Chapter 171 Bidding
The time quickly came to eight o'clock in the evening.
At this time, an older Chinese auctioneer from the Royal International Art Auction in Xiangjiang walked onto the auction stage.
“At the invitation of Mr. Governor, our Hong Kong Royal International Art Auction is responsible for this charity auction. Here, on behalf of the disaster area, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to everyone who can take the time to come to the scene despite your busy schedule. Thanks, the auction begins now!" A hammer hit the auction table, indicating the official start of the auction.
“Boss, what do you want to photograph?” Zhong Chuhong looked over the list of auction items handed over by Su Cheng and asked in a low voice.
"Don't worry, I'll tell you later." Su Cheng said with a smile.
The first item is an ink painting hand-painted by a teacher from the art museum. The starting price is HK$1,000.
Perhaps it was because it was the first auction item. Many people wanted to show off in front of Governor Maliho, so the bidding was very fierce.
“10,000.”
“50,000.”
"100,000."
In the end, the bidding price was set at HK$320,000, and it was bought by a wealthy Chinese man whom Suzhou had never seen before.
Subsequently, the progress of the auction was obviously much faster. Basically, the auction transaction time for each item was no more than two minutes.
One item after another was photographed by the wealthy people at the scene.
If it were an ordinary auction, it would be good if this kind of item could fetch tens of thousands.
But in this auction, not a single item was priced below HK$200,000.
After all, in this auction, everyone is not coming for the items, but for charity.
When meeting business rivals, even for secret competition, the transaction price of an ordinary calligraphy and painting can be raised to millions.
Most of the people present are rich people with a net worth of hundreds of millions and hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong dollars, so they naturally look down upon them.
Soon, more than 40 donated items were auctioned off one by one.
Finally it’s time for the auction of the last ten consignment items.
The first item is an item that has attracted a lot of attention. According to the list, this is an jade necklace composed of 8 emerald green jade eggs and 188 diamonds with a total weight of 38.88 carats. The starting price is the highest among the auction items, reaching HK$500,000.
Two hostesses carried a sealed glass box and walked through several aisles until everyone could see its true face before the auction began.
“The 8 jade eggs are all glass jade. The germ plasm is delicate and translucent, the color is bright and gorgeous, the emerald green is dense and sunny, round and full, without a trace of impurities. The light penetrates into the bottom of the stone, and the light shines smartly. , crystal clear, a rare treasure in the greenery that can only be seen in a hundred years," Xiao Ai commented in Su Cheng's mind.
"Do you want it? How about I take a picture and give it to you?" Su Cheng turned around and said to Zhong Chuhong with a smile.
"It's too expensive, I don't want it." Zhong Chuhong shook his head and said.
Su Cheng smiled and said nothing more.
Soon, the auction began.
“500,000.”
“600,000.”
"800,000."
Soon, the auction price exceeded 1 million.
After all, the market value of this necklace outside is two to three million. If it lasts another thirty or forty years, it wouldn’t be surprising to see it even cost tens of millions or hundreds of millions. Everyone is at this level. Rich people naturally know their stuff.
“2.3 million, is there any higher?” the auctioneer asked repeatedly.
“3 million!” At this time, Su Cheng directly took the sign from Zhong Chuhong’s hand and let him call out the price himself.
"3 million, Mr. Su asked for 3 million. Is there anyone who wants to increase the price? This is a rare necklace made of high-quality glass jade. It is very rare on the market." The auctioneer continued to encourage everyone.
However, perhaps everyone gave Su City a favor, and because the price was too high, no one continued to compete with Su City in the end.
Zhong Chuhong on the side was extremely troubled.
She didn’t know if Su Cheng took the photo of this necklace and gave it to her.
If it was given to herself, she felt that she should stop it because she felt that she was not worthy of such an expensive necklace.
But what if the boss didn’t take the photo to give it to himself? If that's the case, wouldn't it make the boss angry if you try to stop him from auctioning it yourself?
So, in the end, she remained silent.
After a long time, when no one called out the bid, the auctioneer could only continue: "3 million once, 3 million twice, the deal is done. Congratulations to Mr. Su for successfully bidding." Three million Hong Kong dollars. , to Su City, it is not a big sum of money.
Next, one commodity after another was auctioned off.
The auction prices for the following items are not as high as the jade necklace.
The highest one was a pair of sunny green jadeite bracelets, which were eventually bought by a foreigner for HK$2.2 million.
Finally, on the third to last auction item, it was the turn of the bronze dog head statue.
The bronze statue of the dog's head that was moved out and placed on the auction stage now faced everyone.
The starting price for the bronze dog head statue is not high, only HK$10,000.
Moreover, after hearing the auctioneer's introduction that it was just the nozzle of a fountain in the Old Summer Palace, not many people paid attention to it.
"Xiao Ai, is this bronze statue of a dog's head real?" Although after appraisal at the auction, this one should be authentic, but it would be better for Su Cheng to let Xiao Ai authenticate it multiple times.
Otherwise, if you buy a fake dog head bronze statue and take it home, you will only be embarrassed.
Of course, in this era, the twelve zodiac animal head bronze statues are not very famous yet, and people don’t know enough about them, so there is no need to imitate them.
"Master, this bronze statue of a dog's head has been authenticated by me and is authentic. Master, please feel free to buy it." Xiao Ai quickly fed back the information to Su Cheng.
Su Cheng felt relieved after receiving Xiao Ai's approval.
“20,000.”
“30,000.”
“40,000.”
……
The dog-headed bronze statue was not as popular as expected. Before Su City made any bids, there were only two people bidding, one foreigner and one Chinese.
Su Cheng didn’t know either of them. It seemed that they were not well-known rich people in the world of rich people.
Moreover, their bids were all ten million land plus.
Perhaps the owner behind it wants to auction it in Xiangjiang because he hopes that people in Xiangjiang will pay a high price for it.
However, what he didn't expect was that not many people were interested in the bronze dog head statue.
"Bid 100,000." Su Cheng said directly to Zhong Chuhong.
So Zhong Chuhong raised the bidding sign and shouted for 100,000.
Su Cheng is a very famous celebrity at the scene. After he made a bid, the Chinese who originally bid no longer bid. Perhaps he did not want to offend the famous Hutchison for a cultural relic. Huangpu Taipan.
The foreigner, after hesitating for a moment, continued to bid.
“110,000!”
"Bid 150,000." Su Cheng said to Zhong Chuhong.
Zhong Chuhong quickly followed suit.
“160,000!”
“Let’s bid 200,000.” Su Cheng continued.
“Bid 200,000 on the 12th!” Zhong Chuhong continued to do so.
At this time, the foreigner finally stopped raising his sign.
The imaginary drag did not appear. This time, the bidding was smoother than Su City imagined. Therefore, this bronze dog head statue was bought by Su City for 200,000 Hong Kong dollars. .
At this price, the owner behind the scenes is actually very satisfied.
If it were auctioned in Europe, it would be good for several thousand pounds.
Actually, a few years later, in 1985, a beautiful Chinese antique dealer accidentally discovered the bronze statue of a horse head from the Old Summer Palace, together with an ox head and a tiger head, in a private residence in California. Bronze statues, the antique dealer bought these three bronze heads at a low price of US$1,500 each.
It can be seen that the twelve zodiac animal heads were not well known to the public in this era.
(End of this chapter)