Chapter 379: Ancient Giant Elephant
This even more blocked place is the Tokyo Historical Museum, which is too rampant, and if this scourge is not removed, he feels very unsure.
Sounds a bit unfounded.
However, he also had a similar feeling, that is, after the treasure light entered his eyes, he seemed to be particularly repulsive to the flow of antiques out of China, especially to the Wa Kingdom, as if he had done something wrong and wanted to make up for it.
He didn't understand before, but now he finally does! Treating the Tokyo Historical Museum as a disaster is the same as the source of that feeling at the time, that is, it is likely that the divine consciousness of the head of Tang is influencing him!
Of course, with his current ability, it seems a bit of a mantis to do this right away. It's not just that the Tokyo Museum of Historical Materials has a lot of money and a wide range of channels, but that there are too many people who want to make money, and they don't care where things go, they just want to make money.
However, if you strengthen your own strength as soon as possible, and at the same time unite all the forces that can be united, this matter will not be impossible in the future! Especially now that the Huaxia police are already in action.
In the dark, it seems that there is a destiny, he has met one after another descendants of the Five Ancient Sealed Lights, if these people are united, the power should not be underestimated!
A thought grew wildly in Tang Yi's heart, although it was a little chaotic, but it already had a rough outline.
When Tang Yi was thinking about these things, the others didn't speak, and the whole atmosphere was a little depressing.
Yu Yong was the first to speak, "Okay, don't think about the past, after eating, I'll add an extra item and take you to see my family heirlooms!" ”
Upon hearing this, all three of them became interested. Especially Tang Yi, thinking that the ancestral inheritance of the Tan family is the reborn jade fish, and the ancestral inheritance of the Wu family is the Kui pattern elephant zun, and the things of this fish family must be no different!
As a result, Yu Yong actually led them to an open community. Of course, open communities are not the same as closed communities, there are no walls, no security. The road of the old-fashioned open community is basically connected to the road outside, and there is no unit door, and the building hole is wide open, and you can enter and exit at will.
On the roads in the community, there are also some spicy and fried stalls. On the wider road, there are also vegetable sellers: cucumbers, eggplants, tomatoes, what are you going to do, Auntie? There are a lot of people coming and going, and it is full of strong market atmosphere.
Yu Yong put the ancestral treasure in this? Tang Yi and Wen Jia glanced at each other.
Yu Yong led them to the second unit of an old building, entered the corridor, and walked up the stairs, the walls on both sides were mottled. When I came to a doorway, the security door was the old-fashioned fence security door, and there was a wooden door inside. However, if you take a closer look, the lock inside is actually modified, not the original simple anti-theft lock.
Even so, it's a bit unsafe. Tang Yi thought to himself, could it be that there are people living in this building every day?
"This house, my father used to like to live in, he said that it has the civic atmosphere of Laojinmen, but then he died, the house has been empty, I come to clean it once a week." Yu Yong took out the key and opened the door, invited everyone into the room, and then closed the security door and the wooden door.
This is a very ordinary two-bedroom apartment, the furniture and appliances are also very ordinary, the decoration is very simple, but it is very practical and clean.
As soon as he entered the living room, Tang Yi was stunned, because there was a pair of four screens hanging on the sofa.
Compared with the common calligraphy and painting four screens, these four screens are very small, about sixty or seventy centimeters long and twenty or thirty centimeters wide. The craftsmanship is simple, giving people a very neat and refreshing feeling.
What really attracted Tang Yi was the inlaid things on the ebony board.
On the four ebony boards, four white boards are inlayed. The white plates are not spliced, each piece is about 30 centimeters long and 20 centimeters wide.
It looks very much like ivory.
But Tang Yi immediately dismissed the idea.
First of all, if you want to make a whole ivory card with a width of 20 centimeters, then the original ivory root should be at least two centimeters wider, that is, about 22 centimeters in diameter. Such a thick ivory, roughly estimated according to the proportion of ivory usually seen, the length of the ivory is three or four meters. It's really too big! How can there be such a big elephant?
Secondly, the white plate seems to be harder than ivory, with a certain stonyness, and the pattern is different from that of common ivory, which seems to be a little strange.
Tang Yi looked at it carefully for a while, and suddenly understood, and couldn't help but shout: "Ivory fossils? ”
"Good eyesight!" A hint of surprise flashed in Yu Yong's eyes, and then he smiled and nodded, "Ordinary people just look at it as an ordinary stone." ”
Tang Yi smiled slightly on the surface, and he was indeed shocked in his heart, if there was really such a big tusk, and it was a fossil, then this elephant was an ancient creature, and it was an ancient giant elephant with a body size comparable to a giant dinosaur!
Now, it's a bit of a madness to make four brands out of fossils like this.
However, this thing can be seen to be generally a craft of the Qing Dynasty or even earlier. It is conceivable that if a private person digging in the sand suddenly finds a fossil ivory that is broken into many pieces, it is very likely that they will rush up and grab it. After being sold, it is processed again, and then sold at a higher price, which seems to be very possible.
However, the person who processed these four ivory brands was not only a knowledgeable person, but also obviously a master, because these were not just four brands, and the brands were also inlaid with pink coral.
Don't underestimate the setting, it's a very complex process. And the softer and tougher the material, the easier it is to naturally, such as inlaying silver wire on the wood, it is relatively simple; However, the harder and brittler the material, the harder it is.
This is to inlay the coral on the fossil, and the groove is dug in the ivory fossil first, and then the carved coral is hammered into it so that it can fit tightly. Come to think of it, corals are brittle, and fossils are much harder than corals, and it's easy to have problems, or they don't fit, or they crumble, and it's all troublesome.
What's more, on each ivory fossil plate, the inlay is a seal, which requires a very high carving process before the inlay, and the polishing after the inlay must be completely flat. Because words and paintings are different, the picture can be high or low, and the text must be flat.
In fact, these four words are inlaid as if they are one, which is really a miracle. At the same time, the material and color level of these four screens are very good, black ebony frame, white ivory card, pink coral words, and this inlaid coral, the glyph is smooth, the spirit is dark, and the meaning of the word is also very profound.
"It's so exquisite!" Tang Yi couldn't help but sigh again, "These four words alone are enough to be called a treasure." ”