Chapter Eighty-Six: The British Museum Has Been Stolen
There are not many precious varieties of Ming Chenghua Doucai, such as chicken bowl cups and Tianzi jars, which are all essences.
"I think it's a Tianzi jar, but the Tianzi jar is too rare, and I'm not sure, Liu Lao, you can help palm your eyes!" Zhao Tianming said.
Ye Qiushuang bit his teeth so much that it hurt, it turned out to be really a Tianzi jar!
Tianzi Jar! It's only one step away from her, but it's just a miss. In the past few years, foreign countries auctioned a Ming Chenghua Doucai Tianzi jar, and a remnant was auctioned for tens of millions of sky-high prices.
As for another boutique of Ming Chenghua Doucai, the chicken bowl cup, it was auctioned for a terrifying price of hundreds of millions some time ago.
How much is it worth? At least tens of millions, right? Zhao Tianming got 100,000 yuan in his hands, and he regretted it when he thought about it.
Liu Lao didn't hesitate to love the porcelain jar: "Let's go back and find Lao Qi and take a look at it together." In my eyes, it's undoubtedly a canister. ”
You must know that there are less than fifteen pieces of Ming Chenghua Doucai Tianzi jars in the world, which shows how precious they are.
Yuan Qinghua is so famous, but there are more than 20 pieces in the world.
"Are you sure it's not an imitation of the Qing Dynasty?" Ye Qiushuang couldn't help but ask again.
Liu Lao shook his head: "Most of the paintings of Doucai porcelain in the prosperous era of the Qing Dynasty have changed the weakness of Chengcai's 'leaf without reverse side and single clothes in all seasons', and the pattern is stronger, but it has also lost the delicate and elegant style of Chengcai." ”
However, what they see now is that the brushwork is delicate and elegant, and it is not something that the Qing Dynasty can imitate.
Another point is that the Qing Dynasty Doucai porcelain has made great progress, and there has been a new improvement in the painting skills of porcelain painting, but each piece of Qing Dynasty Doucai porcelain still has the outline line of blue and white depiction ornamentation. Therefore, this blue and white ornamental outline line has become the key to judging the bucket color.
"You picked it up, and when you turn around, you treat you to dinner. Ye Qiushuang was a little red.
"No problem! I know there's a good food stall!"
Ye Qiushuang kicked this guy angrily, picked up this kind of treasure, and went to the food stall?
"Let it go first, don't make a show!" Liu Lao said.
This is the black market, in the end, it is still someone else's land, and it is difficult for anyone to say what will happen when such a treasure appears. Even he didn't figure out the background of this black market, and it is certain that the power is quite large.
Once, someone stabbed this black market in the province, but in the end it was not done, which shows that there are big people behind it. If you think about it, you know that even the treasures stolen from the museum are sold here, who believes that there is no energy?
"It's okay, I didn't give it to that Korean!" Ye Qiushuang said very luckily.
Even if it is cheap for its own countrymen, it is almost the consensus of all antique people that they cannot let the gringos get out of the national treasure.
Liu Lao smiled: "Just now I was thinking, if Xiao Zhao gives up, my old man will have to grab it." ”
Actually, he also visited that stall. But at that time, the other party hadn't taken out the Tianzi jar yet, and he was not interested in looking at the pair of blue and white plum vases.
"Old man, the pair of blue and white plum vases they bought are fakes, right?" Ye Qiushuang asked.
That's what she and Zhao Tianming tricked people together, don't be real! Otherwise, it's funny.
"I've seen the plum bottle, it's obviously an imitation, it's not very clever, more than two million, don't meet that person before. The old man laughed.
If you meet, you may be chased and cut!
"Hey, hey, that's good, that's good!" Ye Qiushuang snickered like a mouse.
"Elder Liu, what about you, what are the gains?" Zhao Tianming asked.
The strength of the old man is undoubted, and he came early, so he must have gained a lot, right?
Liu Lao shook his head and smiled: "A lot of things here are not very clean, I get a hot potato, it's better not to get into trouble." This time, I mainly heard that they would finally auction an ancient painting that was brought back from abroad. ”
The black market is divided into two parts, the first two hours or so are the time for free trading, and it is the time for stall owners to do business. In the end, it is the auction time of the black market organizers, which is also the highlight.
In fact, there is a distinction between "official" and "unofficial".
For a person with the status of Liu Lao, there is naturally more news and knows some insider information, such as the treasures auctioned and so on.
"Lost treasures abroad?" Ye Qiushuang was stunned.
"Yes, didn't the British Museum lose an ancient painting a month ago? These people are also amazing!"
Hearing this, Zhao Tianming couldn't help but be dumbfounded, he didn't even let go of foreign museums? How professional thieves are? This black market is really not simple.
However, wouldn't it be more troublesome to get your hands on it?
"Won't it cause international disputes?" Zhao Tianming couldn't help but say.
Elder Liu smiled: "What are you afraid of? The last thing the Chinese are afraid of is a war of words." Anyway, those treasures were all brought back by their country by improper means in the past, and now they have been brought back by us by improper means, what's the problem? At most, it is troublesome, just turn it around and wash it away. ”
He doesn't care so much, what international disputes are, and the trouble is also the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the country, what does it have to do with him? The country can't force him to return British cultural relics, right?
"You cows!" Zhao Tianming had to admire.
He didn't know that this black market was often full of stolen artifacts from other countries, not just museums in China.
"You'll know later how powerful this black market is. Liu Lao said with a smile.
Not to mention that in the province, it is a first-class black market in China, and each transaction volume reaches more than one billion, which cannot be compared with first-class auction houses.
"What kind of ancient painting, is it worth your personal dispatch old man?" Zhao Tianming said curiously.
Gu Kaizhi's "Female History". Speaking of this, Liu Lao couldn't help but rub his hands excitedly.
""The Female Historian"?" Zhao Tianming and Ye Qiushuang were really scared, and their scalps were about to explode.
Gu Kaizhi is a generation of painting masters in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and the ancient paintings left before the Tang Dynasty are the same as the giant pandas, and the works of the painting masters are even more expensive.
"The Female Historian" was once stored in the Old Summer Palace, when the Eight-Nation Coalition burned the Summer Palace, it was stolen to Britain by British Captain Ji Yongsong, and later stored in the British Museum.
Due to the lack of knowledge on the British side, the British Museum framed it in the manner of RB paintings, and cut it into three sections, and there was a phenomenon of slag loss. But as a painting that is more than 1,000 years old, it is already well preserved. It is only exhibited twice a year, and it is usually protected from light as much as possible to prevent fading.
It can be said that one of the most valuable treasures in the British Museum's collection of Chinese cultural relics was stolen?