MTL - Treasure Hunt America-Chapter 77 The ancestor of the snuff bottle

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Jin Muchen approached the booth carefully, and after asking Phil a question, he carefully picked up the snuff bottles.

One of the snuff bottles on the far left is made of amber, wine red, fully transparent, in the shape of a flat square, with a blue stone cover on the top, a tooth spoon on the bottom, and an oval foot on the bottom. There was half a bottle of snuff left in the bottle.

On both sides of the pot body is engraved a poem of seven characters in regular script: "Spring clouds cover the garden wall on the city, and the river pavilion is quiet in the evening. The forest flowers are wet with swift fat, and the water nymphs lead the wind and green belts. , Furong Biedian is burning incense. When will this money meeting be ordered, temporarily drunk with Jiaxin Jinsefang."

The most important thing is that "Qianlong Jiawu Zhongchun Royal Inscription" is signed at the end.

Just seeing this, Jin Muchen was already shocked. Combined with the soft yellow light emanating from the snuff bottle he saw before, this snuff bottle has already been judged to be genuine by him. If it was the Emperor Qianlong again. For the title, that would be incredible.

According to the current market conditions, this snuff bottle should be worth at least millions of RMB!

He took a deep breath and told himself to stay calm and never show his skin, because there are many people who are interested in these snuff bottles. If he shows any flaws, he will definitely suffer a loss when bidding.

He forced himself to calm down, put down the snuff bottle as if nothing had happened, and picked up another.

This is a snuff bottle with black cowpea and red glass tea pattern, with an oblate shape, a red glass lid and a bamboo spoon.

The belly is covered with black cowpea red glass, one side is decorated with Taihu stone and begonia flower, and the other side is decorated with Taihu stone and camellia.

In the process of snuff bottle cover glass, white cover red or white cover blue is the mainstream, and it is rare to see red glass cover on black ground. In this way, the style of this smoke bottle can be said to be unique.

Moreover, the yellow light emitted by this snuff bottle can be said to be better than the previous one. In addition to Jin Muchen's understanding of Chinese antique culture during this period of time, the value of this snuff bottle is completely better than that of the previous one. The Qianlong imperial inscription was even higher before.

The third snuff bottle is a white-covered blue-glass enamel enamel-colored bamboo-magpie snuff bottle. The shoulder is decorated with a blue animal face with a ring, and both sides of the abdomen are consecrated in a circular shape, embedded with a pattern of bamboo magpie Xichun fired in enamel, and covered with colorless transparent glass. The bottom of the pot is inscribed with the "Qianlong Year System" in regular script.

The smoke bottle combines the two techniques of glass cover and enamel color on one vessel, and has a unique decorative technique.

After confirming this snuff bottle, Jin Muchen felt that his palms began to sweat slightly. He never thought that such a treasure would actually appear here.

After putting the snuff bottle down, he settled down and picked up the last snuff bottle.

This snuff bottle is a blue and white cucumber bat snuff bottle made of white porcelain.

The whole is in a round barrel, which looks like a standing firecracker. The bottle body is painted with melon edge texture, and the small melon, vines, branches and leaves in the picture, the melon leaves are rolled up, and a small bat is lying on the leaf. The lid is made of the same material, and there is also a blue and white bat on it, and a copper gilt spoon on the bottom.

Compared with the previous snuff bottles, the appearance is not outstanding at all, and it can even be said to be ordinary.

And because of the relationship between age and maintenance, it looks very shabby, especially those blue and white glazes and even some cracking of the glaze, which makes this snuff bottle look much inferior to the previous three.

There is no bottom mark on the bottom of the pot. Open the lid and use a strong flashlight to look inside. You can see that the bottom of the pot is inscribed with four characters in regular script, made in Chenghua year.

When he saw this brand name, Jin Muchen almost threw the snuff bottle to the ground without fail. It's a special code. This is the ancestor who came across the snuff bottle!

It's no wonder that this snuff bottle, which looks the most inconspicuous and even gives a dirty feeling, emits that kind of yellowish-purple light. He has never seen such a light before, so this should be the so-called Domineering!

He quietly put the snuff bottle back, just at this time Phil also introduced the origin of these snuff bottles on his table, and the people around who were interested in these snuff bottles also came up and picked them up at this time. Check.

But these foreign devils are obviously not very knowledgeable. The objects they mainly check are those snuff bottles with the best quality on the top. In Jin Muchen's view, those things that can barely be called antiques, and Comparing the following four, we can only use the word shabby handicraft to describe them.

However, when he saw those foreigners looking at the snuff bottles with exquisite workmanship and complete appearance, he was happier. The more these foreigners were like, the more ignorant they were.

