"... Three pieces of rosewood inlaid jade, one yellow thread spike and two coral beans, are well preserved.

This is a pair of copper filigree enamel cranes, the enamel base is intact ...

The photos at the back of the atlas are a piece by Zhou Yiding, a pair of bronze silk enamels with animal faces, a pair of blue and white half-wall sapphire bottles, a pair of Qinghan jade pendants, and a pair of bronze enamel square bottles. , A pair of bronze enamel double tube, a pair of glass flowers. A piece of fixed porcelain was washed on a flat foot, a piece of white jade fairy was inserted into the screen, a piece of pine flower stone was warmed, and a piece of sapphire bottle with a square cap ... "

In the library of Highclere Castle, Andy sat on a chair with his eyes narrowed, and stood next to him. Christian was turning a color photo album on the table while introducing him to every antique on the table. The name.

"How many have you found this time?" Andy reached out to take over the album, looking at one of the pictures above, either exquisite, dusty, or defective antiques in the heavens, and frowned slightly.

"A total of 411 items cost a total of 47.9 million Euros ..." Cristian reported the numbers and costs, and saw Andy look at his indifferent eyes, explaining hurriedly.

"Boss, the reason why it cost more than 40 million is that three of them are extremely precious antiques, one is a well-preserved cloisonne unicorn, and the other is a bronze ware about 3000 years ago, and a tiger-shaped kettle. According to my Understand that even the heavenly dynasty has only five pieces. There is also an intact blue and white jade booklet with Qianlong imperial jade booklet, with a rosewood box. "

After hearing the explanation, Andy nodded slightly, but he didn't worry about Christian deceiving him. After all, when Andy asked Christian, an expert antique merchant who was very knowledgeable about the ancient works of heaven, to form his own antique acquisition team. Financial and legal personnel were installed for prevention and supervision.

The reason why Andy formed this team was to allow them to search for antiques in the UK and even Europe. This team was left by Andy in London because London is the third largest art market in the world.

One of the tasks that Andy gave to this team was to buy as many antiques as possible from the heavens. Britain should be the largest Chinese antiques distribution center in Europe. There are many reasons. Of course, in addition to trade, the most important thing is that in the modern history of the disaster-prone dynasty, the suffering caused by the war is particularly serious. When the imperialist powers invaded the heavens, they stole a large number of cultural relics. A Yuanmingyuan lost 1.5 million cultural relics overseas, let alone those cultural relics that were illegally lost overseas.

Of course, the 1.5 million pieces lost in Yuanmingyuan may be too exaggerated. According to the team's understanding and research, there are really not so many, because there are less than 90,000 treasures in the Yuanmingyuan's record list. Of course, if a set of tea set, teapot When calculated separately from the tea cup, this 1.5 million figure is still very reliable.

And with so many cultural logistics falling in continental Europe, how could Andy let go of the acquisition opportunity, especially before the tyrants of the dynasty of dynasty have not made a big move abroad, and it is understood by the whole world that the dynasty of tianchao is not bad for money, plough it again?

In a few years, the antiquities of Tianchao will become more and more expensive. There are not many opportunities to buy Tianchao antiques cheaply. The descendants of these shameful robbers are eager to sell the robbers 'robbers' thieves for a high price.

As for worrying about not buying fakes?

To be honest, Andy did have doubts in this regard, but the team of experts convinced him.

They said that the British antique market is like a pyramid. Like the antique market, it is only at the bottom of the pyramid. It can only buy popular things, even real antiques. Really valuable antiques are traded in a small circle above the pyramid.

To put it plainly, that is, your spending power and professional level directly determine how the circle is. The higher the end of the circle, the more authentic the thing, and the inheritance and orderliness. You can talk about the price directly. The lower the end of the circle, all fakes will come out. Already.

Especially after the Christian recommended an idea to him, Andy was more determined to expand the antique team.

Cristian hit his idea on the offspring of those 'robbers' who had been involved in the Opium War and the Burning of Yuanmingyuan. You know, in fact, overseas, especially in Europe, no collector would be willing to disclose the situation of the Yuanmingyuan cultural relics in his hands.

Regardless of true face or hypocrisy, the British attach great importance to family history and family honour, and they are often hesitant about the fact that their ancestors invaded the heavens and plundered the cultural relics of the Yuanmingyuan, and were reluctant to speak out. In France, many descendants of the invaders worry that the Tianchao will learn that they have collected the cultural relics of the Yuanmingyuan and take them away directly, causing them heavy personal losses. Therefore, even if it is the Tianchao relics sent to the auction, these collectors publish their identities very few.

