Chapter 781: Tsar's Easter Egg

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"Grandpa!"

The young man looked overjoyed, and when he greeted him, he soon found a 60-centimeter-high, square base, steel pole with angel relief, and a simple table lamp with a blue enamel lampshade on top of the old man's arms!

"You...... Why are you picking up the leaks again, if you let grandma know, you will definitely be trained again today!"

The grandson's words made the old man's face embarrassed for a while, "Good grandson, if you don't say it, I won't say it, how will your grandmother know!"

Hearing this, the young man couldn't help but sigh heavily in his heart, his grandfather is good at everything else, he just likes to pick up leaks on Taobao, basically half of the income in the store every month is used by him to buy antiques, but his eyesight is not very good, for decades, the things he bought at home are piled up in half of the house, but there are very few genuine products.

After doing this again and again, the old couple almost divorced because of this incident.

In the end, it was these juniors who took the effort of the boss to persuade the two old men to reconcile, and then made three chapters of the law to the old man!

But obviously a qiē is useless, after being honest for a few months, my grandfather sprouted again!

"Well, but not for example!" said the young man.

"Hehe, good grandson, grandpa just knows that you are the best for grandpa in this family!" the old man said with a smile.

"Old man, can you show me the lamp in your hand?" Seeing that the old man was about to walk in with his things, Liu Dong hurriedly walked over.

"Are you ......?"

"Grandpa, this gentleman is from the capital of China!" the young man hurriedly said.

"Really?"

Hearing this, the old man's eyes softened a lot.

"Yes, I came to the United States to do something. Because I like to collect it myself. So take advantage of the time to come here today and have a look!" Liu Dong said with a smile.

"I didn't expect to meet a fellow practitioner. Disrespectful, disrespectful!"

"You're too polite! I don't know ......?" Liu Dong pointed to the table lamp that the old man held in his arms.

"Okay, I just collected this lamp, so it's okay to give it to you!" The old man didn't think much about it, stretched out his hands, and handed the thing to Liu Dong.

Seeing this, Liu Dong smiled in his heart, it seems that although this old man likes to pick up antiques. The things that are operated are also related to antiques, but the knowledge of antiques is also poor enough, and I don't even know the rules that fragile things in the industry can't be passed!

However, at this time, Liu Dong undoubtedly showed himself, so after saying thank you, he took it with both hands.

At first glance, although the style of the table lamp is very exquisite in the eyes of ordinary people, in Liu Dong's eyes, the workmanship is a little rough, whether it is the pattern on the lampshade. Or the angel reliefs on the pole are not handled finely enough, and the four words of vivid expression are not touched. Even on the square base with a side length of about 20 centimeters, there is one less rose copper relief that was originally decorated on the four sides, and the original black lacquer on it has become mottled.

However, these are not the reasons why Liu Dong is desperate to get this table lamp.

After looking up and down with the lamp in his hand, Liu Dong held the pole with his left hand and the lamp holder with his right hand, and turned the lamp horizontally.

Looking at the bottom side of the exposed base, Liu Dong scraped hard with his index finger at the edge. As a layer of black lacquer was scraped open, a faint crack appeared in front of Liu Dong's eyes.

"It's really the same as I imagined!" Liu Dong said secretly in his heart.

After finding the answer, Liu Dong also made a decision in his heart.

"Old man, I like this table lamp a lot, I don't know if you sell it?"

"You want to buy it?" the old man looked at Liu Dong and said suspiciously.

"Well, if you are always willing, I am willing to buy it for 30,000 US dollars!" Considering that the appearance of this table lamp is not gorgeous, Liu Dong is not easy to give a big price.

Otherwise, things are really self-defeating!

"$30,000?"

The young man, who was also shocked, hurriedly said after reacting: "Grandpa, sell it! 30,000 US dollars, our store can't make so much money in a week!"

In his eyes, it is estimated that Liu Dong has become a bigger wronged boss than his grandfather! A broken table lamp is actually willing to spend 30,000 US dollars, either a fool or a lot of money.

"Okay, since you like it, I'll sell it to you!" Encouraged by his grandson, the old man nodded after a little thought.

Anyway, the cost of this table lamp is less than 200 US dollars, and today's transaction is done, and I will have the opportunity to prove to my wife that I don't always lose money when I find leaks on Taobao!

"Thank you for your generosity, do you think we are cash, or transfer?" Liu Dong said happily.

"Transfer money, it's convenient!"

"Okay!" Liu Dong, who agreed, transferred $30,000 to the old man as quickly as possible, and then left the Chinese antique shop in New York with a table lamp.

