The antiques brought by Luo Guofu are stored in an antique shop called "Soro", with about 300 pieces, but there are not many Chinese antiques, and most of them are porcelain, with a total of about 50 pieces.

"Li, I have carefully studied the classification of cultural relics in China. I believe that this one is enough to be included in the first-class cultural relics."

Holding Luo Guofu's hand was a celadon carved peony pattern bowl with a diameter of 19.5 cm. The bowl was covered with green glaze, with a glaze color blue and glaze yellow, clear patterns, alternating between thickness and light, and slightly convex patterns, which had a good visual effect.

Peony flowers represent wealth and honor in traditional Chinese culture. The decoration of woven peony on the artifacts was the most popular theme in the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty. In addition, the body is solid and the carved patterns are exquisite and smooth. Li Yi believes that this celadon sea bowl should be the work of Yaozhou Kiln during the heyday of the Yaozhou Kiln and can definitely represent the highest level of celadon firing in Yaozhou Kiln.

“This one is good, this one is good too.”

Holding Li Yi's hand was a piece of Longquan celadon section of the Yuan Dynasty. The cane section was shaping the shape of the pen to form a short and thick cane section. It was first one of the wash styles produced by the official kilns of the Song Dynasty. Longquan kilns in the Yuan Dynasty were produced more, but few of them are passed down from generation to generation.

This celadon pen with a diameter of 11 cm was divided into 13 small sections. The inner wall of each section was concave in a certain arc, and the outer wall was divided into two parts. The upper half was shorter, but the angle was vertical and the lower section was longer. It was tilted toward the bowl foot. It looked a bit like it was bonded with more than a dozen reduced tiles. The whole body was slightly blue and the body was covered with large open patterns. It was definitely a rare treasure.

"Well, I brought a lot of porcelain this time, and there should be a few more pieces like this. Mr. Li can choose slowly, so there is no need to worry."

Li Yi nodded and sifted all the porcelain first. Among the 32 porcelains, the proportion of Song porcelain was as high as 20%. Among them, there were as many as 4 fine carved celadons from Yaozhou Kiln in the Northern Song Dynasty, and the other two were also fine products from Longquan Kiln in the Southern Song Dynasty.

In addition, he also selected a piece of celadon cane section washing in the Yuan Dynasty, a piece of Kangxi blue and white landscape cover bowl, and a piece of Yongzheng pastel bird foraging pen holder. Although these nine pieces vary in value, they can basically be included in the national first-class cultural relics.

Apart from these 32 pieces of porcelain, 7 of the remaining 16 pieces of cultural relics were ancient jade ornaments, but the jade material used was average, and there was no work of a famous artist, so Li Yi just looked at it and put it aside, but among the last 9 pieces of jewelry, he found a good thing.

This is a gem flower collected in the Qing Palace. To be precise, it should be called the Butterfly Fresh Pink Crystal Peony Hairpin.

Pink crystal is pink crystal, also known as hibiscus stone, which is mostly produced in Brazil, the United States and other places. Although it is produced in China, very few of them have excellent quality.

This butterfly-a-scented pink peony hairpin is different. The butterflies that spread their wings and the peony that bloom in full bloom are crystal clear and evenly colored. With exquisite workmanship, even if they are placed to this day, they are exquisite jewelry.

"Okay, I just need these 10 pieces, you can offer a price."

Luo Guofu glanced at the things selected by Li Yi and gave a thumbs up with admiration. Indeed, these 10 pieces are all fine products, and they are also the 10 most valuable pieces of the Chinese antiques he brought with him.

"These...a total of 1.2 million euros."

1.4 million? Hearing this, Li Yi couldn't help but feel a moment of trance, almost suspected that he had heard it wrong. The total cost of these is only 1.4 million. Not to mention those porcelains, just this butterfly-filled pink crystal peony hairpin, he probably costs more than one million euros. So much is only 1.4 million?

He was silent and didn't say anything, but he didn't expect Luo Guofu to be wrong, thinking he thought it was expensive.

"Mr. Li Yi, the price is really no longer low. If these Song porcelains are sold, the price of each piece should not be less than 90,000 yuan. In addition, the value of these three pieces of porcelain, pastel pen holder and blue and white cover bowl should not be less than 300,000 yuan. There is also this Butterfly Pink Crystal Peony Hairpin. Although it was a work from the late Qing Dynasty and the material was only made of crystal, you see its workmanship, I believe that it will definitely not be inferior to those top jewelry at the exhibition, and there is absolutely no problem with the value of 200,000 euros..."

