Craftsman: I continue to learn for the sake of the saints

Chapter 91

There are three days until the auction begins.

Qin Luo saw that Zhang Zhengde's auction house had started to operate aggressively.

His auction house is called Zhengde Auction, registered in Xiangjiang, and has a history of nearly 20 years.

Although the fame and strength are definitely not as good as the world's top auction houses such as Sotheby's and Poly, they have accumulated a considerable foundation and have a stable sustenance and sales group.

The theme of this auction is Modern Master Fine Artifacts.

The main categories are porcelain, purple sand, stone carvings, jade carvings, jadeite, and walnuts.

It must not only be set up for Qin Luo alone.

However, Qin Luo is currently the most important in the field of purple sand.

The starting bids for the two pots, Gongchun pot and Tiandi pot, are set at 500 million and 200 million respectively.

There is no need to say more about offering spring pots.

Its historical status is there, even if it is a modern imitation, this price is also a fair price.

High-quality spring pots have always been in short supply.

Before the auction, Zhang Zhengde's old friends couldn't bear it anymore, and wanted to win it in advance.

The highest has been called 900 million.

This price has even surpassed the spring offering pot that Gu Jingzhou made before.

There are three reasons.

First, there are extremely few spring offering pots on the market, and rare things are more expensive.

Second, the appearance of Qin Luo's pot can indeed be called perfect, especially the innovation on the surface of the spring pot, coupled with the combination of five-color symbiotic mud, it can be regarded as an innovation on the basis of the spring pot. A new generation of pots.

Thirdly, Qin Luo's promise to make only one of the same type.

And Qin Luo's age.

For modern handicrafts, the historical value is not considered. Since the creators have publicly promised that there will be no second ones, the "investment vision" in the early stage has become especially important.

For example, if Qin Luo becomes a national treasure-level master of arts and crafts in the future, the prices of his early works will definitely increase further.

Conversely, if Qin Luo collapses later and no particularly good works come out, then it can be hyped as the last extinction.

All in all, artworks have a lot of room for marketing.

For these two prices, Qin Luo "reluctantly" accepted it.

Why do you say reluctantly?
Because Qin Luo actually felt that the thought and energy he had spent on the Tiandi pot was higher than that on this five-color symbiotic clay offering spring pot.

However, the price is quite different.

It made him feel unfair to his "baby".

However, there is no good solution for the time being, after all, his own reputation cannot be compared with that of Gongchun Pot.

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We have a small gathering at Zhang Zhengde's house today.

About twelve chairs.

His family really has a "high chair".

This kind of chair has cross-shaped legs, so it gets its name from Maza, but it is a Maza with a backrest. It is usually used by the highest-ranking people when marching, fighting or hunting.

There are not many handed down.

Twelve people have gathered now.

The smoke on the table rose slowly. It was the incense brought by Qin Luo, named "Tianxiang".

The name is bluffing.

However, it is indeed expensive. The cost of a single box of light materials is above five figures, and there are seven or seven 49 flavors of raw materials, which can catch up with "Alchemy".

Qin Luo also only did a little bit, as if he was playing with himself.

This kind of thing can't be sold at all.

The one I use is definitely the best.

"Master Qin's fragrance is really elegant and noble. I have already smelled borneol, musk, agarwood, sandalwood, rosin, cypress, and patchouli... and then there are flowers, cinnamon, orchid, peony, and cloves. Lotus fragrance, plum fragrance, locust tree fragrance, mint fragrance... that's about it? What's rare is that all the fragrances are perfectly integrated, not at all offensive, and they don't cover each other, and the distinction is very high."

The third person sitting next to the right is an old man wearing a spacious coat. He can't tell his age at a glance. He should be in his 50s, but he is well maintained. He said with a smile, obviously for Xiangdao, he also Very researched.

Qin Luo smiled.

"Almost, almost, so it's called Tianxiang."

49 kinds, he can identify so many, which is not bad.

Hexiang is divided into four categories: monarch, minister, assistant, and envoy. He can smell almost all of them.

Zuo Shi, it's already elegant, it's normal that you can't smell it.

"It's just that I'm wondering, the two items of monarch and minister, that's about it, assistant envoy, what are the envoys?"

he asked with a smile.

It seems to be a gesture of academic exchange.

Qin Luo took a sip of tea, and immediately explained in detail: "Actually, this fragrance is not only fragrant from monarchs and ministers, but also the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire, earth. The golden incense has added a small amount of lead powder and sulfur, but the sulfur smell is well covered. , pine wood toner, water, mixed with honey, glutinous rice juice and rice water, fire, tung oil, donkey-hide gelatin, and cinnabar, as for the soil... Hahaha, I won’t talk about it, everyone can guess.”

Qin Luo also played tricks slightly.

In fact, it's not all a joke.

The main reason is that this smell represents the material of the earth, and it is not very elegant to say it.

It's... cow dung juice.

Cow dung is used as fuel in many places, and the smell is not too heavy. It does not have the smell of skatole. After being "boiled dung" and purified, it can be used for its own purposes.

Naturally, this was not Qin Luo's first creation, but a material commonly used in ancient fragrance recipes.

Using this material to make incense is also the experience of ancient philosophy.

dialectics.

Existence and non-existence are born together, difficult and easy are compared, if there is no smell, where does the fragrance come from?

Qin Luo felt that the ancient incense maker who invented this flavor was simply a genius among geniuses.

However, this kind of incense prescription will not be spread at all, and it has always been passed down by word of mouth between master and apprentice.

Even if it is finished incense, it will not be marked in the list of ingredients.

So as not to be hated by some customers.

In fact, it is really a good thing, Qin Luo himself used it all the time, how could he spoil himself?

At this time, after hearing Qin Luo's words, the old man was slightly taken aback, and his face turned red immediately.

"oops!"

"I made a fool of myself. I thought my guess was about the same. Unexpectedly, I only guessed superficially. Master Qin, the research in this area is very deep. There are so many materials, and some of them restrain each other. It's hard to imagine. You use What kind of method, blend them together."

"As for the last taste you mentioned, I think it has something to do with the red boy, doesn't it?"

He laughed at himself a few words, and then asked Mimi with a smile.

Qin Luo laughed and nodded slightly.

This one is also an expert.

Cow dung juice, in the mouth of experts, is often called red boy.

Mainly a nickname.

They are all from cows.

At this time.

Zhang Zhengde spoke slowly.

"Brother Luo, Mr. Chen, you two can communicate more. Mr. Chen has a lot of agarwood in his collection. Later, Brother Luo can go play the autumn wind."

"In addition to Brother Luo being here today, I will introduce Master Qiu to everyone."

"This is also a friend I just met this year, a master jade carving, especially those with religious themes. He previously carved a set of jade carvings from the Paradise of Paradise. The artistic value is extremely high, and it was auctioned for 6400 million..."

"Recently, Master Qiu encountered a problem and received a piece of good material, but his thoughts are not clear for the time being, so I would like to invite everyone to sit together, exchange ideas, communicate, and see if we can come up with any inspiration..."

"In the words of the company, it's called brainstorming, hahaha... In terms of craftsmanship, everyone may not be good at it, but there is definitely no shortage of appreciation. Help give some opinions and speak freely."

"This is the first topic of the day."

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(End of this chapter)