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American Fortune Life - Chapter 1768

Published at 7th of November 2021 07:53:49 AM


Chapter 1768: 1768

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“。。。 Red sandalwood inlaid with three pieces of jade, i.e. one handle, yellow thread spike and two coral beans, are well preserved.

This is a pair of copper filigree enamel cranes. The enamel base is intact...

The photos at the back of the atlas are Zhou Pan's kuiding, a bronze filigree enamel animal face double ring Zun, a blue and white half wall moon vase, a blue and Han jade hanging Bi, a pair of bronze enamel square bottles, a pair of copper enamel double tube Zun, and a pair of glass flowers. One piece of fixed porcelain, one piece of marble fairy screen, one side of Songhua stone warm inkstone, one piece of blue jade vase with halberd and square cover

Andy sits on a chair in the library of highcliff castle, his eyes squinting. He has stood beside him. Christian keeps turning over a color photo album on the table, introducing him the name of each antique.

"How many did you find this time?" Andy reached for the album and looked at the pictures above. He asked with a slight frown.

"411 pieces, 47.9 million euros..." Christian reported the figures and expenses, saw Andy look at his indifferent eyes, can not help but hastily explain.

"Boss, the reason why we spent more than 40 million yuan is that three of them are extremely precious antiques, one is the well preserved Cloisonne unicorn, the other is the bronze ware about 3000 years ago, and the kettle in the shape of a tiger. According to my understanding, even in the Chinese dynasty, there are only five. There is also an intact blue and white jade, which is engraved and filled in the jade book of the imperial pen of Jin Qianlong, with red sandalwood box attached. "

After hearing the explanation, Andy nodded slightly. He didn't worry about Christian cheating him. After all, when Andy first asked Christian, an expert antique dealer who had a lot of research on ancient Chinese art, to set up an antique purchasing team dedicated to him, he installed financial and legal personnel to prevent and supervise.

The reason why Andy formed this team is to let them search and collect enough antiques in Britain and even Europe. This team was left in London by Andy, because London is the third largest art market in the world.

At the beginning, one of Andy's tasks for the team was to buy as many Chinese antiques as possible. Britain should be the largest collection center of Chinese antiques in Europe. There are many reasons. Of course, apart from trade, the most important one is that in the disaster prone modern history of China, the suffering caused by war is particularly severe. When the imperialist powers invaded China, they robbed a large number of cultural relics. A Yuanmingyuan made 1.5 million cultural relics lose overseas, let alone those illegally lost overseas.

Of course, the figure of 1.5 million lost in Yuanmingyuan may be too exaggerated. According to the understanding and research of the team, there are not so many, because there are less than 90000 treasures in Yuanmingyuan's record catalog. Of course, if a set of tea sets, teapots and teacups are calculated separately, the figure of 1.5 million is still very reliable.

With so many cultural relics in Europe, how can Andy let go of the chance to acquire them? Especially before the Chinese heroes have made a big move overseas and the whole world knows that the Chinese are not poor in money, they should plow first?

In a few years, the antiques in China will be more and more popular. There will be few opportunities to buy them cheaply. The descendants of these shameless bandits are eager to sell the robbers of their ancestors at a high price.

As for worry about not buying fake?

To be honest, Andy did have doubts about this, but the team of experts convinced him.

They said that the British antiques market is like a pyramid. Like the antiques market, it is only at the bottom of the pyramid. It can only buy popular things, even real antiques. The real valuable antiques are all traded in a small circle at the top of the pyramid.

To put it bluntly, that is to say, your consumption ability and professional level directly determine how the circle is. The higher the circle is, the more real the things are, and the inheritance is orderly. It's OK to talk about the price directly. The lower the circle is, the fake goods will come out.

Especially after Christian recommended an idea to him, Andy was more determined to expand the antiques team.

Christian's idea went to the descendants of the "bandits" who had been involved in the Opium War and the burning of the Old Summer Palace. You know, in fact, overseas, especially in Europe, no one would be willing to take the initiative to disclose about the cultural relics of the Old Summer Palace in his hands.

Whether it's true or false, the British value family history and family honor. They often have some scruples about the fact that their ancestors once invaded China and plundered the cultural relics of the Old Summer Palace, and are reluctant to say so. In France, many descendants of the aggressors are worried that the Chinese government will take away the cultural relics of the Old Summer Palace when they learn that they have collected them, which will cause them heavy losses. As a result, even if it is sent to the auction of China 's cultural relics, the identity of these collectors are also very few.

