Jiang Xiaobai couldn't help but smile when he heard Lin Jiajun ask if the ancient paintings were worth anything: "Aren't you talking nonsense?" ”

Lin Jiajun touched his nose: "I mean, are these pieces of furniture worth the ancient paintings, and can they be sold for hundreds of millions?" ”

Jiang Xiaobai smiled: "You misunderstood what I meant, I didn't mean that all the furniture in this house is valuable. Pointing to the Taishi chair of Hainan Huanghuali, he said: "Just this chair, it can be sold for hundreds of millions in the future!" ”

Lin Jiajun exclaimed: "I'll drop a day, you said this chair is worth hundreds of millions?" ”

He walked over quickly, looking at the Taishi chair in front of him as if he were strange. He can't understand the carving techniques of relief carving and hollow carving, but he can also see that this chair is exquisitely made, the bat, deer, gourd, ruyi and other patterns carved on the back plate are lifelike, and the curly grass moire embossed on the tooth plate is smart and realistic.

"Looks good!"

Even if he doesn't understand old furniture, the aesthetics of Chinese people have a lot in common, and he still recognizes it.

Jiang Xiaobai said with a smile: "The craftsmanship of this chair is indeed first-class, and the time is good, it is from the early Qing Dynasty." ”

"But his greatest value is wood."

The wood of this Taishi chair is Hainan Huanghuali, which is rare for such a large piece.

Jiang Xiaobai remembered that in later generations, a Zen stool of Hainan Huanghuali in the Qing Dynasty was auctioned for more than 100 million yuan.

Whether it is from the size of the finished product, or the level of craftsmanship, or from the wood itself, his current Taishi chair is far better than the Zen stool.

"Wood, isn't it Hainan Huanghuali?" Lin Jiajun was still skeptical and asked, "Is Hainan Huanghuali so valuable?" ”

Jiang Xiaobai smiled, took out a few pieces of toilet paper to wipe off the dust on the armrests of the chair, pointed to the clean parts and said: "You see, from these places with slightly purple-red lines, with the precipitation of the years, this old Hainan Huanghuali has formed a semi-transparent bright amber texture, warm and moist like jade. ”

Lin Jiajun looked carefully, and it was indeed as he said.

Jiang Xiaobai said again: "You come closer and smell it, there is a unique fragrance of sea yellow." ”

Lin Jiajun sniffed it, but didn't smell anything, and couldn't help but say, "There is no smell." ”

Jiang Xiaobai smiled: "You smoke too much, and your sense of smell is covered by the smell of smoke." ”

Lin Jiajun said unhappily: "You don't smoke less than me, I don't believe you can smell it." ”

Jiang Xiaobai smiled, indeed, he couldn't smell it. said: "Don't talk about the fragrance, it's our own problem that we can't smell it, anyway, the fragrance is there." You look at the lines. ”

The lines of Hainan Huanghuali include grimace, ghost eye, fox face, baby face, old man's head, wheat ear pattern, tiger skin pattern, crab foot pattern, spider foot, landscape pattern, bamboo silk pattern, etc.

Many of these lines are also available in wood, but the grain of Hainan Huanghuali is more natural than that of other woods, the pattern is thick and thin, each one is very clear, not messy, streamlined, curved, and even straight.

Among all these lines, grimaces are the most sought after.

Haihuang's grimace is formed by scars, which are pimples that sprout new shoots as the tree grows.

This kind of pimple tends to be in rows and very dense as soon as it appears.

The reason why Jiang Xiaobai is so optimistic about this Taishi chair is because most of the lines of this chair are grimaces, and only a small part is landscape patterns.

Lin Jiajun exhaled lightly: "Okay, I know, Hainan Huanghuali is precious." ”

Jiang Xiaobai smiled, pointed to the shelf bed and said, "This is a small-leaved rosewood, and the value is not inferior to Haihuang." ”

Lin Jiajun opened his mouth wide again and exclaimed: "Then this bed is much bigger than that chair, isn't it hundreds of millions?" ”

Jiang Xiaobai waved his hand: "The value of an antique is not just about the size. ”

After that, let's popularize science for Lin Jiajun.

Generally speaking, the value of antiques is multifaceted, taking furniture as an example, in addition to the wood itself, there is also craftsmanship, time, etc.

There's also the question of who uses it.

For example, the emperor's royal use, civil ministers, military generals, official use, civil use, etc., also determine their different values.

This is somewhat similar to the difference between the official kiln and the private kiln in porcelain, as well as the difference between stationery and daily necessities.

After listening to this, Lin Jiajun said: "There is still so much knowledge in antiques, and it is really not something that ordinary people can play." ”

Jiang Xiaobai smiled: "These are just common sense, the real difficulty is identification." ”

After speaking, he asked: "When you mention calligraphy and painting, do you think of any sellers?" ”

Lin Jiajun said: "I have a friend, his father is a well-known painter, and he also loves to collect ancient paintings. ”

Jiang Xiaobai suddenly became interested.

"Really?"

"Take the time to visit your friend's house and see his collection of paintings."

Lin Jiajun pursed his lips and teased: "Forget it, I'm afraid that you will buy someone else's house again." ”

Jiang Xiaobai laughed.

Speaking of which, the first time was to go to Hou's hometown to buy old wine, but the wine and the house were bought.

This time it's the same again. Originally, I just looked at the old furniture, but I ended up buying the old furniture and the house together.

He went to buy things with Lin Jiajun twice, and the results were the same both times, so it's no wonder he said so.

After laughing, Jiang Xiaobai asked, "When can I go and see?" ”

Lin Jiajun said helplessly: "When I go back, I'll call and ask." ”

Hearing him say this, Jiang Xiaobai had no choice but to nod in agreement.

Walking in front of the big case of Huali in the middle, there are many celebrity law slips and more than a dozen inkstones on the case, as well as various color pen holders.

He hadn't looked closely before.

Now that he had time, he thought about picking two posts to take home.

Daughter Jiang Shan and niece Jiang Ting are both learning calligraphy and can use it.

After flipping through it, I saw that these posts were all copied, and one of them copied Zhong Xuan's calligraphy masterpiece "Dechang Feng Post".

As we all know, Zhong Xuan's calligraphy masterpiece is the "Shangshu Declaration Table", which is known as the world's first small style.

And "De Changfeng Post" is known to very few people.

Generally speaking, a calligraphy work is based on one type of calligraphy, and it is necessary to avoid stylistic differences as much as possible. Because if all kinds of books are written together, it will be very difficult to deal with, and it will look messy.

However, the biggest difference between Zhong Xuan's "Dechang Wind Post" and conventional works is that it combines the three bodies of Kaixingcao in one post, and the three types of calligraphy are used together, and the collocation is very natural, without a little abruptness, and it looks very comfortable.

Although this "Dechang Feng Post" is a copy of modern times, it has the style of the Wei and Jin dynasties, and it is still a rare masterpiece, and Jiang Xiaobai immediately put it away.

In addition, he chose a copy of Wang Xizhi's "Changing Goose Stickers", that is, "Huang Tingjing".

Of course, it's also a copy.