Shen Yu smiled and shook his head, no longer thinking about this ridiculous guess.
It is indeed possible to wholesale ordinary Qingtian stone seal blanks, and the price is only a few hundred yuan each.
But it is impossible for anyone to sell the Qingtian stone in my hand, which is obviously an old material from the Qing Dynasty, in large quantities.
Even the largest miscellaneous antique store "Wanbaolou" in Chuzhou would not dare to make such big claims.
Seeing that Shen Yu was concentrating on observing the Qingtian stone seal in his hand, Mr. Qian turned on the three lights in the room for Shen Yu, and gave Shen Yu a bright flashlight and ink pad and white paper, and then stood beside Shen Yu and quietly wiped the glass cabinet. The antique blue and white plum vase comes.
Turning on the strong flashlight, Shen Yu carefully checked the seal in his hand again. When the hot tea in the pot had turned cold, he let out a long sigh of relief.
Qian Lao's seal is indeed similar in shape and size to Lao Liu's, but Shen Yu still discovered a few differences.
First of all, the colors are different. Lao Liu's seal is dark blue, while Qian Lao's seal is light green with a slight yellowish tint.
Second, although the seal of Mr. Qian's seal is also very blurry, it is impossible to tell what words are engraved. Even when Shen Yu just dipped ink ink and printed on the white paper, he could not see clearly.
But one thing is that Lao Qian's seal has no defects, while Lao Liu's seal has a small bump on the edge of the seal surface.
The third point, which is also a very important point, is that Lao Liu’s seal is a white seal, while Qian Lao’s seal is a Zhu Wen seal.
Zhuwenyin is also called Yangwenyin, because the seal is Yangwenyin, so the characters on the surface of the seal are raised.
That is to say, the lines are real, and the spaces left are imaginary. When the seal is dipped in ink pad and printed on the paper, the words will naturally be red, so it is named Zhu Wen.
The white seal is completely the opposite. The characters are concave when the seal is carved.
When sealing is used, the words on the seal cannot be dipped in ink pad, so after the seal is printed on the paper, the words are blank, and this blank space is exactly where the content of the seal is, hence the name Baiwenyin.
The fourth point is that the feel of the two seals is also different. Both seals can be said to be rich and mellow, but Qian Lao's seal has a cold feeling when he holds it in his hand, while Lao Liu's seal has nothing to it Shen Yu is sure of.
The fifth point, and the most important point, is that the details of Mr. Qian's seal are very delicate, and the overall knife work is smooth, without any roughness or improvisation.
If you taste it carefully, you will find a master style that combines simplicity and elegance.
Top knife skills!
Top-notch seal cutting!
An absolute masterpiece!
What makes Shen Yu a little unsure now is the stone used for this seal. Although he has vaguely guessed it, he still can't believe it completely.
To be honest, Shen Yu usually comes into contact with ordinary Qingtian seal stones. Of course, he has also seen slightly better ones, but the material of Qian Lao's seal is really beyond Shen Yu's cognition.
If Shen Yu guessed correctly, this is probably the best of Qingtian stones, Qingtian frozen stone.
Qingtian Stone is named because it is produced in Qingtian, Zhejiang Province. Like Shoushan Stone and Chang Stone, they are all famous traditional seal-making stones. The three are also called the Three Treasures of Seal Stones.
It is said that Qingtian Stone has been mined since the Song Dynasty, but its peak was in the Ming Dynasty, because judging from various classic records, Qingtian Stone was not very famous before the Ming Dynasty.
After the Ming Dynasty, because Qingtian stone was warm, delicate, and as clear as jade, and the best of it was a bit stronger than jade, printers who found it profitable mined it and made it into seals, recommending it to the literati at that time.
As more and more people use seals, the reputation of Qingtian Stone has greatly increased. After years of mining, a cave was formed called "Book Cave".
There are many varieties of Qingtian Stone, the most valuable of which is the crystallized and translucent Qingtian Froststone.
Qingtian jelly is a treasure among stones. It is said that if you hold the Qingtian jelly in your hands when your palms are sweating in the summer, it will be like holding a piece of ice, which can completely eliminate the heat.
Mr. Qian's seal also felt cool to Shen Yu when he held it in his hand. It was probably the precious and rare Qingtian frozen stone.
After getting up and turning off all the lights in the store and closing the sunshades, Shen Yu turned on the flashlight again. Under the illumination of the strong flashlight, the seal suddenly showed a dazzling beauty.
Snap!
The sound of the bright flashlight falling on the table made Mr. Qian tilt his head and ask, "Shen Yu, what's wrong with you?"
"It's okay, Mr. Qian, I was just fascinated." Shen Yu quickly explained.
"Don't be anxious and look at it slowly. If you like this seal, take it away. I'm not interested in it anyway." Mr. Qian shook his head and carefully wiped the porcelain vase again, as if the seal in Shen Yu's hand was not his, but Belongs to a stranger.
Qingtian lantern jelly is the best among Qingtian stones, but very few people have seen it now. It is even said that there is no lantern jelly anymore, and only a few old seals from the Ming and Qing dynasties are left in the existing lantern jelly.
Naturally, Shen Yu has never seen the real Qingtian light jelly, but only learned about it in ancient books.
Tu Long, one of the five sons of the late Ming Dynasty, said in his book "Kaopan Yushi" that there are Qingtian stones that are as clear as jade, and those that shine as brightly as lights are called light stones, and the light was already very rare in the Ming Dynasty. .
Wang Shizhen, a famous figure in the Qing Dynasty, also mentioned in his "Xiangzu Notes" that Qingtian stone was used for seals in the past, and lighting was the most precious thing.
From this point of view, Manager Qian may be telling the truth. He really opened a new store, and he really leaked the treasure.
A Qingtian light-frozen seal was worth 20,000 yuan, which was a huge loss. Mr. Qian accidentally picked up a huge leak because of his open-mindedness.
In order to confirm his conjecture, Shen Yu silently recited the treasure appraisal in his heart. In an instant, a ball of blue light emerged from three inches above the seal. This time, the ball of light was no longer the size of a soybean but became the size of a broad bean. .
"The light group has actually become bigger?
"The reason, if I'm not wrong, is that the value of this Qingtian light seal is far more valuable than my Guangxu treasure carved mother."
There is another aspect of this Qingtian stone seal that Shen Yu did not take a closer look at, which is that there are four lines of small characters engraved on the back of the seal.
The font size is only slightly larger than modern micro-carvings, and it is very blurry to the naked eye, and because the words and the seal are of the same color, Shen Yu's eyes hurt after reading only four or five words for half a minute.
"Where's your magnifying glass, Mr. Qian? It doesn't need to be too high, just fifty times..."
Before Shen Yu finished asking, a high-power magnifying glass was handed to Shen Yu.
Shen Yu was not polite. He picked up the magnifying glass and looked at it. On the back was a poem: "It costs more to paint bamboo than to buy bamboo. The paper is six feet high and costs three thousand. Let Qu talk about old opinions and just wait for the autumn wind to pass." Ears."
"Strange, isn't this Zheng Banqiao's poem?"
"Could it be said that this seal was once used by Zheng Banqiao?"
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