On November 1st, many famous collectors in China gathered in Beijing, and these famous collectors were accompanied by countless collecting hobbies. --Phoenix-Dance-Literature-Learning-Net--Because today is the opening day of the first stop of the auction goods tour of Shanghai Castby Auction House, a leading auction house in China's auction industry, in Beijing. Naturally, the reporters of TV stations, newspapers and magazines will not let go of this opportunity, and they all rushed to the exhibition venue in advance, anxiously waiting for the opening of the touring exhibition.

Shanghai Castby Auction House is the leader of the auction industry in China's big 6 regions, although there is still a big gap from Sotheby's auction house in Hong Kong, Christie's auction house and other famous auction houses, but the momentum of the exhibition is very fast, and those famous auction houses in Asia have felt the huge potential of the largest auction house in China's big 6 regions. Some well-known collectors in Hong Kong assert that it will not be long before Castrobee Shanghai will take away the position of the leader of auction houses in Asia from Sotheby's Hong Kong.

Traditionally, auction houses conduct a month-long tour before lifting a major auction, mainly in the country's most economically powerful cities and the largest number of collectors. The main purpose of this kind of traveling exhibition is to attract potential sellers who have strong strength to participate in the auction by displaying the lot in advance.

However, as far as Castel Shanghai is concerned, any of the pre-auction tours are not as much as the collectors and major media attracted by this tour. Why? Before the start of the tour, many famous collectors received news from the Shanghai Castby auction house that there would be a precious Qianlong imperial enamel plum blossom primrose bowl in the winter auction, which has the potential to create the highest record for the auction of collectibles in China.

After a grand ceremony. President Hong of Castrobe Auction House finally announced the official opening of the Beijing tour. The doors of the pavilion slowly opened. President Hong of Carlsberg Auction House accompanied many famous names in the collection industry and a group of media reporters into the convention and exhibition center. The rest of the collectors who came to open their eyes and loved the world had to wait outside for a while, and only after these big names had enough of their eyes and left could they enter.

President Hong led the famous names in the collecting industry to the No. 1 showcase and introduced them to them. This is the precious Qianlong imperial enamel plum blossom spring bowl of the Qing Dynasty, which was auctioned for 7 million yuan in June this year, creating a record for the auction price of collectibles in Central Plains Province.

"From a personal point of view, I think the seller has made a big bargain." President Hong smiled and said: "According to our investigation by Castrobe Auction House, there will be no more than five of this kind of imperial enamel plum blossom primrose bowl in the world. One of the reasons why it can be sold at a price of 7 million is because the economic strength of the Central Plains region is average, and the investment in art in the collecting industry is not strong; Another reason is related to the last auction house. They don't have the habit of holding touring exhibitions all over the country. Therefore, some powerful collectors in Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and other countries did not know this news, so the transaction price was maintained to 7 million yuan. ”

President Hong has just finished the introduction, and many collectors over there have surrounded them, one by one, they are full of praise for the Qing Qianlong imperial plum blossom primrose bowl in the display case, listen to that tone, where is this bowl one-fifth of the world? It should be a unique and rare work of art in the world and the only one in the world that is worth collecting.

Those media remember that everyone said so about the famous collectors, and naturally understood the value of this plum blossom primrose bowl, and for a while the clicking sound continued, and the flash flashed non-stop, and all the beautiful postures of the plum blossom primrose bowl made by Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty were photographed from various angles.

It's a pity that these records are not known. These so-called collectors are just a red envelope from the Shanghai Castel auction house, each of whom receives a Wu Bai Yuandi red envelope, enjoys a few days of free travel to Beijing, and begins to sing praises.

In China, compared to the high cost of collectibles, the price of expert learning is really low, which is a bit embarrassing. Even after ten years. There are still some famous experts and professors who give red envelopes for a few hundred yuan. Do you identify a New Year's tiger as a real South China tiger with your eyes closed? These people are full-fledged experts and professors, teaching at prestigious universities in China. It's not the so-called professors of those wild roads. If it weren't for the fact that the matter was finally exposed, to the general public, who would have thought that these experts and professors would sell their conscience for a few hundred yuan in red envelopes?

