Tianyan Jianbao

Chapter 65 Current Situation of Wood Carving Industry

After confirming that it was a red sandalwood root carving, Wang Haoming prepared to look at it again with the spiritual power of his eyes. The reason why Wang Haoming hadn't looked at this object with his spiritual power before was because he wanted to gain some experience.

In the business of antiques, you need to see more and learn more. For example, if you stay in the Palace Museum for decades, facing the old objects accumulated in history every day, and then go to Panjiayuan to see those fake objects, I'm afraid you can feel the truth as soon as you get started. This is the accumulation of experience.

But at this moment, Wang Haoming had already given the answer in his heart, so he needed the spiritual power in his eyes to make an appraisal. He lowered his head slightly, and a golden yellow flashed in front of his eyes, and the spiritual power had already touched the root carving in his hand.

The fiber tissue inside the root carving is very fine and dense, like layers of waves, and each fiber tube hole is densely packed with twists and turns, and the veins are extremely fine, in the shape of strands like cow hair.

These are the unique characteristics of red sandalwood, Wang Haoming heard it introduced when he was in Luo Feng's villa.

But what surprised him the most at this moment was that a breath and the spiritual power in his eyes quickly merged together, this breath was far more than the spiritual power he absorbed in the grasshopper gourd and the few huanghuali chairs , many times thicker.

This also made Wang Haoming a little confused. Could it be that his previous judgment that the amount of spiritual power in wooden antiques was small was wrong?

Shaking his head, Wang Haoming put all those thoughts behind him. Now is not the time to delve into this issue. After judging that it is an antique through the spiritual power in his eyes, the weight of the red sandalwood Maitreya Buddha in his hand seems to have increased a bit. point.

Wang Haoming knows that red sandalwood is known as "an inch of sandalwood is an inch of gold", especially the old objects with inheritance, plus its own historical value, the price is even more expensive.

The market price of this object in front of me is probably much higher than that of Sanheliu's grasshopper gourd.

Wang Haoming looked up and saw that the second ghost translator was lying on the table writing what happened, and Director Wang was gesticulating and exchanging feelings with the two foreigners.

So he gently pulled the stall owner and asked, "Brother, I think your statue is very good. Why did you sell it for 500 yuan?"

After the young man heard Wang Haoming's words, his face was full of helplessness, and he said: "There are stalls selling root carvings and other gadgets in this market. It is an exaggeration to say that there are 1 stalls, but there are always thirty or fifty stalls." , so many stalls, no one will buy if the price is too high.”

"There are still so many craftsmen?"

Wang Haoming was taken aback. Carving is a very delicate handicraft, which cannot be mastered by ordinary people.

"Fart craftsmen, those are all carved out by machines. Hundreds of them can be produced on the assembly line in a day. They are all dead things, but those things are cheap, and they cost more than ten yuan each."

"Besides, it is no worse than these hand-carved ones from the outside, and there are many kinds of shapes, so the things on my stall are not easy to sell. I sold them to this foreigner today, and they sold this one. File matter."

The words of the young people also reveal a reality, now few people learn these traditional crafts, I am afraid that in a few years, there will be fewer and fewer of these skilled artists.

"I like this root carving very much. I bought it. Please make a price."

Wang Haoming looked at the young man's disappointed look, and almost told the truth about this eagle, but he held back in the end. He is not and does not want to be that singer Xuecun who sang, "We are all living... !"

"Brother, you are being polite when you say this. I would like to thank you for today's matter. You can keep this thing if you like it. Don't mention money or not. I just asked someone to look at it. These items passed down from the family That is to say, if the carving is better, the materials used are average, and it is only worth a few hundred yuan, which is not a good thing, so don’t be polite to me, big brother.”

When the stall owner heard that Wang Haoming wanted to buy it, he quickly waved his hand. The second ghost translator just ordered 4 yuan for him, which was enough for him to set up a stall for two months. He refused to ask Wang Haoming for any more money. up.

