There are still many things in the antique industry, but this is only limited to a few decades ago, the famous antique connoisseur Ma Wei said that in the early years, as long as there is a little knowledge of cultural relics identification, it is true that many precious objects will be picked up, but now it is very difficult.
The protagonist is the top bronze research expert in China, and the "relics" of Xi Shi, which is the famous "relics" of this cultural relic, originally spent 1.5 million yuan to buy, and now the value of this Xi Shi "relic" is less than 100 million!
Time has to go back to the last century in 1995, when museums in various regions are still vigorously expanding cultural relics, so they will often go to the countryside to find cultural relics, and will also go to the Hong Kong antique market to see, after all, Hong Kong is a transit place for antiques, and a large number of cultural relics flow out of the country from here.
For this reason, this area is a place where our domestic cultural relics experts like to hang out very much, when ma Chengyuan, director of the Shanghai History Museum, came to Hong Kong, Ma Chengyuan is the top bronze research expert in China, and in his lifetime, he has retrieved heavyweight cultural relics for the country many times, and this Xishi "relic" is one of them.
At that time, Ma Chengyuan came to Hong Kong Antique Street and walked casually, saw which shop to go inside to see, just after a while, Ma Chengyuan came to a humble cultural relics stall, he found that there was a cultural relics on the ground that resembled bronze, so he crouched down curiously to check it out.
Indeed, this is a bronze vessel, and the age is very long, what makes Ma Chengyuan even more amazed is that there is actually an inscription on it, which is undoubtedly a treasure, the inscription is roughly engraved with "Wu Wangfu Sent Wu Jinzhu Woman's Instrument Ji", Ma Chengyuan quickly recalled the history of Wu Wang Fuchai in his mind, and soon Ma Chengyuan positioned this woman to Xishi.
In fact, this bronze is a gift from Wu Wangfu to Xi Shi, Ma Chengyuan showed a smile on his face, he did not know that this smile was captured by the owner of the small vendor, the vendor knew that this bronze was certainly not simple, so after Ma Chengyuan asked about its price, the vendor immediately offered a high price of 1.5 million.
This price is nothing in modern times, but in the 90s of the last century, it was a very high price, so Ma Chengyuan was very helpless and angry, if he left immediately now, then when the time came, this Xishi "relic" might be bought.
For this reason, Ma Chengyuan can only immediately take out a deposit of 200,000 yuan, first let the boss keep it for himself, and wait until he goes to withdraw the money, fortunately, with the help of the rich Hong Kong businessman He Hongzhang, Ma Chengyuan finally took this Xishi "relic".
And this Xishi "relic" is the later "Wu Wangfu Chajian", in fact, it is a water vessel, the shape is the same as the large vat, the absolute royal object, and now it is naturally collected in the Shanghai Museum.