ps: Xiaohua is a little bit of heat stroke, please be comforted.

Ji Xiaolan's "Notes on Reading Wei Caotang" once commented on the jade of Tracestein "the ingenuity of today's jade, with Traceustan as the first", now it seems that it is nothing more than that, President Wang took this set of Tracestein jade teapot with a large number of layered bas-reliefs to climb a Lingxiao flower meandering all over the body of the imitation purple clay pot, even the lid of the pot is also meandering, unified, there is no unnatural at all, even now some well-informed Liu Sheng is also amazed at its 'fine as hair, no axe chisel marks'.

"Everyone is a connoisseur, I don't want to say more nonsense, I think everyone knows it in their hearts, and they all understand the value of this set of teapots, and now the reserve price of this set of tea sets is 500,000, please bid freely, there are no restrictions." Chairman Wang pointed to this set of Hindustan jade teapots without any introduction, but went straight to the point, and smiled secretly at Liu Sheng's side after speaking.

Hehe, 500,000, I'm afraid that someone will grab it at a price of 1.5 million in the auction house outside, it seems that this President Wang is thinking of forcing himself to Liangshan, fortunately he is prepared, otherwise he will really have to be planted here, and even if the glass imperial green is not good, he has to take it in, I don't know what his face is like when he takes out that thing.

"I'll pay 800,000, don't fight with me, let this boring auction end early, so many jade artifacts are still waiting for us to enjoy, don't miss this gluttonous feast." Although Mr. Hu sat down without any opinion just now, it does not mean that he will not dismantle the stage.

"800,000? I gave out a million, but my family is missing a set of Hindustan jade to decorate the façade, Mr. Hu, you have no treasure with rich money. Let it be given to the younger brother. His words had just fallen. Immediately, someone started a confrontation with him. Directly doubled the price, and this is only two bids.

"This can't be done, 1.1 million, I'm going to decide on this Hindustan jade, as for those children who go to school, what does it have to do with me, there will be another rich man bidding immediately, and I don't have the anxiety when I joined the auction just now

"1.2 million."

"1.3 million."

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The price rose alternately in the shouts of the three people, but I don't know if it was their tacit understanding. No one took the lead in breaking the price of 1.5 million, businessmen are profit-seeking, they all want to buy it and hang it in the auction, and turn it to hundreds of thousands of dollars to be easy and happy, who still thinks that they have more money in their pockets?

"One million six hundred thousand." Suddenly, a cold voice suddenly sounded in the venue, and the beautiful eyes shot two longing looks, and the confident voice made people listen to it completely determined to win.

1.6 million is not only the three people with fierce competition, but also many people with a wait-and-see attitude, and they suddenly died down, and they were very conflicted about this price.

"One million six hundred and sixty thousand." Mr. Hu weighed the pros and cons. Gritted his teeth and made the most of the last punch if the price rose again. Then he is powerless.

"One million six hundred and fifty thousand." The cold voice did not hesitate at all, and directly raised 40,000 yuan, but it became the last straw that overwhelmed the camel.

The three of them looked at each other and smiled bitterly, and immediately withdrew from the battle, after deducting taxes and commissions, they didn't make much money, and a fool would do that kind of useless work.

"Okay, Miss Tan paid 1.65 million, is there a higher price than this, this Hindustan jade teapot is extremely rare in the Qianlong period, the next time there is a Tracestein jade at the auction, I don't know when it will be, 1.65 million is not expensive at all, 1.65 million once." Looking at some of the momentum of the fight, he hurriedly agitated with a clever tongue.

However, there was no response at all, and President Wang could only say again: "One million six hundred and fifty thousand twice, is there anything higher than this?" ”

No one spoke, and they all waited for President Wang to announce the results: "One million three times, is there anything more valuable than this, okay, I announce that this set of Hindustan jade teapots belongs to Miss Tan." ”

Whew, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, the sudden auction made them somewhat uncomfortable, and now that the merit is complete, the auction of two more works can be over.

"Please Mr. Liu below, the second work is provided by him, it is a very magical treasure, everyone is welcome." When President Wang saw that the jade teapot had been sold, he smiled strangely and began to invite Liu Sheng to the stage.

Rich second generation? No, everyone made up what Liu Sheng looked like in their own minds, but what they really saw him was a different scene, he was too young, it seemed that he was a rich second generation nine times out of ten, and no one thought that Liu Sheng was an antique master at all.

Liu Sheng walked onto the podium like a movie star and waved his hand, as if greeting everyone, "Xie Lu, thank you for your love, I won't let you down this time, since President Wang took out the Hindustan jade, I can't be too bad, this is a gadget I brought from Chang'an, please take a look, this is a work of You Kan." ”

"You Kan? That's not right. President Wang couldn't help but feel a little distracted, how could there be You Kan's works, but he had checked Liu Sheng's background carefully, and he didn't have time to prepare other things, even if he went to the antique street, it was not so easy to find the real thing, how could the script be different.

