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Although Jin Muchen is also quite proud of our own antique jewelry in China, when he sees these Western antique jewelry, he has to admire the imagination and creativity of these foreign devils.

To take a simple example, we also have thousands of years of history in the manufacture of bracelets.

However, our Chinese bracelets have always been limited to the material, and the carving and the fancy of the bracelet, and even a double-buckle bracelet has not come up with a bracelet, our bracelet style has been a ring for thousands of years.

This ring can be a gold ring, a silver ring, a jade ring, or a jade ring, you can carve and decorate the gold ring, silver ring, and jade ring, but you have never thought about what if the knuckles of the wearer of this bracelet are too thick, and it is too difficult to take them on every time, or you can't take them off after putting them on?

Western jewelers have long thought of this problem, and a double buckle bracelet solves all the problems, such a double buckle bracelet is not only innovative in form, but also provides a lot of new decoration methods for the bracelet.

"This bracelet is from 1860, this lion pendant is from the 16th century, this black butterfly brooch is from 1870 in France, and finally this flower drop earring is from 1900 by the French jewelry master Zuò, Gustav. Sandoz's work. ”

Just when Jin Muchen looked at these antique jewelry with emotion, Darren began to introduce the origin of these antique jewelry one by one.

Looking at the lion pendant, Jin Muchen sighed. No wonder this lion pendant compares to several other pieces of jewelry. It's going to be that simple. It turned out to be a work of the XVI century.

Because he agreed to Michael's request before, Jin Muchen also made up a lot of knowledge about Western antique jewelry.

Antique jewelry in the West has a history of thousands of years, but it was in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that the Renaissance began to flourish.

Before that, the style of Western antique jewelry was uniformly monotonous, and there were generally two styles of Western antique jewelry before the Renaissance, one was the ancient Egyptian style and the other was the ancient Roman style.

However, these two styles of jewelry. From the perspective of modern people, it is actually not good.

There will be a lot of bugs on ancient Egyptian-style jewelry, because the ancient Egyptians believed in bugs, while ancient Roman-style jewelry was quite rough, and people at that time preferred to use large pieces of gold and gemstones to show their wealth, as for the artistic mood, don't talk about it.

Before the Renaissance, in fact, the entire European continent was an obscurant region. It was the Dark Ages of the Middle Ages.

At that time, people in Europe looked at it from the perspective of today, just a bunch of hillbillies. Even the now famous Paris is still a garbage dump on a stinky street, where is there any art to speak of?

Therefore, the European antique jewelry before the Renaissance era, except for the kind worn by famous kings or queens in history, has a historical heritage, everything else is rubbish.

After the Renaissance, a large number of gold and precious stones suddenly poured into Europe, and the improvement and improvement of jewelry manufacturing technology provided a big stage for the development of jewelry as an art form.

Renaissance jewelry, like paintings of the same era, looks clumsy, disproportionate, and excessively embellished.

This period was a time when figures were abundantly found on jewelry, such as embossed portraits on gemstones, and enamel on profile figures.

Or use secondary gemstones to carve the front image of a person, such as white chalcedony to carve a person's face, red bloodstone or green jasper or blue lazuli to carve a person's clothing, and so on.

Pearls of all shapes and sizes, preferably large irregular pearls that came to be known as "baroque", were used to represent body parts, such as the carcass of a person, the torso of an animal, or the tail of a griffin-headed monster, clumsy but charming.

A popular style of clothing for women in the Renaissance was a low-necked and off-the-shoulder style, which was perfect for wearing necklaces. Therefore, the important role of the necklace in clothing made it the most unique piece of jewelry of the era.

For example, the lion pendant in front of you is a typical work of the Renaissance era.

The tower is made of gold, enamel, and "baroque" pearls, and the natural shape of the pearl is designed as the body part of the lion, and the head and limbs are cast in gold, and the enamel color is embellished in the meantime, and the lion is in a state of jumping, small but interesting, such a design was very popular in the late 16th century.

So when Darren said that this lion pendant was a work of the sixteenth century, Jin Muchen knew that this pendant should be a typical representative work of which era, and the price was definitely not cheap.

Jin Muchen's stunned appearance made Darren a little proud, and then he took out a few good things one after another.

