Treasure Hunting Divine Eyes

Sanshengyuan Jewelry is a chain jewelry store opened by Niu Sanpang, and it is a listed company. Today, San Pang and his wife Xu Jiaxin are both in the head office of Liulichang.

Li Mo opened the door and walked in, looking around, the overall decoration of this jewelry store is light and luxurious, which makes people feel high-end at first.

"Welcome, handsome guys, what do you want to see?" A tall female shop assistant in her twenties, dressed in business attire, with exquisite features, came over and asked with a smile.

Niu Sanpang followed the door and walked in, waved his hands and said, "My friend, there is no need to receive him."

"Okay Mr. Niu."

"Brother, what do you think of the scale and grade of my store?"

"It's more luxurious, not bad."

There were quite a lot of customers in the store, so Li Mo immediately said, "Where is that sander, can I use it?"

Niu Sanpang's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly said, "Did you find any good jade in Liulichang?"

"A raw jadeite from Laokeng, Myanmar. I bought it for 8,000 yuan. I'll see if I'm lucky enough to find something."

"Come with me, the sander is in the backyard warehouse."

There are shops in the front, and an independent yard in the back. Although the yard is not big, there are also stone tables and stone benches. Xu Jiaxin has already washed several fruits, and made a pot of tea specially, which just happened to be brought out.

"Professor Li, long time no see."

"It's been more than two years. You can see that I am getting older and fatter, and you are getting younger and more beautiful as you get older. The changes in each of us can be seen with the naked eye."

Xu Jiaxin immediately smiled and said, "I just thought you were praising me."

"The truth."

Niu Sanpang pulled Li Mo to sit down and said, "Brother, will you do it yourself later, or should I ask a master in the shop to do it?"

"I'm going to continue shopping in Liulichang later, how can I go shopping when I'm covered in dust." Li Mo put the long box in his hand on the table, picked up a grape and ate it.

"What are calligraphy and paintings placed here?"

Niu Sanpang looked at the long box, and subconsciously thought that what was inside was calligraphy and paintings.

"A sword." Zhu Caicai couldn't help laughing seeing Niu Sanpang's eagerness to learn more, "How about Niu Boss walking with us later?"

"Li Mo needs to put on a little make-up when he goes out for a stroll. I often show up in this area, and I know many of my acquaintances. It will be difficult for him to catch the leak."

"Cai Cai, bring that rough emerald to San Pang."

Niu Sanpang took the rough jadeite and ran into the warehouse in the backyard to get a spotlight flashlight. He illuminated a circle with the light and said, "The stone skin is too thick, the light can't penetrate it, and the halo change cannot be seen."

"Let the master not cut it, just polish it directly."

"Okay, you and Mr. Zhu have some tea first, and I'll arrange it."

After a while, harsh friction sound came from the yard next door.

"The shop next door was also bought by me, and I set up a shop for handmade gold, silver and jade, which is specially tailored for those customers who like handmade."

Xu Jiaxin poured a cup of tea for Li Mo and the others.

"It's still the top-level Yuqian tea, Biluochun, which has a stronger aroma, and smelling the aroma of the tea will penetrate into the heart. Miss Xu, get me some of this top-quality tea later. Give some to the elders in the family to drink. I heard that they often drink it." Green tea can preserve health, but I don’t know if there is any scientific basis for it.”

"That's such an easy thing, I'll have someone deliver it to your home in the afternoon." Xu Jiaxin has been doing this kind of business all along. There are many channels, and there are sources of all kinds of top quality tea.

"Don't be so troublesome, my car is parked in the parking space in the square opposite, and I don't need a lot of new tea."

The ear-piercing sound of rubbing next door finally disappeared, and within two minutes Niu Sanpang, who saw his weight rebound, trot back excitedly.

"Brother, the rough jadeite just now turned out a ball of yellow jadeite, and its quality has reached that of waxy ice species, a very rare and rare variety."

Xu Jiaxin stood up and took Huang Fei from his hand to take a closer look, and said in surprise: "Professor Li, can this piece of Huang Fei be transferred to us? Although we still have the material in our hands, this kind of waxy ice yellow Fei The variety has not yet been seen, if you find a master sculptor to design it, it will definitely become the treasure of the shop."

"Don't make up your mind about this piece of Huang Fei, I'm going to keep it as a dowry for Cai Cai when she gets married in the future."

When they heard that it was for Zhu Caicai as a dowry, Niu Sanpang and his wife really stopped staring at the yellow jadeite.

"Cai Cai, put it in the bag."

"Thank you, brother hero."

The market value of this piece of waxy ice yellow jadeite is at most hundreds of thousands, but this thing has a price but no market, and it is too difficult to come across a piece. It's useless if you have money, you have to be lucky to meet it.

