Soon, it was Sunday. Today is new year's Eve, and the streets and alleys are full of new year's flavor. Chu Chen's heart can't help feeling a little excited and excited at the thought of celebrating the new year with his parents this year.
Moreover, when he went to treat the old man today, he also said that in addition to Chu Yongping, all the men, women and children of the Chu family are going to Chu Chen's home for the new year this year. As for Chu Yongping's inability to come, there is no way. After all, he is the top leader of the local government and will be more busy during the new year.
Chu Yongning is also very busy, but he is in the capital, so he can come back to have new year's Eve dinner. In addition, Chu Shengjie of uncle's family can only arrive in the evening of new year's Eve.
Because of his childhood experience, Chu Chen actually envies the scenes of a big family, seven or eight or even ten people celebrating the new year together. However, in previous years, when the adoptive father was alive, only father and son spent the Chinese new year alone. When they arrived in the capital, because of Uncle Wu's family, the Chinese new year was a little more lively, but Wu Ke was only five people.
Therefore, even if the relatives can not all be present, chuchen has been very happy.
Coming out of his grandfather, Chu Chen went to the TV station to complete the shooting of the program, had dinner with the program team, and then drove to his shop with the red envelope.
Today is new year's Eve. Everyone is busy with the new year. When Chu Chen came to the shop, there were only two or three guests. He looked very lonely.
After greeting everyone one by one, Chu Chen found that everyone was very enthusiastic about him.
In fact, this is also normal, because last night when Chu Chen had dinner with everyone, he had already given each employee a relatively large red envelope, especially some of the outstanding work results, there were additional rewards. Therefore, when you see him as the God of wealth, how can you not be enthusiastic?
After greeting, Chu Chen saw that Zhou Wenping was writing a holiday notice. The time was from New Year's Eve to the seventh and eighth day of the year. The eight day holiday was good. Of course, considering that there are a lot of valuables in the store, during the Spring Festival, the store has also arranged personnel on duty, and the security guard is also on duty 24 hours a day.
After Zhou Wenping posted the notice, Chu Chen asked, "brother Zhou, have they arrived yet?"
"I just arrived at noon today, and now I'm home!" Zhou Wenping said with a smile.
"Business is like this today, or you can go back first." Chu Chen said.
"No! No! " Zhou Wenping repeatedly waved his hand and said, "anyway, just wait a few more hours. Besides, it's nothing for me to go back so early."
Seeing Zhou Wenping's insistence, Chu Chen didn't say anything more. He turned back to Uncle Wu and said, "Dad, why don't you go back earlier? Anyway, no one will come to sell antiques today."
"Hey! There's nothing more to do when I go back! " Uncle Wu put down his newspaper and said with a smile, "besides, the seller doesn't have to be there. The fifth one has gone home again. I can hold up at the key time."
"There's me!" Chuchen said with a smile.
"Are you still receiving today?"
As soon as Chu Chen's voice fell, an old man in his fifties came in from the door.
"You see, isn't this business coming?" Uncle Wu said with a smile.
The clerk welcomed the old man in, and Chu Chen asked with a smile, "Sir, do you have something to transfer?"
"The most The old man nodded: "I went to several antique shops just now. I didn't have enough money. The bank couldn't get it. What's more irritating is that I couldn't see it. It was clearly uploaded by my ancestors. How could it be wrong?"
Chu Chen is noncommittal about this. Although the old man seems to be honest, there is no shortage of cheaters in the antique industry. He seems to be honest, but there are more cheaters.
He said with a smile, "don't worry, sir. As long as the goods are good and the price is reasonable, we will certainly accept them."
"I'm sure it's good. You'll know if you've seen it!" The old man put the cloth wrapped things on the table and then opened them. It turned out to be a porcelain pillow.
The porcelain pillow is a rectangle with rounded corners and small size. It looks like a pulse pillow with a straight body and flat bottom. The pillow surface is slightly concave inward. Its shape is simple and elegant, which makes people feel happy at a glance. However, to the surprise of Chu Chen and others, this pillow was made by strangulation.
The twisted porcelain is also called "twisted clay", "stirred porcelain" and "flowered porcelain". Strangulation is a new craft in the ceramic industry of Tang Dynasty. It didn't appear before Tang Dynasty, but lost after the change of Jingkang in Song Dynasty.
The so-called strangulation is to knead two or more different colors of porcelain clay together, then strangle and draw the blank together, make it into shape, pour a layer of transparent glaze and fire it. Due to the different kneading methods, the texture changes are endless.
There are two ways to make twisted tire, one is full twisted tire, that is, the two-color tire is twisted and directly drawn to shape, the effect is very similar to the wood leaf texture; the other is inlaid tire, that is, the twisted tire is sliced, and then pasted on the porcelain for second firing.
