Jianbao life

Chapter 454 Being a Guest (Du Hou's Experience. Part [-])
After hearing Chu Chen's explanation, Du Hou frowned and said, "Xiao Chu, according to what you said, how could you tell at a glance that this jade horse is a fake?"

Chu Chen explained: "If you only look at the orange peel pattern, it is definitely not so easy to judge, but its craftsmanship reveals that it is a fake. If I read it correctly, this should be an imitation of the Yuan Dynasty. jade horse ornaments."

"Yes, I also think it is from the Yuan Dynasty. The jade horse belongs to the style of the Yuan Dynasty." Du Hou nodded.

"Then there is a problem." Chu Chen explained: "Although this jade horse is rough and powerful, and there are still drill marks and thallium marks on the surface, it does not have the dangerous knife phenomenon of Yuan Dynasty jades, and the polishing is real. It’s too particular, and these two points are not in line with the style of Yuan Dynasty jade.”

Du Hou frowned and pondered for a while. Although he already believed what Chu Chen said in his heart, he still asked a little bit unwillingly: "Then this jade horse ornament, could it be a Ming Dynasty jade?"

Chu Chen shook his head and said: "It can't be from the Ming Dynasty. First of all, the style of this jade is not the style of the Ming Dynasty, and the surface of the Ming Dynasty jade has a glass luster, but this jade does not have it, and the Ming Dynasty jade also has drill marks. and thallium marks, but they are not as obvious as this one. And the most important thing is that these black spots are actually fake!..."

"How could it be? It shouldn't be!" Although Chu Chen had explained it in detail, Du Hou still found it hard to accept.

This makes Chu Chen very strange. Even if this jade horse ornament is from the Yuan Dynasty, it is only 30 million. ?
Thinking of this, Chu Chen asked, "Mr. Du, why is this jade ornament so important to you?"

Chu Chen's words brought Du Hou back to his senses in an instant, he said "wait a minute" and rushed to the innermost part of the room.

After a while, Du Hou walked over cautiously with a big box in his arms, put the box on the table, and said anxiously to Chu Chen, "Xiao Chu, Lao Wu, come and help me!" Take a look at these blue and white pieces, are they right?"

Chu Chen and Uncle Wu heard that it was Yuan blue and white, and hurried over. At the same time, Du Hou also quickly took out the things in the box. They were a blue and white four-line flat bottle with dragon pattern, and a blue and white peony peacock with tangled branches. A plum vase with a pattern of blue and white peonies, a jade pot spring vase with a blue and white peony pattern, a total of three pieces of blue and white porcelain.

However, when Uncle Wu saw these three pieces of blue and white porcelain, he let out a little surprise and said, "Why did I seem to have seen this plum vase somewhere?"

Du Hou smiled wryly and said: "I know this. This plum vase is exactly the same as the one exhibited by JJ Lally in New York in 1988. I also doubted its authenticity before, but I studied it carefully and found nothing. There is something that does not match the characteristics of Yuan blue and white, so at the time I thought these two plum vases should be a pair, but now it seems that this plum vase is probably a replica!"

Upon hearing this, Chu Chen immediately asked, "Mr. Du, did these pieces of blue and white porcelain and that ornament all come from the same person?"

"That's right!" Du Hou said with a wry smile, "It's true that I got all these things from one person a year ago..."

It turned out that more than a year ago, Du Hou visited a friend who owned an antique shop. Just as the two were talking happily, a middle-aged man walked in. He was dressed as a migrant worker, with bark The same left hand is holding a cloth bag tightly.

"Old...boss, do you accept old things here?" The middle-aged man asked timidly after he entered.

Du Hou's friend didn't neglect him because of his clothes, he stood up from his seat and said, "please sit down first, I'll collect the old things, but you also need to see what you bring." what!"

The man's eyes lit up when he heard this, and then he took out a handful of tiles from the cloth bag.

"Okay, okay! Put it back!" Du Hou's friend saw that it was a piece of porcelain, but he didn't even look at it carefully, so he waved his hand and said, "I'm so sorry, old man. The whole thing!"

The middle-aged man was taken aback for a moment, then opened his mouth to say something, but in the end he sighed, put the tile back in the cloth bag, and then walked out of the store with a disappointed expression.

After the middle-aged man left, Du Hou was always absent-minded when they were chatting, and he said goodbye to his friend and left after a while.

After walking out of the store, Du Hou began to look for the middle-aged man just now, which made him a little happy. Before walking a few steps, he found the middle-aged man. The antique shop came out, and it could be seen from his expression that his tiles should not have been sold.

Seeing this, Du Hou hurriedly chased after him: "Big brother, wait!"

"Grandpa, what do you want?" The middle-aged man looked back and found that it was the old man who was sitting with the owner of the antique shop just now, so he stopped and asked.

