Chapter 0657 – Crosstalk (I)
“Mr. Zhuang, may I ask how the dispute between you and the auction house was resolved?”
“Mr. Zhuang, I’m a reporter from the Evening de France, can I interview you briefly?”
“Hey, buddy, tell me about it! Did that side go soft?”
When it was time for lunch, as soon as Zhuang Rui and the others left the conference room, they were immediately surrounded by dedicated reporters, what happened today was excellent news material, no matter which country’s reporter, they all wanted to get first-hand information.
“Sorry, no comment.”
Taking someone else’s hand is soft, since it has reached an agreement with the auction house, this falling down a well thing is best not to do, and in Zhuang Rui’s previous formalities for the auction closing, there are people who have specially explained him, and Zhuang Rui nodded his head to recognize it.
“This gentleman, may I ask what happened inside just now?”
“Was it the auction house side, apologizing to Mr. Zhuang?”
“This lady please stay.”
Seeing that Zhuang Rui refused to cooperate, the reporters immediately aimed their microphones at other people, anyway, as long as they could get the content of the conversation between Zhuang Rui and the others just now, as for whether it was the person in question who said it or not, it wasn’t very important.
“Sorry, no comment.”
“I’m sorry, this matter is still for you to ask the parties involved.”
“Please make way, please make way ……”
However, these Chinese collectors from home and abroad, apparently one by one are all battle-hardened veterans, coping with reporters to be more skillful than one, from the meeting room door followed to the restaurant, actually none of them leaked out any word of mouth, so that a large number of journalists were greatly disappointed.
To the time of the restaurant, those reporters were stopped, because the restaurant at noon, was the auction house the whole package down, so these reporters can not enter, can only wait outside to poke their heads in, look at the Zhuang Rui straight shake his head.
Qin Xuan Bing sat next to Zhuang Rui, poked Zhuang Rui with his hand, said: “Husband, do we want to give them this?”
“What is this?” Zhuang Rui asked with a bit of uncertainty.
“A home DV camera! I just filmed those two apologizing.”
Qin Xuan Bing opened a corner of her bag, inside the exposed things let Zhuang Rui surprised, no wonder just in the meeting room, Qin Xuan Bing did not stand beside himself, dare is to go to shoot this thing ah?
“Quickly put away, not be seen, right?”
Zhuang Rui hastily pulled on the zipper of Qin Xuan Bing Kun bag, this can not be good to publicize out, otherwise in the future this auction house combined with other auction houses, really can let themselves in the international auction world into a street rat, everyone shouted.
Qin Xuan Bing saw Zhuang Rui’s appearance, some strange back: “Of course no one else saw, but …… what are you so careful ah?”
“Hey, Auntie, I’ve already agreed to their settlement, taking out this thing again, isn’t that just slapping people in the face, if that’s the case, I don’t even want to enter the auction house again in the future.”
When Zhuang Rui said this, he still didn’t know that he was now on the auction house’s blacklist, I’m afraid that this time, it was his first and last time to participate in the auction organized by this auction house.
“We can send it to some media, but we don’t need to show up ourselves, who knows who shot it!”
Qin Xuan Bing’s eyes turned and gave Zhuang Rui an idea.
“This …… is not impossible, wait until after we leave France, otherwise it is still an important suspect.”
Zhuang Rui nodded his head and promised, with Qin Xuan Bing’s inspiration, Zhuang Rui felt that it seemed good to pass this thing directly to the Internet, but to mosaic his face, Zhuang Rui didn’t want to be a star.
After lunch, the crowd rested for a while, and at the urging of the auction house’s staff, they returned to the auction hall.
“Gentlemen, ladies, guests, friends, due to some small misunderstandings in communication in the morning, caused the interruption of the auction, now the auction continues, the following item to be auctioned is …… a Chinese Qing Dynasty Kangxi period blue and white large plate.”
Standing on the auction stage Jefferson, at this moment the face is obviously not as spiritual as in the morning, due to his deliberate revenge, so that the auction house lost a lot of money, at noon, Richard but to his face sprayed a lot of spittle, at this time Richard presided over the middle of the road, and then do not dare to have the slightest transgression of the place.
“Friends can first look at the hands of the color page, this blue and white large plate diameter of thirty-eight point five centimeters, glaze color is pure, thick pulp, blue and white color is not evil, the bottom of the paragraph for the Kangxi years system, after a number of experts identified, this blue and white large plate, should belong to the Qing dynasty palace official kiln porcelain …… so big porcelain. Appeared in the international auction, or the first time, the bottom auction price of 500,000 euros, a rare opportunity, but also please friends bid.”
