Chen Wenzhe walked into the antique city with his head shaking. When passing by the stalls outside, he didn't forget to take a few glances. What if he saw something good?
It turned out that the antique city was full of fakes and national treasures. He was already numb at first, but after picking things up several times, he knew that accidents could happen at any time.
"Huh?" As he was walking, Chen Wenzhe saw a strange thing, mainly because of the rust on the thing. It was so natural.
I looked around and saw that this is an antique city. How come you can still see good things so often in a place like this?
Chen Wenzhe couldn't believe it. Although that thing was strange, looking at the rust color, it actually had a history of thousands of years?
At other times, Chen Wenzhe couldn't tell the difference between true and false at first glance, but he really understood green rust.
This point plays a very significant role in identifying ancient coins, such as Daqi Tongbao, and identifying bronzes, such as the Yue Yu bronzes in his hands.
This market has become different, there are more good things, and they are no longer fake at first sight!
Chen Wenzhe understood something. This was probably due to the market management.
The current antique city market has obviously undergone rectification. In other words, when the street stall market was opened this time, the management made regulations to prevent fraud.
Just when we entered the market, there were slogans hanging on two trees. The slogans were also very simple, with only four words: Fraud is illegal!
Who doesn’t know that fraud is illegal? The main thing is how to define fraud.
You don’t need to explain it now. The official explanation is here. It is fraud to mislead modern imitations into antiques and sell them at high prices.
Therefore, now antique shops, as well as antique stalls outside, can no longer fool people. If you still use the original storytelling method, it will be evidence of fraud.
Chen Wenzhe took a closer look at the stalls. They were selling old things, but most of them were old porcelain bowls, old flower pots and the like.
Although they look old, this kind of oldness just looks old, because they are only produced for seventy or eighty years at most.
In addition to the old porcelain, there are just some scattered things, including the bronze-covered utensil.
The thing looked like pliers, without any outer covering protection, and the patina all over indicated that it was probably a copperware.
Look at the color again, cyan, it must be bronze.
When did bronze wares disappear? It seems like after the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
Looking at this thing again, it has aged well and looks quite old.
Besides, the production process seems to be very simple, at least it is not a modern machine process.
"Boss, how do you sell the vise?" Chen Wenzhe stopped and went straight to the topic.
"This thing is old and the price is not cheap."
The boss looked up at Chen Wenzhe and found that he didn't recognize him, so he wanted a high price.
Now you cannot just take out something and say it is Cixi's urinal. This is also fraud and requires legal responsibility.
Otherwise, the boss should have started to cheat by now.
The current regulations in the market restrict the performance of these bosses, which must make them feel a little inferior.
"There are a lot of old things. The slate we step on is even older, but no one is willing to pay a high price to buy it!"
"Haha, that's quite rude, young man, this is a real antique, just look at the rust."
The boss is a middle-aged man in his forties or fifties. He doesn't have much objection to Chen Wenzhe's words, but he is definitely not easy to deal with.
"I can see that this is an old thing, but this is just a vise. Even if it is old, can it last a hundred years?"
When Chen Wenzhe said this, the boss fell silent.
"How much can it cost? I just saw that the rust was well done, so I wanted to buy it and study it."
The boss hesitated for a moment, then said: "If you really want it, just give me three hundred. Anything less will be fine."
"It's high!" As he said this, Chen Wenzhe picked up the pliers and examined them carefully in his hands.
This time he did not have the ability to use the Sui Marquis Pearl. After all, it was just a pair of pliers worth a few hundred yuan, and the workmanship looked simple compared to the price.
The craftsmanship is purely handmade, but the craftsmanship of this bronze is really nothing.
However, the most obvious one should be riveting.
Riveting is a mechanical term that uses rivets to connect two or more workpieces. For example, the holes for shoelaces in sneakers are made of hollow rivets.
The heads of the pliers are connected using this technology.
Perhaps the boss couldn't tell the age of the vise from the patina, but Chen Wenzhe knew very well that such a rich patina would not have been formed for thousands of years.
If we talk about distressing, even if we use Chen Wenzhe's unique skill - red spot green embroidery technique, it will be difficult to achieve this level of sincerity, especially the green nature, which he probably cannot achieve.
With this sense of age and riveting craftsmanship, what period could this be from?
Chen Wenzhe thought for a moment and thought of the time when this craft first appeared.
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the biggest feature of bronze craftsmanship was the emergence of new production techniques at that time, especially the emergence of the lost wax method in the middle and late Spring and Autumn Period, which brought bronze art to a completely new realm.
At that time, a number of novel and elegant utensils appeared, with exquisite workmanship, exquisiteness, magnificence, and unusual elegance and brilliance.
During that period, the arrival of various techniques such as copper casting, inlaying, gilding, engraving, forging, riveting, etc., made the bronze handicrafts of this period more diverse, with various types, beautiful shapes, and patterns.
The patterns are renovated and the artistic styles are rich and colorful.
This stage is the end of the Bronze Age. Bronze vessels at this stage are no longer sacred objects. They begin to move down the altar and into the social class.
Therefore, to a certain extent, it gave birth to industrial production in this period.
The previous complicated and slow workmanship can no longer meet the needs of society, so the manufacturing process must undergo fundamental changes.
It was also at this stage that many practical tools appeared, such as the pliers Chen Wenzhe is holding now, which should have appeared during that period.
The vise from the Warring States Period, if it weren’t for Chen Wenzhe’s erudition, I wouldn’t have believed it!
While stroking the vise, through the rich green rust, he also found the mountain pattern, which was also a typical decoration during the Warring States Period.
And the gable pattern used here seems to be for anti-slip?
"How's it going? Are you sure?" While Chen Wenzhe was deep in thought, the boss said.
Looking at the smiling boss, Chen Wenzhe felt a little helpless. Perhaps because the price was not high, he was careless.
"Okay, since it's quite old and it's a very unique vise, just three hundred!"
Since the boss saw that he liked it, Chen Wenzhe didn't negotiate the price!