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

Western Jin Yue kiln celadon bird-shaped cup!

According to the current archaeological discoveries, the earliest porcelain in China should appear in the Shang Dynasty in the 16th century BC, but it is still rough on the carcass and the firing process of the glaze layer, and the firing temperature is also low, showing primitiveness and transition, so it is generally called "primitive porcelain". Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Real porcelain was invented in the Han Dynasty, gradually matured in the Tang and Five Dynasties, and reached its peak in the Song, Ming and Qing dynasties. As a transitional period of the Eastern and Western Jin Dynasties, there is no too important position in the history of Chinese porcelain, but because of the age, the porcelain that can be handed down is very rare, so the value of some of the porcelain is also very high.

It stands to reason that the porcelain that can be handed down from the Jin Dynasty should be of relatively high value, why is it said that only some of them are of high value? This has to do with people's perceptions.

As an antique, its historical and cultural attributes, of course, the older and more representative it is, the higher the value in the eyes of relevant researchers. However, for the collecting world, after all, it is still necessary to pay attention to an ornamentality, so many things are not more valuable than the older they are, and this truth is definitely not only applicable to ancient porcelain.

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

"Sir, this one costs 1.2 million euros."

"1.2 million? That's a bit outrageous! ”

In Li Yi's eyes, this bird-shaped cup is the best choice in terms of shape, porcelain and enamel, so he mistakenly thinks it is a product of the Tang Dynasty, and now it is placed in the Jin Dynasty, of course, it is even more amazing.

But even if it is remarkable, it is only within a relatively narrow range, and its value cannot be compared with the fine products of the following dynasties in any way. And those porcelain, except for a few that can be sold at sky-high prices, most of the value is concentrated in the range of 500 to 10 million soft sister coins, and this bird-shaped cup actually shouted 10 million......

"1.2 million euros, I think 1.2 million soft girl coins is about the same! In this way, 150,000 euros! ”

"Uh...... Sir, did you say a hundred less? ”

The clerk was stunned for a moment, and then a strange look appeared on his face, while carefully dealing with Li Yi, he secretly wondered, this person is really thick-skinned, others bargain to cut off the change, this one, actually only keep the change......

"You don't have any sincerity at this price......

Li Yi shook his head and put the bird-shaped cup back. The price of the bid was nearly ten times different from his estimate, and he really didn't have much interest in bargaining again, so he should look at the others first. If you really want to, go back and negotiate with Tan Moxuan, let him go on a trip, and slowly grind with them, anyway, he doesn't want to sell it at this price.

"Oh, if you're really interested, how about 950,000? This discount is the lowest price in the store......"

Although Li Yi was very insincere, the clerk still returned another price, because this thing had been in the store for a long time, and there were always many people looking at it, but no one bought it. Although the antique sales were originally with the idea of being able to kill one by one, it was not a way to go on like this.

"Hehe, 950,000 is outrageously high, forget it, I'll take a look at this."

Li Yi moved his steps slightly to the left, staring at a large jar of blue and white character story patterns in the lattice.

This blue and white jar, about 28 centimeters high and 22 centimeters in diameter, faces Li Yi's side of the picture of a general sitting in the hall in full armor, and a soldier holding a large flag on the side, with three big characters of Zhou Yafu written on it.

"Zhou Yafu's soldiers' fine willow camp tank? Hehe. ”

Li Yi sighed twice, in fact, he can only hehe, because this pattern is very famous, called "Zhou Yafu Tun Soldier Fine Willow Battalion", which is one of the only 8 pieces of Yuan blue and white character story pattern in the world, and that big jar is now being preserved in the Antaku Art Museum in Japan, this one ......

"Sir, although this one is not a real Yuan blue and white flower, but it is imitated in the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, and its value may not be much lower than the real Yuan blue and white flowers."

The clerk on the side saw Li Yi's expression and hurriedly explained.

"Oh? I know that there are more blue and white imitations of the Ming Dynasty in the Qing Dynasty, and I really don't know that they will imitate the blue and white of the Yuan Dynasty...... How do you sell this one? ”

Li Yi stared at the porcelain carefully, shook his head, and his evaluation of this shop dropped to the lowest point in his heart. This porcelain, 100% is the product of modern imitation after aging, they are not only grandly placed in such a conspicuous position, but also embarrassed to install the name of Yongzheng imitation, really look at it are some fools?

"Sir, this one is only 6,000 euros......"

"Poof!"

Li Yi almost didn't spurt out a mouthful of old blood, Yongzheng's imitation of Yuan Qinghua was only 6,000 euros, and Nima didn't have such a teasing method!

As soon as he raised his hand, he pointed to a blue and white dragon pattern elephant ear bottle in a lattice next to him and asked:

"What about this one? This is also Yongzhengyi? ”

"Sir, this is not Yongzheng's imitation, but we can't see for sure who imitates it......"

Li Yi shook his head dissatisfiedly, wouldn't it be over if he said this earlier? Besides, even if you want to imitate Yuan blue and white, you don't want to imitate this world-famous pattern, but whoever plays porcelain, who doesn't know the whereabouts of this thing? said Yongzhengfang, the quotation was only quoted at 6000, is this not a teaser?

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

Li Yi was slandering, suddenly raised his eyebrows, pointed to the blue and white dragon pattern elephant ear vase and said to the clerk.

"No problem, please wait."

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

Different from the imitation blue and white jar just now, this dragon pattern elephant ear vase, not only the blue and white are gorgeous, but also the craftsmanship is quite exquisite, especially the slender cloud dragon, not only painted lifelike, but also looks quite characteristic of the dragon pattern of the Yuan Dynasty, is this a real Yuan blue and white?

