The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

The silver box lid and the box are carved with patterns on all sides, and there are figures on them, which are scenes of several people drinking and having fun. Such patterns rarely appear on the medieval gold and silverware previously discovered. According to Jerry Gooden Cowan According to the judgment, the production time of this silver box was probably in the 11th or 12th century. Shiyou** is the craftsmanship of Italy, most likely the craftsmanship of the Republic of Venice.

　　 After Zhang Nan has cut a few bamboo wedges, Jerry has also cleaned up the exposed position of the hidden fan blades. Let's look at Zhang Nan's below.

　　 First try to open the box by hand, and slowly increase the force, but the lid does not move at all!

　　 Don't use brute force to prevent the silver box from flying out: I have felt that there is something in the box just now, but it is not fixed. It will not be beautiful if it flies out too hard.

　　 Brute force is not enough, you have to use clever power.

　　 "Mark, protect the box on the table and don't let it move."

　　 After Zhang Nan finished speaking, he took the small bamboo wedges and small hammers on the side.

　　 The big guy who had been standing on the side heard this, stepped forward, glanced at the table a few times, probably to judge its firmness, and then knelt down on one knee.

　　 is too tall, this posture is just right.

　　Understanding the boss's intentions, two big fan-like hands held the silver box, not pressing it straight down, but pressing it horizontally downwards. Now it is difficult to move the box in his hands!

　　Without losing his body vigorously, Mark can still be regarded as the kind of natural giant. Although he is a little shorter than his brother, he is stronger!

　　 The bamboo wedges were knocked into the gap between the lid and the box body one by one. When they hit the fifth one, Mark, who was holding the silver box, said, "Boss, it seems to be loose."

　　 Stop here, and the big fan-like hand also moved away. Zhang Nan tried the lid, but it was loose.

　　 slowly and forcefully try to open...

opened!

　　 After opening it, I saw that the box was originally divided into six equal grids with wood chips and the already charred cloth, but there were only three grids that were considered complete, and the other three had collapsed.

　　 There is a cup in each grid, so you can feel a slight collision with each other when you just carried them.

　　 Looking from the top down, these cups seem to be hollowed out and carved out of some green jade material, and then a circle of gold rim is inlaid on the edge of the mouth.

　　The angle problem, so you can't see the side of the cup.

　　 "What cup?"

　　The question everyone has: What cups need to be packed in exquisite silver boxes?

　　 But Zhang Nan won't be anxious this time, and I always feel that these cups are a bit extraordinary.

　　 "Take a few photos first."

　　 I have a question in my mind. I have never heard that Europeans before the Middle Middle Ages used jade to process jade into vessels. In ancient times, it was Oriental, and it can even be said to be a patent of Chinese people.

　　 Jerry usually takes pictures. This camera is still equipped with an automatic motor. He took almost 20 shots in one breath, and the flash caused by the flash dazzled the people nearby.

　　The characteristics of professional cameras in the film era are that they have automatic motors that are so fierce: people use this thing for continuous shooting of athletes' movements, and shooting static objects is a sledgehammer.

　　 Taking photos and a bunch of people who purely watch the excitement are either dazzling or deliberately avoiding the flash, only Zhang Nan, who has been staring at it, frowned!

　　 He saw something weird, but he didn't see it clearly, because his eyes were a little dazzling.

　　 The image archive data after opening the box was available. Zhang Nan put on white gloves and temporarily spread a large towel on the table before carefully taking out a cup from the silver box.

The cup is not big, it is a goblet, and the rim diameter is only 6 centimeters zero. The rim is inlaid with a narrow circle of carved gold decoration, and the bottom of the cup is also wrapped with short leaves, tree trunks and branch-like gold bases. .

　　 The middle part is a very natural dark green and slightly transparent cup. The inside is smooth and the outside is deep-relief. The pattern is a reasonable composition and there is a strong naked-naked-bearded man in the grape vines.

　　 The cup has superb craftsmanship, especially the carving of the cup body is extremely artistic. It reappears in the sun after more than 600 years underground, and it still gives a very smooth and oily feeling.

　　 "This is not something from the Middle Ages, boss, look at the shapes and patterns, this should be a product from the ancient Roman period..."

　　 Jerry was talking, and he was a little surprised, "...this should be glass!"

　　Glass, ancient Rome has glass, and a silver box in the medieval treasure house contains ancient Roman precious glass inlaid with gold cups. This situation is not a fantasy.

　　 Medieval kings and great nobles will also pursue these precious artworks from the "ancient period". Like this silver box, the Chinese and Song Dynasty, which is almost the same time as this silver box, highly praised the bronzes of the pre-Qin period and even imitated them.

　　 But this cup is at least in the Middle Ages, even as Jerry said it was a product of the ancient Roman era, when the glass was not cheap!

　　If it was in ancient Rome, then this cup is a sky-high price, not to mention that the glass has deep relief with superb craftsmanship. In some places, the surface is even carved and it is very well polished!

　　 Zhang Nan took the wine glass in his hand and watched it for a while, then carefully placed it on the towel, and then asked the girl who put her head on her neck and looked at it.

　　 "Charlie, what color do you think this cup is?"

　　 Everyone was taken aback, Charlize Theron was even more inexplicably asked.

　　 "Brother, I am not color blind."

　　'S tone revealed a voice: You are teasing me!

"green?"

　　 Zhang Nan continued to ask.

　　 Chali looked at Zhang Nan like a fool, and Guan Xingquan was a little bit confused: this is a gold and green goblet, no one is color blind.

In particular, Guan Xingquan, Lin Ming and Andre are more confident: they have been tested for physical examinations when recruited by the army~www.readwn.com~ Not to mention that the red-green blindness test for driver's license is also very strict, and the traffic lights are not clear when driving. !

Zhang Nan got the answer he wanted from everyone’s response, took out a small standard daylight color temperature flashlight from his pocket, pressed the tail switch of the flashlight, and said very flatly: "You are all wrong, it is not green. ."

　　 After holding the flashlight in the backhand and moving it to the cup, backhand again, the light shines on the goblet, and then...

　　 "Wow! My God!"

　　 This is Charlie.

　　 "Oh, my god! This..."

　　 This is Jerry.

　　 "Fuck!"

　　 This is Lin Ming.

"what happened!"

　　 This is Mark...

　　Except for the unique neural circuits of Guan Xingquan and Andre, everyone else made sounds of surprise, incredible, and even hell!

　　 With Zhang Nan's movements, except for the grape branches, character hair, and limbs in the middle of the goblet, the whole body of the goblet turned into a bright red with light!

　　 Not only that, the torso part of the human body embossed on the cup body is a very beautiful lavender red: when the light shines, the green cup turns red, and everyone knows that the flashlight Zhang Nan is carrying around is a standard white light.

　　 Everyone was still surprised, and Jerry suddenly reacted after being amazed, "Boss, this is the Lykergus Cup!

　　 This is the legendary Roman Lykergus Cup, a priceless treasure in the ancient Roman era!"