In the 90s of the last century, it can be said that it was the era of the great return of cultural relics, this is because many cultural relics experts at that time will go to look for cultural relics from time to time, of which Hong Kong should be the most visited place, after all, Hong Kong is the largest distribution center of cultural relics, there are cultural relics must go there to find, many cultural relics stolen from ancient tombs, a large part of them came to Hong Kong.
At that time, many domestic experts would go to the Antique Street of Hong Kong from time to time to hang out, saying that it was idle, in fact, it was naturally purposeful, that is, to pick up leaky cultural relics, and many of them were not what leaks were found, but bought at a high price, such as the cultural relics we are going to introduce next, which cost more than 1 million Hong Kong dollars to buy.
It was in 1995, the protagonist was a famous bronze research expert, Mr. Ma Chengyuan, director of the Shanghai Museum, Ma Chengyuan enjoyed a very high status in the domestic cultural relics industry, and there were many cultural relics that he successfully excavated, such as what dragon ear zun, Lu Yuan bell, baby iron, Jin Hou Ding, Warring States Bamboo Jane and so on.
In 1995, Ma Chengyuan came to Hong Kong again, when he walked in an antique street on Hollywood Road in Hong Kong, but unexpectedly found a bronze in an antique shop, this bronze is very not simple, the shape is very exquisite, and there is a hollow pattern decoration, which should be a kind of wine vessel from a thousand years ago, called 盉.
Ma Chengyuan carefully played with this bronze at that time, it can be said that he had looked at it for a long time, and he had confirmed in his heart that this was a real cultural relic, so he discussed its price with the antique shop owner, but he did not expect that the antique shop owner was also an expert who understood cultural relics, and he could also see Ma Chengyuan's love for this bronze.
Finally opened 2.2 million Hong Kong dollars, in fact, this price was absolutely very scary at the time, can only say that this boss really wanted to eat people without spitting bones, wanted to slaughter Ma Chengyuan fiercely, Ma Chengyuan heard the price of 2.2 million Hong Kong dollars, indeed he was shocked, but he also knew that it was indeed worth this price.
Ma Chengyuan was very anxious at that time, but after all, he did not have so much money at his disposal, so he said goodbye in a hurry, and then immediately returned to his residence in Hong Kong, when Ma Chengyuan began to do everything he could to raise funds, vowing to buy this bronze, otherwise it would be a loss to the country.
Fortunately, at that time, there was a wealthy businessman in Hong Kong, Ho Hung Cheung, who was willing to help with this, and finally with the help of Ho Hung Cheung, he spent 1.8 million Hong Kong dollars to buy this bronze cup, which was actually the later Xi Shi "relic" Wu Wangfu Cha Cup.
Wu Wang Fu Cha Lun was a gift from Fu Cha to Xi Shi at that time, so it is absolutely not exaggerated to say that it is a relic of Xi Shi, and the value of Wu Wang Fu Cha Lou today is absolutely very anti-heavenly, some experts have given an estimate of 1 billion, thinking that it will not even lose to the Yue Wang Sword, if so, then the valuation of 1 billion is very small.