Chen Wenzhe had just packed up his things when Mo Chengfang spoke again.
"There is also news about the bezoar and musk that you entrusted me to find. An old Chinese medicine shop has gone bankrupt and is in the process of liquidating its assets. His family has collected many authentic Chinese medicines, and some valuable ones are still in stock. Many of the things you want are available.
You can buy it over there.”
"It shouldn't be difficult to buy cinnabar or something, I'll figure it out myself!"
They were about to leave when the appraiser just finished his work. He raised his head and said: "There is a large piece of cinnabar over there, let's take a look!"
"Cinnabar? We also have it here?" Mo Chengfang asked strangely.
The appraiser smiled and said: "Soapstone!"
Mo Chengfang suddenly realized that chicken blood stone is the ground stone with cinnabar strips.
It is named after the bright red cinnabar (cinnabar) that looks like chicken blood.
Chicken blood stone, along with Shoushan stone, Qingtian stone and Balin stone, enjoys the reputation of China's "four national stones". Chen Wenzhe naturally knew that, but he really did not expect that chicken blood stone contained cinnabar.
Although he has never seen it, Chen Wenzhe knows that the formation of bloodstone is very rare.
At this time, he knew more clearly that to form chicken bloodstone, cinnabar (mercuric sulfide) needs to penetrate into the kaolinite and slowly blend into the kaolinite to become a symbiotic natural gemstone.
Therefore, chicken blood stone actually contains natural mercury sulfide, which is cinnabar!
You must know that this thing is poisonous, but soapstone is widely loved for its magnificent, exquisite, elegant and colorful features, and is even known as the "Queen of Stones".
If something is beautiful and famous, naturally there will be more fakes.
The soapstone mentioned by the appraiser is naturally not a fake, but a broken carving.
It wasn't that big in the first place, and it was smashed to pieces, so it wasn't worth much.
No matter what, Chen Wenzhe accepted the kindness. Besides, he was really curious and wanted to see what the bloodstone looked like.
When I walked in, I found that there were indeed a lot of soapstones here.
It can be seen that these fragments should originally be two large pieces, one is blood red and remains intact, but the red one is a bit abnormal.
Another large piece was broken, but this piece must be fake because it was broken.
Those small fragments are soapstone, but the larger ones are fake. This is a piece of soapstone sculpture that has been glued together.
That is to say, some fragmented bloodstones are screened out with good colors, compressed and bonded into large pieces, and then carved on them.
If something like this lasts for a long time, it will naturally start to pulverize, so after it is broken, it is crushed.
"Can this kind of thing be stored in the warehouse?"
Chen Wenzhe wondered if the appraiser at the Gold Medal Pawn Shop was cheating. Otherwise, the quality was too bad, right?
"More than thirty years ago, the industry was quite chaotic! At that time, I remember a novice collector who spent 1,200 yuan to find a Changhua chicken blood stone weighing 5,500 grams. It was identified by experts as a sky-high price treasure."
"The lucky guy has an appraisal certificate issued by an expert. The certificate shows that the Changhua chicken blood stone weighs 5,500 grams and was produced during the Republic of China."
"Later, experts appraised it and believed that it should be earlier, close to the skills of craftsmen in the late Qing Dynasty, and worth at least ten thousand!"
"More than ten years ago, I spent a thousand yuan and made two to three million yuan. What a sensation? So a large number of fake soapstones were produced. For example, this relatively complete one was dyed during that period."
"If it is a real thing, even if the quality is poor, you can still get some materials and make some small seals. Unfortunately, these are too complete fakes and are completely useless."
Chen Wenzhe played with some of the broken pieces, which should be real bloodstone, but the quality is very poor.
But no matter how bad it is, it won’t affect the cinnabar inside, it’s all mercury sulfide anyway!
These bloodstones are actually more useful for Chen Wenzhe.
I just don’t know if the cinnabar used in traditional Chinese medicine is a natural mineral.
No matter what, the value of these things is not high anyway, so buy them and keep them, what if they are useful?
After collecting the broken pieces, Chen Wenzhe looked at the complete piece of chicken blood stone carving. He didn't know what was going on with it?
If it is dyed by other stones, it is completely useless. If not, it does contain soapstone, then it can still be used.
It was only after seeing the chicken blood stone that Chen Wenzhe discovered that he actually didn't have a good seal.
As a young artist, this is incredible.
Therefore, he should pay attention to the chicken-blood stone market in the future, maybe he can get some good chicken-blood stones?
Anyway, the method of identifying jade is not much different from the method of identifying soapstone. You have to use golden fingers.
If you find a lot of bloodstone, you can also make some sculptures!
Bloodstone is a good thing, mainly used for carving, especially seals.
Now Chen Wenzhe is very good at engraving. He is not difficult to engrave seals, but he is still not very good at seal engraving.
If he really had chicken blood stone in his hand, Chen Wenzhe would really not dare to practice with it.
Because chicken bloodstone is very rare and its output is limited, the market price is also very gratifying.
Just like the tall piece in front of you, which is more than thirty years old, it weighs seven or eight kilograms. If it is so big, it cannot be sold for four to five million yuan.
It’s a pity that it’s dyed! Chen Wenzhe couldn’t help but touch it.
Even though it was dyed, he found that the carving of this piece of soapstone was also very good.
And just by touching it, he felt that there was something wrong with the pictures he vaguely saw!
"This seems to be a genuine chicken blood stone. I don't know why, but there is a layer of color on the outside. Is this a genuine chicken blood stone carving, deliberately made fake?"
Chen Wenzhe looked at it carefully for a while and realized that it was actually faked in 1940.
At that time, the little devil was still in Dahai City. In order to preserve this thing, its owner at the time made a layer of camouflage.
Unexpectedly, he did not fall into the hands of the Japanese, but was eventually tricked by his descendants.
Now it's living here, being considered fake and almost being disposed of as garbage.
It turns out that Chen Wenzhe had heard of this kind of story about picking up leaks. Unexpectedly, he experienced it himself today.
However, this is always the unit he is in, and you cannot pick up leaks here.
So Chen Wenzhe raised his eyebrows and opened his mouth to say something!
But at this moment, Mo Chengfang interrupted him!
"What? Do you like this thing? If you like it, keep it. It's just garbage anyway."
Mo Chengfang stood aside and said nothing. What does he mean by saying this now?
"The carving is pretty good. I just have such an ornament in my living room at home. If I buy it and put it there, I won't be afraid of being dropped by a naughty child!"
"Haha, don't tell me I haven't noticed yet. This is Yangzhou carving, right? There is a school of carving there that is particularly delicate. It looks good, and it's not expensive anyway. Just like you said, it can be placed in the living room.
It’s not afraid of damage inside and just realizes its value.”