At this sight, the four of them, led by Huo Sining, were all stunned.
Inside the box was not something else, but an incense burner.
To the naked eye, this incense burner looked like a Qing Dynasty Xuande Furnace, clearly made of fine copper, with excellent metal quality, and its surface thick and smooth, entirely gilded.
Such a fine copper item should logically be paired with a magnificent and fluid design, but this Xuande Furnace was slightly more flattening, with a design that had glimpses of Ming Xuande's elegance: a round drummed belly, a constricted neck, a flat bottom, with a bulging, gourd-shaped belly evenly and vertically distributed in concave and convex, dividing the gourd into many parts, each part full and smooth like a child's bottom.
Those familiar with Xuande Furnaces would know that such a texture suggested a style from the late Qing Dynasty, during the Jiaqing period.
