I am not interested in money anymore
Chapter 65
As soon as Wu explained, everyone understood. Emotional auction house is an "underground" auction house with official acquiescence and dedicated to recycling overseas antiques.
The purpose of this auction house is to collect foreign antiques and take them back to China for purchase. They are only allowed in and not allowed out. Generally, if you encounter extremely precious antiques, some will be bought. Then, many of these antiques will appear in major national museums.
Of course, in such an auction house, the buyers can not only be Chinese, but also many foreigners. After all, even if you want to buy back antiques, you have to take care of international relations. Moreover, all the auction items are from abroad after all, and foreigners can''t be excluded anyway.
In fact, there are many rules. Some things are not even clear to Mr. Wu. In a word, the background of this auction house is unfathomable!
Su Chen looked through the photo album page by page, but he couldn''t see anything after reading it for a long time. To identify antiques, you must see the real object. It''s almost useless to just look at the photos, even if Su Chen has powers.
No way, Su Chen can only give up and wait for the auction to begin.
Su Chen didn''t have to wait too long. The auction house seemed very willful. When people arrived, they didn''t wait for the whole time. At about 6:40, a plump middle-aged woman came on stage and began to host the auction.
The middle-aged woman is an old hand. There is no nonsense. She briefly introduces one side of the rules, and then starts shooting directly.
Because the auction is also a black market in a sense, there are not so many rules and the process is very simple.
The auction house''s rule is to divide all the auctions into ten groups, with 10 to 15 auctions in each group. Before each group''s auction, everyone has 15 minutes to verify the auctions closely, and then auction the auctions of each group one by one.
Soon, the first group of auction items were pushed up one by one.
Most of the photos are stored in a movable counter. Above the counter is a toughened glass cover with the same name. People can identify the authenticity through the glass and can''t touch it, which is a great test of their eyesight.
If the auction items are large, such as famous paintings, calligraphy, bronzes and other cultural games, the auction house also has a separate special booth to store the auction items.
Half of the items in the first group are porcelain, as well as two paintings, an ancient sword, a bronze tripod and three jade ornaments.
After the auction was pushed up, Wu Lao, Su Chen and others all got up and went to identify. Even if they didn''t understand the appreciation of literary and entertainment, Yu Juan and Tang Wanning were also excited to watch on the stage. It doesn''t matter if they don''t understand. They can just watch the excitement.
Su Chen didn''t care about others, nor did she want to waste time to exercise her eyesight. She directly opened her eyesight and swept back from the first lot like radar.
"Song Guan kiln pastel porcelain pot, fake..."
"Qing Qianlong enamel flower bowl, genuine..."
"Yongzheng blue and white porcelain... Fake..."
......
"Shang and Zhou bronze tripod, genuine......"
"Jade and glazed Buddha, genuine..."
......
Su Chen finished sweeping all the way and smacked his tongue secretly.
Good guy, it is worthy of being a large auction house. The genuine rate is so high. There are 14 pieces in total, and five of them are genuine. The probability is really high.
Su Chen glanced around again from beginning to end, and finally looked at the bronze tripod in the late Shang Dynasty.
There is no doubt that its price is the highest among the 14 auctions.
In recent years, in foreign auction houses, the price of bronzes has gone up all the way. The transaction price of a intact bronzes is 100 million yuan.
Bronze trading is prohibited in China, and it is only in this "cross international" auction house that we can occasionally see one.
This bronze is not very good in appearance. The tripod body is a little broken and the workmanship is a little rough. It can be regarded as an ordinary bronze.
But even in the ordinary, it is also the bronze ware of the late Shang Dynasty. Its historical significance can not be measured by money.
So at the moment when the bronze ware was judged to be true by her insight, Su Chen was sure to win it.
Su Chen was looking at it vigorously. Old Wu also came up, and old Wu looked very excited.
"Xiao Chen, what do you think?"
Su Chen took a look at old Wu, knew that this one had been confirmed, and asked him if he was more interested in taking pictures.
After all, Mr. Wu trusts Su Chen more than others.
Su Chen nodded and said something in old Wu''s ear. "Don''t worry, I''ll fix this tripod!"
Old Wu looked at Su Chen and nodded happily, but a moment later, old Wu regained his reason and actually pulled Su Chen to persuade him.
"Xiao Chen, do what you can!"
When Su Chen heard the speech, a warm current surged in her heart.
Although old Wu is devoted to his country, his character is really impeccable.
"Don''t worry, Mr. Wu, I have discretion."
Old Wu nodded and said nothing more.
A quarter of an hour later, the auction began.
The first auction is the jade and glazed Buddha. It is a jade Buddha ornament of the Republic of China, about the size of a basketball. The Jade Buddha is carved with jade as a whole, and the carving is exquisite. Moreover, the jade is a kind of glass Yang green jade. The price of the jade alone is invaluable, not to mention the added value of history.
So the starting price of the first auction is 25 million.
Su Chen still likes this jade ornament very much, but he didn''t participate in the auction. Today, he has made preparations to sweep away the genuine antiques of the auction house. After all, it''s an auction. He eats meat and always has to leave some soup for others. Therefore, Su Chen doesn''t intend to participate in the auction of some jadeite, jade and other auction products with little historical value or cultural relics with low historical value.
The first auction was finally bought by a rich American businessman at a price of 39 million.
After that, the second auction was still jade, and Su Chen still didn''t participate in the auction.
Yu Ying, Yi Zhou and others have hot eyes, but they also have reason. They really can''t play with these things, so although they envy, they don''t have any other thoughts.
After that, the auction items were sold one after another. Among them, only one fake porcelain from the Ming Dynasty was sold. It is estimated that the workmanship of the porcelain is too poor and the old traces are too obvious. People with a little eyesight can see it at a glance. But all the other fakes were sold, and the transaction price was not low. Su Chen kept smacking his tongue.
During this period, he only spent $50 million to take the enamel flower bowl of the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. This thing is also a treasure. Su Chen''s Museum''s first serial task is still three national treasures and seven first-class cultural relics.
Among the cultural relics collected by Su Chen, the bronze head of the Chinese zodiac and the Kowloon sword must be national treasures.
The rest, Yuan Qinghua, Picasso''s pigeon and pea, and the pure gold Buddha statue of the Ming Dynasty bought later, can be counted as first-class cultural relics. The rest, at most, are second-class or third-class cultural relics.
Of course, if the fragments collected by Su Chen are restored into a complete Ru kiln, they must be regarded as first-class cultural relics.
The enamel colored flower bowl of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty is barely the first level, but whether it is recognized by the system is still unknown. But that bronze tripod must be a first-class cultural relic.