Chapter 1078 British Horse Sword Gold Coins

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"Welcome ladies and gentlemen, to this charity dinner this evening! As hosts, I very much welcome you!" After a round of applause, Eskenazi continued: "There will be many very interesting lots in the charity auction tonight, and we hope you will be able to bid enthusiastically! The proceeds from the auction will be donated to 500 orphanages in the UK to help the poor children through their unhappy childhoods...... Let the glory of God shine on the whole of England and bring the gospel to the less fortunate!"

Liu Dong didn't have much feeling for Christianity or Western religions such as Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity, but seeing the rest of the people around him clasp their palms together and pray silently after Eskenazi finished speaking, Liu Dong had no choice but to pretend for a moment.

"Now, let's welcome Mr. Hogarth, a respected 'white glove' in the auction industry and the host of this charity auction!"

In the warm applause, a middle-aged white man wearing a black suit, a white shirt with a red bow tie on the neckline, and a bright and silky blonde hair on his head, walked up to the auction table with a smile on his face.

After bowing slightly to the guests sitting in front of him, Hogarth, who took the microphone, said with a smile: "I am very happy to be invited by Mr. Eskenazi to host this charity auction! I will do my best to make this charity auction a success!" Thank you!"

After a round of applause, Eskenazi said, "Thank you very much Mr. Hogarth for your words, and we sincerely hope that we can use this charity auction to raise more money...... So now let's hand over the auction table to Mr. Hogarth!"

After Eskenazi finished speaking, he turned and stepped down. Hogarth said, "Thank you Mr. Eskenazi for your trust! Now, let's look at the first lot of this auction!"

Hogarth's words fell, and a group of images of three gold coins clearly appeared on the background cloth of the projector, the front of the gold coin is a portrait of a person's head, and the back is an image of a warrior on horseback, of course, Liu Dong knows that the image on the back is strictly called 'St. George beheading the Siren'!

"18th century. Three gold sabers from the time of George IV, two one-pound gold coins, and one one-half pound gold coin! The reserve price is 30,000 pounds, and each increase is not less than 500 pounds, and the bidding is now open!"

The gold horse sword coin, also known as the gold Sovereign coin, is 1 pound.

It was first issued in 1489 by King Henry VII of England, and then gradually became an empire on which the sun never sets. The horse sword gold coin has become almost the world's most common gold coin.

For more than 500 years, the appearance of the gold horse sword coins has remained the same, and even today it is minted in England and in circulation.

For many years, gold horse sword coins have generally featured the heads of British monarchs of all eras on the obverse, and the reverse has always featured St. George slaying the Siren, and at the bottom of the coin is the year of manufacture!

Moreover, the characteristics of the horse sword gold coin are: Gold coins do not have the country name that is common on them, as if they were specially minted to become a worldwide circulating gold coin. The other is that there is no face value. If you want to judge whether it is 1 pound or 1/2 pound, you can only judge by the diameter of the gold coin.

For Liu Dong, these three gold swords from the George IV period are not too precious. For example, when he salvaged shipwrecks in the Caribbean, he had already fished too many gold coins from the bottom of the sea! There are also British swords! Many of them are even more valuable and older than the three pieces that are now being auctioned.

Seeing that the auction price of the three horse sword gold coins had not soared, Mei Xue, who was sitting next to Liu Dong, whispered: "Xiaodong, do you want to bid for these three gold coins?"

"Nope. I'm not interested in them, what's wrong?" Liu Dong said after shaking his head.

"It's nothing, I thought you liked collecting, so you would buy all the antiques you saw!"

Mei Xue's explanation made Liu Dong cry and laugh a little, "Xiaoxue, 'collecting' is just collecting antiques that you are interested in, but it is not all-encompassing, that is what museums do!"

Although it has always been Liu Dong's goal to establish a world-class large-scale comprehensive museum, a professional-level private collection is not the same thing as a museum.

Personal collections, many times, have their own unique preferences. For example, if I like porcelain, then I will focus on porcelain, and other pottery may also be considered. But if you change to bronze, it is not necessarily. If you find good bronzes or calligraphy and paintings, professional collectors will generally communicate after playing for a while, and then exchange them for the porcelain collection they want!

There are in and out, and there is emphasis, this is the real collection of fine water!

If you just pursue the gluttonous way, unless you have other industries to make money, or have extraordinary abilities like Liu Dong, the collection will become a real 'nothing' in the end!

"I see!"

After listening to Liu Dong's popularization of collecting knowledge, Mei Xue also instantly understood.

