"Welcome, distinguished gentlemen and ladies, to attend this charity dinner tonight! As the host, I very much welcome you all!" After a burst of applause, Eskenazi continued: "Tonight's charity auction.
, there will be many very interesting auctions, I hope everyone can bid enthusiastically! And the money raised from the auction will be donated to 500 orphanages in the UK to help those poor children spend their unfortunate childhoods! ... Let God
The glory will illuminate the whole of Britain and bring good news to the unfortunate people!"
Liu Dong had no feelings for Christianity or Western religions such as the offshoots of Catholicism and Orthodoxy, but seeing the others around him clasping their hands in silent prayer after Eskenazi finished speaking, Liu Dong had no choice but to pretend.
"Okay! Now let us welcome Mr. Hogarth with warm applause. He is a respected "white glove" in the auction industry and the host of this charity auction!"
Amid warm applause, a middle-aged white man wearing a black suit, a white shirt with a red tie at the collar, and his blond hair smooth and smooth, looking like an English gentleman, walked up with a smile on his face.
to the auction stage.
After bowing slightly to the guests sitting in front, Hogarth took the microphone and said with a smile: "I am very happy to be invited by Mr. Eskenazi to host this charity auction! I will do my best.
I will try my best to make this charity auction a success! Thank you!"
After a burst of warm applause, Eskenazi said: "Thank you very much Mr. Hogarth for what you just said. We also sincerely hope that we can use this charity auction to raise more funds! ... So now let us
Leave the auction table to Mr. Hogarth!"
After Eskenazi finished speaking and turned around to leave the stage, Hogarth said: "Thank you very much for Mr. Eskenazi's trust! Now, let's take a look at the first lot of this auction!"
After Hogarth finished speaking, an image of a set of three gold coins clearly appeared on the background of the projector. On the front of the gold coins was a portrait of a character, and on the back was an image of a warrior on horseback. Of course, Liu Dong knew that the image on the back was strictly speaking.
It's called 'St. George Killing the Siren'!
"In the 18th century. Three sword gold coins, two one pound gold coins, and one half pound gold coin from the George IV period! The base price is 30,000 pounds, with each increase of no less than 500 pounds. Start bidding now!"
The horse sword gold coin, also known as the Sovereign gold coin, is 1 pound.
In 1489, it was first issued by King Henry VII of England, and then as Britain gradually became an empire on which the sun never sets. The Horse Sword gold coin has almost become a common gold coin in the world.
For more than 500 years, the appearance of gold saber coins has remained consistent, and they are still minted and circulated in Britain today.
For many years, the front of the gold knight's sword coin has usually been the portrait of the British monarchs of various eras, and the back has always been a picture of St. George killing the siren. The bottom of the gold coin is the year of manufacture and issuance!
Moreover, the characteristic of the Ma Jian gold coin is that there is no country name on the gold coin that is common on ordinary coins. It seems that it was specially minted to become a world-class circulating gold coin. The other is that it has no face value. I want to judge whether it is 1 pound or 1 pound.
/2 pounds, can only be judged by the diameter of the gold coin.
For Liu Dong, these three horse sword gold coins from the George IV period are not too precious. For example, when he salvaged the sunken ship in the Caribbean, he had already salvaged too many gold coins from the bottom of the sea! There are both Spanish
Double pillars. There are also British horse swords! Many of them are even more valuable and older than the three currently being auctioned.
Seeing the auction price of three horse sword gold coins soaring, Mei Xue, who was sitting next to Liu Dong, whispered: "Xiaodong, do you want to bid for these three gold coins?"
"No. I'm not interested in them, what's wrong?" Liu Dong shook his head and said.
"It's nothing. I thought you liked collecting, so you would buy all the antiques you saw!"
Mei Xue's explanation made Liu Dong somewhat dumbfounded, "Xiaoxue, 'collecting' is just for collecting antiques that interest you, not everything. That's what museums do!"
Although establishing a world-class comprehensive museum has always been Liu Dong's goal, a professional private collection and a museum are two different things.
Personal collections often have their own unique preferences. For example, if I like porcelain, then I will focus on collecting porcelain. Other pottery may also be considered. But it is not necessarily the case if I switch to bronze. If I find good bronze in my hand
Or calligraphy and painting, professional collectors will usually play with it for a while, exchange it, and then exchange it for the porcelain collection they want!
There are incomings and outgoings, and there are certain focuses. This is a truly long-term collection!
If you just follow the Taotie way, unless you have other industries where you can make money, or have extraordinary abilities like Liu Dong, your collection will become a real "nothing" in the end!
"So that's it!"
After listening to Liu Dong's popularization of collecting knowledge, Mei Xue understood instantly.
