Chapter 399: A dilemma
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This is all a treasure, just this jade of the Shang Dynasty, this old man has collected so much, and according to the Davy who chattered on the side, his grandfather has more than 5,000 pieces of jade alone.
What the hell is going on? Which ones to take? What should be discarded? Jin Muchen felt that his head was big.
Faced with such an opportunity to jump off the building and sell it, he found that it was not because he didn't have enough money, nor because the things sold were not good enough, but what hurt him the most was that the merchant specially came up with a purchase restriction policy.
And there is no way to bypass the purchase restriction order at all, which is very troublesome.
David is now jumping off the building for a big sale, which is already the limit of what he can do, if he asks for a little more and wants to pack all these things away, it will be too embarrassing for others.
After all, David is an ordinary person who has a disgruntle with the Friel Sackler Museum, and he is not a daring person who packed up all his grandfather's treasures and then went to the end of the world.
The reason why he is doing this now is entirely because of the resentment in his heart, just to add some blockage to that museum.
If his own demands were a little more, with this guy's guts, he might collapse on the spot and drive himself and Fang Bo out.
Jin Muchen and Uncle Fang probably discussed it to see how to choose so many treasures, this Paul. Singh's lifelong collection is really not covered, and this old man obviously cherishes jade very much, which can be seen from the number of jade objects in his lifelong collection.
"He only bought 100 pieces. What should I do? These things. I think it's all good. The jade artifacts of the Ming and Qing dynasties in the back, I think there are also a lot of fine products? ”
Jin Muchen asked Uncle Fang in a low voice, and Uncle Fang's answer was very simple.
"Pick the early one! After all, there are not many jades in our country in these early ages, and these jades are not like the jade of later generations. The jade of the Ming and Qing dynasties, especially the Qing dynasty, was the pinnacle of the development of jade in feudal China. However, at that time, many of the jade artifacts were the playthings of the literati or ornaments, and the significance of antiques was more. The jade of the Shang and Zhou dynasties has more archaeological significance and more historical significance, and perhaps the carving pattern on a certain piece of jade, after being deciphered, will be related to some historical events, or can make up for the gap in a certain aspect of China's archaeological research......"
Uncle Fang said so. Jin Muchen understood the purpose of their trip. It is not to pay attention to those ornamental jade objects with well-made materials and exquisite carvings.
Instead, more attention is paid to these, which seem to be made of ordinary materials, and the carving work cannot be compared with the jade of the Ming and Qing dynasties, but it has more archaeological value and historical significance.
This is not just for money, but more for a historical mission.
Don't say anything, this is definitely one of the essential qualities for those of us who play antiques.
So the two worked together to select fine products from those Shang Dynasty jade, which shocked Jin Muchen even more.
Before, he looked at those Shang Dynasty jades, because there were too many of them, so it was a bit of a whimsy, but now there is such a process of selecting fine products from hundreds of large Shang Dynasty jades, which is a refreshing understanding of the wisdom and creativity of the ancient sages.
The magic weapons used by those great witches, needless to say, must be taken down, as well as those jade axes, jade knives, and other weapons and tools, they must also be put away.
Next is some jade that involves the emotions of contemporary people's lives, such as some decorative jade, jade cong, jade gui, jade huang, etc.
You read that right, it's a jade ear picker, similar to the modern mass-produced iron ear picker, except that the handle is carved into a round handle, and the front part is exactly the same.
When he saw this jade ear picking spoon, Jin Muchen was completely impressed by the ancestors back then, you must know that it was more than 3,000 years ago!
At that time, everyone already knew how to use ear pickers, and they did it so finely? If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes today, he would have thought it was an international joke?
Because in his concept, didn't most of the people of that era still wear animal skins and drink blood?
It seems that I really underestimate the ancient sages, don't say anything, hurry up and put away this ear scoop first, right?
In such an era, the identity of a person who can afford to use such an ear picking spoon must not be too simple, I am afraid that even ordinary nobles are not qualified to use such an ear picking spoon.
Soon, they collected about fifty or sixty pieces of fine jade from the Shang Dynasty, and it was only because the two of them endured and controlled the quantity that they collected so much.
These fifty or sixty pieces of jade, if you get it in China, any one of them, I am afraid that the price of hundreds or nearly 10 million on the black market, if it is on the surface, you don't have to negotiate the price at all, otherwise the country's iron fist will return to your house to check the water meter in minutes, and take you back to the bureau to drink tea and talk.
