Chapter 1048 Four Big Boxes
“Since Master Yang is the mediator, we won’t pay the price of just visiting the house.” Zhang Cheng showed off his charlatanism.
Lin Wanqiu also smiled and added: "But you can't follow the market price at the auction, let alone the overseas market price."
"Actually, the price given by Uncle Fei is about the same. "Zhou Zhi said: "The year before last in the capital, Mr. Ma bought two dragon robes for Mr. Pan. An imperial robe costs 20,000 yuan. "
Zhang Cheng said: "If you look at the price of the year before last, it would be 40,000 yuan. Because it is the queen's uniform, the price is one level lower than the dragon robe. It’s not Minghuang, it’s court service, and it’s a bit lower, so you have to get a discount on the price of 40,000.”
"Thirty thousand yuan, what do you think of Teacher Yang?"
Yang Ting looked at Yang Dequan, and Yang Dequan sighed: "Weaving requires much more labor than calligraphy and painting, but the price is very different. The price is almost the same now.”
“Twenty thousand the year before last was the price that could only be sold in the capital, but Mr. Zhang actually paid it higher. "
"Then let's sell it." Yang Ting was already happy. The old man could exchange for a dormitory with just one coat, including all the decorations: "I don't know how many people... who wants it. ?”
“How about you take it, Sister Wanqiu?” Zhou Zhi smiled and said, “Take it to maintain relations with Mr. Pan and Mr. Feng.”
"They grew up in the Imperial City, so they like this one better." Lin Wanqiu nodded: "Okay, I want this one."
Except for this dragon coat, the rest in the suitcase are Generally speaking, although it is also a masterpiece among late Qing embroidery, its academic research value is greater than its cultural relic value.
In other words, it cannot be bought as a cultural relic.
The wardrobe is very particular, and there are certain rules and regulations for its use during performances. For a well-organized troupe, the suitcases must be "Ten pythons and ten props", and they must be arranged in five colors on the top and five colors on the bottom. That is, the ten colors of red, yellow, green, white, black, blue, purple, pink, bronze and autumn fragrance are placed in order.
This set of suitcases is missing two sets and one set is missing. It is a pity that it is not complete.
In the end, it was Yang Dequan who confirmed that he would search all over Shu and get all the designs for Zhou Zhi. Zhou Zhi spent fifteen thousand yuan to get this big box full and planned to take it back and donate it to the school.
The second box was opened, but it was two suitcases.
The items in the second suitcase include various martial arts attires, such as arrow jackets, mandarin jackets, backpacks, tea jackets, waist bags, hug clothes, fighting clothes, system clothes, large armors, monkey clothes, etc.
Similarly, the value of academic research is greater than the value of cultural relics, especially the monkey coat. The yellow ground is covered with small bats and peaches. From a distance, it looks like tufts of vellus hair on the body of a monkey. You can imagine wearing it while wearing it. What a wonderful scene it would be to see Sun Wukong rolling and fighting on the stage.
In addition to the three suitcases that should be included are thick-soled boots, Chaofang, colored shoes, flag shoes, cloud shoes, shoes with the character "Fu", colorful pants, fat jackets, green robes, dragon suits, etc., they are all the same. The child was stuffed into this big box.
In the end, Zhou Zhi paid RMB 5,000 for it and decided to donate it to the school.
When cleaning to the bottom of the box, everyone found a large bag made of lime green silk and satin. When they opened it, they found a set of props inside, including buckles, Luan belts, silk ribbons, jade pendants, tooth wands, There are five pieces in total.
Zhou Zhi took out the buckle and found that the belt was an ordinary belt, but the eight jade ornaments inlaid on the belt were all Hetian white jade.
“This is a bit interesting.” Zhou Zhi smiled and handed the buckle to everyone to see: “The jade ornaments on it are genuine.”
The Luan belt and silk ribbon are not valuable anymore, Luan The belt is a kind of silk fabric belt worn with the arrow jacket. There are rows of whiskers at both ends as decoration. A "bow" is tied around the waist, and the two ends hang down, which looks good.
