After Hosokawa introduced the rules, he bowed to everyone.
And this appreciation meeting started immediately.
After Hosokawato's introduction just now, Lin Chen also roughly understood the process of this so-called appreciation conference.
The process is very simple.
Although it is an appreciation conference, it is actually an auction.
After the conference begins, Hosokawa will take out his collection one by one and hand them over to everyone for auction.
But unlike ordinary auctions, the base price of each item in this auction is only 100,000 yen, and each item has an upper limit in Hosokawa's heart. If it exceeds the upper limit, it will need to proceed to the third stage of the conference.
Two processes.
Appreciation game.
The content that needs to be appraised depends on the actual situation. Only those who identify the correct result, or are close to the correct result, are qualified to win Hosokawado's auction items.
Without further ado, the conference will begin immediately.
Fortunately for Lin Chen and the others, the collection that Hosokawato took out at the beginning was not their target, but a tea bowl belonging to the tea ceremony master Sen Rikyu during the Warring States Period of the island country.
Even if the islanders' tea bowls are from the Ming Dynasty, they have little meaning to Lin Chen and the others, so they can be used for observation.
However, according to Lin Chen's own inference, the market price of this tea bowl is almost over 500 million yen.
It can be regarded as a priceless antique.
So not surprisingly, this first auction item caused a rush of people from the island nation at the scene, and the price quickly reached 100 million yen.
However, what is surprising is that just when the island guests present bid 100 million yen, Hosokawado raised his hand.
Immediately, the middle-aged woman next to him shouted: "Dear guests, that's it. One hundred million yen has exceeded the price in my heart. Now please play the appreciation game."
game?
Everyone's eyes suddenly lit up. Lin Chen and others, including Lin Chen, were all looking forward to the next part of the game. They wanted to know what problems Hosokawado would have.
Although many people have already understood this rule in the island country's collecting world, the identification game proposed by each person will be different depending on the person, so no one knows what questions Hosokawado will ask.
"Everyone..." the middle-aged woman said loudly: "Please answer the bidders just now as to the year when this tea bowl was cast. The customer with the closest answer will be the new owner of this tea bowl!"
"Hmm~!"
The scene immediately erupted in exclamations of surprise.
Mr. Kong exclaimed beside Lin Chen: "Isn't this too difficult?"
Indeed, if it is a Chinese porcelain bowl, it is almost impossible to know the specific year of casting.
It is not easy to know the approximate age of an antique just by analyzing it through various means. If you want to know the specific time of manufacture, it is almost impossible unless you use scientific instruments.
No one expected that the first question raised by Hosokawato would be so tricky.
Suddenly, many people couldn't help but become nervous and worried about their future auctions.
Mr. Kong turned to look at Lin Chen, thinking, if Lin Chen faced this question, would he be able to answer it?
Not surprisingly, none of the people who just called out the price could answer this question. In the end, they could only guess a number at random.
But just after everyone reported their numbers, the stick expert brought by Li Xiuzhen, the princess of the Sansang Li family, suddenly reported a number: "The fourteenth year of Tianzheng!"
Um?
Everyone at the scene turned their attention to him.
And Hosokawado, who was about to raise his hand and announce the result, suddenly opened his eyes and looked at this person.
"I don't know what this gentleman's name is?"
The stick professor assumed an upright kneeling posture and said to Hosokawado in fluent Japanese: "I am Professor of Island History at Sol University, Park Jung-il!"
"Professor Park, why do you think it was the 14th year of Tensho?" Hosokawa asked.
"Mr. Hosokawa, your tea bowl is Raku-ware! This is the most representative tea pottery of the Momoyama period. It was originally shaped by Sen no Rikyu and fired by Chojiro, a potter from Kyoto. Chojiro's father was from
Our tile workers from the Great Cold Country, father and son, both burned tiles for Toyotomi Hideyoshi's Juleti project, and thus got acquainted with Sen no Rikyu, who was responsible for this project."
"Later Toyotomi Hideyoshi called the wares made by Zongqing, another craftsman in the same kiln, 'the best in the world', and gave him the gold and silver seals of the word '乐' in 'Jule', so later generations called this creation started by Chojiro
The tea pottery school is called 'Raku Shao'."
"The official raku-yaki works were born in the 14th year of Tianzheng! But before that, a batch of trial-burning products appeared!"
"The glaze color of these tea bowls that were used as experimental products was red, and the later official products were black."
"Now let's look at your tea bowl, sir. Although it is mainly black, it is reddish in the black. It feels like it is somewhere between red and black. Therefore, I boldly suspect that this should be between a test product and a formal product.
The work, and judging from the fact that it is mainly black, is not far from the formal Rakushaki, that’s why I suspect that this work should have been fired around the 14th year of Tensho!”
When Park Zhengyi finished speaking, Hosokawado's applause suddenly erupted from the scene.
"It's amazing. Professor Park's knowledge is rare in my life! Even experts from Dongdu University may not have Professor Park's knowledge! You are right, this work was indeed fired in the 14th year of Tianzheng!"
There was a burst of exclamation at the scene, and those bidders just now felt like they were mourning, thinking that they had lost.
However, at this time, Hosokawado said: "Although I admire your knowledge, unfortunately, you did not participate in this auction just now, so I still have to give this lot to... this gentleman, he
is the closest answer."
The person named by Hosokawado was immediately overjoyed, as if he was lucky to have survived the disaster.
There is no doubt that his victory was a stroke of luck.
When Pu Zheng saw the answer, he was not depressed. He smiled and said, "It's okay. I was just out of interest."
"Then I'll just wait and see how you behave, sir." Hosokawato said with a smile.
The first round of the appreciation game made many people feel tremendous pressure.
Most of the people here today have prepared their experts in advance for this session.
But in the round of the game just now, the experts they brought were all speechless, and no one could answer Hosokawado's questions.
This made many people worry about the upcoming auction.
At the same time, many people were also wary of the Sansang Li family from Bangzi Country.
There is no way, Park Zhengyi's performance just now was really too shocking.
Among these people, Lin Chen noticed that especially Aki Hayata from Kasumigaura had the ugliest face.