Chapter 155: Xuande Furnace
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From Bonadette's move of taking out these six volumes of the "Yongle Canon", Zhuang Rui knew that the ancestor of this old man must have participated in the Eight-Nation Alliance, "objects like this hidden deep in the Great Inner Palace", except for the catastrophe of that year, there is almost no possibility of losing it to foreign countries. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
The national treasures that were lost back then were really countless" Someone once made a rough statistics, at least a million pieces of antique cultural relics accumulated by China's thousands of years of civilization have been collected by museums or private collections around the world, including some fine products that cannot even be seen in China.
Zhuang Rui is not an angry youth, and he also knows that he will not be able to return these national treasures to China with his own strength, but since he has encountered "Zhuang Rui doesn't want to let go, then again, although his museum is famous, but the collection is too small, and he can also fill his collection of fine goods by taking a little object back from abroad".
This time in Las Vegas, "although he did not expect to win billions, but the more than 700 million US dollars on hand is also the largest amount that Zhuang Rui has come into contact with so far, even if he takes out hundreds of millions of dollars to Huang Fuyun for his charitable foundation, the rest of the money is used to buy some antiques" is still more than enough.
"Want to visit my collection room?", Bonadette was stunned for a moment when he heard Zhuang Rui's request, and then said with a smile: "No problem, but Zhuang "You have to spend two days before you can ......", "Two days?"
Zhuang Rui was a little puzzled, although his collection in the Dingguang Museum in Beijing was not as good as those in the national museums, but he asked himself that it would definitely not be much less than the private collection, even if it was, "If you look at it faster, you can finish it in two hours."
And Bonadette said that it would take two days to see his collection, that is to say, Bonadette's collection is at least dozens of times that of Zhuang Rui" Zhuang Rui was quite disapproving, even the British great collector Ezkena, did not dare to boast of such Haikou in front of him.
After Danny beside Bonadette saw Zhuang Rui's disapproving look on his face, he said with a smile: "Mr. Zhuang, Mr. Bonadette has a very large manor" It is full of cultural relics from all over the world that he treasures, a total of more than 400,000 pieces, I am afraid I can't see the ...... in two days"
As Bonadette's senior personal assistant, Danny is helping Bonadette manage the collection, "because he knows the vast collection of Bonadette, which is one of the reasons why he was able to participate in this auction."
"Four...... More than 400,000 pieces?!"
Since entering this venue, Zhuang Rui, who was calm and calm when he saw his previous idols, finally changed his face after hearing this number.
Since the establishment of the museum, Zhuang Rui has accumulated more than 10,000 pieces of collections, and there are not all fine products, and there are many dross objects that cannot be put on display, even so, Zhuang Rui's museum has been assessed by international appraisal agencies to be worth more than three billion US dollars.
And Bonadette's collection is more than 30 times that of Zhuang Rui, even if there are only one-third of the objects with tenon value in it, then he has a net worth of tens of billions of dollars just for the collection, and this is not a money-making industry, just Bonadette's private collection.
Danny's words made Zhuang Rui recognize the gap between himself and the world's richest people, Zhuang Rui, who originally felt that he was accomplished, "is also in a cold sweat on his forehead at the moment" dared to mention his own museum several times before, and it has always been Lu Ban mƩn in front of the big axe Guan Gong in front of the big knife.
"Nainai drops" weren't all snatched by their ancestors?"
Zhuang Rui scolded in his heart, finding a little balance for himself, otherwise there is no way, Zhuang Rui has always been proud of his museum collections, and it is not as much as a fraction of others, which is also too damn shocking.
"Gentlemen, NV Gentlemen" The following item to be auctioned is also from the mysterious country of the East...... China" This is a kind of metal ware used by ancient Chinese people to smoke clothes or ornaments and worship God, and friends who love Chinese art "can prepare to bid", ""
Just when Zhuang Rui was a little embarrassed by his gaffe just now, William's voice sounded from the auction table, which suddenly made Zhuang Rui forget about Bonadette's collection of more than 400,000 yuan, and he was very puzzled, "Because he didn't hear it, what did William describe?"
