Chapter 0390 – Palace Painting

Zheng Hua sighed, he also knew that Niu Hong had offended Zhuang Rui severely this time. It’s just that the elders of the family and that old ship king who passed away had really good relations, he couldn’t help but advise a few words, who knows that Niu Hong doesn’t give himself face not to mention that this Zhuang Rui who seems to have always been very peaceful, actually moved to a real fire and didn’t budge.

“Okay, Ji Yi, come here, see how much these things are worth?”

Niu Hong had a large traveling bag behind his back, and rushed into the box gambling hall in a gust of wind, placed the traveling bag towards the gambling table, and started to pull out things from inside.

Niu Hong’s move let Zhuang Rui froze for a moment, but with the objects he took out, Zhuang Rui’s eyes suddenly stared straight, Qing silver enamel painted lion fine long neck bottle? Ming Yongle sweet white glaze dark flower peony pattern vase? Actually are a pair of? There was also that one scroll that was not opened, looking at its appearance, it should also be an old object.

“Damn, so precious things, actually take a travel bag to put together? If this is true, touching the edge of the broken point that is also to be greatly discounted.”

Zhuang Rui was so angry in his heart that he almost cursed, this Niuhong was really too coarse. He has not had time to use the aura to distinguish the authenticity of the porcelain, but just look at the behavior of the cattle Hong, Zhuang Rui can not wait to go up and beat him up.

Since entering the antique line, Zhuang Rui on these ancestral objects, that is also in the eyes of the heart care, we must know, these things are not reproducible, damage one less than one, if replaced by Zhuang Rui, will certainly find a box of similar size, put inside the shredded paper filler, will bring these porcelain, did not think that Niu Hong this cargo is just randomly porcelain stuffed in a bag, I really do not know how his brain is long. I don’t know how his brain is long.

Zheng Hua also bitterly laughed, he did not expect Niu Hong actually took these things out, and then shook his head, turned around and headed for the door, he had to call to urge that person, only he came, in order to restrain the Niu Hong the devil of the world.

“Niu young, please wait a moment, I call the appraiser to come over ……,” Kei Yi took out his walkie-talkie and walked to the door, calling out to the man.

In the casino with valuable antiques or as collateral, or directly sold to exchange chips, generally speaking, the casino will not accept, but in Macau large and small there are many pawnshops, out of the casino door you can pawn things out, and then take the money to continue to gamble.

In Macau, all the pawnshops. There are many dead pawn objects, if you have the vision, you can definitely find a lot of good things, like some of the world’s famous watches and other luxury goods, where the price is perhaps only one-tenth of the original price or even less.

Of course, due to the world’s various countries to travel to Macau too many people, there are some good and bad pawnbrokers, specializing in some fake goods in the dead pawn area, want to find the treasure, or depends on the individual’s vision.

However, there is no pawnshop in the gambling boat, so the casino slightly changed the rules, raised a bit of antique jewelry appraisal experts, if someone out of such objects to mortgage or sell for chips, the gambling boat is also accepted, just give the price, than the pawnbroker has to be lower than a few points, the conditions are very harsh.

After five or six minutes or so, a dry and thin old man in his early sixties walked into the gambling hall, when he saw the two pairs of four pieces of porcelain placed on the gambling table, his eyes lit up, did not wait for Kei Yi to greet him. He quickly walked over to the table and held up that Qing silver enamel painted lion pattern slender neck bottle and carefully examined it.

“Mr. Kei, can I take a look at these pieces of porcelain?”

In the few minutes waiting for the appraiser to arrive, Zhuang Rui observed from afar with the aura, these pieces of porcelain are indeed authentic, the white aura inside is rich, vaguely to the yellow color in the transformation, according to Zhuang Rui’s experience, this is definitely the official kiln works of the Qing Dynasty, because if it is from the Ming Dynasty, the aura will be yellow, he has seen a lot of objects, it’s almost a hundred tries.

And those two pieces are a bit like Ming Yongle sweet white glaze dark flower peony pattern plum vase, inside the aura is all yellow, and the color is dark and slightly purple, than the two pieces of enamel is also excellent, is definitely the real thing.

However, the Qing Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong three dynasties of official kilns of porcelain, can be said to be a lot of fine products, its artistic value and market price, compared to the treasures of the Song and Ming dynasties is no less.