"Mr. Liu, didn't we say okay, auction your glass imperial green." President Wang roared anxiously and couldn't help but ask.

"That's not, President Wang, when did I say that I would auction my glass imperial green, this is all your wishful thinking, is it that you have some paranoia." Liu Sheng looked at him with a smile.

"I, I" President Wang's anxious face sweat couldn't stop dripping even though the venue had central air conditioning.

"What, President Wang, do you have any opinion on me auctioning You Kan's work?" Liu Sheng looked at Chairman Wang's embarrassed appearance, and there was a smile in his eyes.

"No, no, Youkan's stuff is good." Chairman Wang wiped his sweat and said embarrassedly.

Boom, the rich businessmen below couldn't sit still, there was no fool here, I didn't expect President Wang to get other people's glass imperial green, it was simply out of reach, and he couldn't figure it out at a charity auction, what the hell did someone come up with this stupid idea.

When he didn't get there, he looked at Chairman Wang's eyes and became weird, and now he was synonymous with stupidity.

"Ahem, Mr. Liu brought a rhino horn cup with Youkan, I don't think I need to say more nonsense." Things have reached this stage where he can't afford to quit.

China's wine culture has a long history, and as one of the most precious traditional Chinese wine utensils, the rhino horn cup has been in great glory in history. The rhino horn cup is precious in material and exquisitely carved, and is known as the best vessel in the antique miscellaneous pieces, and is a kind of luxury used by emperors and generals, wealthy businessmen and scholars to show off their wealth.

Rhino horn is the horn of the rhinoceros, which is one of the most valuable tooth horns in the world. Rhino horn is rarer than ivory, and in ancient times it was compared to the luminous bi and the bright moon pearl. "Warring States Policy. Chu Ce" once stated that the king of Chu "sent a hundred cars to ride, offered chickens and rhinos, and the night light was in the king of Qin"; The Book of Han records that "Zhao Tuo, the king of Nanyue, presented Emperor Wen with ten rhino horns"; One of the Eight Treasures of Taoist culture is rhino horns, but rhino horn carvings before the Song and Yuan dynasties were extremely rare.

The reason why the rhinoceros horn is so precious and famous is that the ancients had the custom of taking the image of the rhinoceros as a worship object, such as bronze casting, porcelain carving, etc., believing that the rhinoceros can ward off evil spirits, suppress evil, and keep peace. There is also a more important reason, rhino horn itself is a valuable medicinal material. It does not grow on the top of the head like a horn, but on the nose, and is fibrous from the stratum corneum, with thick straight lines, not connected to each other, with a deep groove on the horn, and a small trachoma at the bottom of the horn, which resembles a honeycomb. It is conical, slightly curved, varying in length, between fifteen and thirty centimeters, the surface is jet-black, the inner part is gradually lighter, gray-brown, there are also light gray-yellow, cold, bitter, sour and salty taste, with the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying, cooling blood and stopping bleeding, and suppressing convulsions. Li Shizhen, Materia Medica. "Rhino" said: "Rhino horn, the name is 'low density', and Hongjing said, 'It is better to enter the medicine for the rhino life'." According to the Ming Dynasty Cao Mingzhong's "Gegu Yao" exposition, rhino horn is fat and thin, yellow, black, light as jasper, black with yellow flowers, yellow with black flowers, "all utensils should be moisturized, millet blooming is good, its color is as black as lacquer, yellow as Su, up and down are connected, and the clouds and rain feet are distinct."

Rhino horn is further divided into Asian rhino horn and African rhino horn. Asian rhino horns are generally about a foot long, and the fibers of the horns are thick, and the skin and inner flesh appear as thick filamentous fibers like sugarcane fibers. The section of the bottom fracture is also similar to the section of sugarcane, with relatively dense fine grains, which are called "caviar" or "millet grain". The horn of the Asian rhino horn is relatively flexible, tan like dark honey, and opaque, there is a groove in the upper part of the front of the horn, and the concave section can often be seen on the edge of the bottom of the cup, and there is a bulge in the lower part of the back of the horn, so that the mouth of the cup is not a regular oval, this phenomenon is commonly known as "gutter ground gang". African rhino horns are relatively long and large, with two horns in front and one in the back, long in the front and short in the back, and the longest can reach 2 feet 6 or 7 inches long. The horn of African rhino horn looks gelatinous, the fiber is relatively fine, the inner flesh is translucent, and the horn is not as flexible as Asian rhino horn, which appears brittle and hard, and will crack when affected by dry and wet climates, and its medicinal value is much lower. Most of the African rhino horns appeared in the late Qing Dynasty and were imported from Guangzhou, so they were called "wide angles" by the mainlanders, and there was no phenomenon of gutters in wide angles.

"Mr. Liu wants to sell at no reserve price, so let's bid now." President Wang said a little listlessly. (To be continued......)