A single bottle can be worth tens of millions, so who can say we don't have luxury goods at home? And they're antique luxury items!
This bottle is valuable not only because it is now considered an antique, but also because it was already quite valuable before it became an antique.
If you don't believe me, just search for "Chinese porcelain" now. The prices are so high that they make your eyes go dark just looking at them. It would take us many years of hard work to buy just one piece.
As for the national porcelain that was given away as a state gift, it is priceless and cannot be measured simply by money.
Can you really say that these national porcelains aren't luxury goods?
This is absolutely the ultimate luxury item!
After a discussion among the three appraisers, it was determined that one of the eight porcelain pieces Bai Yu brought back was a Southern Song Dynasty Ru ware, and another was suspected to be a Jun ware.
Another piece made during the Zhenghe period was identified as a product of the Song Dynasty official kiln. However, the three appraisers could not determine which year of the Song Dynasty it was from or which official kiln it came from.
The other five pieces, which are more beautiful and ornate, were identified as products of folk kilns, and also date back to the Southern Song Dynasty.
This isn't to say that the three appraisers lacked expertise; it's just that the number of Song Dynasty porcelain pieces that have survived is extremely small, leaving them with few reference points.
After all, if a large number of Song Dynasty porcelain pieces had survived, they wouldn't be able to fetch such high prices.
Scarcity drives up prices; the less common something is, the higher its price will be.
It's already quite impressive that these three appraisers were able to confirm that one piece of Ru ware porcelain is genuine. As for the Jun ware piece, it's highly likely that it can also be confirmed as a Jun ware product, but we still lack a more compelling hypothesis.
That's right, it's just a guess. No solid evidence is needed. As long as the guess is reasonable, it can be confirmed that this is a product of Jun ware!
According to the appraisals of these three appraisers, the total starting price for the eight porcelain pieces that Bai Yu and his team brought back this time will be 35 million, and the final transaction price will far exceed this price.
This price is the starting bid price set by the other party in their auction. Whether the transaction will ultimately be completed, and at what price, depends on the actual circumstances.
As for how the prices were calculated, the appraisers explained it to Bai Yu and the others, but they didn't understand.
The price of porcelain is determined by a combination of factors, including the place of origin (which kiln it was made in), the year, the size of the piece, the patterns and textures engraved on it, whether there are detailed records, whether it was used by famous people, and the engravings on it.
When the other party stated these preconditions, Bai Yu had only one thought: Oh no, my head is spinning, it feels like my brain is about to explode...
However, one thing is certain: even without considering the subsequent salvage of supplies, Bai Yu and his team have already recouped their investment in this shipwreck salvage operation, and could even be described as making a huge profit.
After seeing off the three appraisers, Bai Yu and the other three arrived at the chairman's office and stared blankly at the row of porcelain pieces.
The eight pieces of porcelain they brought back included six porcelain vases, one jar, and one plate.
"Brother Yu, what should we do with these porcelain pieces? Should we sell them all, or just display them in the company?"
"It's not safe to keep it in the company. We have so many employees, and so many people come and go every day. If something were to happen, we'd regret it."
Li Shuang looked at the porcelain piece on the table and asked a question.
Sometimes making money can be troublesome, especially since Bai Yu and his group didn't earn real money this time. Before these porcelain pieces were sold, they were just porcelain pieces.
"Let's leave them for now. These five beautiful porcelain pieces were said to be worthless by the previous appraiser, so the three of you can each take one, and I'll keep the remaining two. You can put the other two in my office for now."
"You three go first. I'll take what's left home. Leave that jar for me, okay? I'm planning to take this back to pickle some radishes. This stuff's been soaking in the sea for hundreds of years; I guess I don't need to add salt when I use it to pickle radishes."
Bai Yu casually pointed to the five rather ornate porcelain pieces and immediately arranged where they would be distributed among Bai Yu and his companions.
Hearing what Bai Yu said, Li Shuang and Lu Sheng were both stunned. It wasn't that they were surprised by Bai Yu's generosity; they had seen even bigger things before, such as the annual bonuses distributed at the annual meeting, which were in the hundreds of millions.
What surprised them was Bai Yu's arrangement of the jar. Was this antique Song Dynasty jar going to be reduced to a sauerkraut jar?
Although these porcelain pieces are not from the official kilns and are not particularly valuable, they can still sell for over a million yuan each.
Using this kind of jar to pickle sauerkraut, the resulting pickled radishes must smell like money!
Compared to Li Shuang and Lu Sheng's stunned reactions, Wang Hai was much better off; he immediately went up and took the largest piece of porcelain.
