Chapter 656

On the whole, cork furniture can't match hardwood furniture. However, there are valuable and good things in cork furniture. There are tens of thousands, even tens of thousands, or even higher, of beautiful single official hat chairs and ring chairs, which are usually made by officials.

The official cork furniture is exquisite in style and meticulous in workmanship, which is different from the common furniture charm. In addition, the year is good, and the exquisite workmanship is also very rare. Of course, such good things are rare, especially the super beautiful goods made like hardwood furniture.

"Well, I'll see first!"

Chu Chen is also very interested in cork furniture. Besides, Ma laocai has a lot of cork furniture here. Maybe he can meet one or two good things and buy them back.

Then, after Chu Chen should pass, in front of a pile of cork furniture, looked up.

However, he was disappointed to see the cork chairs. There were not many good chairs here. Only two of them in the late Qing Dynasty were considered to be mediocre. The others either fell apart or were not well made. It was hard for him to see them.

However, just when Chu Chen was ready to give up, he unexpectedly saw a small case.

The case is a kind of rectangular furniture with enough support under it. Among them, the head lifting case refers to the "flying angle" on both ends of the case surface, so it is called "head lifting case".

Now some people often confuse the table with the case. In fact, the difference between them is quite obvious. In short, the four legs of the table are at the four corners of the table and at right angles. The four legs of the case are not at the four corners, but at both ends of the case.

Chu Chen's preference for the case of small head, for the single board face, the structure of the chuck tenon, head small and stand.

The chuck tenon is a kind of mortise and tenon structure commonly used in furniture. Its form is tenon at the top of the foot leg, which is close to the mortise at the bottom of the table, and the upper part is also open, with teeth embedded. However, the oblique shoulder is cut out from the outside of the upper end of the foot leg, and the notch is cut out at the intersection of the tooth strip and the foot leg, so that when the tooth strip and the foot leg are clapped together, the oblique shoulder of the leg and foot is embedded to form a flush surface.

In front of the head case, teeth from the sideline, connected with the cloud teeth. The foot of the case is embossed with a cloud head, with a line at the top and leaves in the middle of the leg.

This case is a typical furniture style of the Ming Dynasty, with concise modeling, line based, rigorous structure, fine workmanship and simple but natural decoration. In terms of wood and technology, Chu Chen thinks it should be a work of the early Ming Dynasty.

But cork furniture has a disadvantage, that is, after too many years, the general appearance is not good, either changed shape, or scattered, and the appearance is not beautiful, it is easy to make a bad impression. This is the case in front of us. It looks very inconspicuous. It looks like a low-grade product. People don't want to buy it.

But of course, I don't understand the views of pedestrians. Chu Chen certainly doesn't think so. You should know that most of the handed down products of the Ming Dynasty's Qiaotou case are large-scale furniture, which is so small and so rare. The market value and popularity are very high, and it's even more rare that they have been so intact since the early Ming Dynasty. Of course, this kind of thing can't be missed.

When he saw Ma laocai and his son staring at him, Chu Chen didn't see much. In addition, he saw it quickly. In the eyes of outsiders, he seemed to have watched it carelessly, but he didn't think of it at all. At this time, he had a plan in his heart.

"Mr. Ma, all your cork furniture is ordinary goods." Chu Chen shook his head.

Listening to Chu Chen's words, Zhang laocai scoffed and said: "there are not many good cork furniture here, but it's not without them. Moreover, you can easily judge that these are ordinary goods. Don't you think it's too hasty? This guy doesn't know much about furniture, does he? "

Thinking of this, Zhang laocai thinks that it's normal for Chu Chen to behave like this. He is young and has good eyesight in some aspects of antiques. It's hard to avoid being arrogant and pretending to understand. It's a pity that he didn't know how to do furniture business before, otherwise he would have to pit chuchen!

Although the heart has a bad heart, but on the surface, Zhang laocai said with a smile: "most of them are ordinary goods, but it's not without good, you see this walnut scroll is very good!"

The second volume is used for the display of bonsai, flower arrangement and handicrafts in the study. It is usually made of mahogany or CaoHua pear, with different sizes of length, width and height.

Ma laocai said that the walnut lower scroll is relatively small, the surface of the case is simple, the leg is turned inside out to be a Book foot, the shape is simple, and the slurry is thick, which is the style of the early Qing Dynasty. Placed in the study, can be displayed, can be placed in the study pieces, well preserved, is rare.

Chu Chen took a look at the scroll, and then said, "it's not bad, it's OK."

"Chu Shao, do you want it?"

