According to the statistics of the Chinese Cultural Relics Society, since the Opium War in 1840, more than 10 million Chinese cultural relics have been lost to Europe, America, Japan and Southeast Asia and other countries and regions, and Japan alone has more than 3.6 million pieces. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Many of these Chinese cultural relics lost to Japan are unique and unique, including two extremely precious bronzes, one is a tiger cannibal in the late Shang Dynasty, and the other is a hunting bronze mirror currently in the collection of the Eiei Bunko in Japan.

The Eisei Bunko was established by Hosokawa Goritsu, a Japanese marquis, a former member of the House of Nobles, and the 16th head of the Hosokawa family, in order to better preserve the cultural heritage of the Hosokawa family since the Edo period, including some of the Hosokawa family's precious collections.

Today, there are eight national treasures in the collection, and dozens of other important cultural properties, including the hunting bronze mirror that was lost from China in the twenties and thirties of the last century.

For a long period of time, although people know the legend of the Yellow Emperor's mirror, and there are also relevant classical documents, in fact, the vast majority of archaeologists still attribute the appearance of the Chinese bronze mirror to the Han Dynasty.

However, since the 20s of the last century, with the continuous theft and excavation of the Zhou Dynasty tomb near Yangluojin Village, a number of Jincun bronze mirrors such as hunting pattern mirrors with gold and silver wrong technology have appeared in front of everyone for the first time, thus pushing the time of the appearance of Huaxia bronze mirrors forward by hundreds of years.

The hunting pattern bronze mirror in the collection of Yongqing Library was unearthed from the Eastern Zhou Dynasty tomb near Yangluo, Huaxia, and it is also the only bronze mirror in that batch of bronze mirrors to decorate the image of the figure, which has extremely important research value in archaeology and cultural history.

The bronze mirror brought by Okita is actually a hunting pattern bronze mirror, not only does it also use the craftsmanship of gold and silver mistakes, but also its mirror painting composition is almost exactly the same as the hunting pattern bronze mirror in the collection of the Eisei Library!

When he first saw this bronze mirror, Li Yi even suspected that this was the hunting pattern bronze mirror in the collection of Yongqing Library, but this guess was a bit too unreliable, so in the end he could only judge that this might be an ancient imitation.

It's just that the bronze mirror is covered in thick bulletproof glass, and he can only take a cursory look, and it is impossible to even get started, let alone use the spirit card to verify its authenticity.

Guessing that this bronze mirror might be precious, Li Yi shifted his attention to the blue-glazed pastel peach tree pattern bottle on the side.

Pastel porcelain, in addition to enamel color, is another kind of colored porcelain created by the Qing court, and has a very important position in the history of Chinese porcelain. It's just that in the Kangxi and Yongzheng dynasties, pastels were painted and colored on white porcelain fired at high temperatures, and it was not until the Qianlong Dynasty that the coloring pastels completed on yellow, green, red, pink, blue and other colors appeared.

At present, the number of hand-me-down masterpieces of this kind of color and ground pastel in the Qianlong Dynasty is extremely rare, and almost every one of them can be called a national treasure, and Li Yi has never encountered it before, so he did not take this blue glazed pastel peach tree pattern vase too seriously at first.

But after looking at the hunting pattern bronze mirror, he was a little uneasy, if these two pieces of preciousness are comparable, this is likely to be a Qianlong Dynasty color ground pastel porcelain!

A picture flashed through his mind, which was the first precious porcelain he had picked up when he had just obtained the spirit identification card, a pair of coral red ground pastel flowered peony bowls from the Daoguang period.

The Daoguang period was worth nearly 10 million, if this piece was really from the Qianlong Dynasty, how much should it be worth?

"Mr. Okita, may I ask you, are you going to sell both of them?"

Just like Li Yi would pay attention to Okita, as Okita who brought two Chinese antiques to the salon, he also paid special attention to the only Chinese person in the field, so when Li Yi observed these two antiques, he squeezed out of the crowd and waited aside.

"Yes, some of the collections from this Biennale will be sold."

