Chapter 659 Inventory
Gloomy wood is generally used to make coffins, as well as Buddhist halls, incense tables, and shrines. In ancient times, the last three items were common facilities in wealthy families.
Among the items cleared out, there is also a set of Jinsinnan Buddhist temple utensils.
Including an incense table, a shrine, a small square altar table, a sutra bed, a pair of couplets carved from red sandalwood and a tapestry portrait of Guanyin.
However, the hanging statue needs to be restored due to poor collection and storage.
In addition to the furniture for the Buddhist hall, there is also a set of rosewood furniture for the master bedroom, including two pairs of top cabinets, two pairs of standing cabinets, a square table, a coffee table, eight chairs, an Arhat bed, and a pair of bed cabinets. , a footstool.
There are exactly eighteen pieces in total.
These eighteen pieces of furniture are extremely exquisite, such as the rosewood used for the panel of the Luohan bed, and the vertical panels are hollowly carved with patterns of peonies and longevity peaches.
The side cabinets and top cabinets are carved with red sandalwood and inlaid with blue and white jade lions. Each side has a pattern of a big lion guarding a little lion. No matter what posture the big lion is in, his eyes are always looking at him. There is a naughty little lion on the side, and the love and affection overflows in the picture.
But the little lion is naughty and mischievous, which proves that he has all the looks.
The lion is also surrounded by ribbon patterns, cloud patterns, and flame patterns, which are full of divinity.
“Why are they always like this?” Mr. Qiao asked, “There must be something to this, right?”
“This pattern is a very commonly used pattern in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, and it is called Become the Grand Master Shaoshi, or the Grand Master Shaobao." Zhou Zhi explained.
"The lion is homophonic to the teacher's division, the big and small lions. The homophonic pronunciation is 'grand master', 'young master', or according to the meaning of protection on the pattern, the homophonic pronunciation is 'shaobao'."
"The highest official position in ancient times was Taishi, Taifu, Taifu. Bao was the Three Masters, and the Shao Shi, Shao Fu, and Shao Bao were the "Three Shaos". In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, only the official kilns dared to burn such patterns. It was not until the late Qing Dynasty that they began to spread and spilled over to other decorations other than porcelain. By the It was especially popular in the Republic of China.”
The implication is obvious: wealth and power will lead to high officials and generous salaries from generation to generation.
But Zhou Zhi shook his head: "Although this set of furniture looks extremely exquisite and luxurious, and is carved and inlaid with blue and white jade, its craftsmanship value is much higher than its cultural relic value. It belongs to objects from the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China. ”
“It’s still time. It’s not as good as that set of gloomy golden nan Buddhist hall furniture hangings, which are at least from the mid-Qing Dynasty.”
The Eight Immortals table and chairs are also in the late Qing style, full of complicated and cumbersome features. The four sides of the table and The legs and feet are all decorated with intricate carvings.
The chair is square and solid, and the back panel is made of "shovel relief" technology. The upper part of the pattern is the "Dark Eight Immortals", and the lower part is the auspicious pattern of "Yun Fu Jie Chime".
The window in the middle is inlaid with circular marble, with black and white intersecting on the marble. The marble on the back of each chair is a "Landscape with Misty Rain" pattern, which is a masterpiece of heavenly craftsmanship.
The tables and chairs were old and heavy, which took a lot of effort from the soldiers.
The remaining items are rosewood. The rosewood is simple and has the style of Ming-style furniture, but they are all small samples. It is probably related to the fact that rosewood was very valuable in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China and was not very affordable.
They are all small supplies used in the study, including two book shelves, two flower stools, and a table screen.
Zhou Zhi likes this set of furniture very much. It has a simple shape and smooth lines carved on the edges. It is all based on the pattern of the fabric itself.
There are only so many valuable things. The rest are made of boxwood, cypress, and camphor wood, and the style is more Western-style. Fortunately, except for the corners, the paint is well maintained, and the signs of use are not particularly obvious, which shows the quality. Still very good. Another feature of these furniture is that the handles of drawers and cabinet doors and other copper parts use separators made by punching holes in Guangxu and Hongwu silver coins. It has a nouveau riche style that seems to have originated in the early Republic of China.
Fortunately, these furniture have been piled here since they were cleaned. The military is in charge, but no one has damaged the accessories above.
If it is repaired and restored to its luster, it should look good.
After all the furniture was cleared out, the third floor was truly revealed. It has a large pavilion with a height of more than 200 square meters and a roof garden with more than 100 flat roofs. Together, it is the same as that of the courtyard house in the capital. It's almost the same size and has plenty of space.
After counting the things, Zhou Zhi sighed with Wu Qiaomu: "This shows the difference in cultural levels. You still have to go to the capital to get these things. Compared with Mr. Wang's collection, my elder's collection is not enough."
"Is there another possibility?" Wu Qiaomu said: " That means Taigong Su didn’t keep it as a collection at all, but bought it as a practical tool?”
This makes sense. When Su Huaxuan was brought here to make friends with powerful people, he might have used it as a practical tool. The furniture I bought was not for display.
Zhou Zhi left it to Jiang Wu and his wife to figure out how to arrange the master room.
One more thing before leaving, that is the plaque.
The door plaque given by Mr. Qi had the inscription "Sui Huaxuan" and the couplet given by Mr. Wang "Thousands of poems by Wang Mang Du and hundreds of poems by Han Lang" had to be made into wooden plaques and couplets and hung at the door.
I am really unfamiliar with this kind of thoughtful service, but I can get it done with just one phone call.
Hu Chu introduced him to a person who was said to have repaired the Wuhou Temple. Most of the updated couplets there were made by him.
Then don’t bother the two masters. Zhou Zhi knows the double hook method. Use the double hook method to outline the edges of the two elders’ Dharma books and let Lao Hu take care of it.
Then it was time to go home, but Guan Ma said that Lao Yan would drive a pickup truck to pick up the goods in another day, and then he could take a ride back.
Thinking that he would take the valuables gained from this trip and many precious books he picked up with him when he went back, Zhou Zhi agreed. He still had a free day the next day, so he took his adopted brother and Guan Tingting to visit the city's attractions. .
Then everyone met again in the back alley of the Shizhong District Fire Brigade in the evening and invited Yan Xiao and Zhao Zhonggang out to meet.
The weather is a bit hot, and the Malatang store no longer sells Malatang, but instead sells night beer.
Zhao Zhonggang didn't know Wu Qiaomu or Guan Tingting, but he was already immune to the phenomenon of beauties constantly rotating around Zhou Zhi.
Yan Xiao has a shadow on Guan Tingting, because when he was hanging out with Zhou Zhi in the dormitory of the sugar and wine company, Guan Tingting was there one time, and then Guan Tingting got the "Miss's Head" made up by Guan's mother. Gao Gao, he pulled his hands out of curiosity and collapsed!
Then she couldn't be coaxed anymore, Guan Tingting burst into tears, the little girl's voice was so loud and clear that the whole building, ah no, in this area, the tax bureau on the left, the Sugar and Wine Company in the middle, and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China on the right heard it.
The key is that Guan Ma's craftsmanship cannot be "repaired". Zhou Zhi and Yan Xiao spent a long time trying to get the hair servant to stand up. In the end, their mother rushed back and scolded them. After leading Guan Tingting to buy rice krispie treats, she was slowly coaxed.
(End of this chapter)