Chapter 401 Nine Pavilions

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Immediately after the 'Qing Dynasty Porcelain Pavilion' is the 'Ming Dynasty Porcelain Pavilion'! With Wang Zheng's harvest in the spring auction, especially after adding Li Yunfeng's collection. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoThe collection in the porcelain exhibition hall of the Ming and Qing dynasties, although the number is still compared with the museum of the national brand, but the quality is also different.

In particular, Wang Zheng has 15 pieces of imperial kiln porcelain of the 'Qing Dynasty', including 5 pastels, 3 blue and white, 4 multicolored, and 3 red glazes! Each of them is worth tens of millions of fine products.

However, 15 pieces of 'Qing Dynasty Imperial Kiln' porcelain, as well as 13 pieces of Ming Dynasty imperial kiln porcelain, Wang Zheng did not put it in the National Treasure Hall behind.

Compared with the real treasures of porcelain, although these porcelains are precious, they are still half a chip.

After the 'Ming Dynasty Porcelain Pavilion', it is the 'Song and Yuan Dynasty Porcelain Pavilion', and then there is the 'Millennium Pavilion', and behind the 'Millennium Pavilion' is the 'National Treasure Pavilion'!

The so-called 'Millennium Pavilion' refers to the porcelain of all dynasties before the Song Dynasty, such as celadon in the Wei and Jin dynasties, white porcelain in the Sui and Tang dynasties, and so on! Although these porcelains are very few fine products due to technical reasons, they are indispensable in the exhibition as part of the development of Chinese porcelain.

The 'Modern and Modern Porcelain Pavilion', the 'Qing Dynasty Porcelain Pavilion', the 'Ming Dynasty Porcelain Pavilion', the 'Song and Yuan Dynasty Porcelain Pavilion', the 'Millennium Pavilion' and the 'National Treasure Pavilion' are the six major pavilions in the entire 'Chinese Porcelain Pavilion'.

A total of 834 pieces of porcelain were exhibited in six pavilions. The number is not very large, so the second level is not open at all.

In addition, since Wang Zheng blackmailed six pieces of porcelain and the first official kiln, Wang Ying's interest has not been high. It wasn't until the 'Yuan Qinghua Xiao He Yuexia Chasing Han Xin Plum Vase', the 'Qing Dynasty Qianlong Pastel Fushou Shuangquan Turning Heart Bottle', the 'Northern Song Dynasty Dingyao Beauty Pillow', the 'Chenghua Doucai Chicken Bowl Cup', the 'Ru Kiln Azure Glaze Round Wash', and the 'Qing Dynasty Kangxi Blue and White Colorful Twelve Flower God Cup', when these six pieces (sets) of national treasure-grade porcelain appeared in front of him, he regained his enthusiasm for seeing treasures as an antique collector.

Coming out of the 'Porcelain Pavilion', next to the tall corridor is the 'Miscellaneous Pavilion', one of the three halls of Chinese art. In fact, according to the four major categories of Chinese art, this should have been a 'jade pavilion'. But Wang Zheng didn't have much jade in his hand. Moreover, there are not many treasures in the ancient jade, so they simply combine the jade and miscellaneous items.

As a result, the 'Miscellaneous Pavilion', which already had many branches, became the one with the largest number of branches among the three Chinese art exhibition halls.

From front to back, from bottom to top, there are the 'Jade Pavilion', the 'Gold and Silver Pavilion', the 'Clock Pavilion', the 'Bronze Pavilion', the 'Statue Pavilion', the 'Bamboo and Wood Hornware Pavilion', the 'Lacquerware Pavilion', the 'Material Ware Pavilion', the 'Four Treasures of the Scholar's Pavilion', the 'Jewelry Pavilion', the 'Coin Pavilion', the 'Ancient Books and Rare Books Pavilion', the 'Embroidery Pavilion', the 'Stamp Pavilion', the 'Audio-Visual Materials Pavilion', the 'Purple Sand Ware Pavilion', the 'Bronze Pavilion', the 'Pottery Pavilion', the 'Furniture Pavilion', the 'Enamel Pavilion', and finallyThere are 21 "comprehensive exhibition halls" in total, and it is also the only exhibition hall that occupies the first and second floors of the first floor of the museum.

Although there are many exhibition halls, the total collection in all 21 exhibition halls is only 787 pieces!

However, among the 'three major exhibition halls of Chinese art', the number of collections in the 'Miscellaneous Museum' has grown the fastest. And there is no shortage of fine products, such as the "Tianhuang Frozen Stone Poetry Intention Ornament" obtained by Wang Zheng before, "Qing Yongzheng Imperial Treasure White Jade Nine Button Square Seal", "Yuan Vaja Luo Buddha Venerable Bronze Flow Gold Buddha Statue", "Qing Dynasty Qianlong Imperial "King James Supplement Engraved Duan Shilan Pavilion Tu Ti Silk Complete Volume", and the treasure of the "Treasure Pavilion" "Great Mughal Diamond"!

