A trial draft meant that the painting was not the final product, so there were still some flaws compared to the final draft. However, in terms of value, a trial draft might be even rarer than the final draft.
The final draft was the work that the author presented to everyone. He was satisfied with it. The trial draft was just something to get a feel for before trying out the final work. Generally speaking, this kind of painting would only have one outcome in the end, and that was to be destroyed.
The painting in Ye Han's hands was not destroyed. On the contrary, there was Wu Daozi's signature and seal on it. This meant that before the final draft was drawn, this painting was actually the most satisfactory work for Wu Daozi, so he paid for it. However, he probably had some enlightenment later, so he painted another painting, which was later collected in Xu Beihong's memorial hall.
After the appraisal result was out, not only was Ye Han dumbfounded, even the person in charge of Christie's auction house in City B who had just received Ye Han was dumbfounded. As the saying goes, things are still precious. Although the number of sketches that Wu Daozi could pass down was not many, it was definitely not small.
However, if one were to say how many of his drafts had been passed down, then it was really the only one. With such a gimmick, the final price of this draft might even be higher than the final draft!
After repeatedly confirming that Ye Han wanted to auction this painting, Christie's also handled a series of procedures for Ye Han. The autumn auction was the only two large-scale auctions in a year, so the preparation time was relatively longer. There was still a full month before the official start of the autumn auction.
During this period, Ye Han's painting would be taken care of by Christie's. Of course, there would inevitably be some exhibition in between. However, Christie's would naturally not take such a valuable item lightly. When the time came, the security would naturally be the best.
At the same time, in order to make Ye Han feel at ease, the auction house also signed an agreement worth 45 million. The gist of it was that if anything happened to the " Eighty-Seven Immortals Scroll " that Ye Han had sent to Christie's for safekeeping and exhibition, then in addition to the value of the scroll itself, Ye Han would be able to receive an additional compensation worth 45 million.
Ye Han actually didn't know much about these things in the auction house. However, this method still made Ye Han feel more at ease. As for the autumn auction, he still had to wait for a month. This was a small matter to Ye Han. Anyway, he wasn't in a hurry for money now.
After auctioning off the most valuable painting, Ye Han simply stuffed all the porcelain and bronzes that he was prepared to sell to Christie's for auction.
Therefore, under the surprised gaze of the person-in-charge, Ye Han brought a few Christie's staff members and brought out more than ten antique antiques from his car.
He came to the VIP room again. This time, there were more types of antiques to be appraised. Among the antiques, there were not only porcelain and bronze ware, but also some uncommon paperweights, inkstones, and of course, a pile of copper coins.
However, Ye Han did not have much knowledge about copper coins. This pile of copper coins was exchanged from a down-and-out merchant in the hidden plane for less than 1,000 US dollars. It was said that it was his father's collection. However, Ye Han did not care about the family splitting up. Anyway, to Ye Han, that 1,000 US dollars was useless.
Because of the variety, the number of experts invited had also increased by a lot. Moreover, the time spent on appraisal alone was also much longer. In fact, when the auction house generally accepted the auction items, they still had to charge a fee to appraise them. However, because the painting that Ye Han had previously auctioned was already their finale collection this year, these appraisal fees were all waived.
In the end, after more than two hours of appraisal, the things that Ye Han brought were finally appraised.
"Mr. Ye, apart from the large jar of ancient coins, we have basically finished appraising the rest of the things you brought. Among them, we have determined that two of the things are replicas from the Republic of China. Although they can be considered old items now, their value is relatively low, so they can't be auctioned this time.”
"Among the remaining items, there are actually not many particularly valuable items. For example, there is a green glazed rhombus cup from the Southern Song Dynasty. We also sold one of this in the autumn auction two years ago. At that time, the transaction price was 180,000. The other items, such as the green glazed dragon ear Gui furnace from the Longquan cellar, might be even lower.”
"However, it's not like there aren't top-grade items among your items. The price of this bronze gilded Taoist statue of the Water General from the Ming Dynasty is very objective. Because Christie's had a similar Buddha statue in the spring auction in the capital two years ago, the final transaction price reached 89 million.”
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