Chapter 418 Chapter 418 The Crazy Workshop

It's not surprising to think about it, the works exhibited in the exhibition hall are all high-quality goods, the carving craftsmanship is very outstanding, and these are sold, maybe they are the products of other people's practice.However, the quantity sold in the jade store is almost exactly the same as that displayed in the exhibition hall, and the share of Hetian jade is still the largest. Jia Sidao took a closer look, and felt that even among the types of Hetian jade, there should be many kinds, and there are also handicrafts carved from Qinghai jade and Russian jade.According to Mr. Zhang Kuang, as long as you look at the price of the product at a glance, you can basically judge its specific material.

You must know that this place is Yangzhou Jade Ware Factory. If there is still a certain amount of fraud in such a place, this place will not let so many jade lovers come here happily.When consumers buy souvenirs here, they are naturally more at ease than in other scenic spots. Compared with Jia Sidao's "green, fat, red and thin", the price of jade here is naturally relatively low, but compared with some other tourist attractions, it is also relatively expensive. All of them are above 1,000 yuan. Because both Jia Sidao and Zhang Kuang are in the jadeite business, they came to the jadeite counter after looking around for a while elsewhere.However, there are not many finished jadeite products from the Yangzhou Jade Ware Factory, and the craftsmanship that has been passed down for thousands of years is mainly used in the carving of nephrite represented by Hetian jade.However, in Jia Sidao's view, even so, the hand-carving skills of jadeite products are obviously better than those in other places.

Not to mention the top works, but the overall level, Jia Sidao pondered, is not below his own "green, fat, red and thin".After all, except for Xu Zhiguo, the sculptors in "Green, Fat, Red and Thin" are all from Yangzhou.And the local sculptors here are also on the same level. Especially in Yangzhou carving, most of the carving masters are good at delicateness. Any kind of emerald jewelry.Whether it is precious to the texture of glass species, or the very common wax gourd field, on the surface, ordinary tourists do not see much difference, which also reflects the exquisite craftsmanship of the sculptors. .

Of course, as long as an expert like Jia Sidao reaches out and touches it, even if he doesn't use supernatural perception, he can still feel the obvious difference. Type of jade jewelry, feel much better. "Sure enough, it's really good." After looking at a few works, Jia Sidao praised them. "The carving skills are pretty good." Zhang Kuang also nodded, and said, "However, the texture of the jadeite material is a bit poor." Xu felt that there was a bit of contempt in his words, Zhang Kuang followed He pointed to a piece of jade jewelry on the counter and said, "Xiao Jia, look, it's just such a piece of jade Guanyin. It's carved from a piece of bean jade with floating flowers. In terms of appearance, it is not like the jade Guanyin seen in other ordinary jade shops, with a dull face and a stiff shape. Judging from the face of this jade Guanyin, it is very vivid, and it is very specific and detailed. Dignity and kindness... but, as you can see, this thing is only about a thousand dollars in terms of value."

"It's also a statue of Guanyin, how can you use 'this stuff' to express it?" Jia Sidao said with a wry smile, "However, again, this thing is really not worth a lot of money. " The loss in the words is really worthless for the skill of the master sculptor. Hearing this, Zhang Kuang gave Jia Sidao a supercilious look.Only someone like Jia Sidao would act like "not big or small" in front of him.You know, is there a big difference between "this thing" and "this thing"? "Yangzhou sculptors are really extraordinary!" After carefully looking at the face of the emerald Guanyin, Jia Sidao's mind suddenly flashed the face of the Guanyin Bodhisattva in "Journey to the West". Needless to say, they are really similar.While showing a dignified and rich state in form, it also has a kind of compassion that belongs to Avalokitesvara!

"If this work is a masterpiece of a certain master, the value may be multiplied several times." In the end, Jia Sidao could only sigh in this way. "If it was the master's work, do you think he would have chosen to use such a piece of jadeite material in advance?" Zhang Kuang did not agree with Jia Sidao's point of view, "You know, in that case, this piece Jade Avalokitesvara, regardless of whether it belongs to the master or not, the price will not be too high when it is finally sold. Even if it costs thousands of dollars, how much money will it cost?"

"That's right." Jia Sidao nodded.I'm afraid that only an unknown sculptor would choose jadeite material in this way when carving.The carving skills on the hands are really nothing to say, and the design is also extremely ingenious. The part of the floating flowers is completely placed under the face of Guanyin, thus highlighting the expressiveness of this jadeite Guanyin work.Although there is nothing commendable about the raw material of the whole piece of jadeite, it is only because of the craftsmanship of the sculptor himself that this jadeite ornament has been carved alive.

"However, I think such a master sculptor, even if he is not a master, still has superb carving skills." Jia Sidao pondered and said. "Not necessarily." Zhang Kuang said, "It is indeed very admirable to be able to carve an ordinary jadeite material to a certain level. However, for a young carver, if he changes It has become the top-grade jade material, but the mentality when carving it is prone to mistakes. In the end, whether he can show his carving ability in the same way is another matter." "You can give him a lot of opportunities to exercise." Jia Sidao didn't think that when a master sculptor was really proficient in his craft, his psychological quality was not enough.