Originally, Wang Zheng also wanted to take out the 'Empress Dowager Cixi Jade Seal' and the 'Red Night Pearl'. But considering that there is already a night pearl in the Golden Light Temple. At the same time, he also didn't want outsiders to know that Ma San was in his hands. Therefore, after some comprehensive consideration, Wang Zheng temporarily dispelled his thoughts.

However, among the batch of jewelry raw materials that Benkong and Wang Qian robbed from Burma, there were as many as 13 pieces of 'glass imperial green', 'glass purple eyes', 'glass smurfs', 'glass cockscomb red' and other superb jadeite, 5 pieces of Burmese pigeon blood rubies of more than 30 carats, and 9 star sapphires of more than 50 carats, Wang Zheng never thought of selling them.

Instead, he plans to find a top jade master and carve the jade into ornaments and put it in the jade museum. After the ruby sapphire setting is processed, it is placed in the treasure house.

As for the leftovers left after the jadeite carving, leave some for Shen Bing and Yu Yixue, as well as for their mother. The rest will be left for the Taoyuan Jewelry Town store, and then some heirlooms.

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Next to the 'Chinese Art Miscellaneous Museum' is the 'Nature Pavilion', or 'Natural History Museum'. It mainly collects animal and plant specimens, rare ores, animal fossils, and meteorites. But now there are other things in it, except for some specimens bought by Wang Zheng, about 100 pieces!

As for the 'dinosaur fossil' he longed for, there was no one!

However, he is still young, and when he earns more money in the future, he can naturally fill it slowly. However, the 'Nature Gallery', which has a sparse collection, is still not open to visitors.

And the same goes for the 'Machinery Pavilion' next door!

Wang Zheng's planning for the 'Machinery Pavilion' is mainly used to collect and exhibit antique cars and valuable old-fashioned machines. He would also like to have a collection of military weapons if possible, but in a country like China, the latter clearly has a long way to go.

On the left hand side of the museum hall are these five pavilions. From front to back, there are three exhibition halls of Chinese art—the 'Calligraphy and Painting Gallery', the 'Porcelain Gallery' and the 'Miscellaneous Gallery', as well as the remaining 'Nature Gallery' and 'Machinery Gallery'.

The latter two pavilions are not yet open.

In addition, on the right hand side of the hall, there are the 'Asian Pavilion', the 'European Pavilion', the 'African Pavilion' and the 'American Pavilion' divided according to the continents! As for Australia, the history is too short, and a single pavilion is too wasteful, so Wang Zheng directly divided it into the 'European Pavilion'.

Because there are only four pavilions, these four pavilions are also wider than the five pavilions on the left, basically around 55 meters.

It's a bit bigger, but so far only the European Pavilion is open to visitors.

The attraction of Picasso's 'O' version of the Algiers' Woman, which has the reputation of being the world's most expensive oil painting, is too great.

Moreover, in addition to this world's No. 1 oil painting, there is also "Bust of a Woman", which is also a work of Picasso, and Van Gogh's oil painting "Ariscan Road"!

In addition, of the 21 artworks that Wang Zheng obtained from Mai Hongbo, except for six Chinese artworks, the rest are basically here.

One of the most valuable is one of Monet's "Water Lilies"!

Claude Monet, the master of Impressionism, left more than 500 drawings and more than 2,000 paintings during his lifetime. But the most famous and influential of them is the "Water Lily Series". From 1897 to 1926, Monet painted a total of 181 paintings on the subject of water lilies. In particular, the huge "Water Lilies" group of paintings painted in his later years is known as the "Ninth Symphony" of his brilliant life. The Oval Museum in Aurangelli, where the painting was placed, was later called the 'Sistine Chapel of Impressionism'.

It is precisely because of Monet's high reputation and his series of admirable achievements that his oil paintings have always been among the top works of art on the international auction market.

Each oil painting is basically around $30 million, and it is only high, not low.

The painting of Monet's "Water Lilies" in Wang Zheng's hand is one of Monet's many water lilies that Christie's auctioned in London in 2008, and the auction price at that time was 41 million pounds, about 80.45 million US dollars, 390 million Chinese dollars. Taking into account the stability of Western artworks. Now, seven years later, the value of this oil painting is limited, whether it rises or falls.

Even so, Wang Zheng is very satisfied!

In addition to Monet's "Water Lilies", Maconbaugh's artwork also includes a "Self-Portrait with a Palette" by Manet and an oil painting by Van Gogh "Postman Ruland".

