Chapter 1080: The Collection of Eskenazi (Part I)

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After the episode just now, the atmosphere of the charity auction is gone.

Seeing that it was not too early, Eskenazi naturally announced that the auction was over!

Just when Liu Dong took Mei Xue and was about to say hello to Chen and Melissa and prepare to leave, he was stopped by Eskenazi.

"Liu, are you interested in seeing my collection room?"

Eskenazi's words fell, and Liu Dong's eyes instantly lit up.

As a well-known collector and appraiser in the whole of Europe, and the treasures in the Eskenazi Collection are not countless, but they are also definitely not low, this temptation is simply irresistible for Liu Dong!

"Of course I'm interested!" After being stunned for a moment, Liu Dong hurriedly said.

"Hehe!" After laughing for a moment, Eskenazi continued, "But I have to trouble the two of you to wait here for a while, let me send these guests away, and then take the two of them to see them!"

"Yes, sir, please!"

Nodding his head and smiling at Liu Dong, Eskenazi turned and left.

Turning her head to look at Mei Xue, who had a calm face but a little struggle in her eyes, Liu Dong whispered in her crystal clear ear: "What happened just now, I'll explain it to you when I go back!"

Hearing this, Mei Xue glanced at him, hesitated, and nodded slightly.

Seeing her like this, Liu Dong was also relieved.

At this moment, Edward Chen and Melissa walked over together, "Liu Dong, Mei Xue, let's go together?"

"No, I have made an appointment with Mr. Eskenazi to talk about some things next, and we may not be able to leave until we meet, so you can go first!" Liu Dong said.

"Okay then...... That's right. This is the address and phone number where we live, remember to call me tomorrow. As the host, I'm going to take you to London this time!" said Edward Chen, handing over a piece of paper.

Liu Dong took it and took a look, put it in his pocket, and said with a smile: "Okay." I was also planning to spend a few days in London to see what it was all about. Originally, I was worried that I was not familiar with life and could not find a really fun place, but now with you, the landlord, leading the way, we are much more convenient!"

"Haha, then we're decided!" Chen smiled.

"It's decided!" Liu Dong nodded.

Then the two made an appointment to meet tomorrow, chatted briefly, and said goodbye to each other!

After waiting for about half an hour, the full house of guests was sent away by Eskenazi.

"Liu. I'm sorry to keep you waiting!"

"It's all right, Mr. Eskenazi, now we can get started, right? I can't wait to see your collection!" Liu Dong laughed.

"Of course, please come with me!"

Under the leadership of Eskenazi, Liu Dong and Mei Xue walked out of the hall, walked forward along the corridor for more than ten meters, and turned into a study!

This den is so big. It covers an area of at least more than 200 square meters and is more than 6 meters high. And it is surrounded by the walls, and the shelves are full of books at the same height as the room, except for the east wall, where there are more than two dozen oil paintings of different sizes!

In addition to the bookshelves placed against the wall, in the center of the study is a large oak desk, which is more than 4 meters long and almost 2 meters wide. The four legs are surrounded by detailed and beautiful carvings.

However, there are not many things on the desk, except for the lamp, ink, pens, paper, and a few books, the largest number of magnifying glasses of different specifications!

In addition to these two desks, there is another one next to it that is about the same size as this one. But it is a table dedicated to stacking books. Judging from the slightly messy placement marks above, these books are now commonly used by the owner recently.

Of course, in such a large study, there is also a place to meet guests.

In the southeast corner of the study, there are several sets of sofas and oak coffee tables, and there are some green plants and plaster, bronze sculptures and other decorations on the side.

After looking around the entire living room, Liu Dong turned his head and said with a hint of envy: "Eskenazi is really a good place here!"

Eskenazi naturally understood the meaning of Liu Dong's words, "These are the merits of the ancestors of the Eskenazi family, and I am just a successor!"

Having said that, the pride on Eskenazi's face was palpable.

Of course, he also has reason to be proud, under Liu Dong's relics yuanguang, in this large and slightly empty study, everything is shining with aura, although most of them are white aura, and relatively thin, but even so, it means that everything here belongs to antiques of genuine value.

While most of them are not of much value, the amount is staggering enough.

This also once again made Liu Dong see how rich the accumulation of these old aristocrats in Europe is. And the history of the Eskenazi family is only a little more than 100 years!

This also shows the importance of historical heritage to collecting!

"Mr. Eskenazi is polite, inheritance is also a kind of wealth! Not to mention that you have made them richer today!" Liu Dong said.

