"You're Tom Morrison?"

Wu Tianyuan frowned and looked at the drunk man in front of him, untidy, and there were lipstick marks on his neck, obviously just coming back happily.

"Who are you? Chinese? ”

Tom was drunk and hazy, looked at the Chinese who suddenly appeared at the door, and said disdainfully: "Get out if it's okay, I want to sleep!" ”

Wu Tianyuan shook his head, pity the descendants of the textile tycoon who was so powerful back then! It's no wonder that the mountain dwelling will fall apart.

He grabbed Tom by the collar and said viciously, "You loser, I don't have time to give you nonsense!" I heard that you have Shanju porcelain to sell? ”

Tom was excited, looked at the Chinese in front of him with some fear, and the wine was also frightened by most of the awakening, and quickly nodded, and the two entered the house together.

Located in Wiltshire, southwest England, next to the famous Mt. Lodge in the South West of England, the famous Mt. Lodge has been around for more than 150 years. This was originally the richest textile king in Britain in the 19th century, James? A private country home in Morrison, which the Morrison family has always used as a display for their art collections.

In the collection of Fangshanju, there is a considerable part and the most important Chinese art, including all kinds of porcelain, enamel, sculpture, etc., which is also an important reason why Fangshanju can have such a name full of Chinese artistic conception and poetry.

Now the house has been donated by the Morrison family to become a museum of the British government, and its treasures have been sold for generations over the next five generations.

In 1965, 1971 and 2004, the Morrison family commissioned three special auctions from the British company Justification, each of which caused a huge sensation in the Chinese art market around the world.

At that time, it was impossible for Europeans to have a deep understanding of Chinese art, because 150 years ago, their concept of China was very new and mysterious. But the porcelain and art from China are really beautiful.

It can be seen that James attached great importance to Chinese art at that time, and he especially liked gorgeous and exquisite Chinese porcelain and cloisonné enamel, so he specially hired Jones, an internationally renowned architect at that time, to build a special Chinese room in Fangshan Ju to display Chinese art.

After James' death in 1857, Alfred inherited £750,000 worth of shares from his father, as well as a mountain house. Alfred drew on his vast heritage and amassed a considerable collection of artistic treasures, with a particular interest in Chinese art.

Among the public collections, the most famous are the three pieces that were auctioned by Christie's in November 2010, namely a pair of cloisonné enamel double crane incense burners made by Yongzheng in the Qing Dynasty, a pair of pastel Fushou Wannian Yunkou vases in Jiaqing Huangdi and a pair of flower five-blessing bowls in pastel on Qing Daoguang Huangdi. In particular, the cloisonné enamel double crane incense burner became the most expensive lot in the autumn auction at Christie's Hong Kong, and finally sold for a sky-high price of HK$240 million.

In 1971, Christie's in London auctioned a long-necked gourd vase with the icing on the cake of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, which was finally sold for a whopping HK$252.66 million, setting a new world auction record for Chinese handicrafts and porcelain set by the Yuan blue and white Guigu Xiashan Jar in 2005, becoming the world's most expensive porcelain.

Wu Tianyuan remembered that this record surprised many people in the industry, and this kind of colored porcelain was not optimistic in the past. First, there is no theme pattern, and the floral theme is too ordinary; The second is the alum red section at the bottom, in terms of paragraph recognition, the blue material square chapter is the first, the blue and white paragraph is the second, and the alum red section is only the third; The third is that the bottle type is average, which is very popular.

But this is the way the world is, and no one would have expected that such a stylized Qianlong official kiln would create such a miracle and give Alfred endless fun. He wouldn't have known that a hundred years from now, his collection of Chinese vases would be more expensive than the house his father had left behind!

"You want to buy my family heirlooms?"

Tom asked the domineering Chinese to sit down, take a good look, and saw the millions of Vacheron Constantin in his hand, and his eyes lit up.

"It depends on what you have?"

Wu Tianyuan crossed Erlang's legs, and when dealing with this kind of loser, he was going to show a more local tyrant, and said disdainfully: "I just opened a museum, and I heard that your family has some porcelain, so come and go around." ”

Tom is excited, as the sixth generation of the family, not only does he not have a huge inheritance, but also owes a lot of debts because of his father's business failure, and later relied on the auction of antiques to get by.

The rest of the money was almost tossed by himself, and as soon as he sent out the news that he was going to sell the last collection, a big tyrant came to the door? Still Chinese, this time can be sold at a high price.

"Qianlong Imperial Hetian Jade Clay Golden Lion!"

"Qianlong topaz dragon and phoenix jade pendant!"

"A pair of Jiaqing carmine open light bowls!"

"Daoguang Peacock Blue Double Happiness Amphora!"

"Daoguang Rouge Dark Eight Immortals Three-legged Incense Burner!"

"Xuande cloisonné lid jar!"

"Yongzheng bird pattern moon bottle!"

Wu Tianyuan looked at the collection and nodded, it was all the old collection of the Old Summer Palace, and it seemed that the textile king had collected a lot of loot back then!

"How? Five million pounds! ”

Wu Tianyuan glared at the loser and said disdainfully: "Five million? You've drunk and drunk bad brains, haven't you? That's all there is to it? ”

Tom quickly explained, "Of course it's not just that! I don't understand, but I know that it's not worth five million, but do you think it's worth it? ”

After speaking, he took out another set of collections from the cabinet, Wu Tianyuan's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly started to study it.

"We are the bronze plate painting of the forty scenes of the Old Summer Palace!"

In the heyday, the Old Summer Palace has more than 100 garden scenery groups such as Changchun Garden, Qichun Garden, and Old Summer Palace, and the 40 scenes refer to the 40 scenery groups with a unique pattern in the garden, and each scene is one of the gardens in the garden or garden buildings.

In the first month of the first year of Qianlong, Hongli passed on the Ruyi Pavilion painter Leng Mei, according to the 36 scenes of the summer resort drawn by the Kangxi Dynasty, and painted the scenes for the "palace premises" of the Old Summer Palace.

Soon after, Tang Dai and Shen Yuan were ordered to paint. Shen Yuan painted the house, and Tang Dai painted the earth, mountains, trees and stones. Later, Zhou Kun and others also participated in the drawing of this set of "Yuanmingyuan Album".

At first, this set of maps only painted 33 scenes, and in the sixth year of Qianlong, 3 pictures of Fanghu Shengjing, Pengdao Yaotai and Ciyun Puhu were added, and in September of the ninth year of Qianlong, 4 pictures of Hongci Yonghu, Huifang Academy, Dongtian Deep and Moon and Earth Cloud Residence were added, thus finally becoming "Forty Scenes".

However, the forty scenes that best represent the first garden of the royal family suffered great humiliation. During the looting of the Old Summer Palace in 1860, this precious set of painted paintings was looted by the invaders and presented to the French Emperor Napoleon III, where it was stored in the Musée de Fontainebleau.

In this way, the Old Summer Palace and its images were all taken away by Western invaders, so that for a long time, the image of the Old Summer Palace was a blank in the minds of Chinese. People can only "see pavilions in the rubble, lakes and marshes in the mangwei, and flowers and trees in the thorn and hazel".

"Are you a copper engraving based on the Forty Scenes?"

"Yes, Emperor Qianlong ordered the craftsmen of the palace office to use good red copper to carve forty scenes, which have been stored in the Qinzheng Qinxian Palace, and were later robbed here by the British."