These three paintings are the most representative, and they are also the most valued by Wang Zheng. There are also several works by American abstract masters in the back. In particular, one of Jackson Pollock's action paintings, with its messy lines and large and small bits of color, he really couldn't read or appreciate it.

However, Pollock is regarded as a pioneer of American painting to get rid of the shackles of Europe, a symbol of the new American painting after World War II, a pioneer of "action painting" that attaches importance to the act of painting, and is one of the most influential artists of the 20th century!

No matter how much real there is to his name, his works are really popular in today's auction market. And since the American people like it, Wang Zheng also accepted it, anyway, he also wants to earn dollars.

Because, there are not many works of art in the West. Therefore, Wang Zheng only made a simple distinction according to oil paintings, drawings, sculptures, coins, etc. Maybe in a few years, when his collection of Western art reaches tens of thousands, there will be a distinction between ancient Greece, ancient Rome, England, France, and so on.

After taking Wang Zheng to the 'European Pavilion', there is basically nothing to see in the entire Taoyuan Museum.

"I didn't expect your museum to be so big?"

Coming out of the 'European Pavilion' and looking at the magnificent hall of the museum, Wang Ying still couldn't help but sigh. In his original impression, Wang Zheng, who had just been in the industry for just over half a year, had the so-called museum just a few houses, a little more magnificent!

I didn't expect him to play so big. Moreover, although the collection in the museum is not large, there are many fine products, and it has laid the pattern of a top museum, as long as the collection is slowly filled in the future, one day it will become a world-class museum, as he said before.

"Is it big?"

"Of course! 9 exhibition halls, the total exhibition area is more than 300,000 square meters, the Louvre and the British Museum combined are not as big as yours!"

Wang Zheng smiled and did not argue. The exhibition area of the Louvre and the British Museum is indeed not as large as his place, but they are limited by the original construction area, and the surrounding urban land, so there is no way to expand, unlike him here, he can do whatever he wants!

However, there are many more collections than he has.

"It's just big, it doesn't have much effect. When it can have the same world-class attraction as others, and can attract tens of millions of tourists every year, then it can be regarded as a real success!"

"It's not easy!"

"The easy thing has already been done!" Wang Zheng said.

Wang Ying nodded, his eyes scanned around, "There aren't many tourists in your museum!"

"Well, there can be more than 1,000 people a day!"

In fact, more than 1,000 people are not less, but sprinkled in the huge exhibition hall, you can't see a few. Unless it's like the Forbidden City, it's crowded everywhere.

"You have a lot of top-notch collections here, if you promote it well, there should be more than that!"

Wang Zheng shook his head disapprehantly, "Things are not as simple as you think! The things in the museum, for ordinary people, are just to see a lively look! Take Yuan Qinghua as an example, even if you put the 'Guiguzi Descending Mountain' there, it is just a jar with patterns painted on the surface in the eyes of ordinary people, you can't eat or drink, and you will forget it the day after tomorrow after watching it! As for appreciating its artistic value, unless you and I like to collect, or people who are engaged in art themselves, how many people care? Therefore, if you want to rely on publicity to build a museum, it will be effective, but it will not be big!"

Wang Ying nodded in agreement. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is known as one of the four major museums in the world, but it also relies on fire sales to survive because of poor management.

"Then you're not going to just let it go, are you?"

"Of course not! The success of the museum depends on the accumulation of collections and proper publicity. Now I don't have a lot of collection, and the publicity is not very effective. When my collection is filled with a dozen top-notch artworks like the Mona Lisa, Venus, and the Hammurabi Codex, and the publicity, the momentum is really going to be built. ”

"Mona Lisa, Venus, Hammurabi Codex?" Wang Zheng was stunned, "do you really want to?"

"Hehe, I'm not a fantasy! Isn't there Lu Tanwei's "Manjushri Spirit Diagram" now, which is a truly unique top-level art treasure in my hands!"

In fact, the remaining Night Pearl and the 'Great Mughal Diamond' in his hand can also reach this level. However, it is not suitable to tell Wang Ying for the time being.

Hearing this, Wang Ying looked envious and at the same time, she felt more identified in her heart. If it is really as Wang Zheng said, the "Manjushri Spiritual Descent" in his hand is genuine, there is no doubt that it will disrupt the world's ranking of the value of Chinese calligraphy and painting artworks and become the most precious one!

In the hearts of more than a billion Chinese, as well as those around them who are influenced by Chinese culture, it will become the "Mona Lisa" and "The Last Supper" in oriental art!

"Okay, the museum has also led you to finish reading, and the time is up, let's go back! I also promised Yixue to finish eating with her!" Saying that, Wang Zheng didn't give Wang Ying a chance to speak, and turned around and walked towards the outside of the museum.

"Good luck guy!"

Looking at the back in front of him, after muttering in a low voice, Wang Ying chased after him.