Seeing that Nan Nan said this, Chu Chen said with a smile: "What about things, I do have three more, two of which can also be transferred, as for the market value of these two things, they should add up to about 210,000 euros, but even if you trade with money, I personally still like to barter." ”

As he spoke, he took the box containing the three antiques out of his shopping bag and placed them on the table.

After listening to Chu Chen's reply, Nan Nan hurriedly said happily: "Okay!" I'm totally fine! ”

Before opening the box containing antiques, Chu Chen said with a smile: "Difficult boss, I have taken out all my things, should I also be overwhelmed by your good things?" ”

"Yes, yes, yes! I'll get it right away! ”

After listening to what Chu Chen said, Nan Nan patted his forehead, and then prepared to walk out of the reception room, but before he could take a few steps, he turned around and asked with a smile: "Mr. Chu, what kind of items do you usually like to collect?" ”

"My main collection is porcelain."

"Okay, please wait a minute......

After seeing Nan Nan leaving, Wu Ke asked, "Ah Chen, do you really plan to exchange antiques with him?" ”

Chu Chen replied: "Yes, anyway, I didn't prepare to collect the rhino horn cup and black and white jade snuff bottle, so it's not bad to be able to change it to something I like!" ”

"Oh!" Wu Ke showed a clear look when she heard this, she also knew that Chu Chen's favorite was actually porcelain, or some rare or high-value antiques, although the two things Chu Chen said were good, they were obviously not in his collection.

"Achen. What kind of jade is this black and white jade? I used to hear some people say that it was Khotanese jade, and some people said that it was a local jade species. I'm confused. Wu Ke asked with some curiosity.

"Black and white jade, in general. Refers to the black jade of Khotan. Chu Chen explained.

"No, Moyu isn't black, how can there be black and white?" After listening to Chu Chen's explanation, Wu Ke felt very puzzled.

Chu Chen smiled and explained: "In the traditional sense, ink jade refers to the formation of white jade and green jade by graphite, as black jade, of course, the darker the better, but there must be jade, otherwise it is a stone, and most of the ink jade is gray and gray." Neither black nor white, this material is called 'blue and white', which is often said to be Khotanese blue and white on the market. ”

"Generally speaking, the jade quality of 'blue and white' is quite delicate, the fat feeling is very good, and the unique feeling of getting started, among which the black and white 'blue and white' is very popular with the jade workshop, which can be used for skillful carving, and the black and white blue and white and field seed materials are commonly known as black and white seeds. The top grade requires 'white as rice paper, black as ink'. ”

"On the market, it is easy to be confused with Khotanese 'blue and white'. Sea 'blue and white', in general, blue. The sea 'blue and white' gives people a feeling of freezing, and there are almost no ink spots visible. The ink is melted into the jade, and some can show a purple halo, of course, the black and white can be distinguished according to the white jade part......"

The black and white jade snuff box that Chu Chen bought in the morning. It is the high-quality Khotanese black and white jade.

The snuffbox had a round mouth, a straight neck, sloping shoulders, and a slightly concave flat bottom. Ink flooring. Cut the pine tree cliff, skillfully apply the white jade relief fishing, wood, ploughing, reading.

The fisherman catches fish by the river with a fishing basket on his back. The woodcutter in the mountains carries firewood on his shoulders to rest, the scholar pavilion leans on the window to read aloud, and a cultivator hides outside the window, and a poem is engraved on it. The utensils then follow the primary color, the idea is exquisite, the pondering is fine, the ingenuity is heavenly, and it is a fine instrument for the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty.

Based on the jade quality and carving of the snuff bottle, Chu Chen felt that its market value should be around 700,000.

Waiting for Chu Chen to explain the black and white jade to Wu Ke, after a while, Nan Nan and the guys in the store walked in with a few boxes and a smile.

After putting the things on the table and sending the guys away, Nan Nan said with a smile: "Mr. Chu, then let's start!" ”

"Okay!"

Chu Chen smiled and nodded, then opened the box and pushed it in front of Nan Nancai, who also put the things he had just taken in front of Chu Chen.

"Huh! This is a pit carving! ”

When Nan Nan saw an antique in Chu Chen's box just now, he sighed lightly, and then hurriedly took the thing carefully in his hand, the thing was a string of bracelets, and after a cursory look, he exclaimed: "This is the work of Zhan Gusheng?!" ”

Chu Chen smiled slightly and said, "It is indeed an olive core carving bracelet carefully carved by Zhan Gusheng." ”

Fruit core carving belongs to the category of three-dimensional miniature carving, popular in the Ming and Qing dynasties, among which the olive core carving since the middle of the Ming Dynasty after the rise, it is regarded as a treasure stunt, and as a clothing belt and fan attachment and other decorations and popular for a while.

The olive producing areas are roughly distributed in Yangcheng, Lu Province and Gusu in Lingnan. Among them, Yangcheng increased. The city is rich in black olives and white olives, and black olives are increasing. One of the four treasures of the city, in addition to being able to be made into salty olive horn, oil olive horn, and Wang Xiang olive horn, its core is hard, hollow and without kernel meat, and it is a good material for making zuò olive carving.

Ever. The city olive carving has a history of more than 300 years, in the Qing Dynasty when the tribute of the years, and the most famous olive carving works in history, that is, Xianfeng four years by Zeng. The city artist Zhan Gusheng created Su Dongpo's night tour of the Chibi flower boat.

