Chapter 421

In the tower behind the white tower is the treasure hall, where there are many royal jewels on display. Among them are royal scepters, horns and swords, coronation robes, crowns, scepters and a ball with a cross on the top, Royal crowns made for Queen Victoria covered with precious stones, and so on.

These jewels are displayed in the bright glass cabinet in the exhibition room. Visitors can only walk slowly through the automatic channel, and photography is strictly prohibited. Fortunately, the distance is just enough for Chu Chen's eye to use, otherwise such a good opportunity will be missed.

"Ah Chen, why are you laughing so happily?" Walking out of the treasure house, Wu Ke saw Chu Chen's smiling face and couldn't help asking curiously.

Chuchen said with a smile, "it's nothing. It's just that all of a sudden when I see so many foreign treasures, I feel very happy."

Of course, the real situation is that the progress of his ability's upgrade has increased by nearly 10 points. If you know that 10 points represent one billion worth of antique treasures, if it's his own, making more than one billion won't be achieved in a short time and a half. Now it's just a circle. How can he not be happy.

With the experience of visiting the tower of London, Chu Chen thinks that 10 billion is really nothing. If he comes back to visit the Forbidden City, he will be able to complete more than half of it. In fact, 100 billion is not much. If he wants to visit so many museums all over the world, he should be able to complete it.

However, if you really want to visit all the museums in the world, you can't finish it in a short time and a half. This can only be done slowly. Chu Chen thinks that it's better for Wu Ke to start after graduation, and it's more interesting for two people to play.

There are many flea markets in London, and there are special antique markets every week, such as Greenwich market on Friday, Notting Hill antique market on Saturday, Liverpool Street antique market on Sunday and Covent Garden antique market on Monday.

Today is Friday. After listening to Chu Chen's words, Wu Ke proposed with a smile: "ah Chen, in this case, let's go to the Greenwich market later."

Chu Chen nodded and agreed: "OK, before we go, we have to fill our stomachs. I just heard someone's stomach crying!"

"I hate it!..."

Unlike the lack of local cuisine, foreign restaurants in London are very developed, where you can easily find dishes from all over the world.

Needless to say, French, Italian, Indian and Turkish restaurants are all over the streets of London. What surprised Chu Chen in particular was that the Chinese restaurants here could even subdivide different cuisines.

Moreover, the taste of some Chinese restaurants is quite authentic, which makes Chu Chen almost think that he is not in a foreign country. Of course, the authentic dishes also make Wu Ke enjoy himself.

After a very enjoyable lunch, they took a taxi to Greenwich market.

The location of the market is not far from the place where they eat. It's only less than 20 minutes by taxi.

In the eyes of Chinese people, fairs often give people the impression that there are cheap and shoddy gadgets on the simple stalls, but this is not the case here in England. For example, the handicrafts on every stall here are full of personality and characteristics. These are all masterpieces containing the creativity and Inspiration of the makers.

In addition to these elaborate handicrafts, there are many other things such as paintings and photographs, antiques, skin care products, souvenirs, jewelry, local delicacies and so on. For Wu Ke, it's like a shopping paradise.

Seeing so many interesting things, Wu Ke immediately forgot the purpose of coming to the market. Here and there, Chu Chen saw that she was happy. As long as she was interested, she was ready to buy them. However, Wu Ke refused. Finally, he just bought some essential oil soap, a famous brand handbag and some small jewelry.

There is a food area in the market, where all kinds of food and snacks from all over the world are gathered. When they are tired of shopping, they go to the food area to have a rest and eat some delicious snacks.

Looking at the side of a few handbags, Wu Ke some embarrassed said: "originally came to see antiques, but you didn't buy what you wanted, but bought so much for me."

Chuchen said with a smile, "what's the matter? I came to England to see you. I'm sure you are the main factor in everything."

Hearing Chu Chen say so, Wu Ke's heart is full of sweetness. She feeds Chu Chen the cake in her hand, wipes it with a tissue, and then stands up and says, "come on, let's go to the antique shop here!"

visited several antique shops, and Chu Chen did not meet anything she liked. But Wu could find a perfume bottle for Hermes in 60s, and brought the original box with no price. It surprised her very much.

Then they came to a small shop specializing in carving. Although the shop is not big, there are many things, and they are all put in order, which makes people feel very clean and refreshing.

And here, although there are not many domestic carvings, there are more than 30. Some of them are still exquisite, which makes Chu Chen interested.However, things from foreigners may not always be true. Chu Chen carefully observed some of them and found that they were either modern handicrafts or fakes made in modern times, which was quite boring.

But then he saw a bamboo dragon subduing arhat, which made chuchen's eyes light up.

