Chapter 1055 Xuande Furnace

"From Bonadette's action of taking out these six volumes of Yongle Canon, Zhuang Rui knew that the old man's ancestors must have participated in the Eight-Nation Alliance. "objects like this hidden in the Inner Palace" had almost no possibility of being lost abroad except for the catastrophe that year.

The national treasures lost in those years are really countless. Some people have made rough statistics. At least millions of antique cultural relics accumulated by the country's civilization for thousands of years have been collected by museums or private collections around the world, among which there are some boutiques that can't even be seen in China.

Zhuang Rui is not an angry youth. He also knows that he can't let these national treasures return to China with his own strength, but since he met "Zhuang Rui doesn't want to let it go, then again, although his museum is famous, his collection is too few, and he can take back a little from abroad" can also fill himself. The collection of fine products.

Although he didn't win billions as expected to come to Las Vegas this time, the more than 700 million dollars on hand is the largest amount Zhuang Rui has touched so far. Even if he spends of hundreds of millions for his charity foundation, the rest of the money is enough to buy some antiques.

"Want to visit my collection room?" Bonadette was stunned when he heard Zhuang Rui's request, and then said with a smile, "No problem, but Zhuang" You have to spare two days to..." "Two days?"

Zhuang Rui is a little puzzled. Although his collection in Beijing's Dingguang Museum is not as good as those national museums, he will never be much less than his private collection. Even so, "If you look at it faster, you can finish it in two hours.

And Bonadette said that it would take two days to see his collection, that is to say, Bonadette's collection is at least dozens of times that of Zhuang Rui's." Zhuang Rui was quite disapproving. Even Ezkenna, a great British collector, did not dare to boast about such a mouth in front of him.

After Danny next to Bonadette saw a disapproving look on Zhuang Rui's face, he smiled and said, "Mr. Zhuang, Mr. Bonadette has a large manor." It is full of cultural relics from all over the world that he treasures. There are more than 400,000 pieces in total. I'm afraid I can't finish it /P>

As Bonadette's senior personal assistant, Danny happened to help Bonadette manage these collections. "He knows Bonadette's huge collection well, which is one of the reasons why he can participate in this auction.

"Four...more than 400,000 pieces?!"

Since entering this venue, Zhuang Rui, who was calm when he saw his former idols, finally changed his face after hearing this number.

Since the establishment of the museum, Zhuang Rui has only accumulated more than 10,000 collections, and there are not boutiques in it, and there are many bad things that can't be put out. Even so, Zhuang Rui's museum has been evaluated by international evaluation agencies for more than 3 billion US dollars.

And Bonadette's collection is more than 30 times that of Zhuang Rui's. Even if there are only one-third of the tenon-valued objects in it, then he has tens of billions of dollars in the collection alone, and this is not a profitable industry, but just Bonadette's private collection.

Danny's words made Zhuang Rui recognize the gap between himself and the world's super-rich. Zhuang Rui, who originally felt that he had a little achievement, was also in a cold sweat on his forehead at this moment. He dared to mention his museum several times before, and he always played in front of Luban's door. Big knife.

"Grandma Di" was robbed by the ancestors?

Zhuang Rui cursed in his heart and found a little balance for himself. Otherwise, there was nothing he could do. Zhuang Rui had always been a proud museum collection, and it was not as much as other people's. This is also too shocking.

"Gentlemen, ladies" is an item to be photographed below, which is also from the mysterious country of the East... [Zhong] Country" This is [Zhong] A metal object used by ancient people in the country to smoke clothes or decoration and worship God. Friends who love [Zhong] national art can prepare for bidding, "

Just when Zhuang Rui was a little embarrassed by his gaffe just now, William's voice sounded from the auction stage, which immediately made Zhuang Rui forget Bonardette's collection of more than 400,000 yuan. He was very confused. "Because he didn't hear what exactly did William describe?

