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Chapter 162 Western Zhou Ding and Tang Crown

Lu Xin laughed and said, "Then I'll be relieved!"

He pointed to the Buddha statue that he had just confirmed with the ability to control gold, and said to the boss: "I want this!"

The boss's face twitched slightly. After this real Buddha statue was taken away by this little face, other fake Buddha statues could not be displayed. Well, let's deal with them at a low price to those dealers in Yanjing City.

Lu Xin took out ten stacks of red old man's heads from his mountaineering bag and threw them to the boss. The boss slightly wrapped the Buddha statue, put it in a bag, and handed it to Lu Xin.

Lu Xin carried the bag and prepared to go to another stall.

Yang Dayan looked at him and was stunned: "Junior Brother Lu, why are you sure that that is the real guy?"

Lu Xin laughed and said, "I can't be sure, I just think that one is more pleasing to the eye and feels different from the others."

"It feels different from the others?" Yang Dayan shook his head slightly: "Why did I feel that ten of them were exactly the same when I touched them just now!"

Lu Xin did not answer him, and walked straight to another shop. He saw a row of bronze ware, with flat edges folded outward, double-standing ears slightly turned outward, raised ears and decorated with curved patterns on the inner surface, two-week hollow continuous bead patterns on the outside, and one-week curved patterns on the abdomen, waxy light all over the body, round bottom, animal hoof feet, the height of the tripod is about 60 cm, the diameter is about 30 cm, and the abdominal diameter is ten cm.

Lu Xin has a superficial understanding of this bronze tripod. He only knows that the tripod is the most representative of supreme power among all bronzes. The earliest concept of power to unify the world in China is directly related to the birth of the tripod. The bronze tripod is cast from metals such as red copper and tin, and its hardness is very high. Although it has been buried underground for a long time, it is still well preserved. The color of the bronze itself should be golden yellow, and the surface of the excavated bronze ware has a green color. This green is not the color of the bronze itself, it is a kind of rust; in addition, the Simuwu tripod is a national treasure.

He turned his head and asked Yang Dayan: "Senior Brother Yang, is this bronze ware worth buying?"

Yang Dayan smiled and said: "The scarcity of bronze ware has led to a narrow market. The emergence of bronze ware has been a long time. The Han Dynasty has basically withdrawn from the stage of history. In addition, it was damaged during the burial process or destroyed by war. There are also many bronze ware that have been lost overseas over the years. This makes it relatively difficult to collect bronze ware and not easy to form a series of collections. Most collectors are unwilling to use bronze as their preferred collection target."

Lu Xin said: "That means, this bronze ware is not worthy of interest?"

Yang Dayan smiled and said, "You can't say that. In 2007, the antique auction of Xiangjiang Dingsheng International. The transaction price of 8 bronzes exceeded 1 million yuan, and the highest single transaction price was 4.554 million yuan. At the Spring Auction of Dingsheng International in 2008, a late-stage beast-face patterned jug was sold for 28.98 million yuan. Another in the Western Han Dynasty inlaid glass gold and silver lacquer pot was sold for 10,000 yuan. In the autumn auction of the same year, Dingsheng International launched a Warring States gold and silver dragon headdress that started without a reserve price, which was sold for 10,000 yuan. Dingsheng International is the main agency of domestic bronze auctions, and it is also the company with the largest sky-high price of bronzes. It just so happened that my family had some business dealings with Dingsheng International. If I could find the real one from these dozen tripods, haha, through Dingsheng, this bronze tripod that was suspected to be in the end of the Western Zhou Dynasty should be sold for 10 million yuan."

When the owner of the store heard Yang Dayan’s comment, he regretted not falling. Why did he only price at 200,000, and why didn’t he price at 1 million?

Lu Xin gently stroked the body of each bronze tripod and felt the red spotted green rust unique to bronze ware. His hands can now gently caress the red spotted green rust on it, and then he can clearly see whether this red spotted green rust is natural or later made old, but he cannot do this. The bronze ware without red spotted green rust will lose its historical value.

He looked at the internal structure of the bronze tripod layer by layer with gold perspective and found that only one bronze tripod's red spotted green rust naturally seeped out of the body of the tripod, not intentionally, and only the metal composition of this bronze tripod was different from the others. From this, it was confirmed that this bronze tripod was the authentic one.

Lu Xin once again threw down twenty stacks of RMB without hesitation and took away the Western Zhou bronze tripod.

In the following time, Yang Dayan kept staring at Lu Xin's actions in shock.

When Lu Xin arrived at a shop, he only selected metal antiques. He first asked Yang Dayan about the antique. When he learned that it had collection value, he stroked them one by one. After touching them all, he chose one, threw money and got the goods. He was very straightforward and neat, and he never stayed on a shop for more than ten minutes.

Yang Dayan looked back at the expressions of the shopkeepers, and they all twitched, proving that Lu Xin’s choice was most likely the real thing.

Yang Dayan felt puzzled. Lu Xin was obviously a guy who knew nothing, so how could he choose the authentic product every time?

Not only did Yang Dayan feel a little strange, but there was also a person who was interested to notice Lu Xin's extraordinaryness.

It was a feminine man. He stared at Lu Xin's back with envy and jealousy, and whispered to a big and thick man beside him: "Husband, let's follow that guy. That guy may have a special way to identify metal antiques. I'll see if he wants to choose that later, let's decide that first!"

Lu Xin came to a shop. The shop was relatively large. There were ten exactly the same round golden crowns in the most obvious position, all surrounded by eight dragons. Each dragon had a sharp mouth and a short body. The golden crown pattern was shaped like grass pattern and Ganoderma lucidum cloud. There were beads on the edge pattern of the golden crown, and each was priced at one million.

Lu Xin looked back at Yang Dayan: "Senior Brother Yang, do you think this crown is indeed?"

Yang Dayan smiled and said, "This should be the crown of the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty was a prosperous and prosperous stage of the development of goldware. During this period, the shape and style of goldware have undergone great changes. The patterns all over the crown belong to the typical Tang grass pattern. The Ganoderma lucidum cloud craft shape used by the golden crown is popular in the Tang Dynasty. The overall shape matches the Tang Dynasty's goldenware's dazzling color, rich and romantic, and extremely luxurious artistic style. In terms of the shape and appearance, it belongs to the crown of a prince of the Tang Dynasty."

"How much can this be auctioned?"

"If you can find out who wears it, the auction price varies greatly depending on the fame. For example, if Li Shimin wore it when he was the King of Qin, it would start at least 10 million, or even higher!"

Lu Xin had one million left in his backpack, so he was about to take the crown and go to the auction house overnight.

He touched these crowns one by one and used the gold control ability to detect the metal composition of the crown. This time it was very simple. Only one was close to pure gold, and the other nine were all copper, and they were gilded on the surface and then made old.

Lu Xin was about to buy the pure gold crown when suddenly a tall and strong man rushed over from beside him, grabbed the golden crown in his hand, shouting: "We bought it!" (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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