From the moment he came to this stall specializing in snuff bottles, Shen Yu's eyes lit up because Shen Yu saw a light blue ball of light on the stall that was as big as a glutinous rice ball.
However, Shen Yu didn't know which antique it was from, so Shen Yu played a little antique trading trick.
It's very simple. Take a relatively expensive antique from the other party's stall and dislike it, but then act like you sincerely want to buy it. In this way, the seller will often take out the item at the bottom of the box.
What Shen Yu wants is a quick victory!
It was a cold and windy night in late autumn in Chuzhou, so he gave his windbreaker to his sister Qin. Shen Yu, who was only wearing a shirt now, didn't want to get sick from the cold.
In addition, Shen Yu doesn’t want to have long nights and many dreams. After all, Chuzhou is full of talents, and many collectors have very good eyesight.
As for ridiculing the other party, will the other party be angry?
The answer is no!
No one who sells antiques is thin-skinned, including Shen Yu.
An antique dealer is never afraid that the buyer will say he is a scumbag, but he is afraid that the buyer will take a second look and turn around and leave, because as long as there is some negotiation, he will be able to sell something, and without any negotiation, even if he is born again, he will not be able to make money from the other party.< /p>
So Shen Yu immediately got a satisfactory answer.
"Yes, of course there is. How could there be no good items in the antique stall that I, Old Wei, have set up for twenty years?"
After saying that, Old Wei turned around and took out a heavily pulped black wooden box from the large wooden box behind him.
The box has a lock, and when opened, nine snuff bottles of different styles are revealed.
"These are the ten top-quality snuff bottles I have collected over the years. I just sold one yesterday and there are nine left. You can choose whatever you want, little brother."
The main reason why snuff bottles are so popular among players is that they are small and exquisite and easy to play with.
And it integrates Chinese painting, calligraphy, carving and inlaying, as well as jade, porcelain, materials, lacquerware, enamel, metal and other crafts into one. It is a pocket art that integrates the essence of hundreds of schools of thought into itself.
No matter whether a person likes snuff bottles before or not, when he sees the real thing, he will often be instantly attracted to it and can't help but want to pick it up and play with it.
Pick it up and put it down, put it down and pick it up.
After Shen Yu looked at several pieces, he carefully took out a gourd-shaped porcelain snuff bottle from the wooden box.
The so-called porcelain, to put it bluntly, is porcelain.
As soon as he got it, Shen Yu's heart immediately moved slightly.
It’s not that porcelain snuff bottles are rare, on the contrary, porcelain snuff bottles are a major category among snuff bottles.
What surprised Shen Yu was the strange feeling of getting this snuff bottle.
How can I put it this way? It's like touching an ancient jade that has been around for decades.
However, after more than a year of experience, Shen Yu was able to remain calm even though his heart was in turmoil.
"Boss, this snuff bottle of yours is an old item. The pulp is warm and moist. It's very good."
Lao Wei smiled proudly and said: "That's natural. Why can't I keep such old things so carefully?"
This snuff bottle with blue and white background is a piece of blue and white porcelain.
The shape of the device is outstanding among these nine snuff bottles.
Coincidentally, the whole body of the pot is also painted with a picture of pines and cranes prolonging life, with elegant ink rhyme and clear layers. There is a red-crowned white crane standing proudly on the lush and lush pine trees.
The painting work is so exquisite that Shen Yu thought that it was not inferior to the blue and white paintings of the official kilns of the Ming Dynasty. Especially the white crane on the body of the pot is so lifelike and the clarity is as clear as a photograph.
Except for the giant pine and white crane, there are no empty trees under the trees. Mountain chrysanthemums are everywhere, full of life.
"This snuff bottle is very auspicious, and it is the perfect choice for a birthday gift." Shen Yu praised it in his heart again.
The pine tree has been a symbol of longevity since ancient times. In addition, it has the reputation of being evergreen despite the frost and snow and being as long as a hundred trees. It can also describe a person's noble character.
The white crane is known as the Zong of Hundred Feathers, which also symbolizes a person's elegance and open-mindedness.
Not to mention the chrysanthemum, it is the flower of a gentleman.
When pine and crane are combined together, they become synonymous with auspiciousness. The meaning is: pine and crane prolong life, and longevity.
