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Jin Muchen turned his head and glanced at him, the boss who could be glimpsed at this glance, his heart was beating wildly, he originally thought that this customer would turn his face away, but he didn't expect this guy to show his white teeth in the end.

"Okay, deal!"

The boss has a big stone in his heart on the ground, which feels like a bottle of cold Coke in the dog days, and it is a whole body comfort.

"Hehe, boss, you really have a good eye, you can't go wrong with buying this clock. Ay! If it weren't for the fact that some time ago, I lost money in the stock market, and I would definitely keep this clock as an heirloom and say that I would not sell it. ”

The boss sighed and said, out of the corner of his eyes as he spoke, he also looked at a façade on the side of the street, and there was a little more loneliness in his eyes.

Jin Muchen looked at this situation, and felt that the boss still had a story about this clock, so it couldn't be better, buying antiques, everyone hopes to understand the inheritance of some treasures in their hands.

"Boss, can you collect the transfer? A million is too big for cash. ”

"Of course, no problem, I'll give you the account."

The boss reported a string of accounts, Jin Muchen transferred the account to him, some time ago, where did Yan Zhigao's son-in-law get a sum of money, his father invested in Wang Xueming's company, and there was still a lot left, so he left a sum of money for pocket money, which could just be used for procurement in China.

"By the way, boss, tell me how you collected this clock."

"Okay, I'll tell you about it."

When the boss saw the success of the transaction, he was also interested.

It turns out that the owner's family has been in the antique business for several generations. But in the early years. Not in the Blue Bird. It was in Quancheng, and later in order to escape the war at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, this came to the Blue Bird.

In the twenties and thirties of the last century, the Japanese occupied the blue bird, and they were wantonly scraped locally, and many of the original rich families were scraped by the Japanese, and they had to sell their jobs in order to make a living.

At that time, this grandfather was his grandfather. Received from a bankrupt Zhenghuang Banner Man, according to his grandfather, that Banner Man used to be on duty in the Qing Palace when the Qing Dynasty was still there, and later fell to the Blue Bird with a certain Qing Dynasty nobleman.

Later, the nobleman, because of some matters, left the blue bird, and when he left, he dismissed many family members. So he gave the bell to the bannerman, and then it fell into the hands of our family.

The boss was talking about the past. His eyes were also a little fluctuating, Jin Muchen kept paying attention to the look on his face, looking at his appearance, he felt that he should not be lying.

"Originally, my grandfather repeatedly told us to pass it on as a family heirloom, but it's a pity that I am a bad descendant......"

When the boss said this, he couldn't help but pat his thigh.

It turns out that their antique family, to his area, is broken, this boss didn't like to read when he was young, and he didn't like to learn antiques, the accumulation of several generations of family, their family is also quite rich, so when this guy was young, he has always been recruiting cats and dogs without learning and not knowing.

Later, when he reached middle age, his father was also old, and he really couldn't hold the store, so he handed over the business to him, but this guy didn't know much about antiques, so after getting started, he messed up several transactions and was cheated of a lot of money.

He has also been unwilling, just a few months ago the domestic stock market was hot, he thought this was an opportunity to make up for the loss, so he scraped together a sum of money and invested in the stock market, at first it was okay, and he made a lot of money, but he thought that the market was volatile some time ago, but he tossed all his money into it.

Even in the end, even the family's store pù was lost, no, in the end, there was really no way, but the family heirlooms were taken out and sold!

After hearing this, Jin Muchen felt that he didn't seem to be lying, and he didn't know what to comfort him, so he could only pat him on the shoulder.

"Thank you, boss, do a good job, sooner or later you can earn that shop back!"

"Haha, it should be me thank you, I've been here for a long time, but I haven't been able to sell it, but I'm in a hurry, you also know that we speculate in stocks, the most taboo is what clock, books, this kind of thing with homophonic words, this time to dispose of this clock, I can be regarded as light. And with your million, now the stock market is warming, haha, in a few days, I will be able to return to the capital, maybe I can make a lot of money by then! ”

The boss said to Jin Muchen with a smile, and when Jin Muchen heard this, he could only sigh and shake his head.

Originally, he still felt a little sorry for this guy, on the one hand, because his family was in the middle of the road, and on the other hand, because of the acquisition of this clock, he took advantage of him, but now it seems that this guy is not worthy of pity at all.

This guy doesn't even know what's going on with his feet on the ground? His mind is full of the absurdity of getting rich overnight in the stock market, this is such a good baby, he has no eyes, even if he has no beads, he still dislikes this treasure, it will bring him bad luck, if this clock is left in his hands, it will be a tyrannical thing.

Even if you don't buy this bell today, sooner or later you will be bought by someone else at a cheaper price, because of this boss, he is not a down-to-earth person, he is a gambler!

