And the seat carving in front of him is even more amazing.

Not to mention the intricate carvings on this carving, as well as the jewels it shows, showing its special historical status.

Just the materials used in this sculpture are incredible.

One of the most fidelity features of agarwood is that the better the agarwood, the stronger the fragrance it can emit, and the larger the area that can diffuse radiation.

Jin Muchen's agarwood bracelets are already top-level agarwood, which can last for a long time and exude fragrance, but they can diffuse, but the radiation area is quite limited, after all, the volume is there.

However, this piece of agarwood ornaments spliced with large materials is different, the volume is large, and the fragrance is rich, and the area that can be radiated and diffused is also quite wide.

When he first entered this restaurant, Jin Muchen's attention was not all on this sculpture, but more on other ornaments in the room.

In addition, at that time, he was talking to the Sultan on the one hand, and on the other hand, there were constantly waiters coming up without food, so he didn't have time to carefully inspect the ornaments and exhibits in this room, so he ignored this statue of the carved ornament.

At this time, calm down, occasionally attracted the spirit by this agarwood seat carving, this time to be distracted so much, this look is amazing, in recent days is playing agarwood, he was fascinated by the play at a glance.

Anyway, the dessert hadn't come up yet, and he was looking at Hassan Nur Sultan, who was also on the phone at this time, and he peeked at the statue a few times, which was not rude, so he simply turned his head and began to look at the eagle intently.

Looking at it so closely, the more I look at it, the more I love it.

First of all, the materials used in this pedestal sculpture are very particular. So far, the agarwood works he has played with are a few small bracelets.

Although they are all top-level Kalimantan agarwood, because of the volume, the price is more than 100,000 pieces.

But this pedestal sculpture is different, and the size alone is incredible. More than 80 centimeters high, more than 50 centimeters long, more than 20 centimeters wide, such a huge seat carving, that is a great treasure.

In the world of antique collecting, whether it is porcelain or wood carving, there is such a particular, that is, the larger the shape. The better, the more expensive, and the more sought after by people.

Because people know that the collection of large vessels was certainly not affordable by ordinary people back then, so the cherishment of such things was improved in the origin, as well as the particularity of the historical heritage.

And this pedestal sculpture is completely in line with this characteristic, although it is not carved from a single piece of agarwood. However, it is made of several large pieces of material.

Such a huge agarwood is now on the market. It can be said that it is basically extinct, even if you have money, you may not be able to buy such a huge agarwood, and the fragrance emitted by this agarwood has already shown that this agarwood is definitely a high-quality agarwood.

Looking at the carving on the agarwood, the front of this screen is inlaid with glass mirrors. And just above the glass mirror and above the two sides, there are the scenery of the relief landscape pavilion, the fairy clouds are curling, the pavilion is now in the middle, the mountains and rocks are rugged. The pine branches are strong.

In addition, the other parts are full of carved sea water wave patterns, and between the rolling waves, there are several bats carved together, which has an excellent meaning.

A total of six layers of pictures on the back, through the optical principle, from the two round holes above the front mirror, through the light, you can see the great depth of field and three-dimensional perspective effect of the Western character landscape.

One of them is a picture of young men and women living in the city, and the other is a sea adventure, all of which can be glimpsed through the tube holes, like a dream.

Just looking at the carving on the seat screen, Jin Muchen could conclude that this must be from the old palace collection of the palace.

Because the carvings made of agarwood became popular in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and have always been loved by the nobles of the palace.

The emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties were very fond of placing such carvings in their own study, which was pleasing to the eye, and that they could also refresh their minds by taking advantage of the curative effect of agarwood in traditional Chinese medicine.

It is precisely because of the emperors' love for this kind of agarwood carving, so the palace offices of the Ming and Qing dynasties have collected the world's bright materials, and then ask the carving everyone to make them, such exquisite ornaments, placed on the emperor's desk.

And such precious carvings have been clearly recorded in the court history books of the Ming and Qing dynasties.

And then there is just looking at the carving on this screen, such exquisite and complicated skills are not made by ordinary people who can ask carvers to make.

So after just a few glances, Jin Muchen had already concluded that this must be a royal thing.

Through the patterns carved on this screen and the portraits of the characters, Jin Muchen has basically deduced at this time that this screen should be a work of the Qing Dynasty.