The next day, influential newspapers in major cities across the country published the news of the opening of the first leg of the Shanghai Castel Auction Winter Auction Tour in Beijing, which focused on the Qianlong Imperial Plum Blossom Herald Bowl of the Qing Dynasty. The editors quote the convincing words of experts and professors to prove how rare this collection is, how expensive it is, and how valuable it is. --Phoenix-Dance-Literature-Learning-Net--There are also some newspapers that directly publish the columns of several famous names in the domestic collection circle, from the perspective of historical origin, production background, ceramic technology, collection inheritance and other professional skills to analyze this Qing Qianlong imperial plum blossom primrose bowl. At the end of the article, experts from all walks of life unanimously agreed that this Qianlong imperial plum blossom primrose bowl of the Qing Dynasty has great potential for appreciation, and is likely to set a new record in China's auction industry.

Subsequently, various collection magazines also published articles by many famous collectors in a considerable space, and trumpeted this plum blossom spring map made by Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty.

In this way, in addition to the red envelopes of a few hundred yuan, the experts and professors who wrote the columns also received an additional publicity fee ranging from 2 to 3,000 yuan, and of course, the manuscript fee paid by newspapers and magazines ranging from tens of yuan to hundreds of yuan.

Some influential newspapers and magazines also received red envelopes ranging from 800 yuan to 2,000 yuan from Castby's auction house, while those newspapers and magazines with little influence only mixed a few meals for free and got a piece of chronicle.

In any case, the operation of the Shanghai Castby auction house was very successful, and for a time all the eyes of the national collectors were focused on this Qianlong imperial enamel plum blossom primrose bowl of the Qing Dynasty.

Subsequently, Castby's tour moved to Guangzhou, which was another lively scene; Then Hangzhou, and finally December 15. All the exhibits returned to Shanghai. A seven-day pre-auction preview of the Winter Auction was held in Shanghai. At this time, the hype about this Qing Qianlong imperial enamel plum blossom primrose bowl has reached its peak, the Shanghai exhibition hall gathered collectors from all over the country, although there are many precious collections in the exhibition hall, but most of them are for this Qing Qianlong imperial enamel plum blossom spring bowl to come, so that in front of the display cabinet of this plum blossom spring bowl people have stopped and crowded into a ball. Even foreigners who admire Chinese culture, but don't know anything about the connotation of Chinese culture, also rushed to open their eyes. At the suggestion of the record, the person who is good at showing off pointed to the plum blossom herald bowl in the display cabinet and stretched out his thumb and praised:

The next day, an article appeared in the newspaper that China's thousands of years of culture had conquered the world. The picture is a golden-eyed and white-skinned foreigner who stretches out his thumb and shouts at the plum blossom spring picture bowl:

Zhao Changfeng laughed when he saw the news in the newspaper, this memory is okay, I know that if you get a white-skinned foreigner, if you get an African buddy to come. I guess that's not the effect, right? December 21. At 5 p.m., the last day of the pre-auction preview, the exhibition was about to be dismantled, and the exhibition hall was still crowded with many collectors. President Hong of Shanghai Castby Auction House came to the exhibition hall again, standing in front of the display cabinet of the imperial enamel plum blossom primrose bowl of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty and talked eloquently to the TV camera: "The preciousness of this imperial enamel plum blossom primrose bowl of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty lies in the fact that there are only five in the world today, and the other four have been collected by several famous museums in the world. I'm sure I'll get a very good price at tomorrow's auction. ”

The TV station also very interestingly did not ask President Hong the specific names of the so-called famous museums in the world, so after leaving the exhibition hall, the staff of Carlsberg Auction House immediately followed into the interview car and gave each member of the interview team a red envelope, even if it was the driver who was driving. also received a Wu Baiyuan red envelope. Equivalent to the price of a university professor. It is no wonder that some literate people at that time said: It is better to sell missiles than to sell tea and eggs, and it is better to use a scalpel than to kill pigs. It seems to be a reality.

That same evening. The most famous local TV station in Shanghai broadcast the news of an interview with President Hong, which made the hearts of potential sellers who lived in five-star hotels in Shanghai more and more itchy in the hearts of the Qianlong Imperial Plum Blossom Primrose Bowl.

