Chapter 1293: The Treasure of the Town Hall
On July 12, 2005, at Christie's in London, this Yuan blue and white Guigu Xiashan Tu Jar was sold for 15880000 pounds, equivalent to about 230 million yuan, which set a new record for the highest price of Chinese porcelain at that time.
In 2015, the artifact was revalued at RMB1.6 billion.
It was Christie's earth-shattering shot that shocked the world and let the people of the world know that Yuan Qinghua was really valuable.
This thing is Liu Lang got by memory, in a little-known auction house in France, the owner of this big jar was a French soldier, and he brought back this big jar from thousands of miles, and over time it became a fish tank for fish farming, and later the staff of the auction house happened to see this thing and helped the other party to auction it.
Before Liu Lang sent personnel found this large jar, this jar was auctioned once, and the starting price at that time was 21,000 pounds, but in the end it was unsold and could only be placed in the auction house.
The people sent by Liu Lang were also a little stunned when they saw this thing, and they didn't know what the origin of this thing was, but Yuan Qinghua was undoubtedly the auction house held another auction, and finally the jar was bought for 36,000 pounds.
Liu Lang almost jumped when he saw this thing, he knew that the auction process of this jar in his previous life was 200 million yuan! Now he bought it for more than 200,000 yuan, how big a leak is this?
However, more than 200,000 yuan is a lot for those experts, but everyone thinks that it is worth it, very much, especially when they learned that there is another piece in the island country, they think that it is worth 500,000 yuan.
This piece of Guigu Xiashan is one of the only eight pieces of blue and white porcelain in the world, which is listed as a first-class cultural relics immediately after being identified by domestic experts, and can only be exhibited in China and is not allowed to be taken abroad, in fact, the rarity of this blue and white porcelain is definitely higher than the ordinary first-class cultural relics, after all, there is not even the Capital Museum.
But in the eyes of experts, there is a cultural relic that is more precious than the Guigu Mountain, that is, a crystal clear "Sanqiu Cup".
This Sanqiu cup is 4.3cm high, the diameter is 6.8cm, the foot diameter is 2.6cm, the glaze is blue and gray, the tire is as thin as a cicada's wings, how thin is it? After taking the porcelain, the fingerprints can be seen clearly from the back.
The cup is painted with mountain stones, orchids and grass, two grasshoppers are eager to try on the grass, lifelike, and the words "Ming Chenghua Year" are also printed at the bottom of the cup.
There are two Sanqiu cups in the Capital Museum, painted with butterflies, originally owned by Mr. Sun Yingzhou, the collector of the Republic of China, after the founding of New China, he donated these two Sanqiu cups to the country, and now it has become a treasure in the Capital Museum, many visitors have not seen these two cultural relics.
These two cultural relics are so precious that Jin Danyang almost fainted when he saw the third one in the UK.
The cup was found in an old castle in England owned by a couple in their sixties, who bought the castle more than a decade ago from an eighty-year-old lady for more than £300,000, along with some of the antiques inside.
These antiques come from all over the world, there are stone carvings from the three countries of Argentina and South America, war knives from island countries, pottery from West Asia, and bronze and porcelain from China.
Over time, when the raider died, his descendants inherited the antiquities, and many generations later they were forgotten in the corner, until all the marauders' descendants were gone and the castle changed owners.
The new owner is considered a rich man, runs a chain store, and life is worry-free, but recently the chain store has some problems, and the funds are broken and urgently need funds, so they decided to sell some antiques, and it just so happened that they heard that a few Chinese were looking for antiques in Britain, so they invited Jin Danyang and others to the castle.
This is the so-called providence in the dark, when Jin Danyang saw the Sanqiu Cup placed in this sandalwood box, tears almost fell, of course, he didn't cry, because the people who traveled with him told him not to lose his temper, even if he saw "He's Bi", he would be shocked, otherwise the price would increase immediately if the other party saw it.
Next, we will start talking, in addition to this Sanqiu Cup, there are five very good antiques, including a Zhou Dynasty utensil, which is also engraved with more than a dozen inscriptions, which is also a national treasure.
In the end, the price of these six treasures was 236,000 pounds, and it should be that the couple was in urgent need of these money.
More than 230,000 pounds, converted into more than 2.4 million yuan, this is a huge amount of money, but Jin Danyang decided to buy it on the spot, and even made his own decision not to report to Liu Lang, for fear that something would go wrong in the past two days.
Of course, Liu Lang will not blame the other party, not only is he not blamed, but he will also be greatly rewarded, not to mention anything else, that is, the future value of this Sanqiu Cup will be at least tens of millions of dollars.
In the previous life, a Chenghua Doucai chicken bowl cup was worth two or three billion yuan, there were six chicken bowl cups in the Capital Museum, and there were more than 20 known in the whole world, but there were only three in the Sanqiu Cup.
In fact, in the previous life, until twenty years later, the Sanqiu Cup that survived was only two, and there was no third, and the one in the castle was either collected by someone, or it did not appear for some reason, but in this life, because of Liu Lang, it finally saw the light of day and returned to its hometown.
Just the two treasures of Yuan Qinghua "Ghost Valley Descending" and Chenghua Doucai Sanqiu Cup, Yongli Museum is enough to leave one in the domestic museum, in fact, Liu Lang bought more than these two good things abroad, Liu Lang bought a total of forty-two pieces in one year, of course, Jin Danyang and Zhao Qidong saw far from this number, it may be ten times more, but after all, they can't buy them all, so they only choose the best.
There are as many as four first-class cultural relics, and the rest are also treasures, porcelain, bronze, calligraphy and painting, sundries, etc., Liu Lang spent a total of 1.5 million pounds to buy these things, which is equivalent to 15 million yuan, Liu Lang feels that this is really cheap, these things are worth at least more than 5 billion after 20 years, or even more than that, of course, he will not sell any of these antiques, and even many countries do not allow him to sell, and he does not want to sell.
There is no light in the exhibition room, each collection is placed in the counter, and there is a lamp that is not bright at the back, this lamp is special, and the light will not cause damage to cultural relics, especially calligraphy and painting, of course, calligraphy and painting cultural relics also need special protection.
Every time Liu Lang walked into the room, he immediately seemed to have stepped into the vast river of history, and the quaint breath rushed to his face, and every breath could tell a story, whether it was heroic or poignant, ordinary or melancholy.