golden ear

Chapter 119 See High Imitation Again?

Wu Tianyuan quickly changed the topic and said, "Since you are willing, brother, then I will be disrespectful!"

Ma Yun laughed loudly and said: "The cheapness is not for nothing. In the future, if you have good things, you will come to me first, especially swords and copper stoves. It is best to have the rare Xuande stove, that will be enjoyable."

Wu Tianyuan's heart moved, he really had a Xuande furnace inscribed with Xuan characters in his hand, the authentic product of the Ming Dynasty, it is very likely that it was made in Xuande for three years.Fortunately, I forgot to bring it today, otherwise, seeing how obsessed Ma Yun is, it would be really hard to refuse.

"I'll take the jade sword away first. I'll call you tomorrow and send the copper furnace to your company. Father, give me a copy of the rubbings of these three ancient coins?"

Only then did Mr. Ma remember that he had finally seen precious coins and almost forgot the most important rubbings!
"There's no rush, I'll keep you for research and research, and put them in the museum together after we're done."

Wu Tianyuan said with a smile, good things are only useful if someone appreciates them, Mr. Ma is one of his own, so let the old man be happy first.

Ma Yun was taken aback, and asked curiously, "You want to build a museum? Where is it?"

"On the East Fourth Ring Road, Jianye's project was originally an art center. Brother Hu and I set up a museum together. The formalities have just been completed, and it will be able to run internally next month. The main reason is that friends have a place to communicate. Brother, please show me your face."

"Okay, this event is my favorite." Ma Yunyi clapped his hands and said, "I also have a lot of collections at home. Remember to leave an exhibition hall for me. If you have nothing to do, go to the exhibition!"

"No problem, everyone will be able to see the demeanor of Ma Daxia!"

The three of them chatted for more than an hour before they dispersed. This time, they accidentally met Ma Yun, a big local tycoon. It seems that local tyrants like to collect, but most people don't know it.That's right, so much money must be a number, money is hard to buy a good heart, everyone has a hobby.

"Is this Wang Shixiang's old collection you bought from Ma Yun?"

The next day, the six copper furnaces were sent to Zhongzheng, and everyone gathered around to watch. Sun Yuyao took out Mr. Wang's self-preservation collection, compared them and said excitedly: "They are all old collections of Mr. Wang, and they are genuine products that have been passed down in an orderly manner. Next month is commemorating the [-]th anniversary of Wang Shixiang's birth, and Zhongzheng will attend a special session for Wang Shixiang!"

"That's right. I heard that the Kuang family is also collecting Wang Shixiang's old collection. It should be a special sale. This time we can do it again!"

Liu Meizi bought Kuang's news with money, but she didn't expect to meet again for the second time.

"Okay, next step we will mainly collect Wang Shixiang's old collection. Jiade launched a special sale of Wang Shixiang's old collection in the autumn auction of 02. More than 560 items in the collection were unveiled for the first time. Including more than 380 precious books, including Ming edition books, Qing edition books, There are also many fine manuscripts and manuscripts from the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, as well as Wang Shixiang's own manuscripts."

"Many groups of official model gourds recorded in Wang Shixiang's "Shuo Gourd" and "Zizhen Collection" were also sold at high prices. Although the gourds are small in size, they are all Wang Shixiang's personal belongings. They have accompanied him for a long time. These include "Late Qing Dynasty official model Water Margin story grasshopper gourd", "official model cloud dragon lin lion grasshopper gourd" and so on.

Sun Yuyao found out the auction records of that year, and began to assign tasks, looking for clients to recruit. After more than ten years, someone should want to re-list Mr. Wang's old collection.

"The next one will be called the No. [-] player in Beijing, how domineering!"

Liu Meizi had a flash of inspiration and said, "I'll also ask my father to look for it in RB, maybe there is also Wang Lao's old collection, and we will put it on the auction together at that time."

There are still more than three weeks before the auction, and Zhongzheng is getting more and more famous now, and has introduced many new discounts, such as free appraisal for the auction, and discounts for more than three items.Many Tibetan friends are willing to let Zhongzheng Auction, especially Liulichang, send dozens of lots, and there are more and more channels.

"You can focus on collecting high-quality goods now, whether it's picking up leaks yourself, or collecting local tyrants for collection. Generally, leave it to me and Liu Meizi, and you can relax."

Wu Tianyuan nodded, and when the museum is up and running, if there is something to do, local tyrants and experts will be invited to go there, it will be convenient for communication.It will be officially exhibited to the public in the future, and with their fame, they will probably rush to put the collection in the Tianyuan exhibition, that would be refreshing.

In the next few days, Wu Tianyuan ran on three sides, going to Zhongzheng in the morning, Tianyuanju in the afternoon, and the museum when he was free, to discuss some details with the management team.Very busy, but also fulfilling and full of energy.

"Boss Wu, what are you busy with?"

Wu Tianyuan had just arrived at Tianyuanju, but Lao Tian was not there, so he stared at the storefront.Suddenly the door slammed and a person came in.

"Isn't this shopkeeper Liu from the west? Is there something wrong?"

Wu Tianyuan greeted him with a smile. He was acquainted with him. He is also the owner of Liulichang and opened a shop in the west.

"Go to the Three Treasures Hall for everything, and I want you to see something good."

Shopkeeper Liu put down the package in his hand, opened it with a smile, and three antique copper stoves appeared in front of him.

"This is?"

Wu Tianyuan quickly picked it up, researched and appraised it carefully, all three are Xuande furnaces, and the base payment is all two characters, Xuande!
"What's the history?"

"Tell others that it is an old collection, but you are a big expert. To be honest, you came here by shoveling the ground. The peasants just dug it out."

Shopkeeper Liu said in a low voice: "I've found someone to look at it, it's all the real Xuande annual system!"