"Brother Yu, I want this porcelain piece. Do you think it would be suitable as a vase? I'll go buy some flowers to put in it later, okay?"
“It’s suitable. This porcelain piece is a vase, so it’s perfect for holding flowers. But I’m not going with you to buy flowers later. You take Xia Jing yourself and see what kind of flowers she likes.”
“Brother Yu, Ah Hai, you two are really going too far. One of you wants to use porcelain to pickle sauerkraut, and the other wants to use porcelain to arrange flowers. This is an antique, and one piece can sell for millions. Can’t we cherish it a little?”
While complaining, Li Shuang didn't stop what he was doing; instead, he picked out a jade vase from the table.
This porcelain piece has a very beautiful shape, and the pattern carved on the body is a sky-blue bamboo, which looks just like the jade vase in the hand of Guanyin Bodhisattva.
Lu Sheng then also chose a piece of porcelain, also a vase, but much smaller than Wang Hai's.
The remaining jar and plate belonged to Bai Yu, who was very satisfied with the result because he had discovered the purpose of the plate.
This porcelain plate is very large, about forty centimeters in diameter. Such a large plate must be very suitable for serving dishes such as steamed fish head with chopped chili or braised chicken with broth.
Just as Bai Yu was pondering the purpose of the two porcelain pieces, Wang Hai, who was standing next to her, came over with his phone.
"Brother Fisherman, Brother Fisherman, look! I just saw a video that says there's a recent overabundance of large yellow croakers in the Yellow Sea. A fisherman can catch dozens or even hundreds of kilograms of these croakers in just one night. A lot of people are getting rich!"
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"What? You said there's a fish overpopulation problem?"
"The large yellow croaker is rampant in the East China Sea. Look at the videos people have taken. In the nearshore waters of the East China Sea, they can catch dozens of large yellow croakers in one night."
"Oh my god, is there really an overabundance of large yellow croakers? Have we gone back decades? I can't believe it!"
"Brother Yu, why wouldn't you believe it? There are pictures and videos to prove it, so how could it be fake?"
Wang Hai held his phone, which displayed a news report about anglers in the East China Sea going out to fish for large yellow croakers.
The title is a bit exaggerated, saying that the large yellow croaker in the East China Sea is so abundant that any angler who goes out to sea can bring back a large number of large yellow croaker and make a fortune.
In addition, his accompanying pictures all featured large yellow croakers; those large yellow croakers placed in the box were truly beautiful.
However, Bai Yu and the others were somewhat skeptical of this news.
It's not because they don't understand large yellow croaker, nor because they don't understand the East China Sea; on the contrary, it's precisely because they understand large yellow croaker and the East China Sea so well that they find it hard to believe.
It's worth noting that Bai Yu's company was able to develop so rapidly largely thanks to Da Huang Yu's help.
If it weren't for the fact that they had once caught tens of thousands of kilograms of large yellow croakers during a sea voyage, their company's development speed might have been much slower.
Their company's first turning point came from those tens of thousands of kilograms of large yellow croakers, and the second turning point came from the tens of thousands of tons of salmon they caught at sea.
And now you're telling him that the large yellow croaker in the East China Sea is overpopulated, that it's one of the fish species that helped him get rich, are you kidding me?
After Bai Yu learned the details, he also became interested.
The information in this news report is a mix of truth and falsehood. First of all, the claim in the video that large yellow croakers are rampant in the East China Sea is pure nonsense. However, there are indeed quite a few large yellow croakers in a certain area of the East China Sea.
While it's not true that everyone who goes out to sea will catch a large yellow croaker, if you're lucky enough, catching dozens shouldn't be a problem.
Most importantly, this area, where large yellow croakers are produced, is a designated fishing ground where fishing boats are not allowed to operate at sea.
This is very friendly to anglers, which is why this kind of news spreads.
Otherwise, if this were a sea area where all ships could go, and news of the presence of large yellow croakers spread, within a day, just a few hours, a large number of fishing boats would appear in that sea area, carrying out ploughing operations.
After all, making money before the New Year is incredibly difficult, and yellow croaker is so valuable. People are capable of doing anything to make money.
However, if large yellow croakers appear in areas designated only for fishing, then fishing boats cannot go there; this is a consensus between fishing boats and fishing boats.
Because no fishing boats were there to trawle, the news of the large yellow croaker overpopulation spread like wildfire.
It started with a few sea fishing bloggers posting videos to show off the big yellow croakers they caught, and then it became a phenomenon that they were so abundant that anyone could make money by fishing there.
Besides the hype from major news media outlets, there were also advertisements from fishing boat owners who claimed their boats were lucky and could catch large yellow croakers whenever they went out to sea.
In just a few days, it has been spread like this.
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