Treasure hunt begins in England

Chapter 266 Search
After obtaining Carter's permission, Liang En quickly walked into the warehouse, and after spending 15 minutes looking around, he found that there were not as many things he could change in the warehouse as he had imagined.

After all, Mr. Carter is a lover of modern weapons, and this warehouse is located under the gun shop, so more than half of the space is used to store various firearms and weapons, but for Liang En, these things are not what he needs. .

That's right, he does like weapons, but he's not very interested in these weapons that he can't bring home, especially these weapons, which don't exist in front of his eyes, so if those weapons are ignored, the place to look for is actually Not much.

After skipping the part where the weapons were piled up, he ran around twice where all kinds of things were placed, and then picked out two wooden boxes with Japanese writing on them and pulled them to the warehouse with a small trailer. entrance.

One of the two boxes contained more than 100 glass vessels, while the other box contained fifty or sixty pieces of ceramic vessels. Through the Japanese language on the box and the labels on these vessels, Liang En found that these things all came from the 19s. century Japan.

"Have you picked it out yet?" Seeing Liang En dragging two large boxes over with a cart, Carter smiled and said, "But the total of these two boxes is a little over 12."

Obviously, this Mr. Carter knows his collection well.So just by looking at the box and checking the self-applied stickers on the outside, you know the box and you know what's inside.

"I haven't finished picking yet." Liang En smiled and shook his head. "It's just that these two things are a bit big, so I'll send them over for inspection first, and then move them to the car."

"That's good, so you don't have to run several times in a while." Carter nodded, and then went to the rest room outside the treasure house door and opened the two boxes.

The first thing to open was a box containing various glassware. This is a carved glassware called Satsuma Kiriko, which was created by Shimadzu, the 27th lord of Kagoshima in the early 19th century. Introduced Chinese glass plating techniques and European polishing techniques.

After Liang En opened the box, he found that there were cups and saucers, teapots and teacups, wine glasses and wine bottles, vases, perfume bottles, sugar boxes, key chains and other small things.

In addition, the colors of these glass vessels are also colorful, and at the same time, various patterns such as squares, bamboo leaves, leaves, and spirals are carved on them, and each vessel is unique.

Considering that these things are relatively small in size, and there are things in various styles and colors, this box of things should be collected consciously by someone.

When Liang En took out one of the gradient-colored cups and looked at the light, he found that under the light, the cup reflected a gem-like brilliance, as beautiful as a flowing gem.

"It looks so beautiful." Seeing the light reflected on the glassware, Fan Meng and the others all sighed.

According to Carter, although these Japanese-style carved glass vessels have to be hand-processed and artistically designed, the nature of industrial production still detracts from them a lot.

Therefore, even though he knew that there might be handmade boutiques in these items, Carter, who received the whole box back then, simply calculated the inflation rate and gave it to Liang En at a price of 8 US dollars.

Another box contained Arita-yaki Kakiemon, the founder of Japanese painted porcelain, "Kakiemon", which has been gaining popularity in the world since the seventeenth century evaluation of.

This is mainly because the Qing Dynasty closed the country, so the Dutch East India Company first introduced Kakiemon Porcelain to Europe. With its colorful visual advantages, it quickly became popular, and Japanese export porcelain also entered a glorious era.

Since then, European ceramic companies such as Meissen in Germany, Chelsea in the UK and Delft in the Netherlands have begun to imitate Japanese export porcelain to fire their own porcelain.

Kakiemon's red-painted porcelain techniques have also aroused the interest of Europeans since then, and have been widely imitated, which has had an important impact on the development of European porcelain styles.

It is also for this reason that Kakiemon porcelain has a high acceptance rate in the entire Western world, and it is naturally easy to sell.

However, as a brand, the development of Kakiemon has not only highs and lows.For example, the prohibition of the production of luxury goods during the Meiji period led to the fact that most of the products produced by the ninth to eleventh generations of Kakiemon were daily-use utensils.

Although these daily-use utensils are rare in terms of quantity, the research value is greater than the collection value because of the style and other reasons, and basically they cannot be sold at a good price.

Now, most of the boxes that Liang En found now contained this type of daily necessities, which was why Mr. Carter only priced these items at 4 US dollars.

"Can you tell me what kind of things you like?" Carter said while watching Fan Meng and the others pushing the two boxes to the elevator.

"I know every collection in it very well, so if you are willing to tell me what kind of things you want to choose, maybe I can give you some valuable suggestions."

"Is there anything related to Huaxia?" Liang En asked after thinking about it.

"Is it something from China? I didn't consciously collect cultural relics from China before." Carter said after thinking about it. "But there should be some scattered ones."

After speaking, he took Liang En to the back of the warehouse and moved out seven or eight things.

Most of these items were made of porcelain. Although they looked well-made, after a simple inspection, Liang En found that they were just folk kiln porcelain from the middle and late Qing Dynasty, and they were not very valuable.

The other few cultural relics from China are mainly a few Buddha statues and a few paintings. Unfortunately, these things are also from the middle and late Qing Dynasty, and the production level is very average.

"What's this?" After inspecting the few things that were brought out, Liang En shook his head and was about to activate the card to try his luck, but he saw Carter walking out with another cart pushing a large plastic box.

"What's in here?" Looking at the large plastic box, Liang En frowned, because the plastic box was opaque, so he couldn't see what it was at all.

"This is a bamboo slip from China. I bought it from a Japanese collector together with other collections of his family. Although it has been processed, it is still very fragile, so I can only use this method to install it."

After speaking, Carter turned off most of the lights in the warehouse and opened the lid of the box.What appeared in front of Liang En were beige bamboo slips neatly arranged inside the fixed plexiglass panels, with black characters written on them.

"How can the Japanese sell this thing?" Looking at these bamboo slips, each of which is about 40cm in length and perfectly handled, Liang En showed a puzzled look on his face.

Because judging from the processing level of this thing.Those processors should know the value of these bamboo slips, not to mention that the seller is Japanese, and it can be said that they are the people who know the most about China besides the Chinese.

"It seems that the collector of this item passed away due to an accident, but he has no close relatives, and only an American nephew can inherit these items."

"As a result, because of the poor management of his company, the nephew put all the inherited things on the American auction, and I sold this pile of things at the auction in Las Vegas."

"Okay, how much do you want to sell this thing for?" After hearing what the other party said, Liang En checked the bamboo slips again, then he nodded and asked Carter who was opposite.

(End of this chapter)