Chapter 861: The Old Collection of Prince Gong's Mansion
Although this eggplant, in the eyes of the Chinese, is just an ordinary celadon tea jar of Fu @ Jian folk song, this thing has a very deep historical significance for the Japanese.
In the end, it was collected by Hirota Matsushi, and after he donated it to the Tokyo National Museum, this tea caddy was also rated as a national treasure of Japan by the appraisers of the Tokyo National Museum.
After all, in the eyes of the Japanese, this tea caddy has experienced the history that the Japanese are most proud of, so although it is not a special treasure, but because it has been collected by many historical celebrities in Japan, it has enough sense of history, so it is natural to rate it as a national treasure.
Now that this national treasure is in your pocket, it will surely make those Japanese people very painful!
But after tonight, these Japanese people will probably not be suffering from such an eggplant, they will probably go crazy for tonight's loss.
Jin Muchen sneered and put away the tea can, and then continued to walk forward.
This Takashima Kikujiro, as well as Yokogawa Minsuke, and the fine works donated to the Tokyo National Museum by Hirota Matsushi, have almost all been looted by Jin Muchen.
But that's not enough, there are still a lot of treasures in this Toyokan.
For example, the three-piece set that Jin Muchen saw next, the origin of this three-piece set is also not small.
These three pieces are three sets of well-preserved red sandalwood furniture in the Qing Dynasty, they are the red sandalwood carved passionflower "Qingshou" pattern treasure sitting in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty; There is also a pair of red sandalwood, high girdle banana leaves, cloud bat pattern, three bent legs, with a mud incense table; and a rosewood passionflower with a large square sash pattern.
These three major pieces, but the old court objects of the Qing Dynasty recorded in the inscription below, there is nothing to say about the workmanship.
And the purple glow on these sets of furniture. also told Jin Muchen. These pieces of furniture are all of the right age.
In addition, Jin Muchen has also collected it before. The furniture used in the Qing Dynasty court, so he still understands the workmanship of the Qing Dynasty furniture, and the workmanship of these three sets is not wrong at all, and it must be the furniture used by the princes and nobles of the Qing Dynasty.
As soon as he looked at the introduction in front of these pieces of furniture, he immediately understood that these three-piece sets were actually furniture from Prince Gong's mansion at the end of the Qing Dynasty.
Come to think of this. Jin Muchen thought of the gilded sitting clock that he had collected in Jade Bird City, China, and that big table clock, wasn't it sold by the last Gongwang Puwei?
Think about it, that grandson is a crazy royalist, and later after the Qing Dynasty royal family was forced to abdicate, that grandson once shouted crazy about this, to be restored.
And he has been running back and forth between the old and the young who have lost their power, preaching that he got bullshit. Later, there was a time when I wanted to rebel in southern Liaoning.
In the end, it can only be reduced to. It was only by colluding with the Japanese that he could complete his dream of restoration, but unfortunately the Japanese didn't take him too seriously, just treated him as a pawn.
Once he has no use value, he will directly kill him in Da@Lian.
And now it seems that he still underestimates this grandson, this grandson's ability to lose is not as powerful as the average two, and before he left the capital, he took out their old mansion himself, and sold all the previous things to these Japanese devils, and also achieved the most hated Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce among these Japanese devils.
The materials used for this kind of red sandalwood furniture, needless to say, are all high-grade red sandalwood, this material, in the Qing Dynasty, in addition to the royal and some top princes and nobles, not many people can afford to use, even if it is a huge rich in the south of the Yangtze River, there are not many furniture made of this material.
And these pieces of furniture look at the shape of the handwriting of the palace office, and you can see the origin of these pieces of furniture when you look at the introduction in front of you.
According to the "Yi? "Secret Files" records: In the second year of Xianfeng, on March 17, Prince Gong Yi? Furniture for Anfu.
Roughly speaking, on March 7, 1852, Prince Gong played to Emperor Xianfeng, hoping that the palace office could make a batch of furniture for himself.
Emperor Xianfeng was also very neat, and he was approved immediately, so he soon sent some high-quality red sandalwood furniture to Prince Gong's mansion, which is recorded:
On March 17, there was a hall to hand over the respectful room to the Gongwang Mansion with the honorable room woodware and other items of the general manager Jin Degu with a white folded piece: a rosewood treasure chair, a rosewood grain couch, ten rosewood palace chairs......
