Chapter 408 of the text volume is a hollow plum blossom amphora in the wood kiln

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It was learned that Xue Xinhan came to Hong Kong Island to participate in the touring exhibition of some of Wang Yuanqi's Tibetan scriptures on Hong Kong Island, and that this touring exhibition will be held in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.

At this time, Chief Executive He came over, and Xue Xinhan introduced Tang Dou to Chief Executive He.

Chief Executive He just shook Tang Dou's hand politely, and whispered to Xue Xinhan: "Vice Minister Xue, I will introduce an important person to you. ”

"Someone important?" Xue Xinhan had already looked at the people in the room just now, except for Qian Lao, Qian Qianqian and Yang Deng, who she didn't know, the rest of the people were already old acquaintances.

Li Chaoren and several of them in this room are already important people, who else will be more important than them?

Xue Xinhan's gaze naturally fell on Qian Cihang's face.

Xue Xinhan smiled at Tang Dou and nodded at Chief Executive He: "There is Chief Executive Lao He." ”

Chief Executive He glanced at Tang Dou, lowered his voice and said to Xue Xinhan: "It's Qian Lao of the Qian Enterprise. ”

"Qian Cihang?" Xue Xinhan was visibly shocked, and the expression on his face became solemn.

Chief Executive He nodded, walked to Qian Cihang's side with Xue Xinhan, and introduced with a smile: "Old Qian, let me introduce you to Xue Xinhan, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Culture, she is here to participate in this tour exhibition of the Wang Yuanqi Tibetan Scriptures on Hong Kong Island. ”

Qian Cihang smiled and stretched out his hand to Xue Xinhan: "Welcome Minister Xue to Hong Kong Island to guide the work." ”

Qian Cihang is familiar with the rules of mainland officialdom, and habitually omits the deputy word in front of the deputy post when the main post is not there.

Xue Xinhan held Qian Cihang's hand with both hands and shook it gently, just looking at this attitude, she knew that she was treating Qian Cihang as an elder.

After a few kind words and a lively handshake, everyone sat down humbly on the sofa in front of the fireplace.

Fortunately, there are enough sofas, so that Tang Dou, Yang Deng, Qian Qianqian, and the three juniors will stand on the side.

The purpose of the people who came here tonight was to participate in the small auction held in the evening, and after a round of high-sounding topics, the conversation quickly turned back to antiques, and the focus of the discussion was the firewood kiln porcelain that was about to be photographed tonight.

Although this auction is a small auction, but the level of customer base is very high, the organizer is Christie's in the United Kingdom, they have done a good job of preparing for this auction, the preview catalogue has already been launched, but it is only circulated in a small area, and those ordinary collectors do not even know about the deposit of this small auction.

Christie's is the world's most famous auction house, but also the world's oldest art auction house, since its establishment in 1776, led to the rise of the auction industry, and since Christie's 86 years in Hong Kong Island held the first auction, Hong Kong Island has become Christie's traditional territory, other auction houses want to squeeze into Hong Kong Island to get a piece of the pie is more difficult, even near the water building Boyd International is also in Hong Kong Island feathers returned, whenever He Bin mentioned this matter is hated to the root of the teeth.

At that time, He Bin was not attractive enough to those high-end customer groups because the lots in his hands were not strong, but now it is different, He Bin now has Tang Dou, a supplier who can almost be said to have anything, and has long planned to go to Hong Kong Island again to hold several high-end auctions, even if he can't squeeze Christie's out of the Hong Kong Island market in one fell swoop, then he has to bite a piece of meat from Christie's and take away a part of his market share.

Qian Cihang and those predators were talking and laughing, Tang Dou couldn't interject, and boredly picked up the promotional brochure of the auction printed by Christie's and browsed it.

The auction is indeed a bit boring for Tang Dou, he can travel to ancient times at will, and no matter how precious the antiques auctioned are, they are not too attractive to him.

Bidding at a high price is definitely better than traveling to ancient times by yourself.

Moreover, Tang Dou also enjoyed the process of collecting all kinds of rare treasures in ancient times, and for him, this process may be more valuable than the antiques themselves.

Christie's is one of the world's number one auction houses, and although it was only a small auction, the lot was very well prepared.

Christie's has prepared a total of 38 lots for the sale, including diamond-encrusted jewellery from Paris, several paintings by European painters such as Picasso and Warhol, and several bottles of wine from Bordeaux Margaut in France.

