Chapter 1146 Twenty Million Guangcai
"All these carvings are from the 18th century? …,
Just after walking a few steps, Li Yang suddenly squatted down, pointed to some artistic reliefs on the altar on the side of the road and asked in a low voice.
These reliefs are very old at a glance, and the foreign carving art has recently been studied by Li Yang, and these reliefs obviously have the characteristics of Europe in the eighteenth century.
"Yes, all the carvings on this flap have a certain history, but unfortunately there was still damage before, and they were not completely connected!" Charles bowed slightly, with a little pride, and seemed to be a little regretful, from which it can be seen that caring for everything here has been deeply rooted in the bones of each of them.
Li Yang and Bai Ming both looked at each other and bowed their heads for the last time.
The Italians' care for cultural relics is indeed much stronger than that of China, and a commercial street has actually made them see a lot of problems.
Bai Ming's heart sighed, and Li Yang thought about how to recruit and educate the museum's employees in the future.
If they can also like the people here, like all the cultural relics from the bottom of their hearts, the management of the museum will become very easy, and it will definitely not be like the situation of the Palace Museum.
"Mr. Li Yang, this is my shop!"
A few minutes later, Charles stood in front of a shop with a hint of orientalism, smiled and said a word.
Charles has a total of three stores here, not in one area, not the same name, the other two stores are mainly selling European antiques, only this one has a lot of oriental antiquities.
So he directly brought Li Yang and Bai Ming here.
"Mr. Charles, is there anything good to be born again?"
Bai Ming asked with a smile, he has been to this shop once, and the tools in it are very good.
Some people have said that most of the country's cultural relics are circulated abroad, and there are more high-grade cultural relics abroad, which is actually not false, the country's weakness for hundreds of years, so that the Western giants have plundered too many treasures from the country.
Some of these treasures have entered museums in other countries, but more of them have been passed down in the hands of the Si people.
It is a fact that sometimes it is more convenient and simple to acquire some fine cultural relics in foreign countries than in China, and it is a fact that makes people very helpless and sad.
"Two of you, just go in and have a look!" Charles smiled slightly, looking very confident, and put on the formal European aristocratic etiquette, Li Yang and Bai Ming looked at each other and walked inside together.
This shop is not small, and there is an English signboard hanging outside, which means Pearl of the Orient, and it can be seen from the signboard that there are more oriental cultural relics here.
However, it is not all, there are also some European oil paintings, which are placed separately from the calligraphy and painting area of China.
There are also some ancient European knick-knacks, which don't take up much space, but they are dotted with tools that look like they are combined.
Charles turned out to be European, and he wouldn't go out of his way to run a shop with pure oriental antiquities.
"Weaving gold nose porcelain?"
Bai Ming glanced at it casually, and when he saw the premises in the porcelain area, he was immediately stunned.
On a shelf, there were many pieces of colored porcelain that did not match the style, but had the same characteristics, and Li Yang also noticed these porcelain, and his eyes were also a little surprised.
Li Yang and Bai Ming unconsciously took two steps forward and arrived at the porcelain shelf together.
Charles's face flashed with satisfaction, this batch of colored porcelain was he had only obtained it not long ago, and when he saw Bai Ming, he had expected it, these colored porcelain would definitely surprise them.
Weaving gold color porcelain, also called Guangdong color, Guangzhou weaving gold color porcelain.
However, modern people have given him a better, easier to remember name.
Guangcai originated in the Ming Dynasty Guangzhou Sancai, but the real formation was in the Qing Dynasty Kangxi period, after Yongzheng, Qianlong grew very well, but the real large-scale growth is still in the late Qing Dynasty.
And, Guangcai's fame in China is actually not extraordinary, far less than pastel and enamel color with the same origin as Guangcai.
This is purely for historical reasons.
To put it simply, Guangcai is specialized in exporting porcelain sold to foreigners, 1 expansion year, that is, after the 23rd year of Kangxi opened the sea ban, a large number of foreign merchants poured into Guangzhou.
At that time, the most popular things for these foreigners were tea, porcelain and silk.
Guangcai, which is one of the export porcelain, is Jingdezhen fired the porcelain embryo, transported to Guangzhou, and then by the people here, and then transported to the ship, so that they can be pulled back to their own country for sale.
Because it is used for export, generally speaking, the city chooses better porcelain, so Guangcai porcelain is generally very regular, better than some domestic colored porcelain.
Guangcai is a kind of trade goods, plus mainly exports, the current amount of existence is still okay.
However, most of them were Guangcai at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and it was relatively rare during the Kangxi Qianlong period, and the trade at that time was not like the later countries that threatened with guns and cannons.
At that time, it was up to us to decide how much we sold.
In addition, the craftsmanship of that period was a peak period, which also caused the price of Guangcai in the Kangqian period to be much higher than that at the end of the Qing Dynasty.
