After carefully demolishing it layer by layer, five minutes later, we finally saw the true face of Lushan Mountain.

After seeing the objects inside clearly, Lu Fei took a breath of air.

This is a bronze Gui, the shape of the vessel is Song Gui.

It is thirty centimeters high and twenty-five centimeters in diameter.

The mouth is narrowed, the belly is bulging, and there are three small legs under the circle of feet.

There is a high ridge cover on the mouth, the cover is closed with the mother and child of the vessel, and there is a circle-shaped catch handle on the top of the cover.

There are animal heads on both sides of the abdomen with half-ringed ears and drooping ears.

The mouth and lid of the Song Gui are each decorated with a pattern of intersecting animal eyes, or a curved pattern, with an elephant eye in the middle and a hook-shaped curve on each side.

This kind of decoration is derived from animal images, specifically from a curled dragon pattern. It was mainly popular in the middle and late Western Zhou Dynasty and was one of the main decorations on bronzes at that time.

The abdomen and cover are decorated with several parallel groove-like patterns, called horizontal grooves.

Because it resembles the tile grooves on old-fashioned houses, it is also called tile rib pattern or tile pattern. This kind of decoration was very popular from the late Western Zhou Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn Period.

The handle on the top of the Song Gui is decorated with dragon patterns, and the circle foot is decorated with hanging scale patterns.

The top and bottom of the mouth are decorated with curved patterns, the lid and belly are decorated with horizontal ridges, and the feet are decorated with heavy ring patterns. The shape is extremely solemn.

Everyone knows that the value of bronze vessels lies in the inscriptions on them.

Bronze vessels without inscriptions are completely different from those with inscriptions.

In China, private sales of bronzes are prohibited, but major museums also rank inscriptions first when screening bronzes.

Next is the age, individuality and rarity.

There are two Western Zhou bronze singing guis in Shenzhou, both of which are in Fu Yuliang's collection.

The shape of the two Song Gui vessels is exactly the same as the one in front of me, but they are slightly larger than this one.

Unfortunately, the two Song Gui pieces were both leftover and repaired by welding.

The two Song Gui pieces all have inscriptions, one has thirty-two inscriptions, and the other has fifty-four inscriptions.

Because of the inscription, even if it is a broken weapon, it is rated as a special first-class national treasure and will never leave the country.

The Song Gui instrument in front of me is complete in shape, without any damage.
Chapter completed!