Mr. Ma Chengyuan is an authoritative expert in the identification of bronzes.
Last time I wrote a magical experience of "Ma Chengyuan buying chimes", experts spent huge sums of money to buy fakes, and also vigorously defended themselves, and finally hit whose face was it? It has aroused everyone's strong interest, and today I will write a story of "Ma Chengyuan's Chance Encounter with Husband Chaluo".
"Ma Chengyuan buys chimes" is about a Hong Kong antique shop selling fourteen pieces of bronze chimes, the words engraved on the chimes are very fake, everyone thinks it is a fake, no one pays attention. Ma Chengyuan was the director of the Shanghai Museum at the time, and at first sight, he locked it as a national treasure-level cultural relic, tried to defy the public opinion, and bought it back for one million Hong Kong dollars. Chimes bought back, domestic experts strongly watched, and finally identified as fake, accusing Ma Lao of being deceived on this trip, and the country lost a million Hong Kong dollars. For quite a long time, Ma Lao endured tremendous mental pressure. Later, two chimes were unearthed in Shanxi, and the fourteen chimes bought by Ma Lao were a set. Originally, this set of 16 chimes was buried in the tomb of Marquis Jinxian of Jinxian in the cemetery of Beizhao Village, Quwo County, Shanxi. In August 1992, tomb robbers stole 14 from them, missing two of the smallest. The grievances suffered by Elder Ma were thus washed away.
Today's talk about "Ma Chengyuan met Fu Chaluo" and "Ma Chengyuan bought chimes" incident occurred in the same year, that is, in 1995.
In December of that year, Ma Lao, who was the curator at the time, received a call from an old friend, Zhang Guangyu of the University of Chinese in Hong Kong, saying that a bronze cup appeared on Hollywood Road in Hong Kong's antique street, with twelve words engraved on it: "The Instrument of wu Wangfu cha Wu Jinzhu Woman", guessing that it is a relic of Wu Wangfu, please be sure to take time to see it as soon as possible.
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The cup is a copper utensil specially used in ancient China for warming and bartending, shaped like a pot, with three legs.
Wu WangFuchai was in power for 22 years, and he was a good soldier and martial artist all his life, leaving behind more than 20 inscription relics, in addition to a large number of weapons, swords, spears, and ge, only practical water tools bronze jian. The cup made by Fu Cha has never been seen before.
Without further ado, Ma Lao immediately rushed to Hong Kong with Deputy Director Wang Qingzheng to admire and explore this treasure.
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The treasure has a small mouth and a round belly, with three animal feet at the bottom, and an arc-shaped lift beam on it, 27.8 cm high, 11.7 cm in caliber, and a belly diameter of 24.9 cm, with an arc-shaped lift beam on it.
This beam is not simple, it is the shape of a dragon, the body of the dragon is hollow, made up of countless small dragons entangled with each other.
The abdomen is also decorated with a deformed dragon pattern, with a short and zigzag dragon head stream on one side.
There is indeed an inscription of a week under the neck of the artifact: "The King of The King of Sorrows sent Wu Jin to cast the woman's instrument Ji".
Just like the chimes identified ten months ago, When Ma Lao saw it, he concluded that it was the only bronze wine vessel among the relics of Wu Wangfuchai!
After bargaining with antique dealers, the final price was 1.5 million.
At that time, the available funds in the museum were only more than 200,000 yuan, if you report to the relevant departments step by step, it is nearly the end of the year, the time is not to say, the operation is also quite difficult, what to do?
Ma Lao was impatient, pondered bitterly, and finally thought of Mr. Ho Hung-cheung, a famous patriot in Hong Kong.
When the Shanghai Museum was built, Mr. Guo He contributed a lot, and once told Ma Lao that in the future, when the museum encountered difficulties, if necessary, he was willing to help.
Therefore, Ma Lao contacted Mr. He.
Mr. He was very bold, made a decision on the spot, bought this item at his own expense, and donated it to the Shanghai Museum free of charge.
The treasure was returned, and Ma Lao launched a comprehensive study of it.
But unlike the detailed inscription on the set of chimes, the only twelve words are quite thought-provoking.
It should be known that the bronzes of the Spring and Autumn Period were exclusive to the upper nobility and could not appear among ordinary people.
In addition, the cup is a kind of vessel used by the Royal Family to serve wine during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and can only be used in sacrifices and solemn celebrations, which has a noble symbol and special significance.
The inscription says "Wu Wang Fu Cha Wu Jin Cast Woman's Instrument Ji", that is, this is Wu Wang Fu Cha casting bronze for a woman.
Blame it on who this woman is, not marked.
For example, from the tomb of Wu WangFuchai's wife, Gushi HouGudui No. 1 Tomb, it is clearly and clearly inscribed: "Yin Tianyi Tang (Tang) Sun Song Gongyuan (Zuo) his sister Lady Ji Zi Miao." ”
Here it is clearly identified that the concubine was a descendant of the Shang Dynasty royal family, "Yin Tianyi Tang (Tang) Grandson", and the sister of the Song emperor Song Jinggong, Gou Gao, named Jizi.
And the word "woman" is only remembered, that is, she cannot be the mother, wife, daughter or sister of the husband, but is likely to be a woman from the folk - because, at that time, only noble women could have surnames, and folk women did not have surnames.
If this "woman" is a woman from the folk, then will she be the famous Xishi in history?
Experts believe that this possibility is not ruled out.
But there is no strong evidence to prove that this cup was made for the West.
Then, which "woman" this cup was made for can only become a historical mystery.
China has many national treasures, and these treasures contain a rich Chinese culture.
However, we always don't know much about them.
Because I don't know much, sometimes I always feel powerless in the education of my children.
Although I will also take my children to the museum to visit, I still don't know why I visited it.
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