Lemony is a little cute

Chapter 1162 Hate Iron Is Not Steel

Walking into the wine cellar, first of all, there is a mellow wine smell, clear and strong and sour, which instantly makes people feel a little drunk.

The wine cellar is small, with koji on the left and wooden barrels for winemaking on the right.The rows are neatly arranged, and there are winemakers and fruit growers from the estate walking around.

Mr. Gong is very passionate about wine. Everyone visited him and talked about the detailed process of a bottle of wine from picking to fermentation, venting, bottling fermentation, impurities deposited on the bottle cap, and prying the bottle cap to remove impurities from the frozen bottle mouth. A bottle of wine takes about three years to vinify...

When entering the deepest wine cellar, Xia Ningmeng already felt cold, Jian Jichen simply hugged her a little tighter.

Pushing open a heavy wooden door, there are hundreds of bottles of wine, sweet, dry, and semi-dry.

Jian Jichen picked out a bottle of dry sparkling wine for Xia Ningmeng, and Mr. Gong chose two bottles of dry white Riesling for everyone.

They came out of the cold and humid cellar to a warehouse-like room on the side of the vineyard.

As soon as you enter the door, the first thing that catches your eyes is a whole row of antique shelves against the wall, which are fully six meters long. It has everything you can imagine.There are at least three large and small pieces in one grid. Xia Ningmeng, who has seen millions of ceramics in the museum, was shocked by the whole wall of porcelain.

In front of the bogu rack is a set of mahogany dining table, with red wine glasses and red wine racks.

After everyone sat down, Mr. Gong opened the wine, and Mrs. Gong took down a large butterfly vase from the shelf, and asked Xia Ningmeng to help look at it.

The bottle is a bit big, and the flower arrangement is too big and fancy in the eyes of laymen. It is too big to be placed on the antique shelf, but too small to be placed on the ground, which is a bit nondescript.

Xia Ningmeng opened the bottom of the bottle, looked at it and said, "Open the door to appreciate the bottle. Guangxu official kiln."

"That's true?"

Xia Ningmeng nodded and said, "This is the emperor's reward for the civil and military ministers who have done meritorious service, so it is called the reward bottle."

Mrs. Gong touched the various butterflies drawn on the vase, and there was a red word in the middle of the bottle neck.

She asked, "What's that word?"

"Shou character, a butterfly has only one partner in its life, which represents loyalty. The meaning of the emperor's gift bottle is to make the courtiers loyal to him for the rest of their lives."

In the middle of Xia Ningmeng's explanation, Jian Jichen handed her a glass of sparkling wine. She took a small sip first. The taste of the wine was very light, with a taste of cola. really not bad.

Mrs. Gong also took the red wine and smelled it first, her gesture was very elegant.

She took a sip and asked, "30, is it worth it?"

Xia Ningmeng smiled subtly and said, "It's on the high side."

Anyway, it is something from the Qing Dynasty, or it is from an official kiln, and it is not worth 30?Mr. Gong said: "Guangxu almost collapsed when he was in power, and he must be worthless."

Xia Ningmeng gave a slight smile, and Xia Yixuan said in relief: "As long as the door is opened, it will be worth a lot if you put more years in it."

Most of Xia Ningmeng's appreciation of antiques benefits from Professor Fu. Xia Yixuan and Professor Fu have a close personal relationship. He often recommends Professor Fu to his friends, and Professor Fu always likes to ask Xia Ningmeng to open his eyes together.

Almost all of his decades of experience in antique appreciation have been passed on to Xia Ningmeng.

Mr. Gong asked for advice: "What do you mean by opening the door?"

Xia Yixuan must have said some antique terminology.Open the door, open the door falsely, sell the goods...

Mrs. Gong was a little unconvinced, and brought another porcelain painted with lotus flowers. The bottom had an inscription, which was from the Jiaqing period, and a small note was pasted next to it, which said 1736-1795.

The porcelain is shaped like a blooming lotus, very beautiful.

Xia Ningmeng flipped through the words and feet of the payment, and Mrs. Gong said, "4000, received from the United States."

It should have been caught for 4000 US dollars. Xia Ningmeng glanced at her with black and white eyeballs, embarrassed to tell the truth directly, she said implicitly: "It's not worth it."

"What do you mean?"

Xia Ningmeng said: "This should only be from the late period of the Republic of China. In the late period of the Republic of China, semi-automatic machinery had already entered, and during the Jiaqing period, first of all, the bottom style was relatively thin. This bowl has such a thick bottom style, and the Jiaqing style must be made by hand." book, and this one is obviously mechanically printed..."

"Fake? No way?"

Xia Ningmeng continued: "The bottom of the fetus is square, flat, with edges and corners. This kind of fetal foot would not appear even in Guangxu, let alone Jiaqing. Square fetal feet only appeared in the late Republic of China."

Gong Lixin said, "Blind one piece of goods, and 30 yuan for nothing."

"Anyway, it was worth three to five thousand during the Republic of China." Xia Ningmeng said.

Mr. Gong laughed out loud, he was almost done drinking a bottle of red wine, although he didn't feel anything special at first taste, but it would be a little bit better.

Mr. Gong didn't think there was anything wrong with Madam buying a fake item for 30 yuan, and asked jokingly, "She has so many cabinets, is there anything worthwhile?"

Xia Ningmeng has roughly checked the shelves, and she picked up a glazed Guanyin statue.

"Qing Qianlong underglaze red."

Gong Lixin was a complete layman and said, "This painting is blurry, isn't it fake?"

Mr. Gong and his wife's complexion suddenly changed a little, and some hated iron and steel and said, "Don't talk if you don't understand."

Xia Yixuan said: "Underglaze red has a lot of fluidity, and the temperature in ancient kilns is not easy to control, so the firing will be uneven. If it is a counterfeit product fired in an electric kiln, the temperature is constant, and it looks much clearer."

Mr. Gong said without hesitation, "This is from a Japanese auction house."

"I wonder what your price is?" Xia Ningmeng asked.

President Gong and his wife thought about it for a while and said: "310 million yen hammer, with commission, about 22."

Xia Yixuan said: "That's a net profit. The red dragon pattern in the pure glaze, the picture of the Canglong Jiaozi, the sea water, the small dragon, and the five-clawed dragon are all quite high-level."

"Several people came to see this bottle. Some said it was a folk kiln, while others said it was an official kiln. The five-clawed dragon was not allowed to be fired in the folk kiln. Only when the official kiln fell in the late Qing Dynasty could the five-clawed dragon be fired."

"Pure underglaze red, a piece of 35 centimeters was taken in London, England, and it cost 35 yuan. Your piece is 61 centimeters. The color of the painter is also very good. The only regret is that it is not complete. The edge should have been repaired in the early years. , but it doesn’t affect the overall appearance, and now it’s worth double the price and it’s also a hot item.”

It seems that this collection of antiques is also very lucky, maybe one day a blind cat will meet a dead mouse, and it will make a lot of money.

Everyone talked about going to Sotheby's Daming Chenghua Doucai Chicken Cup with a hammer price of 2.8 million Hong Kong dollars. Jian Jichen knew little about antiques, and he only drank and didn't talk all the time.

He likes to listen to stories, and Xia Ningmeng talked about the love story between Chenghua Emperor Zhu Jianshen and the court lady Wan Zhener who was 17 years older than him.

It is Concubine Wan Gui's love for porcelain that made Emperor Chenghua attach great importance to porcelain manufacturing, and the colorful chicken cup is the witness of the love between Emperor Chenghua and Concubine Wan Gui.

(End of this chapter)