Chapter 426: The Last Emperor's Treasure
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Finally, on the way, the two came to the unanimous conclusion that this Tariq probably had another mansion to hide the antique calligraphy and paintings he had auctioned at auction.
So it's normal to find those antiques in his mansion.
Come to think of it, how could a heroic figure like Tariq not know the truth of the three holes of the cunning rabbit?
It seems that in the future, if the opportunity allows, there will be a need to visit this guy's nest once, but that's all for later, now I have to see what is in front of me and in the box.
Jin Muchen took out the sandalwood box from the purple jade space and placed it in front of him, not in a hurry to open the box, but took a deep breath.
This sandalwood box is not made of rosewood like the rosewood Wanli cabinet he received in the UK before, but it is also heavy in his hand, and the material is very hard, and the texture of the wood is also very delicate.
If you look closely, you can see the black and white texture on the wood, the gloss of the wood surface is very good, but there is no fragrance, Jin Muchen estimated that this should be ebony produced in Southeast Asia.
Although it is not as good as the top red sandalwood and green sandalwood in the sandalwood family, it is also much better than red sandalwood.
Looking at the style of the box, it is completely Chinese-style carving and workmanship, but looking at the age, the production age of this box is not very long, and it must be a modern sandalwood box collected by Tariq.
And in thought, he kept this box so secret. In the dark compartment at the head of his bed. Presumably he had something in this box. It should be taken very seriously.
Thinking of the contents of this box, Jin Muchen's heart raced a little.
He opened the lid of the box and saw that it was lined with fine yellow silk, which was more in line with the Chinese style of this box.
As soon as he thought of this, Jin Muchen couldn't hold back the agitation in his heart, and reached out to uncover the yellow silk covering the treasure in the box, when the things below leaked out. Jin Muchen felt his eyes light up suddenly.
His eyes were full of a noble golden light, and his heart could no longer contain a wild beat, such an excitement that he had never felt even when he first discovered the diamond in the chandelier hanging from the roof of the Tariq.
He carefully picked up the treasure, and when he picked it up, he couldn't help but be taken aback again, it turned out that these three treasures were actually connected by three chains, and the three chains. It turned out to be made of Tian Huang of the best material.
And the three treasures are two squares and one circle. Three Tian Huang seals!
When Jin Muchen went to the ghost market before, he also received a Taishang Emperor seal used by Emperor Qianlong, so as soon as this set of emperor seals got his hands on it, he felt very familiar.
Because Tian Huangshi was really discovered and became popular in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and the use of Tian Huangshi to make seals and became popular was in the Qing Dynasty.
Therefore, as soon as Jin Muchen got his hands on these three Tian Huang seals, he already had a judgment, this should be another imperial object of the Qing Dynasty, and it should also be exclusive to a certain emperor.
After thinking about it carefully, the records of the court chronicles of the Qing Dynasty could it be that this is the lost national treasure?
The legendary Tian Huang triple seal?
According to records, Qianlong was a well-known emperor who liked to play antiques, and Tian Huang was one of his favorite gemstones, and he made a total of more than 1,000 seals in his lifetime, but there were no less than 100 of them made with Tian Huang stone.
According to Qing history, this Tian Huang three seals are one of Qianlong's most cherished seals.
I usually put it on my desk, take it out and play with it when I have time, and if I travel, I have to take it with me.
Jin Muchen held back the agitation in his heart, held up the three Tianhuang seals, and forced the sunlight leaking in from the broken hole in the top of the barn, and carefully checked the inscriptions on the three seals.
I saw that on the square seal on the left, it was engraved with 'Qianlong Chenhan' in Yangwen, four big characters.
On the oval seal in the middle, the same "Lotte" is also engraved with the yang seal, two big characters, but these two words, are arranged vertically up and down, and on the left and right sides of the font, there are also carved with two dragon patterns, which looks like the front seal is vivid and beautiful.
And the seal on the right, is also square, but this side of the seal is carved in the way of Yin seal, engraved with the 'only one' four big characters, and the arrangement of the palindrome is adopted, this seal is engraved in the end, and the arrangement of the font, just and the front two sides of the intertwin, so that the three seals are their own characteristics, and they all look very beautiful.
After seeing clearly the seal carvings on the three seals and the arrangement of the fonts, Jin Muchen was already 100% sure in his heart, that's right, this is what he had seen in the history of the Qing Dynasty before, and the Tianhuang triple seal that Emperor Qianlong loved the most!
