The Book of Appreciation

The Antique Street in Barcelona is actually a market. It takes a central square as the core and extends radially to six streets. The main items on each street are simply distinguished according to the category of antiques and country.There are also some western food and coffee shops for people to rest.

What Yan Ju looked at in the past two days were basically shops related to Huaxia antiques, and he had almost finished reading them, only a few sporadic ones were left in other antique streets, so he was confident that even if he couldn't win, at least he wouldn't lose.What's more, Wu Di wants to fight with Mr. Yue Ge?

Wu Di acted very indifferent, originally the purpose of coming here was to make up the bet, but after getting a few things, he found that there was nothing he was willing to take out!Now that he has become a miser, what else is there to say?Sweep one by one!

As for Yue Ge and Yan Ju, they are not the ones he is worried about at all. This antique market is so famous, there are countless experts picking and picking here every day, but can they pick up all the things?According to past experience, some brothers and sisters of antiques on the list are the most likely to be ignored and misidentified by them, not to mention that he has clairvoyant eyes and the cooperation of the heavenly book. It is a mistake in a certain link, not that it is not available in the market.

Seeing that Yan Ju was the same as the old man, he simply explained a few words and ran away in a hurry. He smiled slightly, and first arranged for Daniel to go to two stone gambling shops to take away the things that should belong to him, and then took the military division to choose a place at will. down a street and went in.

This is a shop dealing in handicrafts from Southeast Asia. Wu Di has no research on things from India, Myanmar, and Thailand. It’s not that he looks down on them, mainly because many of their things are related to Buddhism, and their celebrities are often It has great limitations. Although there is history, most of them were enslaved. In modern times, they are far away from the mainstream society. They only make wood carvings, gems and the like to sell...

After a quick glance, apart from some common things like Songkhla ceramics, temple carvings, wooden decorations of ancient palaces, dolls, masks and various metal containers, there is nothing new.He shook his head, and was about to turn around and walk out.

His eyes swept across a row of wood carvings again, there seemed to be something vaguely giving him a strange feeling just now, and he wanted to confirm it again.When his eyes fell on an Indian colored wood statue of Ganesha, about [-] centimeters high, he twitched the corner of his mouth, it was really weird!

Wu Di took a few steps forward and leaned over to take a closer look.This is a very common wood carving, and its shape is one of several standard shapes of the Ganesha in ancient India.The material should be very ordinary boxwood, and the age is not very old, at most it looks like a hundred years.The carving is a bit rough, and because of storage and craftsmanship, the paint on the body of the Ganesha and the goddess in the left hand has peeled off, it really doesn't look like a valuable thing.It's just that the hexagonal base on which the elephant-headed god is stepping on is a bit interesting.

The material of the base is the same as that of the statue, and the two are carved together from a whole piece of wood. The surface is painted colorfully, and the paint layer is at least twice as thick as the statue.Wu Di smiled and held the statue in his hand. It couldn't be opened, because if it was opened, it couldn't hide the trace of the opening on the side and rear!Because, at that place, someone dug an inconspicuous small hole in the base, and then sealed it from the outside. In the small hole, suddenly a small paper ball was stuffed!

Wu Di frowned, another treasure map?impossible?He's about to have treasure map syndrome!I looked carefully again, because the paper was crumpled into balls, and I still couldn't see it clearly, but the doubts in my heart were even stronger. How can there be a treasure map without a picture and only letters and numbers?Immediately he smiled dumbly, no matter what it is, it must be weird that someone can hide it so secretly, buy it first and study it slowly when you have time.

Handing the box containing the Ganesha to the military adviser, Wu Di went out of the shop and walked into a shop dealing in Chinese antiques opposite.

This store is not small, it has everything from gold and stone, calligraphy and painting, as well as a lot of modern handicrafts, and each piece is high-quality goods, the owner should have a very good purchase channel in China.

Porcelain, calligraphy and painting have always been the major items of Chinese antiques, and Wu Di usually starts with these two, and this time is no exception.

Blue and white, pastel, five-color, celadon, white porcelain, the variety is complete, but the quality, the beholder sees the benevolent and the wise see the wisdom.

After browsing through it in a hurry, and verified it with the heavenly book, Wu Di went out of the store and went shopping.Until the end of this street, except for the Ganesha wood carving, he never made a move.

Back at the central square, Wu Di looked around. The feeling here is different from those antique markets in China. The most obvious thing is the flow of people here. There are a lot less here, and there are no guerrilla vendors and those who have nothing to do. There are guys who will stop you at any time... oh, take that sentence back...

Just as he selected a street and was about to go and have a look, a young man sneaked up to him,

"Sir, I have a lot of dirty things here, are you interested in taking a look?"

