Yang Jing moved closer and stood beside a few people, looking at the plate in the dim light.

Of course he wouldn't speak at this time.

Antique dealers all know the most basic rule: when others are looking at things, you can watch from the side, but do not comment without the stall owner's consent. You can only look at things after others have finished looking at them. When others are bargaining, you can listen, but you cannot participate. You can only bargain with the stall owner after others have finished bargaining and have not reached a deal.

That's the rule.

Now the old man was looking at the plate. If Yang Jing interrupted at this time, it would be against the rules. Not only could the old man scold Yang Jing, but even if the stall owner was a person who followed the rules, he would most likely not do business with you. No matter how high the price you offered, he would not sell it to you.

People who break the rules are just so unwelcome.

When the antique market in China first emerged, both sellers and buyers were very disciplined, unlike the antique market more than 20 years later, where anyone dared to interrupt and talk nonsense, and spoke "jargon" learned from nowhere, and acted as if they were so awesome. In fact, in the eyes of experts, such people are the real idiots.

The old man, wearing gloves, looked at it for a while, then turned his head and whispered to an old man next to him who was dressed similarly, "Old Wang, what do you think of this plate?"

The old man surnamed Wang nodded slightly and whispered, "This should be a Ge kiln porcelain handed down from ancient times. Judging from the shape and ice cracks, it is consistent with the characteristics of those Ge kiln porcelain handed down from the Qing Palace."

After a pause, the old man smiled bitterly and continued, "Old Zhao, the real Ge kiln porcelain is hard to find nowadays! But if the price is right, I think it's quite suitable for you to take this plate."

The first old man nodded slightly, and then asked the stall owner: "Boss, would you like to sell this plate for 2,000 yuan?"

From the old man’s questions, Yang Jing knew that this old man was definitely an “eagle”.

In the antique business, the difference between an eagle and a blind bear (a rookie) is not a casual statement, it can be seen from many subtle places. For example, the skill of asking for a price. If you are a rookie, you usually ask: "Boss, how much is this plate?"

If a rookie asks this, the seller will climb up the ladder. He will dare to offer you 20,000 or even 200,000 yuan for a plate originally worth 200 yuan! Who else can I cheat if not you?

But experienced people will never ask this question, they usually ask the price in this way. Just like the old man surnamed Zhao directly asked the boss, "Will you sell this plate for 2,000 yuan?" The implication is to tell the boss that I know the price of your plate roughly, so don't try to fool me.

When the seller hears this way of asking, he will know that the person in front of him is either an "old wolf" or an "old eagle", and it is not realistic to try to fool them. Once the price offered by the buyer meets the seller's wishes, the deal will be done quickly.

From the seller's point of view, they are also willing to do business with such experts. Although they cannot make much money from experts, such experts are potential stable customers. Once the seller's things are genuine, these experts will come to him to buy things next time.

However, the price offered by the old man surnamed Zhao was obviously not in line with the price in the mind of the stall owner. The owner shook his head and said directly: "Old man, I can see that you are an expert. If it is an ordinary plate, I will give you this price, but not this plate. If you want this plate, it will cost at least 20,000 yuan!"

The old man surnamed Zhao was not in a hurry after hearing this. He smiled and said, "Brother, your price is too high. The plate in your hand is not from that period. At most, it is a Ge kiln porcelain handed down from the Qing Palace. If it is a genuine Ge kiln porcelain, let alone 20,000, even if it is 200,000 or 2 million, I will sell everything I have to buy it. This is not enough."

The stall owner's face looked a little ugly, luckily the light was dim and it was not obvious, but Yang Jing could clearly see that the owner's hands were shaking slightly.

"Old man, I respect your age, so I won't say anything unpleasant. Even if my plate is a Ge kiln porcelain handed down from generation to generation, it is also an imitation of the Yongzheng and Qianlong official kilns. Two thousand yuan is not enough. If you want, I can give you another five hundred yuan off."

The old man shook his head and said, "As you said, your plate is most likely a replica of a Ge porcelain from the Yongzheng and Qianlong official kilns, but replicas are replicas and can never be the real thing. I just came from there, and I only spent two thousand on a Qianlong famille rose plate. Your plate is really expensive. How about this, I'll add a little more, how about two thousand five?"

As soon as he heard the old man's words, he knew that he was indeed an expert. Yang Jing knew that the best imitation of Ge kiln porcelain in all dynasties was from Yongzheng and Qianlong. The official kilns of Yongzheng and Qianlong also imitated a large number of Ge kiln porcelains. Moreover, among all the imitation Ge kiln porcelains in all dynasties, only the imitation Ge kiln porcelains of Yongzheng and Qianlong eras used black bodies. This is also an important reason why Yongzheng and Qianlong imitation Ge kiln porcelains are the best.

The stall owner still shook his head, but still reduced the price for the old man by another 500 yuan.

Yang Jing listened to the two people haggling over the price, and his heart was beating wildly. Obviously, both of them knew that this plate was an old item. Although it was just an imitation of Ge kiln porcelain from the Yongzheng and Qianlong periods, it was also an authentic Ge kiln porcelain handed down from generation to generation.

At the 2015 Christie's Spring Auction in Hong Kong, a Ming Dynasty imitation Ge Kiln flower-mouthed plate, also known as the handed-down Ge Kiln, was sold at a high price of 8.8 million Hong Kong dollars. A better imitation of the Yongzheng and Qianlong imitation Ge Kiln porcelain is now sold for less than 20,000 yuan! The old man just said that he only spent 2,000 yuan to buy a Qianlong famille rose plate.

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