The Treasure Hunt of an Antique Dealer

"I have been to their sorting center several times, and even office staff have to help when they are busy. ?? Bayi Chinese=≈≈=≈≠≠=≥≥≠

In the past two years, I have been a bit economically savvy. In the past few years, I only concerned about the material, and no matter what it was, I threw it into the blast furnace. Nowadays, some of the foreign old handicrafts that have been selected are sold first. When I first started to do this, I helped to set the price. I've become familiar with those who come and go, and a cooperative relationship has been established..."

The car returned to the exhibition hall and unloaded the things to prepare for shipment.

"Tomorrow, I will **** the car back. When the Dongfeng car is full, you have to find someone to **** the car."

After listening to Xiang Weirong's words, Zhang Nan nodded.

The driver and the car are not SC Johnson's own, nor are they borrowed from the material bureau fleet, but are called by the trusteeship from the grain bureau. Although people know each other, it's best to have someone who escorts the car, so you don't have to worry about it.

When the curator heard this, he said to Xiang Weirong: "Then, there will be two cars tomorrow. I will ask Xiao Wang to go to Yan County with you. When it happens, he can put the disassembled furniture back in. Stop the car by the way."

So much the better.

However, the goods were not pre-assembled for the time being: the furniture and everything were covered with tarpaulins, which should be sturdy and relieved of the trouble. And the door of the cab is locked again. Just put the things in the office of the curator of agriculture first, and then move them out tomorrow and put them in the cab.

There are no outsiders in the office, and the light is good. The curator of agriculture pointed to the female bronze statue and Zhang Nan said: "This is the work of the famous French sculptor Eugene Antoine in the 19th century. The base has his French signature.

This man is well-known in the Western sculpture world. He has created a large number of classic sculptures in decades. He is famous for modeling Greek mythological characters and biblical characters. The sculptures are generally romantic in style.

I remember that Antoine was employed by the French and Paris municipal government for a long time to make sculpture decorations for public buildings, including the Louvre, the Paris City Hall, the Du Chatelet, the Opéra Garnier and many churches. His works are collected in many large museums in the West.

Look at this ‘Peneropod’ exquisitely carved, the characters are full of vitality, very contagious, master level! "

Sculpture Zhang Nan knows fur at best, and it turns out that this statue is not simple after hearing it: it's not just a handicraft, but a "wrist"!

But what is "Penelope"?

When asked, the curator of agriculture knew everything clearly: Penelope, the wife of the Greek epic hero Odysseus, synonymous with loyalty in the Western world.

In Western legends, the Greek hero Odysseus angered the sea king Poseidon and encountered a shipwreck, leading to the destruction of the entire army. Odysseus, with his wit and bravery, finally escaped.

But because Poseidon’s anger has not ceased, he can’t find a way home and drifts in the sea; on the other hand, his wife Penelope doesn’t know the life and death of Odysseus, and has dealt with all kinds of things alone for 20 years. Rumors gossip, while maintaining the government affairs of the kingdom ruled by her husband, while raising her stubborn son, she has to resist the entanglement of more than one hundred suitors and wait for her husband to return.

Finally, with the help of the gods, after 20 years of drifting life, Odysseus finally returned home to reunite with his wife, and joined forces with his son and servants to kill all the suitors.

"Penelope appears as a model image of loyalty to her husband. This legend is also a textbook admonishing women in all ages in the West.

Both China and foreign countries have the same virtue. "

After listening to the curator of agriculture, Zhang Nan thought about it and said: "Then this sculpture is not cheap!"

"In the West, it is estimated that tens of thousands of dollars will cost tens of thousands of dollars. I read this information in Moscow in 50 years: in 36 years, there was an Antoine bronze sculpture similar to this'Peñerope'. I remember the price was like It’s $35oo."

Tens of thousands of U.S. dollars means little to Zhang Nan, but the director of the agricultural curator is different: even if he is a deputy department-level cadre, he will kill a few hundred in a month’s salary bonus. He gave the statue casually. Zhang Nan.

If it hadn't been too lazy to untie the tarp just now, this would have already been loaded.

The curator of agriculture said nothing!

According to his words: I didn't know what was there after all when I went there. Anyway, the things I bought tonight were all Zhang Nan's things, so he was just an introducer.

As for the exhibition hall?

With the eyes of the agricultural curator, I don't know how much foreign exchange I have earned for the country, many of which are ten thousand twenty thousand.

They were all by themselves, and Zhang Nan wanted to give the director of the farm 10,000 US dollars for hard work, but Nong Bosheng said a few words, begging to be boring.

Xiang Weirong didn't persuade his cousin to accept any money, but instead asked Zhang Nan to put the money back, winking twice by the way.

understood!

This agricultural curator is an old-fashioned person who does not take advantage of the unit and does not take extra money. However, his wife is Xiang Weirong’s cousin. Xiang Weirong naturally knows how to compensate the agricultural curator from other places. He was embarrassed.

Nong Bosheng is too staid-Zhang Nan knows that although his life after retiring is not sad at all, he is definitely not a rich person in Yongcheng: even if he works in 48 years, he is in that level, and his retirement salary is also high. But when I was over 80 years old, I lived in a three-bedroom and two-room, and never worked as an auction company consultant or program expert judge.

If you learn the methods of some experts, go around making names, go around, and by the way be a second-door dealer, earning tens of millions a year is like playing for Nongbosheng!

At the 2o1o meeting, a friend of Zhang Nan found a bronze bean while fishing, and he was lucky! Bring it over and let Zhang Nan take a look: Chun Qiu Chu State's stuff, full-body dragon pattern, top-quality goods, just lack of cover.