Wu Tianyuan didn't speak, took down the copper stove, and asked: "Is this what you came up with?"

"Hey, money is tight recently, and business is not easy. Boss Wu is a rich man, are you interested?"

Everyone in Liulichang knows that Wu Tianyuan is a rich man, and they have been looking for him to sell any good things recently, and today these three are treasures.

"How much?"

"Three 5000 million, authentic Xuande furnace, no loss!"

Wu Tianyuan laughed loudly and said, "If you get 5000 million yuan for three authentic Xuande furnaces, it's not a loss, but you're not serious!"

"What?" Shopkeeper Liu was taken aback, and quickly retorted: "You can't talk nonsense! I have seen many people, this skin color..."

Wu Tianyuan waved his hand and said softly: "Be safe and don't be impatient, listen to me!"

"What I said is not true is not that the copper furnace is a modern imitation! It is indeed the Xuande furnace of the Ming Dynasty, but it is not the batch of rare treasures supervised by Emperor Xuande himself."

"This?" Shopkeeper Liu was a little hesitant. He naturally knew that the Xuande Furnace was so famous that there were imitations in all dynasties, but why was Wu Tianyuan so sure that his own was not the most precious batch?
"Look at this first!"

Wu Tianyuan turned around and took out Wu Bangzuo's Xuande Furnace Atlas and showed it to shopkeeper Liu.After a long while, he sighed and said, "Sure enough, it is the Xuande stove imitated by Wu Bangzuo, not the treasure of Xuande three years ago!"

Xuande stove is a copper incense stove designed and supervised by Ming Xuanzong Zhu Zhanji in the third year of Xuande in the Ming Dynasty, referred to as "Xuande stove".It is the first time in Chinese history that bronzes were cast using wind-milled copper.In order to produce a high-quality copper furnace, under the personal supervision of Zhu Zhanji, the entire production process.

The most wonderful thing about Xuande furnace is its color, which melts inside and emits strange light from the dimness.According to historical records, there are more than 40 kinds of colors, which are loved by the world, and there are many names of colors.For example, the color of purple with green and black like eggplant skin is called eggplant skin color; the color of black and yellow like Tibetan scripture paper is called Tibetan color; color.

Xiang Yuanbian, a great connoisseur, collector, and painter during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, said: "The beauty of Xuan Furnace is that the treasure color contains pearls, and the appearance is calm and solemn."

A total of 3000 incense burners were cast from this batch of red copper, and they were never produced again. When Emperor Xuande saw these incense burners that he personally took care of, each of them had an unusual atmosphere and radiant light, which gave him a sense of accomplishment.

Most of them were displayed in various places of the palace, and a small part was rewarded and distributed to the royal relatives.The ordinary people of these Xuande stoves only know their names but not their shapes. After hundreds of years of ups and downs, the real copper incense stoves cast in Xuande for three years are rare.

Shopkeeper Liu sighed: "From the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty to the Republic of China, the activities of antique dealers to imitate Xuande furnaces have never stopped. Just after the production of Xuande furnaces stopped, some officials in charge of the casting department called the original furnace craftsmen to follow the rules of Xuande furnaces. Drawings and process procedures are imitated. These carefully cast imitations are comparable to the real ones, and experts and authorities cannot distinguish them. So far, none of the many Xuande furnaces collected in major museums in China can be recognized by many connoisseurs as genuine. Xuande Furnace, the identification of true and false Xuande Furnace has become one of the "unsolved cases" in Chinese archaeology."

"This is the Xuande furnace made by Wu Bangzuo at that time. He was a master craftsman, the supervisor of smelting and casting the Xuande furnace, and the designer of the furnace type, style, and color. Later, he cast a large number of copper for the palace's ancestral temple hall. At the same time, they also privately cast copper furnaces for sale, all of which are exquisite and extremely precious to the world.”

Wu Tianyuan deliberately played with a copper stove and said with a smile: "So the three of you are definitely Xuande stoves of the Ming Dynasty, but I don't think they are from the third year of Xuande. According to the copper stove manual compiled by Wu Bangzuo I found, and compare Is the pattern on this one the same?"

Shopkeeper Liu carefully compared the place Wu Tianyuan pointed out, and it was exactly the same. It seems that he is indeed not in the group that was in the third year of Xuande.

Seeing shopkeeper Liu's disappointment, Wu Tianyuan comforted him, "Even if it wasn't for the third year of Xuande, Wu Bangzuo's Xuande stove is already rare. There are Wu Bangzuo's elephant-eared three-legged copper stoves in the Forbidden City. The whole body is dark green and has no decorations. A piece of glazed Song kiln porcelain, radiant and exquisitely cast. Another copper-inlaid gold-plated animal ear vase, copper color is pure green and red, with gold plate inlaid throughout, double animal ring ears on the shoulder, and the bottom is engraved with "Yangwen" Made by Wu Bangzuo. These three bronze wares are all representative works of Bangzuo's cast copper."

"Today is really eye-opening! Boss Wu really deserves to be a master of appraisal. He even has such a precious stove record. What do you think?"

"How about this, your baby is a good thing, and I want it too. Ming people don't whisper, I can pay up to 900 million, three!"

Shopkeeper Liu hesitated for a while, 5000 million Xuande for three years is not a loss!However, my own is Wu Bangzuo's imitation, and there are still a few in existence. The few auctioned in the previous year were sold for more than 200 million, and Wu Tianyuan's price is considered fair.

"Okay, it's yours!"

After clearing the money and goods, Wu Tianyuan sent shopkeeper Liu away, feeling ecstatic in his heart, and secretly said: "Haha, I missed it again! I bought two Xuande for three years for 900 million!"

(End of this chapter)