The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

The back of the box is inlaid with a large piece of pierced and engraved butterfly jade pendant. It is a large one with a diameter of ten centimeters. It looks like the craftsmanship of the late Qing Dynasty. Although its value is not as good as the left and right ones, it is exquisite in workmanship. Boutique!

There is a jade tiger on each of the two small doors, which are hollowed out and carved, and on the wooden doors that are inlaid upright, each has a length of 13 to 4 cm. ? Eight?? One? Chinese Network ====≤=≤≈≥≤≥

I don't know where these two tigers were found. Although the jade is slightly inferior and the second white looks, it is a standard "thin and bright" workman!

A pair of jade tigers from the Ming Dynasty is even more rare!

Zhang Nan seems to remember that the decoration method of inlaying jade on wooden furniture began in the Ming and Qing dynasties, but it would be rare in the Ming Dynasty. Some people say that it seems to have existed in the Tang Dynasty at the earliest, but Zhang Nan has never seen it.

This is a general idea, and it cannot be said to be absolutely correct: human memory will always make mistakes, but fortunately, this question is not particularly important.

And this craft really began to appear on a large scale in the Qing Dynasty: the Qing emperor's fascination with jade ware was much greater than that of the previous dynasty, especially the Qianlong emperor's preference for jade ware!

Simply fascinated!

Qianlong not only collected a large number of handed down ancient jade in the imperial palace, but also ordered the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Ruyi Museum to produce a large number of jade artifacts.

While carving various kinds of individual vessels with jade, the Qing Palace Interior Manufacturing Office also combined jade carving techniques with furniture making to produce a large number of jade-inlaid furniture.

This kind of craft is to inlay the jade ornaments on the furniture. These jade-inlaid furniture are generally divided into two types: the first is to use jade materials to sculpt various figures, round walls, auspicious beasts, flowers and birds, etc., and inlay them on the chair. , Stool, table, case, box, box furniture surface.

For example, exquisite jade carvings are inlaid on the armrests of the backrest of the seat, the waist of the table furniture, the cover of the stationery box, etc., which play the role of embellishment and foil.

This decoration box in Zhang Nan's hands belongs to this type of jade-inlaid furniture, the small one.

The second type is jade-inlaid shielding furniture, such as jade-inlaid screens.

With the ups and downs, this style of decoration spread very quickly in Qianlong years. Not only the princes and nobles in Beijing liked this kind of furniture, but similar furniture appeared all over the country.

In the middle and late Qing Dynasty, Guangzhou also produced similar furniture for export, but the number of jade-inlaid furniture that would be exported was not particularly large.

In the period of the Republic of China, there were fewer people wearing jadeware. As a result, the amount of old jade that could be used to inlay on furniture for export increased, and the export volume increased a lot.

At the beginning of the liberation, foreign exchange was extremely scarce. This old jade pendant was worthless. In addition, everyone had no money in their hands. Once they were bought by cultural relic shops, many of them were sent to handicraft factories and export furniture factories. .

At that time, few people in China would buy jade at all, but foreigners don’t have the Chinese love for jade, so no one wants to sell ancient jade?

what to do?

Then just use it as an ornament, learn from previous experience, and no matter what time your jade is, as long as it can be inlaid, it will all be inlaid on the small wooden furniture for export.

Everything is inlaid! In this decorative box in Zhang Nan's hand, there are small jade rings inlaid on the surface of each drawer, and there is a slight color difference between each one. A closer look reveals 5 old jade rings!

This is fancy, and foreigners also like this fancy style-you can get precious foreign exchange from Xiangjiang, absolutely waste use!

Yes, there were a surprising number of old jade from Ming and Qing Dynasties at that time, in the eyes of many people, they were basically useless waste!

As for why there are jade pendants of different periods on the box?

The arts and crafts factories and cultural relics shops in that meeting are both state-owned units, and they are definitely useful for anything. And the foreign devils on the other side can't understand the meaning of those Chinese jadeware, just look good, no matter what age and texture you are!

The handicraft factory here also only looks at the decorative effect, regardless of whether you are from the Ming Dynasty or the late Qing Dynasty. It does not matter if you are from the Republic of China, as long as you can use it.

The poor and good old jade pendant became a decoration and traveled across the sea to England. After decades of effort, it was transferred to the second-hand goods market, and it is now worth fifty pounds.

Zhang Nan estimated that this will be in China, and these jade pendants can be worth two or three hundred, but they are hard to come across.

As for the heritage store, the price is estimated to be a lot higher than £50! But I really can't say that the stall owner didn't know the goods and missed something. I can only blame the British for not being good at jade!

That man just sold an old decorative box and made money. As for how many pounds this thing was worth when it first arrived in the UK? How come here...

These issues are not important, what is important is that it is just an old box in the eyes of the British today!

No matter what jade you are, people will treat them as decorations and beautiful stones—the cultural background is different, so I really can’t say that people don’t know the goods.

Don't forget it when it's old, it's normal.