Du Hou stood in front of the middle-aged man a little out of breath, and asked with some trepidation in his heart, "Have you sold all those things?"

The middle-aged man replied with a sad face: "No! They all said that they won't accept broken things!"
Speaking of this, he suddenly thought of something, and asked a little excitedly: "Grandpa, do you want to buy it?"

"I'll take a look first before I talk!" Du Hou chuckled, but didn't say anything dead.

But these words were already a sound of heaven to the ears of the middle-aged man, he took the things out of the bag with excitement, and held them for Du Hou to watch.

Du Hou didn't take over directly, but said with a chuckle: "Big brother, in our antique business, there is a rule that things must be placed on the table or on the ground before we can take over and look at them. Please forgive me!"

The middle-aged man smiled honestly and said, "It's okay, it's okay, there are rules!"

As he spoke, he blew the dirt on the ground, then carefully placed the cloth bag on the ground, and then put all the tiles on the cloth bag.

When Du Hou saw the few tiles that the middle-aged man took out, a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes immediately, but he immediately suppressed this emotion, and then picked up the tiles casually and looked at them , the more he looked at it, the more surprised he was, but in order to avoid the middle-aged man's suspicion, he could only suppress his emotions in his heart and hold back.

"It's a pity, it's a pity!" After looking at the porcelain in the man's hand, Du Hou called it a pity with some regret.

"Old man, what's the matter?" The middle-aged man asked quickly.

Du Hou replied: "Your things look good, but they are all broken and worthless. Don't you have complete things?"

The middle-aged man hesitated for a moment, then took out a small bronze mirror from his bag, and said, "Only this one is good, the other things are like this in my hands!"

Seeing the hesitant look on the middle-aged man's face, Du Hou immediately felt that this man should have more than these things, but he didn't immediately get to the bottom of it, but first took the bronze mirror in his hand and began to look at it.

This is a tortoise-button pine-crane mirror. The characteristics of the Yuan Dynasty are very obvious. The rust on the surface is very serious, but the decorations on it can still be seen.

The bronze mirror is a tortoise button, with green pines and cypresses adorning the top of the button, and two cranes on the left contending with their necks, with elegant gestures, rocks and grassland below, gurgling streams, clear and regular decoration layout, small and exquisite mirror body, smooth surface, which is quite good. The Yuan Dynasty bronze mirror.

"Grandpa, do you want these things?" The middle-aged man asked a little nervously.

Du Hou nodded and said, "Yes, but you also know what these things look like. If they are too expensive, I can't afford them?"

The middle-aged man was very happy when he heard the words, and said directly: "This pile of things is worth 500 yuan! Do you think it will work?"

Du Hou frowned, as if he was dissatisfied with the price, but he didn't respond first, but took out a handful of cigarettes from his pocket, handed one out, and said, "Brother, do you smoke? "

The middle-aged man saw that it turned out to be a soft-packed Zhonghua cigarette. He stepped forward to receive the cigarette respectfully with both hands, and kept saying "thank you" in his mouth.

At this time, Du Hou lit the fire again, and the middle-aged man was so moved that he bent down very politely and took a puff of the cigarette.

"Big brother, your accent seems to be Yuhan's!" Du Hou asked after lighting the fire for him.

"Grandpa, your hearing is really good. My hometown is indeed Yuhan. I moved to Porcelain City last year."

"Ha, then don't talk about it, you can take the money!" Du Hou spoke with a middle-aged man's accent, counted 500 yuan, and handed it over.

The middle-aged man was a little confused at first, but he realized it in an instant, and asked with a happy face: "Old man, are you sweating too?"

Du Hou laughed and said, "I used to work in Yu Khan for several years, and Yu Khan is half of my hometown. In fact, to be honest, things like yours are really not much in terms of value. I also think about us. It’s from a fellow villager, and I bought it to use as a specimen for my grandson, otherwise most people would only give you one or two hundred!”

Hearing this, the middle-aged man was overwhelmed and thanked him repeatedly.

"By the way, your stuff should be more than that, what else?" Du Hou asked casually.

"Well, there are still some..." At this point, the middle-aged man suddenly stopped talking, and quickly changed his words: "It's gone, there are only these things!"

Du Hou chuckled and said, "Brother, don't worry about it. I'll pay whatever price you have. Even if it's a national treasure, I can afford it!"

"This..." The middle-aged man hesitated all of a sudden, and stopped talking.

"Big brother, let me chat with you." Du Hou said with a sincere face: "I am not in the antique business, but a hobbyist, so I am not like those businessmen who like to lower prices when buying things. Besides, I have no problem with my character, unlike some people who report you if you fail in business, I will not do such immoral things!..."

(End of this chapter)