Chapter 635: Everyone is happy
The logic makes sense here. Even Mr. Wang dares to do the auction, what else do I have to worry about?
Put your thoughts aside and look at the items again. This time, the items are really good.
In particular, several pieces of jade brought from Hong Kong Island caused a climax in the second round of auctions.
The market price of ancient jade is similar to that of pre-Qin bronze. Because the country banned circulation, the market has not picked up. But that was decades later, and it is impossible for people today to accurately predict this. .
But now the saying is, "Gold is valuable but jade is priceless."
What's more, even in later generations, the market for jade is not completely gone, but ordinary jade has less room for appreciation than porcelain.
However, some special categories such as topaz have experienced an almost independent market, and have also achieved success at auctions.
The two ancient jades prepared by Haitong this time are string-patterned jade bis and phoenix-shaped jade pendants from the mid-Shang Dynasty.
The quality of the string-patterned jade biscuit is cyan with yellow tinge, and the body of the jade is even and thin. What is more special is that the edge of the hole has a lip, and string patterns are engraved on both sides, with three lines in each group, making a total of four groups.
Zhou Zhi has read a lot of information now. This jade jade of this shape was unearthed from Fuhao Tomb in Yin Ruins. But Zhou Zhi is more interested in whether the twelve string patterns in four groups have something to do with ancient astronomy.
The shape of the phoenix-shaped jade pendant is like a piece of string-patterned jade. From the perspective of a ritual vessel, this thing should not be called a pendant, but a jue.
The texture engraved on it is very complex and has a typical style of the mid-Shang Dynasty, but it is quite far-fetched to say it is a phoenix.
Xuanniao is a symbol of business. Among the artifacts unearthed from the Shang Dynasty, there are many bird shapes. Toucans, waterfowls, and owls are all common shapes, which leads to the current understanding of "Xuanniao" as a symbol of business. Whether it should be a supernatural shape processed from mythology, or a realistic shape in real life, or even a water bird or an owl, is still full of debate in the academic world.
The bird-shaped texture on this jade pendant has both thick and thin lines and strong knife skills. The shape is relatively rare among the bird shapes of the Shang Dynasty. It has long incised feather patterns, round eyes, and a large beak. Slightly upturned, more like a duck's bill or a pelican's bill.
The quality of the jade is even better than the previous one. The material is yellowish brown, pure and translucent.
Just like Tang Sancai and stamps, now is also the time when the price of ancient jade is the highest. Even in China, it is not far behind the price in the international market.
In the blink of an eye, the price of the two jade articles exceeded five hundred thousand.
In the end, one piece was sold for 850,000 yuan, and the other piece was sold for 1.2 million yuan.
Nowadays, there are many "auctions" of various types in various places. Shudu Gongmei has been able to hold regular and large-scale auctions, but there has never been such a high auction price.
In other words, despite the twists and turns before the auction, Haitong still established its position as the leading domestic auction house through this auction.
Zhou Zhi's mood also relaxed. Compared with these items, the clear imitation Jun kiln that he photographed is no longer conspicuous.
After that, apart from raising the price at the beginning of the auction, Zhou Zhi basically made no move until a gold-clad white porcelain lotus pattern bowl from the Ding Kiln of the Song Dynasty appeared.
Zhou Zhi now has two pieces of Ding kiln porcelain from the Song Dynasty, one is a jade pot spring vase with white glaze and black flower pattern, and the other is a purple plum vase with dark flowers carved on Tang Dynasty that he just got.
However, it is funny to say that although the two pieces of porcelain are very valuable, and the latter is even the only large purple Ding flower ware found today, it is an "orphan" and can be called a priceless treasure, but they are not "Standardizer".
The standard porcelain of the Ding kiln in the Song Dynasty should be the successor of the Xing kiln in the Tang Dynasty. It was praised by later generations of scholars as "white in the world", as porcelain as white as white jade.
The "porcelain baby pillow" that everyone is familiar with in history books is the standard ware in Ding kiln - Bai Ding. This large bowl auctioned by Haitong meets the standard characteristics of "Tian Xia Bai" because it adopts the "cover firing method", that is, the firing is done upside down. In order to prevent the glaze from sticking to the mouth, the plate is filled with glaze. A circle of glaze is scraped off the rim of the bowl to reveal the fetal bones.
This is the method of firing bowls and plates in Ding kiln in the mid-Song Dynasty. After firing, there will be a "mangkou" around the rim of the bowl that exposes the raw edges.
Because of this circle of Mangkou, Ding kiln wares were replaced by Ru kiln wares and lost their status as royal enshrinements.
But this does not mean that Ding Kiln porcelain has lost its status in later generations. Future generations will not put it down after getting Ding Kiln porcelain. The way to solve the problem is to inlaid a ring on the rim of some high-end Ding Kiln porcelain. Metal buckles made of gold, silver, and copper have become so-called "gold fixers."
This kind of porcelain seems not to be very popular in China, so the auction price has not increased. However, Zhou Zhi knows that there is a similar one in the island country, which is similar to the leech trip celadon bowl, black and white flower Ding kiln plum vase, and Tianmu glaze kiln bowl. Together, they are called "national treasures".
It can only be said that the aesthetics of both parties seem to be different.
I don’t know much about the metal processing craftsmanship. I asked Mr. Ma and Mr. Wang for advice and found out that it should have been installed in the Ming Dynasty.
So Zhou Zhi spent 280,000 to get this bowl, which was regarded as possessing a "standard instrument".
There is no doubt that this auction was very successful. Lao Lin's connections in the circle are also very useful. The auction items provided by cultural relics stores in various places are also quite exquisite. Lin Wanqiu's special temperament and slightly weird accent all add to this. The auction brought bonuses and created good results.
The best result at the auction was a Ming Xuande copper-bodied enamel tripod, and the buyer was a winery that no one had ever heard of.
No one has heard of it, but Zhou Zhi has heard of it, because this winery will soon participate in the first CCTV advertising bidding, and will also win the bid at a very high price, and finally Rely on the market brought by advertising to achieve strong expansion.
Of course, in the end, due to chaotic management and mediocre product quality, the factory failed to seize the opportunity and eventually fell into a business crisis.
Now this winery has just prospered, and the auction price of 1.5 million will definitely be on the news pages of various media tomorrow.
This is the effect they want. As for whether they really understand the value of cloisonné, there is no telling.
In short, it is a happy ending.
The old man did not attend the celebration banquet that night. He still cherished feathers very much. Being able to attend the meeting actually gave Lao Lin a lot of face.
Leaving Ma Ye, Fei Guan and others to attend the dinner hosted by Haitong, Jiang Wu drove the bullet left by Feng Cang to them and sent the old man and Zhou Zhi home first.
Not long after arriving home, a visitor came to visit.
Director Liao from the Gan Province Light Industry Department is here.
Accompanied by the staff of Jingde Porcelain Factory, they brought the set of 7501 porcelain sent to the Ministry of Light Industry Exhibition.
This is a five-piece set of porcelain, including a pen holder, a pen washer, an ink pad box, a small radish vase, and a pen holder with seven peaks and five concavities.
(End of this chapter)