Chapter 1056 Xuande Furnace (I)

From Bonadette took out these six books “Yongle Dazhen” in the move, Zhuang Rui know, this old man’s ancestors, must have participated in the Eight-Power Allied Forces, like this deep in the palace objects, in addition to that year’s havoc, there is almost no possibility of any loss to foreign countries.

When the loss of national treasures, is countless, once someone has done rough statistics, China’s thousands of years of civilization accumulated antiques and cultural relics, at least a million pieces are museums around the world or private collection, which is not even a lack of domestic can not be seen in some of the best.

Zhuang Rui is not a cynic, he also knows to his own strength, is unable to make these national treasures are returned to the domestic, but since encountered, Zhuang Rui also do not want to let go, then again, his museum fame, but the collection is really too little, from abroad to get back a little bit of the object, but also can enrich their own collection of fine arts.

This time to Las Vegas, although not expected to win billions of dollars, but more than seven hundred million U.S. dollars on hand, but also Zhuang Rui so far contacted the largest amount of money, even if out of a few hundred million to Huangfu Yun for his charitable foundations, the rest of the money used to buy some antiques, or more than enough.

“Want to visit my collection room?”

Bonadette froze for a moment when he heard Zhuang Rui’s request, then smiled and said, “There’s no problem, but Zhuang, you’ll have to spare two days before you can.”

“Two days?”

Zhuang Rui was a little puzzled, his collection in the Beijing’s stereoscopic museum, although it is not as good as those national museums, but he asked himself that it will definitely not be much less than the private collection, even so, if he looks at it a little bit faster, two hours will be able to finish strolling through it.

And Bonadette said look at his collection needs two days, that is to say, Bonadette’s collection is at least Zhuang Rui dozens of times more, Zhuang Rui heart is a bit unimpressed, that is, the great British collector Ezekiel Kenneth, but also dare not boast in front of their own such a boast.

In the Bonadette side of Danny see Zhuang Rui face reveals not think after the look, smiled and said: “Mr. Zhuang, Mr. Bonadette has a large area of the manor, all of which is his collection of cultural relics from all over the world, a total of more than 400,000 pieces, I’m afraid that two days can not see the end of it.”

As Bonadette’s senior personal assistant, Danny just happened to be helping Bonadette manage these collections, so he knew Bonadette’s huge collection like the back of his hand, which was also one of the reasons why he was able to participate in this auction.

“Four …… four hundred thousand plus pieces?”

Since entering this venue, Zhuang Rui, who was calm and collected when he set off to meet his former idols, finally changed his face after hearing this number.

Zhuang Rui since the establishment of the museum, painstakingly acquiring antiques everywhere, which has accumulated more than 10,000 pieces of collectibles, and inside is not a piece of fine art, there are a lot of dross that can not be placed out of the object, even so, Zhuang Rui’s museum is the international assessment organizations are assessed value of more than three billion dollars.

And Bonadette’s collection is Zhuang Rui’s more than thirty times, even if inside the valuable objects only one-third, then he only collectibles this piece, there are tens of billions of dollars in the family, and this is not a money-making industry, only Bonadette’s private collection.

Danny’s words let Zhuang Rui recognize the gap between himself and the world’s super-rich, the original self-sense of small achievements Zhuang Rui, at the moment is also forehead straight cold sweat, dare to mention their own museum several times before the move, have been all Luban door to get a big axe in front of the Lord of Guan to play in front of the big sword ah!

“Grandma drop, are not all the ancestors robbed?”

Zhuang Rui cursed in his heart, gave himself a little balance, otherwise there is no way ah! The museum collection that Zhuang Rui had always been proud of was not even a fraction of what others had, this was also fucking too much of a blow.

“Gentlemen, ladies, the following will be auctioned an item, also from the mysterious country of the East – China, this is the ancient Chinese people used to smoke clothes or is decorated and worship God a kind of metal ware, love Chinese art friends, can be ready to bid. ”

Just when Zhuang Rui felt a little embarrassed for his own loss of temper just now, William’s voice rang out from the auction stage, instantly making Zhuang Rui forget about Bonadette’s collection of over 400,000, his heart was puzzled because he didn’t hear it, what was William describing in the end?