Li Yi nodded. The quotation of Luogufu porcelain should be relatively accurate, but the Butterfly Pink Crystal Peony Hairpin only judges its value from the material workmanship and simple gradation, but it has caused a lot of deviations. Because such easy-to-have jewelry, there are very few unearthed cultural relics that can be preserved so completely or even deficiently damaged. Only carefully preserved handed down products can ensure its style as before. Due to the turmoil in the past century, such fine products will definitely not be more than 50 pieces in China, and most of them are collected in museums, so the value of this Butterfly Pink Crystal Peony Hairpin is definitely far beyond the value estimated according to normal concepts.

Although he realized that he had taken another big advantage, if he didn't pay the price at all, he might have doubts. Considering that these were only a small part of the collection he brought to Paris, Li Yi hesitated for a moment and said:

"Mr. Luo Guofu, first of all, I want to say that you are indeed an expert in Chinese cultural relics. This quotation is very accurate, but you seem to have ignored the impact of the shape of the instrument on the value of porcelain. Simply put, in ancient Chinese porcelain, the value of bottles and jars is generally higher than that of practical instruments such as bowls and dishes. Therefore, the real value of this piece, and these two pieces, should not exceed 150,000 euros, and this pastel pen holder will definitely not cost 300,000 euros..."

After a bargaining, the final price was set at 1.18 million euros. Littled the "Dream Elf" tag that Li Yi gave to Luo Guofu, Li Yi still had to pay him a full 1 million euros!

"Mr. Li Yi, I think you should have a preference for porcelain. In my collection, porcelain also accounts for a large proportion. I wonder if you are still interested?"

"Oh? What other porcelain do you have?"

Luo Guofu smiled, opened the computer, and called out a file.

"These are some of the more precious Chinese cultural relics in my collection. If Mr. Li Yi is interested, he can choose them slowly."

"Haha, then I'm not polite!"

Li Yi took the laptop and looked at the preface first. He found that there were 119 pieces of porcelain in this catalog. In addition, there were 32 ancient books, 40 ancient calligraphy and painting works, 38 jade carvings and jade ornaments, 87 ancient gold, silver and jewelry accessories, and other furniture in Ming and Qing dynasties, with a total of 97 miscellaneous items. The total number of them was more than 400!

Almost every one of these antiques is equipped with pictures, and some of them have photos from several angles. Therefore, the total length of this document is more than 500 pages. This guy is just an ordinary antique dealer who is not even qualified to participate in the Antique Biennale. It is hard for him to imagine how many Chinese ancient relics will be held by those well-known international collectors!

While sighing in his heart, he pulled down the mouse to turn the page, and just the first collection made his eyes narrow.

The first one is a fine piece of ancient porcelain, a white porcelain engraved plate in the Northern Song Dynasty Ding Kiln. Moreover, the shape of this piece of porcelain is a little strange. Although the diameter is only about 12 cm, the part folded upwards of the plate is more than 3 cm, which looks more like a relatively shallow small bowl.

The bottom of the vessel has clear patterns of lotus flowers and lotus leaf patterns, with natural and smooth lines, and the beauty of bas-reliefs is hidden. It should be the pinnacle of Ding Kiln in the mid-September Northern Song Dynasty.

The second piece is also a treasure, the celadon carved lotus leaf mouth bottle from Ru Kiln in the Northern Song Dynasty. The third piece is a large sky blue glaze bowl from Jun Kiln, with a diameter of 24 cm. The fourth piece is finally not the five famous porcelains, but Li Yi estimated that its value is mostly not lower than these famous porcelains, because this is an exquisite beige paper-cutting decal plum branch pattern cup of Jizhou Kiln in the Northern Song Dynasty. The number of this kind of porcelain in the domestic collection will not exceed 100 pieces, and it may not even be as intact as 100 pieces!

Song Jizhou kiln deer-spotted tortoiseshell glazed cup, Northern Song Yaozhou kiln celadon carved peony pattern holding pot, Song black glaze rust spotted plum bottle, Northern Song persimmon glaze bowl...

The more Li Yi looked at it, the more shocked he became. Half of these 119 ancient porcelains were ancient porcelains of the Song Dynasty, among which 8 were made from the five famous kilns. The remaining ones not only included 5 rare ancient porcelains of the Jin Dynasty, but also several of them even had Yuan blue and white porcelains! Li Yi estimated that the value of these porcelains could exceed 100 million euros!

Compared with these ancient porcelains, the ancient books collected by Luo Gufu are slightly inferior. Li Yi read more than 20 pieces in a row, but he did not see a treasure worth more than 100,000 euros. However, to his surprise, a residual copy numbered 0228 was actually a volume of Buddhist scriptures from the Tang Dynasty, "The Transformation of the Vimalakirti Sutra"!

