The Book of Appreciation

The young man scratched his head. It seems to be the reason. If hundreds of thousands of years of porcelain are as good as new, no one will want them. However, this piece is not new, but the porcelain body is dense, so what should we do?

The things in the third box are more miscellaneous, gold and silver wares, bronze wares, portrait bricks, small pieces of jade carvings, everything is different, and they are spread in a mess.

The flashlight flickered slightly in the box, and a golden reflection dazzled Wu Di's eyes. Are there really gold ornaments?He took a closer look, and picked up the jug that glowed bright golden yellow under the torch, the look of astonishment flashed away in his eyes, this jug was really gold!If this is fake, it really took a lot of thought.

The surface of this holding pot is uneven, and the spout part can also clearly see the traces of welding, which does not look like a new thing.Looking at the dragon and phoenix patterns carved on the pot, Wu Di preliminarily determined that it should be an object from the Ming Dynasty, but the whole body has not been signed, and it is obviously rash to make a judgment based on the style of the decoration.

The identification of antiques involves many aspects, and it does not mean that everyone can tell you the origin of an object by hand.Especially for these miscellaneous items, if there is no obvious mark, the origin must be judged according to its inheritance or unearthed ancient tombs.And this piece belongs to the category where the age cannot be judged from the object itself.

"Where did this thing come from?"

"This one? This one was excavated from an ancient tomb in the Ming Dynasty. A gold pot with dragon and phoenix patterns is a treasure."

"An ancient tomb of the Ming Dynasty? Hehe, it seems that you are also experts. Just because the decorations are from the Ming Dynasty, a Ming Dynasty tomb came out? If there is no clear inheritance of this thing, I'm afraid it's not easy to sell."

"Hehe, selling things depends on your conscience, buddy, I will never lie, if this thing didn't come out of a tomb in the Ming Dynasty, I would give it to you for free! For this thing, I heard that the gang even threw a person's life in it! Originally, there was another piece of Ming blue and white together, but it was a pity that it was sold a few days ago. If you still don’t believe it, I will do nothing.”

"Then treat it as belonging to the Ming Dynasty, how can you sell it?"

"170 million!"

Wu Di shook his head, after the identification of Tianshu, this thing is really an object from the Ming Dynasty as the young man said.However, its origin may not necessarily be unearthed from the Ming Dynasty tomb he mentioned.But whether he is making it up or it is true, you only need to bargain later to find out.

Wu Di put the holding pot aside, and picked up a round jade pendant from the box.

The material used for this jade pendant is Hetian jade, and deer, oak tree, travertine, ganoderma lucidum and other things are carved on one side using the multi-layer carving technique.Among them, the sika deer foraging for food is fat and strong, with big horns and a leisurely expression, which is very vivid.The oak tree is carved on both sides, the leaf edge is shaped like sawtooth, and the leaf veins are inscribed lines.The patterns of deer, oak leaves, and ganoderma lucidum are all represented by deliberately preserved golden yellow jade skin, while the trunks and mountain stone patterns are set against the white part of jade, presenting a beautiful autumn mountain scenery.

This jade pendant has a reasonable composition and exquisite carving work. It can be said that the use of jade skin has reached the level of everyone, and it is also well preserved.But Wu Di didn't find any deposits after looking through it all, and it's hard to tell which dynasty it is from the shape, but from the patina, it is probably a modern thing.

"What about this one?"

"This standing deer ornament is carved from top-quality sprinkled gold skin and Tianbai jade. The quality of the jade is close to suet jade. Although there is no clear inscription to judge the age, judging from the patina, it should also be something from the Ming Dynasty. Dude, let me tell you something, this piece was not unearthed from that ancient tomb, but with this material, carving, and coating, 380 million is not expensive, right?"

"It's not expensive. If it's something from the Ming Dynasty, it's really not that expensive. However, I have a few questions. First, the sika deer in the Ming Dynasty will not be so fat. The second is the patina you mentioned. The problem is that the patina of handed down jade articles is very fast, and it can appear in 30 to 30 years. The patina is much slower when it is buried in the soil, and it can take more than a hundred years at the fastest. Many jade articles will never produce patina in the ground. Therefore, based on the thickness of the patina of your jade piece, there are only two possibilities. One may be something unearthed in the late Qing Dynasty or **, and the other may be something from the end of the last century. Regardless of the age, just look at the material and Carver, [-] is a relatively reasonable price. If you think it’s okay, I’ll take it, if not, then I’ll take a look.”

The young man's face is full of bitterness, but his heart is full of joy. When selling something, he is afraid that you won't counter the price, as long as the counter price is lower, there will be talk!This person looked at several things in a row, and only paid back the price for this one, which proved that he was indeed fancy, and wanted to take it away for 30?Hehe, let's talk slowly.

