"Little brother, can I see this piece of furoshiki you are using to wrap things?"
Yang Fan turned around when he heard someone talking to him.
A man stood behind him, accompanied by a very beautiful female secretary. He is forty-eight or nineteen years old, with a pair of gold-rimmed glasses on his fair face and a bookish air. He looks like a cultural person.
"Mr. Guan, hello," the beautiful woman who just spoke to Yang Fan said respectfully.
Mr. Guan nodded, ignored her, stretched out his hand to Yang Fan and said, "My name is Guan Xiaosheng. I am Baoli's vice president. Let me meet you." He looked at Yang Fan with a smile.
Yang Fan was very excited. He didn't know how to get in touch with the people from Baoli Auction House today, and he met the noble man. If you really want to sleep, give me a pillow.
I felt a little uneasy. Baoli Group was engaged in the cultural industry, and the auction was just a subsidiary. Baoli's vice president level is very high.
"Hello, Mr. Guan, no problem, just take a look," Yang Fan said humbly.
"Let's sit over there," Mr. Guan pointed to a large circle of sofas at the edge of the hall next to him.
"Okay." Yang Fan picked up the baggage and walked over there with Mr. Guan, placing the baggage on the huge coffee table in the middle of the sofa.
Mr. Guan walked over, wiped his glasses first, then leaned down and carefully observed the five-foot-square piece of furoshiki.
Yang Fan observed his expression and found that he was sometimes solemn, sometimes confused, and then showed an expression of enlightenment.
Mr. Guan looked at it for a while, with a hint of doubt in his eyes. Then he gently twisted it with his fingers and nodded.
"Little brother, can you take off this piece of furoshiki? Let me take a closer look."
"Okay, no problem." Yang Fan untied the bundle. Inside was the folded armor wrapped in cheesecloth and tied with ropes.
Yang Fan lifted the package inside and put it aside. The armor was very heavy, weighing forty pounds, and the mahogany coffee table made a creaking sound under the pressure.
Guan Xiaosheng asked strangely, "What's in here? Why is it so heavy?" He didn't take the contents of the bag too seriously, and he had seen too many things in his line of work.
There are very few things that are heavy and valuable at the same time, unless it is something like a tripod or an incense burner. Just looking at the softness of this thing, it doesn't look like it.
"This is an antique I brought for appraisal."
"Haha, what kind of antique is it? Why is it so heavy?"
"A set of armor of the Eight Banners"
"The armor of the Eight Banners, haha, this thing is really rare." Guan Xiaosheng was a little dumbfounded. This young man actually used such a rare Ming Dynasty silk fabric as a baggage. I really don’t know what to say about him.
"I came here just for this set of armor. Can the Baoli Auction House accept this?"
"Well, it depends on the situation. Things like weapons and armor are relatively unpopular and I don't know much about it, but you can ask an expert to take a look. But this piece of silk fabric is very interesting and I am very interested. Are you interested in going to my office to chat. "
"Okay, no problem. I don't know how to contact Baoli Auction House. Manager, do you know anyone there?"
"Mr. Guan is the vice president in charge of the auction business of Baoli Group," the female secretary said with a smile.
"Come with me, Xiaoqing, put off the afternoon business and ask the auction house to invite Mr. Tang, Mr. Huang, and Mr. Chen. Also call Huang Ying from the auction item department. I can't see this thing accurately. , everyone, come and take a look." Mr. Guan said with a laugh.
On the thirty-sixth floor, in the general manager's office, the general manager's office is a suite, very large and spacious.
The furnishings in the room are antique, with a lot of classical furniture. There are many jade, porcelain, and incense burners on the Duobao Pavilion.
Among them is a small copper incense burner, ten centimeters wide and only five or six centimeters high, very short and flat. Three legs and two ears, Yang Fan had seen it in the Ming Dynasty, and it seemed to be called Xuande Lu.
Yang Fan looked so envious. I wish I could have such a grand office sometime.
The armor was carefully installed on a shelf by the staff. It looked like it was worn by a person. The five-foot-square piece of furoshiki was laid flat on a mahogany strip.
This table looked familiar to Yang Fan. He had seen the same shape at Wei Bancheng's house.
"Mr. Guan's case with chucks, tenons, straps and brackets is a high-quality piece of furniture from the Tianqi Dynasty in the late Ming Dynasty. What's even more rare is that it's made of huanghuali wood. What a good thing!" Yang Fan said as he looked at the case.
