0022 Xuande Furnace
"Uh-huh! I saw the Ming Xuande Furnace, there is no reason not to want it!"
Tang Xiran's big eyes were rolling, if it weren't for Li Hao's tighter grasp, she would even want to take it over and observe it now.
"I don't understand, why do you want to say that this is a Xuande furnace? If you don't say it, wouldn't it be more possible to buy it at a low price?"
Li Hao really doesn't understand, others buy things as much as possible to keep the price down, but you might as well take the initiative to raise the price! Are you afraid that you won't be able to spend too much money?
"Because the Xuande furnace should have the price of the Xuande furnace!"
At this moment, Li Hao felt that there was light in Tang Yiran's eyes, this is a person of faith!
"That'...... Go to my store and take a closer look at this thing, can't you trade it here?"
Li Hao doesn't have to collect these things, absorbing the aura and exchanging money is the last word, Li Hao is worried that this Xuande furnace can't find the next home!
"Your shop? Are you also an antique shop? You're doing business with your peers!"
Tang Yiran didn't expect Li Hao to also open a pawn shop, but this also explains why Li Hao was able to pick up two leaks in one day.
Tang Yiran didn't think about it, so he followed Li Hao, that is, after walking for seven or eight minutes, the two of them arrived at the door of Mo Yunxuan.
"Mo Yunxuan? Okay! I remember, let's come back tomorrow!"
When he arrived at the door, Tang Xiran did not go in again, but put his hands behind his back and stepped back step by step.
"Don't go in? You're a girl, you shouldn't go with a strange man at night! I'm abrupt!"
Li Hao smiled embarrassedly, he was thinking about the Xuande furnace wholeheartedly, fortunately, this little girl looked pretty good, otherwise it was very likely that a rich man would have been taken away!
"Actually, I know that you should be a good person, I see people very accurately! Appreciate things before people, judge people before hearts! But it's a little late today, see you tomorrow!"
Tang Yiran took a few steps back, then smiled and waved his hand at Li Hao, about to leave.
"What's your name?"
Li Hao suddenly found that he didn't seem to know her name yet!
"Tang Xiran!"
Tang Xiran's figure gradually faded away, only her voice was still floating in the air, Tang Xiran! Li Hao remembered this name.
"You can see the people of Xuande Furnace at a glance! Hehe! Interesting! Appreciate things before people, identify people before people? Interesting!"
Li Hao is very interested in this Tang Yiran, at first she looks like that kind of little girl who is a little naughty, but she is so interested in antiques, and she can say something like this, it seems that it is not simple!
Li Hao did not enter the pawnshop again, but took the incense burner and went back to his house directly, and slept well today, hoping that the Xuande furnace would be sold at a good price tomorrow.
Not long after Li Haocai opened the door the next day, as soon as the tea was brewed, Tang Yiran came in a hurry, and he was carrying a bag, bulging, I don't know what it contained?
"Have you eaten so early?"
Li Hao just asked politely.
"No, do you have anything to eat?"
Tang Yiran replied truthfully, Li Hao touched his forehead, dare to love this girl who came to eat so early?
Tang Yiran saw the rice noodles on the table, they were still hot and unopened, Tang Yiran was not polite, and ate them when they were served!
"Oh! Rice noodles with chili fried meat!"
The voice of "zi zi zi" came, and Li stopped when his good words came to his mouth, it was his breakfast! But looking at Tang Xiran's oily face, come on, let's go buy another one later!
"Sister Yutong, is there vinegar?"
Li Hao suddenly asked, Shang Yutong was also eating rice noodles at the moment, but she had been watching the little girl who came in, guessing her relationship with Li Hao.
"What are you doing with vinegar? Eat powder, eat powder! What vinegar do you want! Hmph!"
Shang Yutong was still eating rice noodles with her head down, but she was muttering in her heart, she can eat if she wants, why do you want vinegar?
"Gaga...... I want vinegar to remove rust......
Li Hao estimated that Shang Yutong must be thinking crookedly, but Li Hao was also a little confused, what kind of flying vinegar are you eating?
"Rust removal, there should be one in that small warehouse! Take it yourself!"
Shang Yutong paused, this time embarrassed, it turned out that Li Hao took vinegar to remove rust, what was he doing just now? Shang Yutong lowered his head even lower.
After cleaning up the tableware, Li Hao also brought white vinegar, and the Xuande stove he bought last night was also placed on the table, it was time to unveil the true face of this incense burner!
Salt, white vinegar, toothbrush, rag, basin, all kinds of tools are ready, the next thing is the fine work, carefully scrubbed for nearly half an hour, the original patina stove exudes treasure light, for a while Li Hao also can't put it down.
Xuande furnace is a copper incense burner designed and supervised by Zhu Zhanji of Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty in Xuande of the Ming Dynasty for three years, referred to as "Xuanlu". Xuande furnace is the first bronze ware in Chinese history to use wind-milled copper.
