According to the identification results of Jianling Card, this celadon bird-shaped cup is not a porcelain from the Tang Dynasty, but an ancient porcelain from the Jin Dynasty!

Western Jin Dynasty Yue Kiln Celadon Bird-shaped Cup!

According to the current archaeological presentation, the earliest porcelain in China should have appeared in the Shang Dynasty in the 16th century BC. However, both in the body and in the firing process of the glaze layer, the firing temperature is also low, showing primitiveness and transitionality, so it is generally called "primitive porcelain".★★

The real porcelain gradually matured in the Han Dynasty, to the Tang Dynasty, and the Five Dynasties, and the Song, Ming and Qing dynasties later reached its peak. As a transitional period, the East and Jin dynasties did not have much important status in the history of Chinese porcelain, but because of the age of time, the porcelain that can be passed down is very rare, so some of them have very high value.

Logically speaking, porcelain that can be passed down from the Jin Dynasty should have a relatively high value. Why do we say here that only some of the value is relatively high? This is related to people's cognition.

As an antique, its historical and cultural attributes are of course the longer it is, the more representative it is, and in the eyes of relevant researchers, the higher its value. However, for the collection industry, it still needs to pay attention to ornamentality, so many things are not as valuable as the older they are. This principle is definitely not only applicable to ancient porcelain.

"Boss, how do you sell this bird-shaped cup?"

"Sir, this one costs 120,000 euros."

"120,000? This price is a bit outrageous!"

In Li Yi's eyes, this bird-shaped cup is both in shape, porcelain body and glaze, so he mistakenly thought it was a product from the Tang Dynasty. Now in the Jin Dynasty, it is of course even more amazing.

But even if it is amazing, it is only in a relatively narrow range. Its value cannot be compared with the fine products in the following dynasties in any case. Except for a few of the porcelains that can be sold at sky-high prices, most of the value is concentrated in the range of 5oo to 1ooo ten thousand soft sister coins. This bird-shaped cup actually called 1ooo ten thousand...

"120,000 euros, I think the 120,000 soft sister coins are almost the same! In this way, 150,000 euros!"

"Uh...sir, did you say less than one hundred?"

The clerk was stunned, and then a strange look appeared on his face. While dealing with Li Yi carefully, he thought to himself that this person is really thick-skinned. Others bargaining to cut off some points, but this person actually only keeps some points...

"You don't have any sincerity to bid this price..."

Li Yi shook his head and put the bird-shaped cup back. The price was almost ten times different from his valuation. He was really not interested in bargaining, so he would rather take a look at the others first. If he really wanted to, he would go back and negotiate with Tan Moxuan and let him go and slowly fight with them. Anyway, he wouldn't even think about selling this price.

"Oh, if you are really interested, how about 950,000 yuan? This discount is the lowest price for a store blocked..."

Although Li Yi was not sincere, the clerk still paid another price because this thing has been kept in the store for a long time and there are always many people watching it, but no one buys it. Although antique sales were originally the idea of ​​killing one by one, it was not a solution to continue like this.

"Haha, 950,000 is also ridiculously high. Forget it, I'll take a look at this one."

Li Yi moved his foot gently to the left, staring at a large pot of blue and white characters' story patterns in the grid and started to look at it.

This large blue and white jar is about 28 cm high and about 22 cm in diameter. The picture facing Li Yi is a general sitting upright in the hall with armor on his side. A soldier next to him holds a big banner and writes three big characters Zhou Yafu.

"Zhou Yafu stationed his troops in Xiliuying Guan? Haha."

Li Yi sniffed twice, but in fact he could only laugh, because this pattern is very famous, called "Zhou Yafu stationed troops in Xiliu Camp", which is one of the only eight remaining large pots of Yuan blue and white characters in the world. The large pot is now being preserved in the Japanese Anzhai Art Museum, this one...

"Sir, although this piece is not the real Yuan blue and white, it was imitated in the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty. Its value may not be much lower than that of the real Yuan blue and white."

