Chapter 821: Three Fires
Basically, there is nothing to be found for auction, but the possibility of buying fakes is even greater. For example, the white jade wool cup that Li Yi picked up by Sotheby's Spring Auction was purely artificial accidents.
The reason why Li Yi checked those lots one by one was not because he wanted to find a bargain, but because he was afraid of losing money and being deceived.
Just like Liang Kai's painting, he estimated that the final offer would exceed 180 million soft-girl coins, because Liang Kai was not just Liang Kai from the Chinese. As early as the Song Dynasty, Liang Kai was very famous in Japan, which means that there may be Japanese museums in this battle!
If the goods owners are included in the bidding, the price may even exceed 300 million!
How could Li Yi take such a large amount of transactions, how could he take it lightly?
The porcelain he liked was also extraordinary, but a precious large jar of blue and white beast ears with lids in the Yunlong Ruyi pattern.
This large jar has a height of 47 cm, a height of 38.2 cm, a maximum abdominal diameter of 32.6 cm, and the entire jar is as many as 12 layers!
In Li Yi's eyes, this jar is majestic and quaint, with elegant decorations, complicated patterns but not congested, with rich and green colors, slightly diffuse glaze, smooth and blue, and the lines are smooth and powerful, and look very magnificent and elegant. It is definitely a rare representative work of blue and white porcelain in Jingdezhen of the Yuan Dynasty.
After taking a look, this Yuan blue and white jar actually came from Turkey! It is owned by Feilik Ishki, a famous collector in the country. This time, he signed up for a Japanese exhibitor and came to participate in the exhibition.
"It's true that there are so many treasures. Such a precious jar is auctioned off..."
Speaking of Türkiye, this country is likely to be the country with the largest number of Yuan blue and white porcelain beans besides China. The Topkabi Palace alone has collected 39 pieces, and the collections of the people cannot be counted.
Similar to it, Iran is also in the collection of 32 pieces of Yuan blue and white porcelain in the National Museum of Iran alone!
Of course, the Yuan blue and white porcelain of these two countries is different from the Chinese cultural relics obtained by Japan through plunder. They have so many Yuan blue and white porcelains through plunder.
At that time, the Mongol Empire established the Il Khanate affiliated to the Mongol Empire in Iran, Turkey and other countries, namely the Persian Mongol Dynasty. Yuan blue and white porcelain was also sold to these countries through the Silk Road. Therefore, their possession of many Yuan blue and white porcelain can be regarded as a commemoration of being plundered.
However, whether it is plundering or being plundered, the one who has something in his hands is the old man.
Li Yi estimated that the final transaction price of this Yuan blue and white jar is likely to be as high as 150 million soft sister coins. If someone takes the opportunity to make trouble, the price may be higher.
As for the other seal, it is the "Treasure of Qianlong Imperial Brush" of the old acquaintance, the Nine Dragon Cloud Pattern Square Seal of the "Treasure of Qianlong Imperial Brush". This seal is carved from a good brown-red Shoushan stone. Its length and width are 10.5 cm, and its height reaches 9 cm!
Speaking of Qianlong seals, they can be regarded as regular customers at various auctions. This emperor who likes to engrave seals crazy has left a lot of wealth for his descendants. Unfortunately, most of the owners of these jade seals auctioned are foreigners.
Li Yi estimated that the final price of this seal should be between 70 and 80 million. Of course, it may also happen to the first two items, but the probability should be much smaller.
Although the remaining ten Chinese cultural relics are far less precious than these three, they are all genuine. When Li Yi was preparing for the last half day, he would look at them all one by one. If the price is appropriate, he would not mind bringing them all back to China.
After reading these dozen Chinese cultural relics, he saw that the people surrounding the chicken jar cup had almost dispersed, so he walked over and asked the staff to open the display cabinet.
This chicken jar cup is more beautiful when you hold it in your hand and looks more beautiful than in a display cabinet. Not only is the body white and delicate, thin and light, the white glaze soft and smooth, and the inside and outside are the same. Moreover, the cup wall decoration picture matches the shape, which is both sparse and smooth. The picture color includes underglaze blue and white and bright red on the glaze, green leaves, water green, goose yellow, turmeric, black and other colors. The techniques also use standard techniques such as filling, covering, dyeing, and dot color, which looks like a Doucai textbook.
"It seems that I was underestimated before. This Doucai porcelain can be sold at least 16 million yuan. No wonder those little Japanese are so scheming!"
After appreciating the porcelain bit by bit, Li Yi turned on the spiritual appraisal card before putting it back, and then a cold air poured into his palm.