He had also doubted before whether these root carving works left at home could be good things, and he brought a few specially a few days ago, and went to this market to find an old man who specializes in miscellaneous things for appraisal.

The appraisal result given by the expert made him very frustrated. The earliest of these things was only the works of the Republic of China period, and the materials were very ordinary, such as ash and pine roots. The above is an antique and has little collection value.

After reaching this conclusion, he simply took these old root carvings that he was reluctant to sell before and put them on the stand for sale today.

It's just that he didn't know that the root carving of Maitreya Buddha in Wang Haoming's hand happened to be the one he didn't take for identification.

In modern society, red sandalwood is already an extremely rare and rare tree species. Although this young man has inherited the root carving skills of his ancestors, he has never seen red sandalwood before.

Even when it comes to his grandfather's generation, he has never seen it, so he didn't realize that his ancestors still had such good things.

Seeing that the young man refused to take money for anything he said, Wang Haoming also refused to take advantage of him.

But accepting other people's gifts for no reason violates his principles of life.

And those scammers also grasped the psychology of these people, just like Daxiong and others in the antique market, if Wang Haoming didn't have the spiritual power in his eyes.And if you know a little about Zheng Banqiao's style, after seeing that painting, it's hard to keep him from being tempted.

"The rest here are all your works, right?"

Wang Haoming asked, pointing to a bamboo and rattan box in the young man's hand, and he came up with an idea.

The stall owner scratched his head, and smiled a little embarrassedly: "Hey, my skills are far inferior to those of the old man at home, brother, take a look."

Wang Haoming was a little funny, this young man was also a little honest, he just opened his mouth and said that his stuff was not good, how could he do business like this, no wonder he had set up a stall for so long, but this red sandalwood Buddha sculpture was not favored by anyone.

Wang Haoming didn't know that this carving was being sold for the first time today, otherwise, with so many people coming and going in the market, it would still be his turn to pick up this leak.

"Nowadays there are not many people who know how to do this handicraft. They just go to the handicraft factory to save trouble. For a job like mine, first you have to think about it in your heart, choose the root of the image to determine the shape, and then you have to dry it in the shade and blow it. Baking, oil dipping, waxing, planing and other processes are required to produce such an object, although the price is a bit higher, but it is much more durable than those produced by those factories."

The young man took out a root carving from the box and handed it to Wang Haoming. He was very happy to see someone admiring his work, and introduced it to Wang Haoming.

Wang Haoming took it over and saw that these root carvings were all the size of a palm, and the carvings were monkeys stealing peaches in the twelve zodiac signs.

A cute little yellow-haired monkey climbs on the big birthday peach, and wants to move the birthday peach away. The strong contrast between the big birthday peach and the little monkey makes the whole picture full of interest. it is good.

The characteristics of root carving works are "seven points are natural, three points are carving, and natural fun", and this work is excellent from material selection to conception to carving. Wang Haoming thought that this young man, this kung fu work But not bad.

"How much do you sell for such a work?" Wang Haoming asked while playing with the monkey sculpture in his hand.

"This thing can be made in three to five days, so it can be sold for one or two hundred. It's not easy to sell at this price. Others always use it to compare with those made by machines."

The young stall owner was a little outraged, but there was nothing he could do about it. In a sense, some modern technologies had gradually eliminated some manual practitioners.

"How many more do you have here? Do you have a set of twelve zodiac signs?"

Wang Haoming really fell in love with these root carvings. Whether these objects are given away or placed as decorations at home, they are very suitable.

"Yes, there is one set, and there are a few scattered ones. There are nineteen in total."

Although this young man was very honest, he was not stupid. After hearing Wang Haoming's question, he also understood what he meant. If he had to send so many things, he would really be reluctant to part with them.

Therefore, I didn't say anything like I like you to take it.

"Well, I really like these root carvings of yours. I want these nineteen and this root carving of Maitreya Buddha. I'll give you 5000 yuan if you add them up. Do you think it's okay?"

(End of this chapter)