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Because the bid was generous, Phil Oakley was also very happy. He gave Jin Muchen the box he had originally used to hold these snuff bottles.

This is a squid wooden box with sponges on both sides. In the middle of the sponge, many small holes were dug out according to the shape of the snuff bottle, and then these snuff bottles can be placed in this small wooden box in shape.

Jin Muchen carried the wooden box and Candice out of the big tent. It was already past one pm and was so hungry that he found a restaurant nearby and had a hearty meal.

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

Candice also felt a little tired, so the two of them went back to the hotel directly. It was dark in Washington in winter, and it was already dark by five o'clock.

After getting tired of her room with Candice for a while, Jin Muchen returned to his room, but he was not sleepy at all. He took out the box containing the snuff bottles, opened it, and took out all the snuff bottles one by one.

The tops are the exquisitely crafted and high-quality snuff bottles I saw in the morning, but these snuff bottles are just handicrafts at best and have no antique value.

These may be some snuff bottles that Phil has collected in China in the past decade. Although the workmanship and the materials are good, they can only be defined as handicrafts.

At best, it costs several hundred to several thousand dollars, and there are about four snuff bottles in the middle. These are rough workmanship and large in size, not to mention the material. Anyway, compared with the exquisitely crafted crafts on it, these are simply ugly ducklings.

But those who know how to do things 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. There was such a saying in the snuff bottles in the Qing Dynasty.

In terms of shape, the earlier the age, the smaller the shape of the instrument; the later the age, the larger the shape of the instrument, the more stupid it is. The shape of the mouth is also regular, the thinner the wall is, the later the wall is, the thicker the wall is. The rules of the ampulla are: the early age must be the flat belly, and the bulging belly is the late.

So these snuff bottles with big belly shapes and look a bit stupid must have been works from the late Qing Dynasty, and they should have been from the Guangxu or Tongzhi periods.

Although such a snuff bottle looks ugly, if you give it to the photo now, you should be able to shoot more than 100,000 yuan.

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

First of all, let’s talk about the amber snuff bottle written by Qianlong. It has a raw face with the poem written by Qianlong. It has exquisite carvings and good looks. To be honest, he really couldn’t understand that such a snuff bottle has such obvious characteristics of the times, but the appraiser of the two swords of the appraisal company simply couldn’t see it.

He was playing with the snuff bottle in his hand, opened the cap, and there were some tobacco medicine inside. After smelling it, he immediately felt refreshed. This was definitely a rare treasure.

If you get a snuff bottle of this quality, it will cost at least one million, or even more than three million.

Then there is the black set of cowpea red glass camellia pattern snuff bottles. This type of snuff bottle is absolutely rare on the market, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as rare.

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

It is mainly because this cowpea is very close to the red glaze of cowpea in porcelain, so it seems very rare.

Moreover, even today with such advanced technology, the ratio of cowpea red ingredients used on the glass tire of the snuff bottle and the manufacturing process have not yet been overcome.

So now, as long as such black cowpea red snuff bottles are circulated on the market, they will definitely be genuine, because there are no imitations at all.

It is precisely because of this, and the number of handed down in the world is very rare, so such a snuff bottle is very precious on the market, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is worth tens of thousands of yuan.

According to Jin Muchen's estimate, if this black cowpea red snuff bottle was taken on, it would be at least 70 million or 8 million, or even over 10 million.

And the third one, this white-set blue glass enamel-colored bamboo magpie snuff bottle, is even more amazing.

In the circle of antique players today, everyone has a consensus that the treasures of glass enamel tires are definitely not as valuable as porcelain enamel tires, but this is compared to other antique fields.

As for the field of snuff bottles, glass enamel snuff bottles are much more precious than porcelain enamel snuff bottles.

This is mainly because the success rate of firing of glass-tied enamel is extremely low.

Because it is secondary fired, the glass is first burned into a certain shape, and then painted with enamel; then burned again. When the temperature is high, the glass will break and the temperature is low, and the enamel color cannot be produced.

