"White jade butterfly! Oh, this gift is not light." Yun Xiu quickly took the piece of white jade that was as transparent as snow, a round jade pendant with a diameter of no more than a square inch, with two lifelike butterflies carved inside.
The dance is very vivid.
Moreover, the workmanship is exquisite and well-preserved, and the quality of the jade can also be excellent.
If it were a piece of white butterfly jade from the mid-Ming Dynasty, it would probably cost hundreds of thousands!
Yun Xiu didn't expect that Lin Qiao was doing so well now, so he gave himself a gift, which was a jade pendant worth hundreds of thousands.
"San'er, your gift is too valuable. I can't accept it." Yun Xiu thought about it and returned it to Lin Qiao.
"Mr. Yun, if you don't accept this piece of jade, you're really going to slap me in the face. If I hadn't known you before, I probably wouldn't have been able to survive in the antique business. So, for your kindness back then, this piece of jade is a real slap in the face.
What does jade mean? Mr. Yun, you must accept this piece of jade! To be precise, this is not jade, this is my friendship!" Lin Qiao said.
Now that the conversation has come to this point, Yun Xiu really can't think of any reason to refuse.
However, his words reminded Yun Xiu of his trip to the capital nearly ten years ago.
Ten years ago, Yun Xiu was already a master-level figure in the antique shop. By chance, he needed to go to the capital and stayed there for a while. For antique people, it is truly enjoyable for them.
What he likes most is antiques, so when he has free time, he goes to the most famous Taobao market in Beijing, Antique City, and Panjiayuan.
It was also at that time that I met Lin Qiao, who was just starting out in the antique business. Lin Qiao had money and wanted to buy some good collections from Panjiayuan. As a result, he was deceived many times, and in one case the transaction amount almost reached more than 700 yuan.
Wan was watching from the side during a blue and white porcelain transaction.
Yun Xiu secretly gave Lin Qiao some advice. The latter avoided being deceived this time. Later, Lin Qiao thought that Yun Xiu was kind to him because he made friends. In other words, during those days in the capital, Lin Qiao spent all day long.
They followed Yun Xiu, and the two of them felt like apprentices and masters.
Also because of Yun Xiu's guidance during that period, Lin Qiao slowly entered the antique business. Later, he rented a shop in Panjiayuan and later moved to Linzhou. It can be said that Yun Xiu was Lin Qiao's
Joe's first teacher.
"Okay, then thank you San first. I'll invite you to Yangchun Pavilion tonight, so that I can help San'er wash away the dust!" Yun Xiuye said generously.
"Okay." Lin Qiao responded with a smile and cupped her fists.
The two of them were talking, but Ning Xiaofan next to him kept his eyes focused on the white jade butterfly.
He felt that for some reason, his eyes were reluctant to move away when he looked at this piece of white jade butterfly.
There seemed to be a faint electric current in his eyes. Suddenly, a golden light appeared in Ning Xiaofan's pupils. Then, his eyes seemed to have turned into magnifying glasses several times or even dozens of times. He looked at that person.
White jade butterfly.
In the end, it turned directly into a microscope, and you can directly see the texture of the surface of the white jade butterfly that is so delicate that it is difficult to see with the naked eye.
Then, like X-rays, it directly penetrated the white jade and saw the jade structure inside the white jade. He could even see every nanometer of distance in his own pupils.
Suddenly, an astonishing scene appeared in front of him. It seemed that he had returned to ancient times. In a thatched house, there was a man with a bald forehead and a long braid with the symbol of the Qing Dynasty hanging on the back of his head. He was polishing a piece of jade with a knife and a scraper.
, and the prototype of this jade is actually the piece of white jade butterfly that Yun Xiu took just now!
Now the man has been carved into one side, and the other side is being carved. Soon, the carving on the other side is also completed, but the man does not combine the two directly into one. Instead, he takes out the butterfly on one side and carves "
Fang Chengzi made four characters as small as ants. After carving them, he immediately combined the other half jade into one.
Finally, what appeared was the white jade butterfly that Yun Xiu was holding now!
"Brother Ning, what's wrong with you?"
Yun Xiu found that Ning Xiaofan was staring at Bai Jade Die and was distracted. He couldn't help but wonder, could this guy see something in Bai Jade Die?
"Ah, it's okay. I was a little distracted just now. Sorry." Ning Xiaofan nodded slightly towards the two of them and apologized.
"Brother Ning, do you want to see the white jade butterfly that San'er just sent? Brother Ning, why don't you take a look?" Yun Xiu said with a smile, don't prepare to hand the jade to Ning Xiaofan.
At this time, Lin Qiao also said: "Yes, I just heard from Mr. Yun that Brother Ning has a unique vision. I also want to hear what Brother Ning thinks of this white jade butterfly?"
Ning Xiaofan took the white jade butterfly unwillingly: "I'm just a young kid in the antique shop, I really can't say anything about it. But I have a question, third brother, where did your white jade butterfly come from?
Come?"
Lin Qiao did not expect that Ning Xiaofan would suddenly ask such a question: "I bought this at a small trade fair in Linzhou. To be precise, I took a photo."
Ning Xiaofan nodded, then placed the white jade butterfly's hands in the center of the box.
Then he said: "You two, actually I don't know much about the antiques industry. I would like to ask another question. Have you heard of Fang Chengzi?"
"Fang Chengzi?"
The two consecutive questions seemed a bit irrelevant, but Yun Xiu and Lin Qiao still answered them seriously.
Yun Xiudao: "Of course I have heard of Fang Chengzi. He was a genius in the antique shop in the Qing Dynasty. In the early days, he was a master of antique luggage appraisal, but later because of his outstanding ability in repairing antiques by hand, he started to make high-end imitations by himself.
, in order to pass the fake as the real thing. But his imitations are so real that he bought a lot of money and accumulated a lot of wealth for himself. Of course, there are also many people who were deceived by him. "
"So he has received mixed reviews in the long history. In the early days, he was a famous treasure appraiser. The books he wrote basically on the appraisal of antiques are now regarded as classics by people in the industry. But there are also
Because he was greedy for glory and wealth in the second half of his life, he made a large number of imitations.
, has also been criticized by later generations. However, there is a saying that his imitations are extremely sophisticated. Suppose two identical jade pots are placed in front of you, one is real and the other is fake. If you don’t have a particularly unique vision.
, you can’t tell which one is real and which one is fake.”
"I'm not afraid of Brother Ning's jokes. At my current level, I have to work hard and work hard to avoid being deceived by the works imitated by Fang Chengzi later. It is conceivable that his fake imitations
How high the price is! However, now very few of the works imitated by Fang Chengzi in later generations are on the market. If you encounter one or two by chance, they can be regarded as rare objects that can be sold for a good price."
Lin Qiao said with a smile: "Mr. Yun, you are so humble. It is not a big problem to judge Fang Chengzi's works based on your ability."
Yun Xiu smiled bitterly and shook his head, then looked at Ning Xiaofan: "Brother Ning, why do you suddenly ask this question?" (To be continued)