Wang Ding, who is helping himself, wants to see snuff bottles, and women are particularly enthusiastic. Putting down the travel bag on her shoulder, the woman took out the objects she brought to sell one by one for Wang Ding and Wang Lingling to see.

Women come to the antique city just to do some business and sell something. Now that the turmoil of touching porcelain has passed, women naturally still have to put all their belongings out. While taking out a large number of snuff bottles with different materials from the bag, and handing them to the two of them to watch, he explained with a smile.

"I am collecting some snuff bottles, you all know that Gancheng is an ancient city since ancient times, over the years there have been quite a lot of dignitaries, these people in the countryside almost all of them have bought a family business, although after so many years of baptism, but the remote countryside has not suffered from the heavy damage of all ages, occasionally you will find some good things left before. From mahogany furniture, tables and chairs, screens, to antique jade pendants, pearl agate, etc., there have been traces.

I am a farmer living in the suburbs of Gancheng, and I have opened a small shop with my husband at home. Nowadays, the collection of folk antiques is quite popular, and people in the city often go to them to shop for goods. Several of his brothers took advantage of the slack time to make antiques with some shrewd people in the village. The income is quite good. So I was also moved, some time ago I followed my brothers in the countryside for a while, collected some snuff bottles that looked good and ran to the antique city to set up a stall. ”

As the woman spoke, she had already put all the snuff bottles on the stall, and Wang Ding and his sister saw that these snuff bottles were quite beautiful, so they squatted on the ground, took the snuff bottles handed to them by the woman with great interest, and put them in the palm of their hands to look at them.

Don't say it, this woman has a lot of snuff bottles. There are all kinds of materials, glass, metal, stone, imitation jade, imitation agate, and even walnut material.

Most of them are still glass, exquisitely made, all kinds of flowers, birds, insects and fish painted on the pot, and the patterns of melons, fruits, pears and peaches look lifelike and very beautiful. The "material" of the snuff bottle in ancient times refers to the current glass material. The glass itself is not expensive, so the material snuff bottle is expensive in the workmanship. The most wonderful workmanship is "Guyue Xuancai", which is commonly known as enamel color, followed by five-color glass made in the West. It is extremely difficult to find a "Guyue Xuancai" among the people, so Wang Ding basically focuses on other materials.

At this moment, Wang Ding took over a porcelain snuff box with a picture of a shepherd boy herding cattle on the pot. Seeing a clever shepherd boy painted on the pot riding on the back of a big buffalo, the whole picture is vivid, the artistic conception of the picture is full of interest, although it is not an old object, but the porcelain feel is also good, smooth and delicate to the touch. I asked out loud that I wanted to buy a handicap.

"Sister, how much does this snuff bottle sell?"

"Little brother, if you like this snuffbox, I'll give it to you, you did me so much help just now, I can't take your money."

"How can it be done, one thing is the same thing, I helped you just now and you can't see the behavior of those people. Now we are doing business, I buy you sell, I will definitely give money. ”

"Well... Then let me tell my brother the truth, this pot was 200 yuan when I received it, if you want, I will charge you 230 yuan, will it be done? ”。

"Two hundred and thirty?"

Wang Ding said in his heart, women come here from the countryside, and the cost of the land is more than 30 yuan, where can they earn 203 yuan.

"Huh! Aren't you at a loss, big sister? spent the capital, plus the round-trip travel fee, and the stall fee, which only added 30 yuan, is it enough? Otherwise, I'll take a look at it, if you like it, I'll buy you a few more, and the eldest sister will give us a cheaper price according to the price you usually sell."

"Okay, then you see. I'm going to give you a little bit of a discount at the very least. ”

Wang Ding said, his eyes had already swept over the snuff box of the shepherd boy herding cattle, and looked at the next snuff box.

This pot has a simple appearance, and the whole looks very similar to those amber snuff bottles, but when he looks closely, Wang Ding finds that it is not. I don't know where this woman got this snuff bottle back, because the body of the bottle has accumulated so much dirt that it almost completely covers the tint itself with a faint earthy yellow.

Wang Ding fixed on this snuffbox because when Wang Ding concentrated on this snuff bottle, the aura would unconsciously gush out.

After so many times of experience in picking up leaks, Wang Ding has some summary, that is, every time he picks up an antique, the pupil will always have more or less this reaction, although I don't know what the law of the road is, but this phenomenon tells Wang Ding to a certain extent, this snuffbox is not ordinary, and when the light released from the pupil reaches the snuffbox, there is a faint golden light to react, the color of the golden light seems to be a symbol of the age, the deeper the age, the longer the degree, at this time according to previous experience, Wang Ding felt that this snuff bottle was in the Qing Dynasty, but Wang Ding couldn't confirm it at the moment.

In the books of antique appreciation, Wang Ding also saw information about miscellaneous gadgets such as snuff bottles, and he remembered that the books had specially recorded that snuff bottles were the most popular in the market with porcelain and "material" quality.

In the Qing Dynasty, the blue and white glaze in the Yongzheng period red official kiln snuff bottle was fine, and the blue and white snuff bottle with the burned pulp tire was more creative, and the carcass was thin. Qianlong paid attention to the enamel color snuff bottle with a strong sense of three-dimensionality, and the achievement overshadowed the blue and white. Jiaqing's official kiln blue and white snuff bottle production is not much, and the odd glaze blue and white is expensive, but it is not as good as the carved porcelain snuff bottle at that time. Most of the porcelain snuff bottles fired in the Daoguang period were fired in the folk kiln, and there were many of them, focusing on pastels. Many blue and white colors float, the thickness is uneven, and the glaze and the carcass are not tightly combined. Most of the kiln snuff bottles have no value preservation effect.

At present, if this snuff bottle is from the folk kiln in the Daoguang period, then this thing may be an ordinary snuff bottle, but it is also possible that it is from other eras, so there is a possibility of picking up leaks.

Thinking of this, Wang Ding took the snuff box that looked like jade in his hand and looked at it carefully.

This pot has a moist texture and a warm and delicate feel. What is different from other snuff bottles is that unlike other snuff bottles, most of which use hand-painted landscapes or lady patterns, its body is carved with carving techniques, and the whole is exquisite. According to Wang Ding's understanding of the snuff bottle carving techniques, in addition to the snuff bottles used for bamboo carving, wood carving, or root carving using relief and carving skills, the rest is only ivory carving.

The ivory carving process, the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty was the most prosperous period, and gradually developed from the trend of large ivory carving to "small piece carving", and the snuff bottle was among them.

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