Chapter 13: The Lost Craft
Nima, this is a lion's big mouth, and there is no counteroffer! If it appears on the black market, this reward bottle will kill 500 yuan!
In the first half of the year in the black market in the capital, Zhang Nan used 200 yuan to find a Yongzheng official kiln blue and white dragon pattern plate, at least one million after 20 years!
Pinched his nose and admitted, fortunately, he had the habit of bringing a large amount of cash on a business trip, and he was even more glad that this time he exchanged 6,000 foreign exchange coupons at a high price from the ticket seller in Shanghai, plus the original, he had almost 8,000 points with him. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Help me wrap it up, you need to be safe and careful. Saying that he would pay first, he pointed out a full 50 100 yuan foreign exchange coupons, and several salesmen all looked at the local tyrant with expressions.
Rich and handsome in the eighties, absolutely.
It cost 6,500 yuan to exchange 5,000 yuan for foreign exchange coupons in the black market, which is really hemorrhaging!
"Don't worry, sir, we often encounter such requests, you can rest assured. ”
After a while, the salesman took out a mahogany box from the warehouse, and Zhang Nan saw that it was a bookbox, with a length of more than forty centimeters, which should be a Qing Dynasty play.
"This is the packaging that comes with it in our store. ”
Buy a watermelon and send a sesame seed, this service attitude is good, in the future this bookbox is worth a thousand, this will be a life when the box, three melons are not worth two dates.
With a towel as the base and a mat dug out of styrofoam, Zhang Nan put the reward bottle into the box with his own hands. "Don't pack it yet, I'll look at the other little things and put them together when the time comes." ”
The box is placed at the counter where he walks, and there can be no accidents.
"Oh, these are a few good things, help me take them out and take a look. ”
A pair of double dragons containing pearl field jade bracelets, Ming Dynasty style, jade delicate, round pulp, is already a fake mutton fat white jade.
In particular, the workmanship is exquisite, Zhang Nan carefully looked at it and thought that it was a genuine product of the middle and late Ming Dynasty, not a "coarse Ming" work in the early Ming Dynasty, nor a product of the Qing Dynasty or the Republic of China: because this is not a cultural relic, at most it is an old object, and the cultural relics store also sells it, and it is a big deal to be a goods of the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China.
The carver of the jade bracelet is not a veteran of jade, and it is easy to make a mistake - Zhang Nan saw that the sign was written "Hetian White Jade Double Dragon Bracelet in the late Qing Dynasty", with a price tag of 580 yuan, and no foreign exchange coupons were required.
This will be popular old jadeite, plus it may be a dynastic error, so the price of this pair of bracelets is reasonable, but this is already super expensive, last time I bought a good Qing Dynasty round jade bracelet in Zhang Nan, H County, it only cost 30 yuan.
But 30 years later, the pair of bracelets is at least a few million!
"Take a box and put it up. ”
That's it.
"There is a matching wooden box for the bracelet, you can rest assured. ”
Another small thing is a gold phoenix flower step, marked as a Qing Dynasty product, 182 mm long, weighing 25 grams, silk technology, flowers inlaid with red spinel.
Nine times out of ten, the rubies handed down before the Republic of China are actually red spinels, and there are very few authentic rubies.
The price of 3,000 yuan foreign exchange volume, to put it bluntly, is 120 yuan a gram!
On the step, 8 phoenix birds spread their wings and fly, the flowers and leaves are dense and luxuriant, and the core of 2 flowers is inlaid with red gemstones.
The phoenix flowers are connected by pure gold threads, and if they are worn on the head, they will flutter and sway as the wearer walks slowly.
After a closer look, this step shake should be a palace article, with exquisite workmanship and exquisite craftsmanship.
It's not black, this will cost eighty or ninety yuan a gram to buy a gold ring in the bank, even if this price is a manual fee, it seems that I want to go crazy with foreign exchange!
This time, I didn't refuse the magnifying glass brought by the salesman, took it in my hand and looked at it a few more times, and thought of the scene of "Sister Bao" wearing a Ming Dynasty aristocratic woman's clothes and a golden step on her head.
"No!
Looking at it, Zhang Nan always felt awkward, put down the 5x magnifying glass in his hand, and took out a small 50x magnifying glass from his pocket.
After looking at it carefully for a while, "Wrap it up, I want it." ”
He scolded people directly in his heart: "What Qing Dynasty products?!Dog-fart expert! This is the treasure of the Song Dynasty!
Just now Zhang Nan thought of Xue Baochai, which should be a story of the Ming Dynasty.
It is not clear which dynasty it is in the book "Dream of Red Mansions", and many people speculate that the background of the dynasty is the Qing Dynasty or the Ming Dynasty.
Some people speculate that in order to protect her life, Cao Xueqin used some people and things that are easy to be regarded as sensitive by others to express them in an obscure way.
However, the Qing Dynasty was peaceful, and the Ming Dynasty was not harmonious, so which dynasty was a bad debt.
However, Zhang Nan has been substituting him into the Ming Dynasty to watch, and then he felt that there was a problem!
All the details of this golden step, including all phoenixes and flowers, are woven with layers of gold threads as thick as hair!
The master craftsmen of the Qing Dynasty court may be able to weave the gold and gold threads as thin as their hair into phoenixes and flowers, but not to mention the Qing Dynasty, even in the 21st century, it is estimated that they will not be able to pull out such slender gold and gold wires!
Moreover, the hair-like gold wire is not drawn out, but "shot" out! Not to mention the welding skills of such a slender gold wire, which is incredible!
