It's too cheap, it's really too cheap.Although Yang Jing knew that in the early eighties, almost all kinds of old things with wide doors were very cheap, but he still didn't expect the one hundred and fifty-one purple clay pots.This is the work of Master Zhu Kexin, although his old man's work is not as valuable as Master Gu Jingzhou's work in later generations, but if you take out a random piece, it is also worth hundreds of thousands or even millions of top-level purple clay pots.Master Zhu Kexin is eleven years older than Master Gu Jingzhou, he entered school at the age of seven, and at the age of fourteen, he worshiped Mr.
Wang Yisheng, the master of purple clay pots, as a teacher, apprenticed for seven years, and began to work independently at the age of 20, and immediately showed his unique talent in the production process of purple clay pots.At the age of twenty-one, Master Zhu Kexin married Shundi, the daughter of the surname of Zhoushan Village, Hundong Township, the kind old lady she saw outside just now, but Yang Jing knew that this old lady was in good health now, but in fact, next year, that is, in 1983, this kind old lady will pass away.In 1932, when Master Zhu was 28 years old, his work "Cloud Dragon Ding", 25 feet high, was exhibited at the Chicago Exposition in the United States, won the "Special Excellence Award", and was promoted to technician.In the same year, the work "Bamboo Ding" was ordered by Song Qingling when it was exhibited in Huhai Penglai Market (now Yuyuan Shopping Mall), and it is now the former residence of Song Qingling in Huhai.Later, the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the purple clay pot industry plummeted, and Master Zhu's school was forced to suspend classes.Just now, his old man also mentioned to Yang Jing the hard life of those days.In those difficult days, Master Zhu also designed a new model for the owner of Zisha Ji Sansan, according to the legend of the predecessors of Chen Mingyuan's "Shuchai Sanyou Pot" pot shape simplification, designed into the Songzhumei "Sanyou Pot" seen now, beautiful use, elegant and vulgar appreciation, become a boutique design in the purple sand pot.In 1945, after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the school was reopened and renamed the Suzhou Provincial Ceramic Vocational School, and Master Zhu was hired as a craft teacher until 1950, when the school was closed.During the period, the design of "Cloud Dragon Pot" won a high reputation, and the Cloud Dragon Pot that Yang Jing saw just now was designed and produced by Master Zhu in that era.After the liberation, Master Zhu designed and produced the "round pine, bamboo and plum pot", that is, the "round three friends pot" that was talked about by purple sand lovers in later generations, and the "round pine, bamboo and plum pot" he made was collected by the Jinling Museum; In 1958, Master Zhu's work "Squirrel Grape Pot" participated in the first National Arts and Crafts Exhibition held on the Wumen Tower of the Yanjing Imperial Palace.After the exhibition, the pot was collected by Professor Gaozhuang of CAFA.During the period from liberation to modern times, Master Zhu not only began to teach his apprentices carefully, but also created many exquisite designs, such as he once instructed his apprentice Mr.
Xu Chengquan to design "Laughing Baby Pot" and "Yunyu Pot", which became popular for many years; In 1963, he designed classic purple clay pot shapes such as "Wanshou Pot", "Gaofeng Coffee Set", "Welcome Wine Set", "Golden Bell Pot" and "Trophy Pot"; In 1964, the "Jade Belt Pot" designed by Master Zhu was put into production, and the imitation of Chen Mingyuan's "Burden Pot" can be real.Later, Master Zhu designed "Bowl Plum Pot", "Bowl Lotus Pot", "Bowl Bamboo Pot", "Half Scoop Pot", "Kexin Pear Pot", "Different Color Persimmon Pot", "Red Leaf Flat Bamboo Ancient Pot", "Color Butterfly Pot", and at the same time designed high-end products "Spring Primrose Pot", "Evergreen Pot", "Spring Color Pot", "Jinsong Pot", "Cuizhu Pot", "Gao Baby Pot", the first new style of a pot shape and a variety of decorations, welcomed by Chinese and foreign people, and regarded as a classic by purple sand lovers.In 1982, that is, this year, the seventy-eight-year-old Master Zhu recuperated at home because of old age and frailty, and he spent a full 62 years from being an apprentice to going home to recuperate, and he deserved to be called one of the "Seven Elders of Zisha" by later generations.His old man's works are definitely the best in the purple clay pot, and some fine works in later generations have also been auctioned, and the prices have exceeded seven figures.For example, in December 2012, at the Chinese contemporary high-end handicraft - purple clay pot auction, a "bamboo drum pot" made by Master Zhu himself was auctioned at a high price of 628.75 million; A Sanyou pot he made, which was auctioned at an auction in 2010 with a high price of 4.25 million, the purple clay pot made by Master Zhu himself was indeed inferior to the auction price of Master Gu Jingzhou and Master Chen Mingyuan's works in later generations, but his old man's works are definitely rare and superb purple clay pots.And these purple clay pots that can easily be worth millions in later generations, now they are only one hundred and fifty-one to see Yang Jing in a daze, and the old man thought that the price was high, so he said a little embarrassedly: "Xiao Yang, if you are too expensive, I can lower the price for you" This sentence woke Yang Jing up from his daze, and he hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Master Zhu, you misunderstood, I don't think the price is too high, on the contrary, I think the price is too cheap."
