My identity as a collector was exposed by the village flower

Chapter 294 The Choice of the Uncle Stall Owner
"If you want to do this, all the good things will be picked out for you, and you probably won't be able to do this business in a short time." Fang Xing said to him.

No one is an idiot. There is no suspense about the things on your stall. What are people spending money for?Burn too much money?
Everyone present understands this truth.

Now, the stall owner has two options.

First, there are good things on his stall, and everyone already knows that he can charge high prices without worrying about selling them.

Second, Fang Xing helped him pick out the valuable ones, and don't even think about selling the rest.

The only thing that is certain is that the treasure must be worth more than 2 yuan.Therefore, how to operate it depends on how the stall owner does it.

The stall owner hesitated for a while.

No matter which plan, he can make money, it depends on how to make more.

If the value of that treasure is not very high, it may be more cost-effective to sell everything at a high price.If the value of the treasure is relatively high, it must be better to pick it out directly.

As for business, it doesn't hurt to take a break.

In the antique business, sometimes it doesn't open for three years, and it takes three years after opening!

"It doesn't matter, at most, I will change the batch another day." The stall owner gritted his teeth.

After listening to others, they can understand the stall owner's behavior.

If he chooses to sell at a high price, even other stall owners will want to buy one or two to try their luck.After all, they already knew that there were good things on the stall, but they didn't know which one it was.

Seeing what the stall owner said, Fang Xing knelt down and picked up a "carved piece" the size of two fists.

At first glance, it looks like a sculpture. The base is made of wood, and an unknown monster squats above it. It seems to be made of copper, but the scales on the monster's body are blue, which doesn't look like copper.

Anyway, it looks kind of weird.

Don't talk about others, even the stall owner himself has never thought about it. This is a treasure, and it looks quite new.He tried hard to remember how this thing came about.

The things on his stall come from a variety of sources. Some are purchased from craft workshops, and some are recycled from the countryside and garbage dumps. Anyway, things that look like antiques and works of art, and are cheap, are all his purchase targets.

After thinking about it for a while, I don't quite remember.

"What is this?" Someone couldn't help asking.

"Paperweight." Fang Xing replied two words.

"Paperweight?"

"Isn't it? The paperweight looks like this? Isn't it cuboid? Could it be that what I saw before was fake?"

……

Fang Xing explained with a smile: "Don't be surprised, this is a paperweight. It may be different from what you have seen before, but in fact, the earliest paperweights were lumps, not strips."

He told everyone that paperweight is a traditional handicraft in ancient China. The things used to press paper when writing and painting are mostly rectangular strips, which are also called rulers and rulers for some reason.

The original paperweights were not fixed in shape.

Its origin is that ancient literati often put small bronzes and jades on their desks for appreciation, because they have a certain weight, so people also use them to press paper or books when enjoying them. Over time, it developed into a stationery tool——paperweight.

Paperweights in the Ming Dynasty were mostly ruler-shaped with animal buttons on them, which are consistent with the literature records, such as copper tiger button paperweights, with a rectangular foot-shaped base, and a crouching tiger on it. The tiger head is carved delicately and realistically, and the tiger tail is freehand and rough.

Copper paperweights in the Qing Dynasty innovated while following the style of the Ming Dynasty. Especially with the advancement of technology, paperweights with strong decorative flavors began to appear, which can be said to be both ornamental and practical.

Most of the ancient paperweights used the three-dimensional shapes of animals such as rabbits, horses, sheep, deer, and toads. They were small in size but heavy in weight, and were mostly made of jade, ceramics, copper, and crystal.

"This paperweight has a base of sandalwood and a body of cloisonné enamel.

It is in the shape of a unicorn, lying down, with the legs bent inwards, looking back.The whole body of the animal is decorated with scale patterns, and the scales are decorated with dark and light blue glazes, which are well-proportioned and orderly.

The beast's head, limbs and vertebrae protruding from top to tail are all made of gold-plated copper body, and fine carvings are used to represent eyebrows, eyes and mane, which are very delicate and delicate..." Fang Xing analyzed it for everyone.

He judged that this should be an item from the Qing Dynasty court or the prince, and it was quite valuable.

"It can be seen that it should be a pair. If one is lost, the value must be reduced." Fang Xing said.

The stall owner's mind was running wildly, trying to remember how this thing came about in the first place.Likely, the other one is still there.

Since he is in this business, he knows that the complete set must be more valuable, not simply 1+1=2.

"Oh! My brain." The stall owner smashed his head a little annoyed, unable to remember at all.

"Cloisonné enamel, no wonder it's so light." Someone suddenly said.

Picking up the cloisonné enamel animal-shaped paperweight, one knew it should be hollow.That's why the stall owners thought it was a fake.

Cloisonné enamel is generally produced by pinching out patterns with gold or copper wires on gold or copper tires, filling in various colors of enamel, and then going through multiple processes such as roasting, grinding, and gold plating.

Anyone who knows well knows that this kind of craftsmanship was first introduced from abroad, and it had already appeared in China during the Yuan Dynasty.

At that time, the cloisonné enamelware probably served the royal family as much as possible. Due to the immature firing technology, the production scale was not large and there were not many products.

Although the filigree enamel technique was gradually valued by the imperial court in the early Ming Dynasty, it was not until the late Ming Dynasty that it really attracted the attention of literati and the collection of officials and merchants.

In the Qing Dynasty, an enamel workshop was set up in the palace to specialize in the research and development of enamelware.During the Qianlong period, the filigree enamel craft flourished in an all-round way, and officially reached its peak, and formed several craft centers such as the Neifu Manufacturing Office, Guangzhou, Yangzhou, and Suzhou.

"How much is this worth?" others asked.

"It should be an object from the Qianlong period. The value is not bad, about 50! If it is a pair, it will be more than 100 million."

The stall owner put away the cloisonné enamel animal-shaped paperweight and thanked Fang Xing several times.

He has already decided not to do business for the time being, think about where this treasure came from in the first place, and then look for it.If found, it would be worth millions!

Seeing other stall owners and tourists making moves, Fang Xing knew what they wanted to do, and immediately ran away.

Too much intervention is not good for the future development of the antique market.He called the person in charge of the construction team to talk about the construction of the antique market.

The preliminary plan is to build a two-three-story building and build an indoor market instead of just building a few sheds, which is too low.

Modern antique markets are all like antique cities.

(End of this chapter)