The first one hundred and forty-six chapters twenty million Guangcai
Chapter 1146 Twenty million Guangcai
"Are these carvings from the 18th century?"
After walking a few steps, Li Yang suddenly squatted down, pointed at some artistic reliefs on the flower beds by the roadside, and asked in a low voice.
You can tell at a glance that these reliefs are very old. Foreign sculpture art has also been studied by Li Yang recently. These reliefs clearly have the characteristics of Europe in the 18th century.
"Yes, all the carvings on this street have a certain history. Unfortunately, they were damaged before and were not completely intact!"
Charles nodded slightly, with a bit of pride and a bit of regret. From this, it can be seen that protecting everything here has gone deep into the bones of each of them.
Li Yang and Bai Ming both looked at each other and nodded at the end.
The Italians' protection of cultural relics is indeed much stronger than that in China. A commercial street has actually made them see many problems.
Bai Ming sighed in his heart, while Li Yang thought about how to recruit and educate museum employees in the future.
If they could like the people here and love and care for all cultural relics from the bottom of their hearts, the management of the museum would become very easy, and there would never be a situation like the Palace Museum.
"Mr. Li Yang, this is my shop!"
A few minutes later, Charles stood in front of a shop with a bit of oriental color and said something with a smile.
Charles has a total of three stores here. They are not in the same area and have different names. The other two stores mainly sell European antiques. Only this store carries many oriental cultural relics.
So he brought Li Yang and Bai Ming here directly.
"Mr. Charles, do you have any good treasures again?"
Bai Ming asked with a smile. He had been to this store once and the items in it were very good.
Some people have said that most of China's cultural relics are spread abroad, and there are more high-end cultural relics abroad. This is not false. The country's weakness for hundreds of years has allowed Western powers to rob too many treasures from China.
Some of these treasures have entered museums in other countries, but more are circulated in private hands.
In foreign countries, sometimes it is more convenient and simpler to acquire some high-quality cultural relics than in China. This is a fact, a fact that makes people very helpless and sad.
"You two, you'll know when you go in and take a look!"
Charles smiled slightly and seemed very confident, displaying very formal European aristocratic etiquette. Li Yang and Bai Ming looked at each other and walked inside together.
This store is not small. There is an English signboard outside, which means Pearl of the Orient. From the signboard, you can see that there are more oriental cultural relics here.
But that's not all. There are also some European oil paintings and Chinese calligraphy and paintings placed in the calligraphy and painting area.
There are also some ancient European knick-knacks, which don’t take up much space, but they embellish the place into a merging of things.
After all, Charles is a European, and he would not deliberately run a store selling purely oriental cultural relics.
"Golden and colorful porcelain?"
Bai Ming glanced casually and was stunned for a moment when he saw the porcelain area.
On a shelf, there were many pieces of colorful porcelain with different styles but the same characteristics. Li Yang also noticed these porcelains with a little surprise in his eyes.
Li Yang and Bai Ming unconsciously took two steps forward and arrived at the porcelain shelves together.
Charles's face flashed with pride. He had just obtained this batch of colored porcelain not long ago. When he saw Bai Ming, he had already expected that these colored porcelain would definitely surprise them.
Zhijin Colored Porcelain is also called Guangdong Cai and Guangzhou Zhijin Colored Porcelain.
However, modern people gave him a better and easier-to-remember name: Guang Cai.
Guangcai originated from the three colors of Guangzhou in the Ming Dynasty, but it really took shape in the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty. After that, it developed very well in Yongzheng and Qianlong, but the real large-scale development was not until the end of the Qing Dynasty.
Moreover, the reputation of Guangcai in China is not particularly great, far less than pastel and enamel, which have the same origin as Guangcai.
This is purely for historical reasons.
To put it simply, Guangcai is porcelain specially exported and sold to foreigners. In 1684, which was the 23rd year of Kangxi’s reign, after the sea ban was lifted, a large number of foreign merchants poured into Guangzhou.
At that time, the most popular things among these foreigners were tea, porcelain and silk.
Guangcai is one of the exported porcelains. The porcelain embryos are fired in Jingdezhen and transported to Guangzhou. People here color the porcelain and then transport it to the ship for them to sell back to their own country.
Since it is for export, generally speaking, better porcelain embryos are used, so Guangcai porcelain is generally very regular and better than some domestic colored porcelain.
Guangcai is a kind of trade goods, and since it is mainly exported, the current inventory is still acceptable.
However, most of them are Guangcai from the late Qing Dynasty, and those from the Kangxi and Qianlong periods are relatively rare. The trade at that time was not like the later countries that threatened with guns and guns, and you had to produce for me as much as I wanted.
At that time, it was up to us to decide how much to sell.
In addition, the craftsmanship of that period was at its peak, which resulted in the price of Guangcai in the Kangxi and Qianlong periods being much higher than that in the late Qing Dynasty.
