Antiques with golden eyes

"What's going on?

"Why did this precious light suddenly appear on its own?

"Or a ball of cyan light?"

Shen Yu was stunned by the sudden appearance of a green light three inches above the pot.

Because this was something he didn't expect at all.

Although Shen Yu could remain calm on the surface at this time, he was already rapidly calculating the various reasons for Baoguang's appearance in his heart.

Shen Yu is fully aware of this fact that if you stare at the antiques for more than ten seconds, a precious light will appear.

But the cyan precious light should obviously appear on Ming Dynasty antiques, right?

Based on Shen Yu’s experience, the silver teapot in his hand should date from the period from Xianfeng to Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty, both in terms of shape and decoration.

Therefore, even if a treasure light appears, it should be a blue treasure light.

And the size of Baoguang is not right either.

Although this silver teapot is a mandarin duck teapot, because of its mediocre appearance, it only costs 4,000 yuan at most.

Even if you meet a collector who really likes old objects from the Qing Dynasty, the top price is 5,000 yuan.

According to Shen Yu's experience, there should not be a precious light appearing.

Because of the emergence of antique Baoguang, the value of antiques must exceed 10,000 yuan.

What is even more difficult for Shen Yu to understand is that the light group condensed in this silver holding pot is as big as a broad bean.

It is comparable to the Baoguang that appeared on Mr. Qian’s Qingtian Lighting Frozen Seal.

Even a little bigger.

How is this possible?

You must know that the market price of Mr. Qian’s Qingtian lighting seal is at least one million yuan.

Is this silver mandarin duck holding pot more expensive than the light seal?

It’s impossible, no matter how you think about it, it’s impossible.

From the appearance of the cyan light group to now, it sounds complicated, but in fact it only takes a few seconds.

While Shen Yu pretended to play with the silver pot in his hand casually, he continued to think about various possible reasons for the appearance of Baoguang.

There must be a reason for the emergence of Baoguang. There is no doubt about this.

This is also the conclusion Shen Yu came to through experiments using hundreds of antiques in the store and Mr. Qian’s Qingtian lighting seal.

And this silver pot is not valuable, at least not as valuable as Mr. Qian’s seal, there is no need to doubt it.

Shen Yu has been exposed to antiques since he was a child, and now he has opened his own antique shop. He knows the prices of various antiques on the market very well.

This silver mandarin duck holding teapot is sold for only 5,000 yuan, and you have to meet the kind of collector who is not short of money and especially likes old silverware.

If you meet a collector who is willing to buy or not, four thousand yuan is the limit, and it is impossible to go above one hundred yuan.

"Since the holding pot itself is not valuable, is there something else going on inside the holding pot?

"Just like the painting within the painting, the treasure within the porcelain, and the treasure within the belly that are widely circulated in the antique industry?

"Are there other treasures hidden in the pot?"

When Shen Yu saw the most conspicuous big-bellied pastel nine-peach celestial sphere vase on the stall of the tall and thin stall owner, his eyes suddenly lit up.

Shen Yu started shopping for his first antique Qing Dynasty huanghuali pen holder at the Qingniuguan antique market in Dongjiang at the age of 16.

All kinds of "picture within a picture", "treasure in the belly", "treasure in the pot" and other leak-picking legends kept filling his ears.

After Shen Yu started to set up a baggage stall during the winter and summer vacations of high school, I heard more and more anecdotes about baggage picking.

The so-called "painting within a painting" does not mean that the content of the painting is an ancient painting hanging in the scene, but that there is another completely different calligraphy and painting hidden under the real painting paper.

For example, in ancient times, someone got an authentic ink landscape painting by Wu Daozi, but he didn't want others to know about it. He just wanted to leave this authentic painting to future generations, so he chose to reframe it and make a painting within a painting.

The specific step is to cover the original work of the painting saint with another landscape painting that is slightly rough in painting but has merit in brushwork.

In this way, even if someone sees it, they will just think it is a work by an ordinary artist. However, because the painting has merits and will not be discarded or destroyed at will, the painting within the painting can be safely preserved.

It's just that Shen Yu doesn't believe in this legend. It's possible to show that the works of Qing painters are framed as paintings within paintings. It's pure nonsense to say that the paintings of the saint Wu Daozi were done.

The reason why ancient paintings can be passed down for thousands of years depends on the careful preservation and repeated mounting by successive collectors.

If no one takes care of it, the painting will long ago become a pile of shredded paper.

You must know that the silk from the Ming Dynasty was rotten to pieces by the Qing Dynasty, let alone the silk from the Tang Dynasty?

The "treasure in the belly" is similar to the painting within the painting, also known as the treasure in the image. It means that there is another universe in the belly of the Buddha statue, and other small authentic antiques are hidden inside.

Finally, this is the "treasure in the pot".

Kettle refers to gold and silver wine pots and copper wine pots, which also contain small antiques, such as jade pendants, pendants, rings, bracelets, etc.

