The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

In the long years of 3000 years, touching these artifacts and words, closing my eyes seems to be able to touch that distant age.

It is a pity that these artifacts have been unearthed for at least tens of hundreds of years, and they have even been touched out of the patina and cooked pits.

There are more people passing by, and too much less aura.

If you take out these objects directly from the soil yourself, the wonderful feeling is probably even stronger.

I love that feeling!

"They are all properly national first-class cultural relics, and we still make a lot of money at this price.

Even in the 1920s and 1930s, these three kinds of silver dollars with no one hundred thousand dollars could not be taken down..."

The price is not particularly high now. That's because of the boom in bronzes 60 years ago. You must know that before World War II, there was a boom in archaeology in the world.

As soon as Hitler and Gouri’s devils came out, the archaeological craze immediately cooled down. When the Iron Curtain was about to come and the founding of New China, China’s domestic cultural relics would be insulated from the Western world, and this Huaxia high ancient bronze ware could not be fired in the West.

Now China has been reforming and opening for more than ten years. With this opening, more flies and mosquitoes have entered, the smuggling of intercommunication has revived, and the reselling of Chinese cultural relics has gradually become hot.

It’s still not a sky-high price, and it’s just ten years from now...

Thinking of it's the age, Zhang Nan felt that these things seemed a bit familiar, "before" they seemed to have seen them in some materials.

This wrong copper pot may be in the old collection of Yuanmingyuan. Yi seems to have been unearthed at the end of 20 years. As for that...

It may have been unearthed in the Western Qin Dynasty. It has a peculiar shape and is easy to remember: it seems that a local warlord organized thousands of migrant workers and carried out a large-scale pirate excavation that lasted more than half a year.

It should have been dug up in 28 years, and then it seems that it will soon be a warlord melee. The small warlord was defeated and killed...

Good guy, who is the little warlord who loves to steal the tomb and make a fortune Zhang Nan has forgotten, but who was the one who defeated him is remembered: Song Zheyuan, one of the five tiger generals of the Northwest Army.

It's so famous!

"Zhe Yuan and others belong to the soldiers, and they are responsible for protecting the country. I would like to take the lead to stand by. I would rather die a warrior than be a slave to the country, fight and sacrifice, and swear the shame of the country."

When Zhang Nan was in high school, he could memorize these words verbatim, fighting with Xifeng mouth in blood, and slashing the devils to be afraid of the wind!

Yes, the Northwest Army's broadsword is fast enough!

However, what Zhang Nan thought of was something a little earlier than the **** battle at Xifengkou, and it was related to the little warlord who digs the grave: it seemed like the "Second Northern Expedition", it should be in August or September 1928, Song Zheyuan The troops conquered Fengxiang, Baoji, killed 2,000 people under the warlord, and captured 5,000 people.

Then……

Song Zheyuan ordered the killing of more than 5,000 prisoners!

In the late 1920s, warlords fought and killed thousands of prisoners at once!

Is it spectacular?

quite splendid!

Li Yunlong chopped a dozen bandits and counted as a hair. Such a one-time massacre is a big scene!

But when Zhang Nan thought of the description of that historical record and the memoirs of those who had experienced it, the goose bumps all over his body would rise!

More than one is terrible!

The warlord melee is not fighting against foreign invaders. 5000 people will kill if they say kill!

Among them, 500 prisoners still beheaded at once, and only one big soldier was spared, because the old father of the young prisoner wanted to die with him, and there was a pistol battalion commander named Zhang who couldn't stand it anymore and interceded twice. Sentence, only left this life!

500 people survived this lucky one!

Oh, Song Zheyuan was imprisoned at the scene.

When the 500 prisoners were killed, it is said that Song Zheyuan immediately assembled the officers above the battalion on the scene and gave an order: "The prisoners detained by divisions, brigades, and regiments shall be ordered to be killed tonight. No one is allowed to remain, no one is allowed. put!"

So more than 3,000 of the other 4,500 prisoners were killed that night.

Only one teacher surnamed Zhao thought this approach was too cruel and inhumane. Although he did not dare to openly resist Song's order, he had to imply that the brigade and regiment commanders were strictly guarding secrets, taking advantage of the silence of the night, and quietly letting out more than a thousand prisoners to make those people To survive the rest of his life.

After conquering Fengxiang, Feng Fu Song Zheyuan also seized nearly a hundred large boxes of precious cultural relics stolen and excavated by the little warlord, including the large bronze tripod of the Zhou Dynasty, the carts, lids, bowls, plates, golden horses, and wishful stones of the Qin Mugong period. Xi'an is escorted by a dedicated person.

