Chapter 451 When did the national treasure and antique trade become the same as setting up a street stall?(2/3)
Peiros was in business with no capital anyway, so he was very content with making so much money.
"Gold and gem-inlaid teapot, $80,000!" This is the first time Zhu Yu has given such a high price.
This teapot is made entirely of gold and is inlaid with twenty-four various gemstones. It can be said to be extremely rich.
So Zhu Yu gave the highest price since this transaction!
Peiros was also a little surprised.
His psychological price point is $50,000.
In fact, Peiros also knew that if he really wanted to put this thing at auction, the price it could sell for would definitely be higher.
But can he put this thing up for auction?
impossible!
Finding the right seller and selling the whole thing is what he wants to do most now.
With this amount of money, he can fly far away!
When he held the jade kneeling figure earlier, he saw more than just Zhu Yu's family.
I have seen several companies, but none of them offer high prices.
Now Zhu Yu gave him another surprise. He thought Zhu Yu was a friend enough!
If there was something similar in the future, he wouldn't mind coming to Zhu Yu to trade again!
Seeing that Pei Luos had no objection to the price, Zhu Yu motioned to Ran Jie next to him to pay.
Ran Jie took out eight wads of US dollars bills from the box and handed them over.
Peiros took it, weighed it, and stuffed it into his box without counting.
At this point, Zhu Yu's box of money has been used up.
Ran Jie opened the second box.
A steady stream of antiques continued to be delivered.
"Dragon-patterned bronze mirror. Eight thousand dollars." Zhu Yu looked at this very well-preserved bronze mirror, and even the rust was not obvious, and sighed in his heart. If it were to be placed in China, how could it cost more than a million dollars?
Looking up, Zhu Yu was surprised to find that Pei Luos was a little confused.
He was shocked, did this guy know the true value of this bronze mirror?
He immediately made amends and said with some regret on the surface:
"If there were words on the back of this mirror, it would be more valuable. I would be willing to pay 10,000. Now it is just a pattern, so it is 8,000 US dollars. I think this price is very suitable."
Peiros nodded slowly.
Zhu Yu thought to himself, indeed, this Peiros must be ignorant of goods, but someone must have told him that some of these antiques are relatively valuable!
Don't fool around!
"A calligraphy and painting, let me see who it belongs to... Qian Xuan, I don't know him, one thousand dollars."
This is the first time Zhu Yu has quoted such a low price.
After the report, he also explained to Pei Luo:
"I have no research on calligraphy and painting, and I don't know much about this person. I know some relatively famous painters whose paintings can fetch millions or even tens of millions at auction. But this... is not famous.
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At this point, he looked at Peiros, and the meaning was very clear. If you don't agree with the price, you can take the thing back.
"I think this price is very suitable!" Peiros nodded slowly. Zhu Yu didn't even understand, let alone him.
He couldn't even see what was good about the other person's painting. The characters were very unclear, and the landscape was also very unclear. How could such a painting be preserved?
Okay, Zhu Yu continues to have fun.
"...This is...a Buddha statue. The wooden Buddha statue is a bit small and costs five hundred dollars." Zhu Yu thought for a while and said.
Pei Luosi stretched out his hand, Zhu Yu shook his head, and Ran Jie paid.
Zhu Yu was already happy!
This Buddha statue is made of agarwood!
It’s not that agarwood, it’s agarwood!
This is at least several hundred years old!
Although it doesn't look much different from ordinary wood, and the taste is not very obvious because of the pulp coating, Zhu Yu still recognized it at a glance!
Agarwood!
This is a huge mistake!
"This is... a gold-plated bronze Buddha statue, priced at US$1,500." Zhu Yu had no expression on his face.
If you see too much, you won't be able to give a high price.
He felt that now he was in the vegetable market, waiting for the farmers to deliver vegetables.
At first I was excited when I saw something purely natural, organic and pollution-free. Then I was even more excited when I saw wild fish in a reservoir that was purely natural and pollution-free.
Then I saw the small but extremely delicious small fish in the small stream, and I was even more excited...
However, if you continue to collect this kind of thing for more than an hour, it will be numb.
I can’t get excited anymore!
No matter how excited you are, there is an end, right?
Until Zhu Yu saw an independent box being moved over.
When he opened the box and saw the contents, he was shocked!
Yuan blue and white!
There are only a few hundred of these in the world!
There are two in this box!
An almost identical pair!
Yuan blue and white phoenix head flat pot!
Yuan blue and white Luan head flat kettle!
Isn’t there only one pair of this thing in the world?
After Zhu Yu became a treasure hunter, he also learned about some things in the country.
Naturally, he wanted to understand something like Yuan blue and white, which suddenly pushed the auction price of Chinese porcelain to the top.
Then I learned about such a pair of utensils.
One phoenix and one luan, they are obviously a pair.
As we all know, ordinary people cannot use these things. After all, dragons and phoenixes are just like the yellow costumes in ancient times. Ordinary people will be decapitated if they use them.
After all, in ancient China, or in ancient times around the world, there was a distinction between superiority and inferiority. If ordinary people used things they shouldn't use, it was called trespassing.
Etiquette is not just politeness, but also rules.
Now that we have come full circle, let’s talk about it again. In ancient China, there was a pair of flat pots like this, but there was something magical about them.
This flat pot with a luan head was unearthed from the former residence of the Yuan Dynasty in Yanping City. However, it was unearthed in forty-eight fragments and was later restored by experts.
As for the phoenix-headed flat pot, it was unearthed in HC County, Ili, Xinjiang Province.
Thousands of kilometers separate this east and west——
But the patterns on the pot are exactly the same!
This is obviously a pair!
But why is it that only one of them is in Dadu, Yuan Dynasty, and the other is in the Western Regions?
No one can tell the story clearly.
Regarding this, Zhu Yu had various speculations. It might be a gift, or it might be a separation from relatives.
unknown.
Because of such a coincidence, Zhu Yu only wrote down these two things. After all, many Yuan blue and white flowers are unique, so this is not surprising.
Now there is a pair, one in the east and one in the west, which is strange!
And what was placed in front of Zhu Yu was exactly the same pair!
And they are a very complete pair!
At this moment, Zhu Yu felt numb!
When Zhu Yu was stunned, Pei Luosi immediately discovered it.
Zhu Yu reacted quickly and praised:
To be continued...