"Troubled Gold, Prosperous Collection". The meaning of this sentence is that in a chaotic world, gold as a hard currency will be particularly precious. In the years of rising and falling, many businessmen have devoted themselves to the world of collecting. There is a collector named Ma Weidu in the mainland, who has obtained many rare treasures in his life, and many people in the collection community also respect Ma Weidu as the "Jade Treasure King". However, these top jade objects collected by Ma Weidu are not as good as an American collector, what is going on?
Ma Weidu was born in Beijing, and his ancestral home is Rongcheng, Weihai, Shandong. After 10 years of turmoil, Ma Weidu received many good objects in Beijing's Four-Nine Cities. Among them, there are 10 pieces of jade, which are the love of Mr. Ma Weidu's life, so Ma Weidu returned these 10 pieces of jade and wrote a famous "Non-Non-Poetry". The 10 pieces of jade are the green jade carved boy, the green jade carved horn deer pen holder, the green jade carving Garou Luo, the green jade pig shaped grip, the two-colored jade fish, and the white jade carving Gao Shi Fuqin Shanzi. There are other white jade Guanyin, green jade lying sheep these 10 pieces of jade collection, each piece is extremely valuable. There are also many collectors who hope to pay a high price to include all these pieces of jade from Ma Weidu, but they are all rejected by Ma Lao.
However, there is an American collector who has been buying mainland jade in large quantities since the 1930s. Today, 30% of the Chinese jade collection of the Harvard Art Museum is donated by this person free of charge. The American collector's name is Winsorp and was born in New York in 1864. Winsope's ancestors came to the United States from Britain, and his father and grandfather served as lawyers and bank executives. Beginning in 1896, Winsorpe was involved in art collections and natural resources, and he was also a well-known art connoisseur, collector, and historian in the United States.
Judging from the treasures known to be collected by Wensop, there are not only exquisite jade bi from the late Shang Dynasty, but also jade ornaments that only nobles could wear during the Spring and Autumn Period, the Warring States and the Qin Dynasty. In the 1930s, Wensorpe came to China with a huge amount of dollars. He was instructed by Lu Qinzhai, a cultural relics dealer, to collect a large number of ancient jade from the late Shang Dynasty from Gansu, Shaanxi and Shanxi. Among them, the famous "Luoyang Jincun Ancient Jade", most of which was obtained by Wensopu. In 1934, Winsope returned to the United States with a large amount of ancient Chinese jade. In 1975, the Fogg Museum of Art at Harvard University held an exhibition of Wensope Tibetan jade.
More than 600 precious jade artifacts were exhibited, spanning the Neolithic period to the Eastern Han Dynasty. These more than 600 precious collections are also the most outstanding batch of overseas jade collections after the National Palace Museum in mainland China. Among them, three groups of jade are the most prominent, namely ceremonial jade in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, small jade figures in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, and Luoyang Jincun jade in the Warring States Period. Let's put it this way, even all the collections of ordinary municipal museums on the mainland may not be as precious as the jade collections owned by Winsop. Due to his strong family and the turmoil in the mainland in the 1930s, Wensope received special attention from lu Qinzhai, a cultural relics dealer. Then in the past hundred years, a large number of top jade objects on the mainland have been brought to New York by Winsop.
After the man's death, he donated all the jade collection to the Harvard Museum of Art free of charge. Therefore, no matter how precious Mr. Ma Weidu's collection is, it is certainly not as good as this "opportunistic" Winsop. The title of this article proposes: Even if Mr. Ma Weidu's jade collection is added together, it is not as precious as a piece of Wensop. In short, in the 1930s, Winsope exploited the loopholes in history, when the mainland was troubled by internal and external troubles, and many precious cultural relics were brought back to their own national collections by British, French and Japanese collectors. Therefore, Winsope is not an authentic collector, and even though his collection is indeed unparalleled, his personal behavior is still not recognized by the vast majority of collectors.
To put it more ugly, Wen Suopu is to send China's national disaster wealth, and if he has a conscience, he should return this batch of ancient jade to China before he dies. Unfortunately, these more than 600 pieces of top Chinese jade are now in Harvard University in the United States. The mainland has repeatedly tried to propose that the pictures of these jades, as well as related information and the inscriptions on the backs, have also been rejected by the United States.
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