Chapter 61: Pie in the Sky

"Qing painter Wang Jian's landscape album is conservatively valued at 250,000 pounds, Qing painter Wang Su's "Twenty-four Filial Piety Picture Collection" is valued at 10,000 pounds, Qing Dynasty painter Wang Hui's ancient landscape album is valued at 200,000 pounds, and Wang Shishen's cordyceps album, one of the eight strange Qing Dynasty painters in Yangzhou, is valued at 100,000 pounds...

Twenty-eight square seal stones, each with a starting price of 40,000 pounds, affected by the heating up of the Celestial Empire's seal collection, the buyers of seal stones entering the market this year have suddenly increased, and their market prices are being raised. So far, the price of seal stones has generally doubled, and the best ones have even quadrupled.

In particular, this Bafang bloodstone will definitely become a treasure that merchants and collectors from all walks of life flock to. "Difficult to find" and "hard to find good stones" have become the status quo of the industry's collection, which has increased the industry's expectation of appreciation of bloodstone, and the price of bloodstone has doubled in a few years. . .

Three-legged Xuande incense burner, the slurry is warm and moist, the treasure is contained, unchanged for a long time, the casting quality is average, and there is natural and uniform wear, especially in the low foot, it is a rare genuine product.

The incense burner belongs to the peak of the Xuande year system of the Ming Dynasty, and it is a fine product of the Xuande furnace during the Ming Dynasty of the Celestial Dynasty. . . According to the map, Xuande three years in June by the Ministry of Industry official Bang Zuowu led more than 100 casters, began casting, to Xuande four years to complete, the number of Xuande furnace should be 118,000 pieces, among them, Xuande during the incense burner, Xuande in the German word, there is a horizontal for the genuine product. . . . Yes, that's it! Later, the imitations were all removed, because they avoided the era name, for fear of offending the emperor's majesty, and were killed... Conservative valuation of £70,000.

In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, 108 golden pearls. . . Because it is incomplete and incomplete, it is conservatively valued at five thousand pounds...

In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, melon ridge ivory bracelets. . . Conservative valuation of £10,000.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, Hui Mengchen made a purple clay copper beam pot, with a conservative valuation of 50,000 pounds. . .

This pair of well-preserved Qianlong year of the Qing Dynasty chisel gilt monotia vase, in the Metropolitan Museum of the United States has almost a amphora, the inheritance is orderly, it is a fine product, the starting price is estimated at 100,000 pounds... ”

Two staunch experts have dated and valued each antique artifact word by word, and every time the valuation is spoken, Arthur's heart is happy, and his heart is beating wildly.

As for the housekeeper Paul on the side, he was completely shocked by the exposed price, although he suppressed his excitement, but the face that remained calm and calm at all times was also occupied by an extremely unnatural expression at the moment, and the two hands in front of him involuntarily trembled slightly.

Paul could not have imagined that the 'things' found in the utility room and the 'old goods' found in the flea market were really valuable antiques!

And Arthur, for the Qing Dynasty Qianlong year of the chisel gilt single ear vase is very satisfied with the valuation, especially the orderly inheritance of the comments, undoubtedly all this he prepared played a role, marked by the Celestial Empire's export to European nobles of the halo of porcelain, the price of 100,000 pounds is really not high, I believe that the price after the auction will be more gratifying.

In addition to the happiness of Earl Arthur and the housekeeper Paul, the person in charge of the Davide Auction House is also the happiest one, although it is not a piece of fine products, but there are a lot of them, and sure enough, the old aristocratic family is really profound, and if you take out something casually, you can make people look up.

The valuation given by the two experts can only be regarded as a starting price or a conservative valuation, after the real auction, these antique cultural relics can be auctioned at a higher price, as long as the publicity is good, thinking of this, I can't help but say with a smile on my face: "Lord, these collections, do you want to auction them all?"

Hearing this question, Arthur smiled and sat up straight, leaned forward, reached out and picked up the melon-shaped ivory bracelet from the tray and stayed in his left hand very naturally, under the gaze of the two experts, he picked up the string of golden pearls and wrapped it around the wrist of his right hand, and once again reached out to pick up the mutton fat white jade five-clawed carved dragon jade plate and played with it in his hand.

"I personally like these three things, and the rest will be left to your bank to operate, I hope there will be a satisfactory result." ”

Whether it is hypocrisy or hypocrisy, for the British aristocracy, money is always a sensitive topic, for money, it is obviously very thirsty in the heart, and the mouth is still very disgusted, maintaining the contempt for those wealthy nouveau riche tyrants, saying that their status is bought, not from the noble bloodline...

Looking at the whole set of deeds of the noble earl, the person in charge of the Grand David Auction House smiled and quickly nodded, "Please rest assured, Lord, our Grand David Auction House is very professional and will definitely give you the most satisfactory result." ”

After speaking to Arthur, he said to the two experts and two assistants who came with him: "Register the Earl's collection, pack it and seal it, and then sort out the contract." ”

"Okay, manager. ”

After arranging, the person in charge turned to Arthur again and said with a smile: "Sorry, Lord, I have a reluctant request, I don't know, can we talk in private." ”

Hearing this, Arthur raised his eyebrows slightly, looked at the other party's smile, nodded slightly, and said, "Of course." ”

"It's so presumptuous, thank you for your understanding... ”

With that, Arthur got up from the sofa, nodded slightly to the person in charge, and walked in the direction of the floor-to-ceiling window of the study, he was a little puzzled by what the other party wanted to say to him.

"Venerable Lord, in order to let more collectors understand the value of your collection, expand the influence of this autumn auction, and attract more interested collectors, we hope to be able to show the provenance of this collection, the value represented by an orderly inheritance of antique cultural relics, which is very different from ordinary cultural relics... “

Sure enough, as Arthur thought before, the other party would not miss the opportunity to pull the tiger's skin, don't look at the decline of their Bolin family, but hundreds of years of history are placed there, as long as any antique cultural relic is said to come from a certain earl's family, whether it is about the authenticity of the item, or the inheritance, it has played a role in the halo.

"Of course, since it's my collection, you can naturally publicize it to the outside world. Arthur looked at each other with a smile, but his words deliberately accentuated 'my collection'.

"Ahem... Of course, of course. The person in charge smiled a little embarrassed, and after a deep groan, he whispered again: "Venerable Earl Arthur, our auction house will not charge you any upfront fees, and we will also charge ten percent of the transaction price for the commission, while the international practice is that the commission rate is mostly fifteen to thirty percent." ”

"Oh, I really want to thank you for taking care of the Boleyn family, thank you very much. Arthur raised his eyebrows and smiled, thanking him very happily.

"Hehe... The embarrassed smile on the face of the person in charge did not disappear, but because of Arthur's indifference, the smile became more stiff, looking at the look on the face of the young earl opposite, he couldn't help gritting his teeth and said frankly: "Okay, Lord, I won't go around in circles, let's just say it, this autumn auction is an autumn auction that our bank attaches great importance to, in order to better publicity, we hope that you can let us borrow the name of the Bolin family for publicity... ”