Chapter 180 is all fake

The little old man then smiled and said: "I believe that many friends are guessing, how many antiques we will auction tonight, I can tell you now, this auction will auction more antiques than before, we have prepared a total of 120 auction items, and it is also the most we have ever auctioned, I believe it will not disappoint you who come tonight." ”

"Alright, I won't take up everyone's time, and I'll leave the rest of the time to our auctioneer, Mr. Hove."

After the little old man finished speaking, he went down, and as soon as he got down, another blonde foreigner in his fifties came up, and this man was the auctioneer Hough.

After Hough came to the stage, he nodded slightly and said: "We are honored to come to Huaxia for the auction, in order to express our gratitude, then we will officially start tonight's auction with the famous porcelain of Huaxia." ”

As Hough spoke, two young and beautiful women came to Hough's side with a small cart, and then carefully uncovered the red silk cloth covering the items on the cart.

"Yuan Qinghua!"

Looking at a large porcelain jar on the small cart, Fang Mutian's eyes instantly widened, for antiques, he is no less than anyone else, even those real old experts, and there are even better.

Hearing Fang Mutian shout, Lei Yaoyang was surprised: "Mutian, do you still know porcelain?" ”

Although Lei Yaoyang is the boss of the Qingzhu Gang, he is in a high position and is in charge of half of the underground forces in Jingyang City, but no matter what, he is still a gangster after all, but his gangsters are more successful than the others.

If you let Lei Yaoyang cut people, he can do it easily, but if you ask him to say some antique opinions, it is better to kill him, in terms of antiques, he is simply a smear and doesn't understand anything.

The antique industry needs to go through a long period of accumulation and precipitation, not that there are a few ancient things in your hand, which means that you understand antiques.

In this regard, Lei Yaoyang has never been involved, so he doesn't understand this, and when he came here tonight, he was also curious about the 'Century Auction House', and he wanted to come and see it, and he didn't plan to bid to auction things.

"I learned about this when I was fine, and I knew a little bit." Fang Mutian nodded modestly.

He was shocked in his heart, he didn't expect that the first thing auctioned at the auction would be Yuan Qinghua. For Yuan Qinghua, Lei Yaoyang didn't know, but he knew it very well.

Yuan blue and white in Chinese porcelain, has an extremely important significance, open up a new era of transition from plain porcelain to colored porcelain, its rich and majestic, the style of painting is bold, the painting level is varied, and the traditional aesthetic taste of the Chinese nation is very different, it is a wonderful flower in the history of Chinese ceramics.

According to research and surveys, there are only about 300 pieces of Yuan blue and white flowers that still exist today, and almost half of them are either in foreign museums or in the hands of private collectors.

Yuan Qinghua was not valued by collectors before, in the last century in the 50 years, it slowly entered the field of vision of collectors, especially on July 12, 2005, at the "Chinese ceramics, crafts and export crafts" auction held by Christie's in London, the Yuan Qinghua "Guiguzi Descending Mountain" jar finally sold at a sky-high price of 14 million pounds, plus commissions of 15.688 million pounds, equivalent to about 230 million Chinese coins, setting the highest auction record of Chinese art in the world at that time.

Since then, Yuan Qinghua has instantly become the darling in the eyes of everyone, and has also become a symbol of wealth and status.

Among the blue and white flowers of the Yuan Dynasty, the most precious is the porcelain painted with the images of human figures, and it can be said that each piece is a top national treasure, the real one of the treasures. However, the first piece of Yuan blue and white auctioned at today's auction is such a large porcelain jar.

The height of the jar is 29.5cm, the diameter is 23cm, the bottom diameter is 19.5cm, the lotus leaf cover, the porcelain is delicate, the glaze is white and uniform, the blue and white pigment is very pure, the blue and white main body decoration describes the "Calling the Wind and Rain" figure, the golden dragon body in the cloud is slender like a snake, the dragon head is flat and long, the double horns, the mouth is open and the teeth are exposed, the slender neck, the legs are thin, the tendons are concave and convex, the claws are five fingers, the separation is powerful, the elbow hair, the tail mane are all flame-like, majestic and noble.

On the ground, there was a group of kneeling people, respectfully with a hint of fear and fear, worshipping the golden dragon in the clouds. The flowers and trees, the golden dragon in the clouds, and the characters on the ground all appear lifelike and extremely expressive.

It can be seen from the ornamentation on the blue and white porcelain, the superb skills of the painters of the Yuan Dynasty, whether it is modeling or ornamentation, are very exquisite, although compared with the blue and white in the official kiln of later generations, there are deficiencies in some places, but the inner simple and generous charm of the Yuan blue and white is not possessed by the blue and white of later generations.

"No, why do I feel weird about this Yuan Qinghua? Although it looks like the real thing, there is nothing wrong with it, but why does it always give me the feeling that it is a fake? Fang Mutian stared at Yuan Qinghua on the stage, but his brows were condensed.

