Treasure Hunting Divine Eyes

  Chapter 703 Immortal Royal Horse

  Two American experts communicated while appraising. At this time, one of them said a few words to the gentleman-looking blond man in his thirties. Seeing him nodding, he negotiated the price with the owner of the antique shop.

   Li Mo stood aside and listened, and Wu Yue translated in a low voice.

  The boss bid $80,000, but the appraisal expert shook his head and directly bargained to $8,000. Probably because he was used to such bargaining, the boss didn't have any angry expression on his face, but just shook his head slightly, saying that they didn't really want to buy. If the price is cut like this, there is no need to continue the exchange.

   Sure enough, they are all veterans, and the appraisal experts were not in a hurry, they just smiled and said a lot.

   "The best of fakes?"

  Li Mo was a little interested in this novel statement after hearing May's translation. In China, it is generally called high imitation products, but this concept is not very clear. Today I have learned a little different knowledge. This expresses it very clearly, clearly saying that yours is a fake, that is, a fake, but it is also the top of the fake.

   No matter how good it is, it is still a fake, and it will never be sold at the price of the real product.

  The owner of the shop can’t tell why. If you sell it as a genuine product, then at least you have a convincing argument, but you just can’t tell it. Isn’t this an obvious deception.

  The appraisal expert only added a thousand dollars, but the owner of the antique shop thought about it and didn't agree.

   This group of people can only leave regretfully, and the business is ruined.

   "Mr. Qin, what type of porcelain is that?"

   "The **** that sits under the ass."

  The Qing Guangxu pastel embroidered pier was put back on the shelf, and the boss just turned around when he saw Li Mo pointing at the embroidered pier and asked, "How much can I sell it for?"

   "Do you want to buy?"

"The style is relatively rare, and I am very interested. Of course, if you insist on tens of thousands of dollars before you are willing to sell, then I will forget it. A few people just now are obviously professional Taobao people. Two appraisal experts said that it is a high-quality fake. I think No matter how expensive it is, it can’t exceed $10,000. If it’s a genuine product, they will definitely not miss it, after all, there will be countless treasure hunters flocking to Seattle during this period.”

  Li Mo expressed his opinion in an unhurried manner.

   "I don't even want to see that porcelain. You can offer me a real price, and if I can accept it, I will take it away."

  At this time, the owner of the antique shop looked him up and down, and immediately wanted to buy it if he didn't get started. This Chinese young man seems to have some financial strength.

   "For the sake of your sincere liking, I will quote you a real price, and you will take away 20,000 dollars."

   Twenty thousand dollars? Li Mo muttered a few times, but he didn't bargain with him, but said: "The price you offered is twice as high as my price, but who makes me like it. That's good, I'll give you a discount I can buy it for 20,000 U.S. dollars, but you have to give me five pieces of porcelain on the shelf as a gift."

  The boss looked back at the porcelain on the shelf: "May I pick five pieces for you?"

   "Of course I randomly picked out five pieces that are pleasing to the eye, and I didn't take advantage of you and time, so I didn't pick them one by one. If you agree, how about I just stand here and pick out five pieces of porcelain at random?"

  May is very powerful this time, she has somewhat figured out Li Mo's tricks. Once he said that, there must be genuine porcelain on the shelf. So it is very appropriate to take out the card and put it on the counter, with an attitude of immediately trading if you agree.

   Li Mo's indifferent and casual operation reassured the boss.

   "You pick."

  Li Mo nodded without any hesitation, stretched out his finger and pointed out five pieces of porcelain one by one.

   "Pack it all up, pay and settle."

  Good guy, it's really too casual, I don't even take a second look.

  The boss made the settlement himself, and he called two clerks to pack the six pieces of porcelain carefully.

   "Let people outside send them back to the store and put them in the warehouse."

  The stab head nodded and went out, and soon three security guards walked in, each picked up two pieces of porcelain and left.

  Probably made a good deal of business, the boss's attitude became obviously warmer, and the other customers were naturally received by the clerk.

   "Sir, we still have a lot of good porcelain and jade wares here, all of which are antiques from China, what else do you like?"

  There are a lot of porcelain, but there are not many genuine ones, all of which were picked out by myself. The porcelain in the hands of other customers can only be said to be the best of the fakes, and they are two different things from the real ones. As for jade, he is still interested.

  But the jade wares displayed on the counter are all defective. Some of them look pretty good, but it doesn’t make much sense to buy them back. Li Mo walked a dozen steps, and suddenly his eyes fell on a jade vessel. To be precise, this is a jade carving, using the round carving technique, with a person sitting on a horse.

  Jade is the best Hetian jade, warm, white and greasy, without any blemishes. But the shape of the man on the horse is a bit strange. He is holding a Ganoderma lucidum, carrying a flying feather on his back, and holding the rein with both hands.

  Generally speaking, the shape of a character can reflect the characteristics of an era. The shape of a man on horseback is closely related to Taoist culture.

Recalling relevant information in Li Mo's mind, he remembered that a group of jade wares were displayed in a museum in China. The earliest unearthed Han Dynasty evil jade wares were unearthed from an emperor's tomb in the Western Han Dynasty. The domestic one The "Immortal Guiding the Way" jade carving is similar to the "Immortal Royal Horse" jade carving in front of me.

   Regardless of whether it is from the Han Dynasty or not, this piece of top-quality Hetian sheep fat jade alone is worth a lot of money. Li Mo still saw with his different pupils that there was a light golden halo, which was indeed a round sculpture from the Han Dynasty.

  In addition to this jade carving of "immortal and imperial horse", there are also some other lovely jade carvings beside it, such as jade bear, jade eagle, crouching dragon, and brave.

   "I don't know if this was stolen from the curtain of the emperor of the Han Dynasty?"

  Li Mo called the boss, pointed to the Wolong piece and said, "How much is this piece?"

   "Shall I show you how to get started?"

   "No need, I think the carving is very delicate, vivid and beautiful, so I want to buy it."

"In that case, then I'll just say it straight, not only this Wolong jade carving, but also these few pieces have been appraised by someone. The quality of each piece of jade is very good, and it can be said that it is the flagship of our shop. Zhibao. If you really like it, I'll give you a real price, and don't bargain with me, you'll give me 20,000 dollars for this Crouching Dragon."

  Li Mo smacked his lips while listening to Wu Yue's translation. He didn't feel that the asking price was high, but just subconsciously wanted to bargain. This Han sculpture is made of Hetian jade, or an evil-proof jade from the emperor's mausoleum. If it is really going to be auctioned, it will not be able to get it without a knife of two to three hundred thousand dollars.

  And the jade carving of the 'immortal imperial horse' carved from the top-quality Hetian sheep fat jade is worth at least five million dollars, or even more.

   "These five pieces of jade are quoted together."

   "This jade carving on a horse is a bit more expensive. The price is 50,000 US dollars, and the rest are 20,000 US dollars each, for a total of 130,000 US dollars."

   "We have worked together once, so you won't bleed a lot. I don't bother to think about these five jade pieces one by one. The total bid is 100,000 dollars. Yes, settle immediately."

   Just looking at it, he would bid $100,000. The owner of the antique shop thought he was too rich. In China, he must be the kind of dandy rich second generation. There is too much money to spend. As long as you see something you like, don't ask what it is, just shoot it if you like it.

   "One hundred thousand dollars is my bottom line. If you don't want to, then we'll leave." Li Mo didn't give him time to think, turned around and was about to leave.

   "Okay, $100,000 deal."

  (end of this chapter)