At this time, the first set of three gold horse sword coins was also auctioned off by a middle-aged white man for 80,000 pounds!
"Thank you Mr. John for your generosity, now let's take a look at the second lot!"
After Hogarth finished speaking, a blue and white jade pot with lotus pattern appeared on the projector screen!
For this piece of porcelain, Liu Dong didn't even need to look at it, it must be Chinese porcelain.
Moreover, Liu Dong could tell at a glance that this blue and white jade pot and spring vase had a strong porcelain style from the Jiaqing period.
As the successor of Qianlong, the porcelain firing in the Jiaqing period still followed the style of the Qianlong Dynasty, and the porcelain making technology still maintained a high level.
However, since the Jiaqing Dynasty in the Qing Dynasty, the comprehensive national strength of the Qing Dynasty has declined significantly. In order to save expenses, the imperial court no longer sent pottery inspectors to the imperial kilns to handle their duties, but instead placed local officials in charge of them. At this time, the royal family
The scale of the imperial kiln factory, the variety and quantity of porcelain were greatly reduced, and porcelain production could only follow the old system, without the power to innovate, and many high-cost porcelain was no longer fired.
In the late Jiaqing period, blue and white porcelain was mainly used for daily use and coarse porcelain, while display porcelain gradually decreased. Regardless of the quality or artistic level of porcelain, it was far inferior to that of the Qianlong period.
However, compared with the Xianfeng, Daoguang, Tongzhi and Guangxu dynasties after the mid-Qing Dynasty, the porcelain of the Jiaqing period is considered good, and there are still many exquisite porcelains for palace furnishings.
This blue and white jade pot and spring vase put up for auction is one of the best!
No matter from the blue and white glaze color or the fired shape, they are extremely perfect, and of course the price is quite high!
"...Everyone has seen that this is a piece of royal kiln porcelain from the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty in Eastern China. It has extraordinary craftsmanship, exquisite shape, and is full of mysterious and fascinating oriental charm!... It was once used for nearly a thousand years.
Within a short period of time, it has been the darling of all European royal families, and now it is in front of you! A beautiful Jiaqing jade pot and spring vase with entwining branches and lotus patterns in the Qing Dynasty has a base price of 200,000 pounds, and each increase in price must not be less than 10,000 pounds. Now
Start bidding!”
"£210,000!"
"Ten thousand pounds!"
“240,000 pounds!”…
Although nearly two centuries have passed, porcelain is no longer a Chinese patent! But when it comes to porcelain, China is still the first thing that comes to everyone's mind.
Porcelain and silk will always be China's unique symbols in the world!
Just like people today are still so obsessed with porcelain from two centuries ago, in less than ten minutes, the reserve price of this Jiaqing lotus jade pot and spring vase has more than doubled, and
Still continuing to rise.
"Originally, I wanted to buy this piece of porcelain as my first collection, but now it seems there is no chance!" Facing the fierce competition, Edward Chen sighed dejectedly.
As a Chinese, he is still very willing to have a piece of exquisite porcelain that represents the cultural symbol of his hometown!
"By the way, Liu Dong, will you bid this time?" Melissa asked.
At this time, Mei Xue beside her and Chen across from her also focused their attention on Liu Dong.
"I'll forget it, I already have a few such jade pots in my hands!" Liu Dong shook his head.
Although he deplored the loss of tens of millions of precious antiques from China overseas, he also thought about taking them back. However, this kind of thing is not something he can do alone. Therefore, Liu Dong hopes to focus his main energy on the more precious antiques.
As for the antiques, they should be cultural relics of Class II A or above!
"You actually have several such precious porcelains?"
Seeing Chen's surprised look, Liu Dong smiled and nodded, "Yes, after all, I am Chinese, and I have relatively more Chinese porcelain!"
When answering, Liu Dong made several turns!
Now speaking, Liu Dong's porcelain collection is almost the richest among all his collections. He has almost all types of porcelain from official and private kilns from the Song Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China!
The reason why Liu Dong was able to have such a rich collection of porcelain in two years, in addition to his own Taobao and collection through Chenxiang Pavilion and Red Star Auction House, was mainly due to two harvests, one from Dutch style.
The 400-year collection of the Gal family has almost doubled the number and types of porcelain in Liu Dong's hands by more than ten times!
The other time was the Dongling treasure stolen by Sun Dianying, which instantly brought the number of the most precious imperial kiln and official kiln utensils in Liu Dong's hands to an extreme!
"It's really enviable!" Edward Chen said with emotion as he looked at Liu Dong.
"This is nothing to envy. If you really like collecting, there will be many opportunities in the future! After all, we are still young!" (To be continued.)