Chapter 317: Xuande Furnace

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The more he listened to this Jason, the tighter Jin Muchen's brows wrinkled, what is going on, is it possible that there is really nothing in your family?

Then what are you pulling Lao Tzu over? I was expecting to get something good from your house, but now it seems unlikely!

Jason is not a fool either, while speaking, he was also paying attention to Jin Muchen's expression, and when he saw that his face was getting darker and darker, of course he understood what he meant, and then snapped his fingers violently.

"Of course, you don't have to worry, although those good things back then are no longer there, but there are a few good things left in my house, you wait, I'll find them for you."

Jin Muchen's face was a little quiet, and Jason went to the back study alone, Jin Muchen didn't follow, but still quietly looked at the back a few times.

I can see clearly along the crack in the door, it should be a study inside, presumably it should also be James's study, looking at Jason's appearance, he is familiar with the situation inside, and it is obviously not the first time to go to his father's room to 'treasure hunting'.

After about ten minutes, this Jason walked out of the study with a black thing in his hand, came to Jin Muchen, and pushed the thing into his hand.

"This thing, I've seen my dad play with it a lot, and I've been reluctant to make a move, so I think it should be a good thing, how about you take a look? Does it fit or not? ”

Just listening to this guy's words, Jin Muchen felt sad for that James in his heart, even if that guy was doing well in the underground underworld business. How about making more money?

Look at him, this immature son. This piece of cub sells Ye Tian's heart-wrenching virtue. Even if James saves up more family business, sooner or later he will be ruined by his son of a loser.

But whatever, isn't that what he meant? And this may also be because their ancestors were too many traitors back then, so they led to zhì's retribution!

Jin Muchen shook his head secretly, and then took the black thing in Jason's hand, he had been thinking about the relationship between Jason and his father, and he really didn't pay much attention to this thing.

As soon as he got his hands on this thing, he couldn't help but be shocked.

This thing is cool and slippery to the touch. And don't look big, but the start is heavy, the color is chestnut shell color, the feel is smooth, as if you are touching the baby's skin, crystalline, China Resources, this kind of feel is really indescribably strange.

When he brought the black thing to his eyes, a very dazzling bright red light suddenly flashed from the object's body. So much so that Jin Muchen even felt a tingling in his eyes.

I've never felt like this before. Looks like this treasure is amazing.

He put this treasure a little farther away from his eyes, and began to look at it carefully, he had ringed ears, round feet, and the middle body was more like a rice bowl used by ancient monks, but this thing should be much more valuable than the rice bowl.

Jin Muchen took a look at the shape and volume of this thing, and probably had an estimate in his heart, and then turned this copper bowl upside down to look at the bottom paragraph below, and sure enough, he saw the seal book of the four-character vertical bottom paragraph of the Xuande Year System.

When looking at a few words, Jin Muchen paid special attention to the German character, and sure enough, just like the legend, there was no horizontal in the middle!

Sure enough, that's right, this thing in his hand now should be the Xuande furnace that is now popular on the market!

It's just that this Xuande furnace is different from the kind of guy who has a lot of fish and beads on the market, this should be the ancestral Xuande furnace made of wind-ground copper made in the authentic Xuande year.

Xuande furnace, in the current antique world, is a mixed bag, which makes people love and hate.

The reason why this thing is loved is because the fame of this Xuande furnace is too great, and it is the pinnacle masterpiece of ancient bronze in China, and this thing is still one of the few copper utensils that can be traded on the market.

But this thing is also hated, and the reason why it is hated is because this thing is too famous, so in later generations, many imitators began to produce fakes of this thing in large quantities, so that almost 99.9% of the Xuande furnaces circulating on the market are fakes.

It can be said that if there are a total of one million Xuande furnaces circulating in the world, then there are only ten genuine ones.

In China, the real Xuande furnace produced during the Xuande period is almost extinct, even in the Palace Museum, there is no genuine product.

The origin of this Xuande furnace, as long as you know about antiques, knows that it is because during the Xuande period, the King of Siam paid tribute to a batch of wind-milled copper, and the Xuande Emperor liked the incense burner very much.

So the craftsmen used these wind-milled copper, mixed with more than 30 kinds of precious metals, and refined it twelve times, which left the refined copper, and then used these refined copper to cast about 3,000 to 5,000 Xuande furnaces.