If the market value, the Qianlong porcelain than Yongle Meiping slightly more expensive, because the Ming Dynasty’s single glaze color porcelain, the price has not been very high, compared to the Song Dynasty to be much worse, but in recent years there is also a rising trend.

Seeing such an exquisite object, Zhuang Rui at this time is also some of the hunt, want to take in the hand to play some.

“This ……”

Kei Yi turned his gaze to Niu Hong, this thing hadn’t been sold yet. Ownership is still Niu Hong’s, he can’t do the main thing.

Seeing Zhuang Rui’s slightly urgent look, Niu Hong seems to have found a bit of superiority, grunted from his nose and said, “Tudor, see it! Didn’t see ……”

Zhuang Rui’s attention at this time, all attracted by these several pieces of fine porcelain, but also lazy to go and Niu Hong fight, stepped forward, picked up the remaining one silver enamel painted lion fine long neck bottle, carefully looked up.

This enameled porcelain, the upper part of the bottle body was elongated neck, the lower part of the globular, grounded with a foot, bottle inside and mouth edge, foot along and outside the bottom of the exposed tire, the rest are decorated with enamel paintings, the neck is a long string of branches hanging lotus, each group of three, arranged in an orderly manner.

Sphere-shaped part decorated with lions playing ball, decorated with clouds, lively scene; neck and shoulders decorated with inverted lotus petal pattern for the separation, the picture is more reasonable distribution. The bottom of the heart of the “Qing dynasty Qianlong year production” six characters in three lines without circle frame seal script yin carving mark, the shape of the object and enamel decoration, is completely the practice of the Qing dynasty Qianlong official kiln porcelain.

The whole piece of porcelain is extremely well preserved, there is no trace of bumping on it, glaze color bright, thick pulp, should be a piece of large open door of the heirloom works, and successive generations of people to play and appreciate.

Put down the hands of enameled porcelain, Zhuang Rui and picked up the Yongle plum vase viewing up, plum vase also known as the bottle, first appeared in the Tang Dynasty. The Song and Liao period is more popular, in the Song Dynasty, the folk produced a lot of plum bottles, generally in the size of the wine store can be seen.

And after the Ming Dynasty, the plum vase in the shape of a big change, the shoulder is particularly full, almost a straight line below the waist closed more straight, and the mouth of the bottle is made very narrow, can only insert the plum blossom branches, so it is called the plum vase.

This vase is typical of the Ming Dynasty style, shoulder rich, shin plump, body white glaze, in good condition, the shape is very perfect, Zhuang Rui in some of the Ming and Qing porcelain appreciation catalog, have not seen such a quality vase, it should be a long time ago lost in foreign countries, just do not know how to fall into the hands of this person Niu Hong.

The most rare is that the four pieces of porcelain are a complete pair, we must know, passed down hundreds of years of objects, do not know how many times after the change, the war scourge, can keep the quality intact is not easy, can be put together a pair of, but also one in a million, like many auction houses taken by the porcelain, most of which is a lone one, very few pairs of objects.

Many favorite collection of people, in order to get the hands of the object into a pair, at the expense of huge financial energy, often or not, and into a pair of rare porcelain, in the market price, not one plus one equals two so simple, that is to be geometrically upward incremental.

“Hm? What is this gray?”

Zhuang Rui was playing with it when he turned the mouth of the plum vase upside down to look at the base. But from the mouth of the vase spilled out a ground of ash, as much as it could fall on the red carpet, Zhuang Rui squatted down and rubbed his hands together, feeling somewhat similar to cigarette ash.

“This bastard won’t take this thing as an ashtray, right?!”

Zhuang Rui heart came up with this idea, then the plum bottle upside down, in the mouth of the bottle a smell, really is a sub tobacco oil flavor, this discovery let Zhuang Rui some tears and laughter, something is cattle Hong brought, this thing in all likelihood and he can’t get out of the relationship, this guy is really fucking is an extremely good young master.

After shaking his head and putting down the vase in his hand, Zhuang Rui will be the scroll up, untie the red rope tied in the middle, will slowly open the painting spread on the gambling table, his action attracted Qin Xuan Bing and other people are surrounded by, just that the old man looking at the porcelain is still observing the hands of the porcelain, did not care about Zhuang Rui’s action.

“Lang Shi Ning’s court painting?!”

When the scroll was opened, Zhuang Rui was shocked, although he had earlier used his aura to measure that it was an ancient painting, but he did not think that it would actually be Lang Shining’s court painting, for a moment, the excitement in his heart, like the waves of the sea surging up, could not be calmed for a long time.