Jefferson, after advocating some, reported the bottom auction price of this Kangxi blue and white large plate, this porcelain is also one of the fine products of this auction, in order to salvage the impact of the morning, purposely get in front of the auction.
“Seven hundred thousand ……”
“Six hundred thousand ……”
“Five hundred and fifty thousand ……”
Just when Jefferson’s words just fell, suddenly four or five voices sounded at the same time, the Jefferson was startled, according to this thing although sought-after, but still his experience, will also be cold for a few dozen seconds a minute before someone bid, so fast and so many people shouting at the same time, but let Jefferson a little bit uncomfortable.
“The 87th buyer bid seven hundred thousand euros, a raise of this porcelain twenty million euros, it seems that the competition for this porcelain will be very fierce.”
But “white glove” auctioneer’s name is not for nothing, Jefferson still in the first time to distinguish the highest bidder, although the heart is a little strange, but Jefferson is still very happy.
The competition was so fierce at the beginning, Jefferson had every reason to believe that the final price of this porcelain would definitely be higher than the oil painting by Lang Shi Ning that Zhuang Rui had captured earlier.
“Mr. Zhao is really lucky.”
“Alas, why didn’t I think to start calling the price higher?”
“Yeah! Old Zhao is really cunning, but it’s still a toss-up whether the auction house is willing to sell this porcelain for seven hundred thousand euros!”
The few people who had just called for the price did not raise their hands to call for the price again after Jefferson finished speaking, but instead murmured.
That bid seven hundred thousand euros of Zhao, at this moment is naturally full of spring, although said this time to the possibility of only this one object, but the value of this porcelain, far more than 700,000 euros, such a large piece of blue and white dish, as Jefferson said, extremely rare, get domestic, I’m afraid that 20 million yuan are willing to buy.
Thirty seconds passed ……
A minute has passed ……
Two minutes passed ……
Standing on the auction stage Jefferson’s face slowly became a little ugly up, he did not know why, the district of seven hundred thousand euros call, actually no one to raise the price again, which makes the experienced Jefferson feel that there is a hint of wrong.
“Seven hundred thousand euros for the first time, this Qing dynasty Kangxi blue and white large plate, even if it is not a unique product, in the world is rare, interested friends seize the time to bid, the opportunity is rare ah!”
Jefferson hands of the auction hammer on the table heavily struck a, extremely rich compelling language, don’t money from the mouth spit out, but even if he mouth bright lotus flower, the stage is still quiet as usual, in addition to the Zhao general manager to open the price, no one to answer and no longer.
“Friends, this Kangxi porcelain, in the international auction market price, at least in a million euros or so ah! Maybe you bid once more, this porcelain belongs to you, but also please enthusiastically offer, after this village will not have this store ah!”
Jefferson at the moment behind the clothes, has been completely wet with cold sweat, presided over so many auctions, for the situation in front of him is not strange, this is the auctioneer’s most afraid of a scene, the buyers “string on”.
Sure enough, the following crowd’s reaction, verified Jefferson’s idea, just as he used the Chinese saying that “after this village there is no such store” under the stage is still no one offer, and now the price of this porcelain, is still seven hundred thousand euros.
Time in a second by second, Jefferson forehead cold sweat, has been dripping down the neck to the clothes, do not know why, those interested in Chinese art foreign collectors, but also did not open the price of this porcelain, in this case, even Jefferson, is helpless.
“Hey, I say Mr. Jefferson, as the owner of the ‘White Glove’, you shouldn’t make such a low-level mistake! Now that five minutes have passed since the first knock on the whack, are you going to wait until the auction ends?”
Under Jefferson’s relentless urging again and again, the time soon passed more than five minutes, just except for the one who bid first, Mr. Zhao, there was no second person to bid again, finally Mr. Zhao got impatient and simply stood up to accuse Jefferson.
“There’s really no more bids from friends.”
Jefferson unwillingly asked another sentence, knocked the auction hammer twice in succession, said: “Congratulations to buyer number 87, you to seventy hundred thousand euros, successful auction of this Chinese Qing dynasty Kangxi years of blue and white dish, once again, congratulations to you.”
Although the mouth said congratulations, Jefferson’s face is not a smile, he knew that he encountered the auctioneer’s most afraid of the situation, that is, the buyers conspired together to boycott the auction house.
This kind of situation in the big auction occasion, generally speaking is extremely rare, because the buyers come from all over the world, it is very difficult to unify opinions, but today I do not know why, actually by their conspiracy succeeded.
Jefferson did not think of letting the auction house arranged by the TO to raise the price, but he did not dare to, because the buyers on the stage if it is really a tandem, then let the TO out of the consequences, is that this item ultimately by the auction house to get.