For example, a late 19th-century corolla-shaped bracelet, a turquoise serpentine bracelet from 1850, and a tree-shaped brooch from the same era.

Each of these antique jewelry can be said to be a masterpiece, whether it is from the design or from the materials, although there is no clear historical inheritance, but the value of such antique jewelry is definitely not low.

Jin Muchen didn't think much about it at all, so he swept away all these jewels, spending a total of more than one million.

His boldness made Darren feel a little surprised, but also very satisfied.

After Jin Muchen packed these jewelry, he called the mayor directly, and soon got an invitation to attend the dinner at the mayor's house.

Michael. As a billionaire, Zoufenberg certainly has many 'homes', but lately he has been living in a luxury apartment in the Upper @City@ district.

When Jin Muchen arrived there, it was dinner time, and Michael had already asked the maid at home to prepare dinner.

As a billionaire, Zuofenberg is quite particular about food, and today he entertained Jin Muchen, and he asked people to prepare a French meal.

In fact, Jin Muchen is not very interested in this kind of French meal, there are many rules and small dishes, although it is very exquisite, but for him, a big-bellied man, it is generally difficult to eat enough.

But he didn't come to-day to eat, and when dinner was over, he followed Zoufenberg into his study with something he had picked up from Darren.

When he showed today's harvest one by one in front of Zuofenberg, Zuofenberg couldn't help but exclaim, even if he had seen many good things, but when he faced such a delicate and beautiful ornament, he would inevitably be amazed.

"It's beautiful...... Mu Chen...... Can you tell me a little bit about where they came from? ”

Zuofenberg picked up the black butterfly brooch and asked Jin Muchen to arrive while playing with it, and Jin Muchen nodded.

"Of course ......"

Then he began to show off the knowledge he had learned from Darren about antique jewelry in front of Zoufenberg.

“…… In fact, there are several important periods of antique jewelry, the first is the Renaissance era, that is, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, antique jewelry of this period has these characteristics...... For example, the lion pendant in front of you, despite its small size, is a typical example of antique jewelry of that era......"

Hearing Jin Muchen say this, Zuofenberg couldn't help but put down the black butterfly brooch in his hand, and then picked up the inconspicuous-looking lion pendant.

"The second important period is the period of Napoleon III in France in the 80s of the 19th century, also known as the late Victorian period in England. In this era, due to the expansion of territory by the British and French powers, the absorption of foreign cultures also influenced jewelry design, and the jewelry style not only retains the romantic atmosphere, but also covers multiple cultures, such as neo-Renaissance style, naturalistic style, Greek style, Egyptian style, Etruscan style, Assyrian style, Indian style, Gypsy style, etc...... For example, the pair of earrings made of diamonds and rubies on hand is also called the Georgian style, because the jewelry of this period is popular to design jewelry with natural elements, green and purple gemstones, so this period is also called the Georgian period. ”

As soon as Jin Muchen said this, Zuofenberg picked up the pair of gemstone earrings at hand, and he also couldn't put it down.

The other three important periods of antique jewelry are: the French Art Nouveau period that began in 1900, when naturalism prevailed, and jewelry works focused on surface decoration and setting, and also used the vines and curves of many plants to create gorgeous lines of jewelry; The French Corolla Wreath period, also known as the English Edwardian period, which began in 1910, incorporates intricate lace trim styles for the opulence and delicacy of the court. The Art Deco period that began in 1925 was mainly due to the advent of white gold, the creation of new jewelry, the use of more colorful, large pieces of gemstones, and the ability to design more exaggerated and strict geometric shapes, so the works of this period occupied a very high proportion of antique jewelry, and the popular period was also longer. These jewels from different periods, these jewels that I have collected for you, all have masterpieces, such as ......"

Jin Muchen classified and displayed the jewels he collected today in front of Zuofenberg according to different historical periods.

Zuofenberg looked at the antique jewelry in front of him, and he was also quite satisfied, in fact, he was even more satisfied with Jin Muchen's style, careful, rigorous, serious, and meticulous.

At that time, he only asked him to collect a few sets of antique jewelry, but he was able to buy a piece or a set of antique jewelry masterpieces from almost every important historical period.

Who doesn't like such a young man? (To be continued......)