Huangkou has always belonged to a small jade species in Hetian jade, and although people know a lot about it today, and it is closely related to topaz, it is still a jade species that is not well known to everyone. But it was such a small jade species that once appeared at a sky-high price that no one expected!
It's this piece:
▲ Titled "Nine Days of Flying Streams", it was sold for RMB 13,800,000 at the Beijing Poly Auction in 2014.
This is a piece of yellow mouthpiece, at a price of thirteen million and eight hundred thousand, which is a sky-high price for the obscure yellow mouth.
We do not evaluate the craftsmanship and materials of this work here, or whether it is a more exaggerated hype, after all, in the past few years, when Hetian Yu was at its crazyst, there were many high-priced works.
Leaving this piece aside, perhaps we should re-recognize this somewhat obscure yellow mouthpiece.
What is yellow mouthpiece
Huangkou material is a kind of Hetian jade, usually refers to the Hetian yushan material Huangkou material, which belongs to the Hetian jade series. Huangkou is a collective term for a type of Hetian jade raw material with yellow-green hue characteristics. In auction companies or some occasions, the yellow mouth is mostly called topaz.
Moreover, Huangkoushi is not an official name, and the objects referred to are very confusing. There are many places of origin, and now the main production areas of yellow mouth materials we see are Xinjiang Kunlun Mountain, Ruoqiang, Zhimu, Black Mountain, Arjin Mountain, Northeast China, Qinghai, Russia and other places have the output of yellow mouth food.
Among the yellow mouth materials produced in various places, the Ruoqiang yellow mouth is the most famous. In the past two years, Qinghai material yellow mouth is more common in the market, and Russian material yellow mouth is less.
And the yellow mouth also has different forms, in addition to the mentality of mountain material, the Gobi material yellow mouth is also more common.
Origin of yellow mouth material
Regarding the origin of yellow mouth material, many people want to know a thing or two. Let's take a quick look.
Ruoqiang Huangkou has always been sought after by many players because of its thick texture, pure and delicate texture of color, and excellent oiliness.
Ruoqiang's yellow mouth is mostly yellowish, and even most of the mountain material produced by Ruoqiang is a little yellowish. However, not all Ruoqiang yellow mouths are good, and many Ruoqiang yellow mouths are relatively light in color, with color casts and many flaws.
The color of the Qinghai yellow mouth is uniform, and it is also more flashy green, or white.
Moreover, Qinghai Huangkou also has a characteristic of Qinghai material - transparency, so Qinghai Huangkou often has a tender feeling. Most oiliness is still poor, but good oiliness is also better.
The Russian yellow mouth is relatively small, but the general characteristics of the Russian yellow mouth are that the color is lighter, it looks mostly yellow and white, slightly yellow, and the transparency is not as good as the Qinghai material.
However, the oiliness and fineness of many Russian yellow mouths are very good, and many are used to imitate seed material, which is difficult to distinguish.
Of course, it also includes the yellow and white old material known as the northeast yellow mouth, here we will not go into detail, you can refer to the previous article "Topaz is more difficult to find!" 》。
Because all production areas have good and bad, especially Qinghai Huangkou and Ruoqiang Huangkou. Therefore, sometimes it is more appropriate for us to judge the quality of jade according to its quality, and simply looking at the place of origin will produce some misunderstandings.
How to choose yellow mouthpiece
What is the main thing to see? Grab three points on it. First, the color, second, the jade, three, the flaw.
In terms of color, the color of yellow mouthpiece is actually more complicated.
▲ There is this very yellow chicken fat yellow.
▲ Most of them are this kind of green or green.
▲Or it looks green directly.
▲There are also pale yellows with a white side.
▲ Or yellow mouth with green.
▲ Yellow mouth with sugar and so on.
▲Which of these two colors do you prefer?
The color of yellow mouthpiece is changeable, but it is still necessary to take yellow as beauty, and the yellower the better.
Therefore, positive yellow is better than yellow and green than light yellow. This is probably the evaluation criterion for color.
After reading the color, it is to see the jade.
In terms of jade, of course, the finer the better, and the more oily the better.
However, yellow mouth material often has such a problem, the color is good, the fineness is not very good, the fineness is good, and the color is relatively light. Therefore, there are not many materials with fine colors and good colors.
This is carefully selected from a few tons of material
Therefore, it is really not easy to find a yellow mouthpiece with good color, jade and fine and oily.
In the end, it's up to the flaws.
In fact, there are many flaws in yellow mouth material, and the production of yellow mouth food in various places is actually relatively large, such as the end of the country, Ruoqiang, Qinghai and other places, the mineral resources of yellow mouth are not small, but the utilization rate is very low and very low.
▲ Because the yellow mouth material has many flaws, especially some dark cracks. As shown in the picture above, there are many cases of various dark cracks after cutting.
▲ In addition, it includes cotton, dirty, sugar, chickenpox, white spots, black spots, waterline and so on. Yellow mouth material has various flaws in the rough state, and often a large piece of material can only produce a few small works in the end.
Therefore, it is better to have fewer defects in the yellow mouthpiece, and if there are some defects, the yellow mouthpiece will be more obvious.
Regarding the yellow mouth material, its price is actually not particularly high now, compared to some more popular jade species such as Cuiqing, its price is relatively low. The sky-high price may have its reasons, but for us who play with jade, it has nothing to do with us.
Yellow is seductive, yellow is like steamed chestnut, jade is warm, and the appearance of yellow mouth material has brought a different sense of beauty to Hetian jade, and also added a noble temperament to the precious Hetian jade.
This is the "topaz" we often see, this is the yellow mouthpiece.