In 1428 A.D., Zhu Zhanji, who first ascended the throne for only three years, inherited the shadow of his ancestors, and Yongxuan prosperity has begun to show its edge. In this year, the 39,000 gold "wind-milled copper" from the Siam Kingdom touched the emperor's idea of improving the furnishings of the suburban altar, the temple and the inner court. In the previous thousands of years, China's tripod ware was mostly cast in bronze, and few were made of copper with such a golden luster. As a result, a holy decree was sent to the Ministry of Works and the Ministry of Rites, and a batch of bronze vessels for worship was made from this copper.
The Xuande furnace, which was personally supervised by the emperor and cast with imported air-milled copper, has become the pinnacle of copper incense burner production. The whole production process, including copper smelting, modeling must be from the "Xuanhe Bogu Tu", "Archaeological Map" and other classics and hundreds of pieces of Song and Yuan Dynasty kilns hidden in the Inner Palace, select the shape that meets the applicable object and the elegant system, draw it into a pattern, present it to the emperor for personal viewing, and explain the source of the drawing and the source of the allusion, after screening and determining, and then cast into a physical sample for Xuanzong to see, satisfied with the rear before the casting.
However, in later generations, there were those who worshipped and deceived the world for profit, and the endless stream of imitations made it extremely difficult to identify the Xuande furnace. The bronze ware of the Ming and Qing dynasties was fundamentally different from the previous bronze ware, and brass was used at the beginning, which was different from bronze. The use of brass casting utensils, starting from Ming Xuande, therefore, Xuande furnace got its name. Scholar Chang Huaan believes that the Xuande furnace is a representative work of bronze ware in the Ming Dynasty and the crystallization of technology and wisdom in the Ming Dynasty. But after two historical catastrophes, there is no longer one in a thousand.
Xuande furnace has five colors: chestnut shell, eggplant skin, tang pear, brown, and the color of Buddhist scripture paper is the first. The gilded furnace belly is cast into the appearance of auspicious clouds, and the lower part of the gilded furnace mouth is the appearance of auspicious clouds overturning. As for the gooseskin color, it only appears when the fire is long.
Since then, the style of making Xuande furnace has lasted for hundreds of years, and the craftsmen of all dynasties have made incense burners with Xuande furnace as a model, and not to this year's book, but to leave the Xuande year at the bottom of the furnace. As a result, in today's art market, Xuande furnaces made by various dynasties and dynasties have appeared, which has also made the identification of Xuande furnaces one of the "unsolved cases" in Chinese archaeology.
Based on the above reasons, there is a question that is worth thinking about today, that is, what kind of material and shape can be regarded as a "real" Xuande furnace. Strictly speaking, the Xuande furnace should refer to the fact that in the third to five years of Xuande, the 3,000 pieces made by the court using imported wind-ground copper are true, and the products of later generations should all be classified as fakes.
However, with the passage of time and the change of concepts, we cannot deny that the incense burners made by later generations in the name of Xuande also have corresponding historical and artistic value. Therefore, according to the view of some scholars, the concept of Xuande furnace should be appropriately extended in terms of time and standard, so that it can be the general name of the copper incense burner of the book "Xuande Year System", and can generally refer to the copper furnace that is similar to the shape of the Xuande furnace, but does not have a paragraph or has other sections, and on this basis, the Xuande furnace made by each generation should be verified and identified, so as not to bear the notoriety of "fake".
"Actually, this is not the Xuande furnace that is really orthodox Xuande produced for three to five years!"
Li Hao sighed, the real more than 3,000 pieces are very few in the world, once they appear, they will definitely stir up the situation in the antique world, Li Hao's Xuande furnace can also be said to be a good imitation of later generations.
"I know! If it's really 3,000 Xuande furnaces, I don't think you will sell them, and your Xuande furnace is not badly preserved, and it's in good condition, so be it! I'll give you 1.2 million!"
Tang Yiran said a figure that made Li Hao and Monk Yutong dumbfounded: 1.2 million! If Li Hao was just an ordinary worker, how young would he have to be to earn 1.2 million? The antique shop really didn't open for three years, but it opened for three years!
"One million two hundred thousand is actually my advantage, so let's do it! Don't you take a fancy to this pen holder? This one is for you!"
Tang Yiran took out the pen holder that Li Hao had seen yesterday from his bag, and put it on the table without looking at it, indicating that it was already owned by Li Hao.
"Uhhhh......hh Alright!"
To be honest, Li Hao's own estimate in his heart should be between 800,000 and 900,000, but he didn't expect this little girl to have such courage, 1.2 million yuan was given, and a pen holder was pasted.
For a while, Li Hao didn't know how to evaluate this strange guest, saying that she was generous! Even a bowl of rice noodles had to be eaten in a hurry, and she was stingy! The high price of 1.2 million yuan didn't blink an eye!
1.2 million plus a pen holder to start, now Li Hao is also a person with a thin bottom, with this money, the pawnshop can operate better, Li Hao is thinking again, do you want to go to the antique street to go around? Although the probability of missing is not very large, but what if there are any good things missing?
"Happy cooperation! If you have any good things next time, you can always find me!"
After talking about business, Tang Xiran became the little girl again, and Li Hao didn't know which one was the real her?