Chapter 633: The Most Expensive Wooden Box in the World
This gold cloud dragon pattern vermilion lacquer top box, looking at the real thing is more shocking than looking at the photos. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 The INFO wooden box is about 60 cm high and slightly less wide, the whole is close to a cube, with a vermilion primer throughout, and the top and four sides are decorated with a dragon pattern with gold craftsmanship, and the edges are decorated with honeysuckle patterns.
On the front, between the Ganoderma lucidum jade tree, flowers, plants, bamboo and stones, there is a golden dragon. This dragon is not an ordinary swimming dragon, the slender shape of the cloud dragon, but like a four-limbed animal, the body is thick and fat, mighty and ferocious, bending and rushing upward, there is a tendency to rush to the crown in anger, it is the kind of crawling dragon pattern commonly used in the early Ming Dynasty when the national strength was strong.
The loose page of the box is based on black iron, engraved with yin pattern and hammered with gold wire, but the ornamental shape of the gold wire is a vivid five-clawed golden dragon into the clouds, with the crawling dragon standing on the earth below, one day and one place, one light and elegant, one fierce and domineering, fully demonstrating the supreme authority of the ancient emperor.
However, the wooden box can only be judged from the ornamental characteristics to be a thing of the Ming Dynasty court, but there is no style that can show what age it is and who owns it, which also makes Li Yi feel a little regretful. Because even if the spirit card can identify which emperor owns it, the final result can only be like a brocade night walk, even if it is made public, it is difficult to get everyone's recognition.
Turning around the wooden box, Li Yi silently opened the spirit identification card, and a burst of extremely cold air flowed through, and the identification results were like chatting messages on the screen, jumping out one after another, and there were as many as six or seven of them!
"Ming Hongzhi, golden cloud dragon pattern vermilion lacquer top box, genuine."
"Sui Daye, Zhan Ziqian's "Spring Tour" long scroll, colored silk, authentic."
"Southern Tang Qiande, Wei Xian's "Spring River Fishing Map", colored silk, authentic."
"Ming Hongwu, Ni Zhan's "Autumn Colors on the River", colored on paper, authentic."
"Song Xining, Su Shi's "Water Tune Song Head. When will there be a bright moon", a genuine work. ”
"Yuan Zhizheng, Wu Zhen's "Bamboo and Stone Map", colored silk, authentic."
"Ming Hongzhi, Shen Zhou's "Stacked Peaks of the Yanjiang River", colored on silk, authentic handwriting."
A series of genuine products, genuine handwritings and other words dazzled Li Yi, and one by one the familiar characters made his so-called calmness and the city almost disappear, this Nima is simply a pie in the sky, and the pies are all diamond filling, no, just diamond filling can't be described at all......
"Mr. Li Yi, you ......"
"It's okay, it's okay, maybe I didn't have a lot of rest before, so I suddenly felt a little dizzy, and now it's fine."
"Oh, would you like the doctor to come and take a look at you? Anyway, these things have been here for a long time, so there is no need to rush them. ”
"Thanks, no, really not."
Li Yi smiled and thanked him, and secretly opened the perspective eye, his eyes swept over the box, and soon found the location of the mechanism, it turned out that these treasures were hidden in the top cover of the wooden box!
In his sight, this wooden box with an average wall thickness of only four or five millimeters had an accident at the top cover, where the thickness was at least three times the average thickness, but if you look closely, you can find that a flat space about 5 mm thick is separated by a piece of lining wood with a thickness of only about two millimeters under the top cover, and those ancient paintings are tightly pressed by these two layers of wooden planks in this narrow but wide flat space!
Sui Dynasty Zhan Ziqian, Southern Tang Weixian, Song Sushi, Yuan Wuzhen, Ni Zhan, Ming Shen Zhou!
Spanning five dynasties, a total of six famous calligraphy and painting masters, and six masterpieces, this is probably the most expensive wooden box in the world!
With a long breath of turbidity, Li Yi picked up the coffee on the coffee table and drank it all.
"Let's hurry up and see, then there is a gathering of antique dealers in Paris, and they have already agreed to attend......"
Edmund shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands at John. Karui made a helpless expression, people who love antiques are like this, they can even spare their lives when they see excellent antiquities, what is this little discomfort? However, it seems that we can try to take advantage of this a little later in the negotiations......
Li Yi didn't pay attention to their expressions, but even if he did, he wouldn't care, with this wooden box, no matter how cunning the opponent was, no matter how harsh the conditions offered, in the end he could only swallow a big loss, what else to care about?
Barely calming down, he walked back to the booth, and continued to look down at the exhibits just now, but in his mind, the information that had just been displayed on the spirit card kept coming up.
The great cause should be the year name of Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty, and Zhan Ziqian not only went through the Sui Dynasty, but also the Eastern Wei, Northern Qi, Northern Zhou and other dynasties during the Northern and Southern Dynasties.
