A treasure-appraisal maniac

I opened three boxes in a row, and each one was a surprise.

With the last one left, Lu Fei was even more looking forward to it.

This is not a box, but a sixty centimeter long painting tube.

Such a long painting tube is rare. Lu Fei had high hopes for it, so he was the last one to take it out.

Lu Fei came down again holding the painting tube, opened the lid and smelled it, Lu Fei looked intoxicated.

"Coloring on silk!"

"It's really a good thing!"

Pulling the scroll out, Lu Fei had already concluded that it was a Song Dynasty painting before unfolding it.

This caused Lu Fei's adrenaline to surge rapidly, and his whole body was excited to the extreme.

Untie the sealing rope, place the scroll on the ground and unfold it slowly.

When the tip of the iceberg of the picture appeared in front of his eyes, Lu Fei's breathing almost stopped.

""Ruihe Tu"?"

"OMG!"

"It turned out to be it!"

The picture was fully unfolded, and Lu Fei screamed in surprise.

That's right, it's "Ruihe Tu".

This is the authentic work of Zhao Ji, Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty!

This painting is fifty-three centimeters in length and just over one and a half meters in width. It is made on silk.

There are many paintings and calligraphy works by Huizong of Song Dynasty, but this "Picture of Ruihe" is the best among them.

There is also a legend about this painting.

On the eve of the second year of the Yuan Dynasty in the second year of Zhenghe in the Northern Song Dynasty, clouds suddenly floated over the capital Bianjing, reflecting lowly on Duanmen, and a group of cranes flew over the palace, hovering for a long time and refusing to leave.

Two cranes actually landed on the two tall owl kisses on the left and right of the palace.

The people in the imperial city raised their heads in surprise, and the people walking by stopped to watch.

The fairy birds in the sky seem to understand people's thoughts, and they sing as long as they complain. They don't disperse as time goes by, and then they fly towards the northwest in a meandering direction.

At that time, Huizong was very excited when he saw this scene in person, thinking that it was auspicious clouds accompanied by fairy birds coming to the imperial capital to announce auspiciousness - a sign of prosperity for the country.

So Xin Ran painted the scene he witnessed on silk and wrote a poem to record it.

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This painting not only has the brilliance of divinity and the splendor of a monarch, but also has a sense of fairy sound, elegance and agility.

On the one hand, the royal palace is placed at the bottom of the picture, balanced and symmetrical, leaving two-thirds of the blue sky. It is bright and bright, grand and natural, and has a royal style.

The auspicious clouds surrounding the palace break the horizontal line of the house, and the steady and dignified scene is full of charm and natural beauty.

On the other hand, cranes represent noble aspirations and noble moral character.

The two cranes staying on the roof, curling up and down, convey movement with stillness, echoing the group of cranes lingering in the sky, and each one is full of appearance.

The whole picture is more noble, elegant, elegant and graceful.

From the composition point of view, this work breaks the conventional composition method of flower and bird paintings. The combination of flowers and birds and landscape creates a poetic realm.

The cranes and the tiled roof occupy two to one portion of the painting, and the roof of the palace is made up of large and small geometric shapes.

Although the palace at the lower end is not the main part of the picture, it is the largest plane in the entire picture.

The roof is located in the center of the lower part of the painting, and the distance between the lower eaves and both sides of the painting is basically the same, giving the viewer a sense of grandeur.

At the same time, the boundary painting method is used to depict the structure delicately and solidly, and the misty floating clouds are used to open up the picture, so that the clear blue sky completely transcends the limitations of the upper picture.

Of the twenty white cranes in the painting, almost no two have exactly the same posture.

Two of them stand on the ridge of the palace and look back symmetrically.

On the right side, a crane stands steadily, turning its head as if to sing a song, echoing the other cranes.

The crane on the left is not yet stable, and its posture is vivid and dynamic.

The cranes formed a ring shape in response, circling and soaring around the roof, with different expressions and graceful postures. Some looked up, and some bent their necks and looked back, each with its own expression and lifelike appearance.

twenty cranes

The distribution is basically symmetrical.