And at this time, the first set of lots, three horse sword gold coins, was also auctioned off by a middle-aged white man for 80,000 pounds!

"Thank you Mr. John for your generosity, and now let's look at the second lot!"

After Hogarth's words, a jade pot spring vase with blue and white entwined branches and lotus patterns appeared on the projector screen!

For this porcelain, Liu Dong doesn't even need to look at it, it must be Chinese porcelain.

And Liu Dong can also see at a glance that this blue and white jade pot spring vase has a strong porcelain style of the Jiaqing period.

As the successor of Qianlong, the porcelain firing in the Jiaqing period still followed the style of the Qianlong Dynasty, and the porcelain-making process still maintained a high level.

However, since the Jiaqing Dynasty in the Qing Dynasty, the comprehensive national strength of the Qing Dynasty has declined significantly. In order to save money, the imperial court no longer sent pottery supervisors to the imperial kiln factory, but instead put local officials in charge. At this time, the scale, variety and quantity of porcelain in the Imperial Kiln Factory were greatly reduced, and the production of porcelain could only follow the old system, and there was no strength to innovate, and many high-cost porcelains were no longer fired.

In the later period of Jiaqing, blue and white porcelain was mainly daily-use porcelain and coarse porcelain, and the furnishing porcelain gradually decreased. No matter from the point of view of the quality of porcelain or artistic standards, it is far inferior to the Qianlong period.

However, compared with the Xianfeng, Daoguang, Tongzhi and Guangxu dynasties after the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the porcelain of the Jiaqing period is good, and there are still many fine products in the palace furnishing porcelain.

This blue and white jade pot spring vase put up for auction is one of the best!

Whether it is from the blue and white glaze, or the type of firing, it is extremely perfect, and of course the price is quite expensive!

“…… As you can see, this is a piece of imperial kiln porcelain from the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty in Oriental China, with extraordinary craftsmanship and exquisite shapes, full of mysterious and fascinating oriental charm...... It used to be the darling of all European royal families for nearly a thousand years, and now it is in front of you! A beautiful Qing Dynasty Jiaqing tangled branch lotus pattern jade pot spring vase, the reserve price is 200,000 pounds, and each increase in price shall not be less than 10,000 pounds, and the bidding is now open!"

"£210,000!"

"£230,000!"

"£240,000!" ......

Although nearly two centuries later, porcelain is no longer the patent of China!

Porcelain and silk will always be the unique symbols of China in the world!

Just as people are still so obsessed with porcelain from two centuries ago, in less than ten minutes, the reserve price of this Jiaqing Tangzhi Lotus Jade Pot Spring Vase has more than doubled, and it continues to rise.

"Originally, I wanted to buy this porcelain as my first collection, but now it seems that there is not much chance!" said Edward Chan with a dejected sigh in the face of fierce competition.

As a Chinese, he is still very willing to have a piece of fine porcelain that represents the cultural symbol of his hometown!

"By the way, Liu Dong, are you bidding this time?" Melissa began.

At this time, Mei Xue next to her and Chen on the opposite side also focused their eyes on Liu Dong.

"I'll forget it, I already have a few such jade pot spring bottles in my hands!" Liu Dong shook his head.

Although he lamented the loss of tens of millions of precious antiques in China overseas, he also thought about recovering them. But this kind of thing is not something he can do alone. Therefore, Liu Dong hopes to focus his main energy on those more precious antiques, which should be cultural relics above the second level A level!

"How many such precious porcelains do you have?"

Looking at Chen's surprised look, Liu Dong smiled and nodded, "Yes, after all, I am Chinese, and I have relatively more Chinese porcelain in my hand!"

When answering, Liu Dong still made a few turns!

Now, Liu Dong's porcelain collection is almost the richest of all his collections. Almost all the types of porcelain from official kilns and private kilns from the Song Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China!

The reason why Liu Dong was able to have such a rich collection of porcelain in two years, in addition to his own Taobao and the collection through the Agarwood Pavilion and the Red Star Auction House, the most important thing is to benefit from two harvests, one is the 400-year-old collection of the Van Gaal family in the Netherlands, which almost doubled the number and variety of porcelain in Liu Dong's hands!

Another time was the Tanglin treasure stolen by Sun Dianying, which instantly made the number of the most precious imperial kilns and official kilns in Liu Dong's hands reach an extreme!

"It's really enviable!" said Edward Chen, who looked at Liu Dong, with a slight sigh.

"There's nothing to envy about this, if you really like collecting, there's still a chance in the future! After all, we're all young!" )