At this time, he had already made a killing order for these snuff bottles, and he must take them down!

"Mr. Phil, can you tell me the history of these snuff bottles of yours?"

Jin Muchen pointed to the bottom snuff bottles and asked the stall owner Phil, Phil shrugged, put on his reading glasses, looked at the snuff bottles, and finally pulled out a photo album from under the table. Started turning over.

Finally, I turned out a few black and white photos. Phil was still very young at that time. These photos were taken by him in the capital, and the capital in the photos was completely what it looked like decades ago.

"Well, these were collected when I first went to China, probably in 1978, when..."

Hearing this year, Jin Muchen was no longer interested in what Phil said later, because the year was right, which was very important.

In fact, in the early years, there was no clear definition of antiques such as snuff bottles in China. As early as the 1970s and 1980s, this thing could only be identified as a literary play. It was not until the 1990s that it was Defined as antiques.

The reason why it is defined as an antique is also because after the opening of the country in the 1970s and 1980s, a large number of foreigners came to China to Taobao, took many snuff bottles from China, and then competed for high prices in the international auction market. It has attracted the attention of domestic cultural relic experts.

In the 1990s, researchers from the Palace Museum published a book "Selection of Snuff Bottles in the Palace Museum". At this time, the snuff bottle was officially recognized as a precious antique from top to bottom, from official to private.

After the identity of the snuff bottle antique was defined, there were few good snuff bottles in China that were lost overseas.

Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and Japan are the most popular collectors of snuff bottles, while in Europe and the United States, the most favorite area to collect snuff bottles is the United States.

In the American collection circle, the snuff bottle has a very high status in the collection. Many American collectors like it very much, so the snuff bottle is very popular in the American antique circle.

Even Americans established the world's largest snuff bottle collection organization as early as 1964: the International Chinese Snuff Bottle Association!

Does this sound very sad? A treasure that originated in China, it turned out to be some white-skinned and big-nosed foreign devils who first established a collection and protection association!

There are several theories about the origin of the snuff bottle, but according to official research, the earliest origin of this thing should be that the Italian missionary Matteo Ricci came to China to preach during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. At that time, he brought a lot of Western gifts to Wanli.

At that time, there was snuff from the West. At that time, snuff was packed in small porcelain boxes or small glass bottles with exquisite workmanship. At that time, those small boxes and small bottles were used as medicine boxes, and these The pillbox is the origin of the later snuff bottle.

The snuff bottle that really has the concept of finished product should be from the Kangxi period, with the development of people's aesthetic taste, and Emperor Kangxi's love for Western technology.

In the 35th year of Emperor Kangxi's reign, with the help of the German missionary Jillian, the Qing Palace Building Office established a special institution - the glass factory!

After that, the snuff bottle, a gadget that is practical and can be played by people, began to quickly become popular in Sijiucheng, and in the Qianlong period, it developed to its peak.

Now, as far as the whole world is concerned, the places with the largest collection of snuff bottles are the Forbidden City in Beijing and the Forbidden City in Baodao. There are more than 4,000 snuff bottle collections in the two places.

The largest private collection is in the United States. According to incomplete statistics, there are about thousands of snuff bottles scattered in the United States and collected by various collectors.

Of course, these collections can be said to be of mixed quality, some of which are definitely hard-to-buy fine products, and more may be some shoddy handicrafts. UU reading www.uukanshu. com

But today Jin Muchen never thought that he would meet the ancestor of the snuff bottle here!

"Okay, everyone is almost done watching, let's put down what's in your hands! Let's start the auction! I'm a little hungry, let's hurry up and finish early, so I can go have lunch."

As soon as Phil saw that it was almost time, he called out potential buyers to put things down and bid.

Jin Muchen glanced at the blackboard next to his desk. It read the appraisal company's estimate. The total estimate given by these more than thirty snuff bottles was $80,000.

Old Phil's lowest expectation below was $100,000.

When seeing this quote, Jin Muchen really didn't know how to describe his feelings.

It stands to reason that he should be happy that such a good baby is actually valued so low, this time there is bound to be a big leak to pick up, but seeing such a baby, the pearl is actually dusty, Jin Muchen really scolded the appraiser of the appraisal company for being a Blind eyes.

Such a good baby, he actually only gave an estimate of 80,000 US dollars? Could it be that he really regarded these snuff bottles as handicrafts?

I really don't know how that appraiser got into that appraisal company?

And this Phil is obviously the two knives of Lord Ye Haolong. It is very likely that he started to collect snuff bottles because he saw how small and cute they are, but he never carefully studied the history of this snuff bottle. Otherwise, It is absolutely impossible for him to appear here today!