or false things are no longer responsible. Under normal circumstances, if you buy a fake, and have been confirmed by a number of insiders to find the original owner, you should give a refund, but the refund amount is generally only 90%-70% of the total price (according to the negotiation between the two parties).
If the thing is genuine and the buyer regrets it after buying it, the seller has the right not to return it. Regardless of whether the thing is real or fake, the buyer will clean up, repair, or damage it after buying it, that is, it can no longer be kept as it was, and it will not be returned.
In addition, there are rules for identification. It's not uncommon to buy something and take it to a friend with good eyesight, but there are rules.
If the person who helped you get through it has a good relationship with you and is a very close friend, then it doesn't matter. If you buy something that you don't know whether it's good or bad and take it to a connoisseur who is not very familiar with it, you should pay attention to a few points: First, don't easily show things that you can't break off to unfamiliar friends, and don't insist on asking the other party to make a decision about what you are given.
Because it is not difficult for a collector with a good level to identify an object, the difficult thing is whether the result should be shared with the owner of the object. Because if the thing is fake, the buyer may return it based on your conclusion, and if the seller knows that you gave the identification, then you will offend people.
Secondly, when you go to return a fake, don't use the person who gave you the appraisal as a rhetoric, such as "so-and-so said that this thing is fake, you should return it to me". Such unwise actions usually offend a lot of people. First of all, you let the seller know who the person who gave you the idea, and at the same time, let him feel that everyone in the industry already knows about his move to sell you fakes, so that what can be refunded to you will not be returned.
The most important thing is to do this, so that the person who helped you feels that you have betrayed someone and will not help you look at things in the future. In the end, if things make a big fuss, other antique merchants will think that you are some capricious person, who is used to returning things when you buy them, and no one will be willing to sell you good things in the future.
"Brother Ren, I'm buying and playing. Boss, you bid. Yu Lifei said with a smile.