Chapter 0668 – The Deal is Completed

Although he didn’t say it explicitly, Ezkena had already expressed his meaning, which was that Zhuang Rui’s six Picasso figure sketches alone would not be enough to exchange for so many porcelains.

“Mr. Ezkena, we are friends, I won’t let you suffer, how about this! This figure Yuan Qinghua, plus this fish patterned blue and white porcelain jar, I will take out six more Picasso sketches, what do you think?”

The fish pattern celadon porcelain jar that Zhuang Rui said, is a porcelain placed next to the Ghost Valley celadon porcelain, this porcelain is painted with four fish playing in the water pattern of mackerel, white, chub and mandarin fish on it.

Zhuang Rui know, in Chinese culture, this mackerel, white, chub, Mandarin four fish is taken from the “clean, white, clean, clean” four words of harmony.

In addition, on the shoulder of the jar, there are twining peonies and auspicious lotus petals on the foot, the mouth of the jar has a wave pattern unique to the 14th century, the shoulder of the jar has a peony pattern, and the bottom of the jar in the auspicious clouds of the grid painted with Ganoderma lucidum, conch, money, flames and other motifs.

Although it was not as good as that Ghost Valley Yuan blue and white porcelain jar in terms of value, this fish pattern jar, which was also considered a fine piece of Yuan blue and white, had a rich purple qi inside, and there were few that could be compared to it among Zhuang Rui’s many collections.

“Take out six more Picasso’s?”

Ezkena’s eyes lit up for a moment, but then said, “Zhuang, the value of this piece of Yuan Qinghua, is not cheaper than that piece of figure Qinghua, do you think it’s ……”

Zhuang Rui smiled bitterly at the words and said, “Dear Mr. Ezkena, although there are not many Yuan Qinghua surviving, but compared to that character cyanotype, the number of fish pattern jars surviving, still seems to be a bit more, what I know, there are no less than twenty, the value of these two, cannot be compared with each other.”

In some museums in China, there are indeed a few pieces of fish pattern jars in existence, although Zhuang Rui has not seen them, but also know where they are.

After a pause, Zhuang Rui then continued, “Mr. Ezkena, in the Paris auction three years ago, a five-sheet-per-volume sketch album by Mr. Picasso had fetched a price of $12 million, and now that three years have passed, you should know how much the twelve sketches that I have taken out will be worth, right? ”

If according to what Zhuang Rui said, he took out twelve sketches, at least can be bound into two books out, and according to the current Picasso paintings have a price without the market market market, these two sketch albums, the value of at least in the more than 40 million U.S. dollars, if converted into yuan, it will be about 300 million.

And now Yuan blue and white porcelain in the international auction market, this Ghost Valley porcelain pot, the value should be in the 100 million yuan, and that piece of fish pattern pot, is much lower, at most is about 20 million, so a comparison, even if the other seven or eight pieces of porcelain, Ezekiel Kennedy still seems to take advantage of the cheap.

More importantly, Zhuang Rui hands of Picasso works, can be different from these Chinese porcelain, Chinese art in the international auction, from time to time there are abortive situation.

But Ezkena knows that if Zhuang Rui puts Picasso’s sketches into the auction, I’m afraid that even if he takes out 40 million dollars, he may not be able to see it in the bag.

“Zhuang, as you said, we are friends, I think this deal between us, can be reached.”

Ezkena for the international auction price of these items, to be more familiar than Zhuang Rui, from the price, if not counting their own promise to gift Zhuang Rui’s porcelain, they still took advantage of the cheap.

Although Ezekiel got the news, in recent years, some people are ready to speculate on Chinese porcelain, but that is not the beginning of the speculation Well, Ezekiel’s mind now, is the first Picasso’s work for the hand and then say.

In order not to let Zhuang Rui backtrack, Ezekena said immediately after: “As a friend, dear Zhuang, I decided to give 200 pieces of Chinese porcelain, in order to enrich your upcoming opening of the museum, I also hope you can accept.”

“200 pieces?”

Zhuang Rui smiled at the words and extended his hand to Ezkena, saying, “Thank you, I think, you can definitely be a good friend of mine, and I hope you can attend when my museum opens.”

“Definitely, I have been longing for the beautiful and mysterious China for a long time.”

Ezkena shook Zhuang Rui’s hand, and the two of them looked at each other and smiled, as for what was in each person’s heart, that only God knows.

In all fairness, this deal can not say who suffered who took advantage of, Zhuang Rui selected those porcelain, are Chinese porcelain in the fine, at home and abroad are extremely rare, and these years the price has been rising.

But Zhuang Rui took out the Picasso drawings, the same precious exception, for many international collectors, also belongs to the value-added works of art, as for the future which is more or less important, but now no one can not say.

