"No wonder you dare to call Celadon City, it is really a unique place!"
The facade of Celadon City is somewhat deceptive. It looks shabby, but it’s actually just an entrance.
When Shen Yu entered the store, he discovered that it was connected by three rooms and extended to the backyard for more than ten meters, making the total area of the store nearly three hundred square meters.
Except for the store door, there are racks of different heights placed against the walls.
Shen Yu counted and found that there were as many as thirty shelves, large and small.
There are all kinds of porcelain vases and cups and dishes on the shelves, blue and white, doucai, multicolored, and pastel, which are dazzling.
Shen Yu scanned the circle carefully. It can be said that the porcelain styles listed in the ancient porcelain appraisal books are basically all available in Celadon Square.
Ru, Guan, Ge, Jun, Ding, none of the five famous kilns in the Song Dynasty are lacking.
Yaozhou kiln, Cizhou kiln, Longquan kiln and Cidu kiln are the six major kilns of the Song Dynasty.
The large Yuan blue and white vase is even placed on three shelves, which looks a bit intimidating at first glance.
There are rows of straight wooden sofas on the left and right sides of the store door. Other than that, the only other furniture in the store is a counter made of rosewood.
"I just heard magpies chirping outside the window. It turns out that there are two distinguished guests coming to the door. You two can look at the porcelain in the shop and choose whatever you want. If you like it, just call me. If you are thirsty, there is hot tea. The green tea is West Lake Longjing. The black tea is Lapsang Souchong, you can drink whatever you want."
The shopkeeper is a middle-aged man in his early forties who looks very shrewd. While greeting Shen Yu and Pei Yu'an with a smile on his face, he writes and draws on the accounting book with a pen. His left hand even moves the abacus. Didn't stop.
From this look, he looks like an experienced businessman. He is multitasking and doing three things. A novice would never even think about it.
And he has a sharp eye. Judging from the outfits Pei Yuan and Shen Yu wear, neither one of them is worth less than 10,000 yuan. There is a high probability that they are rich people.
In particular, the windbreaker worn by Shen Yu was cut and made by Pei Yuqin by her father, the most famous tailor in Chuzhou. Not to mention the fabric, the handwork cost alone cost tens of thousands of yuan.
Rich people may not necessarily wear expensive clothes, but those without money will definitely not be able to wear such handmade custom-made clothes.
"Shopkeeper, how do you sell this jade pot and spring vase?"
Pei Yu'an asked, pointing to a blue and white porcelain vase with an open mouth, a long slender neck, a round belly and round feet on the ancient shelf on the east wall.
The bottle he took a fancy to has exquisite decorations and smooth lines. The neck is decorated with blue and white sea water, Ruyi, banana leaf patterns, and the belly is painted with lotus branches. The overall appearance is really good. Compared with the porcelain next to it, it is a bit standout and elegant. A sense of déjà vu.
Seeing this, Shen Yu nodded secretly. His sister Qin's younger brother was very smart. He didn't foolishly look at any of the so-called five famous kiln porcelains, because anyone with some knowledge of antique appraisal would also know that those things were fake.
It looks deceptive, but in fact they are all high imitations, because they are really impossible to put on the shelves in the store.
If you want to find leaks, you have to look for them in painted porcelain such as blue and white, pastel, doucai, and five colors.
But this vision is a bit lacking.
The shopkeeper was obviously taken aback, "Guest, what are you..."
When Shen Yu saw this, he immediately smiled and said: "Boss, my brother is just joking with you. I wonder how you can sell this blue and white Yutang spring vase?"
When Pei Yu'an heard Shen Yu speak, he immediately realized that he had recognized the wrong thing. He quickly coughed and said, "Oh, I drank too much yesterday, and it's not right to say what I know in my heart."
The shop owner looked suddenly enlightened, "This vase with blue and white lotus pattern is a good thing from the official kiln of Jiaqing Dynasty. It is an old and handed down item with a large door. If you like it, I will give you 800,000 yuan to take it away."
The shop owner was obviously hesitant just now, because he knew that he met an inexperienced person today and mistook the Yutang Chun Shang Vase for the Yu Hu Chun Ping.
This is a good opportunity to sell antiques, but there is also positive energy pulling in his heart. He can't get over this hurdle when he lies to someone who is not an expert.
But now that he has a knowledgeable person like Shen Yu by his side, his psychological pressure has been significantly relieved, so he opened his mouth to ask for 800,000 yuan.