There were more than 20 inscriptions on it, Zhang Nan couldn't recognize it, so he took something to find Nong Bosheng, who was already 80 years old.

The doubt is solved, but after the end, Nong Bosheng repeatedly reminded: This is a national treasure, an absolute first-class cultural relic, either donated to the country or collected by yourself, but you must not resell it, let alone sell it to foreigners!

Nong Bosheng is a person who has closed the door to learn.

We must know that he is not only a cultural relic expert who has studied at home and abroad, but also a well-known sculptor in the country-he is second in the sculpture industry in Jiangnan Province, and no one dares to recognize the first!

This is a human, leverage!

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If you don't charge money, then don't charge it: the bronze statues are valuable. I didn't expect the two Southeast Asian style Buddha statues to have a bigger background!

"Lao Yu always vacates some statues of Buddha every year. There is a gilt white Tara of Tibetan Buddhism in the exhibition hall that he bought back the year before. I don’t know how to shed it before. This will become a waste again. Copper and rotten iron..."

Speaking of Nong Bosheng holding up a cross-legged sitting Buddha statue with 22 arms and two heads, a total of 11 faces, and said: "This is the'Eleven-faced Prajna Bronze Statue', from the Angkor Dynasty in Cambodia. Things, the style of Angkor Wat, should be made around the 12th century. It is a very good collection, but it doesn’t match my style. Remember to take it back and don’t throw it away."

The curator of agriculture also explained the origin of the Prajna Buddha. Zhang Nan felt very good: the objects flowing out of Angkor Wat, good things!

As for why this thing was exported to China as scrap metal, it has been hundreds of years, and no one can understand: Southeast Asia is so big, but Buddhism is not believed in everywhere.

Isn’t there still a bronze Buddha statue?

"This is the'Bronze Statue of Hanuman Monkey', and it is also from the Angkor dynasty. It is just in the style of the Bayon Temple. It should be a little later than the'Eleven-faced Prajna Buddha' in the late 12th century. It was cast at the beginning of the 13th century.

The monkey Hanuman is one of the protagonists in the epic "Ramayan". It tells the story of Hanuman helping Prince Rama, the incarnation of God Vishnu, freeing Princess Sita from the hand of the demon King Rabona. In another Indian epic "Mahabharata", the **** monkey Hanuman is also mentioned. "

Upon hearing this, something seemed to flash in Zhang Nan's mind, but suddenly he seemed to be a little unsure!

Seeing him thinking hard, the few people next to him did not speak.

After thinking about it for a long time, I didn't catch the flash in my mind, so I could only say: "Curator, isn't this Hanuman the **** monkey of India? How come it is also in Cambodia?"

"Hehe, because the Bayon Temple has a long history, it experienced Hindu polytheism and Buddhism during the Angkor period. But I don’t know the details. I was also when Pol Pot hadn’t escaped to the old forest. After a visit, not much research."

Who is Pol Pot? Zhang Nan still knows: Brother-in-law often said that if it weren't for Pol Pot, this fool is not up to date, China would be more straightforward and cleaner to clean up the Vietnamese monkeys in 1979!

But this time Zhang Nan was silent again, muttering: "Hinduism...Hinduism..."

Suddenly, his eyes lit up, "Chairman Mao, this **** monkey, help me prove that I can go abroad. I'm useful."

"Foreigners' things, I will open them to you now, as if they were turned over from the warehouse."

Speaking of Nong Bosheng, he opened his desk, took out a special form, filled it out in a few "swipe", and stamped it with the big seal of the exhibition hall that he kept.

"Do you want to issue a certificate for other things?"

"No, this monkey is enough."

"Well, as long as it is foreigner's stuff, you can come to me to issue an exit permit certificate at any time. The foreign stuff can only be sold at high prices outside, you can also go abroad to grab them once! To be honest, I think Some internal information, some high-priced auctions outside are no different from robberies. Of course, it’s better to exchange for Chinese cultural relics with gringo’s items."

Zhang Nan hurriedly expressed his gratitude: To prove that he had to leave the country, if his origin is from the private sector, it would be difficult for him to have no ironclad relationship!

As the old saying goes, it’s easy to get in and it’s hard to get out, and the same goes for this cultural relic.

But Zhang Nan was even more happy with the monkey: precious enough! Old enough! Targeted enough! Well planned may be an excellent stepping stone!

As for what is behind that door?

Anyway, it is estimated that compared with my current total value, even if it can't be calculated, it is half a catty!

The remaining copper plate just let Qiu Bo go to the sink in the bathroom outside to wash it, and the bodyguard directly used soap and a brush to clean it!

It's too dirty, but no matter what the patina is or not, it's time to brush it clean-the gringy's things don't feel bad, and it's not a steel wire brush.

When Qiu Bo came back~www.readwn.com~, he handed the plate to Zhang Nan, "Boss, there are words on it."

Well, the popularization of antique knowledge when I had time before did not say in vain: the dirt is basically washed away, and the patina is still there.

Zhang Nan took it and took a look: Yes, I don’t know! Just recognize the Arabic numeral of ‘1698’.

"Director of the farm, look at what word this is?"

Nong Bosheng took it and brought his own reading glasses to identify: "This is French, something from the time of Louis XIV, with the emblem of the Palace of Falsai on it."

"The stuff in the palace? The curator of agriculture, you have to keep this thing. Nowadays, many of the things that flowed out of the Palace of Falsai during the time of Louis XIV are sky-high, and I can't accept it."

"You still pay for 30 yuan. The things are yours. Otherwise, let me go. I have to sell it to the Cultural Affairs Bureau in the end."

The stone in the pit--Zhang Nan is really nothing to him.

Then keep it for yourself, the big deal is for brother-in-law to find a way to compensate others. (To be continued.)