The Book of Appreciation

The second lot is still a snuff bottle, an inner painting snuff bottle with crystal landscape figures by the famous Qing Dynasty master Ding Erzhong!Regarding Ding Erzhong's artistic achievements, there is some controversy in the industry. Some people call him, Zhou Leyuan, Ma Shaoxuan, and Ye Zhongsan together as the Four Masters of Internal Painting in the Late Qing Dynasty, while others exclude him and call the other three masters.But no matter what it is said, it is true that this snuff bottle will never be cheap.

The snuff bottles are expensive, so when Wu Di noticed, the base price of 200 million had already been raised to 480 million.Seeing that the auction was about to end in five seconds, he made some calculations and called out a price of 500 million.Immediately afterwards, a voice asked for a price of 510 million, and within three seconds, it was raised to 530 million by three people.

He noticed that the bidders were all those who paid attention to him just now, and he couldn't help laughing secretly, I won't snatch this one, and I'm doing you a favor by asking you to pay this price for a genuine one, but if you don't know the importance later, That's no wonder I was there.

The third item in the lot is a bronze mirror, which Wu Di loves a lot, but it is rare for an authentic piece from the Northern Song Dynasty to be priced at 1.So after ten seconds of silence, he was the first to offer [-] yuan.

Half a minute later, a voice came from behind, 8. Immediately, it was like throwing a stone in a pond, causing countless splashes. In just ten seconds, the price was raised to [-] yuan.

Eighty thousand?This mirror is worth at least 12, and Wu Di bid again, 11!

The second hand jumped towards the finish line, and at the moment when the auctioneer's hammer was about to fall, a person raised his hand and shouted, 12!

Wu Di sneered in his heart, the proportion of authentic products in these miscellaneous small items is much higher than the two major items of calligraphy, painting and porcelain. !

Wu Di did not sell the next few items, and two items were still unsold.Although the base prices of these items are not high, but I don't have time to look at them. If you buy fakes, the money is a trivial matter, but isn't it disgusting?

Most of the people present were staring at calligraphy, painting, porcelain and other high-value items. Only real players would pay attention to these small items.Rich people, especially bosses who have hired experts to help them look at things, don't want to waste their energy. This kind of objects are not works of famous masters, so they are embarrassed to sell them as gifts.

But the situation is slowly changing.As the auction progressed, the atmosphere at the scene became more and more heated, and more bidders increased. The competition for many genuine products with obvious characteristics was extremely fierce, and the transaction price was not much lower than that of other auctions.

How is this going?Wu Di pondered for a while, and with a wink signaled to Zhang Fei, who was not far away, to take a shot of the blue and white porcelain snuff bottle of Kangxi Dynasty that was being auctioned.

Because there were a lot of snuff bottles in the auction, this one was obviously left alone, but there were still more than a dozen people competing. At the last moment, Zhang Fei took a look at Wu Di and directly bid 180 million before he managed to get the snuff bottle in his hands.

Wu Di kept watching with cold eyes. When the auction was in the middle, he made another bid and bid for an ivory statue of Guanyin.

This time, the people who robbed him were not the group of people he had noticed just now. It must be that someone really looked for this thing, and finally he chose to give up at the price of 120 million.

Gradually, he fell in love with the rhythm of this kind of auction, life or death can be decided in a minute, which is much more interesting than those so-called big company auctions.The auctioneer kept chattering on the stage, repeating a quotation over and over again, and the audience racked their brains to make calculations. It took more than ten minutes to snatch a good thing, which is considered fast. Compared with this speed, it is simply a pull. A snail is much slower than running with a house on your back!

And he also discovered the benefits of Liu San insisting on such an auction.His analysis in advance was clear, but this was a scene with over a hundred people, and most of them were not experts, they would be affected by the atmosphere here.With the screaming of quotes, everyone felt that the secretion of adrenal glands was accelerated and the brain was excited. You couldn't help but follow a quote, just like a chaotic concert. After listening to it, you roared to the rhythm.

Now Wu Di also knew why the middle-aged auctioneer was able to stand here.His level of provoking the atmosphere may indeed be a bit low, but his ears are really sharp, and he has not made a single mistake in grasping the highest quotation. Obviously, he has received professional training in this area, and his grades are not bad.

After thinking about this, Wu Di also let go. Since everyone doesn't care, he doesn't mind making the water more muddy, to see if the group of people can still keep up.So he didn't care whether it was true or not, and he had to quote a price every few pieces, and he had a great time playing.

Those groups of people seem to be determined to follow Wu Di closely. They may not follow everything he offers, but they will definitely not follow anything he doesn't say!Wu Di sneered in his heart, let's warm up first, and let's have fun when we wait for the big one!

In this way, time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, more than 70 miscellaneous items were auctioned, and less than ten items were unsold!

After the middle-aged man profusely announced a 10-minute break, the venue suddenly exploded, and everyone stood up and moved their hands and feet, discussing the wonderful price fights just now.

