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Antique Market Leftovers (2)
Wenlai Street's Mo pavilion had specialized antique appraisers to help inspect the authenticity of the articles for free. Every day, there would be quite a few who'd bring items from stalls that've caught their attention for authentication.
At this time, there were some tens of people waiting in front of the appraisers' tables to get inspected.
Yang ZiMei carefully examined the items on hand, there was a flower vase, porcelain bowl, bronze ware, jade and the like. She discovered a refine mannered old man held a bronze carved dragon and phoenix with heavenly fowl patterned handle furnace that emitted a pale blue light. Compared to her twisting circlet, it was a point weaker.
(Prob not from the right dynasty but it’s one of the first pics that popped up matching desc)
She cast a couple more careful looks and found the furnace's outer appearance to be a deep dull that doesn't seem to shine. What's happening?
Just as she was thinking that, it was time for that furnace to be appraised.
The old man very seriously placed the furnace on the table before the appraiser, "Please help me take a look whether this is Qing dynasty's bronze carved dragon and phoenix with heavenly fowl patterned handle furnace."
The appraiser held a magnifying glass as he very meticulously examined. As he inspected, he nodded, "The furnace's shape is an open-mouthed tea cup, also like a blooming blossom with the lines extending smoothly, creating a refined elegance. The heavenly fowl faces downwards, its eyes slender and long, as if carrying the ancient beautiful woman's graceful reserve, it truly portrays an exquisite vividness. It's upright and simple, there's much within the little. The complex decorative patterns, the bronze is fine and smooth, the snow blossoms glisten with a golden luster. Although hidden under a couple hundred years of vicissitude, it's still difficult to mask its brilliance. It is indeed an item of the Qing dynasty."
As soon as the crowd heard, they let out an envious call as they inquired how much he had spent to acquire it.
The old man's face was full of delight as he stretched out three fingers to express three thousand kuai.
"As an item of the Qing dynasty, would it be worth at least a hundred thousand if auctioned off?"
The old man turned towards the appraiser.
"This furnace was from Qianlong's period and a craftmanship of Zhang SanQing. The market value would be around a hundred fifty thousand." Said the appraiser. [1]
Another uproar came from the crowd, their faces covered with envying to death. They then competed to be the next to hand over their items to the appraiser, hoping to they also salvaged a jackpot.
However, all the items afterwards were counterfeits, not one of them were genuine goods.
Yang ZiMei found that none of those counterfeits held any radiance while the previous furnace did have it, could it be because of the antique's authenticity?
She looked towards the gilded twisting circlet in her hand, doesn't this imply her own item may be a genuine article?
In order to confirm her speculation, she entered Mo Pavilion's antique showroom.
Mo Pavilion was already famous for managing genuine articles, if there were counterfeits, it would be indicated in its description. Therefore, they had the most popularity in this antiques street and their appraisers were the country's first-rates as well.
She discovered that within the genuine articles in the display area, majority of those items really did give off dense, subtle, green, blue, white, black, or other soft lights. Among those was Shang dynasty cauldron with a dense green light comparable to the twisting circlet in her hands.
As for the counterfeit area, majority of them didn't give any light, only one or two did.
Now she understood.
If they were genuine articles, she could see them give off light. If they were counterfeits, there wouldn't be any light. Could it be what the books refer to as an object's qi?
If she could differentiate between genuine and fake by sight, then, couldn't she become a master of finding these leftovers?
Thinking of that old man's miraculous flip of three thousand kuai into a hundred fifty thousand, her little face lit up.
She ran out and lined up behind the fifth group waiting for appraisal.
Someone saw her line up and asked out of curiosity: "Little girl, what are you here for?"
"I also want to check my item." Yang ZiMei said as she stretched an innocent smile and shook the little twisting circlet in her hand.
"Ha, a kid like you wants to hit a jackpot, where's your family?" The person chuckled.
"Who says a kid can't pick up a leftover? Maybe I did hit the jackpot." Yang ZiMei said as she rolled her eyes to retort that contemptuous expression.
1. Emperor of Qing dynasty for 60 years
TL note: I know there's another little girl with this ability who may be more relevant but I completely jumped to Hunter X Hunter instead
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