At 10 a.m. on December 22, the Shanghai Castby Winter Auction House Winter Auction officially opened in the Meteorite Hall on the fourth floor of the Portman Hotel, 1376 Nanjing West Road, with a total of more than 100 collectibles auctioned and nearly 500 buyers from all over the country.

After the auction began, buyers from all walks of life, encouraged by the incendiary language of the auction host, raised their cards to meet the price, and when the meeting was adjourned at noon, the auction host launched a total of 75 collectibles, of which 68 were sold, with the highest transaction value of 3 million yuan.

At this time, many buyers did not make a move, and they were quietly waiting for the finale of this Castby winter auction, the Qing Qianlong Imperial Enamel Plum Blossom Primrose Bowl.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the auction will resume, continue the auction, the auction process is basically undisturbed, but in the auction of the penultimate auction item, a Qing Kangxi imperial white jade carving above the mountain corner cup appeared a *, more than 20 buyers competed to bid, from the reserve price of 1.5 million all the way soaring, and finally at a sky-high price of 6.88 million yuan, this price created the auction record of China's white jade cup, and the world auction record of the white jade cup is only more than one million yuan.

The auction host was very sorry and obviously felt a little sorry for missing out on the world's highest auction record.

Then the auction host launched a pair of Zheng Banqiao's "Strange Bamboo Picture" in the Qing Dynasty, with a starting price of 2 million yuan, but no one raised a sign to respond to the price, and the auction was unsuccessful. This surprised the auction host, perhaps everyone paid attention to the last auction item Qing Qianlong imperial enamel plum blossom spring bowl of the picture, so they were not interested in the rare Zheng Banqiao's real work "Strange Bamboo Picture".

At 5:08 p.m., the auction host announced in a high-profile manner that the Qing Qianlong imperial enamel plum blossom spring map was officially opened, with a starting price of 10 million yuan, and the lowest price for each sign should be 50,000 yuan.

"Fifteen thousand!" The No. 17 seller was the first to raise the card.

"One hundred and one thousand!" Seller No. 48 is not to be outdone.

More buyers then got involved. The price was quickly raised to 15 million yuan.

This time. Many buyers are holding back, after all, fifteen million yuan is three or four million higher than their psychological price point, which is really a bit unaffordable.

However, there were still more than a dozen buyers bidding for each other in the venue, and the atmosphere became more and more enthusiastic.

"Sixteen and a half million!"

"Seventeen million!"

"Eighteen and a half million!"

At this time, all the people present were excited, if this price can be sold, it is definitely the highest auction record for collectibles in China's big 6, they watched this scene with wide eyes, although they could not participate in the bidding in person, but they were able to watch the major tycoons bid for each other on the sidelines. It's already a very rare and exciting experience.

"Twenty-six million!" Buyer No. 225 suddenly added four million. For a moment, the audience fell silent. Staring at the other eleven or twelve buyers who were bidding with Buyer 225 just now.

The sweat on the foreheads of those buyers came out, and some of them took out their mobile phones and whispered calls, apparently asking the people behind the scenes to see how to deal with the scene.

"Twenty-six million, twenty-six million, this two hundred and twenty-five buyer pays twenty-six million!" The auction host excitedly hissed in a somewhat hoarse throat, "What other gentleman has offered a higher price?" Is there any gentleman who is willing to pay a higher price? ”

The eyes of the auction host searched back and forth on the faces of the dozen or so buyers who were still nervously bidding. The buyers' faces turned red, there was some deflatment in their eyes, and some more crazy jealousy looked at the number two hundred and twenty-five buyers, obviously the price of twenty-six million was out of their range.

The auction host set his eyes on the one hundred and forty-eighth buyer who was on the phone. He was the most decisive just now, and maybe after the phone call, he might continue to bid.

However, after hanging up the phone, No. 148 looked depressed. Apparently. The behind-the-scenes manipulators did not allow him to continue to raise the price.

"Twenty-six million once, twenty-six million once. Is there also a gentleman willing to pay a higher price? The auction host chattered and shouted, his eyes actively communicating with the buyers. But everyone avoided his gaze.