There are cup, bowl, plate, pot, pillow and so on, among which rectangular pillow is the most common. The main shapes are rounded rectangle pillow, Japanese horn rectangle pillow and three color glaze rectangle pillow.There are fine and fine patterns on the twisted tire, such as wood grain, zigzag pattern and group pattern, among which there are three kinds of group pattern: Duomei pattern, Ruyi cloud pattern and rhombic pattern. There are white, brown and black colors in the clay. There are white, brown or white and black colors in the clay. There are also white, brown and black colors in the clay. They are all very exquisite.
This porcelain pillow in front of us has a flower plum pattern of strangulation ball. The design is meticulous, the structure is symmetrical, the layout is appropriate, and the decoration is very strong. The side of the pillow is decorated with wood grain effect. According to the literature, the texture of the pillow made of gall wood is peculiar and beautiful. The purpose of making the porcelain pillow into wood grain is to achieve the effect of the pillow made of gall wood.
Strangled porcelain is a special kind of ceramic decoration technology in ancient China. Due to the complexity of the technology and the difficulty of production, its products and output are limited to a great extent.
It is a rare treasure of the Tang Dynasty. It is made with exquisite techniques, various textures and decorations, complicated workmanship and high quality.
In addition, this pillow looks very new at first, but if you look at it carefully, you will find that there is a thick coating on it. It looks like the glaze is as warm as jade. When you shine a flashlight on the porcelain, the glaze will immediately reflect and show fine scratches, which is commonly known as cattle hair pattern in the industry. This is a characteristic of old porcelain.
To be exact, there must be some slight scratches and coating on the glaze of an old porcelain. You know, ancient porcelain is used, even for ornaments, and cleaning.
Therefore, a porcelain handed down from the Ming and Qing Dynasties has been used for hundreds of years. Can the glaze be free from scratches? This is obviously impossible. Secondly, even if the unearthed porcelain is buried in the ground, the sand in the ground will scratch the porcelain, that is, how many scratches there are.
It is estimated that there are at least 100 pieces of fine cattle hair patterns on the glaze of one square centimeter (the area of a coin). If the area of cattle hair patterns is concentrated, it accounts for at least 20% of the total glaze.
Cattle hair scratch is tarnished and can not reflect light. It's like using diamond to scratch on glass, leaving an indelible mark. If more scratches are made, the glass surface will lose its luster. So is porcelain glaze. With more cattle hair scratch, the glaze will lose its natural luster.
As for the old porcelain surface with more ox hair patterns, why it looks as warm as jade? This is also because after playing for a long time, the grease and sweat on the hand invade the ox hair patterns, and the glaze will naturally become soft and warm as jade. This is the origin of the porcelain slurry.
Judging from the slurry of this porcelain pillow, the original owner must have cherished it. That's why it's so perfectly preserved. It's the porcelain pillow that looks so perfect. That's why the old man Kai just said that some people feel that this porcelain pillow is not right after looking at it casually.
Therefore, the most taboo in the identification of antiques is to take things for granted, which often makes the real baby away from him.
Since Chu Chen studied medicine, he has been particularly interested in ancient pulse pillows. In the past, he also collected a few pieces, but they are not so outstanding. Now it's rare to meet such a high-quality product of strangulation pulse pillow. As long as the price is appropriate, he will definitely buy it.
Chu Chen handed the jade pillow to Uncle Wu, and then asked, "uncle, how much does it cost?"
"150000! I won't sell a cent less. " The old man said firmly.
This exquisite Tang Dynasty hangtai porcelain pillow is cheap for 150000 yuan. In addition, the Chinese New Year is approaching. Chu Chen has not paid any price, so he promised, "OK, sir, do you want to transfer or check?"
"I want cash!" Said the old man.
"Cash?"
Chu Chen slightly frowned at Wen Yan. If it was normal, there would be more than 150000 yuan in cash in the store. But now it's almost new year's day, and there are not many customers who buy antiques. On the other hand, those who buy jadeite basically swipe their cards and pay in cash.
The total amount of cash in his bag is less than 60000. He really doesn't know if there are 90000 in the store.
The old man said, "yes, if my family didn't need money urgently, I would not have sold this ancestral treasure. If I didn't have cash, I would have to go to other places."
"Brother Zhou, how much cash do we have in our shop?" Chu Chen asked.
"I'll see..."
Zhou Wenping went out and asked about the storage, then came back and said, "the cash is only 85000!"
"Forget it, I'll go somewhere else to have a look." The old man said directly.
"Oh, don't worry, sir. I didn't say I didn't have any cash here." Chuchen took the cash out of his bag with a smile.
Seeing that Chu Chen's pile of money should be tens of thousands, the old man was also relieved. He really didn't want to go to other stores