And Christian proposed to find the roster of those soldiers who went to heaven at that time, and then search for their descendants according to the rank. Although the workload is a little bit, it is not difficult to find, especially in France, because France has The two cultural relics appraisal centers, all the Yuanmingyuan cultural relics circulating in the French auction market, need to be recognized by the two appraisal centers. Therefore, mastering the information of these two is equivalent to knowing all the information about the Yuanmingyuan cultural relics in France.

The reason why this time was able to get 411 antiques, mainly bought from the French, you can call the other party directly with the information. For authenticity and price, the team's professionalism is enough to assure Andy.

"Boss, although there are many relics in the dynasty in the major cultural relics markets, the most precious ones are still in the dynasty. Even if there are some, after all, they have already been collected by major museums. There are very few people living in the community, or extremely It ’s not easy to find. Some of them may even disappear and disappear. "

After hearing Christian ’s emotions, Andy shook his head and smiled: "Do n’t worry, take your time, I am not going to resell, I am a private collection, mainly my personal love for the heavenly culture, yes, this time back, Egypt The antiques are also included in the acquisition sequence. My manor has a great connection with Egyptian artifacts. Although there are many Egyptian artifacts, many are replicas. I want the Egyptian artifact showroom of my manor. Fully fleshed out and become worthy of the name! "

"If you want to exhibit Egyptian cultural relics, then we can only buy cultural relics from the market to the United Kingdom. If it is smuggled or cultural relics lost through war, once it is known to the outside world, Egypt is absolutely Recourse will be requested within the framework of international conventions.

Of course, as long as the cultural relics remain in the United Kingdom, there is no need to worry about being repatriated. Under British considerations, the United Kingdom does not support recourse and has not acceded to this international convention. However, Egypt ’s attitude towards cultural relics Very tough, often rising to the outer Jiao level, very annoying and troublesome. "

Christian advised that his boss wanted to acquire Egyptian artifacts and display them, and said the troubles and difficulties that might arise from doing so.

As we all know, Egypt is a big country of cultural relics. Its history of 7,000 years has left countless remnants of brilliant civilization. However, it is difficult to protect more cultural relics. The theft of cultural relics, smuggling, and illegal trafficking have been banned for a long time, making the world a market for Egyptian cultural relics. On the one hand, precious cultural relics are continuously unearthed, while on the other hand, a large number of cultural relics are lost abroad. Egypt's cultural relics pursuit business is advancing in pain, and at the same time it has opened up a road of experience.

Egypt attaches great importance to the pursuit of cultural relics lost overseas. In addition to acceding to international conventions adopted by UNESCO, Egypt is also actively seeking to sign bilateral agreements with other countries on cultural relics to maximize the cut off of the underground chain of illegal cultural relics transactions.

The main task of the Egyptian Antiquities Recourse Bureau is to track down Egyptian cultural relics scattered around the world. The Bureau of Cultural Relics closely monitors 40 major cultural relics websites around the world. Once it finds that Egyptian cultural relics are participating in auctions, exhibitions, etc., it will immediately contact the institution or individual who owns the cultural relics and ask them to produce legal documents of the cultural relics. At the same time, Egypt's embassies and consulates in various countries around the world are also outposts to track down the lost cultural relics, paying close attention to the activities of the stationed country involving the auction and transfer of Egyptian cultural relics.

Once it is determined that an institution or individual illegally owns the lost cultural relics in Egypt, Egypt will exert pressure on its country through diplomatic channels to return the cultural relics. If the host country refuses to cooperate, Egypt will consider terminating all exchange activities with the country in the excavation and exhibition of cultural relics.

Although the Egyptian zhèngfu's recourse performance is remarkable, it is not so easy, because the retrieving of registered cultural relics is relatively smooth, but for those cultural relics that have been dug and smuggled, recourse is quite difficult. As the cultural relics are not registered, it is difficult to verify the ownership. In the process of recourse, it is even necessary for the court to make a judgment.

The most important thing is that the above-mentioned agreement does not involve the cultural relics lost before signing. More importantly, the important cultural relics trading market in the UK may not have signed the international convention.

You know, in the past few decades, everyone has used various methods, either implicitly or explicitly, to ask the relics to return to their original owners, and this is a hypocritical mask of the British who claim to be gentlemen. It was torn off without hesitation, in the words of the British Prime Minister.

"There is no way to promise, the British Museum is empty!"

Maybe someone will vomit, they know it!

of course! Of course they know, not only do they know that they are in a hurry, the museums such as the British Museum that have the most 'robbery of stolen goods' directly tear their faces and talk.

"The heritage is owned by the British Museum, and we will never return any of these collections!"