Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 658 Inventory
Dark wood is generally used to make coffins, as well as Buddhist halls, incense tables, and shrines. In ancient rich and noble families, these last three are common facilities.

Among the cleared objects, there is also a set of Jinsinan's Buddhist hall utensils.

It includes an incense table, a shrine, a small altar, a scripture bed, a pair of couplets carved from red sandalwood, and a hanging portrait of the silk-screened Avalokitesvara.

However, the hanging statue needs to be repaired because of poor collection and preservation.

In addition to the furniture for the Buddhist hall, there is also a set of red sandalwood furniture for the master bedroom, including two pairs of top cabinets, two pairs of vertical cabinets, a square table, a coffee table, eight chairs, a large Arhat bed, and a pair of bed cabinets. , a footstool.

There are exactly eighteen pieces in total.

These [-] pieces of furniture are extremely exquisite, such as the pear used for the panel of the Arhat bed, and the carved peonies and longevity peaches and five blessings patterns on the vertical panels.

The cabinets of the vertical cabinet and the top cabinet are carved with red sandalwood and inlaid with green and white jade lions. Each side is a pattern of a big lion guarding a little lion. Love overflows the screen.

But the little lion is mischievous, which proves that he has everything.

The lion is surrounded by ribbon patterns, cloud patterns, and flame patterns, full of divinity.

Then don't bother the two masters with one thing, Zhou Zhi knows the double-hook method, and uses the double-hook method to draw the outline of the second elder's calligraphy and hand it over to Lao Hu to handle the matter.

"The highest official positions in ancient times were Taishi, Taifu, and Taibao as the three males, while Shaoshi, Shaofu, and Shaobao were the 'three young men'. In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, only the imperial kilns dared to make such patterns, and it was not until the late period that they began to flood. And it spread to other decorations other than porcelain, and it was especially popular in the Republic of China."

Thinking about going back and bringing the valuables and many precious books that he picked out during the trip, Zhou Zhi agreed, and he had a free day the next day, so he just took his brother-in-law and Guan Tingting to visit the scenic spots in the city. .

They are all small items used in the study, including two antique racks, two flower stools, and a table screen.

Then it was time to go home, but Mama Guan said that in another day, Lao Yan would drive the pickup truck to pick up the goods, and then he could take a ride back home.

Another feature of these furniture is that the copper parts such as the handles of the drawer cabinet doors are made by punching Guangxu and Hongwu silver coins. It is a style of nouveau riche, which seems to be in the early Republic of China.

"Lion homophonic teacher's teacher, big and small lion, the homonym is 'taishi', 'shaoshi', or according to the meaning of protection on the pattern, the homonym is 'shaobao'."

After all the furniture had been cleared out, the third floor was truly displayed. The 200-square-meter high-rise pavilion and the 100-square-meter roof garden add up to about the same area as the courtyard house in the capital, and the space is quite ample.

The inscription on the door plaque given by Mr. Qi was "Suihuaxuan" and the couplet given by Mr. Wang was "a thousand poems by Wang Mang and Du, and a hundred poems by Han Lang". They had to be made into wooden plaques and couplets to hang at the door.

Then in the evening, everyone met again in the back alley of the Shizhong District Fire Brigade and invited Yan Xiao and Zhao Zhonggang out to meet.

The rest is pears. Pears are simple and have the style of Ming-style furniture, but they are all small samples. It is probably related to the high value of pears in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, and they were not very affordable.

The window in the middle is inlaid with round marble, black and white intersecting on the marble, and the marble on the back of each chair is a pattern of "misty rain and landscape", which can be called heavenly work.

There are only so many valuable things, and the rest are boxwood, cypress, and camphor wood furniture. The style is more western-style. Fortunately, except for the corners, the paint is well maintained, and the traces of use are not particularly obvious, which shows the quality. Still good.

It should also look good if it's restored and restored to luster.

"This pattern is a very common pattern in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, called Taishi Shaoshi, or Taishi Shaobao." Zhou Zhi explained.

"Is there another possibility?" Wu Qiaomu said, "That is, Taigong Su didn't keep it as a collection at all, but bought it for practical use?"

The implication is obvious, the rich and the powerful are in power, and the high-ranking officials are generously paid from generation to generation.

Fortunately, these furniture have been piled here after cleaning, and the military is in charge, but no one has damaged the accessories on it.

Hu Chu introduced him to a person who was said to have repaired the Wuhou Temple, and most of the updated couplets there were from him.

"Why are there such patterns?" Master Qiao asked, "There must be something to this?"

Zhou Zhi left it to Jiang Wu and his wife to figure out how to arrange the master room.

The Eight Immortals table and chairs are also in the standard late Qing style, full of complicated and cumbersome features. The four sides and legs of the table are all decorated with complicated carvings.

But Zhou Zhi shook his head: "Although this set of furniture looks extremely exquisite and luxurious, and it is carved and inlaid with blue and white jade, the value of craftsmanship is far higher than the value of cultural relics. It belongs to objects from the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China."

The tables and chairs were old and heavy, which took a lot of effort from the soldiers.

"The age is not as good as that set of gloomy golden silk Nan Buddhist hall furniture ornaments, which are at least from the middle Qing Dynasty."

It makes sense to say that, back then Su Huaxuan was here to welcome and send off to make friends with the powerful, and he probably bought these furniture as practical tools, not as furnishings.

The chair is square and solid, and the backboard is made of "ground shoveling relief" technology. The upper part of the pattern is "Dark Eight Immortals", and the lower part is the auspicious pattern of "Yunfu Jiechi".

The weather is a bit hot, and the Malatang store no longer sells Malatang, and instead sells night beer.

Zhou Zhi likes this set of furniture very much. It has a simple shape and smooth lines engraved on the edges, all of which are won by the pattern of the fabric itself.

Zhou Zhi is really unfamiliar with this business, but it can be done with just one phone call.

After counting things, Zhou Zhi sighed with Wu Qiaomu: "This shows the difference in cultural level. You still have to go to the capital to get these things. Compared with the old man Wang's collection, the collection of my elders is not enough."

There is one more thing before leaving, and that is the plaque.

Zhao Zhonggang didn't know Wu Qiaomu and Guan Tingting, but he was immune to the phenomenon of beautiful women who often rotated around Zhou Zhi.

But Yan Xiao has a shadow of Guan Tingting, because when he was visiting Zhou Zhi in the dormitory of the sugar and wine company, Guan Tingting was there once, and Guan Tingting's "Miss Head" made up by Guan's mother stood tall, and he was curious. I pulled it overhand and it collapsed!

Guan Tingting 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, 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 could all hear it.

The key is that Guan Ma's handicrafts can't be "rushed to repair". Zhou Zhi and Yan Xiao couldn't stand up the hairpin after a long time. In the end, it was the mother who came back and scolded them, and took Guan Tingting to buy rice crackers. The sugar was slowly coaxed.

(End of this chapter)