Lang Shining is not Chinese, but Italian, formerly known as Giuseppe Gastiglione, born in Milan, the Qing Emperor Kangxi fifty-four years as a Catholic Jesuit monks to China as a missionary, and then entered the palace into the Ruyi Hall, became a court painter, participated in the design of the Yuanmingyuan Western House, successive Kang, Yong, Qian dynasty, engaged in painting in China for more than 50 years.

As a foreigner, Lang Shining enjoyed the respect of three generations of emperors, with the official title of court painter of the third grade, which is also unique in China throughout the ages, and his paintings are a blend of Chinese and Western techniques, forming a fine and realistic effect, creating a new style of painting, which has left a heavy color in the history of Chinese painting.

Lang Shining’s works, now mainly in the National Palace Museum and the National Palace Museum in Taipei, the United States Cleveland Museum of Art, Berlin, Germany, the Museum of East Asian Art also collects individual works, but lost in the private sector and overseas are very few, in addition to some large museums, is extremely difficult to see.

And this oil painting is Lang Shining for the Qianlong consort painted on the painting of the beauty of the Qing color palace dress, wide neckline, wide sleeves, head simple elegant bonobo abortion bun, can be described as the face of peach and like the RuiXue out of the sunshine, the eye like a pearl and like the spring water rippling, curly waist can not help the wind, slightly powdered look of the city.

Above a total of six concubines, their appearance of different forms, and the ancient ladies picture of that kind of abstract painting is different, this painting is painted with Western techniques, its appearance is realistic, completely the figure of the woman charming look out, which in the history of ancient Chinese painting is extremely rare.

Zhuang Rui recalls a story that he once saw, said that the Qianlong emperor once let Lang Shining to his empress consort a total of thirteen people portrait, and Qianlong only in the completion of the painting, seventy thousand birthday and let the throne, looked at the painting three times, and then sealed the painting in a box, the decree of whoever steals this painting, must be lynched to death, and that is the famous “heart to write the rule of the people,” the paintings are now hidden in the United States in the Cleveland Museum of Art, is the The Eight-Power Allied Forces entered China when lost.

Zhuang Rui once saw “heart write rule of peace” that painting of the topography, painted on the scroll of the 13 women like, are wearing a crown of winter clothing, wearing a winter dragon robe bust seated portrait, very regular.

And this painting in front of, is dressed casually, should be Qianlong and consort play in the garden painted, in the corner of the painting, there is “minister Lang Shining” signature, indeed Lang Shining’s authenticity no doubt, just Zhuang Rui has never seen in any literature on the record of this painting.

Lang Shining’s works, the price of the famous paragraph is very high, Zhuang Rui heard last year Lang Shining’s “autumn forest group of deer map”, was once auctioned in Hong Kong twenty million Hong Kong dollars to the sky, and this painting on the characters to be proved, its significance is greater than that pair of “autumn forest group of deer map”, if it really came out, it will be in the collection of painting and calligraphy will cause an uproar.

Zhuang Rui’s brain turned up quickly, see these pieces of porcelain, he is at most feel surprised, but see this painting, his first reaction is to be its own, yes, he is now thinking about how to make this painting into their own, we must know, this is a collection of national treasures of cultural relics ah! Zhuang Rui’s current collection of objects, the market value alone, no one can be compared to it.

After the whole painting was spread out, the old man also stretched his head to take a look, maybe it’s a matter of specialization! He is not very interested in the painting, just looked at a glance, and then put his attention to the hands of the porcelain bottle above.

“Old Kei, have you gotten a good look at it, quickly estimate the price and bring the chips!”

Zhuang Rui and that old man each look at each, are a look of love, but waiting at the side of Niu Hong is a little impatient, as a betting red-eyed gambler, these things even if again precious, in the heart of the Niu Hong, is not as good as those chips on the table to the eye.

That dry and thin old man reluctantly put the porcelain vase on the table, and then pushed the old glasses on the bridge of his nose, and asked Niu Hong: “Niu young, I wonder what is the origin of these objects of yours?”

The old man asked this, but also the rules of the trade, the casino is not to receive stolen goods, or be found, it is also very troublesome, if this thing is not cattle Hong brought, Ji Yi simply will not pay attention to him, they opened the casino, but not pawnshops, received resale, but also a troublesome thing, so the casino, although it has a bit of antique appraisal of things received is very little.