Play treasure master

Chapter 651

Yu Yao was still relatively calm on the surface, but he was also somewhat murmuring in his heart: Could it be that he was pretending to be confused while pretending to understand?
However, Yu Yao didn't just talk nonsense just now, this base is indeed something from the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, but no matter what period it is, it depends on who carved it!
Seeing that the two of them were silent, Lao Shi smiled slightly and raised his hand to point: "This boxwood carving, even if it was made in the late Qing Dynasty or even the Republic of China, is not an ordinary carver. Just now you wanted to see the deposit, but I told you that there is no—bottom It's not there, but it's hidden between the patterns!"

Lao Zhou really didn't see it.

Yu Yao thought to himself, so he really pretended to be ignorant, but there are still some articles here, let's see what he says.

"Boss Shi, tell me?" Yu Yao laughed.

"Take a look, both of you!" Lao Shi picked up the magnifying glass.

In a sweet-scented osmanthus flower, a small seal character "Chang" appeared.In fact, you can see it without a magnifying glass, but you have to be very careful and laborious.

Yu Yao didn't speak, and continued to listen to Lao Shi.But Lao Zhou said, "It's not uncommon to see a signature like this, but this 'normal'..."

"This should be the author's surname. Since the inscription is so secretive, there will be no extra characters engraved." Lao Shi explained.

When Yu Yao heard this, he secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

"Surname Chang?" Old Zhou pondered.

"What's your opinion, Boss Yu?" Lao Shi looked at Yu Yao.

"I can only roughly judge the year of this boxwood carved base." Yu Yao seemed to have thought about it, "However, I really don't know the famous woodcarver surnamed Chang in this period."

Lao Zhou continued, "That's right, maybe he's just an ordinary folk craftsman!"

Lao Shi laughed, "Praise and criticism are buyers, and applause is idlers. Lao Zhou, you can just talk about it!"

Yu Yao also smiled, "Then ask Boss Shi to point out, which famous person signed this?"

"General!" Lao Shi laughed again, "I won't say more about selling goods and knowing people!"

He didn't have to say it at first, because he didn't know; it's just that he can play tricks if he has a signature.

Yu Yao looked at Lao Zhou, and Lao Zhou said, "Old Shi, aside from other things, I didn't just buy the bottom bracket, it's a foil after all. 80 is really too high, let's get it cheaper!"

Lao Shi was silent.

Yu Yao gave Lao Zhou a wink, then said, "I'll go out and make a phone call."

Yu Yao walked to the hall of Shangpintang, looked at the leftovers, and stayed outside for about ten minutes.

Just as he was about to go back, he saw Lao Zhou and Lao Shi walking out.

Lao Zhou looked at Yu Yao, and then said to Lao Shi, "I said, how about it, according to the price you said last, can you buy something for Boss Yu? In this way, I will also repay his favor , and feel at ease. At the same time, you don’t need to drop the price directly.”

Upon hearing this, Lao Shi said, "Oh, with Boss Yu's eyesight, wouldn't it be a big loss for me to pick out good things?"

"Pull it down quickly, don't put gold on your face, the rest of the goods, I have been picking for a long time before, how can there be any decent things?"

Yu Yao said at this time, "I really think there is something interesting, otherwise, Boss Shi, you can see if it works."

Old Shi hesitated slightly, "Okay, let's take a look first."

Yu Yao walked to the shelf in the corner and picked up a small inkstone.

This inkstone is Chengni inkstone.

There are four famous inkstones in China: Duan inkstone, She inkstone, Taohe inkstone and Chengni inkstone.Here, Chengni inkstone is the most special.Because the first three are all stone, and there are very fixed and concentrated stone origins.

The Chengni inkstone is made of clay and fired.The Yellow River Chengni Inkstone is made of clay from the Yellow River.

However, the scope of the Yellow River is too large. The most famous Chengni inkstone in history is the Jiangzhou Chengni inkstone, which is the most famous and typical representative of the ancient Chengni inkstone.

The ancient method of Chengni inkstone in Jiangzhou was first created in the Tang Dynasty, but it was lost in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties.

"This is also expensive!" Lao Shi said, "It's also a good item."

This Fang Chengni inkstone is relatively small and shaped like a mushroom as a whole. On one side of the edge, which is not very conspicuous, there is indeed an inscription: Wumen Gu Erniang.

"Can this be done for real? Gu Erniang was a famous inkstone maker in the Qing Dynasty, and the ancient method of Chengni inkstone was lost in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties." Yu Yao laughed.

Lao Zhou chimed in, "Yes, if Gu Erniang's genuine product, you can still keep it until now?"

Lao Shi opened his mouth, but didn't say anything.

Of course he checked this inkstone.

Gu Erniang was a famous inkstone maker in the Qing Dynasty, not to mention that there are many imitations from the Qing Dynasty to the present, just from the Chengni inkstone, as Yu Yao said, Gu Erniang is unlikely to make Chengni inkstones .

In fact, what Yu Yao said was a sneaky change of concept, the ancient method of Jiangzhou Chengni inkstone was lost, not all the ancient methods of Chengni inkstone were lost.

However, when Lao Shi checked Gu Erniang, he also learned that Gu Erniang made inkstones, "it is not a good stone in Duanxi Laokeng, but does not use knives", which means that she only makes inkstones made of Duanshi and other high-quality stones. Make Chengni inkstone.Moreover, it seems too troublesome to fetch the Yellow River mud from Wumen Suzhou.

This is from the data.From the side of the inkstone itself, there is also a problem, because the color of the Chengni inkstone is not right.

Although there are many colors of Chengni inkstone, whether it is cinnabar red, eel yellow, crab shell green, mung bean paste, rose purple, etc., the colors are relatively strong; the color of this inkstone is a bit reddish brown, a little dull.

Lao Shi, who couldn't say anything, finally showed an expression of having suffered a big loss, and agreed.

Lao Zhou talked about 60 yuan for the offering stones, and indeed it cost 20 less.

After the delivery of the two items, Yu Yao and Lao Zhou didn't stay any longer, and returned directly to Geguzhai with the items.

Lao Zhou was driving, so he couldn't help it on the way back, "You have to tell me about both of these two things!"

"Okay, let me talk about your offering stone and base first." Yu Yao nodded.

"No!" Lao Zhou said, "You hinted me to buy this, and I knew it was a good thing! Tell me first, why did you buy this square inkstone? I really can't believe that this is Gu Erniang's genuine product .”

Gu Erniang is one of the few famous female inkstone craftsmen in Chinese history.There is not much information about her, and she should be a Suzhou native who lived from Yongzheng to Qianlong.

Her surname was originally not Gu, so it is hard to verify what her real surname is, but some say it was Zou.She married into the Gu family, and his father-in-law, Gu Delin, was the famous inkstone maker "Gu Daoren" in the early Qing Dynasty.

Gu Delin passed this craft on to her son, Gu Erniang's husband, but after her father-in-law Gu Delin passed away, her husband also died prematurely, so she inherited this craft.

Later, Gu Erniang became more famous than Gu Daoren; the inkstones she made were widely loved by literati at that time, and many imitations appeared in the Qing Dynasty.

"This Fang Chengni inkstone is not made of Yellow River clay." Yu Yao pointed.

"Oh?" Old Zhou Yi heard Yu Yao say that, if he hadn't held the steering wheel with his hands, he would have slapped his thigh, "I said you can't buy a fake! Hurry up and talk about it!"

(End of this chapter)