The clerk beside him saw Li Yi's expression and quickly explained.

"Oh? I know that there are many blue and white porcelains imitating the Ming Dynasty in the third dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, but I really don't know that they can even imitate the Yuan Dynasty... How can this one be sold?"

Li Yi stared at the porcelain carefully, shook his head, and his evaluation of the store in his heart dropped to the lowest point. This porcelain is 100% made of modern imitation and old products. Not only did they place it in such a conspicuous position, they were even more embarrassed to put the name of Yongzheng imitation. Do you think that all you see are fools?

"Sir, this one is only 6ooo euros..."

"puff!"

Li Yi almost spit out an old blood. The Yuan blue and white porcelain imitated by Yongzheng was only 6 ooo euros. It’s not so funny!

He raised his hand and pointed to a blue and white dragon-patterned elephant ear bottle in a grid next to him and asked:

"What about this one? This one is also a copy of Yongzheng?"

"Sir, this one is not a copy of Yongzheng, but we can't see exactly who it is... "

Li Yi shook his head dissatisfiedly. Isn't it enough to say that? Besides, even if you want to imitate Yuan blue and white, don't imitate such a well-known pattern in the world. Who doesn't know the whereabouts of this thing? After Yongzheng imitated it, the quote was only 6ooo. Isn't this obviously teasing someone?

"Huh? Take out this bottle and I'll take a look."

Li Yi was complaining in his heart, and suddenly raised his eyebrows and pointed to the blue and white dragon-patterned elephant ear bottle and said to the clerk.

"No problem, please wait."

Seeing the clerk turn around to get the keys, Li Yi stared at the bottle behind the glass and looked at it seriously.

Unlike the large imitation blue and white jar just now, this dragon-patterned elephant ear bottle not only has bright blue and white colors, but also has exquisite craftsmanship. Especially the slender cloud dragon, which is not only lifelike, but also looks quite characteristic of the Yuan Dynasty dragon pattern. Could it be that this piece is a real Yuan blue and white?

Soon, the clerk brought the key over. After he opened the glass door, Li Yi carefully reached out and hugged the elephant ear bottle. As soon as he started, his brows frowned.

The height of this bottle is about 38 cm and the diameter is about 10 cm. The weight of the bottle feels heavy, and the carcass is relatively rough. There are two obvious sand holes on the bottom of the appliance, which are similar to Yuan blue and white.

However, the glaze characteristics of this blue and white vase are a bit slight. Not only do they do not have normal Yuan blue and white glaze shrinkage spots and needle holes, but there are also no common glaze phenomena in areas with thicker glaze layers. The bubble characteristics on the surface of the glaze layer are not very consistent with the description of Yuan blue and white bubbles. What's going on?

After frowning for a while, Li Yi judged that this should be a piece of Yuan blue and white, but during the firing process, it mutated for some reason, and actually burned the glaze layer to a little bit of the blue and white equipment in the Ming Dynasty... If this is true, it will be a real good thing now.

“How to sell this one?”

"This piece only costs 20,000 euros. Sir, look at the glaze of this piece, it is smooth and thick but clear and transparent, with a soft luster, and is as gentle as jade..."

Li Yi waved his hand and interrupted his introduction. Under normal circumstances, these terms are difficult to express in English, but I don’t know who translated this store for them. It sounds really a bit...

"I will pay it immediately."

"Not 15,000, this one must be at least 198oo. Sir, this one is really different..."

"Okay, okay, 198oo is 198oo, please help me wrap it up."

Li Yi turned around and took out a large pile of euros from Gu Feng's bag, counted 20,000 yuan and handed it to the clerk. Then he smiled and handed the wrapped elephant ear bottle to Gu Feng.

"Hold it, this is a real good baby..."

Li Yi was in a good mood after buying this slightly strange Yuan blue and white dragon pattern elephant ear bottle. By the way, after buying so many items today, he finally bought a real good item. Otherwise, he would have to be like the previous ones, and each item had problems, which would be depressed.