Therefore, the production volume of glass-tied enamel in the Qing Dynasty was the smallest, which seemed extremely precious, especially for such a snuff bottle with a very small instrument, which requires a very superb firing process.

Even at the Palace Museum, there are only more than twenty such glass-enameled snuff bottles.

Therefore, this also leads to such collections being in urgent need of the market. Once genuine products appear, they will easily be hyped up to sky-high prices, with prices exceeding 10 million, which is even easier to take a step forward.

As for the last blue and white cucumber bat snuff bottle, let alone, although the shape and the blue and white painters on it are much worse than the previous snuff bottles.

But this cannot affect his value at all. The value of such a snuff bottle is mainly reflected in his status in the world. It is the ancestor of all snuff bottles in the world. It is said that there are only more than twenty such snuff bottles in the world.

The bottom of this snuff bottle is engraved on the Chenghua New Year. You may find it strange after reading it. If it was something from the Kangxi Year, how could it be written on the Chenghua New Year?

This is mainly related to the habits at that time. The masters of the Qing court were very fond of porcelain from the Ming Dynasty, especially things from the Chenghua Nian, whether it was blue and white or pastel. In short, the imperial porcelain from the Chenghua Nian period was all good things in the eyes of the masters of the Qing Dynasty. In the eyes of those who knew about porcelain back then, porcelain from the Chenghua Nian could be said to be the peak of porcelain in the Ming Dynasty.

So later, these masters of the Qing Dynasty liked to forge porcelain from the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty. For example, Kangxi liked to ask the office to put the blue and white offices for him on the Chenghua Year-made base.

Yongzheng liked to sign the pastels he used with the Chenghua Year-made base, which shows how these two Qing emperors loved porcelain from the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty.

According to historical records, the snuff bottles made by the palace offices during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty generally had this characteristic, and the shapes were mostly firecracker cylinders, and the colors were only blue and white and underglaze red.

Moreover, there are generally no text information, and those with text information are written in the Chenghua Year system.

The most critical feature is the bat portraits on this snuff bottle. You should know that bat portraits were very popular in various porcelains and small objects during the Qing Dynasty.

From Kangxi to Yongzheng, Qianlong, Jiaqing, Daoguang, Xianfeng, Tongzhi, and Guangxu, portraits of bats appeared on almost all the porcelains used by the emperor.

However, the bat statues on the porcelain used by each generation of emperors are different. Among them, the bat shape featured during the Kangxi period was that the bat wings were very sharp and must be opened.

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

With so many characteristics added together, Jin Muchen concluded that this blue and white cucumber bat snuff bottle was a work from the Kangxi period. Looking at the four regular script characters made in the Chenghua year carved inside the pot, Jin Muchen basically concluded that this snuff bottle is not only a treasure from the Kangxi period, but also a kind of snuff bottle with a style.

If such a snuff bottle is really rated, it can definitely be classified as the national treasure level. Although it has a lower status than the gold-mounted instrument he discovered before, it is definitely a rare good treasure to go there.

If it is really taken out for auction, such a small snuff bottle will definitely be sold at an amazingly high price. It can even be said that the combined price of the three snuff bottles in the first three may not be as high as this one.

When Jin Muchen thought of this, he couldn't help but feel excited. This time he came to Washington, he really took it.

The purpose of coming here at the beginning was to relax and take a walk around. He really didn't expect to bring some treasures back from here. But now it seems that his luck that had disappeared in New York for a while seemed to have suddenly recovered in Washington.

On the first day of coming, he was able to pick up such a good baby in such a big market. When he thought of this, Jin Muchen was even a little impatient about his trip to the Pasker market tomorrow.

The market is very deep, and there are quite a lot of treasures inside, waiting for people with destiny to discover it. Since you have entered Baoshan, there is no such thing as just a simple taste.
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