MTL - Treasure Hunt America-Chapter 79 Kangxi style snuff bottle

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Because the offer is very generous, Phil. Oakley was also very happy, he directly gave Jin Muchen the box he used to hold these snuff bottles.

This is a mahogany wooden box that has become flattened. Both sides are filled with sponges. In the middle of the sponge, many small holes are dug out according to the shape of the snuff bottle. Then you can press the snuff bottles one by one and place them on the small wooden box. in the box.

Jin Muchen came out of the big tent with a wooden box and Candice. It was past 1 o'clock in the afternoon and he was so hungry that he went to a restaurant nearby and had a hearty meal.

After coming out of the restaurant, Jin Muchen was no longer interested in visiting the market. At this time, he just wanted to go back early and appreciate the treasure he got today.

It just so happened that Candace also felt a little tired, so the two went back to the hotel directly. It gets dark very early in Washington in winter, and it was already dark after five o'clock.

Tired of being in her room with Candice for a while, Jin Muchen went back to his room, but he didn't feel sleepy at all. He took out the box containing the snuff bottles, opened them, and put all the snuff bottles one by one. Take it out.

Some of the top ones are the exquisitely crafted and high-quality snuff bottles that I saw in the morning, but these snuff bottles are at best handicrafts and have no antique value.

These may be some snuff bottles collected by Phil in China in the past ten years. Although the workmanship is beautiful and the material is good, they can only be defined as handicrafts.

At best, the price is hundreds to thousands of dollars, and there are about four snuff bottles in the middle. These are rough in workmanship and large in size, not to mention the material. Anyway, compared with the exquisite handicrafts above. Get up, these are just ugly ducklings.

But people who know it know that the more such a snuff bottle is, the more real antique it is.

Anyone who has played with snuff bottles knows that snuff bottles originated and flourished in the Qing Dynasty, and the snuff bottles in the Qing Dynasty had such a saying.

In terms of shape, the earlier the age, the smaller the shape; the later the age, the bigger and more stupid the shape. The shape of the mouth is also regular, the earlier the wall is thinner, the later the wall is thicker. The law of the ampulla position is: the earlier age must be flat abdomen, and the bulging abdomen is later age.

Therefore, these snuff bottles in the shape of a big belly and looking a little stupid must be the works of the late Qing Dynasty, and they should be from the Guangxu or Tongzhi years.

Don't look at this kind of snuff bottle looks ugly, but if you send it for pictures, it should be able to take hundreds of thousands of pictures.

But these are not what Jin Muchen cares about. The most important thing for him is the four inconspicuous snuff bottles at the bottom.

First of all, let’s talk about the amber snuff bottle inscribed by the Emperor Qianlong, with the poems inscribed by Emperor Qianlong on the raw surface. The characteristics of the times, but the appraiser of the two knife appraisers of the appraisal company actually did not see it.

He was playing with this snuff bottle in his hand, opened the bottle cap, there was still some tobacco medicine in it, and when he smelled it, his mind was instantly refreshed. This is definitely a rare treasure.

If a snuff bottle of this quality is put up for auction in China, it will cost at least one million, or even three million.

Then there is the black cowpea red glass tea pattern snuff bottle. This type of snuff bottle is absolutely rare in the market, and it can even be described as rare.

Because when making a snuff bottle, you usually choose a combination of white and blue, or white and red, or yellow and green. As for black and cowpea red, it is very rare.

The main reason is that this kind of cowpea red is very close to the cowpea red glaze in the porcelain, so it is very rare.

And even today, when technology is so advanced, the proportion of cowpea red used on the glass tube of snuff bottle, and the manufacturing process have not been overcome.

Therefore, as long as there is such a black cowpea red snuff bottle circulating on the market, it must be the real one, because there are no imitations at all.

It is precisely because of this, coupled with the very rarity in the world, that such a snuff bottle is very precious in the market, and it is no exaggeration to say that it is worth ten thousand gold.

According to Jin Muchen's estimation, if this black cowpea red snuff bottle goes up for auction, it will be able to fetch at least seven or eight million at the auction, and it is not impossible for it to exceed ten million.

And the third one, this white-covered blue glass body enamel colored bamboo and magpie figure snuff bottle, is even more incredible.

In the current circle of antique players, there is a consensus that the treasures of glass enamel tires are definitely not as valuable as porcelain enamel tires, but this is relative to other antique fields.

As far as the field of snuff bottles is concerned, glass enamel-bodied snuff bottles are much more precious than porcelain enamel-bodied snuff bottles.