The air conditioner in the hall was fully turned on, and it was a bit hot. Wu Di wiped the sweat from his forehead and smiled wryly. Since Zhang Fei took pictures of that snuff bottle, he found nothing in the next 40 pieces!

Of course, this has something to do with his not intending to buy it, but the atmosphere of the scene is the main reason. Apart from the cold scene at the beginning showing that everyone still has rational surnames, the second half of the game is like a derailed locomotive!

"Having fun? Anyone who doesn't know you will take you for granted!"

Song Shiming, who was sitting next to him, looked at him with contempt.

"Hehe, a few groups of people seem to have been staring at me to bid, teasing them, hehe."

Song Shiming didn't take it seriously either. It's normal for well-known experts like them to be targeted by others, and he has long been used to it.

Smoked with Wu Di alone, walked outside the hall door, Song Shiming glanced at the crescent moon in the sky, and said with emotion:

"Have you seen how powerful Liu San is? Some people have learned his tricks, and if they fail, more than half of the auctions will fail! Here, the preparation of the auction items, the layout of the venue, the use of props, the timing, etc., etc., he played. It’s perfect! Now I rarely come here, because even if you face a pile of mallets, you can basically find nothing.”

Wu Di shook his dizzy head, mainly because he was disturbed by the quotations around him.

"It stands to reason that he shouldn't rest at this time. With this atmosphere, the prices of porcelain, calligraphy and painting have not been fired into the sky?"

Song Shiming grinned,

"Do you really not understand or pretend you don't understand?"

Wu Di thought for a moment, hesitated and said:

"Is it related to the value of things? I noticed that it seems that the ones worth more than a million are basically genuine products. Although the rest are lively, most of them are very cheap."

Song Shiming gave him a thumbs up,

"Better than I was back then! I asked Liu San this question, and he let me realize it by myself. Later, Master woke me up. Except for a few pieces, the most expensive of these small pieces is not more than one hundred thousand. For these people, it may not be enough for them to play with women for a night. So even if they are affected by the atmosphere and buy a fake and go back, everyone will be happy and take it seriously. After all, you have played. But if you If you play this trick on porcelain, calligraphy and painting, you will offend predators. If you are kidnapped by the atmosphere and spend hundreds of millions to buy a fake, hehe, maybe someday you will provoke someone who can't afford it, and he If you do those shitty things, you’ll be capsized long ago! Are you brilliant? Admire you? Even if you didn’t buy anything today, it’s just that the class Song Ge took you to is worth buying me for a drink!”

Wu Di silently gave a thumbs up, a master among the reckless!

But that's fine, since there won't be looting later, if those people follow him again, it's really self-inflicted!

After the filming started, Wu Di found that he still underestimated everyone.The first piece of porcelain was a real thing at first sight, so it caused a frenzy of quotations as soon as it appeared on the stage, but he has noticed that people are still quite rational amidst the madness. Although the price of porcelain is rising steadily, it has always maintained in a relatively reasonable position.

After several people competed in the last five seconds, this pastel vase with a butterfly picture of a maid in the Kangxi Dynasty was auctioned off by a middle-aged woman at a price of 820 million.Wu Di nodded. This price is not low. If it is not done well in a regular auction, it may not be able to reach 800 million.

Then he noticed that there were still many people shaking their heads and sighing, and couldn't help but smile, wanting to take advantage and take things, how could such a good thing happen?Didn't you see that even I was sighing?For real items, at the last moment, five or six people bid at the same time. If you don’t show great sincerity, you will be the modern Argentine football champion, Messi!

The second piece is a small celadon bowl with two tangled chrysanthemum patterns from Yue Kiln in the Northern Song Dynasty.What's more, the pattern of two twining chrysanthemums adopts the decoration technique of drawing flowers, which is skillful, with slender, smooth and dense lines, symmetrical composition and perfect layout, which is easy to be recognized as a masterpiece at a glance.But Wu Di knows that this is a fake, a carefully imitated fake, but the firing time may be a bit long ago, probably more than 20 years ago.Because from the surface of the porcelain, there is almost no trace of aging.

The reserve price of 300 million was quickly raised to more than 800 million in the midst of noisy quotations. Out of the corner of Wu Di's eyes, the group of people who had been paying attention to him seemed a little nervous, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth. Suddenly shot with ten seconds left,

"1000 million!"

The venue suddenly fell silent. Today's first 1000 million seems to remind everyone that this is an auction, and this is an auction of antiques whose authenticity is unknown!

However, everyone didn't notice that when they heard Wu Di's quotation, at least a dozen people in the field breathed a sigh of relief secretly, and some of them even smiled when they sat behind him.Ha ha, finally made a real move, and the asking price was 1000 million. From this kid's point of view, needless to say, it is undoubtedly a treasure! (To be continued.)