On July 12, 2005, at the Christie's auction in London, this Yuan blue and white Ghost Valley Descending Mountain pot was sold for 15.88 million pounds, equivalent to approximately 230 million yuan.
The price set a new record for Chinese porcelain at that time.
In 2015, this cultural relic was revalued to RMB 1.6 billion.
It was Christie's shocking sale that shocked the world for this large vase, letting people around the world know that Yuan Qinghua was really valuable.
Liu Lang got this thing from his memory. It was in a little-known auction house in France. The owner of this big jar was a French soldier. He brought this big jar back all the way and over time he became a fish farmer.
Fish tank. Later, the staff of the auction house accidentally saw this thing and helped the other party to auction it.
Before the personnel sent by Liu Lang found the large jar, the jar had been auctioned once. The starting price at that time was 21,000 pounds. However, it failed to be auctioned and could only continue to be placed in the auction house.
The people sent by Liu Lang were a little confused when they saw this thing. They didn't know what it was, but Yuan Qinghua had no doubt. The auction house happened to hold another auction, and finally the jar was bought for thirty-six thousand pounds.
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Liu Lang almost jumped up when he saw this thing. He knew the auction process of this jar in his previous life, which cost 200 million yuan! Now he bought it for more than 200,000 yuan. How big a mistake is this?
However, more than 200,000 yuan is a lot for those experts, but everyone thinks it is worth it, very worth it. Especially when they later learned that the island country has one, they felt that it was worth even 500,000 yuan.
This piece of Guigu Xiashan is one of the only eight figures of blue and white porcelain in the world. It was immediately classified as a first-class cultural relic after being appraised by domestic experts. It can only be exhibited domestically and is not allowed to be taken abroad. In fact, due to the rarity of this blue and white porcelain,
It is definitely higher than ordinary first-class cultural relics. After all, it doesn’t even exist in the Capital Museum.
But in the eyes of experts, there is one cultural relic more precious than Guigu Xiashan, and that is a crystal clear "Sanqiu Cup".
This Sanqiu cup has a height of 43cm, a diameter of 68cm, and a foot diameter of 26cm. Its glaze is greenish-grey and as thin as a cicada's wing. How thin is it? After taking the porcelain, you can see your fingerprints clearly from the back.
The cup is painted with rocks, orchids and grass. Two grasshoppers are jumping on the grass, which is lifelike. The bottom of the cup is also printed with the words "Ming Dynasty Chenghua Year".
There are two Sanqiu cups in the Capital Museum, which are painted with butterflies. They were originally owned by Mr. Sun Yingzhou, a great collector during the Republic of China. After the founding of New China, he donated both Sanqiu cups to the country. Now they are among the best in the Capital Museum.
Treasures, many visitors have never seen these two cultural relics.
These two cultural relics were so precious that Jin Danyang almost fainted when he saw the third one in England.
This Sanqiu cup was discovered in an old castle in England. The owners of the castle are a couple in their sixties. To be precise, they bought it from an old lady in her eighties more than ten years ago.
The castle he bought here cost more than 300,000 pounds, and he also bought some of the antiques inside.
These antiques come from all over the world, including stone carvings from Asan Kingdom and South America, swords from island countries, pottery from West Asia, and bronzes and porcelain from China. Obviously, the former owner of this castle was also a collector, but these collections are by no means based on normal
It was obtained by means of plunder, but the owner of this castle knew a little bit.
As time passed, when the plunderer died, his descendants inherited these antiquities, and after many generations they were forgotten in corners, until all the plunderer's descendants left and the castle changed owners.
The new owners are considered rich, running a chain store, and their life is worry-free. However, recently the chain store has had some problems, and the funds are broken and they are in urgent need of funds, so they decided to sell some antiques. They happened to hear a few Chinese people in the store.
The British were looking for antiques, so they invited Jin Danyang and others to the castle.
This is the so-called providence in the dark. When Jin Danyang saw the Sanqiu cup placed in the sandalwood box, he almost shed tears. Of course, he did not cry because the people traveling with him told him that Qian
You must not lose your composure, even if you see "He's Bi", you must be shocked, otherwise the price will rise immediately if the other party sees it.
Then we started talking. In addition to this Sanqiu cup, there are five very good antiques, including a Gui vessel from the Zhou Dynasty, with more than a dozen inscriptions engraved on it, and it is also a national treasure.
In the end, the package price of these six treasures was 236,000 pounds, including parts and components. It must be that the couple urgently needed the money.
More than 230,000 pounds, equivalent to more than 2.4 million RMB, was a huge sum of money. However, Jin Danyang decided on the spot that he must buy it. He even took it upon himself not to report it to Liu Lang, fearing that in a day or two
Something went wrong.
Of course Liu Lang would not blame the other party. Not only would he not blame him, he would also give him a big reward. If nothing else, the future value of this Sanqiu Cup would be at least tens of millions of dollars.
In the previous life, a Chenghua chicken cup was worth two to three hundred million yuan. There are six chicken cups in the Capital Museum, and there are more than twenty known in the world, but there are only three Sanqiu cups in total.
In fact, in the previous life, there were only two Sanqiu Cups that survived until twenty years later. There was no third one. The one in the castle was either collected by someone, or it did not appear for some reason, but in this life because of
Liu Lang, it finally saw the light of day again and returned to its hometown.
Just the two treasures of the Yuan blue and white "Ghost Valley Down the Mountain" and the Chenghua Doucai Sanqiu Cup are enough for the Yongli Museum to have a place among domestic museums. In fact, these two are not the only good things Liu Lang bought abroad.
, Liu Lang bought a total of forty-two pieces in one year. Of course, what Jin Danyang and Zhao Qidong saw was far from this number, maybe ten times more, but after all, they could not buy them all, so they only
Pick the best.
There are as many as four pieces that can be called first-class cultural relics, and the rest are also treasure-grade, including porcelain, bronze, calligraphy and painting, and sundries. Liu Lang spent a total of 1.5 million pounds to buy these things, which is equivalent to
Fifteen million yuan, Liu Lang thinks this is really cheap. These things will be worth at least more than five billion yuan in twenty years, or even more. Of course, he will not sell any of these antiques, and even some
Many countries did not allow him to sell it, and he had no intention of selling it.
There are no lights in the exhibition room. Each collection is placed in a special cabinet with a light that is not too bright. This kind of light is specially made and the light will not cause damage to cultural relics, especially calligraphy and painting. Of course, calligraphy and painting
Cultural relics also require special protection.
Every time Liu Lang walked into the studio, he immediately felt as if he had stepped into the vast river of history. The simple atmosphere rushed towards him, and every breath could tell a story, whether it was heroic or poignant, ordinary or melancholy.
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