You may not know that if a purple clay pot made by a master like you is sold in the UK, a pot can be sold for at least a thousand pounds, so the price you give is too low" The purple clay pot made by Master Zhu himself naturally could not appear on the counter of a British store, Yang Jing said this is just an excuse.Yang Jing, who shuttled over from more than 30 years later, naturally knew that these real masters had not enjoyed any blessings in their lives, whether it was Master Zhu Kexin in front of him or Master Gu Jingzhou, Master Ren Ganting, Master Wu Yungen, and other masters who were born in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, when they learned art, it was the era of warlord separation, social turmoil, and when they were in their prime, they caught up with a series of wars.Although they also caught up with New China, everyone knew what the country was like when it was first founded.Like these seven masters in the "Seven Elders of Zisha", that is, Master Jiang Rong, lived to the new century and truly enjoyed a good life.Master Gu Jingzhou only lived to the nineties, but he could be regarded as catching up with the beginning of the prosperity of China, and Master Zhu Kexin, who died in 1986, did not even enjoy the good life brought by the reform of a few years These real masters are really bitter in this life, so that their works only sold more than 100 at this time, but this can't be helped, in the early 80s, the works of these masters were one hundred and eighty-one, just this, many people are still too expensive.But Yang Jing is not a person of this era, this price is too cheap for him, the most important thing is that although Yang Jing plays antiques, he is not a person without a bottom, although people who play antiques regard "picking up leaks" as a supreme behavior, but the bottom limit in Yang Jing's heart is - we can pick up leaks without a bottom for foreigners, but for these very respectable masters, there can be no bottom.You can say that Yang Jing is stupid, or that he is brainless, and he doesn't pick up any leaks, then it's a curse!
But Yang Jing is unwilling to break through his bottom limit in some things, which is his principle of life.Grandfather once said to Yang Jing more than once that to do antiques, what you want is a thick face and a black heart, but you also have to do it as you like.Because your face is not thick and dark, you can't pick up leaks, but in the same way, even if you pick up leaks, you must have a bottom limit, that is, what leaks should be picked up, how to leak and how not to pick up, you have to follow your own heart.Yang Jing has always put this teaching in the most important position in his heart.What my grandfather said is not only a standard in this industry, Yang Jing believes that this is a principle for how to be a person.It's like the Chinese fellow Huang Benchu he met in the Alfie Market in London when he had just received the Ring.If it weren't for Huang Benchu's initiative to reduce the price of the in-house snuff bottle when he first sold it to him, if he hadn't given him a pen wash for nothing, how could Yang Jing have pointed out to him that the Yudian Duan inkstone was his eyes?
That is actually Yang Jing's principle of being a man - if you are good to me, I will be good to you.If Huang Benchu was not good to Yang Jing at that time, but treated everyone else, he didn't take the initiative to reduce the price, and he didn't give himself a pen wash in vain, Yang Jing didn't bother to point out the piece of inkstone for him, but directly picked it up and left.But that day, Yang Jing could really feel that Lao Huang really regarded himself as a fellow countryman, how could he, Yang Jing, do such a bottomless thing?
Besides, he had just sold those three Picasso drawings at the time, and they weren't bad for money at all, so he did that.Similarly, in Yang Jing's eyes, the works of these masters are a kind of inheritance of Chinese civilization, and this price is actually an insult to their works.Therefore, Yang Jing's "good man disease" has been committed again, and he intends to give this real master a little compensation.Yang Jing also knew that even if he bought all the pots that Master Zhu allowed him to buy at the price of one million, he would definitely have a huge profit and collection value when he took them back, but now you don't want to say one million, even if you give Master Zhu the price of 10,000 yuan a handful, does he dare to ask for it?
Take 10,000 steps back, even if Master Zhu accepts this price, should you really give Master Zhu such a high price in this era for his good?
No, that's actually hurting him!
In this era when the average monthly salary per capita is only about 30 yuan, Yang Jing spent 10 million to buy Master Zhu's ten purple clay pots, what do you ask Master Zhu to do with this money?
In this era, 10 million is enough money for the state security department to dispatch.Master Zhu and his family are so old, where can they withstand the toss of those people?
And he still came here as an overseas Chinese, this identity may be able to fool Master Zhu, but it will definitely not withstand the careful investigation of the relevant state departments!
Therefore, no matter which aspect you consider, it is absolutely undesirable to give Master Zhu a high price.But in the same way, if you buy a purple clay pot at the price given by Master Zhu, it will be too sorry for this master's craftsmanship.So after Yang Jing finished saying that, he thought about it again and then said very seriously: "Master Zhu, the price you gave me is too low, this is simply an insult to your craftsmanship and even to the entire Zisha culture, so I resolutely cannot accept this price."
Such a beautiful purple clay pot should have a price worthy of them, and I think it is more appropriate to buy a pot at a price of 3,000 yuan.What do you say, Master Zhu?
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