restorer

Chapter 41 The doorway of the antique shop
"Xiao Su, what are you going to buy?"

Jing Shizhen said with a smile: "We have agreed that if you enter my warehouse, you must buy something, otherwise you will break my rules."

"Uncle Jing, don't worry, I will definitely buy one."

Su Xiaofan grinned, "If you can't afford the expensive ones, can you still afford the cheap ones? The prices of antiques and miscellaneous items are never high, so just pick one and you're done."

Before going to the miscellaneous room, Su Xiaofan still wandered around the porcelain area with Zhao Zhengshan for a while.

There is nothing to see on the calligraphy and painting side, because all the calligraphy and painting are collected in scrolls, and they are not exhibited outside. They are only put here for better preservation.

"The Jingxin Hall really lives up to its reputation!"

After looking at the porcelain area for a while, Su Xiaofan couldn't help admiring, he saw more than 20 pieces of porcelain one after another, all of them were genuine, not a single fake.

Moreover, the identification result given in Su Xiaofan's mind is almost exactly the same as the small label pasted on the porcelain. It can be seen that every piece of collection here is selected from the best.

"Uncle Jing, you have a lot of porcelain from the five major kilns here, why do you still accept that one from me?"

Su Xiaofan used the restoration system to look for a while, and saw seven or eight pieces of Song Ding kiln porcelain alone, and all of them were much more exquisite than the brush washer he sold.

This makes Su Xiaofan a bit puzzled, as a businessman, Jing Shizhen can't sell enough of her own porcelain, so why spend so much money to buy her own.

"In order to cultivate the market, if you sell it for 500 million yuan, wouldn't it mean that the price of my things will also be reduced." Jing Shizhen explained to Su Xiaofan with a smile.

"It really is."

Su Xiaofan felt that he had gained a lot of knowledge today, and the knowledge in the antique market was not enough here.

"Want to buy porcelain? Shall I introduce one to you?" Seeing Su Xiaofan walking around the porcelain area, Jing Shizhen said.

"Uncle Jing, I can't afford it, so let's go to Miscellaneous."

Su Xiaofan shook his head again and again, most of the porcelains stored here are official kiln porcelains of various dynasties, and the minimum bids start at a few million, and the 1000 million or so that have not been warmed in Su Xiaofan's pocket is not enough to look at at all.

"Is your kid a Pixiu, you can only go in and out?"

Today I sold the painting of old man Daqian, Jing Shizhen was obviously in a good mood, and made a joke with Su Xiaofan.

Pushing open the door of the room where antiques and miscellaneous items are stored, Su Xiaofan's eyes were suddenly wide open. The objects stored in this room are far more than the rooms for porcelain, calligraphy and paintings.

The room for antiques and miscellaneous items is very large, with a full forty to fifty square meters. There are many wooden shelves in the room, and almost every wooden shelf is filled with things. Su Xiaofan roughly estimated that the antiques stored in this room are probably It is not less than tens of thousands.

"Uncle Jing, have all the good things in the market been bought here by you?"

Even Zhao Zhengshan, who had seen the world before, was taken aback when he saw the scene in front of him.

"The cost of collecting these items in the early years was really not high."

Jing Shizhen told the truth that he was from a family and came to China at a good time. At that time, he had no competitors at all, and the antiques he would buy were probably more than those in some museums.

And this is just a relatively large warehouse in Jingxintang. Jing Shizhen still has a place to store antiques in other places, including those bank safes.

"There are Buddha statues here, and some bronze wares..."

Jing Shizhen introduced the two of them. As the most well-known antique dealer in China, he must be in the bronze business, but only among acquaintances, and he would not sell bronzes abroad.

"Uncle Jing, if you sell all these things, I am afraid that the position of the richest man in the country will be replaced."

Looking at the gold-plated Buddha statues of different shapes in front of him, Su Xiaofan clicked his tongue.

Su Xiaofan knows more about miscellaneous items, he knows that these Buddha statues in front of him are all high-quality goods, and if they are put up for auction, at least one statue will cost several million or even tens of millions.

There are several million Buddha statues, and there are one or two hundred statues here. Su Xiaofan found that many of them are from the palace collections of Qingkang, Yonggan, and their value is inestimable.

"If I sell everything here, the antique market will not be far from collapse...

Xiao Su, although you are also doing business in the antique market, the antique business is different from the ones you do at the stall. "

Jing Shizhen shook her head with a smile. The reason why antiques are precious is first of all because of their scarcity.

For example, if there are only two identical pieces of porcelain in the world, each worth 1000 million.

Then smash one of them, and the remaining one is not worth 2000 million. As the only one left in the world, its value is likely to be worth 8000 million or even hundreds of millions. This is scarcity the added value brought about.

