Chen Wenzhe looked at the golden pot in front of him with a look of amazement, especially the dragons on it.
However, when he saw clearly the dragon balls that these dragons were chasing, his eyes were directly attracted to this dragon ball.
The dragon ball surrounded by these dragons, that is, the golden bead on it, seems to be very simple.
This gold pot is inlaid with a hollow gold bead. If you look closely, you will find that it is made of two larger and 12 smaller gold circles, welded into a 24-sided hollow sphere.
At the connection between the circles, 24 sharp corners are overlayed with 4 small gold particles.
This kind of craft is rarely mastered by even modern people.
And as long as you master it, it must be an intangible cultural heritage, right?
While inspecting it, he carefully packed the golden pot in a separate box.
After putting away the golden pot, Chen Wenzhe became more careful in his movements.
Nothing here seems to be simple, so it’s better to be careful.
I cleaned up the surrounding area, and even the soil under my feet was stirred up.
After finding nothing missing, Chen Wenzhe took out a gold plate again.
"Did you find that golden pot just now?"
He picked up the gold plate and looked at it. There was no inscription on it and the decoration was not complicated. Chen Wenzhe was a little disappointed.
At this moment, he remembered, why did a special gold pot suddenly appear among a lot of ordinary gold and silverware?
Looking around, Chen Wenzhe saw a collapsed place with some mounds of soil over there.
With a thought in his heart, Chen Wenzhe stopped cleaning things on the ground and came to the mound.
After looking, there was nothing on the mound, but he seemed to know the origin of the golden pot.
The golden pot rolled down from this pile of soil. Sure enough, after using the backtracking function, Chen Wenzhe discovered that the golden pot was placed on an earthen platform here.
At that time, there was not only the golden pot on the earthen platform, but also some other gold containers.
The exquisitely shaped gold cups and plates were all buried in the mound.
Jinzhan, this thing is rare, but not uncommon, but not many of them are precious. The one in front of you is obviously very precious.
This calendula is 10 centimeters tall, 15 centimeters in diameter, and weighs 2,056 grams. That’s two kilograms, or four kilograms!
Even among modern billionaires, how many of them eat out of a four-pound container?
The shape of this thing looks like a small bowl, but it has a lid, a straight mouth, a square lip, a shallow belly, and a flat bottom.
It has three phoenix-shaped short legs and two symmetrical ring ears on its upper abdomen.
The cover is slightly larger than the mouth of the cup, and there are three equidistant outer clips along the edge of the cover.
There is a round catch handle on the top of the lid, and the lid surface and the bottom of the mouth of the cup are decorated with cloud patterns, quill patterns, hooked thunder patterns, flat chi patterns, etc.
Opening the lid, I found a matching gold leaky dagger placed inside the lamp. It has a square handle and a round body, and the body is hollowed out and transformed into a dragon pattern.
This thing is like a gold spoon, 13 centimeters long and weighing 56 grams.
Although the production process of this gold cup is a bit simpler than that of the gold pot, its specifications are not low at all.
This kind of gold cup is a gold vessel imitating copper. To be able to use this level of gold vessel, the identity of the owner of the tomb must be very special.
Of course, the Zunpan is definitely not simple. The one that appears here must be a bronze.
The reason why it is called a Zun Plate must be because it looks like a Zun, and it has a matching plate.
In principle, these looked like two pieces of bronze, but just by looking at them, Chen Wenzhe knew that these might be the legendary Zunpan.
It is definitely incomparable to the Zun Hou Yizun plate unearthed from the tomb of Zeng Hou Yi, in terms of craftsmanship, size and shape.
However, this is indeed an honorable dish.
The Yizun Plate of Marquis Zeng is a symbolic work of the lost wax method and is known as the most complex and exquisite bronze ware during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
This bronze statue has 34 parts, which are cast and welded at 56 places.
The piece in front of Chen Wenzhe was certainly not such a complicated craft.
However, this statue is also decorated with nine dragons and nine dragons.
Compared with the thirty-two dragon patterns on Zeng Hou Yi's plate, with a total of more than sixty dancing dragon patterns, this one is far behind.
After looking around, no inscription was found, which made Chen Wenzhe a little disappointed.
The neck of Zun Hou Yi's plate is engraved with the seven-character inscription "Zeng Hou Yi will hold it until the end".
It can be seen from the inscription that the zun (wine vessel) and the dish (water container) were used by Zeng Hou Yi during his lifetime, and they are collectively called the Zun Hou Yi Zun Pan.
The reason why this piece can be called the Zunpan must be due to the honor of Zeng Hou Yizunpan.
If he hadn't discovered that one before, Chen Wenzhe wouldn't have known that this kind of thing was called a Zun Pan.
Of course, it might not have been called this name in ancient times, but until now, the ancients have no control over what modern people call it!
Chen Wenzhe could tell that this thing was also cast using the lost wax method.
The craftsmanship of this zun plate is definitely not comparable to that of Zeng Hou Yizun plate.
However, some of the elegance of the lost wax method can also be seen on this venerable plate.
The raw materials required for the lost wax method include "earth" and "wax". The earth is used to make pottery models, and the wax is used to make molds.
The "wax" is not the paraffin we use to make candles today, but the beeswax that was more readily available at the time.
The production process is not difficult to say, but it is not easy to say simple.
Don't think that making this thing can be done easily by modern people.
Not to mention anything else, let’s just talk about the replica handicraft of Zeng Hou Yizun Plate. Do you know how much it would cost in a museum?
Chen Wenzhe read a report a while ago that a tourist saw a replica of Zeng Houyi's plate being sold as a handicraft in the museum's souvenir shop. The clerk said the price was 200,000.
He doesn't quite understand why a replica of a handicraft is so expensive.
Souvenirs in the museum are very expensive, with a small notebook costing more than 60 yuan.
In the eyes of museum personnel, culture is priceless.
But in the eyes of outsiders, money may not be so valued.
For example, a replica of the bronze ware in the National Palace Museum costs tens of thousands of dollars.
Many ordinary people believe that the level of imitation is not even as good as the street stalls in many places in China, and it is not as good as the original style of cultural relics.
Why is something like this so expensive?
Many people also believe that the reason why it is so expensive may not only be selling culture, but also the museum’s signboard.
With the museum's logo on it, the price won't be cheap.
Of course, these are one of the reasons why they are so expensive.
However, have you never thought that copying some high imitations with very complex shapes also requires a lot of effort?
For example, it is not easy to make a high imitation of Zun Hou Yizun.
Some people even now believe that no expert in the country can imitate the Zun Hou Yizun plate.
Of course, the imitations here must be high imitations.
Therefore, as long as it is a high imitation, it is really not expensive to sell it for 200,000 yuan!
Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to obtain a high imitation of Zeng Hou Yizun plate, because it is really difficult to imitate.