This pot of Phalaenopsis orchids is about 4m high, 3.5m in diameter, displayed at the Tet flower stall at Thao Dien night market, City. Thu Duc.
To create this work, 5-6 craftsmen carefully combined 868 grade 1 orchid branches, continuously for 5 days to complete the ‘huge’ pot of Phalaenopsis orchids.
According to the owner of the orchid pot, the number 868 flower branches and gold-plated pots mean wealth, prosperity, and prosperity in the early days of spring.
Besides investing in 868 branches of white phalaenopsis orchids, to make it more unique, even the flower pot is plated with 24K gold with a value of more than 150 million VND. Currently, orchid pots are valued at 1,868 billion VND.
Gold-plated orchid pots cost more than 1.6 billion VND in Bac Giang
At a stall selling orchids during Tet in Bac Giang city, a pot of orchids with nearly 1,000 flower stems and plated with 24k gold was sold for more than 1.6 billion VND, attracting the attention of customers.
According to Tien Phong Newspaper, this orchid pot has nearly 1,000 orchid branches with 3 colors white, purple, and yellow. Orchids in pots are imported from Da Lat.
Pot of gold-plated orchids costs more than 1.6 billion VND in Bac Giang (Photo: Tien Phong)
Mr. Pham Van Huy, the owner of a stall with a pot of gold-plated orchids, said that this orchid pot is plated with 24k gold with about 5-6 gold plants. He had to hire a team of workers to plant the orchid pots for 1 day and 2 people gilded the pots with gold for 12 hours.
According to the stall owner, this is considered the most expensive orchid pot in Bac Giang province.
Mr. Huy shared that since being displayed at the booth, the gold-plated orchid pots have attracted the attention of many people who came to see them. A customer from Bac Giang negotiated with him to buy this orchid pot. The customer wanted to buy this pot of orchids to display at their ancestral temple.
However, the customer asked Mr. Huy to replace the gold with a higher quality than the 24k gold plated on the orchid pot.
“Customer requests for other types of gold plating make it difficult for me to meet at this time. Therefore, the pot of gold-plated orchids priced at more than 1.6 billion VND has not yet won buyers. During Tet this year, I made a pot of orchids worth billions to survey the market for next year,” Mr. Huy said.