The workmanship of these Xuande furnaces can be said to be very exquisite, from the perspective of modern people, these Xuande furnaces are not only thick and heavy with bronze, but also with the delicacy and delicacy of porcelain.

The reason why such an effect can be created is that it is said that Emperor Xuande made these Xuande furnaces in order to make them, but he made a lot of money to design the shape of these Xuande furnaces.

He deliberately asked the chief manager of Ouchi to move out the porcelain of the six famous kilns of the Song Dynasty, Chai, Ru, Guan, Ge, Jun, and Ding hidden in the palace, and asked the craftsmen who made the Xuande furnace to make molds for the copper furnace with reference to these porcelain.

It is precisely for this reason that the Xuande furnace has the characteristics of both copper and porcelain.

In addition, this kind of incense burner was made from the very best materials of the time, so once this copper furnace came out, it was deeply loved by the royal family at that time because of its exquisite workmanship and exquisite materials.

So that the Xuande Dynasty has not ended, the emperor personally ordered the second batch of imitations to be manufactured, but because the wind-ground copper has been exhausted in the first batch of products at that time, so the second batch of brass was used, although the modeling process does not lose the first batch of works, but in terms of material and feel, it is far worse than the first batch.

Later, many emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties, because of their love for the Xuande furnace, once ordered people to imitate the Xuande furnace, and even not only the inner imitation of the palace, but even the people have many enthusiasts, secretly imitating this kind of thing.

From the middle of the Ming Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, domestic counterfeit manufacturers have never given up the imitation of Xuande furnace.

This also leads to the current domestic Xuande furnace market, which is huge in scale and mixed.

For the true lovers of Xuande furnace, it is already quite difficult to find the pioneering work of the real first generation of Xuande furnace, so as long as it is a fake Xuande furnace before the Republic of China, it has become collectible.

The imitations of the Republic of China, because of the rough rule, many trachomas, thin inner walls, light weight, belong to the lowest-end kind of copycat products, and there is no collection value.

And now in China, because of the popularity of the antique market, it has also led to the rise in the price of Xuande furnace, even if it is now in everyone's hands, it is difficult to find a genuine Xuande furnace in the first batch of that year, but as long as the quality of your fake is not bad, the workmanship is still exquisite, you can also auction a high price.

For example, the imitation of Xuande furnace in the early Qing Dynasty, as long as the materials are sufficient and the workmanship is good, it can be photographed for hundreds of thousands, and if there are celebrities who have collected it, the price will increase tenfold.

If it is a high-quality imitation of the Ming Dynasty, then the price will be higher, often millions, no problem.

However, the first batch of fine products made of wind-ground copper has never appeared in China once, although the domestic collection market has been newly opened for more than 20 years.

According to the statistics of interested scholars, the first batch of Xuande furnaces made of such wind-milled copper are probably only a dozen in the world.

Most of them are concentrated in European and American museums, such as museums in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Japan, and occasionally a few of them are also collected by the wealthy.

Jin Muchen really didn't expect that he would encounter a genuine Xuande furnace in Jason's house today, and such a harvest can be described as overjoyed. It's not an exaggeration.

But at this time, although he was very happy in his heart, he showed it in front of Jason.

This thing must have been snatched from his great-uncle and grandfather when they ransacked the Old Summer Palace, and it has been circulating in their house ever since.

Since his father loves this thing so much, he must have known the origin of this thing, but the stupid boy in front of him seems to have no idea where this thing came from, so it's the best.

"Wang, have you finished reading this thing?"

Jin Muchen took the incense burner, stood there and looked left and right, and then 'daze' for a long time without speaking, Jason who was standing on the side was already tired of waiting, and finally couldn't help but ask with a little complaint.

"Well, it's an old incense burner, it's in good condition, Jason, how much are you going to ask for this thing?"

"Uh...... Three...... No...... Fifty thousand pounds! ”

Jason doesn't know anything about antiques, but his dad does, so he only knows that since his dad likes it so much, it will definitely be valuable.

So 50,000 pounds is not too low!

Fifty thousand pounds? According to the current exchange rate, it is only 500,000 yuan, and if this Xuande furnace is taken to China, it will not be a problem to sell it for 50 million, so at this time, Jin Muchen did not hesitate at all, and directly took out his mobile phone: "Jason, how much is your bank account, I will transfer it to you, by the way, it is best if you have a Swiss bank account." (To be continued......)