When Liu Sizhe heard the price offered by Tang Hui, he almost yelled at him. You even offered a price of 100000 HKD for tiger son and said that you would not lose money. It's really shameless of you to do so!
Seeing this, Chu Chen secretly kicked Liu Sizhe and asked him to pay attention to his image. In the antique business, most people like to ask exorbitant prices. It's not surprising that people like Tang Hui.
However, Chu Chen was somewhat uncomfortable when he asked for the price. After all, he was introduced by Chen Dayou. If you don't look at the monk's face and the Buddha's face, even if the price is higher, you don't have to be so outrageous. Moreover, tiger is not a popular product. If you drive it so high, you just take them as the culprits.
In this case, chuchen no longer cares about Chen Dayou's face. He said with a smile, "shopkeeper Tang, you should know that even if Huzi is not a potty, it is often used for funerary purposes in Jin Dynasty, and it is not a good thing in the market. The price you offer is too insincere. If you really want to buy it, I'll give you eight thousand. If you don't want to sell it, it's not good Please take it back! "
Chu Chen's understatement when he bought the two seals made Tang Hui feel that Chu Chen was rich and powerful. Therefore, he wanted to make an offer to see if Chu Chen was stupid and had a lot of money. However, it seems that Chu Chen obviously understood the market situation better, and his offer made Chu Chen's attitude to him a little indifferent, and some of the gains were not worth the losses.
At the price of 8000 yuan, Tang Hui certainly didn't want to buy it, but he had another thing to sell to Chu Chen, so he could only nod his head and say, "OK, this tiger is yours!"
Chu Chen didn't expect that Tang Hui would agree to come down. However, when he bought eight thousand, he found a small leak. Of course, he would accept it with a smile. Then he asked, "shopkeeper Tang, I don't know what's in the other box?"
Tang Hui smilingly opened the box, and then took out the contents: "this is a Qing Dynasty Qianlong period Pink Green fan heart bottle!"
Then he turned the bottle slightly. To her great surprise, the bottle inside actually turned. Through the holes on the bottle, you can see different pictures inside. It's like a lantern. It's very novel.
"Revolving bottle", also known as "revolving bottle" and "ferrule bottle", was one of the bottle styles popular in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. The reason why this thing is called "revolving bottle" is that a revolving inner bottle is set inside the hollow bottle.
The bottle body is composed of inner bottle, outer bottle and base. The upper part of the inner bottle is an exposed bottle mouth, and the bottle body looks like a cylinder. There are decorative paintings on it, including four seasons scenery, landscape figures, flowers, birds, insects and fish, etc.
There is a concave groove at the bottom of the bottle. The shape of the outer bottle is like a lantern. After the inner and outer bottles are closed, they are placed on the bottle seat, and the vertical axis on the seat is embedded in the groove. In order to easily see the unpredictable scenery in the bottle, most of the abdomen is hollowed out, and its shape is like mountain shape, Hui shape or Ruyi head shape.
When making a funny revolving bottle, the first thing to do is to deal with the spindle. The bottom of the outer bottle is made into a protruding heart-shaped button, and the bottom of the inner bottle is made into a matching groove. The inner bottle is sheathed with the outer bottle, the shoulder of the outer bottle and the inner bottle is glued first, and then the belly and the inner bottom of the outer bottle are glued.
It is very difficult to make the revolving bottle. We should not only correctly grasp the drying rate of the outer bottle and the inner bottle, but also grasp the shrinkage rate after firing. If there is a slight error, the chicken heart button and the chicken heart groove will not match, and all previous achievements will be wasted. Therefore, in the production, we need superb craft skills.
Therefore, the revolving bottle can be said to fully reflect the exquisite craft level at that time. Because of this, it was only enjoyed by the emperor in the Qing Dynasty. The quantity of it was very limited, and many people had never seen it before, so the price was needless to say.
The bottle in front of Chu Chen's eyes had a broad neck, a broad neck, a broad shoulder, a bulging belly and a round foot. On the outside of the bottle, the ground is made of pink and blue glaze, and the body is painted with gold patterns, which are composed of banana leaves, Ruyi cloud head, upside down lotus petals, and Baoxiang patterns. The neck is decorated with four boys, each wearing golden red, light green, light pink and sky blue clothes.
The picture of baby opera is also a traditional auspicious pattern in China. The decorative porcelain of the picture is decorated with carving, printing, painting and other techniques. It has a variety of themes, rich contents, and various forms of expression. The children are innocent, with different postures, elegant and lovely. It is incisively and vividly expressed people's wish for more children and more blessings. The four children symbolize four happy events.
