The second deck should be the sailor's cabin and captain's cabin, as well as some compartments for storing sundries.~
But except for a small number of knives, guns, pipes, metal utensils, and more than twenty sets of skeletons, there is not much left!
The third deck is the key point. This is the cargo warehouse of the entire ship, which is divided into four cargo warehouses from bow to stern.
The first warehouse was filled with long wooden boxes of various sizes, but some of the wooden boxes had rotted due to being soaked in sea water, revealing the rusty bronze sculptures inside.
Liu Dong counted a total of 112 of these sculptures. Except for 21 sculptures under one meter in size, most of the remaining ones were between 1 and 2 meters. There were 13 sculptures over two meters, especially one that was 2.5 meters tall.
The bronze statue of Ares, the Greek god of war, holding a spear as if he is killing an enemy with all his strength, is particularly exquisite.
Judging from the inscription on the base of the bronze statue, it was from the Italian Renaissance sculptor Donatello in the 15th century.
Donatello was the first generation artist of the early Italian Renaissance and the most outstanding sculptor of the 15th century. His admiration and reference for classical art can be said to be a common characteristic of Italian Renaissance artists.
During his lifetime, Donatello created a large number of vibrant, solemn and calm sculptures. His representative work "David" was the first work to revive the ancient tradition of statues.
And this bronze statue of Ares, the god of war, is obviously an artistic treasure that is not inferior to the bronze statue of David.
Of course, in addition to the most precious bronze statue of "Ares", the other 111 bronze sculptures are also masterpieces of various sculptors before the 18th century. Just pick one from them and it will be a collection that will make the world's museums excited.
Excellent product.
In the past, we used the first cabin. The second cabin also contained tightly packed wooden boxes. However, these wooden boxes were obviously much smaller. And the items inside were pieces of exquisite porcelain. Liu Dong roughly counted them, but they were not
There were exactly 389 pieces, more or less. Due to the tight packaging, although the ship capsized, except for a small amount of damage, most of the porcelain remained intact.
Moreover, more than 80% of these porcelains come from China. However, Chinese porcelain has a problem that makes Europeans very uncomfortable. That is, it only has no handles, so these porcelains are equipped with or added according to European habits.
Gold, silver, or ivory handles make the original noble Chinese porcelain a lot tackier, but it does not detract from the exquisiteness of the porcelain itself.
Liu Dong took a quick look and found that among the 389 pieces of porcelain, there were about 87 pieces from the official kiln, 50 from the third dynasty of the Qing Dynasty. The remaining 28 pieces from the official kiln of the Ming Dynasty, and the remaining 9 pieces were all blue and white from the Yuan Dynasty.
Looking at these porcelains, Liu Dong couldn't help but secretly thought that the ancients were also very courageous in their pursuit of wealth. Just the Yuan blue and white and Ming Dynasty official kilns, but these 50 Qing Dynasty official kilns actually had the courage to secretly risk beheading.
Takeout!
You must know that among the 50 official kilns of the Qing Dynasty, there is also a 40 cm high "Kangxi pastel hollow wheel of the Qing Dynasty" with a bottle mouth turned outward, a short thick neck, elephant ears on both sides of the neck, drooping shoulders, a bulging belly and a circle foot.
"Heart Vase", this must be the royal kiln utensil specially ordered by the emperor.
But the fact that it appears here without any flaws can only mean that someone in the Ministry of Internal Affairs is corrupt!
But no matter what, this 'Kangxi Qing Dynasty Famille Rose Hollow Heart-turning Vase' is the most precious among the nearly 400 pieces of porcelain.
Of course, in addition to these official kiln porcelains, the remaining more than 300 pieces of porcelain are also high-quality export porcelain. Except for a few, the others should be custom-fired porcelain that is more in line with European preferences.
Guangzhou porcelain was first introduced to Portugal in 1514. The 17th century was the heyday of the foreign trade of Guangcai porcelain. At that time, King Louis XIV of France ordered Prime Minister Mazarin to send people to Guangzhou to customize porcelain with the French armor coat of arms. From then on,
, Guangzhou people used the plain porcelain from Jingdezhen to depict unique foreign heraldry, scenery, and patterns, mark them with foreign language inscriptions, and make colored porcelain for sale abroad.
Because of the advertising role of Louis XIV, the Sun King, envoys from European nobles and royal families from various countries came to Guangzhou to order porcelain with the porcelain patterns drawn by the royal nobles.
Liu Dong has almost two hundred pieces of Guangcai porcelain made in this manner.
On them are the emblems and patterns of the noble families who ordered these porcelains to be fired, which gives these Guangcai porcelains more meaning and doubles their value.
In the third cabin after the porcelain is the oil painting that Liu Dong is most looking forward to!
Because of the fear of water immersion, each oil painting is carefully protected. In addition to the outermost iron box, there is also a layer of wooden boxes inside. The wooden box is filled with fillers, and each oil painting has three layers on the outside.
, the outer three layers were tightly wrapped with waterproof tarpaulin, and the gaps were blocked with a thick layer of wax.
It is precisely because of such meticulous protection that 27 exquisite oil paintings have been preserved intact.