"Damn it, it's so damn bad. This is actually a genuine product from the Ming Dynasty Chenghua Year!" Because of the misleading information, Li Yi was not prepared at all. Moreover, in his opinion, this Doucai porcelain is indeed very similar to the Yongzheng Dynasty imitation. It has at least two main characteristics that are very close to the Yongzheng Dynasty porcelain!
"What should this be called? With the highest level of fake and real, is it to treat the real as fake? Or is it that the person who identified this chicken jar cup before was too trash?"
If it was really because of the appraiser that this chicken jar cup was regarded as a copy of the Yongzheng Dynasty, then it would be a bit too light to describe them as garbage. A copy of the Yongzheng Dynasty was worth 20 million yuan, and how much is a real Doucai chicken jar cup during the Chenghua period?
As early as two years ago, it was worth HK$281.24 million!
The price gap is more than ten times, not to mention the value of other cultures, history and technology, which is 10,000 times more serious than misleading people's children!
After putting the chicken jar cup back in its original place, Li Yi turned around and walked out of the exhibition hall. The auction at this exhibition was a bit weird. Not to mention the chicken jar cup, just the work of Liang Kai and the Yuan blue and white porcelain were a bit confusing.
First of all, how could these two items be easily taken out for auction? Moreover, even if it is an auction, why not go to those world-renowned auction houses and hype it up, but put it at this level of exhibitions for auction?
It’s not that he underestimated this exhibition, but the reality is that. How many of the people who are coming to participate in the exhibition now can afford those things?
He decided to ask Hiroji Kiyoto, and by the way, the mask of Takeda Shingen also had to be found through him to find a way to exchange. Standing aside, watching in the name of an outsider and collecting it himself were completely different. He didn't want an ugly ghost mask to exist around him for a long time.
Qing Wu Hongsi also had a booth in the exhibition hall, and it was also in the calligraphy and painting hall. Although he didn't need to keep a stall at all, on the first day of his development, he stayed in the exhibition hall. On the one hand, he invited his own business and on the other hand, he could pay attention to the overall market.
Therefore, Li Yi found him easily.
"Haha, when it comes to those things, you are not the only one who is confused. But I can tell you that as long as you bid high enough, you will definitely get ownership of them."
"Oh? How do you say it?"
"The annual National Antique Fair held at the Tokyo International Exhibition Center has a history of more than 20 years. In these 20 years, the organizers are mainly Yamada, Hashimoto and Takeuchi, but this year is different, and this year is a substitution."
Li Yi understood that the newcomer and new atmosphere were new. This was the new organizer showing his strength!
"It can be said that, but even so, it is not that easy to take pictures of the items you mentioned..."
Li Yi nodded. Isn’t the reason why he used the dark mark method to be able to perform some dark box operations at any time? But this time they are likely to steal chickens and lose some rice!
Qingwu Hongsi looked at Li Yi, smiled and said nothing. It was already very good that he could speak to this point. As for the other inside stories, there was no need to tell Li Yi again. After all, they had different positions, and they were just an introduction from Luo Guofu, and they did not have any particularly deep friendship.
After consulting this matter, Li Yi took out the broken armor, "Mr. Qingwu, can you please help me with this armor?"
"Huh? Isn't this the horse farm house collected by Hirose's family in this world? How much did you buy it?"
“14 million.”
"This price is not very expensive. It should be able to increase value for two years. Why are you thinking about taking action again?"
"Haha, it's not a price problem, mainly because I suddenly feel that this thing doesn't seem to have much collection value..."
Qingwu smiled bitterly, none of these rich people is normal. "Okay, Mr. Li Yi, I can help you get it, but it is difficult for you to sell it to the price you bought."
"It doesn't matter, it's as much as you can sell. In addition, I want to ask you to help me see this mask."
"Mask?" Kiyoto Hiroji glanced at the helmet in his armor, "Did you take out the mask alone?"
Li Yi nodded.
Qingwu Hongsi was even more helpless. Even if he only had half of the remaining armor left and sold together, the price was more expensive than selling it one by one. I really don’t know what he was thinking!
"Mr. Kiyoto, do you have information about Takeda Shingen here? It's better to have some pictures or the like. Of course, it would be better if you had pictures of him wearing armor."
"Oh? Do you suspect that this mask is not Machang Nobuya, but Takeda Nobugen?" Kiyoto Hirotsuki's reaction was not slow at all, and he immediately understood what Li Yi meant.
"Yes, if I read it correctly, this is definitely Takeda's mask, and what I have to do now is to make others believe that it is Takeda's!"
Chapter completed!