In addition, the abdomen of the bottle is hollowed out with lotus pattern, decorated with pastel painting, and the inside of the bottle is white glazed with pastel painting of goldfish in the pond. The blue and white script on the outer bottom is a seal script with six characters and three lines.
This bottle looks novel and exquisite, and its craftsmanship is superb. The combination of decal, carving, engraving, color painting and other craftsmanship techniques makes people feel unique. It fully reflects the "novel and exquisite" characteristics of this kind of ware, which is extremely rare.
However, although the bottle was good, Chu Chen could not help frowning when he saw it, because at the moment when the bottle was just taken out, he seemed to see a trace of fire on the surface of the bottle. If there was fire, there would be no need to say more about the authenticity of the bottle.
Chu Chen quietly looked through the inside of the bottle. If it's a genuine one, it's really of great value. Unfortunately, it's a fake, and there's a very shocking discovery on the bottle.When Chu Chen sat down again, Tang Hui said impatiently, "brother Chu, my heart turning bottle is not bad. How about it? Are you interested?"
"It's really good!" Chu Chen nodded with a smile. According to Tang Hui's performance just now, even if Chu Chen knew it was a fake, he would not point it out. What's more, he had a very amazing discovery on this bottle. For better investigation, he would not point out the fact of the fake on the spot.
Seeing that Chu Chen made such a statement, Tang Hui was very happy. Then he quickly said, "in that case, I'll give you a real price..."
"Wait!"
As soon as he said this, Chu Chen interrupted him and said, "shopkeeper Tang, to be honest, I really like this heart turning bottle, but it's a pity that I can't buy it because I don't have enough money."
Tang Hui can't help but feel a little stunned when he heard the speech. Then he said in a hurry: "brother Chu, we are also once born and twice cooked. You don't have to worry too much about this. I'm sure I'll give you a very favorable price!"
"Oh Chu Chen first was happy, then said with a sad face: "but now I'm full of money, and I only have 10 million. I can't buy this heart turning bottle with this money, can I?"
What made chuchen feel speechless was that Tang Hui didn't even think about it, so he said, "ten million is enough!"
"Yes?" Chu Chen pretended to be suspicious and looked at Tang Hui for half a while. He could see that Tang Hui's eyes were a little dodgy. Then he said with a smile, "shopkeeper Tang, have you forgotten that I bought two sets of Tianhuang printing embryo! I only have more than eight million yuan to get rid of Tianhuang's printing embryo. How can I buy this heart turning bottle with this money
"It's the same here!" Tang Hui smiles and complains that he is too anxious, which leads Chu Chen to doubt. In this way, he will have to spend some time in the future.
Then Chu Chen took the two pieces of Tianhuang and the tiger's box and got up to say goodbye to Tang Hui. At this point, even if Tang Hui wanted to sell other things to Chu Chen, it was not realistic.
After paying the bill, Wu Ke asked curiously, "ah Chen, is there something wrong with that bottle?"
Just now, Liu Sihui said with a sneer, "that's the problem."
Chuchen said with a smile, "there is something wrong with that bottle. If it's true, it should cost at least $1200 to $15 million. If it's genuine, it must cost $30 million. Now he says $10 million. Do you have any problem?"
Wu Ke nodded and said, "it's true! Tang Hui is really not authentic. He knows that you are introduced by his friend, and he even does this kind of thing! But that bottle is really rare. If it's genuine, it's not bad! "
"Everyone has his own ideas." Chu Chen said: "as for that heart turning bottle, if it's genuine, I'll think about it for five or six million. If it's more than 10 million, I don't want to collect it even if I buy it."
"Why?" We all feel a little curious about what Chu Chen said.
Chu Chen explained: "the Qianlong period can be said to be the last peak period of the development of old porcelain, and the heart turning bottle basically belongs to the" last madness "in this final peak period. In order to satisfy the emperor's extravagant greed and curiosity, the craftsmen even spared no effort to create the "high-tech" porcelain in the world at that time, which only consumed the power of a country for personal interests. Such "things" are really heinous
Moreover, I think the biggest value of the revolving bottle is only reflected in the "craft". When the "craft value" of an object is too eye-catching, it means that its "cultural value" is getting weaker and weaker. In other words, in my eyes, the revolving bottle may not be called a "work of art", but an "ancient handicraft" at best. Compared with the status of the five famous kilns in my eyes, I can say that they are far behind
Speaking of this, chuchen said with a smile: "of course, it's just my personal feeling. This kind of bottle belongs to a rare object after all. In terms of rarity, its price must be very expensive. If there is a chance and the price is more appropriate, I will definitely buy it, and it's a good investment!"