Chapter 317 Xuande Furnace
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The more I heard Jason's words, Jin Muchen frowned tighter. What's going on? Could it be that your family really has nothing?
Then why are you pulling me over? I originally thought that I could get some good things from your house, but now it seems unlikely!
Jason is not a fool either. While speaking, he also paid attention to Jin Muchen's expression. When he saw his face getting darker and darker, he certainly understood what he meant, and then snapped his fingers suddenly.︾,
"Of course, you don't have to worry. Although all the good things were gone back then, there were still a few good things left in my house. Wait, I'll look for you."
Jin Muchen's face was slightly tender. Jason went to the study room behind alone. Jin Muchen did not follow him, but he still looked at him quietly.
You can see clearly through the crack of the door. It should be a study room, and it must be James' study room. Judging from Jason's appearance, he is familiar with the situation inside. Obviously, it is not the first time he has gone to his father's room to "seek treasures".
After about ten minutes, Jason walked out of the study room with a black thing in his hand, came to Jin Muchen, and pushed the thing into his hand.
"I have seen my dad play with this thing often and I'm reluctant to let it go, so I think it should be a good thing. How do you see? Is it suitable for you?"
Just listening to this guy's words, Jin Muchen felt sad for James. Even if that guy is doing a successful business in the underground underworld, what if he makes more money?
Look at his unsatisfactory son, this kind of virtue that is not a pity for his father. Even if James saves more family business, he will sooner or later be defeated by his prodigal son.
But what if he doesn’t matter, isn’t this just right? And this may be because their ancestors committed too many crimes back then, which caused retribution!
Jin Muchen shook his head secretly, then took over the dark thing in Jason's hand. He had been thinking about the relationship between Jason and his father before, but he didn't pay much attention to this thing.
When he got the job, he couldn't help but feel shocked.
This thing is cool and smooth. Although it is not big, it is heavy, and the color is chestnut-shell, and the touch is smooth, just like touching the baby's skin, crystal clear and China Resources. This touch is truly indescribable.
When he took the black thing in front of him, a very dazzling red light suddenly flashed from the object. So much so that Jin Muchen even felt a stinging pain in his eyes.
I have never felt this way before. It seems that this baby is amazing.
He put the treasure in his eyes a little further away and began to look carefully. He had ears and round feet, and his body in the middle was more like a rice bowl used by ancient monks, but this thing should be much more expensive than the rice bowl.
Jin Muchen roughly looked at the shape and size of this thing, and had a rough estimate in his mind. Then he turned the copper bowl over and looked at the bottom below. Sure enough, he saw the seal script with four characters vertical lined bottoms made in Xuande Nian.
While looking at the few words, Jin Muchen paid special attention to the word "De". As expected, it was like the legendary one, and there was no horizontal line in the middle!
It's true. The thing in his hand should be the Xuande Furnace, which is now popular on the market!
However, this Xuande furnace is different from the guys who are currently mixed with fish-meshed beads on the market. This should be the original Xuande furnace made of wind-ground copper made of authentic Xuande years.
Xuande Lun is a thing that is mixed in the antique world, and it makes people love and hate.
The reason why this thing is popular is that the Xuande Furnace is so famous that it is the pinnacle of ancient bronze ware production in my country. Moreover, this thing is one of the few bronze ware that can be traded on the market.
But this thing also attracts people's hatred. The reason why it attracts people's hatred is that it is too famous. So in later generations, many imitators found to start producing fakes of this thing in large quantities, so that almost 99.9% of the Xuande Furnaces circulating on the market are fakes.
It can be said that if there are a total of one million Xuande furnaces circulating around the world, then there are probably only ten of them that are genuine.
In China, the Xuande furnace, which was truly made of wind-ground copper, produced during the Xuande period, was almost extinct. Even in the Palace Museum, there was no authentic product.
Anyone who knows the origin of this Xuande furnace knows that it is because during the Xuande period, the Siam king paid a tribute to a batch of wind-milled copper in the country, and Emperor Xuande liked the incense burner very much.
