Chapter 0793 The price of high imitation porcelain
So Li Dali although also in the Ji Province range of food, but he is not very nervous, and even a few points of excitement, he could not wait for things to make a big deal a little bit more, but also to see Zhuang Rui’s connections.
In Li Dali thought, this local officials and then strong, to the capital also have to clip the tail to do people, also have to sell a few points of face in the city of those people.
Not to mention, it is the capital those not very eye-catching department bureau in some section level cadres, go to the local provinces, it is called checking the work, even if the level of the local people higher than him, but also to smile and accompany, in ancient times, this is called the Minister of Qinzai.
“Alas, Old Xu, I was victimized by you, they can’t do anything about you, maybe they will have to pack me up later!”
Yu Zhengjun put on a sobbing expression and after thinking for a while, he said, “Old Xu, I think you might as well go out and hide for a while! Wait for this wind to pass before coming back, you don’t have the funds to continue your research now anyway.”
“I haven’t done anything bad, why should I hide? Besides …… besides …… I don’t even have the money to go out.”
Xu Guoqing’s face reddens a bit, there were still tens of thousands of dollars on hand, were daughter-in-law to take back to her mother’s home to go, his hands left a few hundred dollars, just enough for him to eat, the factory has owed three or four months of the electricity bill money, Xu Guoqing have no money to pay.
Xu Guoqing’s words said a few people are frozen for a moment, they did not expect Xu Guoqing mixed to such a poor place, go out to hide for three or five months, there are a million or so will be enough, I did not think that he even this money can not come out.
Zhuang Rui glanced at Li Dali and said, “Mr. Li, the money for that porcelain can be given to Xu Gong.”
The set of eight three-color figurines of ladies that Zhuang Rui bought some time ago, is in the box in Peng Fei’s hand, at that time, Zhuang Rui was to give Li Dali five hundred thousand, this money is naturally going to give Xu Guoqing.
Although he had the intention to ask Xu Guoqing to leave this place, but the thing of taking advantage of people’s danger, Zhuang Rui still did not bother to do.
“Right, right, see I forgot all about this, Lao Yu, Mr. Zhuang bought four pieces of porcelain made by Mr. Xu, a total of half a million. Look at what I’m doing ah! Mr. Zhuang said it’s worth this much, then it’s this much, it’s not your first day in the antique business, modern imitations, can the price be compared to the real thing?”
After hearing Zhuang Rui’s words, Li Dali quickly pulled out a check from his bag, but one size fits all, this money he did not directly to Xu Guoqing, but handed over to Yu Zhengjun, because those Tang Sancai, is from the hands of Yu Zhengjun.
However, Li Dali does not know, Yu Zhengjun just looked at his meaning, not smack this money is small, but smack too much, Yu Zhengjun think, modern imitation porcelain, can be worth a three or five thousand on the top of the sky.
“Mr. Zhuang, look, how embarrassing this is!”
Yu Zhengjun received the check, quickly handed to Xu Guoqing, and the face is also a little red, originally thought to use these objects to fish some kaiju, did not think that Zhuang Rui in the recognition of the authenticity of the fake, but also gave such a high price.
Zhuang Rui smiled at the words, waved his hand and said, “Boss Yu, Xu Gong’s craftsmanship, is worth so much money, these Tang Sancai, although it is not burned in the Tang Dynasty, but it also has a very high level of artistic standards and appreciation value, and the cost of this, I guess it is not low, right?”
“I don’t know about this, but it’s not estimated to be much money, right?”
Although Yu Zhengjun knew that Xu Guoqing had spent a lot of money on imitating these ancient ceramics, he did not know the exact amount.
In Zhengjun thought, Gao Yi itself is the production of porcelain soil place, and those soil do not have to spend money, ready-made long hair kiln, burn these things simply do not use much money.
And before Xu Guoqing’s daughter-in-law likes to speculate, so some of Xu Guoqing’s friends, thought it was the old Xu’s daughter-in-law to speculate on the stock market to lose all the money, who did not think that the money is Xu Guoqing firing porcelain used up.
Xu Guoqing gently shake the hand of this 500,000 yuan check, issued a “wow” sound, said casually: “If you start firing, it is estimated that enough to use two months.”
“Fuck, spending so much ah? Old Xu, how many objects can you burn with this half a million dollars?” Xu Guoqing’s words startled Yu Zhengjun beside him, and he couldn’t help but widen his eyes.
Xu Guoqing raised his head and seemed to be calculating something before saying after a while, “If things go well, I should be able to burn two to three pieces of porcelain imitating the Magnetic State Kiln, and if I’m not lucky, I’m afraid that I can only burn one at most.”
“Sh…… what?”
Yu Zhengjun was completely dumbfounded, almost muttering, “Half a million RMB, and you can only burn two or three pieces of porcelain?”
“Yeah! I’m afraid that just formulating those ancient glazes alone will cost a great deal of money, and although I have mastered the firing formula of Magnetic State Kiln Porcelain, I have never fired a physical object, and I have to feel out the fire in the firing, and it will be lucky if I can produce a single piece of ware in a firing of ten furnaces.”
