super sensory appraiser

"Yo!... Not bad, I got the baby so soon, let me see!" Fang Feiyang took the pen holder from Su Yazhi's hand.

Sure enough, the familiar tingling warmth appeared on his arms and shoulders, and mysterious images appeared in Fang Feiyang's mind one after another.

Since the birth of this pen holder, its experience can be described as a bumpy road!

Fang Feiyang saw in the video that this pen holder has been used as a toy for children, as a container for holding farm seeds, as a chopstick holder, and more often as a container for digging rice and cooking, lying quietly in the rice tank inside.

In the video screen, Fang Feiyang did not perceive who sculpted and made the pen holder. The three consecutive images all took place in an ordinary farmhouse.The owner of the farmhouse is obviously not a literati, and he doesn't know how to handle pens, inks, papers and inkstones, so naturally he can't use this pen holder.

Fang Feiyang didn't know why such a pen holder with a good combination of artistic expression and practicality appeared in the farmer's home. It may be that the ancestors of this family had educated scholars, and this pen holder was passed down after the decline of the family; The creator of the painting is not well-known, and Kong has superb craftsmanship, so he can only rely on engraving a few more works in exchange for some firewood and rice to fill his stomach.

"How is it, Brother Feiyang? My luck is not bad, I also bought this thing from a street stall." Su Yazhi asked with a smile, wanting to hear Fang Feiyang's opinion.

"Well, good eyesight!" Fang Feiyang praised Su Yazhi with a thumbs up while carefully looking at the reddish pen holder.Then went on to say:

"This pen holder should be something from the late Ming Dynasty to the mid-Qing Dynasty. The knife technique is simple and rustic. No matter the characters, or the mountains, rocks and forests, they all look vivid. In addition, it is ruddy and smooth all over the body, making it even more ancient. Uh... .But why is it a bit wet inside, and there is still some water?...Did you wash it with water?"

"Yes, after I bought it, I saw a lot of dirt around the pen holder, so I went to the bathroom sink to wash it, and it looks very clean now!"

"You..." Fang Feiyang was completely speechless.

This girl actually used water to clean such a hundred-year-old bamboo-carved pen holder, she really didn't know it.Originally, Fang Feiyang thought that Su Yazhi had a certain foundation in antique collection and should know how to maintain old objects, but she never thought that she would make such a low-level mistake.

Old bamboo and wood carvings cannot be washed with water, because before these exquisite works are carved, the bamboo must be soaked in boiling water, some of them are soaked in oil refined by a special process, and then taken out to dry in the shade. As long as two years.

This thing has been around for a hundred years, and now if it is soaked in water again, it will cause the whole body to crack, and it cannot be cleaned with hard objects, it must be wiped with a soft cloth.

After Su Yazhi heard Fang Feiyang's heartbroken correction of her mistakes, she also became anxious, muttered and said, "Then...then what should I do, it will be ugly when it breaks."

"Don't worry, let's buy a bottle of vegetable oil and put it on it later, to save it temporarily... and it may not necessarily crack, which is also a possibility."

Fang Feiyang comforted Su Yazhi and told her not to worry too much.The material of this pen container feels thick and fine-grained, and the material used should be high-quality bamboo.If the shade drying of the bamboo before carving is done properly, the possibility of cracking will also be reduced.

"By the way, I don't know how much you spent?" Fang Feiyang asked.

"800 yuan!" Su Yazhi stretched out Qianqian's slender fingers, and made a horoscope.

"Well, 800 yuan is not expensive. This kind of pen holder with complete appearance and exquisite knife skills should be worth 5000 yuan. If it can be verified that it is made by a famous artist, the price will increase several times."

Fang Feiyang's painstaking study some time ago was not in vain, and he made up a lot of knowledge about antiques.Since the first treasure he picked up was a small seal of the Yuan Dynasty, he worked hard on the identification of the Four Treasures of the Study during the process of learning how to recharge it.Unexpectedly, it would be useful here today, making him proud in front of Su Yazhi and becoming a teacher for a while.

