Chapter 1774: Any problem that money can solve is not a problem
One of the two is the number one collector in the island country, and the other is the number one antique dealer in the island country. Its status in the collection community of the island country is self-evident.
Eiichi Anzai was seriously ill, but he still called Nitta in person. This was also what Laura and Fujita meant. First, keeping Saragata's body in his hands would be harmful to Nitta; second, it would be harmful to Nitta; He is a Chinese buyer, so we can give him a He felt that the price was pretty good and would not make him suffer; thirdly, if Nitta made a move this time, it would be of great benefit. Even the collections of the entire island country might come to ask for help in the future, which is equivalent to the entire island country. The entire collection owes you a favor, Nitta.
The first two points were easy to explain, but the third point surprised Nitta and he couldn't understand it anyway.
However, Anzhai's energy was very low, so he only told Nitta that Goro Sakamoto would come to inform him of the details.
Sakamoto Goro came to the Nitta family in person to lobby, and took a look at this heavy bronze artifact that has recently made a big splash in the collecting world.
After meeting Goro Sakamoto, Nitta learned about the background of potential Chinese buyers. This person is the chief appraisal consultant of Hanhai Art Auction Company, China’s largest auction house. He is a powerful person with a profound background in the National Museum and the Forbidden City. Collector, once helped China has bought back several precious cultural relics and has deep friendship with several major families and collectors in Hong Kong. It has also facilitated the return of national treasures such as the animal heads of the Old Summer Palace, the Chunhua Pavilion stickers, and the Dragon and Phoenix reliefs, and has also donated them to their country. Several important collections.
As for financial strength, there is no need to worry. Where did the Fujita family get the funds to repair the art museum? Was it the funds obtained from the resale of the treasured "Six Hand Scrolls of Prince Chun's Mansion"? Now the six-hand scroll is in the hands of this collector in China.
These six hand scrolls were exhibited in the Chinese capital before the Chinese New Year. Did you notice that they have been completely restored?
This is what I said, why it will be of great benefit to you to make this favor. This collector is not only financially strong, has a unique vision for collecting, and has a wide network of contacts, but he is also a person who is proficient in calligraphy, painting, and ancient books. Great repairman!
How many people in the entire island country dare to repair the "Six Hand Scrolls of Chunwangfu"? How many calligraphy and painting collections are more valuable than the "Six Hand Scrolls of Prince Chun's Mansion"? When these calligraphy and painting collections need to be repaired in the future, who should they turn to?
At this point, Nitta was really tempted, and the two parties discussed the transfer price for the first time.
There are actually many Fang Lei in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, but there are fewer of them with complete body and coverings, and even fewer with complete body and coverings with inscriptions, and Dan Fang Lei is the "King of Fang Lei" , it’s okay to treat it as an orphan.
There is no price issue for orphan works. Generally, buyers will hand them over to the market, and the art auction market will not disappoint any seller in the next twenty years.
Even at the price that Pan Fang Lei once appeared, after Bao Erlu got the body of the Lei, he once offered 200,000 silver dollars to buy the Fang Lei cover, and the warlord Zhou Pan at the time counter-offered. It's half a million dollars.
Later, Nitta Toichi obtained the price of the body from Asano Umekichi, and spent millions of dollars.
And this is still considered a mistake.
Although Chinese buyers have no price requirements, since Sakamoto is here and has made it clear that everyone is an insider, if they want to change hands, they can only follow the rules of the industry. , we can’t sing as high-profile as at the auction.
In the end, after preliminary discussions, the two parties took various factors into consideration and decided that three million US dollars was more appropriate.
Three million US dollars is more than 20 million yuan, which is impossible for any museum in China, except the National Museum of China and the Palace Museum, to get it.
But for Zhou Zhi, millions of dollars are no longer a problem. The huge success of the two memory chips has brought huge benefits to Clover Company worth billions of dollars a year.
Even if this part of the benefits cannot directly turn into Zhou Zhi’s income, the technology stocks that Zhou Zhi used to lurk through AXA Fund have now begun to rise significantly and have entered a dividend period.
There is no need to use shares, just relying on dividends, you have already made a lot of money. When An Siyuan conveyed his concern for Arata through Goro Sakamoto, Arata knew that Saragata would have to change hands.
In the end, the two parties agreed that Xintian would transfer the body of Pan Fang Lei to Zhou Zhi for US$3 million, but Zhou Zhi would pay all the remaining additional fees, including various customs clearance fees. Adding up the insurance costs, transportation costs, and agency fees for Sakamoto, Zhou Zhi had to pay a total of US$3.7 million.
But problems that money can solve are not problems. From beginning to end, Zhou Zhi did not show up. He only conveyed his promise through Sakamoto Goro that if Nitta asked him for calligraphy and painting restoration in the future, he would be duty-bound to help Nitta. Take one shot.
At the end of the interview, Mr. Wang reminded Host Wang that through the joint efforts of many people, things should be able to return to China immediately. Just pay attention to the news in the past two days.
Host Wang was also very satisfied, but after chatting for a few more words, he found program resources from Mr. Wang. This story was enough for two episodes anyway.
After the program, several people declined the TV station director’s request for a meal and hurried towards Demian Hall.
Old man Qi has already been guarding here, and has also arranged the exhibition hall. There are also several old men guarding here together.
"Hurry, hurry, hurry." Seeing a few people come in, Mr. Qi stood up and rubbed his hands: "Where are the things?"
Zhou Zhi opened the reinforced aluminum alloy suitcase he carried with him: "Here, these guys It's..."
No one paid attention to him anymore. Each of the old men grabbed a painting tube, opened it, gently pulled out the repaired painting heart from it, and took it to the display white board. , and pressed it with the magnetic fixing button.
Zhou Zhi had no choice but to rush up to help and help put the heart of the painting on the whiteboard.
It should be said that until now, scientific identification can only be regarded as a reference method for cultural relic identification. The real main and decisive method still relies on human eyes and experience.
There are actually differences between the four scrolls. Among them, Gu Kaizhi's "The Biography of Women and Wisdom, Part Two" and Lu Tanwei's "The Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove and Rong Qiqi Picture Scroll" should be regarded as "hand scrolls". The width is not wide, each one is more than 40 centimeters. , a little over fifty centimeters, but long The length is relatively long. Although "The Legend of Lienvzhuan Renzhi Volume 2" is a fragment, it is still more than two meters long, while "The Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest and Rong Qiqi Picture Scroll" has a total length of more than four meters, but it has now been divided into The eight small paintings have not yet been officially put back together.
Cao Buxing's "Statue of Ruyilun Bodhisattva" and Zhang Sengyao's "Han Wu Shooting Jiao Picture" are considered to be large paintings. "Statue of Ruyilun Bodhisattva" is more than 80 centimeters wide and 1.5 meters long. On the left and right sides, there is also a rare official script inscription by Mi Fu "Jiangzuo Cao Family Fu Xing Ruyi Lun Bodhisattva", and on the right side is his postscript.
Now the title and postscript have also been restored into separate formats. Like "The Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove and Rong Qiqi Picture Scroll", they can only be displayed according to their original position for everyone to see. Just a meaning.
The "Han Wu Shooting Jiao Picture" is smaller, with a width of 60 centimeters and a length of about 1.3 meters. It seems that it was cropped when the Song people copied and framed it, making the picture a bit too full.
In a short while, several painting hearts and calligraphy inscriptions were placed one by one according to the location of the original works, covering a full wall.