From the Island Owner to the King

The architectural style not only includes the medieval classical architectural style, but also incorporates the British country garden style. It attaches great importance to the matching of flowers and green plants, cooperates with the natural scenery, and integrates the architecture, culture and background of different eras to form the mainstream.

The two architectural styles complement each other and are perfectly combined, incorporating elements such as luxury, beauty, and countryside.

Chen Rui's feeling is that it has the luxury of the British palace architecture, and the beauty of a beautiful villa style painting, as well as the natural countryside that is close to nature, breathes the fresh air, and smells the fragrance of the soil.

After visiting the manor, Chen Ruizhi was envious.

If you can live in a place like this all your life, your life is perfect.

"Mr. Chen, this is my family's collection room. Since the establishment of this collection room, more than 400 years ago, it has collected more than 2,000 works of art from all countries and eras in the world, including furniture and decorations handed down from the Middle Ages. Paintings, sculptures, coins, etc., among which, there are four works by Picasso, Andrew Wise and Monet. In addition, there are ancient Chinese ceramics, bronzes, Egyptian gold works of art, Japanese lacquerware and so on.” Count Hill Taking Chen Rui to the collection room of the manor, he turned his head and said to Chen Rui.

Count Hill's tone was somewhat proud.

Chen Rui nodded.

Chen Rui understood Earl Hill's pride.

Westerners have a special pursuit of art, which is regarded as a symbol of nobility, taste and wealth.

A simple example, for example, in Europe, when it comes to a famous manor, the first thing to mention is the artworks collected in the manor, how much, whether it is a boutique or not,... These will greatly enhance the reputation of the manor.

If you have collected several representative works of famous Western art masters such as Picasso, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Monet, etc., people all over Europe will remember this manor.

Next, Chen Rui visited his collection room under the leadership of Earl Hill.

The collection room is large, built underground and opened up into a huge basement.

The basement is carved out of flat, smooth rock.

The basement should maintain a dry environment for a long time and a moderate temperature, which is conducive to the long-term preservation of artworks.

The structure of the basement consists of a corridor and many large and small cells.

Voice-activated sensor lights are installed every ten meters in the corridor, and voice-activated sensor lights are also installed in each compartment.

When a person walks by, the voice-activated sensor light automatically turns on, and when the person leaves, the voice-activated sensor light automatically turns off.

Each compartment stores artworks of a category or a country. The artworks stored are diverse, and the categories are very complete. Each piece is a rare boutique.

Each cell is almost equivalent to an art exhibition hall.

"It's a medieval crown."

"This is a gold sulides, a kind of gold coin originally invented in ancient Rome. At that time, generally only wealthy Roman elites, merchants or soldiers owned this kind of gold coin."

"This is a painting by Monet, who is one of the founders of Impressionist painting and the most influential of the Impressionist masters. This painting is called "Water Lilies", which is very representative of Monet a painting."

"It's a medieval sculpture, very beautiful."

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Earl Hill introduced to Chen Rui the works of art that his family had collected over the past 400 years.

Appreciated Western paintings, sculptures, coins and other works of art.

Pieces of works of art, each piece of exquisite quality, full of artistic flavor, let Chen Rui feast for the eyes.

Next, Chen Rui followed Earl Hill to the next cell.

"The works of art from China are stored here." Count Hill turned his head and said to Chen Rui.

The cubicle is very large, and a large number of Chinese artworks are stored in the cubicle.

There are porcelain, bronze, jade, calligraphy and painting, coins, Buddha statues, etc., and even pottery and stone-made wares from the old era. Excellent, Chen Rui was dazzled.

Here, Chen Rui saw Xu Beihong's horse and Qi Baishi's shrimp.

Suddenly, Chen Rui stopped in front of a piece of porcelain.

Seeing Chen Rui's footsteps stop in front of a piece of porcelain, Earl Hill introduced, "This is a piece of Geyao porcelain, and its name is Song Dynasty Geyao Bafang Guanyue Vase. In 1993, this Geyao porcelain appeared at Christie's auction. , which I bought for £890,000."

Chen Rui nodded.

As a lover of antiques, how could you not know about Geyao porcelain?

One of the five famous kilns in China, in the aesthetics of ancient literati, they pursued a kind of morbid beauty of defects. During the firing process of Ge kiln, yellow and black cracks were formed in the 'gold wire and iron wire'. A much sought-after element.

There are only a few hundred pieces of Geyao porcelain in the world, but there are 190 pieces in the Forbidden City in Taiwan and Beijing, dozens of pieces in the Forbidden City in Beijing and Beijing, and even fewer are circulated outside.

I didn't expect to see a fine piece of Geyao porcelain here and appreciate it up close. I'm very fortunate.

"This is..." Chen Rui suddenly saw two items, which shocked him.

These are two bronze heads.

One is the head of a snake and the other is the head of a sheep.

The casting is fine, and the folds and fluff on the head of the animal are all clear and vivid, which is extremely vivid.

This is the snake and the sheep in the heads of the twelve zodiac animals in Yuanmingyuan.

When it comes to the heads of the twelve zodiac animals in Yuanmingyuan, we have to mention Yuanmingyuan.

This is the pain of all Chinese people.

In 1860, the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded China, and the British and French Allied Forces burned down the Old Summer Palace. According to rough statistics, there were 1.5 million pieces of cultural relics looted, ranging from pre-Qin bronze ritual vessels to Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. All kinds of rare treasures, including the heads of the twelve zodiac animals in Yuanmingyuan.

Today, five bronze animal heads of cattle, tigers, monkeys, pigs and horses have been collected in the Poly Art Museum.

The mouse and rabbit are collected in the National Museum of China.

The dragon head is well preserved in Taiwan and Taiwan.

In the end, the whereabouts of 4 pieces of snake heads, sheep heads, chicken heads, and dog heads are still unknown.

Chen Rui did not expect two of the remaining four to appear here.

Chen Rui made up his mind to buy it.