"Twenty-six million twice, twenty-six million twice. Is there a gentleman who is willing to quote a higher price for the rare Qing Qianlong imperial enamel plum blossom primrose bowl in this world? "The auction host is still doing his last touch.

No one responded.

The auction host slowly raised the auction hammer and shouted, "Two thousand six hundred ......"

At this moment, a Mandarin with a strong Cantonese accent suddenly appeared in the corner: "Two thousand six million and five thousand!" ”

Everyone immediately looked over, only to see a thin middle-aged man holding up a price tag. Some veterans in the collecting industry immediately recognized this thin middle-aged man, isn't this Ye Jianmin, a famous antique dealer in Guangzhou? Ye Jianmin has traveled all over the country, including Hong Kong, Taiwan, and even auctions in London, England, and New York, USA, and is a well-known name in the Chinese collecting industry. Of course, this does not mean that Ye Jianmin's financial strength is very strong, and many people who know the inside know that Ye Jianmin is just an intermediate agent, and many of his bidding behaviors are bidding for the agents behind the scenes.

When participating in the auction today, many people saw Ye Jianmin and thought that he would be in the limelight at this auction, but the strange thing is that Ye Jianmin never raised his card to meet the price, as if he was not interested in any collectibles, and people were gradually attracted by the atmosphere of the auction, and gradually forgot about Ye Jianmin. However, there are also some people who believe that Ye Jianmin must have come for the last auction item Qing Qianlong imperial enamel plum blossom spring bowl. They waited to see the final act. However, after the auction of the imperial enamel plum blossom herald bowl made by Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty started, Ye Jianmin still did not report the price, but just watched it lightly with a smile on his lips, as if he was watching a drama that had nothing to do with him. Even when there were more than a dozen bidders left in the end, Ye Jianmin still did not react. Everyone's attention was attracted by the sky-high price of 26 million at this time, who still remembers Ye Jianmin, the most famous businessman in the national collecting industry.

But everyone didn't expect that when they had forgotten about this big name in the national collecting industry, Ye Jianmin would suddenly make a move and shout out an offer of 26.5 million yuan! Haha, the audience was excited again, waiting to see a good scene of dragon fighting.

"Buyer No. 328 offered 26.5 million yuan, 26.5 million yuan once, and 26.5 million yuan twice!" The auction host's voice was raised again.

Player No. 225 stared at Ye Jianmin tightly, Ye Jianmin smiled and shadowed his gaze, not dodging at all.

"Twenty-seven million!" Player No. 225 viciously raised the price card,

"Twenty-seven million and fifty thousand." Ye Jianmin said lightly and raised the price card.

Some people at the auction scene couldn't help laughing, obviously they all saw that Ye Jianmin was here to stir up the scene. For a time, those senior collectors and celebrities were unhappy in their hearts. What's that two-twenty-five? I've never seen them in collectibles auctions before, and I don't know where they came from, want to dominate the auction and press down on these big names in the collecting world, how can they balance? The collection world is a place that pays the most attention to qualifications, and there is a fixed small ***, which will never easily accept outsiders, let alone welcome this kind of tyrant who does not know the height of the sky. Ye Jianmin's shot this time was just right, saving face for all the famous names in the collection industry, and letting the No. 225 tyrant know that the water in the collecting world is very deep, and not any tyrant can play it if he jumps in.

"Twenty-eight million!" Number Two Hundred and Twenty-Five shouted.

"Two thousand eight million five thousand!" Ye Jianmin is still unhurried.

"Thirty-three million!" The two hundred and twenty-fifth obviously moved the real fire, and added five million at once! For a while, the noisy auction scene was silent again, and everyone was staring at Ye Jianmin, wondering if this Cantonese guy could withstand the crazy pressure of this No. 225 buyer!

Ye Jianmin moved his body, changed his posture, and gently raised the sign: "Three thousand three million five thousand!" ”

Buyer No. 225 stood up on the ground! The security guards around the auction site immediately became nervous, ready to rush up at any moment to stop a possible fight.

Ye Jianmin smiled and met the gaze of No. 225, without dodging at all. 33.50 million, 33.55 million, 328 player offers 33.5 million, are there any buyers willing to pay a higher price? The auction host also seemed to be stimulated by the tense atmosphere of the scene, and his voice became hysterical!

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