Chapter 34 Octagonal vase with blue and white dragon and tang grass pattern
As soon as Su Ningyu finished speaking, Boss Liu beside him added in Lin Chen's ear: "This is just an estimated price. If those foreign collectors find out, I'm afraid this blue and white dragon and tang grass pattern octagonal vase can be auctioned.
The price is over 2 billion!”
"Most of the people participating in the auction here are holding this idea. As long as they can buy that treasure and sell it to foreigners, it will be hundreds of millions in income! Although it is illegal to do this, but you have an eye for money.
There are also a lot of people driving.”
Two billion? Just one bottle?
Lin Chen became a little uneasy and said in surprise: "It's really incredible. It turns out that compared with the income from antiques, gambling on stones is nothing at all."
"You don't even know the value of antiques, so you are just a layman!" Cao Youde suddenly said.
He looked at Boss Liu on the side and said: "Boss Liu, right? I really don't understand, how can you find a layman to help? If you do business like this, even if you have hundreds of millions of wealth, you will be lost!"
Seeing that Cao Youde was targeting Lin Chen again, Su Ningyu felt a little embarrassed. She could only whisper to Lin Chen, "I'm sorry, Professor Cao's temper is just like this. I didn't mean to target you."
Lin Chen now has a net worth of tens of millions, how can he care about this with a university professor? He smiled slightly and said: "It's okay. Miss Su, let's continue the topic just now. Since this blue and white dragon, Tang grass pattern octagonal vase is so precious, how could it appear out of thin air?
come out?"
Su Ningyu was about to speak when suddenly, the lights in the venue dimmed.
A master of ceremonies walked up to the venue and said to everyone: "Dear guests, please take a seat, our auction today will begin soon."
Hearing this, everyone who was still walking around in the venue took their seats, and Su Ningyu had no choice but to stop talking for the time being.
"Dear guests, let me introduce today's seller, Mr. Xu Dongxu, and the treasure he brought to you today, an octagonal bottle with blue and white dragon, Tang grass pattern!"
A beam of light fell from the top of the venue and hit the center of the stage. At some point, a middle-aged man in Tang suit was already standing there.
Beside him, a blue and white porcelain vase was carefully placed on a mahogany table, with a glass cover covering it.
There was no need to wait for the introduction by the host. Most of the people present stood up in surprise.
Even Cao Youde, who originally looked proud, had his eyes widened with disbelief on his face.
"An octagonal vase with blue and white dragon and tangcao patterns?! There really is an octagonal vase with blue and white dragon and tangcao pattern in this world?!"
At this moment, the middle-aged man in Tang suit coughed, took the microphone and said, "Welcome to my auction. I am the owner of this blue and white dragon, Tang grass pattern octagonal vase, Xu Dong!"
Xu Dong's voice was loud and clear, and he sounded like Lian Jiazi.
With just one sentence, he turned everyone's attention to him.
"I know you all want to start today's auction immediately, but for the sake of fairness, please let me introduce this treasure of mine to the guests who have just received the news."
Xu Dong walked to the octagonal bottle and looked at it through the glass with soft eyes, as if he was recalling a past event.
"To be honest with you, this blue and white dragon and tang grass pattern octagonal vase is an heirloom of my Xu family. But even I only learned of its existence not long ago."
"My Xu family is actually a family of thieves in the East China Sea. My great-grandfather lived in the East China Sea before liberation. Although he was from various religions, he also had a patriotic heart."
"At that time, my grandpa Zeng heard a news that the Sassoon family, which was famous in the East China Sea at that time, had collected a treasure from China and planned to send it overseas."
"My great-grandfather didn't want to see our country's treasures stolen by those foreigners, so he stole this treasure. And this treasure is this octagonal bottle with blue and white dragon, Tang grass pattern!"
"After my grandpa got this treasure, he didn't do anything about it. Instead, he buried it in a secret place. He didn't reveal it to my grandpa until he died. Then after my grandpa died, he told my dad.
, and finally arrived at my place.”
Speaking of this, Xu Dong sighed: "Originally, I planned to keep this secret like my great grandfather and the others, but unfortunately, my daughter got seriously ill recently. In order to raise her medical expenses, I had to let this valuable treasure come back to the world.
.”
After Xu Dong finished speaking, many people began to whisper.
Even Cao Youde whispered into Su Ningyu's ear: "Miss Su, if you are from the Sassoon family, it is really possible that you have a collection of real octagonal bottles with blue and white dragons and Tang grass patterns."
Su Ningyu also nodded in agreement.
The Sassoon family, known as the Rothschild family in the East, was once the richest family in the entire Far East. If it were them, they would really have the human and financial resources to find the long-lost octagonal vase with blue and white dragon and Chinese grass patterns.
Therefore, Xu Dong's words made many people present begin to believe that this blue and white dragon and tang grass pattern octagonal bottle was genuine.
However, for veterans like Boss Liu present who have been in the antique industry for decades, Xu Dong's words alone are obviously not enough to prove the authenticity of this treasure.
Xu Dong obviously knew this, so he smiled slightly and continued: "Okay everyone, I believe that after saying so much, everyone can't wait. Next, let us enter the next link, before the auction,
I will give you thirty minutes to view and appraise this treasure. However, for safety reasons, I can only let you see it through the glass."
After saying that, Xu Dong stepped aside, leaving only two powerful bodyguards guarding the octagonal bottle.
Suddenly, a dozen people from the audience came forward, each holding a magnifying glass, and carefully examined the octagonal bottle through the glass.
Cao Youde also took a magnifying glass, said something to Su Ningyu and walked forward.
After a while, the small mahogany table was filled with people, so much so that the experts invited by the crowd had to queue up to observe.
"Lin Chen, why don't you go up?"
Su Ningyu couldn't help but feel a little strange when she saw that all those people had come on stage, but Lin Chen was sitting there with his legs crossed.
The same goes for Boss Liu: "Brother Lin, Xu Dong just gave us thirty minutes. If we don't go up, we won't have time."
Lin Chen said indifferently: "It's okay, I have special identification skills, don't worry."
Boss Liu was not at the stone gambling site that day, so he was dubious about Lin Chen's words.
But Su Ningyu's eyes flashed with a hint of excitement.
After a while, as time gradually passed, the experts on the stage had almost seen it, and Lin Chen just walked up.
Although those people had been observing for a long time just now, appraising everything from the pattern to the carcass of the octagonal bottle, from the workmanship to the glaze, but for Lin Chen, wanting to confirm the authenticity of this treasure was just a matter of time.
Just a thought.
"The probability that this blue and white dragon and tang grass pattern octagonal bottle is genuine is..."
0%!
Oh, it turns out to be a fake...wait! What happened? This bottle is fake?!