Chapter Two Thousand and Twenty: Stealing the Limelight
"Please stay, Mr. Ye Tian, can you take a look at the heirlooms we brought, and also help us identify them? If you can give an accurate valuation, it would be great!"
There were four or five people who made this request in unison, and they were sitting at several adjacent tables, and everyone looked at Ye Tian with anticipation.
Obviously, in order to cooperate with the performance of the show "I Have Heirlooms", these people brought the heirlooms of their respective families to the Spring Festival Gala and prepared to display them publicly.
But who would have thought that he actually met Ye Tian, the world's top antique art appraisal expert, at the Spring Festival Gala, and he was willing to identify it for free, this kind of God-given opportunity, where would everyone want to miss it.
Ye Tian didn't respond immediately, he first raised his hand to look at the time, and then said aloud with a smile:
"Thank you for your uplift, it's not impossible to help identify the heirlooms you brought, but now it's not long before the Spring Festival Gala starts, I can only quickly identify it, so I won't explain it anymore.
I can appraise your heirlooms and give an estimate based on the current antique art market, but I won't explain in detail, whether you believe my appraisal conclusions or not is up to you!"
"No problem, Ye Tian, we believe in your vision, no matter what the result, we can accept it"
An entrepreneur in his fifties was the first to respond, and the rest of the group nodded in agreement.
Ye Tian chuckled and nodded, and then said loudly:
"Okay, since everyone has no objections, then please take out your heirlooms and put them on their respective tables, and I will identify them one by one and appreciate them carefully, which will save more time."
With his words, those people immediately took action, took out their respective heirlooms and put them on the table, waiting for Ye Tian to come and identify them.
In the blink of an eye, there were a few more antique artworks on those tables, which also attracted the attention of everyone on the scene.
The audience who was close to the round tables all stood up, craned their necks and stood on tiptoe, looking at the antique artworks, and everyone was full of curiosity.
Many CCTV staff members at the scene, as well as the members of the Spring Festival Gala director team in the background, rolled their eyes angrily, and secretly complained wildly.
"Yes, the scene of the Spring Festival Gala has completely become the stage of this guy Ye Tian, I knew that this guy should not have invited this guy to participate in the Spring Festival Gala at all!
While secretly complaining frantically, many Spring Festival Gala staff are also very curious, the many heirlooms that appeared at the Spring Festival Gala scene today, and a few of them are priceless top antique artworks!
Seeing that everyone had taken out their respective heirlooms and placed them on the table, Ye Tian stepped out and began to identify these things.
He first went to the round table where the entrepreneur's family in his fifties was sitting, picked up a gold-sprinkled copper stove from the table, and admired it.
This is a Xuande furnace, and the exact name should be called the gold-sprinkled copper elephant ear furnace.
Its shape is open, round lips, delicate texture, regular shape, thick pulp, bright color, introverted treasure, and the bottom foot is engraved with the six-character regular script of "Xuande Year of the Ming Dynasty".
Ye Tian picked up this Xuande furnace and looked at it a few times, then put it back on the table, and then smiled and said his appraisal conclusion.
"This is a very good 'Xuande furnace', but it is not a real Xuande furnace, but a copper furnace imitated in the early days of Qianlong, the craftsmanship is quite clever, and it should come from the Qing Palace.
The Xuande furnace, which was cast in the same period and also came from the Qing Palace's office, has been auctioned several times over the years, and the transaction price is quite good, compared to this, this Xuande furnace is a little better.
In terms of the quality of this Xuande furnace, according to the current antique art market, and combined with the relevant auction records, I value it at about 2 million yuan, which is only low or high!"
After speaking, Ye Tian nodded lightly at the entrepreneur, and then walked to the next round table.
Looking at the entrepreneur again, his expression was slightly disappointed, but he quickly returned to normal, he thanked Ye Tian, and then put away the Xuande furnace.
No need to ask, the price of this Xuande furnace should be higher than two million yuan, or he originally thought that this was the copper furnace cast in Xuande for three years, and his expectations were too high, so he was naturally a little disappointed!
But fortunately, this Xuande furnace imitated in the early days of Qianlong is not bad, it is worth a lot of money, even if it is a little disappointed, it can still be accepted.
In the blink of an eye, Ye Tian had come to the next round table, picked up a painting from the table, and admired it.
The painting is small in size, less than forty centimeters long and about fifty centimeters high, and is an impressionistic Western artwork depicting a rural landscape.
After taking this painting and looking at it a few times, Ye Tian put it back on the table, and then said his appraisal conclusion with a smile.
