It was not until the 90s that the Palace Museum published a book "Selected Nose Bottles of the Forbidden City", and at this time, this snuff bottle was officially recognized as an antique from top to bottom, and it was taken out of the identity of a literary play.

The most popular collectors in the world are Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and Japan.

In Europe and the United States, the most favorite area to collect snuff bottles is the ugly country.

In the collection world of the ugly country, the collection status of snuff bottles is particularly high, and many collectors like this thing very much, so snuff bottles are particularly sought-after in the antique circle of the ugly country.

Even the ugly Chinese people established the world's largest snuff bottle collection organization as early as 1964 - the International Chinese Snuff Bottle Association!

Does that sound like black humor?

A little bit of a feeling of being robbed of the Dragon Boat Festival by a stick?

China's treasures are actually some white-skinned and big-nosed foreign devils, who were the first to set up a collection and protection association!

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Today, Chang Xian never thought that he would run into a bunch of such things.

If you think about it, it's normal.

Tao Shu has a very good relationship with the original partner, and he married four wives and concubines in order to give birth to a man, but he has always given birth to a girl.

It wasn't until his later years that he accepted a girl around him and got such a boy.

When Tao Shu passed away, the little young master Tao Shu was only five years old.

Later, Tao Wei was actually brought up by his father-in-law Zuo Zongtang.

Meng Taoshu is in the shade, those famous ministers in Hunan have seen the little master, who can be empty-handed?

At that time, Hunan was full of talents, who was not rewarded by the palace every once in a while?

As the top second generation in Xiangzhong at that time, it was not surprising to get these things, and it was not surprising that he liked to take them underground to play.

The unexpected is that it is above ground, underground, and underground, and the scenes of black humor are embarrassing.

The little master didn't have it in 1998, and these things went to the ground.

68 years later, these things were unearthed again.

This is actually just a short moment.

Time is a strange thing.

In Einstein's words, it doesn't exist.

But it is such a non-existent thing, but it is as heavy as a mountain, and the length of life, the breadth of civilization, are accustomed to be marked by it.

It is as sharp as a knife, and all the absurdity and ignorance of human beings cannot be hidden in front of it.

Chang Xian sighed, thought about it, took a set of photos of the wrench and snuff box in front of him, and sent them to Mu Duanming.

Well, the Eighteen Arhats have a high artistic value, and they have been defined as non-sale items by him and Song Keben, and they can be enjoyed with Mu Duanming in the future.

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"Bell bell bell"

It didn't take long for Mu Duanming's phone to call.

As soon as Chang Xian was connected, Mu Duanming, who had always been unruly, was like a machine gun: "I said, didn't you kid go back for the holidays?" How did you do it as if you had dug Qianlong's Yuling all over again? Back then, Sun Dianying didn't necessarily have your efficiency! ”

"Brother Mu, calm, calm."

Chang Xian touched his nose and smiled: "It's not worth mentioning, it's not worth mentioning." ”

Mu Duanming on the phone seemed to be a little stimulated, "I want to be calm, your kid has more good things in two or three months than other people in twenty or thirty years, can I be calm?" ”

Chang Xian said: "Hi! What is this saying, in ancient times, there was a divine bird, perched on the plane tree, did not sing for three years, a blockbuster, did not fly for three years, and soared into the sky......"

didn't wait for Chang Xian to finish, Mu Duanming on the other end asked in surprise: "You kid has made an enmity with modesty, so disagreeable?" ”

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This call made the phone hot, and Chang Xian figured out the number of these things.

His first feeling was that the money to buy the house should be in order.

"What do you think about these things?"

Mu Duanming asked.

Chang Xian said: "You know, I don't feel anything about this thing, let's make a move, do you have any good suggestions?" ”

Mu Duanming thought about it on the phone and said: "The price of these things is too high, it is more appropriate to put them on auction, you are like this, I will introduce you to a friend of Yijiade, and let him give you a preferential commission as much as possible within the rules......"

He laughed and said: "As far as your kid's luck is concerned, it will definitely be their big customer in the future, and they have to hurry up and burn your cold stove!" ”

"Brother, you are really my brother!"

Chang Xian was overjoyed and said loudly: "I will fly directly to the capital after the National Day, and I will go directly to the capital to meet him when the time comes!" ”

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This thing has been around for a long time, and it has been recorded in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, but it really developed to the peak of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

And the Manchu Qing Dynasty's favorite wrench is Qianlong, there are more than 50 wrenches that have been trampled by him alone, and those who have no inscription poems are counted.

Although Qianlong had a lot of wrenches at that time, there were not many that have been handed down.

Qianlong's most famous wrench has three.

One of them is a white jade wrench worn by Emperor Qianlong in the "Qianlong Great Reading".

The other one is the jade wrench he wore in "The Arc Shooting the Deer".

The third is a half-red and half-white jade wrench finger he wore in "Love Yin Jian Gutu".

There were more than 50 wrenches in Qianlong's life, but there are only three of them on the picture, which shows Qianlong's love for these three wrenches.

And these pictures are in the collection of the Palace Museum.

But the wrenches in these three pictures have all disappeared in the long river of history.

The one that suddenly appeared now is the jade wrench worn in "Wei Arc Shooting Deer Picture".

This wrench is clearly recorded in the Qing court's office and in the "Qing Historical Manuscript".

Such a thing is not only clearly recorded, but also on the history books, but also on the map, and the price is really immeasurable.

As long as you make a move, the price will definitely soar like a rocket.

Two and a half years later, at the 2007 Sotheby's Spring Auction, a box of seven of Qianlong's imperial jade wrenches sold for HK$47.36 million.

So it's hard to say more, 20 million is definitely as simple as drinking water.

You know, with the rarity of the two, if you put them in the circle, you can't necessarily give them for ten.

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Although snuff bottles are a small category, they are the darlings of the international auction market.

As early as April 1992, Christie's Hong Kong sold a gold-tire cloisonné enamel crane pattern snuff bottle made in the Qianlong year of the Qing Dynasty for 1.045 million Hong Kong dollars.

In 1994, Beijing Hanhai opened a special auction for snuff bottles.

Since then, its market price has continued to rise, and it has become a new favorite in the collectible market.

This Qianlong imperial amber snuff bottle, if it is auctioned, is at least one million, or even more than two million.

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Then there's the black set of cowpea red glass camellia pattern snuff bottles.

This color is quite rare.

Because to make snuff bottles, they generally choose a combination of white and blue, or white and red, or yellow and green.

As for the black cowpea red, it is rarely used.