With modern technology firing antique porcelain, the biggest difficulty lies in the formula and glaze, the formula can be recovered through a variety of clues and a large number of experiments, but the ancient glaze due to the conditions, but is very precious.
Xu Guoqing used ancient glaze, completely his own preparation out, he collected a variety of domestic colored ores at a high price, ground into powder high temperature firing after coloring ingredients, completely ancient technology, does not contain a trace of modernization factor in it.
“Lao Xu, that …… that you used to burn the Tang Sancai, the capital is also so high?”
Yu Zhengjun speech has been a little trembling, to know, he but from Xu Guoqing here took a lot of Tang three color objects, all were given away by him as worthless things.
“That’s not true.” Xu Guoqing’s words made Yu Zhengjun breathe a sigh of relief.
“However, in the beginning, researching the formula and glaze cost almost a few million dollars, and the cost behind was relatively low, but due to too many firing scraps, I’m afraid it would cost a few tens of thousands of dollars to fire one out.”
All handmade imitation of ancient porcelain, because of some conditions of non-repeatability, it can be said that no one is exactly the same, from Xu Guoqing hands out of those three color pottery porcelain, piece by piece is a fine product, not good has long been he casually broken away.
In fact, more than a decade, Xu Guoqing burned a total of 50 or 60 pieces of high imitation Tang three-color, counting up to a year, but also burned successfully three or five things.
Xu Guoqing is obsessed with research if the recovery of ancient ceramics firing process, he is not much care for the finished product, plus that will also have money, so generous to send out a lot of things.
In addition to Xu Guoqing this time out of the thirty-two pieces of artifacts, the other are looked at by friends look good, casually give to want to go, which has Yu boss.
Now is almost exhausted, Xu Guoqing put his most satisfied more than thirty pieces of three-color pottery figurines, out to sell, but he for the value of these things, really do not know much.
However, Zhuang Rui took out a check for half a million dollars, Xu Guoqing didn’t feel much surprise, after all, he burned these things, all spent I don’t know how many half a million dollars.
“Goodness! Why didn’t you say so earlier! Damn it, I’m going to take it all back.”
After Yu Zheng Jun heard Xu Guo Qing’s words, he was simply about to storm out, how could he not have thought that those things that Xu Guo Qing had casually placed around the house, each one of them actually cost more than a few tens of thousands of dollars to make.
“Old Yu, forget it, how can you give away something and then ask for it back?”
Xu Guoqing waved his hand, said uncaringly, their family from the early eighties, Xu Guoqing that will start obsessed with the restoration of ancient ceramics, due to the old man can make money, he will also be able to afford to spend money, but it is to raise a young master temperament.
“By the way, Zhuang old brother, you still receive Tang Sancai? If you still want it, you can order what kind of artifacts you want and what size, then I’ll help you burn it, don’t worry, I’ll only add a little bit of labor fee on top of the cost price.”
May be this period of time no money to stimulate the bitter days, Xu Guoqing now also a little bit of the child survival crisis, actually thinking about doing business, but he is still too honest, the idea of their own to Zhuang Rui heard.
Xu Guoqing if you can have this kind of idea, even if the ceramic factory stops working, he can also rely on their own repair imitation of ancient porcelain craft, live a very nourishing, of course, now is not too late.
“Tang Sancai I don’t accept, but this porcelain of Magnetic State Kiln, I’m quite interested, let’s have time to discuss it in private!”
Zhuang Rui said half of the words, his heart is more interested in these high imitation porcelain, all to sell to Japan.
Outsiders do not know the Japanese porcelain of the Magnetic State Kiln, Zhuang Rui is clear, if it is really certified as the Southern Song Dynasty official kiln Magnetic State porcelain, the price of a piece of absolutely in the millions or even tens of millions of yuan above.
Things like this, naturally know the less people are the better, now there are Li Dali and Yu Zhengjun presence, Zhuang Rui is not willing to say more, because this is really successful if the operation, in case it is rumored, then Zhuang Rui’s reputation in the international art market, will become absolutely unheard of.
However, to victimize the brats, Zhuang Rui is a little psychological burden are not, the key is to see Xu Guoqing firing magnetic state kiln craft pass or fail.
“Mr. Zhuang, the people I have brought you to see, there is nothing for us to do here, why don’t you and Mr. Xu talk again, and Lao Yu and I will go and talk about something else?”
Li Dali mixed in the jianghu for so long, naturally see Zhuang Rui some things, do not want them to hear, hastily pulled a hand is still there to draw a circle to calculate how much porcelain he sent out of the Yu Zhengjun, to go to the door.
“Inside you guys, who is called Xu Guoqing ah?”
Li Dali and Yu Zhengjun just walked to the courtyard, outside the hula-hula came in a group of people wearing uniforms, public security and industry and commerce tax and whatnot, directly to the two blocked back into the room.