The reason why the shop owner thinks Pei Yu'an is ignorant is not just that he misidentified the porcelain vase, but also that Pei Yu'an called out the word "shopkeeper".
When people in antique stores go to antique stores to buy items, they generally don’t call them shopkeepers, but more often they call them bosses or store owners.
Because when you call me "boss", it doesn't matter if you call me the wrong one.
But for those who are shopkeepers themselves, they may not be happy if you call them shopkeepers.
"Brother-in-law, isn't this a jade pot and spring bottle?" Pei Yu'an asked softly, expressing her doubts.
Shen Yu smiled and said, "You should have heard of the name Shang Ping. It is Shang Ping."
Pei Yu'an suddenly realized, "So this is the famous vase!"
Shen Yu was not surprised that Pei Yuan recognized the Yutang Spring Ping as the Yuhu Spring Ping.
First of all, both the reputation and history of Yu Hu Chun Ping are much better than that of Yu Tang Chun Ping.
Yu Hu Chun Bottle began in the Tang Dynasty, while Yu Tang Chun Bottle was fired in the Qing Dynasty.
Many people may not even have heard of the name Yutang Chunping.
The second is that the shapes and appearances of the two porcelains are very different. It is not an exaggeration to say that they are twins, so they are often mistaken.
The shape of the Yutang spring bottle is a style approved by the famous kiln superintendent Tang Ying, who "referenced ancient and modern styles, used new ideas, and prepared ingenious reserves."
After the bottle was designed, other names were given, and finally it was named: Yutang Chun Ping.
To put it bluntly, the style of "Joining Ancient and Modern Styles" does not refer to anything else, it is just made according to the jade pot and spring bottle.
You can get a general idea from the fact that there is only one word difference between it and the traditional classic style of porcelain "Yu Hu Chun" bottle.
As for why it is necessary to refer to ancient and modern imitations of Yuhuchun? This is because there are slight differences in Yuhuchun bottles in the past dynasties.
In the Tang Dynasty, there are famous sayings such as Jade Pot and Spring, Rain-watching Mao House, Beautiful Scholars in the Seat, Bamboos on the Left and Right, and a piece of ice heart in the jade pot, which proves that the jade pot and spring bottle existed in the Tang Dynasty.
In the Song Dynasty, it became even more popular. In the 38th chapter of "Water Margin", "Timely rain will bring magic to protect Taibao, and black whirlwinds and waves will be filled with white strips." The wine bottle is made of practical porcelain.
In the Ming and Qing dynasties, jade pots and spring vases no longer contained wine and became ornamental porcelain.
After searching for it for a while, Tang Ying still felt that the Yuhuchun bottle looked good, so she used it.
"Brother-in-law, why is this bottle called a vase? Is it a vase?"
Shen Yu smiled and shook his head, "The word 'shang' in the Yutang Spring Appreciation Vase does not mean appreciation, but a reward.
"This kind of porcelain was used by Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty to reward ministers. It is a high-end official kiln display device. During festivals, meritorious ministers often feel honored to get such an official kiln Yutang spring vase.
"Because the vase is made of blue and white porcelain, the word 'qing' in blue and white is homophonic to 'qing'.
"More than 90% of the decorations on the vases are painted with lotus branches, and the word 'Lotus' in the lotus pattern has the same pronunciation as the word 'Lian' for incorruptibility.
"Yu'an, let me ask you, what do 'Qing' and 'Lian' combined mean?"
Pei Yuan immediately said: "This is not simple, it is incorruptible."
Shen Yu nodded, "This is the origin of vase appreciation. It is an expectation of the emperor for his ministers, that is, they must be honest and honest as officials.
"Since Yongzheng dedicated the Yutang Spring Vase to reward ministers, the Qianlong, Jiaqing, Daoguang, Xianfeng, Guangxu, and Xuantong dynasties followed each other, and the name, shape, and use have never changed.
"So since the Yongzheng Dynasty, the Yutang Chun vase of the official kiln with blue and white entwined branches and lotus patterns has become the special name of 'appreciation vase'.
"That is to say, only the Yutang Chun vase with the lotus pattern is called a vase. Even if the other porcelain vases were given by the emperor, they cannot be called 'vases.'"
After explaining, Shen Yu glanced at the Yutang Spring bottle on the shelf again, and after obtaining the owner's consent, he gently took the bottle down from the Bogu shelf with both hands.