"Brother, the treasures in this long box have taught me a lot."

Niu Sanpang felt itchy in his heart. Generally speaking, if you encounter top-level calligraphy and painting, the price will be several million, tens of millions, which seems to be enjoyable. The net profit they earn for a year may not be worth a top-notch antique calligraphy and painting, which is quite discouraging to think about.

Li Mo opened the lid of the box, revealing a bronze sword.

Sanpang put on his gloves and took out the sword from the box, looked at it over and over for a while before saying, "This is the King Yue sword."

"Sure, San Fatty, when will you learn how to identify bronze wares." Li Mo was a little surprised, he didn't expect the fat man to be able to see some tricks.

"What you can get back must be the real one. I also recognized the seal character 'Yuewang', so it must be the Yuewang sword handed down from the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. I don't know which king left it."

"The son of Goujian, the king of Yue, Yu and the sword."

Li Mo smiled and said, "How much do you think this Yuewang sword is worth?"

"The country prohibits the trading of bronze wares, but according to some information collected by the auction house, the Yuewang sword is estimated to cost five to six million yuan when it is auctioned. But I think its historical significance is better than its market value."

Niu Sanpang's awareness is quite high now, and he talks one after another.

After drinking a cup of tea, Li Mo got up and said, "I'll put the Yue Wangjian here for you first, and take it here when the shopping is over. Cai Cai, let's go."

"Let's have dinner together at noon."

"Okay, I will contact you then."

The flow of people in Liulichang was even greater. Li Mo and Cai Cai walked on the main road, and it was almost a crowded scene.

"Brother, let's go through another alley, where there are slightly fewer people."

The two squeezed out of the crowd, and then walked towards an alley not far away. There are also street stalls near the entrance of the alley, but the things on the street stalls are some rare books, there are villain comic strips, ancient books bound by wires, and even elementary school textbooks that have been preserved for many years. Anyway, the surface of the books is obviously yellow. Some years.

"Brother, can these be sold?" Cai Cai felt speechless. This is an antique market, not a nostalgic market.

"Do you think someone is picking?"

Li Mo smiled and said: "As long as it exists, there must be a reason. Don't you see that someone is picking and asking prices?"

The two walked straight forward along the alley, and at the end was another branch road, which could be turned onto the main road. Just when the two walked out of the alley, Li Mo was attracted by the three stalls at the exit.

There is a stall selling jade bracelets, a stall selling exquisite porcelain, and a stall selling calligraphy and paintings. The three stalls are about one meter apart, and the stall owners are all an old man and a young and beautiful woman. Near the wall, there were three children of different ages lying on the chairs and doing their homework seriously.

Li Mo walked to the porcelain booth. Unlike other stalls that were placed casually, this booth was neatly placed with porcelains of different shapes, with different glaze colors and patterns, but they had one thing in common, which was that they looked special at first glance. new, as if it had just been taken out of the kiln where it was fired.

"Sir, take a look at whatever you like, and you can start to see which one you like."

It was a young woman who spoke, and her voice was quite nice. Li Mo couldn't help but look at her more. Seeing her smiling at him, he couldn't help but also smiled slightly. He reached out and picked up a pastel double fish lotus bowl from the booth. It was very good in terms of porcelain body, glaze, and artistry. no blemishes.

Turn over to check the bottom foot, there is a double-row six-character blue and white regular script inscription "Made in the Kangxi Year of the Qing Dynasty".

The inscription is also correct, and the writing is very standardized.

Li Mo also saw irregular brown eyes appearing on the bottom of the porcelain, and through these brown eyes, the carcass of the porcelain could be seen. In addition, due to the level of craftsmanship, the bottom feet of porcelain in the early Qing Dynasty were not very delicately treated, so there were often flint red, and the inner glaze of the bottom feet of porcelain often had "jumping knife marks", but the ends of the porcelain feet were round, and the walls of the feet were in the same shape as the bottom glaze. The oblique and pointed shape makes the sole of the foot appear in the shape of steps, also known as the second-story platform.

Li Mo touched it with his hands, and found that the soles of the feet were polished, smooth and in the shape of a loach's back.

These are in line with the characteristics of official kiln porcelain in the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty.

There are no problems with the carcass, glaze, glaze color, painting, inscription, and bottom foot craftsmanship. It is no different from a genuine official kiln porcelain made in the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty.

It is very new, as if it just came out of the kiln yesterday, and it is like setting up a stall today.

Li Moyi swept his pupils away, only a faint gleam, the pastel bowl with double fish and lotus patterns made in the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty in his hand is a modern high-quality imitation. Its high quality is not inferior to that of the Guyunxuan Handicraft Art Museum, and it can be said that the imitation is flawless.

It has been many years since I have encountered such high-quality imitation porcelain, and the stall owner is not easy.

