546 Screens (Lower)

"This fourth screen is completely carved with small leaf red sandalwood, and I don't need to talk about it. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info" Zeng Gong said with a smile.

"Little leaf red sandalwood, Mr. Zeng, this is impossible, small leaf red sandalwood doesn't have big material at all, especially a material as big as your screen, is it spliced together?" Tony asked strangely.

"This is a whole small-leaved red sandalwood carved this point does not need to be questioned, now there is no big wood, but it does not mean that there was no before, in your Western perception of the small leaf red sandalwood there is no big wood that is nonsense, because before you find the origin of the small leaf red sandalwood, we in China have exhausted all the big wood. Zeng Gong shook his head, he didn't agree that the small leaf red sandalwood was not big, it was just that you Westerners were lonely and unheard, not to mention what was going on with those hundred-year-old small leaf red sandalwood in his valley?

"Oh God. Tony really couldn't imagine it, and waited in surprise for Zeng Gong to continue to introduce.

"The fifth, the screen is carved with Hainan Huanghuali, which is a precious tree species as famous as the small-leaved red sandalwood. Huanghuali (pear) Chinese scientific name is Huanghua Sandalwood, also known as Hainan Yellow Sandalwood, Hainan Yellow Rosewood. Origin: The low-altitude plains and hilly areas of Jianfengling, Diaoluo Mountain, Hainan Island, China, mostly grow in sunny places about 100 meters above sea level in Diaoluo Mountain. Because of its slow timing, solid wood and beautiful pattern, it has always been ranked as one of the five famous trees, and is now a national second-class protected plant. According to the records of Chinese Dendrology, wild Hainan Huanghuali is produced in all cities and counties on Hainan Island except Wanning, Lingshui and Wuzhishan City, among which Baisha, Dongfang, Changjiang, Ledong, Sanya and Haikou are the main production areas. They generally grow on mountain slopes below 350 meters above sea level. The precious Hainan Huanghua pear is mainly grown in the Li nationality area, especially the Hainan Huanghua pear in the area of Changjiang Wangxia is the most precious. It has beautiful patterns, soft color, fragrance, easy to mix dark colors and light colors, can show light yellow, dark yellow, dark brown, also suitable for inlay, has good processing performance, moderate soft and hard, does not like deformation and other characteristics, especially suitable for making mortise and tenon joints, so it is the best choice of wood at that time. ”

"The sixth screen is a porcelain panel painting, but don't underestimate this porcelain panel painting, which was painted by the Italian missionary Lang Shining himself, and his "Portrait of Emperor Chunhui's Imperial Concubine" was sold by an anonymous buyer at Sotheby's for 17.76 million US dollars, and this porcelain panel painting is even rarer than his painting. Zeng Gong pointed to the sixth porcelain plate painting screen and solemnly introduced.

Lang Shining is Italian, formerly known as Giuseppe Gastrione, born in Milan, Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty 54 years (1715) as a Catholic Jesuit monk to China missionary, then entered the palace into the Ruyi Pavilion, became a court painter, participated in the design of the Western building of the Old Summer Palace, successively served in the Kang, Yong, Qian, and other dynasties, engaged in painting in China for more than 50 years.

This sixth screen is amazing, it is said that he has an inextricable relationship with the treasure of Chinese objects Xuande furnace, it is said that it was cast together, the copper smelting of this screen reaches 36 refining, almost hundreds of catties of copper are smelted, and then mixed with gold and silver, tin, agate and other dozens of precious metals, gemstones, and the use of gold carving technology took a year to complete. The copper elephant ear Xuande furnace was once sold for 1.39 million yuan, and it is not an orthodox Xuande furnace. Zeng Gong stroked the delicate texture of the screen and said proudly.

My mother, Tony almost wanted to bow down under Zeng Gong's briefs, just this screen is too good, according to Zeng Gong's introduction, only half of the screen, you are embarrassed to say hello to people without tens of millions of dollars, with Zeng Gong's introduction, he feels that his little heart is in danger of stopping at any time.

"The seventh is made of China's unique silk technology, which is a bright pearl in the history of Chinese silk, and its artistic value has long been indescribable in words. Zeng Gong pointed to the seventh screen and talked eloquently.

Silk is also known as "carved silk", "Kesi" or "silk", and the text is the same. In the old days, it was "long carved silk", "carved silk", "carved color" and so on. Silk also has other names overseas, such as "embellished brocade", "embellished weaving", and "woven into brocade". "Jade Chapter" said: "Yi, weaving weft also." Because the weaving works are slightly high and low at the junction of the pattern and the plain ground, showing a trace of cracks, as if carved out, it is called "carved silk". The front and back of the finished product are the same, and the Suzhou embroidery double-sided embroidery has the same magic. Together with embroidery, jade carving and ivory carving, cloisonné is known as China's four major special handicrafts, and together with Yunjin, it is known as China's two treasures of handmade silk fabrics. In ancient times, it had the reputation of "the saint in weaving" and "an inch of silk and an inch of gold". Because it can stand the test of history, it is also called "a thousand-year-old art fabric".

"It's beautiful. Tony followed Zeng Gong's gaze and said with some infatuation.

"The eighth, which is completely carved from jadeite, the color of the five blessings in the best glass, the best carving, this is a treasure of art, which has long subverted its own value. Zeng Gong continued to say sensationally.

Customarily called emerald or jadeite, it is jadeite produced in Myanmar, jadeite is a high-quality jade variety, and its large-scale development and utilization is only a few hundred years. Jadeite is found in Japan, Russia, Mexico, California and other places, but its quality and yield are far inferior to those in Myanmar. Gem-quality jadeite has been mined in Myanmar for a long time, and for a long time people only knew that jadeite was produced in Myanmar, so Burmese jade was synonymous with jadeite. The color of jadeite is natural and varied, bright and pleasing to the eye, and it is in perfect harmony with the natural world, representing the vitality and youthful vitality of all things. The color of jadeite is more vivid than the color of any jade in the past, its texture is more delicate than any jade, it can be as transparent as a crystal, and its value is also the highest among all jade, so people call it "the king of jade", and it is deeply loved by the oriental people, especially the Chinese nation.

"The ninth, you may not be familiar with it, they are carved from Tianhuang stone. Zeng Gong pointed to a screen beside him and said seriously.

"Tian Huangshi?" Tony looked at Zeng Gong with a frown.

"That's right, Tian Huang stone is produced in Shoushan Village, Shoushan Township, Fujian Province, China is a famous and rare seal carved stone, Mohs hardness is 2.3 ~ 3 degrees, and other stones produced in Shoushan are collectively called "Shoushan stone", Tian Huang is one of the best varieties of Shoushan stone. Tian Huang stone because of its scarce production, and show precious, the Qing Dynasty was favored by the emperor, there has long been three times the price of Yi Jin, now in the auction market is even more hot, the highest price of 150,000 people per gram! The three elements of identifying Tian Huang are skin, lattice, and silk, and the three elements are naturally formed a layer of stone skin, and the grid is the red or yellow cracks left by Tian Huang in the migration, and the silk is a natural pattern that looks like a cut fresh radish, and only with these three elements can it be determined as Tian Huang Shi!. (To be continued.) )