Chapter 20 Unexpected Discovery

After sending the three Wang brothers away, Fan Wubing began to examine the things they sent, sorting them one by one, labeling them well, and putting them in appropriate places according to their value.

When Fan Wubing was in later generations, he used to know the management system of the library in order to meet the acceptance of his superiors. In his own collection, he adopted a similar method, sorting all kinds of things according to the age and purchase price. , The future value is placed in categories so that he can find what he needs at any time. For this reason, he specially got a notebook for detailed records.

Among the items purchased this time, what Fan Wubing was most concerned about was the Xuande furnace.

During the reign of Emperor Xuande of the Ming Dynasty, in order to satisfy his hobby of enjoying incense burners, he ordered to import a batch of red copper from Siam, and ordered the royal craftsman Lu Zhen and the Minister of Industry Wu Bangzuo to refer to the firewood kiln, Ru kiln, and official kiln in the imperial palace. Kiln, Ge Kiln, Jun Kiln, Ding Kiln famous porcelain styles, and historical records such as "Xuanhe Bogu Tulu" and "Archaeological Map", designed and supervised the production of incense burners.

In order to ensure the quality of the incense burner, craftsmen selected dozens of precious metals such as gold and silver, and went through more than ten careful casting and refining together with red copper. The color of the finished copper incense burner is crystal clear and warm. It is really a treasure among the handicrafts of the Ming Dynasty. The successful casting of the Xuande furnace set a precedent for copper furnaces in later generations.

Xuande used this batch of red copper to cast a total of 3,000 incense burners in three years, and they have not been produced since then. These Xuande incense burners are hidden in the forbidden palace, and ordinary people only know their names but not their shapes. After hundreds of years of ups and downs, the real copper incense burner cast in Xuande for three years is extremely rare.

In order to make huge profits, from the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty to the period of the Republic of China, the activity of imitating Xuande furnaces by antique dealers has never stopped. Just after the production of Xuande Furnace ceased, some officials in charge of "Casting Affairs" called the original furnace craftsmen to imitate according to the drawings and process procedures of Xuande Furnace.

These meticulously cast imitations are comparable to the real ones, and experts cannot distinguish them. So far, none of the many Xuande furnaces collected in major museums in China can be recognized by many appraisers as the real Xuande furnace.

In the later generations, Fan Wubing also got a Xuande stove, but it was identified as a fake. He was annoyed for a long time because of this, but today he accidentally received one, so naturally he should pay more attention to it.

It is said that the Xuande furnace is made of "wind-milled copper" tributed by Siam (Thailand), and more than 30 kinds of raw materials such as gold, silver, tin, and precious stones. The Xuande furnace has strict ingredients and is especially finely smelted. To the twelve refinements.

Xuande copper furnaces are elegant and exquisite in style, mostly used in the palace, only a small part is rewarded to the royal relatives or famous civil and military ministers and famous temples, ancestral halls and temples in the country. Its materials are exquisite and its production is extremely sophisticated. In the early years of the Republic of China, the asking price for an exquisite Xuande furnace was often as high as hundreds of thousands, which can be described as a priceless treasure. It's just that the real Xuande furnace is hard to see later.

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 forty kinds of colors, which are loved by the world, and there are many names of colors. For example, those with purple tinge and black and blue that resemble eggplant skin are called eggplant skin colors; those that are black and yellow like scripture paper are called Tibetan scripture colors; The white-yellow-red-like color of tangli is called tangli color, and the yellow-red ground with multicolored spots is called imitation Song burn spot; Liver, maroon, amber, tea powder, crab shell green and so on.

Xiang Yuanbian, a great connoisseur, collector, and painter during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, said, "The beauty of Xuan Furnace lies in the pearly luster inside the precious color, and the gentleness on the outside."

The Xuande stove in front of me has a strange and ancient style. The whole body of the stove is like a dragon coiled in the clouds and mist. Although Fan Wubing wasn't sure if it was genuine,

But his intuition told him that this thing was definitely not one of those counterfeit products circulating in the market.

What moved Fan Wubing even more was that there were ears on the body of the furnace, but it was not a simple shape, it was still in the shape of an animal head, and the design was very ingenious. It even reached more than ten kilograms, if it wasn't for Fan Wubing's strength that cannot be deduced by common sense, he really wouldn't be able to lift the incense burner.

"Hongxiu Tianxiang studied at night, but I don't know whether this incense burner is used for incense or for sacrifices. If it is used for royal sacrifices, its value is immeasurable." Fan Wubing looked at it for a long time but was unable to deduce what happened. After Mosuo waited for a while, he reluctantly put away the incense burner, and turned his head to inspect other objects carefully.

"Uh, what is this?" Fan Wubing suddenly found a wooden photo frame among the piles of medical supplies, but the photo frame looked very thick and a bit cumbersome, and the portraits inside were naturally the standard portraits of leaders. , the glass on the surface has long since disappeared.

Fan Wubing couldn't help but hesitated when he saw this thing, he held it in his hand and weighed it, feeling that it weighed a lot, because his current figure is really a bit small, holding this photo frame in his hand seems to be holding it up to the sky It was like a normal thing, shaking up and down, and felt as if something was moving inside.

It seems that there is really something in it! Fan Wubing realized that there must be a layer inside the photo frame, so he couldn't help but feel a little bit of anticipation, so he turned the photo frame over and laid it flat, and then pulled out the small shoe studs embedded in the back.

After uncovering the fiberboard on the back, there is indeed a relatively thick space, inside which is an oilcloth package, which looks thick and weighs about two catties.

"What kind of treasure could it be?" Fan Wubing was a little excited, and carefully opened the oilcloth bag and spread it on the ground, only to see a lot of colorful things inside.

"Oh, my God! It really is a good thing!" Fan Wubing's eyes lit up immediately when he saw it, and he stopped breathing temporarily. If there are other people in the room, he must be able to hear his heart It was beating bang bang.

What could make Fan Wubing feel so excited?