Tang Chen ignored this guy, and was bent on finding out the magic weapon in this pile of groceries. His "Qi Looking" technique is like a radar, which can "see" all the aura. But this radar is also a bit unreliable, it just "sees" the aura, but it can't be accurately located. If you want to know where the magic weapon is, you have to rely on your own sensitivity to the aura and rummage through them one by one.

The boss of "Jubao Zhai" didn't pay attention to Tang Chen, who was not dressed well, but was courteous to Boss Zeng.

"Look at it, this snuffbox is a good thing, do you want to get your hands on it?"

In the face of the enthusiasm of the boss of "Jubao Zhai", Zeng Lao was not easy to resist. Glancing at Tang Chen, who was "treasure hunting", Zeng Lao didn't say much, carefully picked up the snuffbox, and then used a magnifying glass the size of a fingernail to look at it carefully.

A snuff box, in short, is a container for snuff. It is small and easy to carry. At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, snuff was introduced to China, and snuff boxes gradually became orientalized, resulting in snuff bottles. Nowadays, people's habit of snuff is almost extinct, but the snuff bottle has been passed down as a fine work of art, and it has been prosperous for a long time, and is known as "a pocket art that concentrates the culmination of various crafts from various countries". Chinese snuff bottles, as exquisite handicrafts, use porcelain, copper, ivory, jade, agate, amber and other materials, the use of blue and white, colorful, carved porcelain, nesting, ingenious work, interior painting and other techniques, absorbing the advantages of a variety of crafts inside and outside the region, by the elegant people as a precious cultural play, at home and abroad enjoy a good reputation.

The one that Zeng Lao held in his hand was the most common and the most difficult porcelain snuff box to make.

Some people are not convinced, why is it difficult to make porcelain snuff bottles? Then the reputation of our Chinese porcelain is not called in vain?

Not really. Snuff bottles are made of porcelain the most, from the Kangxi Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty, all generations of emperors all made porcelain cigarette bottles, but still the best made by the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong dynasties. During the Kangxi period, the first thing to fire was the blue and white porcelain snuff bottle, which was made of pearl material, and the color was bright, and there are very few of them today. The blue and white glaze in the Yongzheng period red official kiln snuff bottle is also fine glaze fresh, with the burned pulp tire blue and white snuff bottle is more creative, and the carcass is 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. From Jiaqing to Xianfeng and Guangxu, most of the shapes, ornaments and themes were plagiarized from the early stage, and there were not many creative ones.

Although the porcelain industry in the Qing Dynasty was quite developed, there were many types of porcelain snuff bottles, such as blue and white, bucket color, pastel, glaze red, etc. But fine snuff bottles are indeed hard to find.

The reason why antiques are valuable is that they are valued by their historical value, by their rarity, and by their aesthetics.

Although there are many porcelain snuff bottles, they were really fired during the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong periods, and there are not many surviving quantities. Under the rarity of things, of course, porcelain snuff bottles are the most valuable.

But this snuff bottle that Zeng Lao got his hands on doesn't look like an official kiln boutique, and the workmanship is quite rough.

Determining the authenticity first, and then identifying its merits, is a routine procedure for artifact identification. This is true for all antique artifacts, without exception.

Zeng Lao's method is to completely look at the quality of the material and the thickness of the workmanship, and have nothing to do with the age of production and the owner of the production. If the material is indeed rare and ingenious, no matter when it was produced, no matter who it came from, it is also of the highest quality. On the contrary, the material is ordinary, the workmanship is average, even if it is made by Kangxi and Yongzheng Dynasty, and used by Emperor Kang and Yong, it is not valuable.

The material cannot be faked, and the workmanship is difficult to hide. Counterfeiting can not get a good price, but also can not deceive the world, so the cigarette bottle is counterfeited, and nothing is found, so that the counterfeit snuff bottle is extremely rare. Even if it does appear occasionally, it is indistinguishable from the real thing, and anyone can tell it. It is for these reasons that there is no need to pay great attention to the authenticity of the smoking bottle, and the identification of the smoking bottle only needs to examine its advantages and disadvantages.

Since the boss of this "Jubao Zhai" is so confident, this porcelain snuff bottle must indeed be an antique, but in Zeng Lao's opinion, although it has a certain history, and may even be something at the end of the Qing Dynasty, but because of the rough workmanship and the style is not beautiful, even the inner painting of the pot is not comparable, let alone others.

material, that is, today's glass. The glass itself is not precious, so the material snuff bottle is expensive in workmanship. The most beautiful workmanship is "Guyue Xuancai", followed by the five-color glass made in the West. The kind of glass that is as white as crystal, red as fire, yellow as steamed chestnut, blue as a gemstone, and green as jade is also among the precious. The material snuff bottle burned in the inner court of Beijing in the Qing Dynasty is called the official snuff bottle. The official materials of the Kangxi period were already very exquisite, they imitated natural ores or semi-precious stones, and the colors could almost be real. The official material also imitates agate, amber, jadeite and mutton fat white jade, with a moist texture and sparkling.

The enamel of the Qing Dynasty is a special product of the Qianlong period, many small flat circles, different floral patterns are painted throughout, some add calligraphy and Ji Chinese characters, but rarely paint landscape figures. The floral pattern should be delicate and complex, and the color should be fresh and layered, and there should be no scratches or peeling marks. Qianlong year system has a four-character style, with a blue book to imitate the Song style, very neat, imitation is difficult to achieve.

There are also a few high-quality snuff bottles in Zeng's hometown, so naturally he doesn't look down on the snuff bottles produced by this kiln.

"What do you think of this snuffbox?"

The owner of "Jubao Zhai" is a bit of a show-off, and it seems that he really has a lot of confidence in this snuff bottle. If you are an ordinary person, you may still be fooled, but Zeng Lao paid so many eye-catching tuition, how could he pay it in vain?

"Boss, I'm on snuff bottles...... I don't know how well to research, so I don't dare to make judgments......"

Looking at Zeng Lao's "sincere" face, the boss of "Jubao Zhai" will also be suspicious, but he still tried his best to say: "This snuff bottle is indeed an old object, I don't know ...... old you"

"Forget it, I don't have the eyesight, I can see the ...... in the clouds" Zeng Lao directly interrupted him, after all, Zeng Lao also remembered that this time he came to choose magic weapons, not to buy antiques. Glancing at Tang Chen, who was still "Taobao", Zeng Lao said lightly: "If it's just this kind of thing, forget it......"

The boss of "Jubao Zhai" was stunned, and immediately understood that this was a real master, obviously seeing that the snuff bottle was not a high-quality product, so he gave him this step.

"It's okay, it's okay...... Do you want to take a look at this piece of ancient jade again?

The boss of "Jubao Zhai" is still quite thick-skinned, even if he is exposed in person, he is still smiling. There's no way, who told him to rely on this ability to eat? Face, how much is it worth? When you know how to put down your bottom and make money, you will be qualified to say this. When you have money, you will naturally have face, this is the life creed of the boss of "Jubao Zhai".

(End of chapter)