Although foreign missionaries have entered China since the Ming Dynasty, the Chinese ruling class has always restricted their exhibition, and even during the enlightened Kangxi period, foreign missionaries did not have any soil for survival in China.
It was not until after the eighteenth century, when China's national power declined, especially during the Opium War, when the British knocked out the country with cannonboats, that it became popular to worship God, and Zhuang Rui guessed in his heart after hearing William's words: "Could it be the objects used in Chinese churches in the eighteenth century......?"
"Cao" Is this for worshipping God?"
Zhuang Rui couldn't help but widen his eyes after seeing the things that were pushed in the crystal display case, what are you kidding, this is ...... Isn't this just an incense burner?
However, Zhuang Rui also understood what William meant, daring to love the Chinese's act of worshiping God and offering to Buddha, in his eyes is worshipping God, this foreigner is arrogant, thinking that there is no faith in the world except Jesus.
After despising William, Zhuang Rui paid attention to the display case, looked at it carefully, and couldn't help but move in his heart.
The shape of this object is a Ming Dynasty Xuande furnace made of two processes of sprinkling gold and wrong gold, "open round lips" neck is short and thin, flat belly, and the furnace body is carved with dragon and phoenix "a total of green, yellow, gold, purple four colors" at first glance, the whole shape texture is crystal clear, the shape is simple, and it looks like it is a feeling of returning to the basics.
The furnace body is outside the wrong gold and gold sprinkling process, it is golden yellow, looks golden and shiny, and there is a layer of hard hand-me-down on the surface, and the color is moist and delicate.
"The body of the Xuande furnace?"
Without using the aura in his eyes, Zhuang Rui was a little unsure that the production and smelting method of the Xuande furnace was very particular "The general bronze only needs four refining, while the Xuande furnace needs as many as twelve refining, and it adds red copper imported from Siam, as well as dozens of precious metals such as iron, gold, and silver, and the process is very cumbersome and complicated.
It can be said that in addition to the first smelting in the Xuande period, the subsequent Xuande furnaces, including those produced in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, are all imitations, although they can also be called Xuande furnaces, but they are far from the real thing.
After hundreds of years of ups and downs, the copper incense burner of the real Xuande three years casting Hao is extremely rare, and even the imitation Fude furnace in later generations is expensive, and the fine products are even more sought after.
Just last year, China Guardian's autumn auction had a concentrated auction of a number of Xuande furnaces collected by the famous collector Wang Shixiang, one of which was engraved with the "Chongzhen Ren Wudong Yueqing to supervise" regular script imitation "Cupola Ear Gold Sheet Three-legged Xuande Furnace" after the imitation Xuande furnace, it was auctioned at a high price of nearly 2oo million RMB.
Generally speaking, "as long as the style design of the imitation Xuande furnace has the characteristics of the times such as pulp and copper in the middle of the Ming Dynasty", its price is more than 1o yuan, especially loved by collectors in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and the price has been rising in recent years.
It is precisely because of the rarity and rarity of genuine Xuande furnaces, in order to make huge profits, from the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty to the Republic of China, the activities of antique dealers imitating Xuande furnaces have never stopped.
These carefully cast imitation Xuande furnace can be comparable to the real one, and the expert authority can not distinguish "so far there are many Xuande furnaces collected in major museums in China, none of which can be recognized as the real Xuande furnace by many connoisseurs, and the identification of real and false Xuande furnace has become one of the "unsolved cases" in Chinese archaeology.
And the Xuande furnace with the sprinkling of gold and the wrong gold process of Xuande three years, is only in the legend of "what can be seen on the market now" is basically prevented by the middle and late Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, Zhuang Rui only used his eyesight to see, but also can not distinguish its authenticity.
Zhuang Rui also saw a lot of Xuande furnaces in China, "but all of them are imitations, and they can be distinguished from the color and strength of the aura" Most of them are works of the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty, so when he saw this object, Zhuang Rui didn't care much about "You know, in the Qing Dynasty", the Xuande furnace used in the palace was mostly imitations, and what the Eight-Nation Alliance stole may not be the real Xuande furnace.
