Chapter 861 Old Collection of Prince Kung’s Mansion

Although this Fuzao eggplant, in the eyes of the Chinese, is just an ordinary celadon tea pot of Fujian folk song, but this thing has a very profound historical significance for the Japanese.

In the end, it was collected by Hirota Matsushige and donated to the Tokyo National Museum by him.

After all, in the eyes of the Japanese, this tea pot has experienced the most proud history of the Japanese, so although it is not a special treasure, it has been collected by many historical celebrities in Japan. , so it has a sufficient sense of history, so it is a matter of course to call it a national treasure.

Now that this national treasure is included in the bag, it must make those Japanese people very painful!

But after tonight, I am afraid that these Japanese people will not be sore because of such an eggplant, they will be crazy because of tonight’s loss.

Jin Muchen put away the tea can with a sneer, and then continued to walk forward.

This Takashima Kijiro, Yokogawa Minsuke, and Hirota Matsushige donated to the Tokyo National Museum, almost all of them have been searched by Jin Muchen.

But this is not enough, there are still many treasures in this Oriental Pavilion.

For example, the three-piece suit that Jin Muchen saw next, the background of these three-piece suits is also not small.

These three pieces are three sets of well-preserved red sandalwood furniture from the Qing Dynasty. They are the red sandalwood carvings of passionflower “Qingshou” Dabao sitting in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty; and a pair of red sandalwood high waists with banana leaves and cloud bat patterns. Three bent legs with a clay incense table; and a large square stool with a red sandalwood passion flower pattern with a clay support.

These three pieces, but the Qing Dynasty court relics recorded in the following inscriptions, the workmanship is nothing to say.

And the purple light flashing on these sets of furniture. He also told Jin Muchen. The age of these pieces of furniture is correct.

In addition, Jin Muchen also collected it before. The furniture used in the Qing Dynasty court, so he still understands the workmanship of the Qing Dynasty furniture. The workmanship of these three-piece sets is not at all wrong, and it must be the furniture used by the princes and nobles of the Qing Dynasty.

After looking at the introduction of these pieces of furniture, he immediately understood that these three-piece sets turned out to be furniture from Prince Gong’s mansion in the last Qing Dynasty.

Think of this. Jin Muchen thought of the large gilt sitting clock that he had collected in China’s Jade Bird City before. Wasn’t that grandfather clock sold by Puwei, the last King Gong?

Think about it too, that grandson, but a crazy royalist. Later, after the royal family of the Qing Dynasty was forced to abdicate, the grandson was madly clamoring for this, to restore it.

And he has been running back and forth between the old and young who have lost their power, promoting the idea that he has got bullshit. Later, there was a time when he wanted to rebel in the southern Liaoning area.

In the end it only fell. He had to collude with the Japanese to complete his dream of restoration, but unfortunately the Japanese didn’t take him too seriously, they just regarded him as a pawn.

Once he is no longer worth using, he will be directly killed in Dalian.

But now it seems that I still underestimate this grandson. This grandson’s prodigal ability is not ordinary. Before he left the capital, he took out their old house by himself. All the previous things were sold to these Japanese devils, and they also became the most hated Yamanaka Chamber of Commerce among these Japanese devils.

Needless to say, the materials used for this kind of red sandalwood furniture are all high-quality red sandalwood. In the Qing Dynasty, except for the royal family and some top princes and nobles, not many people could afford it, even if He is a rich man in Jiangnan, and there is not much furniture made of this material.

Moreover, the shape of these furniture is from the handwriting of the palace building office, and when you look at the previous introduction, you can see the source of these pieces of furniture.

According to the “Secret Archives of Yi”, on March 17, in the second year of Xianfeng, there was a report on the use of furniture for Prince Gong’s house in Yi’an.

It probably means that on March 7, 1852, Prince Gong, Yi?, made a presentation to Emperor Xianfeng, hoping that the palace building office could make a batch of furniture for him.

Emperor Xianfeng was also very agile, and he was ready immediately, so the manufacturing office soon sent some high-quality red sandalwood furniture to Prince Gong’s house. This is all recorded:

On March 17, Youtang Jiaojing Office and Prince Gong’s House used the woodware and other items of the Jingshi Office to play a white folded piece: a red sandalwood treasure chair, a red sandalwood grain couch, a red sandalwood wood Ten palace chairs…

On April 22, Prince Gong’s Mansion used: a red sandalwood treasure chair, two pairs of red sandalwood cabinets, and the inner ring is incomplete. A pair of red sandalwood hexagonal high tables, two red sandalwood inlaid salt slate tables, two red sandalwood kang tables, with incomplete rings of flower teeth. There are twenty red sandalwood palace chairs, and there are ring-shaped teeth and incomplete replacement of teeth. A pair of black lacquer stationery with red sandalwood edges, a pair of rosewood cladding top vertical cabinets, with a cracked cladding inside, the middle panel and the back panel are incompletely broken, a rosewood cladding case with several legs, and a rosewood raised head case One, one nanmu long table, two pairs of gold lacquer kang lattices, one gold lacquer kang strip case, one gold lacquer small kang lattice, black lacquer depicting gold flower kang lattice Zhang Yang lacquer depicting golden flower lotus and a pair of kang lattices. There is a bamboo lacquer kang table and a pair of red carved lacquer kang lattices.