So the craftsmen used these wind-grinding copper, mixed more than 30 precious metals, and after twelve refining, the fine copper left behind, and then used these fine copper to cast about 3,000 to 5,000 Xuande furnaces.
The workmanship of these Xuande furnaces can be said to be very exquisite. From the perspective of modern people, these Xuande furnaces are not only as thick as bronze ware, but also as exquisite and delicate as porcelain.
The reason why this effect was created is that Emperor Xuande made a fortune in order to create these Xuande furnaces and designed the shapes of these Xuande furnaces.
He specially asked the chief supervisor of the Da Nei to move out the porcelain of six famous kilns in the Song Dynasty, Chai, Ru, Guan, Ge, Jun, and Ding, which were hidden in the palace, and asked the craftsmen who made Xuande furnaces to make molds of copper furnaces based on these porcelains.
It is precisely for this reason that Xuande Furnace has the above two characteristics, copper and porcelain.
In addition, this incense burner used the most exquisite materials at that time since its inception. Therefore, when this copper furnace was released, it was deeply loved by the royal family at that time because of its exquisite workmanship and exquisite materials.
So until the Xuande Dynasty was over, the emperor personally ordered the second batch of imitations to be made. However, because the wind-milled copper had been exhausted in the first batch of products at that time, the second batch used brass. Although the molding process was not inferior to the first batch, it was far worse than the first batch in terms of material and feel.
Later, many emperors in the Ming and Qing dynasties ordered people to imitate Xuande furnace because of their love for Xuande furnace. Not only was it an imitation of the imperial palace, but there were also many enthusiasts among the people who secretly imitated this kind of thing.
From the middle of the Ming Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, domestic counterfeit makers never gave up on imitating Xuande Furnaces.
This also led to the current domestic Xuande Furnace market, which is huge in scale and mixed with fish and dragons.
For real enthusiasts of Xuande furnaces, it is already quite difficult to find the pioneering work of the first generation Xuande furnace, so as long as it is a fake Xuande furnace before the Republic of China period, it will become valuable.
The imitations from the Republic of China period have no value because of their rough rule, many sand holes, thin inner walls and light weight.
Now, due to the booming antique market in China, the price of Xuande furnace has also increased. Even if it is difficult for everyone to find a genuine Xuande furnace that was the first batch of that year, but as long as the quality of the fake product is good and the workmanship is quite exquisite, you can still get a high price.
For example, the imitation of Xuande furnaces in the early Qing Dynasty, as long as the materials are sufficient and the workmanship is good, it can be sold for hundreds of thousands of yuan. If there is a celebrity, the price will increase tenfold.
If it were high-quality imitations from the Ming Dynasty, the price would be even higher, and it would be no problem if it could be millions.
However, although the domestic market has been reopened for more than 20 years, it has never appeared in China once.
According to statistics from interested scholars, the first batch of Xuande furnaces made of such wind-milled copper are probably only a dozen of them worldwide.
Most of them are concentrated in museums in Europe and the United States, such as museums in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Japan. There are occasionally a few, and they are all rich people.
Jin Muchen really didn't expect that today he actually encountered a genuine Xuande furnace at Jason's house. Such gains were described as overjoyed. It is no exaggeration to describe them.
However, although he was very happy at this time, he was revealed in front of Jason.
This thing must have been snatched back from where his great-uncle was looting the Old Summer Palace, and it has been circulating in their homes since then.
Since his father loved this thing so much, he must have known the origin of this thing, but the fool in front of him seemed to have no idea of the origin of this thing, so it would be best.
"Wang, have you finished reading this thing?"
Jin Muchen held the incense burner and stood there looking left and right, then he was "idle" for a long time without saying anything. Jason, who was standing aside, had already been tired of waiting, and finally couldn't help asking with some complaints.
"Well, this is an incense burner from last year, and the quality is pretty good. Jason, how much do you plan to ask for this thing?"
"Uh... three... no... fifty thousand pounds!"
Jason knew nothing about the antique industry, but his dad was in this industry, so he only knew that since his dad liked this thing so much, it would definitely be very valuable.
So it’s not low to ask for 50,000 pounds!
Chapter completed!