Chapter 1657 Palace Treasure
The Belgian royal palace was built for thirty-five years and was not completed until 1730. It was renovated in the last century and was renovated several times in this century. It is the most magnificent building in Belgium.
Just looking at the appearance with a strong Baroque style, it is more luxurious than the Buckingham Palace where the British royal family lives.
The interior decoration refers to the Palace of Versailles in France. It has a large number of murals, crystal chandeliers, and the national flag composed of black, yellow and red is not hung today, indicating that the king is not at home today and Prince Philip is responsible for the reception.
It was already evening, and the sky was filled with orange-red sunset.
It was still early to get the party and the guests did not arrive. Prince Philip happily agreed after learning Han Xuan's request to visit the treasure house.
This is not an rude approach. European nobles usually have houses for storing antiques in their manors. Whenever there are guests coming, the owners will take guests in to visit, which means showing off their strength and showing off their tastes.
Because ancient oriental porcelain is precious, Western collectors like porcelain the most and think they are unique and charming porcelain) is enough to illustrate the unique influence of Chinese porcelain.
The old man bought a plum vase of Xiao He Yuexia chased Han Xin a few years ago, which cost 24 million US dollars. That was the price at that time. Now, even if it doubles, Han Xuan will not sell it.
It is more precious than the Yuan blue and white characters big jar down the mountain of Guiguzi. There are many Yuan blue and white characters big jars, but Xiao He only has three plum vases to chase Han Xin under the moon, and only one of them can enter the market for circulation, which is a peerless treasure.
The royal family in every constitutional monarchy has a treasure house. Belgium is quite unlucky. The royal treasure house was looted twice, namely World War I and World War II.
After winning the First World War, Belgium retaliated for more things, but was robbed soon after, and then more were taken back again.
In other words, after two wars, there were a lot of things in the treasure house, including gold in troubled times, collections in prosperous times, antiques and other things that were worthless, so the royal family specially selected fine products.
Han Xuan originally thought that his treasure house was already rich, and only when he saw the treasure house of the Belgian royal family, he knew what cutting-edge was.
The blue and white porcelain from the Ming Dynasty and before was filled with the entire shelf, with more than 270 pieces, and there were also special people responsible for the care and were placed in categories.
Prince Philip took him to visit Huaxia District, and the scroll-style oil paintings were placed in piles in dry cabinets. Han Xuan opened a picture casually, and the signature was "Tang Yin" and stamped with the "Tang Bohu".
The old housekeeper, wearing a black tuxedo, with white gloves on his hands and hair cleansed, helped introduce: "There are more than 9,600 Chinese antiques here, and there were even more in the past.
In the 1960s, the warehouse was full of things and could no longer be put down, so more than 200,000 items of low value were sent to the palace warehouse in the suburbs, where the collection was rich, but not as precious as these."
His speaking accent is of southern French style, which is slightly different from the Parisian tone. Han Xuan thought that there are so many hidden in Belgium, so how many items should be collected in the treasure house of the British royal family?
No wonder people say that it is not worth collecting Chinese antiques from overseas to return to the motherland, because they are too many overseas and are just wasting money.
Zhao Hongqi followed him, afraid that he would be unfavorable to Han Xuan, so he surrounded him with a circle of bodyguards and saw so much. Before entering this treasure house, he thought he was a very rich person... Of course, this refers to before being plundered by Han Xuan.
However, now, he found that he was simply ignorant. Compared with this treasure house, his saliva was almost flowing out with his eyes like a wolf.
Prince Philip told the housekeeper: "Today, this distinguished guest hopes to find a bronze sculpture in the shape of sheep, specifically a sheep head, which has been around for more than a hundred years. Do you remember where it was placed?"
Han Xuan had already obtained nine pieces. The dragon head was originally on Baodao, and he bought it for a high price of 1.3 million US dollars. If she found another sheep, then only the chicken and snake were left. His eyes were turned to the old housekeeper, and he frowned slightly and said, "It seems that there is this sculpture, but I haven't seen it for a long time.
Sorry, I need to check the information, I should be able to find it, it just takes time.”
"OK.
Don't worry, I'll help him hold a dinner later and find it before leaving."
Prince Philip then said to Han Xuan: "It is a gift I gave to you on behalf of the royal family, please do not refuse.
I will get married in three days. Tonight you will meet my fiancée. She will prepare a dish for you personally. I swear her skills are very good."
"I just heard about this, it's really worth celebrating. Marrying a beloved woman is one of the happiest things to do."
Han Xuan walked forward, and when he encountered exquisite antiques, he stopped to take a look, and expressed his gratitude to the old housekeeper. The other party smiled and said thank you, and went to help find the sheep's head.
"Yes, she encountered some trouble some time ago. She helped me a lot and could calm me down, so I know that Mathilde is the right person..."
Han Xuan was wearing gloves and picked up a collection of Lu Xun's works that were obviously in line with the times. The vertical version of traditional Chinese characters looked quite historical.
When I looked through it, a piece of red paper fell from it. I picked it up and found that it was a marriage certificate from the Republic of China period. There were black and white photos posted on it, and it said:
"The two surnames are married together, and they have a good marriage forever. They are matched together. They see that the peach blossoms are bright on this day, and they are suitable for family and family. They are full of melons and flowers in the past year, and the romance is bright.
I would like to write a letter to the red leaves to write a letter to the red leaves to write a marriage alliance.
This certificate.”
He smiled and put the marriage certificate into the collection and put it back in place. Prince Philip told him: "Han, you can take away anything you like. I know you have a museum and it is said that you plan to build a more luxurious manor than the Palace of Versailles.
When my father comes back, I will discuss with him and donate a batch of items to your museum, which should be viewed by more people."
“Thank you very much for your generosity.”
Han Xuan did not refuse. He donated it to the museum, which means different. If he gave it to himself, he would not have accepted it so simply. Continue:
"The construction of that manor has started recently. After completion, I will invite you to visit it, but it may take ten years to wait. The designers can't tell you when it will be built."
"You do need a luxury estate, which is what you are. You will come to attend the wedding on December 4th, right?
I would love to make it the grand scale of your girlfriend when she held an adult dance a few months ago, but the influence is not as great as you, nor as great as the Duke of Charles.
Our Belgian royal family has always been ignored. I would be very happy if you can participate..."8)
Chapter completed!