And these 27 oil paintings did not disappoint Liu Dong's expectations. Among them, there are 3 works by Rembrandt, 2 paintings by Cheyenne, 3 paintings by Rubens, and 2 paintings by Hoch.
Frans Harris, the founder of the Netherlands, has 4 paintings, and Johannes Vermeer, one of the greatest painters in the Netherlands and one of the three major painters in the Netherlands together with Rembrandt and Van Gogh, also has 3 paintings.
In addition to the seventeen exquisite oil paintings, among the remaining ten, only the Spanish oil painting master José de Ribera owns two, and the remaining are Titian, Hobbema, Judith Terberhe, and Jay
The paintings by Rader ter Boch and others are all the same.
In the end, Liu Dong also found the painting that is now worth 100 million US dollars and caused a fight between the Czarina and the French royal family.
This is an oil painting on canvas with a height of 2.3 meters and a width of 1.7 meters. The main content of the oil painting is a young girl holding a white swan. There are two children with different movements beside the girl's right foot.
Although Liu Dong could not touch the painting up close, with just one glance, he could tell that it was the world-famous painting "Leda and the Swan" that Leonardo da Vinci loved during his lifetime!
According to records, Leonardo da Vinci loved this painting very much and always kept it with him. He also stayed with him when he moved to France in his later years, and finally left it in Paris.
But Liu Dong didn't expect that this painting would actually appear on this sunken ship. Looking at the rich white light on the painting, Liu Dong knew that he had really seen the big baby this time!
There are now less than 40 Leonardo da Vinci's oil paintings in the world. You can imagine how precious they are. If Liu Dong is willing to put them up for auction, their value will be no less than 200 million US dollars!
Of course, people who are not short of money will definitely not put this kind of art treasure up for auction.
Although the location was not very good, Liu Dong still chose to appreciate these oil paintings one by one before moving to his own mustard space.
Liu Dong, who felt great satisfaction in the process, noticed the last cabin, which was also the largest cabin on the entire ship. If Liu Dong had to describe his first impression of this cabin, it would be resplendent and brilliant.
About 40,000 gold coins and 150,000 silver coins were packed in wooden boxes. However, these wooden boxes were damaged when the ship capsized, so they were scattered throughout the cabin. When I first saw this place,
It's like falling into a money cellar!
Although the actual value of these gold and silver coins from the 17th and 18th centuries is not very great, if their artistic value is included, it is difficult to estimate.
Of course, the most precious thing in this last cabin is not these gold coins, but the various gold and silver tableware, wine sets and living utensils made by skilled craftsmen using gold and silver as materials, engraved with exquisite patterns, and in this
There are also dozens of gold and silver statues among them, which are of course not comparable to the bronze statues in the first cabin, but these gold and silver sculptures about 30 centimeters high are still rare art treasures.
In addition, Liu Dong found 9 diamonds in a large iron box in the corner of the cabin. Each of these diamonds was more than 30 carats. Except for two yellow and one red, the remaining 6 were pure and transparent.
Colored diamonds, the largest of which is a colorless diamond the size of an egg and weighing about 200 carats.
These diamonds have all been cut. It is obvious that these diamonds belong to the Czarina. In history, the Russian royal family is also famous for its love of diamonds. The royal family has a diamond library of more than 100,000!
The Netherlands was the largest diamond processing center in the Western world at the time. The world's largest diamond, the Star of South Africa, weighing 3,106 carats, was processed here and then embedded in the scepter and crown of the British royal family.
Obviously, these diamonds were also sent to the Netherlands for processing by Tsarina Catherine II, but they sank into the Baltic Sea before they returned to Russia, and finally fell into the hands of Liu Dong!
After packing up all the precious things on the boat, Liu Dong turned around and swam towards the direction of the yacht.
"I wonder what the expressions on the faces of the Finns and Russians were like after they tried their best to fish up the ship but found nothing!" Liu Dong couldn't help but thought with a hint of malice in his heart.
Liu Dong, who returned to the yacht, did not immediately go back to his room to rest. Instead, he started the yacht and left the sea. Now that his goal had been achieved and as expected, he had gained a lot, Liu Dong did not want to stay here anymore.
Although there is no danger even if he is discovered by the Finnish police, Liu Dong is still unwilling to wait for the completion of the Old Summer Palace Museum. After these precious works of art were displayed, they attracted the attention of two countries.
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Helsinki is close to the Baltic Sea and is the capital of the Nordic country Finland. It is a city that integrates classical beauty and modern civilization. It not only embodies the romantic sentiment of an ancient European city, but also is full of the charm of an international metropolis. At the same time, it is also a city
A garden city that cleverly combines architecture and natural scenery. Most of the buildings in the city are built of light-colored granite, and it is known as the "White City in the North."
Liu Dong drove the yacht and took a few glances at the bronze statue called the 'Daughter of the Baltic Sea' by the Finns when it entered the port. Then he made a phone call and found the yacht company's staff waiting on the shore.
He handed over the yacht to the other party, and then paid an additional employment fee, and Liu Dong got his deposit back. (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!