The firewood kiln is the imperial kiln burned by Zhou Chai Shizong after the period of the Five Dynasties, and Shizong Chai Rong once set the imperial kiln porcelain 'rain over the azure clouds, and the color of the future is the future', in order to symbolize the future of the country's fortune like rain over the azure.

The firewood kiln porcelain is more rare and rare than the legendary hand-me-down porcelain, and the porcelain fired by the firewood kiln porcelain is moist and delicate, with small open pieces, which is the crown of the kilns at that time. It's just that the products of the firewood kiln are limited, and the porcelain pieces are thin, so the firewood kiln ware handed down from generation to generation rarely sees the whole vessel, and most of them are fragments.

Because the firewood kiln has survived for a very short time, it is very rare, and there used to be a saying in the antique shop that a piece of firewood is worth a thousand gold.

Most porcelain experts assert that there is no inheritance of firewood kilns

Including the well-informed Yang Yiyan, Zhou Fushi, Qin Yanpei and others have only seen the fragments of the firewood kiln, but have never seen the whole vessel with their own eyes, which shows the rarity of the firewood kiln.

Even the firewood kiln porcelain in the hands of Sun Hung Kai Guo can only be said to be suspected firewood kiln porcelain so far, some experts say it is genuine, and some experts say that it is imitation of the Song Dynasty, which is a controversial firewood kiln porcelain.

But even so, the firewood kiln porcelain in Mr. Guo's hand was also returned by him at a sky-high price, and it was regarded as a treasure, and ordinary people had no chance to see it at all.

Now, Christie's auction house has launched a relatively complete suspected wood-kiln hollow plum blossom amphora at this auction, how can this not arouse the hearts of these predators.

Even if it is suspicious, these predators are already ready to take him into their pockets.

Money is easy to make, but the firewood kiln is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, not to mention the hollow plum blossom amphora of the firewood kiln with such a complete type.

Tang Dou and Yang Dengtou looked at the hollow plum blossom amphora on the brochure in their hands, and Yang Deng sighed sincerely: "It's so beautiful azure, and the shape of the device is very in line with the style of the Later Zhou Dynasty, but it's a pity that I can't see the real thing." ”

Qian Cihang, who was on the side, heard Yang Deng's words, smiled slightly, took out a pocket watch from his pocket and looked at it, and said with a smile: "It's not simple for the lamp girl to see the real thing, although the auction is about to start, but this firewood kiln porcelain must appear as the finale lot, and I'm afraid it will be two hours later when it's time to shoot it." Hehe, I'm afraid that our old guys are all coming for this firewood kiln porcelain, so let them take this bottle over and give us one last look, and it won't delay the official start of filming for a while. ”

Chief Executive He said with a smile on the side: "Old Qian, Minister Xue and I are here to open our eyes, if we bid for this kind of treasure, I'm afraid the Independent Commission Against Corruption will invite us to drink coffee early tomorrow morning." ”

Qian Cihang and the others laughed, Qian Cihang gestured to Qian Qianqian, Qian Qianqian smiled slightly, took out the phone, stood up and walked aside.

After a short effort, Qian Qianqian turned back, looked at Qian Cihang and said, "Daddy, someone from Christie's will send that bottle over immediately." ”

Qian Cihang nodded lightly, this is a trivial matter at all, let alone asking them to send the bottle over to take a look, even if he sues them now that he bought the bottle, he guarantees that Christie's will not even dare to put a fart and immediately remove this bottle from tonight's auction list.

But with Qian Cihang's identity, how could he do such a thing, he couldn't afford to lose that person.

After a short while, there was a knock at the door.

Qian Qianqian walked to the door and opened the door, and an Englishman dressed very gentlemanly stood at the door and smiled at Qian Qianqian, and said respectfully: "Miss Qian, I sent that bottle over." ”

The person who came was James, the manager of Christie's office on Hong Kong Island, and when Qian Qianqian called him just now, he said that his father wanted to see the bottle, of course he knew that the bottle that Qian Qianqian said was referring to the wood-kiln hollow plum blossom amphora, but since Qian Qianqian called this treasure by the bottle, he could only follow Qian Qianqian's meaning and call this treasure a bottle.

If the person who wanted this wood-kiln hollow plum blossom amphora was not Qian Qianqian, but a person he could afford, it is estimated that he would have slapped the boss a long time ago. (To be continued.) )