Pick up treasure

Since Wang Ding, who was helping him, wanted to see the snuff bottle, the women were particularly enthusiastic.Putting down the travel bag on her shoulder, the woman showed Wang Ding and Wang Lingling the items she had brought for sale one by one.

Women came to the antique city just to do some business and sell some things.Now that the turmoil of touching porcelain has passed, women still have to display all their belongings.While taking out a large number of snuff bottles of different materials from the bag, handing them to the two for viewing, he smiled and explained.

"What I have collected here are some snuff bottles. As you all know, Gancheng has been an ancient city since ancient times. There have been quite a few high-ranking officials and dignitaries over the years. At that time, almost all of these people had family businesses in the countryside. Baptism, but the remote villages have not suffered heavy damage from all ages, and occasionally some good objects left over from the past can be found. From mahogany furniture, tables, chairs and screens, to small antique jade pendants, pearl agate, etc., there have been traces.

I am a farmer living in the outer suburbs of Gancheng, and I opened a small shop with my husband at home.Nowadays, folk antique collections are quite popular, and people in the city often go to them to shop for goods.My brothers followed some smart people in the village to collect antiques during the slack season.The income is not bad.So I was also moved. Some time ago, I followed my brothers in the countryside for a while, collected some snuff bottles that looked good, and went to the antique city to set up a stall. "

As the woman said, she had laid out all the snuff bottles on the stall. Wang Ding and his sister saw that the snuff bottles were pretty, so they squatted on the ground, happily took the snuff bottles handed to them by the woman, and put them on the shelf. Looking at it in the palm of my hand.

Don't tell me, this woman has quite a collection of snuff bottles.There are various materials, such as glass, metal, stone, imitation jade, imitation agate, and even walnut.

Most of them are made of glass, which are exquisitely made. The patterns of various flowers, birds, insects, fish, melons, fruits, pears and peaches painted on the pots look lifelike and very beautiful.The "material" quality of snuff bottles in ancient times refers to the current glass material.Glass itself is not expensive, so the quality of the snuff bottle is the workmanship.The most exquisite workmanship is "Guyuexuan color", which is commonly known as enamel color, followed by five-color glass made in the West.However, it is extremely difficult to find a "Gu Yuexuan Cai" in the folk, so Wang Ding basically focuses on other materials.

At this moment, Wang Ding took over a porcelain snuff bottle with a picture of a shepherd boy herding cattle.Seeing a clever shepherd boy riding on the back of a naive big buffalo painted on the pot, the whole picture is lifelike and full of artistic conception. Although it is not an old object, the porcelain texture is also good, smooth and delicate to the touch.Just asked aloud to buy a toy.

"Sister, how much is this snuff bottle?"

"Little brother, if you like this snuff bottle, I'll give it to you. I can't take money from you for doing me such a favor just now."

"How can it be done? One thing is another thing. I helped you just now because I couldn't see the behavior of those people. Now we are doing business. If I buy and you sell, I must give money."

"That's it... Then let me tell my brother the truth. When I charged this pot, it was 200 yuan. If you want it, I will charge you 230 yuan. Is it okay?".

"230?"

Wang Ding thought to himself, the woman came here from the countryside, and it was a toll, and the street stall fee was more than 30 yuan, so how could I make money by charging myself two hundred and thirty.

"Hehe! Don't you suffer a loss, big sister? You spent the original cost, plus the round-trip travel expenses, and the stall fee. This only adds 30 yuan. Is it enough? Otherwise, I'll take a look and see if you like it. I’ll just buy you a few more, and in the end, eldest sister, you can give us a cheaper price according to your usual selling price.”

"Okay, then you see. I will give you a little discount at the end."

As Wang Ding said, his eyes had passed the snuff bottle of the picture of a shepherd boy herding cattle, and he looked at the next snuff bottle.

The appearance of this pot is simple and unsophisticated, and it looks like those amber snuff bottles as a whole, but after watching it closely, Wang Ding found that it was not.I don't know where this woman bought this snuff bottle, because the body of the body has accumulated a lot of dirt, so that it almost completely covers the pot itself, with a slight khaki color.

The reason why Wang Ding fixed his frame on this snuff bottle was because when Wang Ding concentrated on looking at this snuff bottle, spiritual energy would flow out unconsciously.

After so many times of picking up leaks, Wang Ding has some conclusions, that is, every time he picks up an antique, his eyes will always have this kind of reaction more or less, although he still doesn't know what the law is, But this kind of phenomenon told Wang Ding to a certain extent that this snuff bottle was unusual, and when the light from the pupils of the eyes reached the snuff bottle, there was a faint golden light reflected. It is a symbol of the age, the deeper the age, the longer it is. Based on past experience, Wang Ding thinks that the snuff bottle is from the Qing Dynasty, but Wang Ding can't confirm it at the moment.

In the books on antique appreciation, Wang Ding also saw information about miscellaneous gadgets such as snuff bottles. He remembered that the books specifically recorded that the quality of porcelain and "material" snuff bottles were the most popular in the market.

In the Qing Dynasty, the blue-and-white glazed red official kiln snuff bottles of the Yongzheng period had a thin body, so the blue-and-white blue-and-white snuff bottles fired with pulp were more creative and thin.During the Qianlong period, he paid more attention to the three-dimensional enamel snuff bottles, and his achievements surpassed the blue and white ones.Jiaqing's official kiln blue and white snuff bottles produced a small amount, and the odd glazed blue and white snuff bottles were the most expensive, but they were not as good as the carved porcelain snuff bottles at that time.During the Daoguang period, most of the porcelain snuff bottles were made by folk kilns, with a large number, focusing on famille rose.Many blue and white colors are floating, uneven in thickness, and the combination of glaze and carcass is not tight.Most of the snuff bottles in folk kilns have no value preservation function.

At present, if this snuff bottle is said to be produced by a folk kiln in the Daoguang period, then this thing may be an ordinary snuff bottle, but it is also possible that it is from another era, so there is a possibility of leaking.

Thinking of this, Wang Ding took this jade-like snuff bottle into his hand and looked it over carefully.

The texture of this pot is moist after starting, and it feels warm and delicate.What makes it different from other snuff bottles is that unlike other snuff bottles, which mostly use hand-painted landscapes or patterns of ladies, its body is carved with exquisite craftsmanship.According to Wang Ding's knowledge of snuff bottle carving techniques, except for bamboo, wood, or root carving snuff bottles that use relief and openwork techniques, the rest is only ivory carving.

As for the art of ivory carving, it was the most prosperous period during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, and it gradually developed from large-scale ivory carvings to "small carvings", and snuff bottles were among them.