However, these are not critical, the key is the painting "You Chun Tu" and the person Zhan Ziqian.
Zhan Ziqian was hailed as the ancestor of Tang painting by later generations, and his painting subjects were very wide, and the techniques were varied. He is not only good at painting people, chariots and horses, landscapes, and pavilions, but also most of them are exquisite. In particular, the achievements and painting methods achieved in landscape painting directly opened the precedent of the Tang Dynasty painters Li Sixun, Li Zhaodao and his son.
At present, among the works handed down by Zhan Ziqian, there is only one "You Chun Tu" that has been identified as an authentic work, and "You Chun Tu" has also been identified as the oldest painting scroll in China so far, and it is also recognized as the world's first landscape painting, which is precious and can be imagined.
However, his "You Chun Tu" is not this "You Chun Tu", that one, because there is an inscription of Zhao Ji of Song Huizong on it, so although some people have questioned that it may be an imitation of the Five Dynasties period, many historians and appraisers still judge that it is the authentic work of Zhan Ziqian based on this inscription.
But now Li Yi found this situation is enough to show that the current "Spring Tour", which is regarded as a peerless treasure, is actually just an imitation, because the real works are still sealed in the Hongzhi period of the Ming Dynasty, and I don't know which guy owns the top of a large wooden box!
There is no need for other works, just this one, if it is present, it will definitely set off a monstrous wave in the Chinese historiography and collection circles, and there will be an uproar!
Other Su Shi, Ni Zhan, Wu Zhen, Shen Zhou and others, in terms of fame, are still above Zhan Ziqian, just because of the age, their works may be slightly inferior in historical value, but in terms of their own artistic achievements and status in the history of Chinese painting and calligraphy, they are all the choice of the time, a generation of heroes!
And their works, which can be handed down to this day, are definitely rare and peerless treasures of the Chinese nation!
In particular, the Southern Tang Dynasty Weixian's "Spring River Fishing Map", although it has long been lost, but according to relevant historical records, after this work came out, it was praised by Li Yu, the then Tang Dynasty queen, and he also made great poetry, and personally inscribed the two poems of "Fisherman's Words" on the painting, what kind of honor is this?
"Langyuan intends to have a thousand heavy snows, and Taoli is speechless for a team of spring. A pot of wine, a rod and scales, there are a few people who are as happy as Nong. ”
"A spring breeze, a leaf boat, a cocoon, a light hook. The flowers are full of Zhu, the wine is full, and the waves are free. ”
The words have been sung through the ages, so what about the painting worthy of these two words?
For a while, Li Yi's heart was itching, and he couldn't wait to open this secret grid now and take out these works one by one, because in addition to the two inscriptions that Wei Xian may have on his paintings, there is also a real eternal quatrain waiting for him to appreciate. When will there be a bright moon"!
"Water Tune Song Head. When is the bright moon", this song is the swan song in the Mid-Autumn Festival that has always been recognized, and no one dares to sing the Mid-Autumn Festival once this word came out. And from the point of view of artistic achievements, it is strangely conceived, the path is unique, very romantic, and the whole article is a good sentence, Li Yi believes that this poem can definitely rank among the top five words of the past dynasties, and it is not without the possibility of winning!
Quatrains through the ages, coupled with Su Shi's achievements in calligraphy itself is extremely high, and even reached the level of Huang Tingjian, Mi Fu, Cai Xiang and others called the Song Dynasty, his own handwriting of the ancient masterpieces, this calligraphy, just think about it makes people tremble with excitement!
Moreover, with Wen Zhengming, Tang Yin, and Qiu Ying, he is known as the "Four Ming Families", and created the famous "Wumen School" Shen Zhou, Shen Shitian's "Yanjiang Stacked Peaks", not only is it extremely precious, but also its creation age can verify from the side that this can be called a national treasure The age of the golden cloud dragon pattern vermilion lacquer top box, all of this is so coincidentally together, how can Li Yi not be excited?
It's just that the more precious these works are, the more hesitant Li Yi's heart becomes, even if these treasures are collected by him, it does not only represent his own wealth, can he really be so selfish to put them abroad, put them in his treasure room, and let them continue to be hidden in the dark? What's the difference between this and letting them stay in the cracks of this box and leave them unnoticed? Even after being taken out by him, the risk of being destroyed may be greater, and this is just for fear of being robbed by some people with ulterior motives, is it really worth it?
But......
Li Yi smiled bitterly, of course he can donate all these selflessly, even if there are many bad rumors in those museums, such as this kind of national treasure-level cultural relics, he must not dare to let them be damaged and lost, but ......
But this loss is too big! These are all white flowers of silver!
It is true that modern society regards selfless dedication as a virtue, but when the degree of dedication exceeds a certain standard, what should it be called?
He can even imagine that when he takes out these top-level precious cultural relics one by one and donates them to the country, the halo of the "wronged head" on his head may be even more unbearable than that of the "first good man in China" Chen, why bother? (To be continued.) )