"It's an impressionist painting, or to be precise, an early impressionist painting, and it's called Views of the Seine in Bougiewale, and it's one in a series of paintings.
The artist who created this painting is Sisley, a famous British painter in France in the 19th century, a master of art, and one of the important painters of Impressionism, and the creation period of this painting should be around 1873.
In other words, this is an early work by Sisley, who at that time had already become a member of the emerging Impressionism, and his brushwork was influenced by Monet to a certain extent.
In this painting, we can see a little shadow of Monet, and it was only after Sisley's gradual maturity, especially after his trip to London, that he gradually got rid of Monet's influence and formed his own unique artistic style.
In the history of Western art, Sisley, together with Monet, is known as the true representative of pure Impressionism, and among the Impressionists, Sisley is the only one who only paints landscapes, and is known as the most beautiful landscape painting of Impressionism."
Hearing this, the scene immediately resounded with an exclamation.
"It's actually a Western artwork, and it's a well-known impressionist painting, it's really rare, and it appeared at the Spring Festival Gala, which is a bit interesting!"
"I'm completely convinced of this guy Ye Tian, the previous Bada Shanren's freehand of flowers and birds, Xuande furnace, plus this impressionist painting, and the antique artworks that this guy doesn't understand and can't identify?"
Everyone may not know much about Sisley, the Impressionist general, but everyone has heard of the famous Impressionist and the Impressionist general Monet.
Such an impressionist painter who can be ranked with the master Monet must have a lot of value, and it is very likely that it is a top work of art with a huge value.
And this is China, it is the CCTV Spring Festival Gala scene, and the appearance of a work by a top Western art master also makes everyone here curious!
After a pause, Ye Tian continued:
Around 1870, when the Franco-Prussian War broke out and Paris was besieged, Sisley fled to the countryside outside Paris, where he remained for several years and produced many impressionist paintings.
Among them, in the series "Scenery of the Seine in Bougiervale", he created a total of about ten works, and the ten paintings are in the same line, but the framing angle is different, and the painting time is basically 1873.
Most of these paintings are now in museums around the world, including the Yale University Gallery, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the National Museum of Fine Arts in Stockholm, and the Musée d'Orsay.
I was somewhat surprised to see this early impressionist painting of Sisley here, which also shows that our domestic collectors have set their sights on the international market.
Speaking of the valuation of this Impressionist painting, I estimate it at about $3.5 million, based on the current market for antique art and the auction records of Sisley's early Impressionist paintings.
Converted into RMB, it should be around 24 million, and given that works by Western masters rarely appear in China, if this painting is auctioned in China, the transaction price should rise a little."
Before the words fell, the scene was boiling again.
"Wow! Another top-level work of art worth more than 20 million, it seems that today's Spring Festival Gala scene is really Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, there are a lot of priceless antique artworks!"
"Heirlooms, they're real heirlooms, they're worth so much!"
Just when people were talking, Ye Tian had already walked to the next round table, picked up a porcelain that looked quite delicate from the table, and admired it.
It's a pity that this is a piece of high-imitation porcelain fired in the early years of the Republic of China, imitating Yongle blue and white, which is naturally not worth a few dollars.
After seeing that this porcelain was a high imitation, Ye Tian could only whisper that he couldn't understand this porcelain, and did not make the appraisal conclusion public, so as not to embarrass the owner of the porcelain!
The New Year's Eve is at the Spring Festival Gala again, why spoil other people's moods!
Of course, people who know a little bit understand what Ye Tian means by this, but no one says it.
Next, Ye Tian quickly identified two antique artworks, and then returned to his seat and sat down.
In fact, if he doesn't go back, the CCTV staff at the scene will come over to drive people away.
As Ye Tian finished the appraisal, after everyone at the scene sighed, they quickly packed up their emotions and refocused their attention on the colorful, festive and peaceful Spring Festival Gala stage.
It is getting closer and closer to eight o'clock in the evening, and the atmosphere of the Spring Festival Gala is becoming more and more lively, and everyone is looking at the Spring Festival Gala stage with joy and anticipation.
With only five seconds left, the countdown begins.
All the audience at the Spring Festival Gala, as well as every Chinese and every Chinese family in front of countless TV sets, were staring closely at the electronic clock at this moment and began to count down in unison.
"Five, Four, Three, Two, One"
In the midst of an excited countdown, the time had come to eight o'clock in the evening.
Cheerful music immediately sounded, and the Spring Festival Gala officially kicked off, sending another sumptuous Chinese New Year's Eve feast to all Chinese around the world!