The statue is made of bamboo roots. The arhat's forehead is broad and long, and his eyes are beautiful and smiling. Wearing Zen clothes, sitting upright on the futon, playing Dragon with pearl in the right hand. On the left knee of the dragon plate, looking up at the arhat, the proportion of the dragon is small, the expression is gentle, and the Buddha power of the arhat is more obvious.

Dragon subduing arhat is one of the eighteen Arhats, which is intended to embody the boundless Buddhism and become the theme of sculptors. It is a typical arhat style of the Qing Dynasty. The carving is perfect in appearance, ingenious in design, simple and soft in technique, and small in size, showing the world of Buddha.

What's more, Luochen's seal cutting is more like the name of tianchu.

Shi tianzhang is a famous master of bamboo carving in the Qing Dynasty. The bamboo man record records Wang Mingshao's comments on Shi tianzhang: "he learned to do it when he was young. He is the most skillful bamboo root figure, the position of his hands and feet, the natural and unrestrained clothes, and the divine principle of his face. When you are old, you will feel like a chicken skin and a crane's hair; when you are old, you will feel like a chicken skin and a crane's hair; when you are old, you will feel like a chicken skin and a crane's hair; when you are old, you will feel like a chicken skin and a crane's hair; when you are old, you will feel

No wonder Chu Chen felt that the style of this statue was familiar. It turned out that it was carved by Shi tianzhang. It was a surprise.

Chu Chen looked at the price, but 9000 pounds, only 135000 yuan, this price is equivalent to pick up a big leak.

Just when he entered the store, Chu Chen saw that the sign of the store said "no counter-offer". Wu Ke reminded him that he understood the rules here, so he simply asked the clerk to pack the things.

Picked up a leak, Chu Chen's spirit immediately excited up, and then looked down with interest. Although the next items are not as high-quality as they were just now, I still bought a bamboo carving penholder and a red wood carving Ruyi. The price is also very cheap, which is equivalent to picking up two small leaks.

Although the quality of these two things is not too high, Chu Chen himself can not collect such things, but they are very popular in the domestic market and can be used as the goods of his antique shop.

The last two carvings are tooth carvings and horn carvings.

Among them, ivory carving is based on ivory carving. It uses the technique of multi-layer relief to carve the picture of Canglong jiaozi. The Canglong is vigorous and majestic, sometimes hidden and sometimes visible. The dragon head is majestic, and the carving is exquisite, which fully displays the majestic momentum of Canglong. It can be said that the design is ingenious, the carving is exquisite, the decorative patterns are dense, and the layers are clear. It should be a masterpiece.

However, what makes Chu Chen sigh is that this ivory carving is a modern handicraft that has been completed in recent years.

As the saying goes, no business, no killing. Chu Chen can't control others, but at least he can manage himself. If it's an ancient ivory carving or horn carving, he can still accept it. But since it's a modern ivory carving, even if it's cheap, it can be sold at a high price. Thinking about the poached elephants, he's still very grateful.

The last horn carving is a litchi cup carved with rhinoceros horn in the style of early Qing Dynasty.

The round cup is carved in the shape of tree stump, open, closed belly, concave bottom, high relief around the cup, vivid twists, flipped leaves and full litchi fruit, showing a good and vigorous growth state of litchi.

Careful observation shows that the undulating opening and closing of branches, the turning of leaves, the growth state of small branches, and even the delicate growth structure at the junction of petioles and branches are vividly displayed by the author with simple knife technique.

Moreover, the author engraves different brocade on each litchi, which shows extraordinary simplicity and ingenuity.

Throughout the cup, it is full of natural taste. The decoration is simple and fine, and the knife is sharp and relaxed. Chu Chen can't help but praise the artistic appeal.

However, to Chu Chen's surprise, this rhinoceros horn cup was also made by a famous craftsman, you Tong, during the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty. You know, he invented the dyeing process of rhinoceros horn carving.

as like as two peas, in the in the meantime, he was told that he had borrowed a very delicate rhinoceros horn cup from his relatives' family. He had copied a nearly identical cup according to the cup, but in want of perfection, the imitation cup was lighter.

So you Tong thought of a way to pick some Impatiens (also known as nail grass), mashed and dyed the new rhinoceros horn cup as carefully as nails. As a result, even his relatives could not tell which one was the original and which one was the imitation.

Moreover, Youtong was named after carving rhinoceros horn cup, and he was once enlisted in the palace, known as "Youxi Cup". The rhinoceros horn cactus cup collected in the Palace Museum is his masterpiece, and its superb craftsmanship is amazing in the palace.