The outermost oval edge of the crane group is roughly equidistant. The seven cranes with their heads and necks facing inward are like a set of musical notes, interspersed and swirling in the blue sky, with fairy sounds curling up.

It is a magnificent picture of thousands of layers of jade and cranes dancing in the sky.

In addition, the coloring of "Ruihe Tu" is also quite skillful.

The sky full of flying cranes is painted flat with azure, which instantly makes the jade sky clear and reflects the holiness and splendor of the white cranes.

The one-line eaves are carefully structured and the brush strokes are smooth and even. The whole work reveals a handsome, delicate and unrestrained mood.

The postures of the cranes in the painting vary, and no one is the same. The wren's body is painted in pink and ink, and its eyes are stained with raw lacquer. The air seems to be echoing with the melodious chorus of cranes.

The whole picture is full of vitality, forming an exquisite scene of the crane announcing its auspiciousness.

Clear-cut, dynamic and beautiful.

This "Picture of Ruihe" is also one of Song Huizong's most proud works.

But the painting was ill-fated.

In 1127 AD, the Jin soldiers captured the capital Bianliang.

The soldiers and civilians of the Song Dynasty rose up to fight against the Jin soldiers. The Jin people knew that they were unable to swallow this decadent but huge empire.

Unwilling to do anything, they plundered the gold and silver treasures, paintings and calligraphy treasures accumulated in the Ninety-Two Treasury for more than 160 years, and swept northward together with the two emperors Hui and Qin, as well as more than 3,000 people from the royal family and ministers.

"Auspicious Crane Picture" unfortunately disappeared among the people and has disappeared since then.

Six hundred years later, "Auspicious Crane Picture" miraculously appeared in the world and was hidden in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Qing Palace. It was loved by successive emperors of the Qing Dynasty.

There are seals such as "Treasure of the Emperor Qianlong's Views", "Treasure of the Shiqu Treasures", "Reedition of the Treasure Notes", "Appreciation of the Qianlong Emperor", "Treasures of the Imperial Views of Jiaqing", "Treasures of the Imperial Views of Xuantong", etc., and are recorded in " The sequel to "Shiqu Baoji" is in progress.

In the eleventh year of the Republic of China, Gubo was established.

"Ruihe Tu" became the first generation treasure in the museum's collection.

But the next year, Li Yuying and Yi Peiji were wanted by Duan Qirui and were forced to flee Tiandu City, so the Bo was in danger.

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In the 13th year of the Republic of China, Zhang Zuolin took power and announced the establishment of the "Forbidden City Management Committee" to forcibly take over the museum.

The next year, Gubo was taken over by Chiang Kai-shek.

After such a torment, a large number of treasures were lost.

"Ruihe Tu" was one of the lost treasures at that time, but unexpectedly it fell into the hands of Lao Lutou.

Moreover, it was a blessing among misfortunes that it was collected by him and not sold.

I carefully put the painting scroll away and put it into the trolley case. The first safe had already been emptied.

Four brocade boxes, five treasures, each of them is of the highest quality.

The total value of the contents of these four brocade boxes alone exceeds all the objects in Gu Lina's villa.

This is a well-deserved treasure!

After putting his things away, Lu Fei pushed the trolley case aside and opened the safe underneath.

This cabinet is much simpler inside.

Below are two large boxwood boxes.

An old-fashioned cloth bag is placed on top of two wooden boxes.

This cloth bag is made of waterproof canvas, and its main color is brown and white stripes.

The words L.uitton are printed where the two colors meet.

There are metal corners embossed on the four sides, and the word L is engraved on it.

"What the hell!"

“This is still Louis Vuitton!”

"Hey!"

"I didn't expect Lao Lu to be a trendy guy!"

Seeing this bag, Lu Fei was endlessly surprised.

Nowadays, various limited edition bags can easily cost tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands.

The one in front of me is an old Louis Vuitton bag from before the 1940s.

This is much more awesome than all limited editions!

Not to mention collectors, it is estimated that even Louis Vuitton cannot come up with such antiques.

If this bag were taken out, it would definitely fetch an astonishing price.