When Wang Yu came to the antique market, it was already two o'clock in the afternoon, and the antique street he went to last night seemed to be full of people regardless of black and white.
Wang Yu was still the same as before. He did not go into the shops on either side. He was still walking around on the street outside, looking here and there.
Compared with last night, Wang Yu walked very slowly today, basically stopping at every stall for a while and looking at everything on the stall with his clairvoyant eyes.
Last night was because it was late at night, and Wang Yu also wanted to go back early, so he basically just took a quick look and left. But today, he had a lot of time.
Isn't this a pipe (old people in rural areas often use pipes when smoking, mostly made of wood, but also made of bones). At this time, Wang Yu was squatting there with a bone pipe and playing with it.
It's not that this pipe is very valuable, but Wang Yu has seen it in his own village, so Wang Yu is also driven by curiosity to study it.
The thing Wang Yu is holding must be fake. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, pipes were very common at that time. Even now, pipes can be seen in some movies, TV series, and books.
It's just that not many of these things have survived intact. They were either damaged or thrown away. At that time, pipes were not very valuable items.
After playing with it for a while, Wang Yu picked up a bronze wine bottle on the stall and looked at it. As the name suggests, wine has existed since the origin of our Chinese culture.
The wine bottle first appeared in the Western Zhou Dynasty and became popular in the Qin and Han Dynasties. It was a common and popular instrument in ancient times and could not only be used to hold fine wine.
It can also double as a container for storing food. Wine bottles come in various styles, with exquisite workmanship and sophisticated materials. They are both practical and artistic.
Moreover, the knowledge of wine culture in the past dynasties is also different, and the vessels used to store wine are also varied, but bronze is basically the most popular.
In other words, the wine bottles discovered so far are basically made of bronze, and there are few other materials. This may be related to their convenient preservation.
The bronze wine bottle that Wang Yu was holding in his hand at this time had a very three-dimensional appearance and was shaped like the legendary fairy mountain on the sea; the whole body was covered with stenciled patterns.
There are tiger, bear and other animal patterns between the upper and lower raised string patterns, which are clear, exquisite and lifelike; the three legs at the bottom are in the shape of three bears, which is very naive; the whole is covered with light green glaze, which is fresh and fairy-like.
This is the most common wine bottle in the Han Dynasty, the "green glaze wine bottle". Or just now, Wang Yu was squatting in this stall looking at the pipe. In fact, Wang Yu was attracted by this wine bottle.
Through the clairvoyant inspection, this wine bottle is also well preserved, and the price displayed under the information is actually 2.2 million.
After seeing the price, Wang Yu also thought that he had promised Mr. Li to give him a good thing in the morning, so it just happened to come.
"Boss, how did you sell it?" Wang Yu asked the boss with the wine bottle in his hand.
"This," two thousand, in one go, without counter-offering, the boss obviously thinks that this wine bottle is not very valuable, after all, there are too many prevention and control measures now.
It's impossible to tell which one is real and which one is fake, but the price of two thousand yuan is still very high.
But for Wang Yu, it was just a drop in the bucket. After paying two thousand yuan to the boss, he asked the stall owner to wrap up the wine bottle and left with the wine bottle as the boss said goodbye.
The boss didn't expect that the two thousand yuan he was asking for was two thousand yuan. If he had known it, he would have asked for more. But for him, two thousand yuan is also pure income.
Wang Yu continued shopping after buying wine bottles. A few minutes later, Wang Yu squatted down at a street stall, apparently finding something of interest.
After squatting down, Wang Yu picked up a colorful vial. The vial was made of jade and was white all over. This was the "snuff bottle" that was very popular in the Qing Dynasty.
It is only 4.8 centimeters high, has a blue body with a mouth of 1.4 centimeters, a small round mouth, a girdle neck, a flat belly and oval feet. It’s small and exquisite, and Wang Yu can’t put it down.
However, according to Wang Yu’s own understanding and the information conveyed by his clairvoyant eyes, snuff bottles in the Qing Dynasty began in the Kangxi Dynasty. The types of snuff bottles in the Kangxi era included painted enamel snuff bottles with copper bodies, glass snuff bottles, and porcelain snuff bottles.
Porcelain snuff bottles include blue and white, underglaze red and other varieties. The shape of blue and white snuff bottles is mostly columnar and straight, with decorative patterns, themes and techniques.
It is consistent with the decorative style on other blue and white porcelain from the Kangxi era. During the Kangxi period, almost all porcelain snuff bottles were not signed.
Only among the blue and white porcelain snuff bottles are there imitations of the Jiajing and Chenghua marks of the Ming Dynasty. The bottom of the vessel has the regular script "Made in the Jiajing Year of the Ming Dynasty" or "Made in the Chenghua Year of the Ming Dynasty" in regular script, but the number is very small.
The bronze painted enamel snuff bottles were created during the Kangxi Dynasty and were the main products of the Qing imperial court at that time. On the bottom of the snuff bottle, there is usually a four-character double-line regular script inscription "Kangxi Imperial System" written in ink (no seal script inscription is seen).
Or the petal-shaped bottom foot is inscribed with the inscription "Kangxi Imperial System" in vermilion regular script. The snuff bottle is in the shape of a flat bottle. The decorative patterns are mostly various flowers, and the enamel materials are smudged. The picture is elegant and light.
The snuff bottle with painted copper body and enamel inlay is a unique type in the Kangxi era.
During the Yongzheng period, new varieties such as glass body painted enamel and porcelain body red color snuff bottles appeared. Their shapes were also diverse, including flat round pot type, polygonal pot type, gourd type, purse type, fish clam type, bamboo joint type and so on. Melon and fruit shape etc.
The decorative themes are still mainly traditional flowers. Since Emperor Yongzheng loved snuff bottles very much, he strongly advocated the production of snuff bottles, and he also liked the color black.
Therefore, during this period, it was more common to use black glaze as the ground pattern decoration, forming the characteristics of the Yongzheng Dynasty snuff bottles.
During the Qianlong period, the variety and quantity of snuff bottles reached a historical peak. New varieties include copper-bodied filigree enamel tobacco bottles, single-color and nested glass tobacco bottles, various jade tobacco bottles, pastel and carved porcelain tobacco bottles, etc.
The porcelain and enamel snuff bottles painted on copper bodies have obvious characteristics of the era: the decorative themes are mostly Western ladies and flower landscapes, and pointillism and smudged colors emphasize light and dark perspectives; the decorative themes of the copper-bodied filigree enamel snuff bottles also have Western sentiments.
The decoration of glass-embossed enamel snuff bottles is generally congratulatory painting or gold-ground painting. They are colorful, graceful and luxurious, and also have obvious characteristics of the times.
The large increase in jade snuff bottles during the Qianlong period may be related to Emperor Qianlong's own appreciation of ancient jade. Jade snuff bottles come in various shapes, including various antique shapes, as well as eggplant-shaped, cicada-shaped and other zodiac shapes.
Most of them are made according to the materials, and some are made in playful colors. The decorations are either complicated and exquisite, or simple and simple, showing a high level of craftsmanship.