As for the 200 pieces of Chinese porcelain Ezkena took out, did not see the physical, Zhuang Rui is very difficult to assess their value, but on the Ezkena collection here, seems to want to find out a little crooked, are more difficult.

“Boss, I’m traveling back and forth here, but you have to reimburse me for the expenses!”

In the hotel where Zhuang Rui stayed, Huangfu Yun was holding an apple and chewing on it, he was busy on his feet these two days, after returning to New York, he immediately packed all the collections in New York and mailed them back to China, and then went to the lawyer’s office to resign, all of this, added up to only a day’s work.

In order to their own choices, Huangfu Yun is also a loss quite heavy, hands with a few single have to hand over to others, and arranged by the law firm of a few consultant positions, have also been canceled, can be said to be a net out of the house.

“Oh, brother Huangfu, after a while, you will be proud of your choice.”

Zhuang Rui smiled at his words, he could imagine that when this collection appeared in his museum, what kind of impact and influence it would have on China’s antique world, of course, all of this had to be built on the basis of the museum being able to open up.

“Why did I believe your blank check!”

Huangfu Yun muttered under his breath and took out an agreement from his bag, handing it to Zhuang Rui, saying, “It’s blank on the number of items to be traded, can you see if there’s anything else that needs to be changed? If not, fill in the name of the item you and Ezkena are exchanging, and you can proceed with the transaction.”

This agreement was drawn up by Huangfu Yun on the airplane, Zhuang Rui roughly looked at it, nodded and said, “That’s fine, let’s go to Ezkena’s castle again in the afternoon.”

Yesterday Zhuang Rui did not accept Ezkena’s invitation to live in his castle, mainly because of the feeling that the place is a little too remote, maybe the night will really be a vampire!

“Zhuang, dear friend, see you really happy, you Chinese are talking about the candlelight night talk, yesterday if you do not go back is good.”

Still the Rolls Royce to the hotel to pick up Zhuang Rui and others, after arriving at Ezkena’s castle, this English gentleman has already waited at the door.

“Oh, in the future, when there is an opportunity, you go to Beijing, I must do my landlord’s honor.”

Zhuang Rui smiled and snorted, buddies put the daughter-in-law does not embrace, night and you this foreign devil to engage in what the candle night talk, sick is not it?

After entering into the castle hall, Zhuang Rui found, that once and his own some unpleasant Mr. Sterling is in the living room, in addition there is a man and a woman two people, look at the clothes they wear, it should be the government staff.

“Zhuang, these two are Alice and Gasper from the London Notary Public, they will notarize our transaction.”

As expected, Ezkena’s introduction made Zhuang Rui affirm his thoughts, and with curious gazes, the two notaries stood up and slightly bowed their bodies to Zhuang Rui and the others.

Although Alice and Gasper didn’t know Zhuang Rui’s origin, but someone who could make a deal with Ezkena, a great tycoon, must not be simple.

After returning the salute to the two, Zhuang Rui looked at Ezkena and handed over a drawing board folder, saying, “All 12 of Mr. Picasso’s sketches are here, Ezkena, you can have Mr. Sterling appraise them.”

After Ezkena received the items, he smiled and said, “Chuang, those porcelains you wanted, I had them all organized overnight yesterday, so you can take a look at them first.”

Ezkena raised his hand, and more than ten people placed some cardboard boxes of different sizes, on the floor in front of Zhuang Rui.

“Zhuang, those porcelains that I promised to gift you have been placed on the van outside and can be delivered to the airport for you at any time, if you need to check them, there is no problem.”

Zhuang Rui gave Ezkena yesterday, he would leave London today, and these porcelains on the ground, were the ones that Zhuang Rui valued the most, and were also the ones with the highest value, that’s why Ezkena had this to say.

“Mr. Ezkena, for my friends, I always trust, no need to check.”

Zhuang Rui waved his hand with a smile, as early as when these porcelains were still being put down, Zhuang Rui had already verified with his aura that it was indeed those two Yuan Qinghua and Song Ming porcelains, Ezkena had not faked.

As for the van loaded with those other porcelains, it was parked at the entrance of the castle, being within the scope of Zhuang Rui’s aura, although Zhuang Rui didn’t check them one by one, but the aura inside showed that all of them were undoubtedly genuine.

“Boss, that’s right, it’s indeed Mr. Picasso’s authentic works.”

Saving Zhuang Rui the process of inspecting the goods, Sterling’s identification of Picasso’s works didn’t take long, and after more than ten minutes, he had already identified the authenticity.

After Zhuang Rui and Ezkena signed the agreement respectively, a notary certificate was issued by two notaries, and the deal, which involved items amounting to hundreds of millions of funds, was completed in silence.

“Mr. Ezkena, welcome to Beijing!”

After the transaction was completed, Zhuang Rui and Ezkena breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.