Liu Dong, who came out of the antique shop, did not continue shopping, but came to the place where he stored his car, opened the car door and sat down, and did not drive away immediately, but took out the table lamp.

After taking another carving knife from the mustard seed space, Liu Dong buckled the lowest side of the base of the table lamp. Soon, a delicate and beautiful black wooden box inlaid with gorgeous silver rose reliefs appeared in front of Liu Dong's eyes.

The wooden box was not locked, and Liu Dong opened it very lightly, but after opening it, the contents inside were really fascinating, and the people who heard it were excited.

An oval-shaped golden egg about 18 centimeters tall and cast in gold, with a triangular bracket in the shape of a golden pheasant in the lower part, and an oval golden egg inlaid with 96 diamonds on the upper part of the surface in a grid shape, appeared in front of Liu Dong's eyes.

The height of the upper half of the golden egg is 13 cm, and each diamond on it is the same size, about 3 carats, and the colors are red, pink, blue, colorless and purple diamonds.

"Tsar Easter eggs, this is Tsar Easter eggs!" Looking at the treasure in front of him, Liu Dong said excitedly.

Eggs are loved and worshipped by many peoples all over the world, but egg painting is a traditional custom unique to Slavic peoples, and the Russians are the ones who have preserved this artistic custom to this day. Russians depict their loves, dreams and visions on Easter eggs, which are the condensation of the Russian soul and art.

For Russians, easter eggs bring health, beauty, strength and abundance. This is due to the fact that the egg is associated with traditional Russian religious practices, and it is an essential item for some religious festivals, especially Easter. People keep the eggs in their homes like icons and protectors. Russians also greet new little life with easter eggs.

It is precisely because of this custom that in the past few hundred years, from emperors to commoners, everyone likes to make delicate little things like zuò.

Where there is a need, there is naturally a market!

In the 19th and 20th centuries, there were many craftsmen and even jewelry designers who made eggs in Russia!

The Russian jewelry master Fabergé is one of the best, and the eggs he made belong to the Easter egg artwork, which is made of gold, diamonds, jadeite, etc.

Moreover, Fabergé spent almost a year designing each egg, and he hid in the imperial court's special studio to meditate on the shape and theme of the eggs, and then carefully turned the ideas into tributes with a carving knife.

These exquisitely conceived and lavishly crafted Fabergé eggs elevate the art of jewellery to the highest level of decorative art since the Renaissance.

Fabergé, a genius Russian goldsmith, created the dazzling Tsar Easter egg, and he used his ingenuity to turn the ordinary Easter egg into a gorgeous legend.

At the 1900 Paris World's Fair, the Tsar's Easter eggs were exhibited for the first time in public, surprising the judges, and Fabergé's fame spread throughout Europe.

Fabergé has become synonymous with fashion and nobility, and owning a Fabergé product is not only an appreciation, but also a status symbol. The aristocrats compared themselves to each other, and almost every personal item had to pass through the hands of Fabergé in order to be called a treasure.

Whenever the Tsar and Empress visited or toured around Russia, they always carried a chest full of Fabergé jewels with them in case they were ready to give them as gifts at the right time. By the time Nicholas II succeeded to the throne in 1896, most of the gifts from the Russian Tsar had come from Fabergé.

Between 1885 and 1917, the Russian court artist Peter Karl Fabergé and his staff produced a total of 69 eggs for the Tsar and private collectors.

Of these, 54 were made for Tsars Alexander III and Nicholas II, 52 were Easter eggs, and only 50 were delivered to the Tsar. The remaining 7 Fabergé eggs were made for the Kerch family in Moscow.

Each of the 50 golden tsar's eggs is one of Russia's most precious works of art, and all of them are top treasures worth tens of millions of dollars!

Moreover, these easter eggs are also a testimony to the luxurious life of the Russian tsar, and also show the achievements of Russia in art and culture in those years.

Liu Dong himself didn't expect that he would accidentally visit the New York flea market and find this priceless absolute treasure - Tsar Easter eggs!

Now that you know that this is a Tsar Easter egg, it must be more than the outer layer!

So when Liu Dong opened the outermost golden shell, a delicate golden hen wrapped in completely corrupted velvet and slightly larger than a child's fist was revealed, and when Liu Dong opened the golden hen, its belly was a miniature crown made of diamonds and a miniature egg made of rubies.

The ruby is the top pigeon's blood ruby in Myanmar, Liu Dong took it in his hand and estimated it, and the weight was heavier than the George IV ruby that had just been auctioned at Christie's, about 35 carats!

"This is really a great harvest!" Looking at the Tsar's easter egg in front of him, Liu Dong said excitedly. (To be continued......)