Bamboo, the incarnation of a gentleman.Su Dongpo once said: "It is better to eat without meat than to live without bamboo".As the so-called "Qinqi, calligraphy and painting nourish the heart, plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum express love", the ancient literati's preference for bamboo is indeed true, and both the living environment and the stationery are closely related to bamboo carving.

Bamboo carvings are time-consuming to make, difficult to preserve, and even fewer in existence than jade wares.Jade crafts are complicated, but they are not easy to damage. Bamboo carvings are different, not to mention moving from east to west. For general carving works, if the bamboo is not dried properly in the shade, it may lead to cracking when it is the turn of cold and heat.And after several generations of inheritance, many people do not regard things made of bamboo and wood as treasures.

It is precisely because bamboo carvings are not easy to preserve and people do not cherish them that a large number of bamboo carvings will be lost.

This is like a rhino horn cup. Fang Feiyang heard from his master Song Longshan that a large number of rhino horn cups were ground up and used as medicine in the past, but were not preserved as handicrafts. This has led to sky-high prices for rhino horn products in today's antique market. .

"Oh, that's great!...Cheek...Brother Feiyang, what about your results today, did you find any treasures? We are betting on a competition!"

After all, Su Yazhi is still a girl who has not graduated from college. At this moment, she has forgotten her wrong act of washing the bamboo carving pen holder with water. She only has a face full of joy and pride, and at the same time, she does not forget to ask Fang Feiyang about the results of Taobao.

"You think that picking up leaks is like picking Chinese cabbage. It's a rare thing. I'm still empty-handed and haven't found anything. You won this time, and I'm willing to bow down."

Fang Feiyang pretended to admit defeat, and gave Su Yazhi a handful without a trace, praising her for her insight into treasures, and that she had already obtained the true biography of Mr. Song.

Su Yazhi was slapped several times by Fang Feiyang, covering her mouth lightly, giggling non-stop.

Since Fang Feiyang returned empty-handed, he had to fulfill the bet of treating guests to dinner.

The two saw that it was only past ten o'clock in the morning, and they were going to go to the lower floors of this antique city to have a look.There are many merchants here, and the consumer groups they face are also different, with rich collections and varieties.Many of them are priceless antiques.Fang Feiyang decided to see and see, it would be good to open his eyes!

The two came to the elevator entrance and took the escalator to the sixth floor.

The decoration of the storefronts here is relatively high-end, but the styles are quite different, which should be the unified planning requirements of the antique market.The transparent glass containers are classified with different types of commodities. Whether they are genuine antiques or modern imitations covered with a layer of clothing will test everyone's eyesight.

The two of them had an attitude of admiration, and they rushed in to play when they came across a shop with a little bit of a characteristic.When encountering those old objects with strange shapes, the two also discussed with each other, exchanged ideas, and exchanged information.

Fang Feiyang and Su Yazhi also saw a large three-dimensional jade carving about 2 meters high and 1 meter wide in a jade carving shop.This is a piece of "Dayu Water Control Map Jade Mountain" carved in imitation of the collection of the Palace Museum. The whole body is made of a whole piece of Dushan jade, which is carved into a tall jade mountain according to the jade material.

Towering mountaintops, abrupt boulders, steep mountain paths, ax-cut cliffs, lush trees, and caves of all sizes, the whole picture shows the scene of people working intensely in the extremely dangerous mountains.The shop owner told the two that although it was a fake, it took two years to complete it with the help of contemporary skilled jade craftsmen, and it was definitely worth more than ten million yuan.

Fang Feiyang also sighed. This heavy three-dimensional jade carving is now worth more than ten million yuan. After a hundred years, when it becomes a veritable antique, what price will it be?

According to the floor, looking while walking, Fang Feiyang and Su Yazhi, two young people, almost looked at all the shops here.Because this antique city has a total of eight floors, of which the first to fourth floors are used for catering and entertainment, and in these antique shops on the fifth to eighth floors, the two of them, with the eyes of appreciating and tasting, walked around without asking for money. What kind of treasures can be found, because the owners of these shops are all experienced and vicious, and it is more difficult to find leaks in their shops.