A few days ago, I went to Panjiayuan, summer is in full bloom, and people who come to visit the thrift market are shoulder to shoulder, so it is not lively. From a distance at the gate, you can see handsome guys and beauties flocking in, which makes people feel strange, are antiques and old goods so popular now? I followed the gate to know that the men and women went straight to the east side of the cultural play bracelet when they entered the door, and the female girlfriends and couples went to pick jade bracelets and bracelet necklaces, and there were very few people who went to the antique stalls in the West Market. The purpose of my trip was the West Market, so I strode forward.
When I arrived, I found that the situation here was very different from that in the east, a huge square, covering an area of 2,000 square meters, and there were only a dozen people who came to visit. One by one, the antique owners sat at the stalls with small pony, and there were far more customers than they came to buy things. Most of the individual visitors who stroll around are middle-aged and elderly, and many of them are gray-haired. The contrast with the handsome men and beauties in the east is too strong.
I went in and chatted with the stall owners, and they were pouring bitter water, saying that the business is not good now, and many of the antique shops with stores have closed their doors because of the high rent. When the sale was almost over, I also considered changing careers. What the boss said is true, a shop I just passed by, used to sell ancient coins, called the House of Ancient Coins, and I also bought copper coins from the Guangxu Dynasty there, and now it has been changed to sell beeswax.
The boss will sell it as soon as he gives money, I don't know if it's true, I fancy a few treasures and try to negotiate the price with him.
This is really beautiful in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, the boss said that it was made by the imperial craftsmen of the imperial palace in the people, and the skill was the emperor's royal level, which was not worse than hundreds of millions of chicken cups. When I looked at it, such a large light color character bottle, with double colors on and under glaze, must be made by a master. The boss usually doesn't take it out and sell it, but this time he took out the goods at the bottom of the box in order to get back some more funds. It turned out that he didn't sell it for 30,000, but now he will sell it for 3,000. I want to, but we don't have a place to put it in our house.
I met a Ming Dynasty eight-treasure dragon pattern blue and white jar, this dragon is painted lightly and flying, the blue and white are black, I don't know what the reason is. The glaze color has a cracked feeling, which is obviously the technology of the folk kiln imitation kiln. The boss offered four thousand and five, and I only gave five hundred, and in the end there was no consensus.
According to the boss's boast, this blue and white bowl was dedicated to the Ministry of Internal Affairs during the Daoguang period, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs could not use things from official kilns, but the craftsmen were also at the royal level and belonged to the second-level official kiln. The bowl shape is really beautiful, there is a full text at the bottom of the bowl, the boss said that when the business was good before, the price of this kind of color was at least 10,000, and now there are too few people to see the goods, and the money will be sold, and one thousand five can be taken away. I refused on the grounds that I didn't like the vegetarian ones.
In the end, I fell in love with this Daoguang birthday plate, colorful glaze color, the pattern is too beautiful, it is a Poly lot more than ten years ago, and the back is pasted with the storage number. Then there is no doubt that it is genuine. The boss offered 30,000 yuan, and in the end, I won it to 2,008. The boss said with a sad face that in the past, he would rather play at home than sell it at this price.
This trip was not in vain, and I bought a suitable porcelain by chance, just in time for the market to be low, so I picked up a bargain. It's just that I don't know when the antique industry will be the bottom, and I can't help but worry about the future of the bosses.