"What is used to worship God?", [Zhong] The ancients of the country only respected ghosts and gods. Although foreign missionaries have entered the [Zhongzhong] country since the Ming Dynasty, the ruling class of the country has always restricted its development. Even in the reign of the enlightened Kangxi era, foreign missionaries had no survival in the [ The soil.

It was not until the 18th century that the country's national strength declined, especially when the British knocked on the door with artillery ships during the Opium War, it became popular to worship God. After hearing William's words, Zhuang Rui guessed in his heart, "Is it possible to be the object used in the national church in the 18th century? But the value of these things is not high..."

"Fuck" Is this for worshipping God?

After seeing what was pushed in the crystal showcase, Zhuang Rui couldn't help staring straight. Are you kidding? Isn't this... Isn't this an incense burner?

However, Zhuang Rui also understood what William meant. He dared to worship God and Buddha in his eyes. In his eyes, the foreigner was arrogant and thought that there was no faith in the world except Jesus.

After contempt for William, Zhuang Rui focused on the showcase, looked at it carefully, and couldn't help but move his heart.

The shape of this object is a Ming Dynasty Xuande furnace made with two processes of sprinkling gold and wrong gold. The "open mouth and round lips" neck is short and thin, flat drum abdomen, and the furnace body is carved with dragons and phoenixes. At first glance, there are four colors: blue, yellow, gold and purple. At .

The furnace body is golden yellow outside the wrong gold and the gold sprinkling process. It looks golden and bright. There is a hard layer of ancient on the surface, and the color is moist and delicate. It seems that there is a strange light from the inside, which makes people feel endless.

"The body of Xuande Furnace?"

Without using the aura in his eyes, Zhuang Rui is a little confused. The production and smelting method of Xuande furnace is very fastidious. The general copperware only needs four refining, while the Xuande furnace needs as much as twelve refining, and it adds red copper imported from Siam, as well as dozens of precious metals such as iron pot, gold It's complicated.

It can be said that in addition to the first smelting in the Xuande period, the Xuande furnace produced in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, are all imitations. Although it can also be called Xuande furnace, it is far from the real product.

After hundreds of years of ups and downs, the real copper incense burners cast in Xuande in the past three years are extremely rare. Even the Fude stoves imitated by later generations are expensive, and the high-quality products are even more popular.

Just last year, [Zhongzhong] Guojiade autumn auction once auctioned a batch of Xuande furnaces collected by the famous collector Wang Shixiang, one of which was engraved with the regular script model of "Chongzhen Renwu winter moon and green coming supervision" imitation of the "Chongtian ear gold piece three-legged Xuande furnace", and sold The high price.

Generally speaking, as long as the style design of the imitation Xuande furnace has the characteristics of the times such as pulping and copper in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the price is more than 100,000 yuan, which is especially loved by collectors in Hong Kong and Taiwan. In recent years, the price has been rising.

Because of the scarcity and rarity of the authentic Xuande furnace, in order to make huge profits, from the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty to the period of the Republic of China, the activities of antique dealers to imitate Xuande furnace have never stopped.

These carefully cast imitation Xuande furnaces are comparable to the real products, and the authority of experts cannot distinguish them. So far, none of the many Xuande furnaces collected in major museums in China can be recognized as the real Xuande furnace by many appraisers. The identification of true and false Xuande furnaces has become a "unsolved case" in One of them.

And the Xuande furnace produced by Xuande for three years with the process of sprinkling gold and wrong gold is only in the legend. What can be seen on the market now is basically prevented by the middle and late Ming Dynasty and the three dynasties. It is only seen by Zhuang Rui's eyes, and it is impossible to distinguish its authenticity.

Zhuang Rui has also seen a lot of Xuande furnaces in China, but all of them are post-imitation, which can be distinguished from the color and strength of the aura. Most of them are works of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, so when he saw this object, Zhuang Rui didn't care much about it. You know, in Most of the Xuande furnaces are imitations, and what the Eight-Nation Alliance robbed is not necessarily the real Xuande furnace.

"What?"