It is said that, except for a few of these precious cultural relics, they were owned by some generals. Later, most of them were replaced with weapons and ammunition.

Warlord, ha ha...

If the warlords can save the energy to kill the Chinese people of the same clan and the same clan, and reserve the strength to deal with the future little devils, the war of resistance will not have to be so badly fought!

This will make Zhang Nan look at that coquettish more unpleasantly. It seems that Nong Bosheng needs to be asked to see if there is any problem, whether it is the little warlord’s robbery.

The simple way is to find the two experts who are busy in the warehouse, they have the ability to draw sketches, and at the same time use fax paper and pencil to rub the lines.

After more than an hour, Zhang Nan got a rough recovery: it is most likely one of the batch of cultural relics unearthed from Fengxiang.

How did things from the Shang Dynasty reach Zhou’s old base sites? They were probably like trophies;

As a trophy 3000 years ago, and as a trophy 62 years ago, Zhang Nan felt that what was in the covet should not be wine, but blood!

There are so many things with blood in my hands. Which ones I brought back from West Germany and the Philippines are not bloody?

But this time is different. Even the Filipinos are talking about taking back the wealth of the Chinese, but this is completely killing their own people!

Anyway, I think I feel uncomfortable all over!

Zhang Nan said what he knew, but Xiang Weirong and Guan Xingquan were both unacceptable.

Finally, Xiang Weirong said, "You won't donate to Baoji or Fengxiang?"

"Just mentioned in the county annals, give me a mao!"

The other two pieces were placed in the study room as furnishings. This bird and beast was sent to the underground warehouse without seeing or worrying about it.

Nong Bosheng not only talked about the coveted thing, because Zhang Nan mentioned two other bronze wares by the way. Comrade the curator said his personal name, an American he had met a few years ago.

"Dr. Arthur Sackler, a well-known medical scientist, philanthropist, and art collector in the United States, you can know a little bit in the United States that these three things should have something to do with him.

This person became famous very early. There should be a museum named after him in Huasheng-Dun, which contains a lot of precious Chinese cultural relics! "

Hearing this, Zhang Nan frowned and said: "It's another cultural relic dealer, already dead?"

There was laughter in the receiver of the phone, and I heard Nong Bo Sheng said: "It should have passed away a few years ago.

However, this person has a good relationship with China, and in the 1930s, he vigorously raised funds to support Bethune's work in China to treat anti-Japanese soldiers.

In the 1970s, he was also invited by our government to provide consulting services for the public health cause of our country.

This Mr. Sackler loves Chinese traditional culture very much. He has collected a large number of ancient Chinese cultural relics and returned some of the precious Chinese cultural relics he had obtained through legal means before, including the emperor's throne.

Not only that, he also sponsored the construction of three Asian art museums: the Sackler Museum of Art in Washington, DC, the Sackler Museum of Harvard University, and the Sackler Museum of Archaeology and Art in China Capital University.

I had dealt with him in the 70s, and my qualifications at that meeting were just listening to me. I just became the director of the meeting.

He seems to have talked about the story of the inscription on Yi, but he didn't say whether it was all his collections, or mentioned it when he talked about the early Western Zhou Dynasty emperors. I didn't remember the details..."

After the phone call, I asked those two experts, and sure enough, there was such a number one person, who was still famous.

I didn't have the time to do more investigations, because there were more things delivered to the manor: they were delivered by vans, and the quantity was still quite large.

Zhang Nan used the plug-in method to search for his own collections across the United States. This efficiency began to appear. The most powerful auction company did not have the ability to search for cultural relics and artworks on its own!

This is a car of furniture, and it can't be said that it's all antique furniture, but the pieces are exquisite!

An antique furniture collector died two years ago, leaving behind many old European furniture. The descendants of the family are not good at this and want to sell it for money, but they have not made up their minds before.

The price has been understood quite a bit, but I have been struggling with thoughts all the time...

As soon as the show was on, the experts were fooled, and it was done!

More than seventy pieces, large and small, a full 1.5 million!

On average, one piece costs almost 20,000 US dollars. Zhang Nan came to the pot end: What is this going to do?

Even if you want antique furniture, there are a lot of huanghuali and red sandalwood in the capital, and there are several sets of goods in the Ming Dynasty, so you don't need such an unbelievable price.

This will be eaten by American connoisseurs. Is Zhang Nan striding forward on the road to stupid people and a lot of money?