The above wood carvings and jade inlaid copper-faced leaf hinge sleeves are all incomplete, and they should be repaired and repaired accordingly.

In this record, it can be said that I remembered it carefully and accurately, not only what kind of furniture was sent, but also the unfinished set of furniture.

And in this Prince Gong’s residence, the furniture that the emperor rewarded was all made by the Office of the Interior Ministry, and almost all of them were made according to the specifications of the palace utensils. The high quality can be imagined.

And this is only the most concentrated reward that was received when the government was divided, and there will be a lot of sporadic reward furniture in the future.

For example, on March 29, the second year of the Xianfeng year, that is, May 17, 1852, Emperor Xianfeng did not know why he was brainstorming that day, and suddenly became interested.

So he gave Prince Gong a lot of wooden furniture: a red sandalwood treasure chair, a red sandalwood couch, a red sandalwood palace chair, and a cushion to be sent to Prince Gong’s mansion. Chin this.

These are not only recorded in the “Yi? Secret File”, but also recorded in the Qing court’s construction office.

It is because of this that these Japanese people can explain the origin of this three-piece red sandalwood set so clearly and clearly.

This three-piece set of furniture is not only carved on the wood itself, but also supplemented by high-grade materials such as snail and jade to make patterns such as petals and animals, which are inlaid on this set of furniture.

Or use high-grade materials such as gold, silver and seven treasures to make patterns, or use paintings on platinum paper, ceramics and other inlays to engrave them to enrich the expression.

In short, the decoration is extremely beautiful, it can be said to be beautiful and even luxurious and gorgeous. At the same time, the patterns are also used in palace furniture, often used to reflect the wishes of the royal family. Mainstream decoration.

If such a pattern with dragon and phoenix was made by this Prince Gong, Yi?, let alone the younger brother of Emperor Xianfeng, even if he had eight heads, it would not be enough to chop off.

But these things were given to him by Emperor Xianfeng, which is another matter.

Therefore, such furniture can be said to be absolutely precious, and if it can be displayed in the Tokyo National Museum, it must be even more of a boutique.

However, because the Japanese do not like the cultural relics of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in China, although the three-piece furniture is very precious in the eyes of the Chinese, in the eyes of the Japanese, it is nothing, so they It is life and death that this three-piece red sandalwood furniture set is rated as a national treasure-level cultural relic.

And such a three-piece set of furniture, if you get it in China, you almost don’t have to think about it, it must be a national treasure!

After all, we Chinese have our own set of identification methods for furniture collection.

Japanese or European and American collectors, when collecting antique furniture, usually first look at the furniture, whether there are any historical allusions, and secondly, look at the furniture, who has used it before, if it is used by celebrities, then There will definitely be additions.

The second is to look at the materials and processing of furniture, and we Chinese are different. When we Chinese people collect furniture, the first thing we look at is the material used for furniture, whether it is golden nan, red sandalwood, or gloomy wood. and other materials.

Then it is to look at the workmanship, whether the workmanship is fine, whether the carving is exquisite, and whether it is from the hands of those famous masters.

Then I look at the furniture~www.readmtl.com~ who has used it before, and whether there are any historical allusions.

Therefore, we Chinese people play furniture collection, which is completely opposite to that of foreign countries.

This is also the main reason why the Japanese did not regard this piece of furniture as a national treasure, but Jin Muchen’s heart skipped a beat when he saw it.

You must know that some time ago, he heard that the capital held a special furniture auction of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, among which there were several red sandalwood chairs from the Qing court.

Those chairs, in which auction, the unit price was more than 20 million yuan, and the final overall price was even more than 100 million yuan.

This three-piece set is a complete set of furniture, a large throne with a ‘Celebrating birthday’ pattern, and a pair of high-waist banana leaf cloud bat patterns with three bent legs and mud incense sticks, plus a passion flower pattern. A large square stool with clay support, such a complete set of furniture, and it is preserved in such a perfect condition, what is the price of this thing?

Jin Muchen estimated that if it were to be auctioned at the Ming and Qing Furniture Fair a few months ago, these three-piece sets would definitely be sold for over 100 million yuan… (To be continued.)