Putting down the bowl in his hand, Li Mo picked up another cloisonne plate, which was still flawless from the naked eye, but it was indeed a modern high-quality imitation.

"Boss, how much is this bowl?"

What Li Mo asked was a high imitation of a cloisonne flower plate made in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty.

"Sir, you suggest that you put it back on the booth slowly and gently. Every piece of porcelain here is very valuable. If you accidentally touch it, you may have to pay a lot of compensation."

The young beautiful boss did not answer his question immediately, but reminded him to put the cloisonne flower plate back carefully.

"Yes, I was reckless."

Li Mo shyly put the plate back in the distance.

"Sir, the plate you just looked at is a real product from the official kiln in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. It is a fine product among cloisonne. I will give you a price of 2.8 million according to the market price."

"Two million and eight hundred thousand?" Li Mo was extremely surprised, he looked at the porcelain on the stall, and then at the surrounding environment, "Boss, don't joke with me, this porcelain is so new, you can tell whether it has just been fired or not." How long has it been. Take a closer look for yourself, it’s so new. Besides, if it’s true, you dare to set up a stall in broad daylight, and you won’t be afraid that something will knock it down and destroy it.”

If it is genuine, 2.8 million is really in line with the market conditions.

The young female boss calmly took out an appraisal certificate from under the booth and handed it to Li Mo, saying, "This is the appraisal certificate of Zhou Yuren, a well-known porcelain appraisal expert in China. You can search for this person on the Internet. It is from the Jinling Museum." deputy curator."

Li Mo looked at the seal on the appraisal certificate, it was indeed Zhou Yuren's three seal characters. He really met Zhou Yuren, the deputy curator of the Jinling Museum, who was a well-known porcelain appraisal expert.

The female boss dared to say by name, did the porcelain really pass the appraisal of Zhou Yuren?

But I have to admit that if there is no abnormal pupil, Li Mo may identify all these porcelains as genuine if he uses the naked eye. Of course, he has doubts.

"Sir, have you ever heard of stock porcelain?"

Li Mo shook his head: "I also ask the boss to enlighten me."

"It's just that the porcelain fired for the emperor is stored in the palace warehouse. Before it can be used, it is passed out of the palace for various reasons. My ancestors used to be the foreman of the imperial guards in the palace, so the family has passed down from generation to generation. A lot of good things have been passed down.”

What the woman said made sense. There were indeed some genuine official kiln porcelains in stock in the world, but they only appeared sporadically, not like all the ones in the same booth now.

"As for why we didn't go to the auction, the main reason is that the handling fee is too high. Even if it's sold at a premium, I'm afraid that in the end, you will get less than what you sold." The young woman seemed to see Li Mo's hesitation, and did not continue on this topic. What to say, but said, "Sir, you can first find out what kind of porcelain is on so many stalls in Liulichang, and whether the items are good or not, you will understand after you have finished shopping for a week."

The stall owner is very smart, and he sells high imitations as real ones, and even the prices are in line with market rules. The point is that the porcelain on her booth can't find any flaws, and ordinary people really can't conclude that there is something wrong with it.

It's just that as soon as the price is quoted, it basically breaks the minds of 99% of tourists. They are screening to find someone who is really knowledgeable and rich.

Just like an antique shop, if it does not open for three years, it will last for three years after opening.

Because you understand, the probability of being fooled will be higher.

"Porcelain is so beautiful, but the price is also very beautiful. I don't have the strength anymore."

Li Mo sighed how to leave.

"Young man, we also have high-quality imitation porcelain here, do you want to see it?" Seeing that Li Mo was about to leave, the old man next to the woman called out. He stopped Li Mo, knelt down and took out a square box from under the booth, and Opening it with Li Mo's face, inside is a yellow ground Baishou bowl.

"Look, how about the firing process of this bowl?"

Li Mo approached, took out the bowl from the wooden box and took a closer look. It was fired to perfection, and the inscription on the bottom was "made in the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty", so it can definitely be confused with the real one.

"Boss, is this a high imitation?"

Li Mo seemed a little uncertain.

"Of course, it's no good for me to lie to you. It's genuine. We all have certificates issued by authoritative experts in porcelain appraisal, like the ones that are on display now. What you have is a high-quality imitation, almost fake, but It's a high imitation."

The old man spoke seriously, with a righteous face.

"Boss, how much is this high imitation?"

"Eight thousand yuan." The boss did not forget to add after quoting the price, "Young man, I won't tell you nonsense, the high imitation porcelain in my hand is more exquisite than the high imitation ones from Gu Yunxuan, and their quotations of the same type It's a thousand or two thousand higher than mine, and the price I quoted to you is a price of conscience, if you don't believe me, you can ask about it."