It turned out to be Chinese?Wu Di glanced at the thin young man and said with a smile:

"Okay, the business is done in Spain! Is it easy to mess around here?"

The young man was taken aback for a moment. This was the first time he had encountered such a reaction. It seemed that he had met a veteran.He smiled awkwardly,

"The management of the market here is too strict, and life is difficult, so we can barely make ends meet."

Wu Di nodded. Now foreigners have suffered a lot from being cheated, and they have gradually become smarter. The most important thing is that you are not a good person at first glance. Who wants to talk to you?

"But buddy, we really got something good this time, and it won't take much of your time anyway, why don't you go over with me and have a look?"

Wu Di's heart moved, and he also wanted to see what these guys were doing in the foreigner's territory, so he nodded,

"I can meet you so far away, I want to see and see. Where is it? I don't have time when I'm far away."

The young man didn't expect Wu Di to be so talkative, he was overjoyed when he heard that,

"It's not far, it's in the parking lot next to it, please come with me."

If you have milk, you are a mother. It's not a big deal, but you are getting old?

In the parking lot, the young man took Wu Di and the two into a Mercedes-Benz business car. The seats in the back two rows of the car were removed and replaced by several large suitcases.

"What do you always want to see? Although our store is small, it has porcelain, calligraphy, painting, bronze and miscellaneous items. It has everything!"

The young man took a small bench, wiped it vigorously with his sleeve, and handed Wu Di a bottle of soda graciously.Wu Di took it and put it down, and looked around. The pure black car film made the light here look very dark, and the weird environment looked like a ghost city.

There was only one driver in the car, and when he saw the young man bringing someone up, he just looked back indifferently, then continued to shake his head and listen to his music.

"Hehe, not bad, they all use Mercedes-Benz! Now that we're here, let's take a look."

"Okay, baby is here, please take a look!"

The young man opened the four large boxes one by one, then closed the car door without saying a word, and sat in the co-pilot's seat by himself.

The first box was full of porcelain. Wu Di looked at it with a bright flashlight for 2 minutes, and then picked up a large bowl of beans and green ground.

This large bowl is about 7 centimeters high and about 15 centimeters in diameter, with an open mouth, curved walls, deep belly and ring feet.The inner and outer walls of the vessel are painted with bean green glaze, and the inner and outer walls are painted with blue and white red paint, the rising sun and the east, the blue and white paint with sea and reef patterns, and the red paint with auspicious clouds and red sun patterns.

In the picture, jagged rocks with scattered trees, branches and leaves stand in the turbulent sea, and a round of red sun erupts from the sea, connecting with several colorful clouds, presenting a magnificent scene of the sun rising from the East China Sea.The six-character double-line regular script inscription "Kangxi Years of the Great Qing Dynasty" inside the blue and white double circle on the outer bottom.

Wu Di knows that this kind of pattern is called "Sea and Sky Bathing the Sun" picture, and the Book of Songs "Xiaoya?In "Tianbao", there is a saying "as constant as the moon, as rising as the sun", so people in ancient times often used this to imply the prosperity of the country and the people's peace, auspiciousness and peace.

He looked at the big bowl over and over several times, and put it back gently.

Douqingdi blue and white is one of the varieties of blue and white porcelain. It was founded in the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty and was more popular in the Qianlong period.Its production process is based on painting with cobalt material on the blank body and applying bean green glaze to restore it at high temperature. Therefore, the exquisite products are particularly elegant, clean and beautiful in color, and their style is also unique among many varieties of porcelain.This large bowl has rigorous composition and bright colors, so it should be a rare masterpiece.

The second box was full of scrolls and ancient books, and it seemed that it would take some time. Wu Di flipped through it casually and went to look at the miscellaneous items in the third box, planning to read the rest first.

Seeing that Wu Di went through the two boxes so quickly, picked up one thing in total and put it back, without even asking the price, the young man got a little anxious, and asked while lying on the co-pilot seat :

"You always look so fast? I have a lot of good things here. Take the blue-and-white blue-and-white red-colored rising sun bowl you saw just now. It is a fine product. I didn’t even spit out the old professor’s salary of 50!”

"Hehe, 50? Vietnamese dong? The blue and white decoration is pretty good, but I don't know if you noticed, but its fetal foot porcelain is solid and dense, and the color is bright, it's a bit overdone."

"Passed? Isn't it good that the porcelain is dense? If the workmanship is rough and the porcelain is loose, it will make people feel uncomfortable. Who would want it?"

"Hehe, buddy, are you confusing the concept? Of course, modern handicraft porcelain should be as fine as possible, but what you sell is antiques. Can you expect it to catch up with the current level of porcelain making? But you That bowl is really okay, if it’s cheaper, I might still consider it, 50, I’d better look at the others first.” (To be continued.)