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Chapter 107 How to Identify Xuande Furnace
"Fang Wenbin?" Zhang Kexin had heard of this character before, and he was well-known in the antique circle. There were not many people in the antique business in Pingchuan, big or small, who he didn't know.

However, this person has a special personality. There have been many antique shop owners who wanted to contact him secretly, asking him to help participate in some auctions or help identify some things, but in the end, without exception, they all met with a disheveled face.

"Yes, it's Fang Wenbin."

"Ye Feng, Fang Wenbin is not easy to get in touch with. It may be very difficult to get him to come forward and invite those Taishan Beidou-level figures to come out."

"Sister Zhang, don't worry. Brother Du said that Mr. Sun and Fang Wenbin have a good relationship. If he comes forward, Fang Wenbin will definitely agree." Ye Feng smiled and said: "Besides, the more people like them, The love of antiques will exceed the imagination of normal people, if they know that I have a Ming Dynasty Xuande stove, I am afraid they will be very happy to see it..."

"That's quite reasonable." Zhang Kexin said, took out his mobile phone and dialed Grandpa Sun.

"Kexin, why did you remember to call Grandpa Sun?" When the call was connected, Grandpa Sun's old voice sounded.

"Grandpa Sun, what are you talking about? When did I forget you?" Zhang Kexin said coquettishly. Grandpa Sun and his grandfather were comrades-in-arms who went to the battlefield together, carried guns, and experienced life and death. In front of grandpa grandpa, Zhang Kexin felt as if she was in front of her own grandpa.

"Come on, what's the matter?" Grandpa Sun knew that Zhang Kexin would never call him for no reason at this time.

Zhang Kexin smiled and said: "One thing, Grandpa Sun will help you with the details, and ask Dean Fang Wenbin to have someone come and appraise it."

"What? Your grandpa grandpa still can't identify it?"

"Grandpa Sun, you really can't identify this thing."

"Oh, I'm curious about that?"

"Three-legged and double-eared Great Ming Xuande Furnace..." Zhang Kexin spit out a few words slowly.

silence……

After Zhang Kexin finished speaking, Grandpa Sun became more silent than ever before. It was so quiet that he could clearly hear the other party's breathing through the phone, which was a little hurried.

The three-legged and two-eared Ming Xuande stove, Mr. Sun clearly knows the meaning and value of this thing. Even if this thing is placed in any museum in the world, it can be regarded as the treasure of the town hall.

"Kexin, aren't you trying to make Grandpa Sun happy?" Elder Sun said in disbelief.

"Grandpa Sun, do you think I will joke with you about this kind of thing?"

silence...

This time, Grandpa Sun's side fell into a deathly silence, as if even his breathing and heartbeat had stopped.

"Kexin, come here immediately with your things. I'll wait for you at home. I'll take a look first. If I don't see any problem, I'll take you to find Lao Fang." After a short silence, Grandpa Sun Excitedly said: "Hurry up, you must be fast, come as fast as you can, the sooner the better."

"Well, we'll go there right away." Zhang Kexin answered and hung up the phone, turned to Ye Feng and continued: "Come on, Grandpa Sun is waiting for us at home now, and said that he will take us to see Fang Wenbin if there is no problem. Old man, let's go now."

Get up, this girl went out.

Ye Feng nodded, picked up the Xuande furnace, and walked out after him.

"Boss Zhang, Xiaoye, where are you going out?" Li Liang greeted the two of them warmly when they came down the stairs.

"Master Li..." Ye Feng greeted with a smile without reaching out his hand.

As for Zhang Kexin, she just nodded lightly, and this girl would act like a little woman in front of Ye Feng.

After Ye Feng and Zhang Kexin left Tianyunxuan, Li Yun came over, gritted his teeth and said: "Second Uncle, look at that kid Ye Feng, who looks like a villain!"

Li Liang stared at the backs of the two, and snorted coldly: "Grasshoppers after autumn, let's see how long they can jump around." The expression on his face became even colder.

"Second Uncle, when do we start?" Li Yun asked with a sinister expression.

"Don't ask so many questions, work hard first, and I will let you know when I do it."

"..."

"Zhang Kexin, you are unkind to me, don't blame me for being unrighteous. People die for money, and birds die for food. Since Tian Yunxuan can no longer tolerate me, no wonder I have to make plans for myself..." Looking back, Li Liang Said expressionlessly.

After going through some of the previous things, he knew that his position in Zhang Kexin's heart had fallen to the bottom. The reason why Zhang Kexin stayed in Tianyunxuan was because he had been in Tianyunxuan since it opened until now. The store has been working until now on the face of the past.

Half an hour later, when the two of them drove to the door of the villa where Elder Sun was staying, they saw Grandpa Sun walking anxiously back and forth in the yard.

Seeing Zhang Kexin's car, Elder Sun hurriedly opened the gate of the villa yard. Ye Feng drove into the villa, found a place to park the car, and got out of the car with Zhang Kexin.

"Xiaoye, Kexin, what about the three-legged and two-eared Ming Xuande stove you mentioned on the phone?" Seeing the empty hands of the two, Elder Sun asked anxiously.

Ye Feng smiled and opened the trunk, and carried out the three-legged and two-eared Daming Xuande Stove: "Grandpa Sun, this is it."

When Old Sun saw the Daming Xuande stove, his eyes straightened immediately, he was stunned for a moment, and then snatched the Xuande stove from Ye Feng's arms.

