Antique Dealer

Chapter 123 Proposals
As mentioned earlier, scams in the antique industry are hard to guard against, and you will be deceived if you are not careful.

As far as the behavior of the two brothers is concerned, after careful consideration, there are indeed some coincidences, so we have to guard against it.

Of course, Fang Hao thought that as long as he was more careful, he would not be able to deceive him, so he followed their words and said, "Can you let me have a look?"

The tall man said: "We are out for fun today, so I stopped by Panjiayuan to see if there is anything suitable to buy as a gift. The incense box is not convenient to carry, and it is still in the hotel. It takes nearly four to ten minutes to go back and forth. , I don’t know if it’s convenient for you to wait here, boss?”

Hearing what he said, Fang Hao felt even more wrong, but he also wanted to see what the other party was doing, so he said, "I'll stay here for a while, but I'll wait for you for an hour at most."

The two brothers quickly expressed that they would go early and return early, and said that if they got the money, they would trade directly. Before leaving, they also exchanged contact information with Fang Hao, and asked Fang Hao to keep the Tianqiu bottle. , and wait for them to come back.

Watching the two brothers leave, Fang Hao shook his head secretly. Anyway, he responded to all changes without changing, and was not worried that he would be cheated.

Half an hour later, Shang Xiaoxuan arrived with Tang Yunjuan first.

"You made a lot of money when you made a move, and you actually sold this place!" Tang Yunjuan looked at the decoration and furnishings in the store.

Fang Hao smiled and said, "It's all my family members who helped me, otherwise how would I have so much money to buy this store?"

"That's also because of your strength. At your age, my family would not support me so much. When I started the current company, after working in the family business for a few years, they thought I could go out and make a fortune. , gave me some support, but there was no business at first, and it almost went bankrupt.”

While talking, Tang Yunjuan noticed the celestial ball bottle on the counter, thought it was very beautiful, and walked over.

Fang Hao smiled and said nothing, saying too much and making mistakes, let's stop this kind of topic, Tang Yunjuan is not a person who is easy to fool.

"Is this called Tianqiu bottle?" Tang Yunjuan looked at the porcelain on the counter.

Fang Hao and Shang Xiaoxuan followed: "Yes, this is the Celestial Ball Bottle."

Shang Xiaoxuan asked curiously: "This bottle is round, its belly is like a ball, but why is it called Tianqiu?"

Fang Hao explained with a smile: "The Tianqiu vase is a porcelain shape deeply influenced by West Asian culture. It began in the Yongle and Xuande years of the Ming Dynasty. The round bottle belly curve makes it very similar to the image of celestial bodies and stars in the eyes of the ancients, so it is named the celestial sphere."

Tang Yunjuan turned around and said, "Fang Hao, this celestial ball bottle must be old, right? How much does it cost?"

"Sister Juan, I'm sorry, I promised to give this celestial bottle to someone else just now." Fang Hao recounted what happened just now.

Tang Yunjuan felt a little regretful: "Well, I still want to buy it as a birthday present for my grandfather next year."

Fang Hao asked, "When is the old man's birthday?"

Tang Yunjuan replied: "The sixth month of the lunar calendar."

Shang Xiaoxuan said: "Then there is plenty of time."

"It's better to prepare gifts in advance, especially for a big family like ours, sometimes there are intrigues in giving gifts, so usually when you meet the right one, you have to buy it first."

When Tang Yunjuan spoke, Qiong's nose wrinkled slightly. Based on Shang Xiaoxuan's observation and understanding of her, it was obvious that she had some trouble with her relatives because of the gift-giving on her birthday.

At this moment, the two brothers came in. Seeing that the three of them were looking at the celestial ball bottle on the counter, their hearts tightened, and the tall man hurriedly said loudly: "Boss Fang, we are back."

Fang Hao responded without any nonsense, and asked them to take out the incense box.

Carved lacquer generally refers to the practice of accumulating one-color paint or different-color paints to a certain thickness on the upper bone of the utensils, and then carving patterns with a knife, including red, yellow, green, black, rhinoceros, and double-color Carved lacquer, tick color, etc.

Taking ticking red as an example, the method is to carve patterns with the thickness of the paint after painting several layers of red lacquer on the vessel body. Based on this, we can understand ticking yellow, ticking green, ticking black, etc. The technique is the same, but the paint color is different. .

The difference between the color-picking and the above-mentioned carved lacquers is that it is made of a variety of colored lacquers.In terms of production techniques, it can be divided into "heavy-color carved lacquer and piled-color carved lacquer".

This incense box is made of heaping lacquer technology. The color of the cover box is mainly red lacquer, which is bright and lustrous, bright and eye-catching, and the green branches and leaves are gradually dyed in the middle, adding splendor and great ornamental value.

In Fang Hao's memory, Zhang Cheng should be a famous lacquer carving craftsman in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasties. He was as famous as his contemporary Yang Mao.

He carefully identified that this color-picking incense box was indeed a genuine one. It seemed that the brothers did not lie to him, but he would definitely be very careful when encountering such a situation again.

Based on the fineness of the incense box and the addition of the author, the overall value is slightly higher than that of the Tianqiu bottle.But in terms of business, Fang Hao definitely wants to lower the price.

Afterwards, the two parties discussed and decided to exchange things, using the incense box to exchange for the celestial ball bottle. Although the two brothers suffered some losses, they were satisfied. After all, they made tens of thousands of dollars by buying the incense box.

After the two brothers left, Tang Yunjuan picked up the incense box and praised: "The craftsmanship of the ancients is really ingenious! I don't know if such craftsmanship has been passed down."

Fang Hao said: "Lacquer carving is divided into many schools, and there are still some inheritances. However, due to historical reasons and the limitations of ancient communication techniques, many unique arts have been lost. For example, it is difficult to imitate the works of this author. "

Shang Xiaoxuan sighed: "Hey, what a pity!"

Tang Yunjuan also nodded in agreement, and then the two women began to discuss, wanting to use some elements on this incense box to jewelry design.

After discussing for a while but having no clue, Shang Xiaoxuan asked Fang Hao, wanting to brainstorm: "What do you think of the plan we just mentioned?"

Fang Hao nodded and said, "Very good."

Tang Yunjuan said with a smile: "The work we are discussing is related to Xiaoxuan's entry!"

Fang Hao was refreshed, and he had to take it seriously: "Show me the photo of the jadeite raw material just now."

Seeing Tang Yunjuan teasingly smiling, Shang Xiaoxuan blushed slightly, opened the photo album, and handed the phone to Fang Hao.

Fang Hao flipped through the photos of raw materials from various angles. The jadeite in the photo was "Fu Lu Shou" jadeite, that is, three-color jadeite. The jadeite in the picture had three colors: yellow, green, and purple.

He looked at the picture and pondered for a moment, then said: "This is a piece. I have a proposal. You can refer to it. Is it possible to use the theme of Dilianhua to carve butterflies with yellow jadeite, mountain rocks for the green part, and orchids for the violet part."

(End of this chapter)