Chapter 82: The American Auction
After a 2,000-kilometer journey, two cars and three people took turns driving, and on April 6, the car finally arrived in Yan County. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
For the next whole week, Zhang Nan didn't do anything else, just stayed at home to clean and sort out the batch of porcelain that he brought back.
In the eyes of Zhang Hui and Guan Xingquan, he is like a demon!
Facing those porcelains every day, if Aunt Liu hadn't reminded him to eat, it is estimated that Zhang Nan would have starved himself half to death!
They won't understand that this is a real collector's delight!
The pride of owning a collection that is unique in the world is incomprehensible to others!
At this time, he was scrubbing a Longquan kiln green glaze five-pipe device and putting it into a suitably sized packaging box bought from a packaging factory in Yanxian County.
The box is lined with sponge and silk, and the outside is also wrapped in brocade, which is the best way to store fragile items: Zhang Nan bought 1,000 of such boxes of different sizes in one go!
Nowadays, there is a world-famous bamboo weaving factory in Yan County, and a large part of the products are exported, so the packaging boxes produced by the county packaging factory are very exquisite, and there are various specifications and sizes, which are just used by Zhang Nan.
The five-pipe apparatus at hand has a peculiar shape: the central tube has a straight mouth, the outer fold edge, the surrounding five tubes are upright, the tube hole leads to the abdomen, the shoulders are folded, the lower abdomen is adducted, and the feet are circled.
The abdominal wall is engraved with a double-layer lotus petal pattern, a white fetus, a plum green glaze, and the end of the circle foot is vermilion.
Zhang Nan knew that in addition to his own one, only the Wanwan Palace Museum had similar artifacts in the Longquan kiln of the Song Dynasty.
But what the hell is this thing for, not to mention Zhang Nan, even all the experts in Huaxia can't figure it out together!
The things were put away, and the phone in the bedroom rang.
Yes, he's in his bedroom: there's no room in the vault, it's already full of boxes, big and small.
There are too many things to put down, and the rest can only be stacked in the bedroom.
When I picked up the phone, it turned out to be a call from the United States.
"Dear Mr. Allen, are you already up?"
Hearing that crisp voice, Zhang Nan smiled, "Dear Miss Nicole, I've been up for two hours. Is it a matter of the villa drawings? I received it yesterday. ”
Zhang Nan only has photos of that villa, and if he wants to build an identical hanging villa, this design drawing is indispensable.
The villa in Los Angeles had been built for decades, but Citibank helped me find the drawings for it, and the cost was very small: it cost $1,000!
You know, that house is not allowed to be copied at will, and the owner of the design will not give you the master's design plan in vain, and the price is already very small!
According to Nicole, because the other party has business dealings with Citibank, this is the design of a replication: but the requirement is not to be exactly the same.
It's simple: shorten the part that is picked out by twenty or thirty centimeters, and you're done!
The piece of land on Chenghuang Mountain has been bought, the formalities are complete, and an old man has been invited to live there to watch.
The troops are fully equipped, and in addition to the fact that the evacuation time was not long, there are still special personnel to maintain them, and the supporting buildings and facilities of the barracks there are still in good condition and usable.
If it weren't too far away from the new factory, it could be used as a dormitory for a few years.
The villa project was handed over to Wang Debiao, and when I saw the design drawings and interior photos yesterday, the manager comrade was amazed by the designer!
Wang Debiao's team can build such a house, but there are a lot of decoration materials in it, and he has nowhere to find it: there is no one in China!
He can't figure out how to decorate some places!
However, this is not in a hurry, the big deal is that the materials will be imported from abroad, and the interior decoration designers will be invited from the big city design institute.
Wang Debiao is familiar with the largest architectural design institute in Jiangnan Province, as long as there is money, there is no problem that cannot be solved.
And the last thing Zhang Nan lacks is money!
……
"No, Mr. Allen, there are two things to report to you today.
All of your stocks continued to appreciate in value over the last month, up about 15% overall, and now you have a combined market capitalization of more than 240 million points. I have a detailed report here, do you need me to read it to you?"
Nicole is in a good mood: the more profits her customers make, the higher the bonuses the bank will give her! Now she is an out-and-out gold collar among her peers in the banking industry.
And this Mr. Allen never comes to ask about his stocks, but only finds out when the exchange is closed and he calls every week, and sometimes he can't find anyone!
Such a good customer is really a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!
"No Nicole, I can trust your ability to work and the industry credit of Citibank, and I will take a closer look at it next time I come to the United States. ”
After a pause, "That's good news! What is the second thing, dear Miss Nicole?" I hope it's good news. ”
"Yes, Mr. Allen, it should be good news for you. On the 18th, four days later, there was an auction of ancient Oriental art at Sotheby's in New York. Then on the 22nd, there will be a big auction at Sotheby's in Hong Kong, are you interested in these two auctions?"
Before returning to the United States, Zhang Nan told Nicole about his hobby: if there is a large auction of oriental art in New York, he will help himself pay attention to it.
Before his rebirth, Zhang Nan had reservations about those who spent hundreds of millions of dollars abroad to buy back the Chinese cultural relics that had been robbed and snatched away by Western powers.
But now in the 80s, the Chinese people are not as rich as they were 20 years later, and in the Western world, Chinese cultural relics are not particularly expensive, and sometimes even precious cultural relics can be bought at very low prices.
It can be said that the price of Chinese cultural relics lost overseas is speculated by the Chinese people themselves!
This will, not to mention the vast majority of Westerners, even the vast majority of Western auction companies do not know which antiques are admired by Chinese people, and it is normal for good things to be sold as cabbage.
Chinese cultural relics have really been generally hyped, and there have been sky-high prices one after another, which is still something that began in the late nineties.
When Zhang Nan heard this, of course he was interested in this!
But here's the problem: time is too tight!
"Dear Nicole, you may not know that you need an invitation to participate in an auction, and you also need to familiarize yourself with the information of the auction and visit the preview. You're telling me the news now..."
"Hehe..." Before Zhang Nan finished speaking, he heard Nicole's laughter on the other end of the phone, "Dear Alan, although I have been busy with stock operations some time ago, I only got this news before getting off work just now." But you can rest assured that I can still handle this little thing, and I will be able to get an invitation to this auction in New York tomorrow at the latest.
As for Xiangjiang, as long as people arrive in Xiangjiang, the invitation will be delivered to you immediately. Moreover, the preview was just in time the day before the exhibition.
You're the amazing Mr. Allen, and you're sure to find something of interest. ”