v3 Chapter 659： Animal head and ready to smash the plate

"... Mr. Hua, you will temporarily stop purchasing antiques and collect antique information with all your strength, and then wait for my news!"

After hanging up the phone, Xia Yu's face was cold, his eyes flickered.

After thinking for a while, he made two phone calls and called Elena and Wu Hongyi respectively, asking them to help mobilize contacts to assist in the investigation.

Immediately afterwards, he mobilized his own power and connections to collect information on Sotheby's auction house and the Eskenazi family.

Although Xia Yu’s memory contains related memories of these two families, after a few decades, he can’t remember so much. It is inevitable that there are some discrepancies. In order to make the most correct judgments and decisions, he needs the most detailed intelligence.

In the next day, more and more information came to Xia Yu. The more he knew, the more cold Xia Yu's eyes became.

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Eskenazy Ltd., 166 Piccadilly, London, UK.

Forty-year-old Giuseppe Eskenazi listened to the report of his subordinates, frowning gradually.

Giuseppe Eskenazi has been in contact with antiques since he was a child, and after the death of his father Isaac at the age of 28, he took over the family's business in Britain.

Under his leadership, the Eskenazi family who fled from Turkey to Milan, Italy, the family business is booming year after year, and the Eskenazi Co., Ltd. has become one of the largest antique dealers in Europe.

And now the focus of the family has shifted to England, and the burden of the family has also shifted from the shoulders of Uncle Victorio to him.

As a shrewd Jew, Giuseppe Eskenazi has an extremely keen business sense and has a viper-like patience. It is precisely because of this that he has successively explored the American art market and the island art market, and more It has made a huge influence in the European art market.

After the island country artwork, he once again focused on a target, that is, China antique art!

As a top European art dealer, Eskenazi Co., Ltd. is well-informed, so Giuseppe Eskenazi has gradually learned that someone is buying cultural relics and artworks from China in large quantities.

A few years ago, he happened to have been to Huaxia and visited many museums in Huaxia. He had a deep impression of Huaxia.

But he also knows China's economic level, and Eskenazi Co., Ltd. has limited funds. Considering that good steel needs to be used on the blade, he invested resources in developing the island country's art market.

Until this year, he learned that China has changed tremendously and has announced reform and opening up to develop its economy.

After accidentally learning that someone had purchased China cultural relics and artworks in large quantities, he realized that he could start to test the layout.

Since the last century, the Eskenazi family's collection library has collected nearly 6,000 Chinese cultural relics.

It is only because of China’s economic situation and the overall economic level of the Chinese that the price of China’s cultural relics on the market is generally not high, so the Eskenazi family rarely sells them and focuses on slaughtering the prosperous islanders. Above.

However, as long as you follow the same method as the island country's art and raise the price of Chinese cultural relics, the 6,000 Chinese cultural relics collected by the Eskenazi family will be a big gold mine.

In order to realize his plan, Giuseppe Eskenazi found a close relationship, now the largest auction house in Europe and the largest auction house in the world, Sotheby's Auction House!

The annual Sotheby's summer auction is about to begin. After a secret discussion, Eskenazy Co., Ltd. will provide a batch of Chinese cultural relics, which will be managed by Sotheby's auction house, creating a wave of speculation about Chinese cultural relics.

As long as the plan is successful, the Eskenazi family will reap huge benefits, and Sotheby's auction house, as the auctioneer, will also open up new markets and obtain greater benefits.

Not only did it work in this regard, Giuseppe Eskenazi also allowed people to compete with Huashengshi for Chinese cultural relics, not only to purchase a batch of Chinese cultural relics, but also to raise the price of Chinese cultural relics in the competition.

It’s just that the subordinates now report that Huashengshi has given up competing with them and no longer buys Huaxia cultural relics. This situation went beyond Giuseppe Eskenazi’s expectations and disrupted his plan to a certain extent.

"Implemented according to the original plan, and at the same time sent people to pay close attention to industry news. If anyone buys Huaxia cultural relics, report to me immediately!"

Giuseppe Eskenazi sternly told his subordinates.

Then he went to Sotheby's auction house again.

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"Sure enough... I just didn't expect that he would start doing it at this time. Could it be my butterfly effect?"

Jiuding Building, the chairman's office, after looking through the information provided by all parties, Xia Yu's eyes were blurred and he thought to himself.

Although no detailed plans of Giuseppe Eskenazi were collected, combined with valid information, Xia Yu once again confirmed his guess.

The Eskenazi family wants to cut Chinese wool, intending to hoard Chinese cultural relics and speculate in high value.

In previous lives, the Eskenazi family did just that, but they were also named one of the most respected Chinese art dealers in the world.

And Giuseppe Eskenazi has set many auction records of Chinese cultural relics and art, which shocked the world.

For example, in 1999, he bought the Chenghua Doucai Chicken Crock Cup for 26.5 million Hong Kong dollars, setting a world record for the Ming Dynasty Doucai artifacts.

In 2005, he photographed "Yuan Qinghua Guiguzi Downhill Picture Jar" for 15.688 million pounds (approximately RMB 230 million), setting a world record for Chinese artworks.

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In 2009, he photographed the Qing Qianlong gilt bronze jasper buffalo for £3.4 million, setting a world record for Chinese jade;

In 2015, he photographed the first potter of Tang San Caifeng for £2.725 million, setting a world record for Chinese ceramics in the Tang Dynasty...

Outsiders, through Giuseppe Eskenazi’s great efforts, think that he is a lover of Chinese art and is willing to pay money to collect it.

But how many people know that under his handwriting, it is the soaring prices of cultural relics and art, as well as the rising revenue of the Eskenazi Co., Ltd. and the soaring family assets of the Eskenazi family?

Xia Yu also knew some secrets about the twelve beast heads in Yuanmingyuan.

The bull head, monkey head and tiger head that have been repurchased and put in the Poly Art Museum are all taken out by the Eskenazi family in the 1980s and put to Xiangjiang for auctionby Taiwan Province A tycoon bought it, then put it out for auction in the millennium and was auctioned off by Poly Group.

Even after ten years, I first used public opinion to hype up the patriotic feelings of the Chinese people. After feeling that the time was right, I took out the rabbit head and the mouse head to auction in Paris, France, but he did not expect a Cai tycoon to smash their wishful thinking. The two animal heads sold a high price of more than 31 million euros, but refused to pay, wanting to pass the auction.

In the end, François Pinault, the fifth richest man in France and also the largest individual shareholder of Christie’s auction house, bought it and donated it to China in 2013.

Because of this, the Eskenazi family managed to make a lot of money.

Xia Yu knows these secrets because there is a British tycoon in his memory who has been to the treasure house of the Eskenazi family and met these few Yuanmingyuan beast heads.

Even apart from these few, later generations have never been present, and the most significant dragon head is also in the collection of the Eskenazi family.

The actions of the Eskenazi family not only annoyed Xia Yu, but also seriously affected Xia Yu's antique collection plan.

The price of Huaxia cultural relics and artworks has been increased, so the cost of his acquisition has increased significantly? Future profits will also drop sharply, which is cutting off Xia Yu's fortune!

In this case, after guessing the plan of the Eskenazi family, how could Xia Yu remain indifferent?

The mastermind of the Eskenazi family, accomplices the Sotheby's auction house!

Don't even bother to run!

Thinking of the upcoming Sotheby's summer shoot, Xia Yu narrowed his eyes and a sneer at the corner of his mouth.

Want to hype?

No doors!

I just smashed the plate!

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