The Guangcai porcelain here in Charles comes in many styles and in large quantities, dozens of pieces in total.
What’s even more rare is that these Guangcai paintings are from every period from Kangxi to the late Qing Dynasty and even the Republic of China. It’s almost a small Guangcai exhibition.
Among them, what surprised Li Yang and Bai Ming the most was the set of large bowls with four-season patterns.
Four large bowls are placed in the most conspicuous position. They are all genuine and high-quality products from the Qianlong period. Such large bowls are very rare in China, let alone appearing in sets.
Just these four large bowls are worth tens of millions.
"Charles, where did you get this?"
Bai Ming pointed to the Guangcai porcelain in front of him and asked with wide eyes. Charles smiled slightly and seemed to be very satisfied with Bai Ming's attitude.
"An old friend of mine happened to have a batch of porcelain like this at his house, so I asked him to share some of it with me. How about it? Is it okay?"
"It's okay, not only it's okay, I'm jealous!"
Bai Ming curled up his mouth and said angrily.
His face showed naked envy and jealousy. If he were a stranger, he would definitely despise him, but Charles and he were old acquaintances. Knowing his temper, he burst out laughing.
Charles' pride made Bai Ming even more jealous.
This whole set of porcelain is from Kangxi, Qianlong, Jiaqing, Guangxu to the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. It is easy to get just one or two pieces. It is really not easy to get such a complete set of porcelain from every period.
"Mr. Charles, you put it here for sale, right?"
Li Yang, who had been silent all this time, suddenly asked. Bai Ming and Charles both turned their heads and looked at him in surprise.
"Yes, these are for sale, not for sale!"
Mr. Charles was a little surprised, but he was not slow to react and said something immediately.
"In that case, Mr. Charles, could you give me a price?"
Li Yang smiled and nodded, while Bai Ming on the side looked even more surprised.
He knew that Li Yang rarely purchased other people's things. Most of his collections were obtained by detecting leaks. Li Yang's greatest pleasure was to detect leaks.
Li Yang is still recognized as the leak-picking king in the country for two consecutive years. Based on his current results, he will still be the leak-picking king at the next first-class expert exchange conference.
In Bai Ming's impression, Li Yang always picked up things and rarely spent big money on things.
It is impossible to miss these Guangcai porcelains in front of him. Charles must know their value, and Guangcai porcelain is more expensive abroad than at home. Li Yang will definitely spend a lot of money to buy it.
That's why he was surprised.
"Which one do you want?"
Charles rolled his eyes slightly, the smile on his face became wider, and he asked directly.
"all!"
"all?"
Charles' face showed surprise again. He had more than forty pieces of Guangcai porcelain, and their combined value was not low.
"Yes, I want these, Mr. Charles, please give me a preferential price!"
Li Yang smiled and nodded. He wanted to open a museum and needed too many exhibits. It was not easy to encounter porcelain from various periods like this at once.
With these porcelains, he can open a small area dedicated to Guangcai porcelain, allowing more people to appreciate Guangcai porcelain from various periods.
It can also allow those collectors to have a more intuitive comparison. Putting Guangcai porcelain from various periods together, its educational significance is more important. The distinctive characteristics of each period can also be remembered more clearly by everyone who sees it.
Solid and profound.
Bai Ming didn't know these thoughts of Li Yang, so he seemed very surprised.
"Mr. Li, if you want them all, I will give you the best price. This batch of porcelain all costs 2.5 million euros. I will give you a 20% discount, 2 million euros. What do you think?"
After thinking for a while, Charles said softly.
The whole set of porcelain is two million euros, almost 20 million yuan. This price is not high, and the four large bowls are worth 10 million yuan.
Charles' price was quite reasonable. After Li Yang made an estimate in his mind, he nodded silently.
He looked at Bai Ming again, and Bai Ming had a look of helplessness on his face.
Fortunately, Charles didn't ask for 2.5 million. The price was really depressing. Charles knew a little about Chinese cultural relics, but he didn't know much about some of China's side cultures.
Two hundred and fifty is a number that almost everyone in China is avoiding.
"Two million, no problem, let's trade now!"
Li Yang directly took out his check book. He had a Swiss bank account and had already deposited money in it. There was no problem in writing a check for two million euros.
There are a total of forty-three pieces of Guangcai porcelain. As Li Yang handed over the check and signed the contract, these porcelains became his collection. Even he himself did not expect that on the first day after arriving,
Before even attending the auction, I spent 20 million.
After getting the porcelain, Li Yang was in a good mood, and his special abilities were unnaturally activated.
With his special ability, these porcelains appear more intuitive. After just one glance, Li Yang's brows suddenly frowned, his eyes rolled back slightly, and his eyes fell on the foreign oil paintings.