The nuclear boat is a cabin, the front is the bow, and the rear is the stern; A table is placed in the middle, Dongpo and other three people sit according to the case, there is a boy next to him who uses a fan to fan the stove to make tea, and the stern of the boat is in the shape of a rocking oar, carrying a floating water hyacinth together, playing on the back, and the six people have their own demeanor.

There are windows on both sides of the cabin, there are eight doors on the windows, the bottom of the ship is engraved with a total of 537 words, this less than one inch of miniature carving boutique, is still called "the king of carving", and now it is in Tibet. City Museum.

Zhan Gusheng's real name is Zhan Jusheng, a nuclear carving artist in the late Qing Dynasty, formerly known as Maolan, No. Gusheng, he was studious since childhood, 22 years old in the show, but because of the repeated attempts in the field, he was desperate to pursue a career and concentrate on the olive nuclear carving process. He is not only good at olive carving, but also well-read, outstanding articles, work in Xiaokai good Danqing, workers. Its rich cultural connotation has expanded the theme of olive carving and improved the artistic level of olive carving.

According to historical records, all the knives of Zhan Gusheng are regarded as fine iron forging, open a window to the east at home, whenever the sun rises, that is, take the olive core to carve in the window, in case of emergency, then use the mouth to hold, after noon to stop carving, he thinks that after noon is not suitable for carving.

According to the record of "Yangcheng Mansion Chronicle", Zhan Gusheng once carved eighteen Arhat nuclear carvings, with different expressions, lifelike, mountains, rocks and trees, sparse and falling. Among them, there is a special bizarre, there is an Arhat holding a bowl in his hand, next to the bowl is a pigeon, the head is inward, the pigeon is as small as a sesame seed, but the feet and claws are complete.

The back is engraved with a two-page card that can be closed, one page is engraved with Guanyin on the lotus pond, the left is good wealth, the right is the dragon girl, the upper left is engraved with a bottle, the upper right is engraved with a parrot, and the beak holds a string of 18 rosaries, and there are cards and beads.

Another page is engraved with the full text of the Heart Sutra, and the back is engraved with two beads with a round and a tip, all the beads are holes, and a Buddha is hidden in the holes, facing outward, and shaking it is loud. Its exquisite technology and kung fu are really miraculous.

Due to the difficulty of the miniature carving process, the stock of Zhan Gusheng's works is very small, and today it is known that there are more than a dozen of his hand-me-down works, most of which are in museums, and only a few are in the hands of collectors.

In addition to the aforementioned "Red Cliff Cruise", Chu Chen had seen Zhan Gusheng's olive core miniature carving boat boat in Liu Lao's collection before, and there were seven people in the boat, with a vivid demeanor, and the bottom of the boat was also engraved with a long text in small Kaiyin, and the style was "Gusheng Taoist", which was also a very wonderful work.

However, the shape of the olive core is like a boat, so the total length of the boat is about 4.5 centimeters, so if you talk about the difficulty of creation, the complexity of the process, the rarity of the subject matter and the number of olive cores, this 108 miniature carved figure bracelet is even better.

This olive core carving bracelet, the size of the nuclear beads is uniform, the color is round into brown yellow, each core is carved with Arhat statues, 108 nuclear beads, exactly 108 Arhat statues. Its figures are carved in high relief, with clear faces, vivid expressions, smooth clothing lines, arhats have backgrounds, mountains, trees, animals, treasures, etc., all of which match the legendary stories of the arhats.

For example, "Crossing the River Arhat Carrying the Sutra and Crossing the East to Spread the Sutra", "Happy Arhat Reveals His Heart, Makes People Aware of the Buddha in Their Hearts", "The Laughing Lion Arhat No Longer Kills Because of Learning Buddhism, and the Lion Comes to Thank You" and so on, each of which presents a complete work. From another point of view, this bracelet is already a Buddhist treasure.

Moreover, in the process of carving, it is very difficult to achieve the same shape, size and color of the 108 pieces, and to avoid the cracking of the core in the process of carving, and to achieve the level of fine carving, micro and subtle, and varied in the shape of the chapter, which also fully demonstrates the superb technical level and cultural connotation of Zhan Gusheng.

In addition, on each core of the bracelet, the name of the Arhat is carved out in Yangwen, each word is less than 2 mm, and two of the core carvings are added to the "Gu Shengzuo" and "Zeng. Chengzhan Gusheng" paragraph, the words are clear and regular, there is the rhyme of the Jin and Tang Dynasties, and the historical records record that Gu Sheng worked in Xiaokai, and it is indeed worthy of its name.

Although Zhan Jusheng is only a handicraft creator, "Yangcheng Magazine", "Zeng. The Chronicles of the City and County and the Genealogy of the Zhan Clan have all written biographies for him, calling him "a Lingnan generation of artists", which shows his heavy influence on society.

He not only carried forward the long-standing growth. The art of olive carving in the city has also inspired the followers of the later generations, making the olive carving craft famous at home and abroad, and it is indeed a wonderful flower in the art world of the Qing Dynasty.

And such a world-famous nuclear carving artist, carved such a lifelike nuclear carving work, it is no wonder that Nan Nan was so surprised.

And after he got Chu Chen's affirmative answer, he hurriedly asked: "Mr. Chu, I don't know if you ...... this bracelet?"

Before he could finish speaking, Chu Chen waved his hand directly and interrupted: "Difficult boss, I'm really sorry, I am preparing to collect this work by myself, and I have no intention of transferring it!" (To be continued......)