"Could it be that you can still exercise him with the best jadeite material every time?" Zhang Kuang said angrily, and pointed to most of the jadeite ornaments on the counter, and said, "Take a look at the things here. , most of them are well-carved, and the masters of these sculptors are relatively young. But if you really want them to directly participate in the carving of emerald ornaments such as glass emperor green, they will Let them feel like they're stretched." Jia Sidao was speechless when he heard the words. "In addition, look at the jadeite ornaments here, the polishing skills are not very good." Zhang Kuang said, "The carving skills here in Yangzhou are good, but in terms of polishing skills, they are still not as good as those in Guangdong. Over there. Speaking of which, in my factory over there, there is a polishing master specially invited from Guangdong."

"How can I think about it, Mr. Zhang, there is a bit of showing off in your words." Jia Sidao said with a smile. "Could it be that you, old man, are really planning to import some jadeite materials directly from me to do your own carving?" "Xiao Jia, if you agree, I will naturally agree with it." Zhang Kuang said with a stick on the snake. "Let's wait until this difficulty is over." Jia Sidao said. Immediately, Mr. Zhang Kuang's face was no longer as relaxed as before.After all, the problem of the supply of goods in his jade shop has been on his mind for several months.If it is said that he and Jia Sidao are more urgent about the cooperation between the two at this time, it must be madness.

Jia Sidao slightly shook his head at the jade Guanyin. It is already very good to have a shining point in one of the things worth a thousand dollars.Moreover, as far as jadeite jewelry is concerned, the price of thousands of dollars is indeed impossible to require that every part of the jewelry is well done. Afterwards, the two continued to admire several works at the emerald counter.Most of them are flower pieces, such as Jade Avalokitesvara, Jade Flower Basket, Monkey Stealing Peach and other established jewelry forms, but Jia Sidao will pay more attention to some neatly carved and novel ones for a while. It wasn't until this time that Jia Sidao understood why Zhang Kuang said this place was a good place. At least, for someone like Jia Sidao who knows a little bit of carving skills, after seeing the jadeite works here, it is still very inspiring.In addition, Jia Sidao, as the owner of the jadeite shop, after seeing these rather dexterous jewelry shapes, it will be easier to grasp some popular styles in the jadeite jewelry market in the future, whether it is in the purchase of goods or in the sale. style! It’s just that the number of jade ornaments at Yangzhou Jade Ware Factory is really not too much, and the materials used are also very ordinary. If you want to collect them for collection and commemoration, for Jia Sidao, it is still Kind of underrated! With the crazy suggestion, Jia Sidao made up his mind, and finally decided to go to Xiao Xu, or a Yangzhou native like Brother Li. It would be more cost-effective to recruit a few jade carving masters here.Moreover, this time, Jia Sidao also had a phone call with Liu Yufei, begging to recruit a polishing master from "Liu Ji". Since it is difficult to attract the idle polishers in Jieyang area to Linhai, let's use Liu Yufei's connections.No matter how bad it is, it is better than the "green, fat, red and thin" side, where Xu Zhiguo and other sculptors do part-time polishing, isn't it? On the jade jewelry counter, those jade ornaments with exquisite carvings and ordinary polishing techniques really shocked Jia Sidao.He is not going to repeat this mistake in his "green, fat, red and thin". By the way, Jia Sidao also made a phone call with Xu Zhiguo in front of Zhang Kuang, and asked the other party to carve out the emerald ornaments he promised to give to Mr. Zhang Kuang at the right time.As for Jia Sidao, who was going to give Zhang Kuang the top-quality emerald material as a favor, Jia Sidao looked at the joyful Zhang Kuang and thought, he should give Mr. Zhang another surprise when the two broke up! After leaving the jade factory, the two turned to the crazy jade processing workshop. The place is not big, not far from the jade factory.Jia Sidao took a look at the environment here. Generally speaking, it is such a small factory, which is not considered large-scale, but in such a small workshop, jadeite products worth millions are produced. The comparison is quite impressive. "How is it? Compared with your 'green, fat, red and thin' processing workshop, is this place a little smaller?" Zhang Kuang looked at Jia Sidao and asked. "It's not particularly small." Jia Sidao said, "My place is actually not big. Compared with some jadeite merchants in Guangdong, it can only be regarded as insignificant... However, Mr. Zhang, The environment of your place is still very good. Especially the greenery here is enviable." "Xiao Jia, you're joking." Zhang Kuang said with a smile, "It's not that old, that's all." That's what I said, but Jia Sidao also knew that when Zhang Kuang bought this place, there would already be a lot of green vegetation inside. Enter the gate, and within a few steps, you arrive at the emerald processing place. There were not many people. When Jia Sidao saw it, there were about ten people, including the security guards at the factory gate.For this reason, Mr. Zhang Kuang also explained a sentence, saying: "The workshop here mainly focuses on design and sculpture. Even for sculpture, there are not many people. The main thing is that the workshop staff in Beijing will A little more. Things like polishing are all done in Beijing... this place, the main thing is to design some flower pieces..." The insolent jadeite shop opened in Beijing, and the local jadeite processing workshop, no matter from which aspect, was more convenient than opening in Yangzhou. Jia Sidao nodded upon hearing this.Following Zhang Kuang's footsteps, he arrived at the processing plant of the workshop, which was divided into several small single rooms and a larger central workshop.Although the place is small, it is full of tools and the like.Jia Sidao looked at it with a feeling of envy. The inside story is really not something that he can have just by opening a jadeite shop like him. Turning around, Zhang Kuang said that he didn't come here often, but before he went to Lin'an, he came here, just to see if there were some top-quality jadeite cut out of some of the old jadeite rough here. possible.However, he cut a few pieces, but there was still no satisfactory material. Jia Sidao immediately showed a hint of interest.