"Huh?"
However, since there is a Xuande furnace, Zhuang Rui still released a trace of aura and escaped into the crystal display case, when the aura in his eyes just touched the wrong gold Xuande furnace, Zhuang Rui was stunned for a moment.
Zhuang Rui has had aura for so long "also has a certain classification of the colors reflected in the aura" in his strokes, points, most of the aura colors shown by the objects of the Ming Dynasty are red, and the early objects are slightly purple in the red, but the Xuande furnace in this glass cabinet is purple "There is no trace of red at all."
"Could it be the real Xuande furnace made during the Xuande period?"
Zhuang Rui felt the rich aura and deep purple color in his eyes, and such a thought came to his heart, in the experience he had accumulated in the past few years of using the aura to identify objects, when the strength and color of the aura of the item were out of the era in which it appeared, there was only one explanation, "That is, this item is definitely a fine product produced at that time."
It's just that although Zhuang Rui has had aura for several years, he has not been able to effectively use aura to survey the specific age of the object, in response to this phenomenon, Zhuang Rui guessed that the strength of the aura and the intensity of the color in the item may be formed by people playing too much, of course, this is just Zhuang Rui's guess.
But even if it is a guess, Zhuang Rui is still very excited, "Because among the Xuande furnaces he has seen, only this one is the most like the genuine Xuande furnace, maybe after buying it back, through research, the difference between the authentic and fake Xuande furnaces can be revealed."
"This metal vessel for worshipping God" is beautifully made, and it is still shining after six or seven hundred years, and it is said to have been used by ancient Chinese emperors, and its reserve price is 200,000 US dollars, and each increase is 10,000 US dollars, and if you are interested, you can "bid on it"
After a brief explanation of this Xuande furnace, William offered the reserve auction price, "It was just the reaction of the scene, and it was not as eager as William imagined, and in more than a minute after William shouted his words, the entire banquet hall was silent."
William was a little anxious, the few books just now were estimated to be auctioned so hotly, and they are also ancient Chinese cultural relics, "Why does this incense burner go unnoticed?" William coughed, and said loudly: "Gentlemen, NV scholars, the reserve price of this item is so low, it definitely has huge potential for appreciation" Are there any interested friends?"
However, after William emphasized the preciousness of the incense burner, there was still no one to ask for the price, and many more simply turned their eyes away from the incense burner.
In fact, William made a fundamental mistake, that is, he should not say that the price of this item is low, because in this venue, including international movie stars and directors, "all of them are rich people with a net worth of more than 10 million dollars."
Just now, Zhuang Rui made an extraordinary move, Hua spent 30 million US dollars to auction ancient books, and now if he bids for these two or three hundred thousand US dollars, these rich people can't help but feel that their faces are gloomy, in the fashionable words of a few years ago, they only buy expensive things on this occasion, and they don't buy the right "all can't afford to lose this person!"
In addition, there is another important factor, that is, William's explanation is wrong, "foreigners worship God" worships the one on the cross, and there is no tradition of burning incense and worshipping, at most it is just a few words of prayer in the mouth, so people who believe in Jesus do not think that this thing is used to worship God.
As for the oil barons of the Arab kingdom, they are followers of Islam, they only believe in the one Allah, and they have no interest in this incense burner, and if they were to take pictures, "it would be absolutely a blasphemy against Allah."
So the combination of these factors has also led to a very rare phenomenon in private charity auctions, where no one bids, generally out of politeness, and the guests will not let the items taken out by the owner go unauctioned" But this thing is really a bit special, until William began to shout again, the people below were still uninterested.
"Hmm, what's the matter, doesn't anyone want this genuine Xuande furnace?"
Zhuang Rui has been immersed in the appreciation of this Xuande furnace just now, and he will raise his head and "see the silence in the field, and no one is bidding" couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and then his heart was overjoyed, although he couldn't get started, but through eye observation, this object is the real Xuande furnace!
"$200,000 ......"
Zhuang Rui raised the number plate in his right hand, and his action almost made William burst into tears, just now, "William almost thought that the first private charity auction was unsuccessful, and let himself be broken."
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