Before making a counter-offer, Wu Di read it through the heavenly book, and found that this Lilu jade ornament belonged to the Jin Dynasty!But looking at the appearance, it didn't look like an unearthed object, which created a lot of room for him to bargain, so the knife was a little bit harsher, and he had other considerations.

There are about [-] or [-] items in the box. Apart from these two, Wu Di also got more than a dozen items. It’s not that there are so many worth noting items, but because since he found something worth selling, he wanted to buy it. Get ready for the next bargain.

The fourth box is still miscellaneous, including bamboo and wood carvings, inkstones, ink blocks, copper coins, etc., but the arrangement is much more neat than the third box.

As a collector, there is not a single copper coin in Wu Di's collection, which is an anomaly.However, thinking carefully about his experience in the past ten months, this phenomenon is very normal, because he has hardly visited any domestic antique market normally.

Wu Di handed the flashlight to the military adviser, grabbed a handful of copper coins and looked at them one by one.

There are many kinds of copper coins handed down in ancient China, too numerous to enumerate.Moreover, in terms of the collection of copper coins, it is not that the older the age, the more precious it is.Because as a currency in circulation, its amount is too large, and it is very likely that tens of thousands of copper coins of that era can be unearthed from an ancient tomb.

The more precious and valuable ones are the wrong coins, and the other is some petty officials, or emperors who have been in power for a short time. Their currency circulation is relatively small, so they are naturally more precious.There is another kind, that is mother money.

Mother money is the standard model money made by the central and local finances when a large number of coins were cast in ancient times.The use of mother money as a model can be divided into three types, namely, money samples, carved mother money and cast mother money.

There are a lot of debates in the academic circles about mother money. Many so-called mother money that survives have been questioned, and there are endless debates about whether the earliest carved mother money is the Jiajing Tongbao of the Ming Dynasty or the Tang Suzong Li Hengqian Yuan Chongbao. .As for the existence of casting mother money, whether only carved mother money can be recognized as mother money, etc., it almost caused the two schools of scholars to fight.

After reading one, Wu Di changed another. After a while, he looked through a small pile of copper coins. There were no fake ones, but the most expensive ones were only worth a few hundred yuan. For him, there was nothing to collect. value.

He picked up an inkstone, looked at it and put it back.With the batch of treasures brought back from the Royal Lake in Myanmar, he is not very interested in these things now, and he is too lazy to look at each one carefully, and he can just hug each one with the book of heaven at the end.

He casually picked up a wooden doll, and before he had time to look at it, his eyes were dazzled by a slight reflection, what is it?

He put the wood carving aside, picked up a copper coin from the bottom of the box, took a look, and found that it was a Guangxu Yuanbao made in Jiangnan, smiled, and threw it into the coin pile.

This is a pen holder carved from bamboo. Regardless of the age, at first glance, it is at least a handmade product, which is worth a lot more than the one that the sparrow bought in Pingzhou at that time.This root carving seems to be good, but it is modern and old, and this one is not so good. Among the twenty or so pieces, none of them are made of red sandalwood or other precious woods?

twenty?Wu Di suddenly remembered something, he took the flashlight from the military adviser, and looked for it in the pile of copper coins just now.After a while, he picked up one, which was the Guangxu Yuanbao he had just thrown in.

After carefully looking at the Panlong on the back, and at the age of casting, he shook his head. This Jiachen Feilong sample coin almost slipped through his eyes. Don't be negligent!

At present, copper coins and ingots of the Qing Dynasty are the main force in circulation in the coin market, and most of the prices range from a few yuan to several thousand yuan.And this Jiachen Feilong sample coin made in Jiangnan is an outlier among them, because it is extremely rare in the world, and the market price is as high as more than 15, and there is still a price but no market.

Wu Di didn't expect to see such a treasure here at all, so he threw it back as an ordinary ingot. Fortunately, the number of bamboo and wood carvings gave him a reminder that he would probably miss it.

"How much is this Guangxu Yuanbao?"

The young man took it and glanced at it casually,

"Two thousand, the price of this thing is almost the same in the market."

Wu Di nodded, and moved the small bench to the side of the second box. This young man has a lot of good things. There are still some ancient books and more than a dozen scrolls here.

The first ancient book surprised him a bit. Although it was not a famous treasure, it was indeed an ancient book. It seemed that this young man had some connections.

This is a block-printed collection of beautiful women's longevity poems produced by the Cheng family in Wuchang during the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty. The author once worked as a copywriter for Zhang Zhidong's supervisory office, and later participated in the establishment of the Central and Western Art School of Hubei Province, and also managed the school of the Western Affairs Bureau of Hubei Province. , the works of Cheng Songwan, who has made great contributions to teaching management, translation of western books, etc., if the price is not high, you can collect them.

Wu Di put this ancient book aside, casually picked up the second one, and was surprised when he saw it, it looked like a Song edition! (To be continued.)