The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

The 卣 that Boss Ma moved out is very different from the Zun and Yi just now. This 卣 is a familiar pit, which is an old collection. It has been unearthed for at least several decades. Fastest update

"My friend's family was a wealthy man in Shanghai 49 years ago. It is said that it cost 2,000 oceans to buy this 卣.

Both of his children are now working in the UK, and recently his family plans to immigrate. "

Nowadays, there are a lot of rich people in Xiangjiang who are preparing to immigrate. It is not because of the 97 reasons that most people think. In fact, the biggest reason is that Xiangjiang's life is too fast and stressful.

Zhang Nan didn't care about why others emigrated, but noticed the original price: 2000 oceans, which was a huge sum of money before liberation!

The collection of the Three Sages of the East in Guangsheng Xiasi Yuan Dynasty in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York also cost 1,600 oceans. That family would have spent this money at the beginning, either a wealthy person or someone who really likes bronze antiques.

The Shukeng bronze is beautiful. This piece is already dark brown overall. Obviously, collectors often play with this piece. It should be treated with professional rust removal beforehand. The oxide layer on the surface is very natural, and there is no patina on the body. .

The length and width of the whole device is about 18 by 22 cm, and the height is 30 cm. The cross-section looks like an oval, with a straight mouth, a short neck, a bulging abdomen, a low circle of feet, and a short folding edge underneath.

The cover surface is slightly protruding, and the arc is folded to the edge of the cover. On both sides of the cover, there is a corner of the eaves. The top of the cover is set with a flower bud-shaped button with six-winged cicada patterns.

The carrying beam of the body is arranged longitudinally, and there are round-carved bull heads at both ends.

The center of the short diameter of the cover of the whole device, the lower neck of the mouth and the sides of the abdomen are all raised edges, and the circle feet are provided with quarter-divided short edges.

The cover and abdomen are decorated with big gluttonous patterns of horns, the shape of the courtiers, the round eyes are huge, and they are piercing!

The animal face is also very large, and the shape is extremely exaggerated: the body, legs and claws are separated, the body is raised, and the tail is rolled down; the two sides of the gluttony pattern are equipped with small kui patterns, and the neck and ring feet are decorated with phoenix patterns as auxiliary decorations.

The handle is decorated with kui patterns as a whole, with a slender body, arched back and curled tail.

The whole body of the whole vessel is decorated with thunder patterns to fill the ground, and the main gluttonous patterns are all outlined with Yin thread, forming a "three-layered flower" full of complicated decorations, but with distinct layers, gorgeous patterns and well-made.

Moreover, although the volume of the artifacts is not particularly large, it can give the viewer the feeling of majesty and majesty. It is an extremely rare Bronze Age art treasure.

Zhang Nan opened the cover, took the small flashlight handed by Boss Ma, turned on the light and looked at his abdomen carefully.

There are no traces of repairs on the inside, but no inscriptions are found at the same time.

But there was an inscription on the inside of the lid, but Zhang Nan didn’t know what it was called. Boss Ma couldn’t say it, and even no one in the world could say it because Zhang Nan knew that it was a word that had disappeared in the long history of China. .

Boss Ma pointed to the inscription on the inside of the lid and said: "My friends and I have found many people to recognize this word, but they couldn't recognize it, and I couldn't find it on the information.

It has been hidden for decades, and it is a pity for my friend. "

It’s a pity that I haven’t figured out what it is called and what it means.

At this point, Zhang Nan smiled and said, "What's the price of this?"

Seeing that Zhang Nan didn't answer, Boss Ma knew that this was something he didn't want to say about the inscription for the time being, so he talked about the deal first.

"It's not expensive, $350,000."

There is only one inscription, but the decorations and shapes are extremely exquisite, and the value far exceeds that of the late Shang Yi that I bought last time.

He was too lazy to bargain, gestured, Randy paid immediately.

Now that the transaction has been concluded, this 卣 is his own belongings. At this time, Zhang Nan doesn't mind doing something good so that Boss Ma and his friend who wants to emigrate will have no regrets.

The word in the 卣盖 is like the shape of the head of an axe. Zhang Nan doesn't know what it is called Zhang Nan, but he knows what it means.

Why?

This word is included in the professional research books written by the Director of Agriculture over the years, and several photos are attached.

"This word represents a powerful tribe in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and it should also be a tribe with extremely powerful force."

"You know?"

Boss Ma was very pleasantly surprised. It has been more than 20 years since he first saw this word!

This will meet someone who can answer questions, which is of course a pleasant surprise.

"It's not that I know, but a friend of mine has done research on it, including the shapes and systems of this type of mortuary from the late Shang Dynasty to the Western Zhou Dynasty."

To pass a piece of white paper, Zhang Nan "painted" the inscription in the cover on the paper, and then wrote two early inscriptions on the side.

"The second word should be a king, and the third word is a bit similar, but it should not be a king."

The three characters seem to be the shape of axe, but there is a difference: the king represents power, and those who dare to challenge will lose their heads!

Zhang Nan pointed to the third word and said: "This is the county that first appeared on the early Bronze inscriptions. It is the county where we are now the county head and the county seat.

The word county does not exist in the Oracle bone inscriptions, and this administrative unit does not seem to be the invention of Qin Shihuang. It began to appear in the inscriptions in the inscriptions in the late Shang Dynasty..."

Well, in ancient times, people can also be cut off at the county level. The people of the Shang Dynasty told us a truth in words: Don’t take the county magistrate as a cadre!

Dissatisfied?

Cut your head!

Zhang Nan said this again: "Boss Ma, your friend may not be sure whether this is an object from the late Shang Dynasty or the Western Zhou Dynasty, right?"