This is mainly because the firing efficiency of glass body painted enamel is extremely low.

Because it is fired for the second time, the glass is first fired into a certain shape, and then painted with enamel; after firing, the glass will be broken when the temperature is high, and the color of the enamel will not come out when the temperature is low.

Therefore, the production volume of enamel painted on glass bodies in the Qing Dynasty was the least, and it was extremely precious, especially for such a very small snuff bottle, which required a very superb firing process.

Even in the Palace Museum, there are only about twenty such glass enamel snuff bottles.

So this has also led to such a collection, which is in short supply on the market. Once a genuine product appears, it will easily be hyped up to a sky-high price, and the price will exceed 10 million.

As for the last blue-and-white cucumber bat snuff bottle, not to mention, although both the shape and the blue-and-white painting on it are much worse than the previous snuff bottles.

But this does not affect his value in the slightest. The value of such a snuff bottle is mainly reflected in his status in the arena. It is the ancestor of all snuff bottles in the world, and the snuff bottle with the mark in the Qing Kangxi era. It is said that such a snuff bottle, There are only twenty of them in the world.

The bottom of this snuff bottle is engraved with the Chenghua Year System. Everyone may find it strange to see it. If it is said to be something from the Kangxi Year, how can it be written on the Chenghua Year System?

This is mainly related to the customs at that time. The masters of the Qing court were very fond of the porcelain of the Ming Dynasty, especially the stuff of the Chenghua year, whether it was blue and white or pastel, in short, the imperial porcelain of the Chenghua period in the Ming Dynasty was very popular in the Qing Dynasty. In the eyes of his master, it was a good thing. In the eyes of those who knew porcelain at the time, the porcelain of the Chenghua year could be said to be a pinnacle of porcelain in the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, these masters in the Qing Dynasty liked to forge porcelain from the Chenghua period in the Ming Dynasty. For example, Kangxi liked to let the manufacturing office put the blue and white stamps for him on the bottom of the Chenghua period.

On the other hand, Yongzheng liked to mark the pastel he used on the bottom of the Chenghua year system. This shows that the two emperors of the Qing Dynasty loved the porcelain of the Chenghua period in the Ming Dynasty.

According to historical records, the snuff bottles made by the palace office in the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty generally had such characteristics.

Moreover, there is generally no inscription recognition, and those with inscription recognition are also written in the Chenghua year system.

One of the most critical features is the bat portrait on the snuff bottle. You must know that bat portraits were very popular in various porcelain and small objects during the Qing Dynasty.

From Kangxi, to Yongzheng, Qianlong, Jiaqing, Daoguang, Xianfeng, Tongzhi, Guangxu, almost all the porcelain used by the emperors will have bat portraits on them.

However, the bat statues on each generation of emperor's royal porcelain are different. Among them, the bat shapes in the Kangxi period are characterized by sharp wings, which must be open.

And this is vividly reflected in this blue-and-white cucumber bat snuff bottle, not only the bat statue on the pot, but also the bat statue on the lid.

With so many features superimposed, Jin Muchen concluded that this blue-and-white cucumber bat snuff bottle was made during the Kangxi period, and looking at the four regular script characters of the Chenghua era inscribed on the inside of the bottle, UU Kanshu www.uukanshu. com Jin Muchen basically concluded that this snuff bottle was not only the treasure of Kangxi Nian, but also the kind with a stamp.

If such a snuff bottle is really to be evaluated, it can definitely be classified as a national treasure. Although its status is lower than the gold setter he discovered before, it is definitely a rare treasure.

If it was really put up for auction, such a small snuff bottle would definitely fetch an astonishingly high price. It could even be said that the combined price of the three snuff bottles in the front might not be as high as this.

Thinking of this, Jin Muchen couldn't contain his excitement. This time he came to Washington, and really picked it up.

The purpose of coming here in the beginning was just to relax and stroll around. He really didn't expect to bring back some treasures from here, but now it seems that his luck disappeared for a while in New York, as if in Washington, suddenly resumed.

On the first day, he was able to pick up such a good treasure in such a big market. Thinking of this, Jin Muchen couldn't wait for the trip to Pasque Market tomorrow.

The water in this market is very deep, and there are quite a few treasures in it, all of which are waiting for those who are destined to discover it. Since you have entered Baoshan, there is no reason to just taste it.

Jin Muchen kept playing with these snuff bottles until late at night without falling asleep. In the end, he simply threw the four good snuff bottles into the Ziyu space, and put the rest back in the box. Putting it outside like this, with those junk things, he can't worry about it, so he should take it with him to be safe.