Manager Guan saw that Yang Fan was wearing a standard set of construction site camouflage, and originally thought that Yang Fan was a farmer who came to sell old items from the countryside. Country boy. I didn't expect Yang Fan to say such professional words. Suddenly, Yang Fan's senses were completely different.
In the antique business, the most important thing is to sell the goods and know the owner. If you don't know the goods, you won't get real respect.
As soon as he said this, Secretary Zuo Xiaoqing walked in with several old men. The eyes of the old men looking at Yang Fan immediately changed.
"Brother Yang is great! He can accurately tell the name and material of this case. Many experts can do it, but being able to accurately date it and say it is from the Tianqi Dynasty in the late Ming Dynasty is not something ordinary people can do. Good eyesight .”
Mr. Guan was shocked. This case has never been accurately dated. Many experts have seen it and can only generally say that it is from the middle and late Ming Dynasty.
Finally, someone hired an 80-year-old expert who had retired from the Forbidden City to finally determine that it was a style that only appeared at the end of the Apocalypse.
Mr. Guan and the experts in the room were in awe. This young man was an unassuming young man. He looked less than twenty years old, but he was actually an expert.
Experts and Bangchui were treated differently. Immediately, several old people came forward to exchange warm greetings. There is no before or after in learning, and those who have mastered it are the teachers. This business values true ability the most.
In fact, how could Yang Fan know this? There was a similar one in the little fat man's house. The little fat man boasted that it was the latest style in Nanjing and he bought it three years ago. This year is the first year of Chongzhen. Wasn't it the Tianqi Dynasty three years ago?
Although Yang Fan has never played with antiques, he has also heard the term picking up items. If you don't know the goods, people can fool you with confidence. Yang Fan had no other intention, just to make them take him seriously. When others respect you, they will do their best when doing things for you.
"Brother Yang, these are Baoli's most famous experts in ancient weapons and silk fabrics. Let's take a look together."
"Okay, please invite some elderly people."
As soon as several experts came in, their eyes were on the piece of silk fabric. The suit of armor was only glanced at.
As soon as Yang Fan finished speaking, they all put on white gloves and picked up the magnifying glass to observe carefully.
Yang Fan was a little depressed. The full set of Zhenglanqi armor that he treated like a treasure was actually ignored.
Several people watched it for half an hour, discussed it quietly, and finally nodded. There seems to be a consensus.
Mr. Guan asked: "Mr. Chen, I have seen this thing first. It seems to be a work made in Suzhou in the mid-Ming Dynasty."
An old man nodded and said: "This is a fine product made in Suzhou, a Dharani sutra quilt. The text on it is Sanskrit and it is woven with a special technique. However, the sutra on this piece is only in the upper half, so I guess There should be another piece, two in a pair.”
Several other experts also nodded. Silk is not easy to preserve. If they hadn't carefully identified it, they would have thought it was a fake if it was in such good condition.
Just now they even used handheld microscopes and infrared microscopes to look at it. It was accurately identified that there is a kind of silk in it that has become extinct in modern times, other silk production areas are also in Suzhou, and the weaving technology is a long-lost method.
Mr. Guan was a little excited in his heart, but he remained calm on the surface. This thing was used by people to wrap things, but they never said they wanted to sell it. What they want to sell is this set of armor.
Although this set of armor is very well preserved, there is no shortage of Qing Dynasty armor treasures in the Forbidden City, Fengtian Museum, Inner Mongolia Museum, etc. The most I can get is four to five million.
However, this Dharani quilt is a rare item. Silk fabrics handed down from the Ming Dynasty are rare, and most of the unearthed ones were damaged due to insufficient existing protection technology. With such a good condition and such a rare subject matter, it is particularly precious.
The company attaches great importance to an auction three days later, but there has always been a lack of a finale lot. It may not necessarily be the most expensive, but it must be a rare treasure to maximize the popularity and achieve the effect of expanding the brand's influence.
After confirming the authenticity, Guan Xiaosheng thought about how to tell Yang Fan. He originally thought that Yang Fan was a layman and could be easily persuaded, but now it seems that he is probably an expert. The reason why he used this as a furoshiki was to express an attitude. Don't play it fake, it's a display of status among people in the circle. Having this Dharani sutra quilt can be said to be a collector.
Is he willing to part with such a precious thing?