However, it seemed that his good luck ended here. Not only did the porcelain shop not gain anything, but he also visited two antique shops and had nothing to admire. Seeing that it was getting late, he had to take Gu Feng back to the hotel.

"Gu Feng, please help me go to the front desk to ask if anyone knows German. Please help me translate all these."

As soon as he returned to the hotel, Li Yi took out the paper from the bag, then copied two lines of it casually and gave it to Gu Feng, asking him to find someone to translate it, and he stared at the paper and started studying it.

This piece of paper is about a quarter of the size of a4 paper. It should be because it has been placed for a long time. The color is slightly yellow, especially at the corners, which are more severely aging.

On the sheet of paper, words and numbers are densely filled with words and numbers. Count them carefully, and there are 11 lines in total. Each line is a mixed word and number, with words in front and numbers at the back, and there are many digits. The strangest thing is that a comma is added in the middle of each string of numbers.

"This seems to be the abbreviation of the name, but, what is this?"

The words on each line start with several capital letters, and then are spaced about two or three millimeters, followed by one or several complete words. Among them, none of the abbreviation letters are the same, but the repetition rate of the words followed is quite high. Li Yi compared it and found that in these 11 lines, there are two words in the same line, 5 of which are the same, and two lines are the same in the other 3 lines.

The remaining 3 lines have only one very long word, and these 3 words are exactly the same. In other words, there are only 4 words in these 11 lines.

"Brother Yi, someone at the front desk understands German, he helped me translate it. He said that he didn't know what the abbreviations in the previous ones mean, but it might be a person's name. In addition, the word translated as Wiglin, the name of a Swiss bank, but it seems to have gone bankrupt. Also, this is Lucerne, Capelna, among which Lucerne is a city in central Switzerland. Capelna has no special meaning, it should be a person's name."

"People's name? Bank? City?"

The two lines copied by Li Yi have only a few capital letters and a very long word. This word was translated into Wiglin. If there is no translation error, the meaning is still easy to understand. This should be an account opened by someone in this bank called Wiglin. The reason why numbers are separated by commas should be that the account number and password are separated.

On the other line, the two words are Lucerne and Capelna, which should be explained by the explanation, which is a private bank in Casen called Capelna, and the numbers behind them are also the account number and password.

"There are people's names, bank names, accounts, passwords... plus ancient papers, and the production age of bags..."

Gradually, Li Yi had a guess in his mind. The information recorded on this piece of paper was probably the account opening information of some families or individuals in Swiss banks during World War II!

"Damn, these are not all dormant accounts, right? It's not fun now!"

Swiss banks are well-known in the world. When rich people around the world think about how to "replace" their wealth, they almost always think of Switzerland. When a senior government official is accused of taking bribes, people are always accustomed to connecting his name to an anonymous account in the Swiss bank.

It is precisely because of this attribute that during World War II, many persecuted Jews deposited their property in Swiss banks. According to the information currently disclosed, about 50,000 Jews opened accounts in Swiss banks, involving an amount of up to 600 million US dollars.

After World War II, there were countless "dormant accounts" that had not been traded. People had every reason to believe that the owners of these accounts, even their family members, had died in World War II.

Li Yi suspected that the accounts recorded on this piece of paper were probably some "dormant accounts", and it was likely the property of the persecuted Jews during World War II...

However, what he didn't understand was why there were 11 accounts here, and these 11 accounts belonged to different people!

"Did it be that the owner of this bag was entrusted to help them with it? So, who is the owner of this bag?"

Li Yi rubbed his eyebrows hard and stared at the capital letters in front of him that were suspected to be the abbreviation. Another question rose from his heart.

If these are really Jewish accounts and belong to 11 different people, then these names are not necessary and should not be abbreviated... So, will these be the secret accounts of those corrupt officials?

It's impossible. If it's an account of this nature, it's too late to keep it confidential. How could 11 people get together?

After a while of no idea, Li Yi turned on the computer and prepared to search the Internet for some information about Swiss banks during World War II.
Chapter completed!