In the description, this volume of scriptures indicates that it comes from the Dunhuang Sutra. The length of the entire version is estimated to be more than 3 meters, while the current residual version is only 1.8 meters long, and there are many stripped characters.

But even such a broken book is of immeasurable value, just...

Li Yi looked at the ancient book behind, but it was a Ming-engraved book. He couldn't help but wonder. If it was divided according to value, this one should be placed first and the last one in the ancient book category. How could it be placed silently in the middle? Could it be that this one is not the original work?

Without seeing the original object, Li Yi was not willing to make arbitrarily judgement, so he had to suppress his doubts and then look back. Unexpectedly, the first piece of calligraphy and painting scared him. This was the "Fuchun Mountain Residence" which is one of the top ten famous paintings in China!

Then, Li Yi smiled and shook his head, because no matter what, this painting should not be in Luo Guofu's hands. This one is definitely a imitation.

"Fuchun Mountain Residence" is a famous work by Huang Gongwang, a famous calligrapher and painter of the Yuan Dynasty. It is said to be the first painting of Huang Gongwang. It is a paper-based ink painting. Its width is 33 cm and its length reaches an astonishing 636.9 cm.

The inheritance of this painting is very clear. It has been handed down by the useless masters, Shen Zhou, Fan Shun, Tan Zhiyi, Dong Qichang, and Wu Zhengzhi. It was passed down to the collector Wu Hongyu in the late Ming Dynasty. Legend has it that Wu Hongyu loved this painting very much, and even ordered the painting to be burned and buried before his death. It was rescued from the fire by Wu Hongyu's nephew, but at this time the painting had been burned into two sections, one large and one small.

At present, the longer second paragraph is called "Unuseless Teacher Volume", which is now in the Palace Museum in Taipei; the first paragraph is called "Remaining Mountain Picture", which is now in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provincial Museum, and is the treasure of the mountain-keeping site of the museum.

According to these records, Luo Guofu's painting is definitely a fake. However, after Li Yi read the photos of several pages bit by bit, he found that it was really hard to judge before he saw the real thing, because just from the photos, the similarity between this painting and Huang Gongwang's handwriting was more than 90%!

More than 90%?!

Li Yi was shocked by his judgment. He tried hard to recall the pictures of "Fuchun Mountain Residence" in his memory, but found that not only the brushwork of this painting was similar, but also the pictures were extremely similar. Most of the pictures even coincided with the memories in his mind!

This is impossible! It is impossible that so many people will make mistakes in identifying them, not to mention that the inheritance of this painting is so clear!

"Mr. Luo Guofu, are you sure, you have a complete version of this painting in your hand?"

After looking at it again and again, after hesitating for a long time, Li Yi couldn't help but ask.

"Oh, I do have a complete version of this painting, but it should be a imitation painting. Mr. Li Yi, you know, this painting is very long, and it will be very troublesome to take it in a complete picture and then splice it together, so I directly used the photos on the Internet..."

"puff!"

Li Yi couldn't help it and almost spit out a mouthful of old blood. You sister, in order to save trouble, you actually used photos of authentic works on the Internet to pretend. Do you know that this is very inhumane? Do you know that dozens of my brain cells have died for this?

"However, although my painting is a imitation painting, it should have been written by famous artists. You will know when you see the authentic one..."

Li Yi waved his hand weakly, just casually, even if it is a real imitation, it is just a imitation, but if this thing is really a genuine work, he probably will lose everything.

"To be honest, how many of these pictures are there? Tell me if there is one, I..."

"No, no, just this one, I promise that the rest are true. In order to take these photos, I haven't gone out for a whole week..."

"What about this one?"

Following "Fuchun Mountain Residence" is a work by Dong Qichang, a famous calligrapher and painter of the Ming Dynasty. "The Scroll of Clouds and Lanses". This painting, even the inscription on the inscription, is more than 3 meters long. If you follow Luo Guofu's theory, this painting is also a type that can use online photos.

"No, no, this is definitely a real photo. If you look at the signature and seal, this is definitely an authentic work. I will never treat the authentic work casually."

Li Yi nodded, first looked at the tip of the head, and found that it was written by Zhu Qizhi, a famous collector in the late Qing Dynasty, and was stamped with Zhu Qizhi and his collection of "Cong Biqi".

The words "Xuan Zai's paintings and titles" are left on the side, and Dong Qichang's seal is also stamped on the side. Judging from these signs, this may indeed be an authentic work.
Chapter completed!