Jin Muchen waved his hand to find a delivery boy, loaded the bell into a small cart, pushed it outside the market, loaded it into his own car, and then drove back to the hotel, and then carefully carried it to the room upstairs.

Before Candace woke up, he sat in the living room, studying the clock.

Look at this shape, and decoration, the boss is not wrong about this, this is the Guang Clock, that is, the table clock produced in Yangcheng that year, but this should not be a product of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, it should be earlier, the work of the middle and late Qing Dynasty, and it is also a fine product.

And more importantly, the three flower characters of the enamel filigree hidden in the four-corner rotating flower of the bell set part, Li Deheng!

It also explains the origin of this clock, but the shape of these three words is very ingenious, and it is hidden in a piece of enamel cloisonné filigree, if the eyesight is not enough, you can't see it at all.

Modern mechanical clocks first appeared in the 14th century, and in 1656, the Netherlands invented the first pendulum clock in human history, which has a history of more than 500 years.

Clocks should have been introduced to China from the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and soon the Chinese began to manufacture, of which Yangcheng was the earliest place in China to contact the chiming bell, and by the Qianlong period, it had a considerable scale and became an important base for the production of self-striking bells in China.

The popularity of Western clocks in China is closely related to the interest of the Qing Dynasty emperors, starting from Kangxi, through the Yongzheng Dynasty, to the Qianlong period, the love for Western clocks is considered to have reached a peak.

Qianlong not only valued the function of Western clocks, but also valued their aesthetic functions, so he even ordered officials in eastern Guangdong to take advantage of the opportunity of trade to collect the most exquisite and latest Western clocks from overseas, and ordered people to develop them in the palace, so that the collection and production of Chinese clocks and clocks reached a climax.

In the Qianlong Dynasty, there were more than 100 Western missionaries and craftsmen who were proficient in clocks and watches, and Qianlong himself relied on Western watchmakers very much, and discussed with them many times the principles and styles of clocks and watches, and rewarded them from time to time.

In the middle and late Qianlong period, because of the emperor's love, two places in China that could produce their own Western clocks were also developed, one was Yangcheng and the other was Jinling.

Compared with Jinling bell, the shape of Yangcheng bell imitates more buildings, such as pavilions, platforms, floors, pavilions, towers, etc., most of the bell shells are made of copper enamel, bright colors, bright luster, with distinctive local characteristics and characteristics of the times, generally used as luxury furnishings.

According to research, Yangcheng's clock manufacturing technology has reached a very high level in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, after decades of learning and technology accumulation, after the middle of Qianlong, the clock case and movement of Yangcheng clock can be comparable to Western clocks, and its most prominent feature is that the surface is mostly colorful enamel decoration.

This kind of enamel, also known as wide enamel, is developed by Yangcheng craftsmen on the basis of Western transparent enamel combined with Chinese cultural elements, its bright and transparent, yellow, green, blue and other colors, the decorative patterns on the enamel are fine and prosperous, layer upon layer of firing, very regular, is not possessed by clocks and watches in other places.

At that time, it was often offered as a tribute to the Qing Palace, so from the idea to the design not only strive to be novel and peculiar, but also to conform to the psychology of the emperors, so it can be said that the production of zuò can be described as excellence, so each piece is a rare boutique, but also deeply loved by the emperors.

In particular, the firing technology of the enamel color decorative pattern on the body of this bell made the later foreign devils admire and envy, originally they pioneered the Western clock, and finally the merchants of the European countries imported a lot of enamel painted table clocks from Yangcheng back and sold them to the princes and nobles.

Even at that time, there was a European Shi Dezhi who spent a lot of money to learn the enamel painting and decoration technology of the Yangcheng bell, but in the end it was always unlawful, which shows the wisdom of the ancient craftsmen in our country.

Yangcheng bell exquisite enamel color, the most distinctive is the royal blue enamel gold sheet, its effect is rich and dazzling, unforgettable, breathtaking, this kind of gold, honeysuckle hard transparent enamel can only be produced in Yangcheng, so it is called "wide enamel".

And the above characteristics of Yangcheng enamel painted clock, Jin Muchen has all the bells in front of him, and the more important thing is the three words of Lideheng hidden in the enamel filigree at the top.

According to the records of the Qing court office, this Lideheng is the archway of Yangcheng, which was specially produced for the Qing court to pay tribute to the royal clocks and clocks, according to the current understanding, this shop is the royal clock workshop of the Qing Dynasty!

But any clock engraved with the three characters of Li Deheng should basically be produced by this workshop, and there is no doubt that it will be a tribute to the Qing court!

So the bell in front of you, if it's right, should be the old collection of the Qing Palace! (To be continued......)