“Worship God used, what is this thing?”

Ancient Chinese people only respect ghosts and gods, although from the time of the Ming Dynasty there are foreign missionaries into China, but the Chinese ruling class has always restricted its development, even in the enlightened Kangxi years, foreign missionaries in China also do not have any living soil.

Until after the eighteenth century, China’s national strength decline, especially the Opium War was Britain with cannons and ships knocked open the door, which popularized the worship of God, Zhuang Rui heard William’s words, guessed in his mind: “Is it possible that is the eighteenth century Chinese church used objects? But these things aren’t worth much!”

“Fuck, is this for worshipping God?”

Zhuang Rui in the see was placed in the crystal display cabinet pushed in the things, can not help but stare straight, what a joke, this …… this is not an incense burner?

However, Zhuang Rui also understand the meaning of William, dare to say that the Chinese people worship God for the Buddha’s action, in his eyes is to worship God, this foreigner is arrogant, think that in addition to Jesus, there is no faith in the world.

After despising some William, Zhuang Rui will focus on the display cabinet, a careful survey, the heart can not help but move a little.

The shape of this object, is a gold and gold sprinkler and wrong gold two crafts of the Ming dynasty Xuande furnace, open mouth round lip, neck short and thin, flat belly, the body of the furnace carving dragons embedded phoenix, a total of green, yellow, gold, purple four colors, at first glance, the whole type of crystalline texture, simplicity of the modeling, it looks like a kind of back to basics feeling.

Furnace body in the wrong gold and sprinkle gold craft outside the place, was golden yellow, looks shiny gold, the surface layer has a layer of hard heirloom ancient, color moist and delicate, seems to have a kind of strange light from the inside, let a person feel the rhyme.

“An imitation of Xuande Furnace?”

Did not use the eyes of the aura, Zhuang Rui a little confused, Xuande furnace production smelting method is very delicate, general copper only needs four refining, and Xuande furnace needs twelve refining, and which added from the Siamese Logic imported red copper, as well as iron, aluminum, gold, silver and other dozens of precious metals, the process is very cumbersome and complex.

It can be said that, in addition to the Xuande years of the first smelting, followed by the production of Xuande furnace, including the middle and late Ming Dynasty, are imitations, although it can also be called Xuande furnace, but compared with the real thing is far from it.

After hundreds of years of wind and rain, the real Xuande three years of casting copper incense burner is extremely rare, even the later generations of imitation Xuande stove is expensive, which is more sought after boutique.

In last year’s time, China Guardian autumn auction had focused on the famous collector Wang Shixiang collection of a number of Xuande stove, one of which is engraved with “Chongzhen nonwo winter month Qing to supervise the production of” regular script paragraph of the imitation of “rushing ear of the gold piece of three-foot Xuande stove” after the imitation of the Xuande stove The Xuande stove, the high price of nearly 2 million yuan.

Generally speaking, as long as the imitation Xuande furnace style design of the Ming Dynasty and copper and other characteristics of the era, its price is more than 100,000 yuan, especially by Hong Kong and Taiwan collectors love, in recent years, the price has been on the high side.

Because of the scarcity and rarity of the authentic Xuande furnace, in order to profiteer, from the Ming dynasty Xuande years to the Republic of China, antique dealers imitation Xuande furnace activities have never ceased.

These carefully cast imitation Xuande stove can be comparable to the real thing, the expert authority can not be identified, so far, the domestic collection of major museums in the many Xuande stove, no one can be recognized by a number of connoisseurs as the real Xuande stove, identify the real Xuande stove has become one of the Chinese archaeology “unsolved cases”.

And with gold and wrong gold craft Xuande three years of production of Xuande stove, but also only stay in the legend, now on the market can see, basically are the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty three generations of imitation, is Zhuang Rui alone with the eyes to see, is not able to distinguish the authenticity of it.

Zhuang Rui in the country also looked at a lot of Xuande furnace, but all are after the imitation, from the aura of the color and strength can be distinguished, mostly late Ming and early Qing works, is to see this object, Zhuang Rui did not pay much attention to, we must know, in the Qing Dynasty, the Xuande furnace used in the palace is also more than imitations of the eight Allied Forces to take away may not be the real Xuande furnace.

