golden ear

Chapter 114 The Winery Discovery

"You mean there are still some gold ingots down the mountain?"

Wu Tianyuan found other clues through a gold ingot, so he packed his things excitedly and went down the mountain to find new treasures.

"Is this a closed winery?"

Wu Tianyuan followed the instructions and came to a winery. The gate was covered with rust, and the yard was overgrown with weeds. It seemed that no one had been there for a long time.

"Phoenix Winery?"

Wu Tianyuan looked at the old brand, and asked the people next to him. It turned out that it was a state-owned winery. Later, it was reformed into a joint-stock system, and the business started to be good.The competition in the market economy has been fierce since then, and it went bankrupt more than ten years ago, and it has been rotten here.

"How to do this? Buy it?"

Wu Tianyuan hesitated for a while, if he wanted to go in and dig for treasure, he had to buy this distillery first, but what's the use of it?

"I remember that many brothers were taken down the mountain, and they could sense their existence, dozens of them!"

Wu Tianyuan's heart was broken, he was reluctant to let the child not be caught by the wolf, as long as he had a rare ancient coin, it would not be considered a loss, buy it!
Now he also has a broken workshop in RB, and he doesn't care about multiple bad wineries.

First live in the local area, and finally inquired about the home of the owner of the winery, but the other party would not sell it for less than 300 million yuan.After all, the last 280 million, the deal!
"Do not let me down!"

Wu Tianyuan paid the money on the same day, took the key and entered the yard, walked to the side of a wine cellar, and started digging for treasures!
"Do not lie to me!"

After digging for a long time without any movement, Wu Tianyuan angrily warned Jin Yuanbao that he lied to me to spend 300 million to buy a distillery. If he finds nothing, he will melt you down when he goes back!
"Don't worry, it's just below, you can go to the right, yes, dig!"

After digging for another half an hour, when I was about to give up, I finally saw a huge treasure chest.

"Posted!"

Wu Tianyuan took it out with great difficulty, and opened it, regardless of being covered in mud, and said excitedly.

"Six pieces of Ming blue and white, and a plum vase?"

He first picked up Ming blue and white flowers, all of which are high-quality goods, especially this Ruyi hanging-shoulder origami plum vase with flower and fruit patterns, which is a rare treasure. In 2003, Christie's once auctioned the same plum vase, which was in the old collection of Meiyintang, and it was sold at a sky-high price of 1.8 million! "

"There is also this Wanli style colorful dancing figure lid jar, which is rare to have a lid, and it seems that Meiyintang has also been auctioned."

Wu Tianyuan found two heavy objects at once, even Ming blue and white flowers are divided into three or six or nine grades, the plum vase is the highest grade, the stock is rare, and once it appears, it will be a sky-high price.There are also jars with lids, mainly because the lids are not easy to preserve, and they are Wanli multicolored character jars, which are very rare.

Speaking of porcelain collection, Meiyintang represents the highest level of porcelain collection. It was completed by Swiss collectors Stephen and Gilbert in the Philippines, with the assistance of well-known antique dealer Qiu Yanzhi for more than 50 years.World-renowned for its exquisite imperial porcelain, it is one of the most refined private collections of imperial porcelain in history.The collection includes the finest porcelain from the Neolithic to the past dynasties, and is considered the best collection of Chinese porcelain still in private hands in the West.

As long as it is collected by Meiyintang, it is synonymous with sky-high prices. Even the big collectors in China have a general understanding of "Meiyintang". Chinese porcelain is a fine product of all ages.Even the auction company itself is tight-lipped about the identity of the owner of Meiyintang, and is used to calling it "Master of Meiyintang" instead of a certain collector.

With its high quality and misty background, although it is very famous, almost all of the 2000 pieces collected by the owner of Meiyintang have not been exhibited, only shown in private occasions.A small part of the collection was exhibited in the British Museum in 1994 and in Monte Carlo two years later.The only public record is the commemorative catalog "Meiyintang Chinese Porcelain Collection" edited by German scholar Regina Krahl.The catalog consists of seven volumes, but says nothing about the people who brought the collection together.

Meiyintang is very mysterious, but as one of its founders, Qiu Yanzhi was a famous porcelain collector in the Republic of China.At the age of 13, he worked as an apprentice in an antique shop in Shanghai, and his shopkeeper was very proficient in the identification of ancient ceramics.Under the training of the shopkeeper, Qiu Yanzhi studied diligently and sharply, and cultivated a pair of "wisdom eyes" to distinguish ancient ceramics.

In the late 40s, Qiu Yanzhi went to Hong Kong to develop, and together with the founders of Minqiu Jingshe, Hu Huichun and Xu Bojiao, became the first batch of first-generation Hong Kong collectors to go south. For more than 10 years, in this tiny place, it has collected many official kiln porcelains from past dynasties like building a nest with mud in its mouth. It once sold 1000 million Ming Chenghua Doucai chicken cups for 3 Hong Kong dollars, which is known as a good story in the industry.

During his travels in European and American countries, Qiu Yanzhi discovered that a large number of Chinese artworks that were looted by the Eight-Power Allied Forces in the past have disappeared from their descendants or second-hand markets.Some descendants have no awareness of appreciating or collecting the Chinese artworks looted by their ancestors. Those who use Yongxuan blue and white bowls and plates to mix up messy things are by no means a joke.Qiu Yanzhi witnessed all kinds of absurd facts of wasting property, and he developed a sense of mission to buy back ancestral items from "looters" and humble shops in remote markets.

But helplessly, even though it has tried its best, it is only a drop in the bucket, and it has no ability to "adopt" all these Chinese porcelains.In order to prevent Chinese ceramics from being displaced and humiliated again, the expedient measure at that time could only be to find a "kind husband's family" for these Chinese ceramics that had been lost to other places.

At the same time, in order to improve the understanding of the long-standing Chinese culture and the appreciation level of Chinese porcelain in the western Tibetan community, Qiu Yanzhi not only painstakingly wrote articles, but also relentlessly lobbied among major museums, foundations, well-known collection groups and wealthy businessmen in Europe and the United States. between.

The well-known David David Foundation, the Swedish King Gustav Adolph, the Shanghai Museum, etc., among the coveted Chinese ancient ceramics, many of them are Qiu Yanzhi's former "moon old" or "donated "Things.

"Chou Lao is a rare patriotic figure. He spent his whole life telling everyone about the return of national treasures. I admire him very much!"

Wu Tianyuan suddenly saw these porcelains, and remembered that several real collectors in the Republic of China finally donated their lifelong national treasures to the country.Especially Mr. Zhang Boju, when he was kidnapped, he didn't let his family sell a piece of his collection, and finally donated all of them. At that time, collectors were high-spirited and virtuous.

"Is this the Xuande Furnace?"

After Wu Tianyuan inspected the blue and white flowers of the Ming Dynasty, he picked up another copper stove. After looking at the bottom payment, there was only one Xuan character!
"There is no doubt that it is genuine!" Wu Tianyuan finished absorbing the rich energy, and excitedly played with the rare Xuande furnace.Another copper furnace atlas was found, the Xuande Ding Yi spectrum compiled by Wu Bangzuo in the Ming Dynasty.

"Is there still Daqi Tongbao? Jin Dynasty Chongqing Tongbao is discounted by two?"

Wu Tianyuan found two more ancient coins, which turned out to be treasures, especially Daqi Tongbao, which, like Kuping, is now an orphan in China.

(End of this chapter)