You can actually pick out four genuine pieces of porcelain on a row of antique shelves. The probability is simply frightening. You will never have this opportunity in China.
Li Mo looked at them one by one, and then picked three more pieces from the shelf. He also looked at them very seriously, and finally asked: "Give me a real price for these seven pieces of porcelain. I will buy them back and put them in the office for decoration." .”
Steven translated in a low voice, and the little black girl nodded, took out a printed quotation form and said, "Sir, the total is fifty-one thousand US dollars."
"Isn't there a discount?"
"This is the price after discount, and it is also the lowest price available in our store."
Li Mo sighed and said, "The price is too expensive. I can buy dozens of pieces of porcelain outside at this price. The price I can accept is seven thousand US dollars. If it exceeds this number, I will order a batch of porcelain directly from China."
He said he regretted that the deal could not go ahead.
"Sir, please wait a moment. I can't decide the total price of seven thousand US dollars. If you really like it, I can apply to the boss for the final price now."
"Okay, I'll wait for your reply."
When the little black girl was on the phone, Li Mo had already walked to the sculpture area. He knew that once he found one or two sculptures with different pupils, they must have come from a source and their artistic value would be high.
His eyes scanned the display cabinets one by one, and he quickly sighed in disappointment. Was his expectation too high?
"Sir, the final quote our boss gave us was $10,000."
The people following Li Mo and the others looked at each other in confusion. One dared to make a bid, and the other dared to bargain. Steven actually didn't know much about Chinese antiques, because their company's business mainly focused on European and American art, but he still understood the mystery behind the bargaining.
Li Mo still shook his head, but still looked back at Steven and asked, "Do you think this price is appropriate?"
Steven was slightly stunned, but his reaction was quite quick. He thought for a moment and said, "Mr. Qin, if you order it from China, not only will it take a long time, but if it gets damaged during transportation, not only will the loss be huge, , it’s a waste of time, and it’s not worth it in terms of money.”
Li Mo nodded, thinking what he said made sense. The little black girl looked at Steven gratefully and thanked him for his kind words.
"Then it's $10,000. You go and go through the ordering procedures."
The formalities were completed and the seven porcelains were packed. Li Mo did not leave immediately, but continued shopping in the store for a while, and finally came to the oil painting area. What kind of things are there in the paintings? One of them actually only drew a few lines of different colors and then hung it up for sale openly. It was too deceptive.
Since I can't appreciate your beauty, I can only judge it by your strange eyes. The eyes of the alien eyes swept away, and there was basically no reaction. But when the eyes fell on the oil painting with a few lines, gray circles of light spread out.
Okay, I made a mistake again. That oil painting with nothing visible turned out to be a priceless work of art. This is too deceiving.
The little black girl had just made a deal, and she was still secretly happy. Seeing Li Mo looking at the oil painting seriously, she hurriedly walked to him and said, "Sir, do you have any oil paintings you like?"
"How much does that painting cost?"
Li Mo pointed directly at the oil painting consisting of only a few lines.
"Four thousand six dollars."
"Two thousand dollars, I'll take it with me."
The little black girl walked up to another colleague and whispered a few words to him. He came over and said respectfully: "If sir, you like this painting very much, I can make the decision for you to take away the 2,500 US dollars."
Li Mo hesitated and finally nodded.
The painting was taken down, and Steven looked at it a few times, but didn't see anything special about it. It was time to start his lucrative job, and all the procedures were completed in collaboration with Gu Lishi.
There were no more antiques in the store worthy of his sale. Li Mo walked out of the antique store with his hands behind his back. Naturally, someone was carrying those things.
"Mr. Qin, the leader of the expert team asked you when you will go back to the hotel?"
A security guard walked up to him with a phone
asked.
"what happened?"
"An expert was beaten."
"What?"
Li Mo's eyes widened, and there was anger on his face. He snorted and said, "We are going back to the hotel now. Gulishi, you are a barrister. It will be up to you when we get to the hotel."
"Understood, Mr. Qin."
When he returned to the hotel, it was already past 12 noon, and Li Mo asked people to take all the things he found back to the room. The members of the expert team have all returned to the hotel, and all of them have ugly expressions on their faces.
"Expert Huang, what happened?"
"It was Expert Chen from the Kyoto Museum who was beaten by the waiter in the hotel. After working at the Boston Museum for more than two hours, he felt something was wrong and went back to the hotel to rest. Unexpectedly, when he returned to the room, he saw someone rummaging through his luggage. , the key is that there is a person wearing a waiter uniform standing next to me, watching."
Seeing the sudden return of the rightful owner, the two people immediately panicked and wanted to escape immediately. Expert Chen also subconsciously wanted to stop him. He forgot that he was in the United States, so the two men showed fierce fists and punched him. After knocking him to the ground, they fled the hotel. "
"Where is Expert Chen now?"
"Sent to the hospital for examination. I just called and said that Expert Chen only suffered flesh injuries and bruises on his face from the fist. The rest is fine. He will be fine after a few days of rest. Expert Qin, we have agreed Well, the work at the Boston Museum is suspended, as long as the person in charge of the museum gives us a reception."
Li Mo said with a sneer on his lips: "When will Expert Chen be ready, we will start construction again. As for the compensation, the barrister I invited will go to the hotel to hand it over. If it doesn't work, we will go home immediately."
Seeing his angry look, Expert Huang sighed and said, "We got off to a bad start this time. By the way, did you gain anything from your walk around this morning?"
Li Mo looked around and whispered: "Get a few experts to come to my room together, and I will show you the good things I found."
The gloomy look on the face of Expert Huang from the National Palace Museum was wiped away, and he smiled quickly and said, "I'm going to call a few old friends who I've made friends with."
In Li Mo's room, five experts stood in a circle and watched Li Mo open the first antique he found.
"Abacus made of rosewood and Hetian jade!"
Expert Huang has sharp eyes. He took the abacus from Li Mo and smelled it first, then rubbed the beads on the abacus with his hands, and finally looked at the back, which showed a clear identification.
"It was still used in the palace during the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty. It may have been customized by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. This abacus is rare and a good thing. Taking it back can enrich the collection in the museum."
Another expert also took it and smelled the frame: "It has a faint scent of sandalwood, and the patina is thick. It can be considered a high-quality product."
Li Mo said, "What kind of exquisite products are these? Come and take a look at these porcelains."
He took apart the four genuine pieces of porcelain he found one by one and placed them on the table.
"It is indeed a good thing." Expert Huang saw the small pot with blue enamel and gold at the first sight. He carefully picked it up and looked at it carefully, and finally said, "Compared with the ornamental porcelain on display in the Forbidden City. , its exquisiteness and sophistication are even better.”
"Old Huang, look at this piece of gold and iron wire produced by Song Ge Kiln. It's a peerless treasure, a first-class national treasure porcelain."
Among the four pieces of porcelain on display, the small pot with enamel and gold on the blue background is the most beautiful, but the most precious is the gold wire plate from Ge Kiln.
Several experts looked at them one after another and exclaimed. Li Mo was able to bring them back, which means that they must be genuine.
"This Ji Hongmei vase is a bit ordinary, and it is not considered a high-quality product in the collection market. I have been to Expert Qin's museum before, and I remember that there seems to be a similar porcelain inside."
Li Mo smiled and said: "There is indeed one thing that I found on the Folk Custom Street near Chenjia Village in Huizhou. Okay, you experts, please calm down first. Next is the treasure I found today. .”
