Chapter 76: Collectors' Exchange
Huo Xiaodong smiled, "This time is different, this is an exchange meeting, and it can be regarded as a small auction, but it is purely organized by collectors." Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info My grandfather has an invitation to me, and if you don't come to the auction house today, I'll call you. ”
"Oh, is it a special form of hiding?"
"Yes, but the participants can't be empty-handed, and they have to bring a communication item. To put it bluntly, you can't just buy things and not sell them. ”
"You just have an invitation, shall we go for it?"
"It's nothing, my grandfather has a big face, an invitation, with a friend, it's reasonable. The key is to go to two people, you have to bring two communication items, right? I don't have anything decent on hand. Huo Xiaodong grinned and said, "Don't you have a painting of Lan Ying and a topaz camel from the Ming Dynasty?"
Sun Zhongyuan thought about it, anyway, these two things have to be sold, "Okay! I will send out the invitation, what time will it start?"
"At three o'clock in the afternoon, there is a dinner party when it is over. This venue and dinner were provided by Boss Feng of Taihe Restaurant, who is also a collector and likes Ming and Qing dynasty furniture, calligraphy and painting. When Huo Xiaodong saw that Sun Zhongyuan agreed, he said happily, "To be honest, if it weren't for you, I really wouldn't dare to go to this kind of exchange meeting." ”
In the afternoon, Sun Zhongyuan and Huo Xiaodong arrived at Taihe Restaurant ten minutes early.
The collectors' exchange meeting was set up in a hall on the third floor, Huo Xiaodong took out the invitation, and the person in charge of the reception couldn't help but glance at Huo Xiaodong when he saw that the name on the invitation was Shi Lao, Huo Xiaodong was not ambiguous, and said directly, "This is given to me by my grandfather, and a friend came with me." ”
At this time, Boss Feng of Taihe Restaurant came over, he knew Huo Xiaodong, stepped forward to chat a few words, and let them in. He hadn't seen Sun Zhongyuan, but he didn't ask much.
The layout in the hall has basically not changed, two large round tables, tea, pastries, dried fruits, but there is an extra square table in the middle, and two chairs are placed behind the square table.
Sun Zhongyuan looked at it, there were no familiar faces, but there were two people who knew Huo Xiaodong, came up and chatted for a few words, and brought a good Yunyun to Shi Lao.
The participating collectors arrived one after another, and there were only a dozen people in total, and the two large round tables were not full.
As a landlord, after the exchange meeting began, it was Boss Feng who presided over it, he sat behind the square table, picked up the microphone, and made a few opening remarks with a smile.
"The main thing is that everyone is happy together, and I see that the list is basically here. There are two people who didn't come, one is our old-timer Shi Lao, who came instead of his grandson Xiaohuo, and he also brought a friend, and he didn't do anything special, and brought two collections. And then there is Mr. Kang Ning Kang of Tonggu Zhai, who has something to do temporarily, and may come a little late. ”
Sun Zhongyuan thought to himself that Corning was not a pure collector, but it was not unusual to participate in such exchanges. Boss Feng's so-called list must be a list of people who promised to come, since Kang Ning agreed, and didn't come on time, it is estimated that there is really something wrong.
"Okay, there's an empty chair next to me, whoever has something good and wants to win a jackpot, then come!" Boss Feng said happily, "Basically, they are people in the circle, and communication is the main thing." ”
This kind of collector's exchange meeting, who can come, is basically a veteran player, and everyone has their own good things. Of course, compared to the experts invited by the Xiangbao Bureau, it is naturally a lot worse, but they are not laymen, so it is not difficult to communicate.
Sun Zhongyuan didn't expect that Huo Xiaodong was the first to go up. However, he was embarrassed to take the painting of Lan Ying, which was left to Sun Zhongyuan, and he took the topaz camel of the Ming Dynasty to go up.
What Huo Xiaodong thought was to complete the task first, and then concentrate on looking at things.
When Boss Feng saw Huo Xiaodong coming up, he pulled the chair next to him and motioned for him to sit down, "This Xiao Huo is Shi Lao's grandson, and now he works at Xingchen Auction House!"
Huo Xiaodong was not embarrassed, picked up the microphone and said hello to everyone, and then took out the topaz camel!
"I remember that Xiao Huo studied jewelry and jade, and this thing is a professional counterpart!" Boss Feng said with a smile.
"Yes, this is actually when I was in college, and I have been collecting it for a few years, how dare ordinary things be embarrassed here?" Huo Xiaodong bragged and did not blush, "Let me introduce first, this is the topaz camel of the Ming Dynasty imitating the Tang Dynasty, the ancients imitated the ancients, everyone is an expert, not much to say, it is worth mentioning the brown color at the hump, the old oil, this process has long been lost, it is a bright spot!"
This kind of exchange will be more casual, and if you are interested, you will go up directly, and the others will watch from a distance and whisper below.
In the end, a retired veteran cadre of the Garden Bureau, Mr. Yu, who is keen on jade collection, sold the transaction at a price of 280,000 yuan.
Huo Xiaodong reported 300,000 yuan for this thing, originally Sun Zhongyuan felt that he could sell it for more than 100,000 or 200,000 yuan, this thing is not a big item, and in Sun Zhongyuan's opinion, the craftsmanship is not top-notch.
After the deal, Huo Xiaodong returned to his seat, and whispered to Sun Zhongyuan with a smile, "Twenty-eight hundred thousand, okay?
"Okay. Sun Zhongyuan has always been very happy with his friends, "Originally, if I sold it myself, it would be sold for 200,000 yuan." Not to mention the bridge you built. ”
After speaking, Sun Zhongyuan continued to look ahead. In fact, Huo Xiaodong was originally a bit of a joke, but he didn't expect Sun Zhongyuan to be so happy!
At this time, Mr. Yu, who had taken down the topaz camel, said a few words to Boss Feng, and then took the things and put them out on the square table.
"Everyone, I'm too old to run away, so let's talk about my collection!"
What Mr. Yu put out was a colorful garlic bottle. The name is very intuitive, and the head at the mouth of the bottle is very similar to a garlic head. In addition, it is generally a long neck and round abdomen, and the whole is still very graceful.
This garlic bottle is not very large, less than 30 centimeters high, and the picture on it is a lotus pond mandarin duck.
As soon as the garlic bottle came out, two or three people went up first, and when someone saw the blue and white money written horizontally at the mouth of the bottle, they couldn't help but cry out:
"Wanli Colorful!"
This five-colored, unlike the underglaze color of blue and white and red in the glaze, is the overglaze color. It needs to be glazed for the first time and fired in the kiln, and then out of the kiln for coloring, and then the second time into the kiln and fired at a low temperature.
Although it is called colorful, in fact, there are more than five colors that have been applied. The name comes from the five elements of blue, white, red, black, and yellow. At the same time, generally speaking, there are often no more than five colors on a single piece of multicolored porcelain at the same time.
Enamel color and pastel are only in the Qing Dynasty, and the glaze color of the Ming Dynasty is mainly doucai and five-colored.
Speaking of Doucai, many people now know Chenghua Doucai Chicken Cup. But when it comes to colorful porcelain, Wanli is the first to be recommended, which can be said to be the pinnacle of colorful porcelain.
At this time, Sun Zhongyuan couldn't help but get up and walked forward.