Christian proposed to find the roster of the soldiers who went to China at that time, and then look for their descendants according to their ranks. Although the workload is a little heavy, it is not difficult to find them, especially the best one in France, because France mainly has two cultural relics identification centers, which are needed for all the cultural relics of Yuanmingyuan in the French auction market Recognition of. Therefore, knowing the information of the two is equivalent to knowing all the cultural relics of the Old Summer Palace in France.The reason why we can get 411 antiques this time is that they are mainly purchased from the French. We can call each other directly with information. For the authenticity and price, the professionalism of the team is enough to reassure Andy.

"Boss, although there are many cultural relics of the Chinese dynasty in various cultural relics markets, the most precious one is the Chinese dynasty. Even if some of them are precious after all, they have been collected by major museums. Nowadays, few of them are scattered among the people, or they are extremely hard to find. Some may even be confused and disappear. "

Hearing Christian's feeling, Andy shakes his head and laughs: "don't worry. Slowly, I'm not going to resell it. I'm a private collection. It's mainly my personal love for the Chinese culture. By the way, this time back, Egyptian antiques are also included in the acquisition sequence. My Manor has a very large relationship with Egyptian cultural relics, although there are many Egyptian antiques Cultural relics, but many of them are replicas. I want to enrich the exhibition room of Egyptian cultural relics in my manor and become worthy of the name! "

"If you want to show Egyptian cultural relics, then we can only buy them from the market through commercial channels to the UK. If they are smuggled or lost overseas through war, once they are known to the outside world, Egypt will definitely demand recourse under the framework of international conventions.

Of course, as long as the cultural relics stay in the UK, there is no need to worry about being traced back. In the consideration of the UK itself, the UK does not support tracing and has not acceded to this international convention. However, the Egyptian government has a very strong attitude in the matter of tracing cultural relics, often rising to the level of external Jiao, which is very annoying and troublesome. "

Christian advised his boss to buy Egyptian cultural relics and show them, saying the possible difficulties and troubles.

As we all know, Egypt is a great country of cultural relics, with 7000 years of historical precipitation, leaving countless bright cultural relics. However, it is difficult to protect more than one cultural relic. The phenomenon of cultural relic poaching, smuggling and illegal trafficking has been prohibited for a long time, making the whole world a trading market for Egyptian cultural relics. On the one hand, precious cultural relics have been unearthed, on the other hand, a large number of cultural relics have been lost abroad. Egypt's pursuit of cultural relics is moving forward in pain, and at the same time, it has opened up a path of experience.

Egypt attaches great importance to the pursuit of cultural relics lost overseas. In addition to joining the international conventions adopted by UNESCO, Egypt also actively seeks to sign bilateral agreements on the pursuit of cultural relics with other countries to cut off the underground chain of illegal trade of cultural relics to the maximum extent.

The main work of the Egyptian cultural relics tracing bureau is to trace the Egyptian cultural relics scattered around the world. The Bureau of cultural relics tracing closely monitors 40 websites around the world that mainly deal in cultural relics. Once any Egyptian cultural relics are found to participate in the auction, exhibition, etc., it will immediately contact the institutions or individuals that own the cultural relics and ask them to present the legal documents of the cultural relics. At the same time, the embassies and consulates of Egypt all over the world are also outposts to trace the lost cultural relics and pay close attention to the auction and transfer of Egyptian cultural relics in the host countries.

Once it is determined that an institution or individual has illegally owned the lost cultural relics in Egypt, Egypt will exert pressure on its host country through diplomatic channels to return the cultural relics. If the host country refuses to cooperate, Egypt will consider terminating all exchanges with the country in terms of cultural relics excavation, exhibition, etc.

Although the government of Egypt has made remarkable achievements in tracing, it is not so easy, because the tracing of registered cultural relics is relatively smooth, but it is quite difficult to trace those stolen and smuggled cultural relics. Because they are not registered, it is difficult to verify the ownership of these cultural relics. In the process of recourse, they even need to be judged by the court through legal channels.

The most important thing is that the above agreement does not involve the cultural relics lost before signing. More importantly, the important cultural relics trading market, Britain, did not sign this international convention at the beginning.

You know, in the past few decades, people have used all kinds of ways, either implicitly or explicitly, to ask for the return of cultural relics to their original owners. To this end, the hypocritical mask of the British people who call themselves gentlemen has been torn off without hesitation, in the words of the British Prime minister.

"I can't agree. The British Museum will be empty if I agree!"

maybe someone will make complaints about it. They know it by themselves.

Of course! They know, of course, that not only do they know, but they are in a hurry. The most "looted" museums, such as the British Museum, tear their faces and talk directly.

"The cultural relics belong to the British Museum, and we will never return any part of them!"




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