On April 22, Prince Gong's Mansion was used: a rosewood treasure chair, two pairs of rosewood cabinet grids, and there were incomplete circles and teeth. A pair of rosewood hexagonal high tables, two rosewood inlaid saltpeter tables, two rosewood kang cases, and incomplete flower tooth strips inside. There are twenty rosewood palace chairs, with incomplete tooth replacement in the ring tooth strip. A pair of rosewood side black lacquer stationery, a pair of rosewood bezel top vertical cabinets, with a bezel inlay burst, rifle, incomplete back plate damage, rosewood bezel inlaid with a few legs, a rosewood warped head case, a nanmu long table, two pairs of gold lacquer kang grids, a gold lacquer kang case, a gold lacquer small kang grid, a pair of black lacquer gold flower kang grids, a pair of gold lacquer painted gold Hualien several kang grids, a bamboo lacquer surface kang case, a pair of red carved lacquer kang grids.
The above wood carving live and jade inlaid copper leaf fan sleeve are incomplete, and the corresponding find to complete the whole see the new, so as to report the cause of the present, the general manager records this.
On this record, it can be said that the memory is meticulous and meticulous, and the score is exactly the same, not only what kind of furniture was sent, but even the set of furniture, which is not finished, is recorded.
And this Prince Gong Yi? The furniture that was rewarded by the emperor was made by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and almost all of them were made according to the specifications of the palace utensils, and the quality of the furniture was as high as you can imagine.
And this is only the most concentrated reward received during the division of the government, and there will be a lot of sporadic reward furniture in the future.
For example, on March 29 of the second year of Xianfeng, that is, on May 17, 1852, Emperor Xianfeng didn't know how to have a brain pump on this day, and suddenly became interested.
So he rewarded Prince Gong again? A lot of wood furniture: a rosewood treasure chair, a rosewood couch, a rosewood palace chair, and a cushion were sent to Prince Gong's mansion. Chin this.
These are not just in "Yi? There is a record in the "Secret Files", and it is also recorded in the Qing Court Office.
Because of this, these Japanese can tell the origin of this red sandalwood three-piece set so clearly and clearly.
This three-piece set of furniture is not only carved on the wood itself, but also supplemented by high-grade materials such as luodian and jade to make patterns such as petals and animals, which are inlaid on this set of furniture.
Or they can be decorated with high-quality materials such as gold, silver, and seven treasures, or they can be carved with paintings and ceramics on platinum paper to enrich the expression.
In short, the decoration is extremely beautiful, it can be said that the beauty and even the beauty of luxury and decay, and at the same time, the pattern also uses the palace furniture, and the dragon, phoenix, crane, hundred flowers, birds and other patterns that are often used to reflect the prosperity of the royal family are used as the mainstream of decoration.
If it is decorated with a dragon and phoenix, is this Prince Gong Yi? If you do it yourself, don't say that he is the younger brother of Emperor Xianfeng, even if he has eight heads, it is not enough to cut off.
But these things were given to him by Emperor Xianfeng, and that was another matter.
Therefore, such furniture can be said to be absolutely precious, and if it can be exhibited at the Tokyo National Museum, it will definitely be even more of a fine of the best.
However, because the Japanese do not like the cultural relics of the Ming and Qing dynasties in China, although this three-piece set of furniture, in the eyes of the Chinese, is very precious, but in the eyes of the Japanese, it is nothing, so they did not rate this three-piece set of rosewood furniture as a national treasure.
And such a three-piece set of furniture, if it is brought to China, it is almost impossible to think about it, it must be a national treasure!
After all, we Chinese have our own set of identification methods for furniture collection.
Collectors in Japan or Europe and the United States, when collecting antique furniture, generally look at the furniture first, whether there are any historical allusions, and then look at the furniture, who has used it before, if it is used by celebrities, it will definitely have a bonus.
The second is to look at the material and processing of furniture, and we Chinese are different, we Chinese player furniture collection, the first thing to look at is the material used in furniture, whether it is golden silk nan, red sandalwood, or gloomy wood such as fine materials.
Then it is to look at the workmanship, whether the workmanship is fine, whether the carving is exquisite, and whether it is from the hands of those famous artists.
Then look at the furniture, who used it before, and whether there are any historical allusions.
Therefore, our Chinese player furniture collection is completely opposite to foreign countries.
This is also the main reason why the Japanese did not rate this piece of furniture as a national treasure, but Jin Muchen's heart was beating when he saw it.
You must know that some time ago, he heard that the capital held a special furniture auction in the Ming and Qing dynasties, including several red sandalwood chairs that were handed down in the Qing Dynasty court.
The unit price of those chairs in which auction turned out to be more than 20 million, and the overall price in the end broke 100 million.
This three-piece set, but a complete set of furniture, a 'Qingshou' pattern throne, as well as a high waist banana leaf cloud bat pattern three bent legs with a few pairs of mud incense, plus passionflower pattern with a large square table of clay, such a complete set of furniture combination, but also preserved in such a perfect condition, the price of this thing?
Jin Muchen estimated that if he had to go up for auction at the Ming and Qing Furniture Exhibitions a few months ago, these three-piece sets would definitely be auctioned for a price of more than 100 million...... (To be continued.) )