Boss Ma nodded.

When trading just now, Boss Ma didn't say what era the thing is, because he was not sure.

There were 卣 in the Shang Dynasty, as well as in the Western and Eastern Zhou Dynasties. Moreover, the shapes and types of 卣 in both the Shang and Western Zhou dynasties have continuity, which is difficult for ordinary people to judge.

Xiangjiang antique dealers look at bronzes based on their inventory before liberation and smuggling in recent years. This research is far inferior to the mainland archaeological community, and even less to the expert of Nong Bosheng who has in-depth research on this.

Zhang Nan smiled and said: "This is a late Shang Dynasty 卣, and its shape and decoration are quite similar to the gluttonous pattern Tiliang 卣 unearthed from the Shang and Zhou cemetery at Luoshan Tianhu, Henan Province. It was unearthed in Hui County, Henan Province in 1965. There are many similar ones on the mainland, such as Zu Xinyu, Geyu excavated in Ningxiang, Hunan in 1970, and Yafayu excavated in Beihe in 1978.

The era of this type of 卣 is mostly concentrated in the third and fourth phases of the Yin Ruins, so I think the era of this 卣 is the late Shang Dynasty.

The inscription in the lid should be used as the name of the clan. The artifacts of the clan that began to appear in the Shang Dynasty should have been found in the mainland by 20 or 30. Many of them are still unearthed and handed down like this one. I can't tell the specific look.

The times are mostly concentrated in the late Shang Dynasty to the early part of the mid-Western Zhou Dynasty, indicating that this clan is an old Yin Shang clan, and like other Yin heritages, it continued in the Western Zhou period. "

When Boss Ma heard this, he sighed: Xiangjiang is too small and too small!

I didn't ask what it was reading, I asked it was an idiot; as for why this clan that disappeared in the long river of history is so powerful?

The Yin and Shang dynasties can still be strong until at least the mid-Western Zhou dynasty, and they can still use the words that slash their heads to represent their clan. Can they be powerful?

According to current research, the centralization system of the country three thousand years ago is completely incomparable with the current state. The autonomy of tribes and small countries is very large. The monarchs of the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties did not completely control the country like the monarchs after Qin Shihuang. The power should be very large.

However, the backwardness of productivity led to the longest duration of the three earliest dynasties in China, which is also very strange.

As for why this is the case, the history before the Eastern Zhou Dynasty is now too little known, so it is a mystery.

Zhang Nan got a love for antiques this time. Although the price is sky-high compared to the black market in Beijing, it is not expensive.

Besides, this high ancient bronze can be called the most important object of the country. The porcelain, calligraphy and painting of two or three thousand years at night are a bit light and flamboyant.

After the Yuan blue and white hype, it was very expensive. The official kiln porcelain of the Kangxi and Qianlong Dynasties was the official plaything. As for the twelve beast heads, hehe...the royal faucet.

What an interesting thing to be able to peek into a corner of the life of ancient people three thousand years ago from ancient bronzes!

I bid farewell to Boss Ma, and asked Weng Qianhui to give his brother something to be careful and careful.

The next day, let that Chen Fang take his leader to a meal at the Peninsula Hotel, and gave him two scripts by the way.

Everything is happy.

On New Year’s Day in 1989, Weng Qianhui took a flight back to the capital. Jiang Aihua and someone who had come up with a stick, brought two large boxes of US dollars and three bronzes that Zhang Nan told him to carry back to Yan County from Shatoujiao to the mainland. .

The ancient bronzes bought back by Xiangjiang can be returned to the mainland with the receipt issued by Boss Ma's Antique Shop. The law allows cultural relics to return, not to mention that there is the mysterious figure of the stick.

Jiang Aihua asked Zhang Nan before: Where should I donate this trip?

"Donate a hair! I will open a private museum in my hometown in a few years, and strive to catch up with the Palace Museum and the National Museum."

Comrade Aihua snorted: "Tell you! Do you want to catch up with those two?"

Zhang Nan doesn't care about it~www.wuxiaspot.com~ then you can just watch it. "

"By the way, where do you open the museum?"

"Of course it's my hometown."

This time it was Jiang Aihua's turn to laugh: "Then even if you make it the world's largest museum, few people will go to see it. Every year, it is a place for elementary school students in the county to go out for spring?

Still want to compare with the Palace Museum?

You dream! "

"I said Comrade Aihua, don't you know that the Forbidden City that I invested in my hometown has been built a little and a half, and the design drawings of the Qin Palace that a group of experts have researched are basically completed.

Funds are available at any time. Didn't your construction company also help to get a ticket for northern ancient architecture professionals to go to our Yanxian county? Are you there?

At that time, I will build the museum in the scenic area, do you think anyone will watch it? "

Speaking of this, Comrade Aihua, who is already a little bit irritated by Zhang Nan, continued triumphantly: "There is only one museum in the house, and the Forbidden City is also a classic. I have lived together for five thousand years, accept it. History education is a good place, and you can have fun everywhere."

Jiang Aihua didn't know what to say, and finally he said: "There are cannons in the National Museum! Do you have them?"

His concept is still before the Guobo has no division.

"Running on me, right? I have cannons and two in my house. They are in the town house in the yard.

This time you go to my hometown and don’t stay in the hotel. I will meet and greet you. You and your people will live in my mountaintop manor..."

To be honest, if the law allows, Zhang Nan can get no fewer old weapons than museums like the Revolutionary History Museum that can put weapons, except for things like u2.

Because there are really not many old weapons that cannot be bought with money in this world!

The 767 that attracted the attention of the entire Xiangjiang River departed from Kai Tak Airport. The destination will be Spain. The "Big Shark" has arrived on Safiladura Island. rw