After a while, the clerk took the key, and after he opened the glass door, Li Yi cautiously reached out and took out the elephant ear bottle, and as soon as he started it, his brows furrowed.

This bottle, the height is about 38 centimeters, the diameter is about 10 centimeters, the weight of the hand feels heavy, and the carcass is relatively rough, and there are two obvious trachomaes at the bottom of the device, which are similar to Yuan Qinghua.

It's just that the glaze characteristics of this blue and white vase are a bit specious, not only are there no normal Yuan blue and white glaze shrinkage points and needle eyes, but also there is no common hanging glaze phenomenon in the thick glaze layer, and the bubble characteristics on the surface of the glaze layer are not very consistent with the description of Yuan blue and white bubbles, what is going on?

Frowning and tossing for a while, Li Yi judged that this should still be a piece of Yuan blue and white, but in the process of firing, I don't know why it mutated, and the glaze layer was actually burned out of a little bit of Ming Dynasty blue and white ware...... If that's the case, it's a real good.

"How do you sell this?"

"It's only 20,000 euros. Sir, look at the glaze of this piece, smooth and fat but clear and transparent, with a soft luster and a warm and moist jade......"

Li Yi waved his hand and interrupted his introduction, under normal circumstances, these terms are rather difficult to express in English, but I don't know who translated them for them, it really sounds like a little flavor......

"Fifteen thousand, fifteen thousand, I'll pay right away."

"Fifteen thousand is not good, this one is at least 19,800, sir, this one is really different......"

"Okay, okay, 19800 is 19800, help me wrap it up."

Li Yi turned around and took out a stack of large euros from Gu Feng's bag, counted out 20,000 and handed it to the clerk, and then handed the wrapped elephant ear bottle to Gu Feng with a smile.

"Hold it, it's a really good baby......"

Buying this slightly strange Yuan blue and white dragon pattern elephant ear bottle, Li Yi's mood was very good, in other words, I bought so many pieces today, and finally bought a genuine good thing, otherwise, if you have to be like the previous ones, every piece has a problem, then it will be depressing.

However, it seems that his good luck ends here, not only did this porcelain shop not harvest, but there was nothing eye-catching after visiting two antique shops, and seeing that it was getting late, he had to take Gu Feng back to the hotel.

"Gu Feng, you help me go to the front desk and ask if anyone understands German, and ask them to help me translate all of this."

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

This piece of paper, about a quarter the size of an A4 paper, should have been left for a long time, and the color was slightly yellowish, especially in the corners, and the aging was more serious.

The scraps of paper were densely filled with words and numbers, and there were 11 lines in total. In each line, there is a mixture of words and numbers, in which the words come first, the numbers come last, and there are quite a lot of digits of the numbers, and the strangest thing is that there is a comma in the middle of each string of numbers.

"It seems like a shorthand for a name, but what is it?"

Each line of words begins with a few capital letters, and then is followed by one or more complete words about two or three millimeters apart. Among them, none of the abbreviated letters are the same, but the words that follow them, the repetition rate is quite high, Li Yi compared, and found that in these 11 lines, there are a total of 8 lines of two words in the same line, of which 5 lines are the same, and in the other 3 lines, there are also two lines that are the same.

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

"Brother Yi, someone at the front desk understands German, and he helped me translate. He said he didn't know what the capitalized initials meant, but they could be people's names. In addition, the word translates to Wegelin, the name of a Swiss bank, but it seems to have gone out of business. There is also this Lucerne, Capelna, where Lucerne is a city in central Switzerland, Kapelna has no special meaning, it should be a person's name. ”

"Names? Bank? City? ”

Li Yi copied these two lines, one line is only a few capital letters and a very long word, which is translated as Wegelin. If there is no translation error, the meaning is still very understandable, this should be someone opened an account in this bank called Wegelin, the reason why the numbers are separated by commas, it should be separated from the password.

On the other line, the two words are Lucerne and Capelna, which should also be explained, is a private bank in the city of Kacerne called Capelna, and the numbers after it are also the account number and password.

"There are names, there are bank names, there are account numbers, passwords...... Coupled with the old paper, the bag was produced ......"

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

"I'm rubbing, these can't all be dormant accounts, right? It's not fun now! ”

Swiss banks have a long reputation in the world, and wealthy people around the world almost always think of Switzerland when they think about how to "settle" their wealth, and when a senior government official is accused of taking bribes, people are always accustomed to associating his name with an anonymous account in a Swiss bank.

It was because of this attribute that many persecuted Jews deposited their property in Swiss banks during World War II. According to information disclosed so far, more than 50,000 Jews have opened accounts in Swiss banks, involving up to $6 billion.

Since the end of World War II, there have been countless "dormant accounts" that have not been traded, and there is every reason to believe that the owners of these accounts, including their family members, have died in World War II.

Li Yi suspects that the accounts recorded on this piece of paper are likely to be "dormant accounts" and that they are likely the property of Jews who were persecuted during World War II......

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

"Could it be that the owner of this bag was entrusted to handle it for them? So, who is the owner of this bag? ”

Li Yi rubbed his eyebrows vigorously, staring at the capital letters in front of him that were suspected to be possible initials, and another question rose in his heart.

If these were really Jewish accounts and belonged to 11 different individuals, then the names were not necessary or abbreviated...... So, could this be the secret account of those corrupt officials?

It's impossible, if it's an account of this nature, it's too late to keep it secret, how can 11 people get together?

After thinking for a while, Li Yi turned on the computer and prepared to go online to look up some information about Swiss banks during World War II.

After typing the keywords "World War II, Swiss Bank" into the search directory, he pressed enter, and then his brow furrowed, staring at the message at the top of the queue. (To be continued.) )