However, since the Xuande furnace appeared, Zhuang Rui still released a trace of aura and empted into the crystal showcase. When the aura in his eyes had just touched the wrong Jin Xuande furnace, Zhuang Rui was stunned for a moment.

Zhuang Rui has a Reiki for so long time. He also has a certain classification of the colors reflected by Reiki. In his division, most of the reiki colors shown by the objects in the Ming Dynasty are red. The early objects are slightly purple in red, but the Xuande furnace in this glass cabinet is purple. I can't see a trace of red.

"Is it the real Xuande furnace made in the Xuande period?"

Zhuang Rui felt the strong aura and deep purple color in his eyes, and such an idea came to his mind. In the experience he has accumulated in the past few years of using Reiki objects, when the aura strength and color of the object exceeded the age in which it appeared, there was only one explanation. "That is, this item was absolutely produced at that time Excellent product.

It's just that although Zhuang Rui has had Reiki for several years, he has been unable to effectively use Reiki to survey the specific age of the object. In response to this phenomenon, Zhuang Rui guesses that the strength and color of Reiki in the item may be formed by people playing too much. Of course, this is only Zhuang Rui's guess.

But even if it is a guess, Zhuang Rui is still very excited." Because among the Xuande furnaces he has seen, only this one is the most like the authentic Xuande furnace. Perhaps after buying it back, through research, the difference between the authenticity of Xuande furnaces can be revealed.

"This metal instrument for worshipping God" is exquisitely made. After six or seven hundred years, it is still glorious. It is said that it was used by the emperors of the ancient country. Its base auction price is 200,000 US dollars, and each time the price increase is 10,000 US dollars. Ladies and gentlemen, if you are interested, you can bid"

After William briefly explained the Xuande furnace, he offered the bottom price. It was just the response of the scene, not as eager as William thought. More than a minute after William shouted, the whole banquet hall was silent.

William is a little anxious. The auctions of those books just now are estimated to be so hot, and they are both cultural relics of ancient China. Why is this incense burner unattended? After a cough, William said loudly, "Gentlemen and ladies, the bottom price of this item is so low that it definitely has great potential to add value." Are there any friends who are interested?

However, after William emphasized the preciousness of the incense burner, no one asked for it." And more people simply turned their eyes away from the incense burner.

In fact, William made a fundamental mistake, that is, he should not say that the price of this item is low, because in this venue, including those international movie stars and directors, are all millionaires with more than tens of millions of dollars.

Just now, Zhuang Rui made an extraordinary move and spent 30 million US dollars to buy ancient books. Now if he bid for these two or three hundred thousand dollars, these super-rich people will feel that their faces are not bright. In the words of fashion a few years ago, they only buy expensive things on such an occasion, not the right ones. I can't afford to lose this man!

There is another important factor, that is, William's mistake in explaining that "the foreigner worships God" and "the one who worships the one on the cross" does not have the tradition of burning incense. At most, it is just a few words of prayer in the mouth, so those who believe in Jesus do not think that this thing is used to worship

As for those oil tycoons in the Arab Kingdom, they are followers of Islam. They only believe in the unique Allah, and they are even less interested in this incense burner. If they are filmed, it is definitely a blasphemy against Allah.

So the combination of these factors also led to a very rare phenomenon of private charity auctions. No one bids. Generally, out of courtesy, the guests will not let the owner take out the items to be auctioned." But this thing was really a little special. Until William began to shout again, the people below were still lack of interest. Lack of.

"Huh? What's the matter? Doesn't anyone want this authentic Xuande furnace?

Zhuang Rui had just been immersed in the appreciation of this Xuande furnace. He would raise his head. "Seeing the silence in the field, no one bid" couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and then he was overjoyed. Although he failed to get started, through eye observation, this object is probably the real Xuande furnace!

"Swenty million dollars..."

Zhuang Rui raised his right-hand plate. His action almost made William burst into tears. Just now, "William almost thought that the place of the first private charity auction was broken.