He said it was a Hutou Ben and it had just been driven a few years ago.
I was afraid that he would take my things and run away, so I took them back and said, "It's a bit different, brother. Two Hutoubens are about the same."
Another young man was talking to me about those Guangxu official kiln plates. He found fault with me: "Brother, judging from the things you put on display, you should be very capable. Your pair of plates are genuine official kiln.
But the dragon pattern is not well drawn, it is too soft and lacks some official spirit."
"That's nonsense!"
I said: "This is originally a second-class official kiln. How much is it worth 100,000 yuan? It's so cheap!"
"The dragon pattern painting is too soft? If it's not soft, is it still a Guangxu official kiln? It's a fake. If you want to bargain, don't be so picky. Do you think I don't understand?"
This man was speechless by my rebuke.
I'm telling the truth. The dragon patterns in official kilns in the late Qing Dynasty are generally painted very weakly. The dragon's body is painted like noodles. In our industry, it is called a noodle dragon. The dragon's claws have no strength, and the dragon's eyes look down, which means it is senile.
Going back to the Qianlong period, the dragon patterns in the early Qing Dynasty are very fierce. They are not noodles. The dragon's body is like a spring, twisted together, the dragon's claws are extremely sharp, and the dragon's eyes are glaring outward, which is extremely fierce and domineering.
So, if you see extremely ferocious dragon patterns on porcelain from Daoguang, Guangxu, Xuantong, and other eras, don’t worry about it, just raise a question mark, because it transcends the characteristics of that era.
Maybe it's a high imitation.
This guy couldn't talk to me, so in the end we talked for a long time and bought a plate from me for 40,000 yuan.
He laughed and said, "Brother, can you keep the remaining dishes for me? I don't have that much money now, so I'm going to borrow money right now."
"Come on, whip me, haha."
I took the cigarette and said, "I'll leave you a day or two to go. I'll probably not be in Luoyang anymore."
"Then two days! Within two days! I will definitely come and buy the remaining plates, so be sure to keep them for me!"
"Well, you should do it as soon as possible."
I held a cigarette in my mouth and took out my lighter to light up.
Just started the fire.
"call!"
A bald man about forty years old blew me away with a cold face.
I frowned and lit up again.
"call!"
He blew it out for me again!
I put down the cigarette and said with a cold face: "Are you looking for trouble with me?"
He said: "Boy, you just came from out of town? Don't you understand the rules?"
"What rules."
He pointed at my stall:
"Listen, I don't care where you come from! This is Luoyang. I have the dragon coiled up for me and the tiger lying down for me. You are not allowed to sell these tens of thousands of things without Boss Song's nod! Understand.
Are you done? This is the rule."
"Not convinced? You don't know who Boss Song is, right?"
I smiled and said, "Yes, I know a few of their brothers. If you don't believe me, just ask."
"know??"
"wait!"
He immediately ran to make a phone call, and after a minute or two, he shouted to me: "What's your name?"
"Just say, it's Shenyan Peak."
He held it and said a few words, then frowned and said, "Boy, are you fucking kidding me? The boss said he doesn't know any Shenyan Peak!"
My expression changed.
"Just say you are Silver Fox's apprentice, and your surname is Xiang."
He muttered a few words, and after hanging up the phone, his attitude changed 180 degrees.
"Haha! It turns out to be you, brother! I've seen it a long time ago! You are not an ordinary person!"
"Brother, close the stall quickly. The boss told you not to sell here. Go to his cultural city to sell. There are plenty there and the boss wants them."
The full name of "Cultural City" is "Luoyang Zongheng Cultural City".
Old Luoyang people born in the 1980s may know that this place is an underground black market for cultural relics run by the Song brothers.
Here, there is only a wall separated from Luoyang Jianxi Branch...
In 2020, Zongheng Cultural City was seized. Also seized was the mobile app of Zongheng Cultural City. This is an auction website. Only those who have obtained an internal invitation code and registered as members can participate in the auction.
It's similar to Wei Paitang and Xianyu, but... here, they sell serious cultural relics, including first-class cultural relics and special-grade cultural relics!
Many of them are of the type that can be sentenced to life without a life sentence. Among them, Tang Sancai can only be regarded as mid-range.
I have seen so many good things that I rarely say the word "eye-opening".
But this time I went there, it was really eye-opening.
Let me put it this way, compared to Zongheng Cultural City.
There is not enough to see in the Luoyang City Museum and even the Henan Provincial Museum.
There are many treasures here, making it a paradise for lovers of underground cultural relics.