Painting such a complex pattern in a small space gives people a sense of simplicity and elegance. Without decades of continuous effort, it would never have been possible.
Looking at the bottom of the snuff bottle again, just as Shen Yu thought, it turned out to be something special.
But there is only one character, in regular script: the character "imperial".
Although there is only one character, the font is correct and the writing style is exquisite.
Seeing Shen Yu carefully looking at the snuff bottle, the stall owner boasted while the iron was hot, "I just collected this snuff bottle. It is an authentic old object from the Qing Dynasty. I think brother you are also a knowledgeable person, so you took it out. Most people think There are no gatekeepers."
Shen Yu had a smile on his face and nodded to show his understanding, "Brother, how much do you want to sell this snuff bottle for?"
"Twenty thousand!" the stall owner said confidently, without any hesitation.
The price is not expensive.
Moreover, Shen Yu knew that the stall owner had leaked the treasure, but he did not know the true value of the snuff bottle.
Shen Yu wanted to agree to this price right away.
But he can't.
Let’s put it this way, anyone who can make a living by setting up an antique stall is a good person!
Those who can dig out old houses are the best among the best.
You can say that they have various shortcomings, such as being greedy for petty gains, willing to do anything for profit, being as thick-skinned as a city wall, easily going back on their word, etc.
But one thing is that their ability to read people and observe their emotions is no worse than some fortune tellers and fortune tellers.
Although Shen Yu does not have these shortcomings, his ability to observe people's emotions is beyond his age. For example, Shen Yu is only in his twenties. From just now, Shen Yu can guess that the female white-collar worker and Tian Zengguang and Tian Yan's ancestors and grandchildren are nothing. You’ll know in just one click.
This snuff bottle is not from the Qing Dynasty, nor was it originally a snuff bottle, but a medicine bottle used by the Ming Dynasty palace.
But it is not a simple medicine bottle, but a medicine bottle that is comparable to the blue and white medicine bottles of the official kilns of the Ming Dynasty, and may even surpass the ordinary official kilns of the Ming Dynasty.
I just don’t know why, but after some simple modifications, it turned into a snuff bottle.
Shen Yu knew the origin of the word "imperial" at the bottom of the snuff bottle. It was written by Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty.
Jiajing, also known as Ming Shizong Zhu Houcong, was the eleventh emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
As we all know, Emperor Jiajing was famous in Chinese history for his love of alchemy. In fact, it is more appropriate for Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty to give the title of "Emperor Taojun" to Jiajing.
The emperor Jiajing got the throne very interestingly because his cousin Zhengde had no heirs, so at the age of only fifteen he got lucky and sat on the throne of emperor.
In the next forty-five years, he devoted most of his time and energy to the cause of alchemy.
Jiajing knew that Qin Shihuang's search for the elixir all over the world would eventually lead to nowhere, so he simply stopped looking.
It is better to seek help from others than to seek help from yourself. Simply roll up your sleeves and practice on your own.
Refining it yourself is the next best thing, at least it's more reliable than going to seek immortality and visit the Tao. Besides, he doesn't dare to take the messy pills.
He did what he said, he built a palace inside the palace and began to refine the so-called "elixir".
Shen Yu speculated that this snuff bottle should be the bottle used by Emperor Jiajing to make elixirs.
Of course, this is just a guess, because it is difficult to find the origin of this kind of snuff bottle medicine bottle, but basically or with a high probability it was fired from an official kiln, but there is no record.
To put it simply, this can be regarded as a collection of Jiajing blue and white porcelain gourd vase.
Why does Shen Yu know the origin of this piece of porcelain? Because he has seen it once in a famous antique shop in Dongjiang.
At that time, the price of the antique shop was probably 30,000 yuan, but it was eventually bought by someone for a high price of 900,000 yuan. It is said that the person later changed hands and sold it to a wealthy businessman living overseas for an astonishing 5.5 million yuan.
And the quality of that snuff bottle is much worse than the one in Shen Yu's hand.
An antique valued at RMB 5.5 million can be said to be a huge miss. Shen Yu asked himself that he would never miss it if he came across it.
It is impossible to directly transfer 120,000 to the other party. You have to bargain, but how to bargain and how much to bargain is also a matter of knowledge!