Shen Yu personally experienced the hidden treasure in the pot once.

It was the Dragon Boat Festival last year, and Shen Yu was still working at Baoyu Xuan.

Shen Yu still remembers that experience clearly. At ten o'clock in the morning, he went to the store's underground vault to pick up a Qing Dynasty purple clay teapot ordered by a customer.

The antiques that can be placed in the underground vault of Baoyuxuan are worth at least 300,000 yuan, and the remaining ordinary antiques are placed on the shelves in the store.

This purple clay pot is no ordinary product, but the work of Chen Mingyuan, a master of pot making in the Qing Dynasty.

Chen Mingyuan, also known as Hefeng, also known as Huyin, and also known as Shixiashanren, was a generation of purple sand masters.

He was born into a family of pot makers and was active during the Kangxi and Yong reigns. The exquisite purple clay pots he made often fetched millions of dollars at auctions.

Although the purple sand lotus seed pot that Shen Yu wanted to take was an early work by Chen Mingyuan, and there was a defect on the pot, it was sold for 500,000 yuan.

It’s just that the information given to Shen Yu by colleagues in the store is wrong.

The purple clay teapot was clearly on the second floor of the sixth row of racks, but when my colleague entered it into the computer, it was recorded on the sixth floor of the second row.

When Shen Yu came, he felt something was wrong.

Because the purple clay teapot is fragile, it is taboo to place it in a high place. How could it be placed on the sixth floor?

Even if the shelves are covered with soft carpets, they should not be placed high.

Sure enough, when Shen Yu stepped on the wooden ladder and looked at the sixth floor of the second row of ancient racks, there were no purple clay pots at all, but only a row of gold wine pots.

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Shen Yu originally wanted to go back to the store and search the storage directory again, but he accidentally discovered that one of the gold and gem-set ewers was placed in the wrong position.

The part inlaid with gems is tightly against the wall, which can easily lead to scratches on the pot when taking it out, thus affecting the selling price.

Shen Yu has a strong sense of responsibility, and this is Chu Yaozong's shop. Chu Yaozong treats him as his nephew, and since he sees it, there is no reason to ignore it.

After Shen Yu climbed up the wooden ladder to rearrange the gold and gem-set ewers, he discovered that the handle of one of the gold ewers seemed to be stained with paint.

This discovery made Shen Yu frown. It stands to reason that the objects stored in the underground vault must have been cleaned. How could such a painted pot get into the vault?

The kettle is made of gold, not porcelain. If it is stained with paint, just scrub it off without causing any harm to the object itself.

Besides, when taking high-definition photos of the holding pot to make an antique photo album, this is obviously a deductible, right?

Customers may not buy if they see it.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Shen Yu picked up the handle of the gold pot, he stepped on the wooden ladder and missed it.

The Bogu stand was two and a half meters high, and the wooden ladder was also one and eight meters high. The pot in hand fell down with Shen Yu and flew out first.

The first time it hit the bluestone wall of the vault, and then it fell into an uncarpeted corner.

The lid of the pot had already jumped to nowhere. What surprised Shen Yu the most was that a jade medal wrapped in gold foil actually flew out from the mouth of the pot.

Shen Yu picked it up and saw that it was a mutton-fat white jade Zigang tablet. The back was carved with a picture of a chess game in a pavilion, and the front was carved with an unknown poem.

It turns out that the Zigang brand was tightly wrapped in gold foil and then tightly adhered to the bottom of the pot with a special adhesive.

Because the gold foil is also engraved with the name of the craftsman who made the pot, even if I shine it with a strong flashlight, I will only think that it is a problem with the production process, and I will not expect that it is actually a treasure in the pot that someone deliberately hid.

Afterwards, the Zigang tablet was collected by Chu Yaozong, and Shen Yu was given another 500,000 as a reward.

Thinking of this, Shen Yu opened the lid of the Yuanyang Pot and looked inside. It was so dark that nothing could be seen.

In this case, there may really be something else in the pot.

Shen Yu wanted to use the bright flashlight in his bag to shine it, but he was afraid that the stall owner would become suspicious.

After all, it’s just a silver hip flask. If there are too many inspection steps, the other party will be shrewd and suspicious, and they may not sell it if they say they won’t sell it.

"Forget it, let's buy it first. At worst, we can go back and study it slowly.

"If the other party does something wrong and suddenly stops selling, it will be considered a leaked treasure."

Thinking of this, Shen Yu said calmly: "Boss, the market price of your silver mandarin duck teapot is between 3,500 and 4,000 yuan.

"It is our fault to trample on your things, but you are also at fault for what happened.

"If you didn't put this jug in the aisle, my little sister wouldn't have sprained her feet.

"Let's do this, I'll give you three thousand yuan.

"If you want, I'll put some money and buy the jug. If you don't want, we can go to the management office to talk about the situation and let the people in the management office make an evaluation."