“Huh?”

However, since the Xuande Furnace appeared, Zhuang Rui still released a trace of aura and disappeared into the crystal display case, when the aura in his eyes just touched the misgold Xuande Furnace, Zhuang Rui froze for a moment.

Zhuang Rui has aura for such a long time, also on the aura reflected by the color, there is a certain categorization, in his division, the Ming Dynasty objects show the color of the aura, most of them are red, the early objects red with a slight purple, but this glass cabinet Xuande furnace, is purple, completely can not see a trace of red.

“Could …… it be that it is a real Xuande furnace made during the Xuande period?”

Zhuang Rui felt the rich aura and deep purple color in his eyes, his heart came up with such a thought, in his experience accumulated over the past few years of using aura to identify objects, the strength of the item’s aura and color beyond the era in which it appeared, there is only one explanation, that is, this item is absolutely the output of the fine products at that time.

Although Zhuang Rui has aura for several years, but has not been able to effectively use the aura to survey the specific age of the object, for this phenomenon, Zhuang Rui guessed that the strength of the aura in the object and the intensity of the color, perhaps by the person playing too much formed, of course, this is only Zhuang Rui’s guess only.

But even if it is a guess, Zhuang Rui heart is still very excited, because in the Xuan De furnace he has seen, only this most like the real Xuan De furnace, perhaps will buy it back through the study, can reveal the difference between the real and fake Xuan De furnace.

“This metal vessel used for worshipping God, beautifully crafted, after six or seven hundred years it is still radiant, it is said to have been given to the ancient Chinese emperor to use, it has a base auction price of $200,000, with a $10,000 per increase, ladies and gentlemen, if you are interested, you may now bid.”

William briefly on this Xuande furnace after some explanation, opened the bottom auction price, just the scene of the reaction, and not as eager as William imagined, in William shouted out the words after a minute more than a minute, the whole ballroom a silence.

William was a little anxious, just a few estimates of the auction so hot, the same as the ancient Chinese cultural relics, why this incense burner will no one ask for? After William coughed, he said loudly, “Gentlemen, ladies, the reserve price of this item is so low, there is definitely a huge value-added potential, is there any interested friend?”

However, after William emphasized the preciousness of this incense burner, there was still no one bidding, and more people simply shifted their original gaze towards the incense burner.

In fact, William made a fundamental mistake, that is …… he should not say that the price of this item is cheap, because in this venue, including which international movie stars and directors, all of them are rich people with more than ten million dollars.

Just now Zhuang Rui out of the ordinary, spend thirty million dollars to get the ancient books, now if they go to bid on the two or three hundred thousand dollars of objects, these super-rich people can not help but feel the face of dishonor, with a few years ago the fashionable words, they are in this kind of occasion to buy things, that is, only to buy expensive, do not buy the right, all the people can not afford to lose this person.

There is another important factor, that is, William explained on the error, foreigners worship God, worship is the one on the cross, and there is no incense burning tradition, at most, the mouth is chanting a few prayers only, so the people who believe in Jesus, do not think that this thing is used to worship God.

As for those Arab oil barons, is a believer in Islam, they only believe in the one God Allah, even more interested in this incense burner, if the shot, it is definitely a blasphemy to God.

So these several factors combined together, also led to a private charity auction a very rare phenomenon, no one called the price, generally out of courtesy, the guests will not let the host to take out the items of the auction, but this thing is really a little bit special, until William began to shout, the following people are still interested in the lack of.

“Hm? What’s going on, does no one want this genuine Xuande Furnace?”

Zhuang Rui just now has been immersed in the appreciation of this Xuan De furnace, this will raise his head, see the field of silence, actually no one bid, could not help but froze for a moment, and then the heart of the great joy, although it did not have a hand, but through the eyes of the observation, this object in all probability is the real Xuan De furnace.

“Two hundred thousand dollars.”

Zhuang Rui raised the right hand number plate, his this action, almost let William tears, just now, William are almost thought the first private charity auction auction abortion place, let himself to break it!