Chapter 648
Of course, to such a world-renowned auction company, under normal circumstances, fakes are never allowed, just like Han Zhiqian said about smashing the signboard, no one will gamble with reputation. But if the level of fraud is high, it's really uncertain, otherwise how can it be a foot high!
Of course, there are still appraisers in the auction house to identify the authenticity of some calligraphy and painting antiques, and if there are really good things, the auction house will also bid for the purchase as appropriate.
The five of them admired while walking, but when they came to a display case, Fang Menan stopped and frowned slightly. In the showcase, a Ru kiln azure glaze round wash, wash the open, shallow arc wall, circle foot slightly outward. The fetus is fragrant gray. The whole body is covered with a light azure glaze, and the glaze is shiny. The glaze is finely fragmented. The outsole has three small sesame seed-like nail marks and is engraved with the character "Cai". The label below reads: Northern Song Dynasty. Han Zhiqian sighed, "It's this Ru kiln azure glaze round wash!" This is the highlight of the auction! It's really priceless! ”
"That's it." The fat man pouted, his outstretched hand was not as big as his palm.
"You know what? Ru, Guan, Ge, Jun, Ding, one of the five famous porcelain. The head of the famous porcelain, Ru kiln is the best. The craftsmen of Ru kiln glazed with precious agate and fired into a glaze with 'blue as the sky, the face as jade, the cicada wing pattern, the morning star is scarce, and the sesame nail glaze is satisfied. Han Zhiqian paused for a moment and said, "With azure as precious, pink and blue as the top, azure is precious, and this azure is like 'rain over the sky and clear clouds'." The glaze house is thick and thick, like a pile of grease, regarded as jasper, and the sound of the buckle is like a sweet. The glaze has crab claw pattern, caviar pattern and sesame flower. So well preserved, absolutely superb. ”
Han Zhiqian continued, "After Jin destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty, Ruyao also died. It was only 20 years before and after the kiln opening, and because the firing time was short, there were not many generations, and in the Southern Song Dynasty, Ru kiln porcelain was already very rare. There are less than 100 genuine pieces that have been handed down to this day, and only 65 are known, including 21 pieces in the National Palace Museum in Taipei. 17 pieces of the Forbidden City in Beijing. There are 8 pieces in the Shanghai Museum, 7 pieces in the David Chinese Art Foundation in the United Kingdom, and about 10 pieces in other museums and private collections scattered in the United States and Japan, and there are less than 10 museums in the world that collect Ru kiln porcelain. Rare is expensive just by virtue of things. It's definitely this one. He gave a thumbs up.
"Ru porcelain is glazed with precious agate. The color is unique. There is the praise of 'agate is the glaze of the ancients'. With the change of light, look at its glaze color, just like the beauty of 'the rain after the sky and the clouds break'. Warm and simple. The surface of the vessel is a small open piece of cicada wing pattern, and it is called 'pear skin crab claw sesame flower'. During the Northern Song Dynasty, Ru porcelain tables were often engraved with the word 'Fenghua', and Cai Jing, the minister of Gyeonggi, once engraved the surname 'Cai' as a memory of honor. Since the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, the court Ru porcelain utensils, the inner library is hidden, regarded as a treasure, and Shang Yi Zhou Ding is more expensive. It is called 'even if you have a lot of wealth, it is not as good as a piece of porcelain'. He Junyao pointed to the back of the round wash, and said with the word 'Cai'.
"The army understands this, too." Han Zhiqian asked.
"I've heard of it." He Junyao replied.
Han Zhiqian was relieved when he thought about his family background.
The preciousness of Ru kiln celadon can be seen in the auction prices of later generations, in 1992 a small plate with a diameter of 8 cm sold for $1.54 million at Sotheby's in New York. Later, at an auction in Hong Kong, a Ru kiln three sacrifices set a sky-high price of 50 million Hong Kong dollars.
At the auction held by Sotheby's Hong Kong on April 4, 2012, the 900-year-old "Northern Song Dynasty Ru Kiln Azure Glazed Sunflower Wash" was sold at a sky-high price of more than 200 million Hong Kong dollars after 34 bids, more than three times higher than the reserve price before the auction, setting a new world auction record for Song porcelain.
Fang Monan has not stretched his eyebrows since he saw this azure glaze round wash.
"What's wrong?" Han Zhiqian stood beside her and asked curiously.
"Hmmm! It's best not to collect this thing privately, it can't be suppressed, it was unearthed in the tomb. ”
Han Zhiqian was stunned, he originally wanted to take a picture, but when he heard her say this, he gave up immediately. He has collected antiques, calligraphy and paintings over the years, and he also knows a lot about some taboos, and what comes out of the tomb is said to belong to the state. But this score is also an archaeological discovery, or a private tomb robbery. Looking at Fang Monan's appearance, he knew that the origin of this item was a little unclear, contaminated with evil energy, and a little ominous. Museum collections can be contained, but private collections may not.
It is said that such an auction company will also have things of unknown origin, which is not surprising, and if all the things are from the right background, there will be no smuggling.
To be serious, the looted cultural relics in China are countless, look at the major museums in the world, which one does not have Chinese cultural relics. They are still appearing in major auction houses.