Seeing the bodyguards unloading goods, Guan Xingquan couldn't understand a few large items using a forklift.

"I said Anan, these furniture don't match the style of your manor, where should you put it?"

Hearing what he said, Zhang Nan said: "I just want to see things, but there is no suitable place inside."

At this point, he said loudly to Mark and the others: "All of them will be put in the second building. You don't need to enter the basement, just put them in the first floor warehouse.

Leave the big bookcase and carry it to the study room on the second floor. There is still room beside the desk. "

When moving a large bookcase, even two experts took the initiative to help, fearing it might bump into it.

At first glance, it is purely hand-made craftsmanship, the appearance is reddish, and the age does not seem to be particularly large, but it looks like a high-end!

Taking advantage of the unloading work, the two experts are admiring the exquisite craftsmanship of this bookcase!

The top of the bookcase is decorated with original edging marble from Aleppo breccia in France, and at the center of the bookcase is an exquisite gilt bronze fairy head.

There are gilt-bronze corners of curling leaf on both sides, and a circle of columnar ribbons on the bottom; both sides of the ribbon are decorated with gilt-bronze heads of Pan, and the upper right corner is gilt-bronze with the signature ke.

The panels on both sides are decorated with fine three-dimensional grid-shaped fine wood handmade parquet, and the two glass cabinet doors in the middle: original glass, nearly a hundred years old, and there are almost no scratches.

The outside of the glass is decorated with brass grids, and the three-layer adjustable lining of the interior is made of very good materials, all of which are extremely expensive mahogany.

The original keys of the cabinet are all there, and the surface of the wooden cabinet is smooth and smooth, and the preservation is first-rate!

What is the special meaning of that signature?

Yes, that is the name of the carpenter, or the signature of the master carpenter: François Link.

This is a French Louis XV style gilded bronze king wood, linden wood and tulip wood parquet book cabinet made by Link. It was made around 1900.

Among the two carts of furniture that I pulled this time, there are more than 20 pieces made by Lin Ke: this is the top furniture most respected in France in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and even in the entire Western world!

François Link, at the turn of the century, a famous master of top classical furniture and decorative arts in Paris, France, is known for its high quality and is a classic representative of European furniture manufacturers in the post-19th century.

In terms of home furnishing manufacturing, Link’s work has won the World Exhibition Museum Gold Medal since 1900, 1904, and 1908, creating a historical miracle that almost no one can surpass in the Western world of furniture manufacturing.

Many people say that François Link’s works are more exquisite than his predecessors. His design and production process emphasizes smoothness and naturalness, while at the same time expressing the inner things of art in the works, forming his own unique Artistic style and characteristics.

"The European antique furniture of the 19th century was very popular all over the world~www.wuxiaspot.com~ In the half-century around 1900 represented by this link, Parisian classical furniture and decorative art productions were the most popular in the Western world. it is good!……"

Buying and reselling is not a crime, why does Zhang Nan want so much?

Used again.

If you want to build a super castle yourself, are all the furniture in it newly customized?

It has to be a bit old and antique furniture. This Link's work is a good choice: searching for quality Western antique furniture is one of the tasks.

In addition to the bookcase, there are several other pieces left, which Zhang Nan will be able to use this time.

A two-drawer cabinet, also derived from the style of Louis XV period furniture, is decorated with finely inlaid violet wood and Cayenne violet wood;

The front sides, the drawer handles and the four legs are decorated with gilt bronze. The top of the chest of drawers is covered with marble slabs. Link's signature is on the gilt bronze decoration on the upper right side of the chest of drawers.

There is also Zhang's signature round table, the main body is mahogany-heart wood, the rosewood veneer parquet finish, and the original glass surface is placed on the top: this is very unique, a table with two panels, Zhang Nan is the first time I have seen it arrive.

Link very cleverly used the gilt carvings on the four corners of the tabletop to connect the two stacked tabletops naturally.

The gilt mermaid carvings on the four corners are extremely delicate, and the laurel branches decorate its head and waistline, implying purity and sacredness.

The two ends of the table top are equipped with gilt handles, which are convenient to carry and move, which is very in line with the dexterous and dynamic style of the furniture of this period.

The table circumference is decorated with the representative crab shell pattern of Link's work, and the corner of the table is engraved with his signature.

The overall decoration is gorgeous, but it does not give people an overly luxurious feeling. Zhang Nan feels that this table looks particularly comfortable and pleasing to the eye!

"This table is good, let me go to the office."

It was not Zhang Nan who spoke, but Nicole who went home.