Start with, give a person a kind of heavy feeling.

"Let's go, let's talk in the house." Sun Lao turned around and hurried into the villa with the Xuande furnace in his arms.

Ye Feng and Zhang Kexin smiled at each other, and followed behind. Just like Du Yu's analysis, the more people with high status in antiques, when facing something of high value and significance like the Daming Xuande furnace, The more difficult it is to control your emotions.

This is just like a master stone gambler's obsession with stone gambling is a reason. For these people who really like antiques, there is nothing that can arouse the desire in their hearts more than those truly meaningful antiques .

This desire has nothing to do with money.

After entering the villa, Mr. Ye sat down on the sofa and began to study this three-legged and two-eared Daming Xuande Stove carefully.

Xuande stove is an incense burner created during the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty. It is usually used in mausoleums, temples, and homes in the city to burn incense, worship Buddha, and worship ancestors and gods.

During the 300 years of the Ming Dynasty, countless utensils were manufactured, and they were excellent works. The Xuande stove is definitely the best among them. After the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty, this kind of casting and knife carving technology seems to have been lost, and no one can do it anymore.

This is also an important reason why the Daming Xuande furnace is very precious.

The Xuande furnace of the Ming Dynasty was personally supervised by Emperor Xuande of the Ming Dynasty. At that time, the number of castings was extremely rare, and it has become even rarer after it has been handed down to modern times.

According to incomplete statistics, there are less than ten known authentic Daming Xuande furnaces.

"Daming Xuande Furnace is divided into four inscriptions of one, two, four, and six characters. This is the six-character inscription of the 'Daming Xuande Annual System'. The six-character inscription is the rarest of the four inscriptions. It represents this thing. If it is genuine, its value will be much higher than that of ordinary one-, two-, and four-character inscriptions..." Sun Lao stared at the inscriptions on the bottom of the copper furnace to study carefully, and said slowly.

This is the basic common sense of Daming Xuande Furnace. As the boss of Tianyunxuan, Zhang Kexin, Ye Feng also worked as an apprentice in Tianyunxuan for more than two years before. This common sense is still known. After Sun Lao finished speaking, the two ordered at the same time A nod is a response.

The basic shape of Xuande stove is generally open, with square or round lips, short and thin neck, flat and bulging belly, three blunt conical solid feet or split crotch empty feet, and bridge-shaped ears on the edge of the mouth, or animal-shaped ears. Ear, the characteristic of Xuande furnace is that there are many raw materials. In addition to copper, precious materials such as gold and silver are added, so the furnace is particularly delicate, showing dark purple or dark brown.The second is that there are many smelting times. The general furnace materials have to go through four smelting, but the Xuande furnace needs [-] smelting, so the furnace quality will be more pure and fine, like a baby's delicate skin.

The identification of Xuande furnace starts from several aspects, first, the color.The color of the real furnace is hidden inside, reflecting a dim and strange light, which is brilliant and natural, soft; while the fake one shines on the outside, which is not naturally generated.

Second, the sense of heaviness.Whether it is round or square, and whether it is bridge ears, half-ring ears, or pottery ears, the real government-made Daming Xuande furnaces are honest and simple, and frivolous are false.

The third is the inscription. The real Daming Xuande furnace is divided into four inscriptions of one, two, four, and six characters, namely 'Xuan', 'Xuande', 'Daming Xuande', and 'Daming Xuande Annual System'. It is in italics, the font is regular, and the structure is rigorous.Most of the fake Xuande stoves are inscribed with the six characters of "Xuande Year System of the Ming Dynasty", and most of them are written randomly, with irregular and loose fonts.

The fifth is gilt or loose gold. The real Xuande stove has very thick gold water, which is yellowish and white, while the fake ones are uneven, and the gold water is thin, uneven, and looks frivolous.

In short, the wonder of Xuande furnace lies in the color. The color of the fake Xuande furnace is dazzling on the outside, but the color of the real Xuande furnace is integrated into the inner quality, and it has been integrated with the Xuande furnace itself, blooming a wonderful luster from the darkness.

Elder Sun made a careful identification from several aspects, and kept nodding while observing carefully.

"Grandpa Sun, how's it going?" Zhang Kexin said with joy seeing Elder Sun's appearance like this.

The meaning of the expression is obvious, at least in Sun Lao's opinion, this thing should be real.

Ye Feng didn't show too much. He already knew the result of the things that had been identified by supernatural powers, but it was too difficult to identify the authenticity of this thing. Really, no one else would believe it.

"But judging from several external points, this thing should be genuine, and it is also the rarest six-character inscription." Sun Lao said slowly, the excited expression on his old cheeks could not be concealed.

The Xuande Furnace of the Ming Dynasty with six-character inscriptions is only in the collection of the Palace Museum. Mr. Sun never thought that one day he would be able to hold such a thing and inspect it so carefully.

Of course, Mr. Sun just thinks that this thing should be authentic based on his own feelings. The specific authenticity needs to be brought to Fang Wenbin. He invited several Taishan Beidou-level experts who had appraised the Daming Xuande Furnace in the Palace Museum before. The final result can only be drawn after the person has been identified.

"Actually, there is another very important method to appraise the Xuande furnace. It is very difficult for anyone to cheat on this method." After a short pause, Elder Sun continued.

"What way?" Ye Feng and Zhang Kexin asked excitedly in unison.

(End of this chapter)