You must know that bats, an animal, appeared on all kinds of porcelain and carvings, and there were early years, but it really began to become popular and widely accepted by the royal family, or in the Qing Dynasty.

And it started with Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, because Kangxi was a long-lived emperor, in the middle and late stages of his reign, at the birthday banquet every year, there would be princes, grandsons and other princes and nobles to give him gifts.

And those gifts have a statue of a bat on it, and because the name of the bat has a bat in it, the original meaning is homophonic blessing, so the bat is a very auspicious mascot in the eyes of the nobles of the Qing Dynasty.

And Kangxi himself is also very fond of this kind of mascot, which is also the main reason why there are many bat statues on many porcelain and ornaments he has used.

After him, bats became frequent visitors to the utensils used by the emperors of the Qing Dynasty, which reached its peak during the Qianlong Emperor's period.

So just looking at the bat statue on the seat screen, Jin Muchen has basically concluded that this seat screen should be used by the Qing Dynasty royal family.

In addition, the pictures in this screen, which are all renderings of Western characters, you must know that in the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court at that time was just beginning to contact with Westerners, and the emperor in the palace preferred the leopard room, alchemy or something, and they were not interested in Western culture.

In the Qing Dynasty, because of extensive communication with the Western world, the two emperors of the Qing Dynasty, Kangxi and Qianlong, had many important ministers who came to the West.

So some of the things they like, of course, will naturally have some characteristics of Western art.

For example, the twelve bronze heads in the Old Summer Palace were actually carved and manufactured by Western technicians in accordance with Western sculpture techniques.

And the one who knows and is most obsessed with Western culture and art is, of course, the Qianlong Emperor who likes to play antiques and cultural games all his life.

You must know that the two large sitting clocks of the Qing Dynasty that Jin Muchen collected before were the imperial collection of Emperor Qianlong back then.

With a basic judgment in his heart, Jin Muchen's gaze at this seat screen became more and more obsessed, and the more he looked at it, the more he liked it.

After looking at it for a while, I remembered that I was still in the Sultan's restaurant, so I turned around, but when I turned around, I found that His Majesty the Sultan, who was sitting on the other side, was looking at me with a smile at this time.

"What? Mr. Jin, do you like this agarwood seat screen very much? ”

"Yes! This seat screen is really too beautiful, aside from its high cost of materials, just look at the carving on it, you can say that this is an epoch-making art boutique, you see that it uses a lot of traditional Chinese carving ingenuity, hollow, relief, yin carving, yang carving...... The use of these techniques is perfect, and the carving style is also round and free, such works of art, I dare to conclude, must have come from the royal palace of that year. And according to the pattern carved on it, I deduce that this should be the imperial palace collection of the Qing Dynasty, and it is even very likely that it is the imperial collection of the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty! ”

As soon as his voice fell, there was a burst of applause on the other side.

"Sure enough, he is worthy of being a new antique appraiser in New York, just by looking at it, you can see the origin of this seat screen. What you said is really right, in fact, the full name of this seat screen should be called the agarwood carving fairy mountain pavilion embedded diorama seat screen! It was one of the imperial collections of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, and it was usually placed in his secret room, and it was not easy to open to the outside world at all. I also bought it at an auction in Europe that year, and it cost me more than $5 million that year! That was more than a decade ago! ”

Hearing what Hassan Nur Sultan said, Jin Muchen couldn't help but curse in his heart, you are picking.

Such a good thing only cost more than five million US dollars, and now more than ten years have passed, and the price of this seat screen has at least tripled, especially now that Chinese collectors are crazy about agarwood.

"This pedestal screen, according to my investment consultant back then, told me that he specially found an antique expert who understands Chinese carving to do the appraisal, and it must be the imperial collection of Emperor Qianlong. Before the abdication of Emperor Qianlong, he was particularly obsessed with Western art, because he had a Western missionary Lang Shining by his side, and his preference for Western art was deeply affected by this missionary's image. Later, he hired a few Western technicians to help carve this work, and at the same time, there were several Chinese carvers to help with it, so we had this masterpiece of Chinese and Western masterpieces in front of us......"

Unexpectedly, this Hassan Nur-Sultan is not the kind of master who is a good dragon, and when it comes to Chinese antiques, he can really talk about the truth, which really makes Jin Muchen have to look up at him. (To be continued......)