"Hehe, that's what I'm saying! If it weren't for the knowledge that my family has accumulated, I wouldn't have the level of authentication I have now!" The Eskenazi family, whose ancestors were engaged in the appraisal industry and ran antique shops, can be regarded as a family lineage, which obviously played a key role in the growth of Dennis Eskenazi.

And Liu Dong, who was born in the wilderness, is most envious of people like Eskenazi!

His own experience made Liu Dong understand that a good master is more important than anything else.

"I'm sorry, Liu, please wait a moment here!"

After leading the two of them to the reception place in the study, Eskenazi turned his head and said apologetically.

And Liu Dong also understood the implicit meaning of the other party's words, people wanted to open the real collection room, and the things that involved the password, of course, they couldn't let the two outsiders see it.

"It's okay! We'll wait here!" Liu Dong said.

"Hehe, it won't take too long, a few minutes will be enough!" After saying that, Eskenazi nodded at the two of them, and turned to leave!

And Liu Dong didn't use the relics to peep at other people's secret room passwords!

For him, the relics are a powerful weapon that dominates the world, and it can almost be said that he can go anywhere. But sometimes the relics are too powerful, and it is also a burden on Liu Dong's psychology.

Because he has to always maintain a normal heart, suppress strong forces, and bring himself the ** who wants to do whatever he wants.

Otherwise, if he really relied on the relics to steal the bank vault unscrupulously and collect all the antique treasures he wanted. At that time, although he will get his wish, this thought has already become a demon!

As the saying goes: 'If you want to make it perish, you must first make it crazy', if he really steals the world with the relics of the Yuanguang, then it is estimated that the time of death will not be far away!

Therefore, when Liu Dong enjoyed the convenience of relics Yuanguang, he also tried to maintain a certain degree of self-control!

If it is not necessary, he will never use his ability indiscriminately on major issues of right and wrong!

"Click!"

With a soft sound, I saw that in the bookshelf behind the desk, a silver-white password door that looked like it was different from the entrance door of an ordinary apartment was revealed!

And in Eskenazi, after manually entering the password and verifying the iris, the password door slowly opened!

"Liu ......!"

Looking at Eskenazi who was waving towards him, Liu Dong immediately pulled Mei Xue to stand up, "Let's go, let's go over!"

At this time, Mei Xue, who was also interested in antiques under the influence of Liu Dong, was also very interested in Eskenazi's collection, so she also accelerated her pace under Liu Dong's traction!

"Please come with me!" said Eskenazi as the two walked in.

"Hmm!"

After Liu Dong nodded, he saw Eskenazi leading the way in, and Liu Dong and Mei Xue, who were following behind, also saw the space inside after passing through the code door.

Like most underground storage rooms, there is a steel staircase that slopes down after a few steps forward.

When Liu Dong and the others walked down from above under the guidance of Eskenazi, they also saw clearly this treasure room that was larger than the study above!

The shelves in this large treasure room are filled with all kinds of antiques, from Chinese porcelain, sculptures, paintings and calligraphy, to Indian gods and ancient books, as well as Egyptian and Greek pottery vases, gold and silver objects. Not to mention the local European paintings, drawings, prints, and royal utensils!

There are no less than 20,000 pieces, and almost most of them are high-quality products.

Obviously, this is the accumulation of the Eskenazi family for 100 years!

"Honey, look at this oil painting so beautiful!"

Following the direction pointed by Mei Xue, Liu Dong saw an oil painting on the display shelf on his left!

The content of the oil painting is a corner of the pasture, a clear stream, a green wood, green grass, plus six or seven cows, or leisurely grazing, or bowing their heads to drink, or leisurely lying on their sides, reflecting the houses in the distance, under the blue sky and white clouds, showing a beautiful pastoral scenery, quiet and natural, so that people who are tired of the hustle and bustle of the city, can't help but want to indulge in it.

"Jacob Van Roysdal!"

Hearing this, Eskenazi next to him glanced at Liu Dong and said with a smile: "It seems that Mr. Liu not only has a deep study of oriental art, but also has an extraordinary appraisal level of oil paintings!"

"Hehe, I'm really interested in oil paintings, but Mr. Eskenazi's collection is even more amazing to me!" Liu Dong laughed.

Jacob van Roysdal was one of the most famous landscape painters in the Netherlands in the 17th century, and a pioneer of Dutch classical landscape painting.

But like Van Gogh, this man became famous after his death, and he was poor and unknown during his lifetime! But now Roysdal's landscape paintings cost more than 10 million pounds! )