At this time, the auctioneer on the stage Hough said: "I believe everyone is no stranger to it, that's right, it is Yuan Qinghua, the beautiful and noble Yuan Qinghua, the first auction item we auctioned today is this Yuan Qinghua figure jar, the reserve price of this jar is 8 million US dollars, each increase shall not be less than 200,000 US dollars, now start bidding!" ”

The people who came to participate in the auction, there were few laymen like Lei Yaoyang, basically they were insiders, and when they saw Yuan Qinghua on the stage, they all looked hot. There are not many Yuan Qinghua in stock, and the large jar of figure pictures like this one is even rarer, and everyone is eager to include it in their collection.

Since the first time the 'Century Auction' has been held, none of the items auctioned have appeared in imitations, all of them are genuine, so no one doubts that the auction is a counterfeit, and the people who come to the auction are also quite a few experts, who have also recognized this as a genuine item from all aspects.

As soon as Hough's words fell, someone made a bid, not adding 200,000, but directly adding 1 million, raising the price to 9 million dollars.

The people who came to participate in the auction were basically rich people, and in the face of such a good thing, no one wanted to let go, and after the first person started bidding, one after another people shouted their prices.

"Fifteen million!"

On a screen behind Hough, room 23 is shown, with a bid of fifteen million.

As soon as 15 million appeared, there was another 16 million, 16 million dollars, not Huaxia coins, if converted into Huaxia coins, it was more than 100 million, but although the price has risen to 100 million, the price increase rate has not only not decreased, but is still increasing.

"Twenty-six million!"

"Twenty-six million, customer number 51 bids twenty-six million, is there anyone who bids higher?" Hough shouted.

"Twenty-seven million!"

"Twenty-eight million!"

Soon, a few more people began to bid, and after a while, the price exceeded 30 million, reaching a sky-high price of 37 million.

This price has completely surpassed the "Guiguzi Descending Mountain" Yuan blue and white jar auctioned in 2005, and has almost become the highest auction record for Chinese art in the world.

And when everyone was bidding, Fang Mutian frowned, looking at the blue and white jar on the stage, he always felt that something was wrong.

You must know that Fang Mutian's treasure appreciation ability is at the grandmaster level, in this world, if his treasure appreciation strength is the second, then no one dares to call it the first, if others can't see it, he can identify it, and if he can't identify it, then others must not be able to identify it.

Fang Mutian on the stage looked at the Yuan blue and white jar over and over again, whether it was the Yuan blue and white shape, or the decoration, it was lifelike, extremely expressive, very exquisite, this must be a fine product, and from the porcelain fetus and glaze, it also belongs to that era.

"Is it really the real thing? Feeling wrong? Fang Mutian was a little unsure, and even observed the Yuan Qinghua jar on the stage with perspective.

When his eyes fell on the jar of Yuan blue and white, his pupils suddenly shrank, and there was actually a small piece of copper hidden inside the porcelain wall, and on the copper sheet, there was a string of English, which translated as "Lorraine imitation".

"It's really an imitation!"

Fang Mutian looked at everything in front of him incredulously, he couldn't believe that there was a person with such a powerful imitation ability, and he made an imitation so realistic, if it wasn't for the sentence "Lorraine imitation" in it, he would have thought that it was a real thing.

"Damn, this is really an event that only rich people can participate in, just such a piece of porcelain, it is actually called 41 million, this is US dollars, not Huaxia coins." Lei Yaoyang sighed on the side.

Fang Mutian was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect to add millions in such a moment, and at the same time, he couldn't help but shake his head, he really wanted to see what kind of expressions these people would have if they knew that this was an imitation.

"Forty-one million, forty-one million on the 35th, and no one is bidding higher? Oh, the 12th bid 42 million, the 12th 42 million once, hey, the 24th 43000! Looking at the prices that refreshed again and again on the screen behind him, Hough kept shouting on stage.

430,000 US dollars, which is almost close to 300 million Huaxia coins, this is definitely a sky-high price, and what makes Fang Mutian even more speechless is that this is still an imitation, if it is genuine, it is acceptable, but this is a fake.

However, except for Fang Mutian himself, the others didn't know that they were kept in the dark.

In the end, the price of this fake Yuan blue and white piece was set at 46 million, successfully setting a new record for the highest auction of Chinese art in the world.

After the end of the Yuan Qinghua auction, the second auction item was immediately pushed up, this is an oil painting, it is a painting by the Spanish painter and sculptor, Picasso, if it is real, then it is also extremely precious.

After Fang Mutian saw it, he shook his head, this painting is fake, and there is also the sentence "Lorraine imitation" in this painting, a place that people can't see at all, it is very secret.

One by one, the auction items were sold out by these wealthy collectors at terrifying prices, and soon, all 120 lots were sold off.

Looking at the 120 auction items, Fang Mutian was shocked, because he found that these 120 auction items were all fake, none of them were real, all of them were imitations, and each of them had the phrase "Lorraine imitation" hidden on it.

"Lorraine? Could it be that these things were copied by a man named Lorraine? If it's really him, then this person is too scary, right? It's so wide-ranging, and it's so real. Fang Mutian was shocked in his heart, feeling that this thing was too incredible.