Chu Chen's performance made Ma laocai feel that it was exactly the same as what he had just thought. Chu Chen didn't know much about furniture, which made him feel a little pleased. He thought that when he bid later, he might make more money.

Chu Chen pretended to ponder for a while, and then said, "well, I just want to buy some gifts for others. If you can get cheap, I'll choose four chairs, a desk and this volume."Ma laocai laughs: "Chu Shao, what you said is that you can't afford to buy it? You pick out what you want and I'll calculate the money for you. "

"OK..."

Having said that, Chu Chen selected the two chairs and the small cocked head case he had just chosen, and then selected two fairly good chairs, together with the scroll just now, and put them in front of Ma laocai.

Among the five kinds of furniture, Ma laocai only thinks that two of the chairs and the lower scroll are good. He doesn't think there is anything good about the most valuable head lifting case at all. If he hadn't looked at it at the beginning, he would not have bought it.

Ma laocai thought about it and said, "Chu Shao, it's rare for such a distinguished guest as you to come. I don't want to empty it. These are 80000 in total. What do you think?"

If you just take the value of that small head lifting case as an example, it must be worth more than 50000. However, as mentioned above, there are indeed tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of cork furniture. Except for the head lifting case, even the most valuable volume is only worth 6000 or 7000. The other four chairs add up to less than 10000.

Ma laocai obviously didn't recognize the case, otherwise, with his character, it was impossible to quote the price. So Chu Chen felt that although he didn't know what the reserve price was in Ma laocai's mind, he was ready to kill him by offering 80000 yuan, which made him frown.

Mingmazi had been paying attention to chuchen's expression. Seeing chuchen frowning, he roared: "Ma laocai, don't you want to get mixed up? For such a thing, you actually reported 80000!"

Ma laocai said with an aggrieved face: "brother Ming, the price I quoted is lower than the market price. I really didn't report much!"

In terms of the actual value of things, Ma laocai's price is much lower than the market price. But Chu Chen doesn't think Ma laocai is so kind-hearted. Moreover, if he agrees to the price immediately, Ma laocai may be suspicious and not beautiful at that time.

So Chu Chen waved to Ming Mazi and said with a smile, "Mr. Ma, we Ming people don't talk in secret. I also have a shop in Panjiayuan, and the business is good, so I know the price of the cork furniture."

Hearing this, the father and son could not help but be a little stunned. Ma laocai, in particular, secretly scolded "bad luck" from the bottom of his heart. The reason why he has such a reaction is that it is not the first time that he has traded with Pan Jiayuan's boss. Therefore, he understands that all the people who can get along well in Pan Jiayuan are human spirits. It is not easy for him to earn money from such people.

Of course, he thought that Chu Chen might be bluffing, but since Chu Chen had such good eyesight, he thought it would be true.

Thinking of the collapse of his plan to make a fortune, Ma laocai was secretly annoyed. At the same time, he could only sigh in his heart, and then said with a smile: "Chu Shao, since you are a colleague, please make a price!"

Chu Chen was not polite, and immediately said, "I gave these things to people. Then I won't take advantage of you. It's only eighteen thousand. What do you think?"

Seeing that chuchen had reached his heart price, Ma laocai immediately completely believed chuchen's words, which made him very angry and constantly scolded chuchen as a dishonest businessman.

Seeing that Ma laocai bowed his head for a long time and didn't reply, Ming Mazi urged: "old ma, OK, no, you're a dawdle girl!"

Ma laocai came back and said with a sad face: "Chu Shao, the price you give is not low, but as I said just now, I'm not good at furniture. The price of these things is not low. If you give me the price, don't mention making money, I'll lose money."

"I don't believe you!"

Chuchen chuckled and then asked, "how much do you say?"

Ma laocai pretended to be pitiful and said, "you see, I'm already half paralyzed. I'm counting on these things for the cost of living in the future. I don't have high requirements. How about you let me make some money? It's twenty-two thousand. What do you think?"

"Twenty thousand at most, otherwise I might as well buy it in the capital, which saves the freight."

Chu Chen shakes his head and looks like he's doing business. If someone else is like Ma laocai, that's twenty-two thousand, twenty-two thousand. But for Ma laocai, the consequences of being kind will only make him think you're a big wrongdoer. He doesn't want to be called a fool behind his back even if he's being kind.

In a word, Ma laocai had already made nearly ten thousand at the time of eighteen thousand just now. As he said just now, he was not good at cork furniture. If things were not cheap and profitable, he would not buy them at all.

Now, seeing that Chu Chen was not fooled by him, Ma laocai pretended to bow his head and pondered for a while, but finally agreed with some regret.