The silk ribbon is used by female dancers. It is narrower than the Luan belt and covered with embroidery.
The remaining two pieces, one jade pendant and one tooth wat, are genuine again.
The jade quality of the jade pendant is exactly the same as that on the buckle. The pattern is hollow carving. The upper part is a sea turtle with sharp claws grasping the neck of a swan below. There are reed carvings around the swan. The entire jade pendant is connected into a whole, the design is still very exquisite, and the carving is also quite exquisite. However, this is a typical theme of ethnic minorities. We concluded that it is not an ancient jade. Judging from the workmanship, it should be from the mid-Qing Dynasty.
This in turn proves the age of jade ornaments on leather belts. Although no one is an expert in jade, the rule is to look at the new rather than the old.
It is difficult to date the eight pieces of jade on the leather belt, so based on the carvings of the jade pendants and the age of the two boxes of clothing, we concluded that they belonged to Tongzhi Guangxu in the late Qing Dynasty.
Everyone likes to say that "gold is valuable, jade is priceless", but in the real literary and entertainment industry, the price of jade has not increased since the founding of New China.
The reason is very simple. Bronze and jade articles that are not handed down from ancient times are prohibited from being sold or exported abroad.
Without buying and selling, there is no opportunity for speculation. This has also led to the price of ancient jade being sluggish around the world. Later, after the rise of the cultural craze, there was even a magical phenomenon of "new and old upside down".
The price of modern jade crafts carved by craftsmen even exceeds that of most ancient jades. Even in the overseas circulation market, the price of handed down jade cannot be compared with that of porcelain. It is completely unreasonable.
Therefore, Lin Wanqiu is not very interested in these things. If she wants to get them, she would rather get them abroad, where the market is at least much better than at home.
In the end, everyone discussed it and felt that 50,000 yuan was enough.
But after the price was set, no one wanted it. This time Fei Guan was not even willing to take the bottom.
Chinese people do not yet have the habit of wearing jade. Even if they develop it with great difficulty, most of them will wear new jade.
Well, everyone knows where the ancient jade came from. Well, it is unlucky to mess with something dirty...
"Then... how about we give in a little more?" Seeing that no one was willing to take over, Yang Shangqiu became a little anxious.
Teachers in Yangting are smarter: "Mr. Xiao Zhou just said that he would donate clothes to Shu University for research, so I was wondering if we could also make some contribution."
"Otherwise, plus this tooth wat, Mr. Zhou is willing to spend 60,000 yuan to get it If so, we will give the contents of the other two boxes to Mr. Xiao Zhou. If you want to donate them to the school, you can have a roughly complete set."
The other two boxes, one. It's called the helmet box, and the other one should have been two, and they should be called the miscellaneous box and the handle box respectively.
Combined with the previous suitcases, these are the "four big suitcases" of "outfits" in the opera world - clothes, helmets, miscellaneous items and handles.
There are mainly four types of helmets, hats, crowns and scarves in the helmet box.
In addition, there are nets, water gauze, pheasant tail feathers, fox tails, swings, buns, ear hair, buns and various beards worn on the actors' heads.
The miscellaneous box is also called the color box or the combing table.
The color box is used for facial makeup, smearing, makeup removal, and face washing for male characters.
The hair combing table is specially designed for combing large hair, costume hair, smearing hair, pasting patches, inserting silver bubbles, green bubbles, diamond bubbles and silk flowers and other accessories.
The largest box is supposed to be rectangular. It contains weapons such as knives, spears, swords, and halberds, as well as tents, mountains, cities, tombs, monuments, and other scenery;
There are also the four treasures of the study and seals. Letters, tea and wine vessels, order flags and arrows, horse whips, carts, boats, wind and fire flags, to imperial edicts, incense tables, flags, gongs, umbrellas, newspapers and dramas such as family law, shackles, copper hammers, chessboards, flutes and flutes, etc. Props.
But the things in this courtyard are all "private furnishings".
(End of this chapter)