Today's experts probably have never seen such a peak of craftsmanship, let alone the brick family, and may not understand at all: such a slender gold wire drawing and welding is simply impossible to do today.
A appraiser may be a top-notch porcelain expert, but gold and silverware may be half a bucket of water. In addition, today's common magnifying glass is only about 5 times the reading magnifying glass, and it is normal to look at this superb golden step.
In the previous life, around 2010, a Southern Song Dynasty royal tomb in Jiangnan Province was opened by the construction excavator, dozens of people robbed for a while, it is said that there is a silver gilt phoenix crown was torn into dozens of pieces by a group of people, which shows the madness of the scene at that time!
When the police arrived, only one of the excavator drivers was left, sitting in the excavator smoking a cigarette with his legs crossed - it is said that he was the one who called the police.
The driver has seen a lot of this kind of thing, has experience, and when he saw that the situation at the scene was uncontrollable, he immediately secretly called the police, and he didn't go to rob himself, and came to sit firmly on the Diaoyu Tai.
Sure enough, the last of the dozens of people who robbed didn't run away, they were all arrested, and dozens of them were sentenced, but in the end, the things that were confiscated were sparse.
Fortunately, the torn components of the phoenix crown were recovered, which was made of such a slender metal wire woven and welded, but it was gilded with silver wire, and then the archaeological community knew that our ancestors had created such a peak of craftsmanship!
After magnifying the microscope hundreds of times, it was finally judged from the traces left on the gold wire that the gold wire was not drawn or knocked, but "shot" -- as for how to "shoot"? Sorry, the experts did not know, but they only guessed that there might be something in common with the process of making gold leaf.
And in 2014, Zhang Nan had the privilege of privately getting his hands on one of the small components: a small phoenix crown component has 6 small birds, each bird is less than 4 millimeters in length, and on the small wings, the feathers woven with gold wire are layered on top of each other, and the small claws are like real bird claws that have been reduced countless times, and even the gold wire also weaves the scale skin effect on the bird's claws! Not to mention that the bird's eyes are vivid!
Outrageously detailed!
Unfortunately, due to insufficient funds at that time and the seller's eagerness to sell, the component was bought by another collector at a high price, and Zhang Nan was annoyed for more than half a year!
"When foreign races go south, how many lives are ruined, and how many treasures and skills of the country disappear in the chaos of war!" Zhang Nan couldn't help but sigh.
As for why the archaeological community didn't know about this process before, and there was not even a physical excavation and transmission of a similar process?
Because there is nowhere to excavate, it is even more difficult to pass it on!
Before the Northern Song Dynasty, it seems that there was no such craft, and when it came to the Southern Song Dynasty, this craft should be dedicated to the Southern Song Dynasty court.
And underground, because the Southern Song Dynasty Emperor's Mausoleum is actually a "palace", that is, a collection of Zigong Palace, a temporary burial ground: the Southern Song Dynasty emperor considered moving back to the ancestral mausoleum area of HN Gongyi in the future, so the coffin burial is relatively shallow, and it is easy to steal and excavate
In addition, there is also a party member named Yang Lian Zhenjia, a madman, a gravedigger, the chief photographer of the Yuan Jiangnan Liberation Sect (an official in charge of Buddhist affairs in the Jiangnan region), the pioneer of the Yuan Dynasty court to go to the south of the Yangtze River to go to the Sinicization, a Tibetan Buddhist monk, and a disciple of the Tibetan monk Ba Si Pa Di Shi, in September of the 22nd year of the Yuan Dynasty, killed the mausoleum guards and dug up the Southern Song Dynasty imperial tombs everywhere!
Even the graves of the princes and ministers of the Southern Song Dynasty were not spared, and they were all dug up! The money was dug up to build the temple.
He also excavated all the bones of the Southern Song Dynasty emperor and his descendants and abandoned them in the wilderness.
Emperor Lizong Zhao Yun is the big head, Yang Lian Zhenjia took his head from the corpse and brought it back to the north, inlaid it with silver and painted, and made it into a vessel for holding wine!
The bones of the emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty were collected in the Lin'an Imperial Palace, and a white pagoda of 13 zhang high was built on it to press it, and the name of the day was "Zhenben"! The emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty was not able to return to the ancestral mausoleum until he died, but was destroyed by the mausoleum and thrown away. Tang Jue, the person of the time, couldn't stand it, so he summoned the villagers to replace the bones of the emperor with animal bones.
In the end, Zhu Yuanzhang did a good deed, returned the bones of the Southern Song Dynasty emperor to his original burial place, and rebuilt the imperial tomb.
The heirloom was destroyed in the war, and the mausoleum was also dug up, and this "slapping and spot welding" stunt, which may only serve the royal family of the Southern Song Dynasty, was lost and even unknown.
Until 2010, the royal tomb that escaped the catastrophe hundreds of years ago was dug up and looted.
And the Jin Bu Shao that Zhang Nan is buying now may be a very lucky heirloom, or it may be properly preserved after being dug up in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Not just unearthed, very well preserved and completely undamaged.
The huge amount of foreign exchange coupons was fully reimbursed, everything was put into a box and properly wrapped, and a canvas bag was put on the outside of the bookcase. After taking the purchase certificate issued by the cultural relics store, you can take it out of the country smoothly with the certificate, and the customs will release it accordingly.
Zhang Nan will not take them out of the country, but he can use this certificate to successfully auction in the future, which is reasonable and legal. But I don't plan to sell it, such a boutique is a loser if it is sold, and it is right to collect it yourself.