The antique market also has its own rules of operation. A few treasures are properly released every year, which can not only stimulate consumer competition in the market, but also maintain the scarcity of treasures, so that people who love antiques will compete to buy them.

If Jing Shizhen really sells all his collections in a short period of time, the impacted market will definitely cause the prices of antiques to plummet.

Imagine if more than a dozen antiques that were originally thought to be orphans or rare in quantity come out at once, can they still maintain their original prices?This is of no benefit to antique dealers, and the long flow of water is the kingly way.

"Uncle Jing, you are building a pond to raise fish, throw some bait every once in a while."

Su Xiaofan is so clever, he understood as soon as Jing Shizhen said it, the current prosperity of the antique market is inseparable from the secret promotion of Jing Shizhen and other big antique dealers.

"Actually, there are many more old objects left behind than you think."

Jing Shizhen continued to take the two of them around the room, looking at the objects in front of them, Su Xiaofan and Zhao Zhengshan could easily understand what he said.

Just like the snuff bottles that appeared in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, Su Xiaofan saw five or six thousand of them, made of various materials such as jadeite, agate, porcelain, glass, metal, and ivory.

Su Xiaofan took a rough look and found that these snuff bottles are basically high-quality products from the late Qing Dynasty. Su Xiaofan knew a little about snuff bottles. The year before last, there was a snuff bottle in Xiangjiang that sold for more than 800 million yuan.

"Uncle Jing, the snuff bottle that was auctioned over there in Xiangjiang, could it be that you gave it to the auction?" Su Xiaofan asked.

"70.00% of the items in the auction house over there were sent by me."

Jing Shizhen didn't hide it either, and said with a smile: "I preheated the market on the Xiangjiang side, so naturally there are more products."

The two people in front of him are not Jing Shizhen's competitors, a buyer and a junior, he is not afraid to tell the inside story of the antique business.

"The antique business is almost monopolized by you."

Su Xiaofan walked to another antique rack, on which were all purple clay teapots, estimated to be at least four to five hundred, and all of them were made by famous masters.

In another area, there are two rows of very long glass cabinets. The glass cabinets are lit with lights, and pieces of ancient jade are placed inside. There is also a special humidifier to ensure the moisture of the ancient jade.

"Huh? Why don't you have a magic weapon?"

Su Xiaofan looked over one by one, and to his disappointment, none of the objects he saw so far was a magic weapon.

In fact, before entering the warehouse, Su Xiaofan had thought about it, instead of buying a useless antique, it is better to buy a magic weapon, in the evaluation of his repair system, the value of the magic weapon is much higher than the antique.

"Uncle Jing, don't you have a magic weapon here?" Su Xiaofan simply asked, there are really too many things in here, if you look at each piece, you may not be able to finish it in a day or two.

"There was originally one, but it was borrowed." Jing Shizhen said: "There are still a few magical artifacts that are not here. This place is too messy and not suitable for placing magical artifacts."

"Borrow it? Is it still possible to borrow the magic weapon?" Su Xiaofan was taken aback when he heard that.

"Why can't I borrow it? A magic weapon is just a tool, so of course I can borrow it." Jing Shizhen said disapprovingly.

"Okay, then I'll take a look."

Su Xiaofan smiled wryly, he knew that his foundation was too shallow, and he didn't have any right to speak at all.

Whether it is antiques or magic tools, Su Xiaofan knows too little, and it is only some superficial things, that is, Uncle Jing said a few more words today, so he vaguely knows how deep the water in the antique shop is.

"Uncle Jing, what is this? Gold ore?"

There are two glass cabinets in the room, both of which are lit.

The glass case where Su Xiaofan was standing before was full of jade and emerald, he originally thought that the other glass case was also filled with jade, but when he came to the side glass case, he was stunned for a moment.

The glass cabinet was covered with suede-like cushions. On top of the cushions, there were metal blocks of different shapes and sizes, some of which had glassy reflections.

Unlike the hundreds of thousands of collections next to it, there are a total of more than ten metal blocks in this glass cabinet with a length of about seven or eight meters. It takes up a lot of space, but the number is not very large.

"These are meteorites, you play miscellaneous, don't you know about meteorites?"

Jing Shizhen looked at Su Xiaofan a little strangely, then patted his forehead suddenly, and said: "The collection of meteorites has its own specific group of people, you really don't see them in the antique market."

"Uncle Jing, what you play here is really miscellaneous, even meteorites."

Su Xiaofan knows about meteorite collection, but as Jing Shizhen said, meteorite collection has not been around for a long time, it is a unique circle, and most of the transactions are people in the circle, which is not quite the same as antique collection.

In China, many people classify meteorite collections into miscellaneous items.

Internationally, meteorite collections have become a large category, attracting many wealthy businessmen, and have become the top collection category.

(End of this chapter)