In the back is the jade of the Zhou Dynasty, and the old man has also collected a lot of things from this dynasty.
Jin Muchen took a fancy to several decorative belt buckles, one of which was round, with beautiful patterns carved on the outside, and the texture was much better than the Shang Dynasty jade collected before.
There are also a few pieces with strange shapes, Jin Muchen doesn't know what words to use to describe them, he can only say the most intuitive feeling, the shape of this belt buckle is similar to the shape of those Transformers' logos, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom.
He picked up a few and played with them for a while, feeling very fond of it, and tried to buckle one on his belt, but was slapped on his hand by Uncle Fang.
"I told you to learn about ancient jade well, but now you're blind, right? This is not an ordinary belt buckle, but a sword buckle! ”
As soon as Uncle Fang said this, Jin Muchen understood, no wonder he felt so strange when he looked at a few buckles before? This is not a decorative belt buckle, but a sword buckle with a more practical effect.
The so-called sword buckle is that after the sword of the ancients was put into the sheath, they wanted to stop wearing the belt, but if the sword was directly inserted diagonally from the armpit belt, it would not be so beautiful.
So the ancients invented a kind of sword buckle, inserting the sheathed sword into the buckle inside the sword buckle, and then fastening the sword buckle on the belt, so that it is both beautiful and practical.
Of course, this kind of sword buckle is also not something that ordinary people can carry, at least they have to be used by the royal family and nobles.
There's nothing else to do, of course this has to be put away.
Soon, the two of them collected about a hundred top-level jade treasures, although they were still a little unsatisfied, but when they saw David on the side with a somewhat complicated face, they also knew that it was time to stop.
After all, it was said that there would be only a hundred pieces of jade, and it would not be okay to have more, and the two of them had already overmade more than a dozen pieces, and if they took a few more, David would have to turn his face.
After all, the people at the museum are not fools, and if they come over next Monday to accept it, they find that there are too many treasures missing, and David will definitely turn his face.
If there are more than 100 pieces missing, even if the museum is unhappy, they can only pinch their noses and admit it.
After all, they and David can't be too serious, otherwise if they really go to court, if the public knows that the founder of the museum once used such a black contract to cheat a friend, it will have a very serious adverse impact on the reputation of the museum.
Therefore, this degree must be grasped well and not too much.
Moreover, most of the jade artifacts looted by the two this time are fine products from the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and if these jade artifacts are taken out and unveiled, they will definitely cause a sensation, after all, this is the most representative work of that era.
As for the jade of some later dynasties, Jin Muchen and Fang Bo did not take it, the jade of the Ming and Qing dynasties, there are currently some in circulation on the market, and the jade of other dynasties, hehe, forget it, because most of those jades are not handed down, and the number of burial jade is relatively large.
Especially the Han Eight Knife that was rumored to be miraculous, Jin Muchen felt a chill when he thought about it.
The Han Dynasty is a peak in the development of jade in Chinese history, the people of that dynasty are particularly fond of jade, they love jade during their lifetime, worship jade, wear jade, and bury jade after death, and the golden jade clothes are handed down in that era.
And when it comes to burying jade, people can play it very thoroughly, that is, they are stuffed into the nine orifices of the person, or covered with jade, as for the nine orifices, everyone understands.
And the masterpiece of the famous Han Badao is the jade cicada, and this thing is especially stuffed in the mouth of the dead.
So even if those 'jade idiots' boasted that this Han Badao was falling from the sky, Jin Muchen was unwilling to take such a jade artifact and play with it in his hands all day long, even if the original owner of the jade had turned into ashes thousands of years ago......
As for after the Han Dynasty, the jade of the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty also developed a small peak, but those two dynasties also had the habit of burying jade, so ......
It's still a jade from the Shang and Zhou dynasties and the Ming and Qing dynasties!
There were a total of 110 pieces of jade, and David didn't say much about the ten pieces of jade that the two of them picked out, and after calculating the number, Jin Muchen directly followed David's instructions and transferred 2.2 million US dollars to the bank account of a shell company he opened in the Viking Islands, and both sides were happy.
However, just when Jin Muchen and Fang Bo were about to say goodbye and leave, suddenly Jin Muchen's eyes swept and saw a burning stick in the fireplace in the room, flashing a strange golden light...... (To be continued......)