Although the Tianhuang triple seal was Emperor Qianlong's favorite, but later these three seals disappeared after the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty abdicated and was driven out of the palace.
It wasn't until the last emperor was caught that people knew the whereabouts of this Tian Huang Sanlianyin.
It turned out that after he abdicated at that time, he did everything possible to pour things outside the palace, at that time, because there were many old people in the Qing Dynasty, he still wanted to revitalize his family.
In order to make a comeback in the future, he took precautions and began to raise funds, and successively rewarded his two cousins, Pu Jie and Pu Jia, from the palace to bring out a lot of treasures, including this Fang Tian Huang Sanyin.
Later, after he was kicked out of the palace, he was controlled by the Japanese with these treasures, and later became a new puppet emperor in the puppet capital.
However, at the end of World War II, there was a shortage of soldiers in the puppet capital, and even he, the puppet emperor, suffered from the military disaster.
Because the Japanese mainland ate two giant eggs and the emperor announced the surrender, the Japanese soldiers stationed in the puppet capital were very confused, some advocated surrender, and some people even wanted to resist to the end.
At that time, he also felt that something was wrong, and planned to pack his family foundation, and then lower the oil and slip away.
But as soon as he left the palace gate, he was ransacked by the chaotic Japanese soldiers, and finally relied on his own guards to kill out of those chaotic soldiers, and then he planned to take the rest of the treasure to Mukden, and then where to take the plane to Japan.
But when he thought that he was halfway there, he was made dumplings by the former Soviet Red Army, and the group took the treasures he scavenged from the palace inside, all of which were cheap polar bears.
Later, in 1950, he was released by the former Soviet Union and returned to the Chinese government, but the treasures he took away were all very cheap.
Later, Da Maozi also returned a batch one after another, but the most precious batch of cultural relics have been missing.
The whereabouts of those treasures are very simple, some may have been taken away by the Soviet government at the time, and some of them are likely to be privately divided by those soldiers of the Soviet Red Army.
This also happens to explain why this set of Tianhuang triple seals appeared in the United States at this time.
Presumably, this set of seals probably fell into the hands of a Soviet soldier back then, and after the collapse of the former Soviet Union, the descendants of the soldier are likely to immigrate to the United States, perhaps because of the compulsion of life, so they took out the three seals and sold them, or pawned them, and finally fell into the hands of this Tariq.
It's just a cycle of heavenly principles, and Tariq definitely didn't expect that after his hard work and accumulation, he finally made a wedding dress for himself.
This set of Tian Huang three consecutive seals, and finally returned to the hands of his own Chinese, presumably this is also the manifestation of the ancestors, do not want to see such a top national treasure, become such a white-skinned ghost animal's private plaything!
Jin Muchen sighed, and then took the set of Tianhuang Sanlian Seal in his hand and played with it for a long time, the more he played, the more he liked it.
Although this seal does not have a vessel type, it is much smaller than the Taishang Emperor Seal that I received before, but if you talk about the material, or the degree of refinement, these three seals are much better than the Taishang Emperor Seal on that side.
Although the Emperor Fang Taishang Chapter is carved from a whole piece of mutton fat white jade, and the mutton fat white jade is also a high-grade gemstone, if it is really compared with this Tian Huangshi, it must be very inferior.
After all, this Tian Huangshi, in the Qing Dynasty, has always been called the emperor stone, has always been one or two Tian Huang, one or two gold, and now, it is definitely not one or two gold can be measured.
Therefore, in terms of the price of the two gemstones, it must be that Tianhuang stone is much higher.
Coupled with the status of this Tian Huang triple seal in history, as well as the emperor's love for this seal back then, if the price of these three seals is really said, it must be higher than the Taishang Emperor seal.
After playing for a while, Jin Muchen was reluctant to put the three-party seals back into the box, but the moment the seals were put in the box, his brain suddenly shook again.
This box is not small in size, if it is just loaded with these three seals, it seems to be a bit of a loss, and looking at the three-party seal of the card, it is also in the middle of the box, so will there be other things below?
And it is said that when the last emperor escaped from the palace, he did not have a lot of private collections, so if Tariq really received this treasure from the descendants of the Soviet Red Army as he deduced, then it is impossible to receive such a piece, right? (To be continued......)