Charles's Guangcai porcelain here has many styles and quantities, dozens of pieces.
What's even more rare is that this batch of Guangcai from Kangxi to the end of the Qing Dynasty and even the Republic of China, there are in every period, which is almost a small Guangcai exhibition.
Among them, what frightened Li Yang and Bai Ming the most was the set of four seasons entwined branches and Hua pattern bowls.
The four large bowls are placed in the most conspicuous position, all of which are genuine and fine products of the Qianlong period, and such large bowls are very rare in China, not to mention the presentation of complete sets.
These four bowls alone are worth tens of millions.
"Charles, where did you get this?" Bai Ming pointed to these Guangcai porcelains in front of him, stared at them with big eyes and asked, Charles smiled slightly, and seemed to be very satisfied with Bai Ming's attitude.
"An old friend of mine happened to have a batch of such porcelain at home, so I asked him to mix some of it, how about it, okay?"
"It's okay, it's not okay, I'm all red when I see it!"
Bai Ming curled his mouth and said very angrily.
On his face, Chiluoluo expressed envy and jealousy, if it was a stranger, he would definitely despise him, but Charles and he were also old acquaintances, knowing his temperament, he laughed out loud.
Charles's satisfaction made Bai Ming even more jealous.
This whole set of porcelain, Kangxi, Qianlong, Yuqing, Guangxu until the end of the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, but one or two pieces are easy to get together, and it is really not easy to get so complete, every period has it.
"Mr. Charles, you should be here for sale, right?"
Li Yang, who had not spoken, suddenly asked, and Bai Ming and Charles both turned their heads and looked at him in surprise.
"Yes, these are for sale, not for sale!"
Mr. Charles was a little frightened, but he was not slow to react, and immediately said something.
"In that case, Mr. Charles, will you make an offer?" Li Yang smiled, and Bai Ming on the side looked even more surprised.
He knew that Li Yang rarely purchased other people's tools, and most of his collections were obtained by leak detection, and Li Yang's greatest pleasure was to pick up leaks.
Li Yang is still recognized as the king of leakage in China for two consecutive years, according to his current achievements, at the next first-class expert exchange conference, he is still the king of leakage.
In Bai Ming's impression, Li Yang has always been to pick up leaks, and rarely go to Hua to buy tools at a large price.
These Guangcai porcelain in front of him cannot be picked up, Charles must know their value, and Guangcai porcelain is more expensive abroad than at home, and Li Yang will definitely have to pay a lot of money if he wants to buy it.
That's why he's frightened.
"Which one do you want?"
Charles's eyes rolled slightly, the smile on his face grew, and he asked directly.
"All!"
"Full Gang"
Charles's face was surprised again, he had more than forty pieces of Guangcai porcelain, and the combined value was not low.
"Yes, I'll take them all, Mr. Charles, and give me a good price!"
Li Yang smiled and nodded, he wants to open a museum, he needs too many exhibits, and it is not easy to encounter porcelain from all periods like this.
With these porcelains, he can open a small area for Guangcai porcelain, so that more people can appreciate Guangcai porcelain from various periods.
It can also make those who love to collect happiness, have a more intuitive comparison, the Guangcai porcelain of various periods put together, its educational significance is more important, the distinctive characteristics of each period, but also let all the people who see it remember more firmly and profoundly.
Bai Ming didn't know Li Yang's thoughts, so he was very surprised.
"Mr. Li, if you want it all, I will give you the best price, this batch of porcelain, all together cost two and a half million euros, I will give you a twenty percent discount, two million, what do you think?"
After thinking about it for a while, Charles whispered.
The whole set of porcelain "two million euros, almost 20 million yuan, this price is not high, those four large bowls are worth 10 million."
Charles's price is quite real, and after Li Yang estimated it in his heart, he nodded silently.
He looked at Bai Ming again, and Bai Ming's face was a little helpless.
Fortunately, Charles didn't ask for 2.5 million, this price is really depressing, Charles knows a little about the country's cultural relics, but some of the side cultures of this kind of country are not clear.
Two hundred and five, a number that almost everyone in the country is hiding.
"Two million, no problem, trade now!" Li Yang directly took out the checkbook, he had an account in a Swiss bank, and the money had already been deposited in it, and there was no problem in writing a check for two million euros.
A total of forty-three pieces of Guangcai porcelain, as Li Yang handed over the check and signed the contract, these porcelains became his collection, even he didn't expect that on the first day, before joining the auction, he would go out 20 million.
After getting the porcelain, Li Yang was in a good mood, and his special ability was unnaturally opened.
Under the special ability, these porcelains appear more intuitive, just one glance, Li Yang's brows suddenly furrowed, his eyes rolled back slightly, and his gaze fell on the foreign oil painting. @