Chapter 0039 – Treasure Appraisal (IV)
After hearing the words of Shopkeeper Lu, Zhuang Rui’s heart is very stable, that Guanyin wood carving is in all likelihood a fake, he came to participate in this treasure appraisal activity, although the primary purpose is to find items that can replenish the spiritual qi, but he also does not want to be embarrassed in front of the crowd, and even more so, he is not willing to pay out of his own pocket to invite a group of people to go to the MingDu Grand Hotel to corrupt.
Just from those chairs to absorb a little spiritual qi, Zhuang Rui is not satisfied, Lu boss let him continue to look down, is just what he wants, then also do not excuse, continue to pick up the second object in front of him.
The second object on the table is a snuff bottle, very small and delicate, only seven or eight centimeters high, if hidden in the heart, do not pay attention to see are very difficult to find, Zhuang Rui a few days ago to make up to the knowledge of antiques, coincidentally in the miscellaneous category inside the introduction of snuff bottles of the article, he knows that this thing and the caddis gourd is a little bit similar to the beginning of the time is to have its own special role, but to the late stage of the people who have turned into an object to play with. Play objects.
Speaking of snuff bottles, it is necessary to first say snuff, snuff is made of high-quality tobacco by drying, fermentation, filtration and other processes refined, and with the efficacy of pain, eliminate fatigue, so in the 14th century when it was popular throughout the European royal family, the aristocracy, and then to the end of the 16th century, the Western missionaries will be introduced to China.
The Qing dynasty from the Kangxi emperor, the successive emperors almost no addiction to snuff, but Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong three emperors on the hobby of snuff bottles, to be more than snuff, so the imperial snuff bottles has been uninterrupted, until the Qing dynasty fell, in these centuries, the manufacturing process of snuff bottles has been a great development, boutique after boutique.
Snuff bottles in the later generations of the most influential to be counted within the painting pot, there is a small story, it is said that there was a small provincial officials to Beijing, boarding in a temple, because there is no money to renew the purchase of snuff, with the smoke stick to take out the residual snuff sticking to the inner wall of the pot, the results of the pot’s inner wall painted some traces of the scene was the temple of a mindful of monks saw, will use a bamboo stick crooks dipped in ink, and then stretched into the transparent material ware! Pot, painting on the inner wall, so there is a painting pot.
Folklore to the inner painting pots covered with a layer of legendary color, and exquisite inner painting also let many people on the snuff bottle love, in fact, the inner painting pot is the master craftsmen with iron sand, adamantine sand in the smokers back and forth shaking, rubbing, so that the inner wall of the creamy white frosted, delicate and not slippery, the texture and even close to the rice paper, so you can feel free to paint, and not as mysterious as people think.
In the Qing dynasty after the Guangxu internal painting pots to reach its heyday, emerged like Zhou Leyuan, Ma Shaoxuan, Ye Zhongzhi such as internal painting masters.
This is an imported snuff, imported into China did not expect to bring the great development of the snuff bottle technology, and Chinese snuff bottle in the 18th and 19th centuries popular in Europe, become the royalty and nobility to gift each other and the collection of noble artifacts.
In Zhuang Rui hands of this snuff bottle, is a reduced vase-shaped, oval, top mouth and bottom only small finger big, while the pot body is half a hand wide, this snuff bottle is an enameled ware, above the painting of the two heads wearing bowler hats, holding civilized battle of the Western characters, the whole picture colorful, realistic shape, without a trace of age, if Zhuang Rui is in the crafts store to see this object, surely would have thought that it was Some assembly line manufactured, but after just that wood carving, Zhuang Rui on his own judgment, is really not much confidence.
Come on, don’t be pretentious yourself, just use your aura directly to see it! Zhuang Rui face of the tea-colored glasses very well played the role of blocking the line of sight of other people, and now gaze at the eyes, the eyes of the aura instantly came to the snuff bottle above.
Play, when the aura penetrated the glass blown snuff bottle, Zhuang Rui immediately felt a trace of cool breath into the eyes of the aura, although the breath is very weak, just than the previous chair in the aura is slightly stronger than a point, but Zhuang Rui is still very satisfied, mosquitoes are small is also meat ah!
Put the snuff bottle on the table, Zhuang Rui was about to open his mouth to speak, suddenly remembered that yesterday from the three rivers Liu’s gourd absorbed into the aura, and in this snuff bottle absorbed in the aura compared to the number of difference, and their first in the couplet absorbed in the aura, to be far higher than these two times, not to mention in the manuscript absorbed in the aura, and compared to it, it is simply not comparable.
“Could it be that the spiritual qi contained in books is more than the spiritual qi inside other objects?”
Since the appearance of aura in his eyes, counting this time, Zhuang Rui had received a total of four replenishments from external objects, and it was obvious that the aura absorbed from the couplets and manuscripts was far greater than the latter two, was there any inevitable connection in between? Zhuang Rui lowered his head and thought about it, for a moment he forgot the occasion he was in, others were still waiting for him to say what he thought about this snuff bottle!
“Wood, wood, you fell asleep, what to stay ah!”
Liu Chuan’s voice rang in Zhuang Rui’s ears, waking him up from his contemplation, and raised his head, only to find that Xu Wei sitting beside him was holding the snuff bottle he had just looked at so eloquently!
“If this is a few hundred years of objects, the color will never be so bright, so I think, this thing should be a modern crafts, but this is my personal opinion, we should listen to Mr. Zhuang’s opinion! Seeing how Mr. Zhuang was pondering just now, he definitely has a different opinion on this snuff bottle.”
This is Zhuang Rui sobered up after hearing what Xu Wei said, raised his head and saw Xu Wei that smug look, the heart of the heart for no reason some annoyance, hate to be in that little white face, a hard punch, he did not provoke him, why always take himself to say things, disgusted with the heart of the heart, Zhuang Rui speak is not good to listen to.
“Mr. Xu is really knowledgeable ah! Not only in the jewelry on the deep research, actually even wood carving, snuff bottles and other miscellaneous items are also deep attainments, but I think this snuff bottle is true, the age should be in the Kangxi to Qianlong between, oh, you do not have to rush, in the end I am talking nonsense, or Mr. Xu you believe in the river, and so on a little while on the see the difference.”
Zhuang Rui said halfway, see Xu Wei again want to interrupt his own words, this time but did not give him the opportunity, after a breath of words, pointing to the last piece of jade pendant to Lv Boss said: “This price I can not see, not to make a fool of myself, the following is still Song brother Wang brother to it!”
This is not Zhuang Rui modest, but the eyes of the aura is not yet able to break down the penetration of jade items, based on eyesight alone, he even the jade pendant is used where the jade is produced can not be distinguished, not to mention the identification of the authenticity of its origins.
Lv shopkeeper looked at Zhuang Rui smiled, smile some meaningful, he is now more and more interested in this young man, others do not know, his own objects but clear, two objects are Zhuang Rui said, this is not good luck can do.