This is the same thing as the "tens of thousands of dollars a pair of worn-out 19th century American jeans": American collectors can't say that Chinese people don't know the goods, because Chinese people don't play this at all.

And this kind of small furniture inlaid with jade is still exported by China, but because there are not so many old jade for the handicraft factory to use, or it is not economical to use it at present: in order to save trouble, the handicraft factory will use a lot of it. Xiuyu jade has low hardness and is easy to process. In the eyes of foreigners, all kinds of jade are the same.

Zhang Nan was cracking in the car and Mr. Yi Jie, Xiang Weirong also understood.

"It seems that we have to go around more in the past few days, and we can get back a lot of good things from the British."

"After going to see the house this time, I will have to visit two important antique markets in Dundun. It is estimated that it will take at least five or six days. After that, we will go to France, where there is the largest flea market in the world. If we even have the glorious vase. I want everything of the highest grade, I guess we can pack a shipping container back!"

Guan Xingquan interrupted, "I think the price is not high, and these foreigners don't know much about it, so let's buy them all! I can make a contribution with this 1oo!"

Zhang Nan didn’t answer, but said: “In this way, we’ll do a big job on this trip, but let’s talk about it first, unless we encounter extremely important objects. In Britain and France, no one spends up to 50,000 US dollars. Buy everything back, and the harvest will be tattered."

Xiang Weirong agreed.

"In this way, let's talk about it first: Whoever bought it belongs to whoever buys it. If there is no place to put it, put it in my ammunition warehouse. When the mountain top villa is built, I will prepare a piece of land for brother-in-law and Guan. Everyone builds a big American-style house, just like my Long Island one. When the time comes, the things will be moved back by themselves, don't let me go!"

Before the two of them objected, Zhang Nan said very strongly: There is no discussion on this issue!

But there is a little thought: "Brother-in-law, I don't know if I can think of a way. I want to buy the miscellaneous forest in Daiwang Village behind the land on the top of the mountain."

"That's difficult, but I can think of something." Xiang Weirong thought for a while, "In fact, the party secretary of Dai Wangcun met me some time ago."

"What's up?"

"Oh, I know him. They basically go through the gate of the convoy when they leave the village and go down the mountain. Sometimes they also go to the convoy parking lot to move their things.

You also know that their village is not like yours. You can't get cars and tractors, so you want to build a simple uphill road that can pass a truck. "

"Come for alms?"

"That's not the case. It's just that you need to use explosives at a few corners on the design route. The indicators given by the county are barely enough at most. If you want to delay the relationship, get 1oo kilograms and some paper mine-tubes. I Go to Director Guo to do it."

This type of explosives, explosives, detonators, and dangerous goods are also exclusively operated by the Materials Bureau. In addition, Yan County itself has a 785 factory that manufactures industrial explosives. 1oo kilograms of explosives is what Director Guo said. matter.

But if you don’t have an acquaintance, can you be a village party secretary with just one kilo! Even if you can run the higher-level indicators to be able to do it, one lap of the process will allow you to run fine!

Now Director Guo is following a simple process, and it took a long time to complete it. It's not against the rules yet.

Now that party secretary even owes Xiang Weirong a favor.

Xiang Weirong thought for a while and said: "In this way, the county must come forward to sell the land in this village. This is not a big problem, but the compensation should be paid higher. I will find someone after I go back."

When I heard Xiang Weirong's approximate amount, Zhang Nan really had nothing to say: it was a patch of forest, and the main part of the village was on the other side of the top of the mountain, and the villagers didn't bother to come to this forest to chop wood.

In the next few years, no one wants firewood. Before it becomes a high-end villa area, that large piece of land has been wasted for almost 20 years! The compensation required is unbelievably low!

"Then buy it and let the village party secretary do the work of the villagers. It's okay to pay a little bit more to avoid problems."

Zhang Nan is most afraid of trouble, and things in Huaxia Village are one of the most troublesome, troublesome, and complicated things in the world!

However, Xiang Weirong had a different opinion, "It is better to let the county do it. Once contact with the villagers, UU reading www.uukanshu.com will have problems no matter what, and it will be a little bit more money. If there is money, the village leaders will start to work. It’s easy, and there is positivity."

Zhang Nan and his brother-in-law were chatting in the back seat, Guan Xingquan and John were chatting in the front row, and they did not interfere with each other, so that John would not be cold because he could not understand Yanxian dialect.

After dozens of minutes, the small village of Hoxon appeared on the side of the road.

An oil painting of a typical English countryside landscape. Although Zhang Nan came here for the second time, he was once again attracted by the scenery completely different from the Chinese and American countryside!

When he reached the low fence of the small farm, Xiang Weirong couldn't help saying: "A Nan, you really know how to choose a place, it's really nice here!"

John handed a large set of keys: "All the keys are new, and the inside of the house has been reorganized and simply decorated. There are currently no animals on the small farm except mice and flying birds. The housekeeping company every week Professionals will be sent here to ventilate, clean inside and out, exactly according to your requirements.

If you don't live here, basically every month, all the bedding and quilts in the house will be dried to ensure that you can move in at any time. To be continued.)