Chapter 117: The Great Discovery of the Distillery
"You mean there are still some gold ingots down the mountain?"
Wu Tianyuan found a gold ingot and found other clues, packed things excitedly, and went down the mountain to find a new treasure.
"Is this a closed winery?"
Wu Tianyuan came to a winery as instructed, the gate was rusty, the yard was overgrown with weeds, and no one looked like it had been a long time.
"Phoenix Winery?"
Wu Tianyuan looked at the old brand, and asked the person next to him to inquire, it turned out to be a state-owned winery, and later reformed the joint-stock system and started a good business. After the market economy, the competition was fierce, and it went bankrupt more than ten years ago and has been rotting here.
"Doing that? Bought? ”
Wu Tianyuan hesitated for a while, and if he wanted to go in and dig up the treasure, he could only buy this broken winery first, but what was the use of asking for it?
"I remember that many brothers were taken down the mountain, and I could sense that they were saving, there were dozens!"
Wu Tianyuan's heart is horizontal, he is reluctant to let the child catch the wolf, as long as there is an ancient coin treasure, it is not a loss, buy it!
Now he is also the one who has a broken workshop in Japan, and he doesn't care about multiple bad breweries.
I lived in the local area first, and it was easy to find out about the home of the owner of the winery, and the other party did not sell it at a fixed price of less than three million. It's good to say that the last 2.8 million is a deal!
"Don't let me down!"
Wu Tianyuan paid the money on the same day, took the key and entered the courtyard, walked to the side of a wine cellar, and began to dig treasure!
"Don't lie to me!"
After digging for a long time without moving, Wu Tianyuan angrily warned Jin Yuan that he deceived Lao Tzu to spend three million to buy a broken winery, if you get nothing, you will be melted when you go back!
"Don't worry, it's down there, you point to the right, yes, dig!"
After digging for another half an hour, just as I was about to give up, I finally saw a huge treasure chest.
"It's gone!"
Wu Tianyuan was so easy to get it out, he didn't care about the mud, opened it, and said excitedly.
"Six pieces of Ming blue and white flowers, and a plum vase?"
He first picked up the Ming blue and white flowers, which are all fine products, especially this Ruyi hanging shoulder origami flower and fruit pattern plum vase, which is a rare treasure. In 2003, Christie's once auctioned a similar plum vase, which was the old collection of Meiyintang, and it was sold at a sky-high price of 180 million! ”
"There is also this Wanli style of colorful dancing character lid jar, which is rare to have a lid, and it seems that Meiyintang has also been auctioned."
Wu Tianyuan suddenly found two heavy weapons, even if it is Ming blue and white, it is divided into three, six, nine and so on, the plum bottle is the highest level, the number of surviving is scarce, and once it appears, it is sky-high. There is also a lid jar, mainly because the lid is not easy to preserve, and it is a Wanli colorful character jar, which is very rare.
When it comes to porcelain collections, Mei Yin Tang represents the highest level of porcelain collection, which was established by Swiss collectors Stephen and Gilbert in the Philippines for more than 50 years with the assistance of well-known antiques dealer Qiu Yanzhi. World-renowned for its superb imperial porcelain, it is one of the most refined private collections of imperial porcelain in history. The collection includes the finest treasures of porcelain from the Neolithic period to the dynasties and is considered to be the finest collection of Chinese porcelain still in private hands in the West.
As long as it is a collection of Meiyintang, it is synonymous with sky-high prices, even if it is a large collector in China, the general perception of "Meiyintang" is limited to Meiyintang in the industry has always been known for its high level of collection, especially the collection of Chinese porcelain, which is a fine product of all ages. Even the auction company itself is tight-lipped about the identity of the owner of Meiyintang, and is accustomed to calling him "Meiyintang master" rather than a certain collector.
With its superior quality and misty background, although it is extremely famous, almost all of the 2,000 pieces in the collection of the owner of Meiyintang have been exhibited, and they have only been seen in private. A small part of the collection was exhibited at the British Museum in 1994 and Monte Carlo two years later. The only public record is the commemorative catalogue "Treasures of Chinese Porcelain from Meiyintang" edited by the German scholar Regina Krahl. The catalogue consists of seven volumes, but nothing is said about the people who brought them together.
It is very mysterious for Meiyintang, but as one of its founders, Qiu Yanzhi is a famous porcelain collector in the Republic of China. At the age of 13, he was apprenticed to an antique shop in Shanghai, where he was a shopkeeper who was well versed in the identification of ancient ceramics. Qiu Yanzhi was trained by the shopkeeper to study diligently and sensitively, and practiced a pair of "discerning eyes" to distinguish ancient ceramics.
In the late 40s of the last century, Qiu Yanzhi went to Hong Kong to develop, and became the first generation of Hong Kong collectors to go south with Hu Huichun and Xu Bojiao, the founders of Minqiu Jingshe. For more than 10 years, in this projectile land, the mud nest has collected many official kiln porcelain, and it has been auctioned for 1,000 Hong Kong dollars to find a leak and now auction 300 million Ming Chenghua Doucai Chicken Bowl Cup, which is known as a good story in the industry.
During his travels in Europe and the United States, Qiu Yanzhi discovered that many of the Chinese artworks that had been looted by the Eight-Nation Coalition had disappeared from their descendants or in the thrift market. Some descendants have no appreciation or sense of collecting Chinese art plundered by their ancestors, and it is no laughing at those who use the blue and white bowls and plates to contain messy things. Qiu Yanzhi witnessed the absurd facts of all kinds of tyrannical objects, and he had a sense of mission to buy back ancestral objects from "looters" and ugly shops in remote cities.
But helplessly, despite all its efforts, it is only a drop in the bucket, and it is not able to "adopt" all these Chinese porcelain. In order to prevent Chinese ceramics from being displaced and humiliated again, the expedient measure at that time could only be to find a "kind in-law" for these Chinese porcelains that had been lost to other places.
At the same time, in order to improve the understanding of Chinese long-standing culture and the appreciation of Chinese porcelain in the Western Tibetan circles, Qiu Yanzhi not only painstakingly wrote articles, but also lobbied among major museums, foundations, well-known collection groups and wealthy businessmen in Europe and the United States.
The famous David Foundation, King Gustaut of Sweden? Adolf, Shanghai Museum, etc., among the eye-catching ancient Chinese ceramics, there are many things that are "old moon" or "donated" by Qiu Yanzhi in the past.
"Qiu Lao is a rare patriotic figure, and he has been running for the return of national treasures all his life, I admire him very much!"
Wu Tianyuan suddenly saw these porcelains and remembered that several real collectors in the Republic of China finally donated their lifelong national treasures to the country. Especially Mr. Zhang Boju, when he was kidnapped, he didn't let his family sell a collection, and finally donated all of them, and the collector at that time was Gao Fengliangjie.
"This is the Xuande furnace?"
After Wu Tianyuan checked the Ming blue and white flowers, he picked up a copper furnace again, and when he looked at the bottom paragraph, there was only one Xuan character!
"No doubt about the real thing!" After Wu Tianyuan absorbed the rich energy, he excitedly played with the rare Xuande furnace. I also found a copper furnace atlas, the Xuande Ding Yi spectrum compiled by Wu Bangzuo in the Ming Dynasty.
"And Daqi Tongbao? Jin Dynasty Chongqing Tongbao folded two? ”
Wu Tianyuan found two more ancient coins, which turned out to be treasures, especially the Great Qi Tongbao, which, like Kuping, is now a unique product in China.