"Hmmm! I know, according to metaphysics, some things like jewelry and diamonds are always accompanied by murder and robbery, and they are hoodoos stained with blood. Han Zhiqian rubbed his chin and said.
There are countless examples of this, such as the blue diamond known as 'Hope', which was first acquired by a French explorer and jeweler in southwestern India, a 112-carat gemstone with an extremely rare deep blue color.
Tavermil brought the gem back to France and presented it to King Louis XIV of France, who conferred him an official position and rewarded him with a large sum of money in return. The legendary bad luck began to bebefall those who came into contact with the gems. Tavimir's fortune was spent by his unfilial son, and at the age of 80 he was so poor and penniless that he had to go to India again in search of new wealth. There, however, he was bitten to death by wild dogs.
However, the diamond's saga did not end there, as Louis XIV took it for a day and later died of smallpox. Louis XVI is known to everyone that during the French Revolution, he was guillotined. Later, he was photographed by others, and the result was either bankruptcy and poverty, or a mysterious death.
And in the end, the best destination for this blue diamond, which has gone through ups and downs and doom, so that no one can afford it, is placed in the Smithsonian Institution in the United States. Since then, it has ceased to be a flaunting of luxury and wealth, or an ornament to add to one's delicate beauty, but has become a specimen of scientific research.
"It's not far off, but it's pretty much the same." Fang Menan nodded and smiled. The reason why she dared to make such a judgment was because this Ru kiln was wrapped in a layer of black aura in her eyes at this time. If it is not formed in a tomb with bad feng shui, it is very likely that someone dug a hole the day after tomorrow and damaged the feng shui in the tomb, and it will be contaminated with mildew over time.
In metaphysics, mildew should be a place where yin qi gathers, and after a long time, it will become moldy. In the I Ching, mildew is predicted to be bad luck. According to the seven rounds of the human body, if the mildew is heavy, the seven rounds will be chaotic, and people are easy to get sick! Sickness is in traditional Chinese medicine, and there is no such thing as sickness in metaphysics. Traditional Chinese medicine has a certain relationship with metaphysics.
According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, "righteousness is in memory, and evil cannot be done; Where evil is gathered, its spirit will be empty. "And sickness is evil. Why do people get sick? Illness is caused by the invasion of evil spirits. People live in the natural world, due to the external senses of the six lewdness, internal injuries and seven emotions, eating disorders, overwork, phlegm drinking, blood stasis, essence and qi damage, the internal organs are dysfunctional, so that the track of the true qi runs malfunctioning, and the disease takes advantage of the weakness to enter, and the person will get sick. The purpose of our practice of Qigong is to adjust yin and yang, cultivate righteousness, promote righteousness and eliminate evil, and achieve the practical effect of dispelling illness and fitness.
If you put it at home and often look at it closely, if you contact it for a long time, it will definitely cause evil qi to enter the body, resulting in yin and yang imbalance, which is very bad for the body. If you are not in good health, your career, fortune and the like will naturally be affected.
"Son, what do you like about it?" Han Jin walked over in a black casual suit and asked. I just saw them revolving around the highlight of the auction, so I asked.
"It's a fancy to it, but it's not a good private collection." Han Zhiqian shrugged.
They are all smart people, and they know what's going on as soon as they hear it, Han Jin soothed, "It's okay, there are a lot of good things, it's not bad for this." ”
Han Zhiqian shrugged indifferently, "Dad, what do you like?" ”
"Me! Take a fancy to a piece of ancient jade and buy it for your mother to ward off evil spirits. The tenderness that flashed in Han Jin's eyes, and it was only when he mentioned Han Ma that the expression on his face was sincere and much softer.
"I have a lot of jade, I'll get two for my mother." Han Zhiqian said.
"It doesn't mean the same." Han Jin shook his head and refused. "Boy, don't think I don't know what your idea is, that's my woman, go home and spoil your wife and children."
"Humph!" Han Zhiqian turned his face awkwardly, and made up his mind to give his mother a piece of jade with the spirit of gold and auspiciousness, and see whose mother wore it.
Han Jin has absolute confidence in this, in everything, Han's mother must be towards him, except for her son, so she directly warns and nips it in the bud.
Fang Monan pursed his lips and shook his head and smiled, "This father and son, and only a woman like water like Mother Han can control these two big Buddhas. ’
At the end of the exhibition time, Fang Monan and others entered the auction hall together, she looked at Cheng Shigui and Liang Zi with satisfied eyes, and estimated that she had found her favorite lot. The auction hall was brightly lit, with thirty round tables arranged in five rows of six, and invited guests were seated at the tables after entering.
At this moment, the door behind him suddenly became lively, and many rich people who were already present stood up one after another, looking towards the door with smiles on their faces.
"Oh! It turned out that Cheng Lao and He Lao were here. Fang Monan muttered in her heart, and just as she was muttering, a person came in, "There is another person, the person who topped the list of Hong Kong's richest people in later generations, also came." It's really rich and famous. ”
The atmosphere was even more enthusiastic.
Cheng Shigui got up and walked over, helped the two grandfathers to the first row, sat down, and after greeting them, he sat back again.
The two old men saw the direction in which Fang Monan was sitting, and Fang Monan made a gesture of greeting on the table with his hand.
The two old men looked at each other and smiled, bowing slightly, although the little girl did not come in person, but the etiquette was very thoughtful. (To be continued......)
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