"That'...... Can you take it out and take a look? ”

Okita nodded, these 15 treasures here can be used, but not now, but until the salon starts later, these treasures will be taken out one by one for everyone to taste.

"Oh, can I ask first? How much does this piece cost? ”

Li Yi pointed to the hunting pattern bronze mirror and asked, although it was impossible to determine the authenticity, but from the price, some clues should be seen.

"This one, 3 million euros, and the blue-glazed pastel peach tree pattern vase, 20 million euros."

Li Yi gasped, the price was ...... However, if the age of the hunting pattern bronze mirror is similar to that of the Yongqing Library, this price is really not expensive, but the pastel bottle is a bit outrageous, even if it is a treasure of the Qianlong Dynasty, he estimated that it would be 50 million soft sister coins to the sky, and as a result, it shouted to 160 million, which is sure that those patriotic Chinese businessmen will definitely buy it?

"Mr. Li, in the Tokyo National Museum, there is a national treasure-level collection, which is almost exactly the same as this pastel vase, so this price is not only not expensive, but too cheap."

Li Yi nodded noncommittally, glanced at the two antiques twice, said hello to Okita, and walked to a booth next to him.

On this booth, there are also ornaments on display, and they are also complete sets of ornaments. It's just that compared with the autumn leaf necklace with a novel style, but I don't know how to wear it, the style of this set of jewelry is relatively normal, the ring and earrings are inlaid with turquoise jadeite, and some of the gems inlaid on the necklace and bracelet are also full green jadeite made of glass material.

Imagining the feeling of wearing this set of jewelry on Lu Ningshuang's body, Li Yi shook his head slightly, and was about to leave, when he suddenly seemed to remember something, and turned his head to stare at the oval ring on the ring twice, and just now he looked away, this thing is not jade, but Dushan jade!

"Hai Jui. Winston? Sure enough......"

Li Yi immediately remembered the transaction a year ago, it seems that this is Hai Rui. Winston has launched a new material ornament.

Unlike the two antiques just now, this set of jewelry has a price, Li Yi just glanced at it, and shook his head with a wry smile. 6 million, just inlaid with some broken diamonds, broken gemstone particles of jewelry actually priced at 6 million euros, these so-called luxury brands, is really black enough.

"Think it's expensive? No, the price is normal! ”

I don't know when, Shi Qiba has already come to Li Yi's side, and the crowd that had just gathered next to the jewelry of Van Cleef & Arpels also dispersed, some of them were still browsing other exhibits, and the other part went to the reception area.

"Every piece of jewelry on display here is the work of a master, and each look is produced only once, so it can be said that it is truly unique."

Li Yi pursed his lips, being unique is not worth the price!

Shi Qiba helplessly spread his hands, this is a problem of consumption concept, no way, the value of this level of jewelry can not be measured by raw materials at all, many times, to be able to have a top luxury brand well-designed unique jewelry is a symbol of status.

Just like the autumn leaf necklace that their company took out this time, although it is not very practical, although the diamonds set on it do not exceed 5 carats, but the price tag is 1.5 million euros and there are still people rushing to buy it, they are interested in the brand Van Cleef & Arpels and the name of Dennis, the master designer.

"Li, if your master is willing to make a signed jewelry, even if it is the most ordinary gold, I think it should be worth no less than 1 million euros, this is the power of a top master."

When he said this, Li Yi understood a little, in a word, that is, the people who consumed these jewels did not live in the same world as the people he had contacted in the past, and these people did not only have money and power, but also seemed to have something more important.

"Something more important?"

Li Yi silently lowered his head and pondered for a moment, a vague thought rose from the bottom of his heart, and he seemed to have a faint longing......

"Well, you see, these watches, not even a single diamond, but they cost more than 3 million euros because they are Patek Philippe, because they are the work of Patek Philippe's legendary watchmaker Haussmann."

Well, Li Yi nodded, Patek Philippe can't explain this thing at all, let alone the work of a legendary watchmaker, just an ordinary 5002 series watch, the price is close to 2 million euros, so it seems that these two watches are still a little cheap!

After a delay for a while, the people who participated in the salon were basically all there, Li Yi roughly counted, there should be more than 50 people, in addition to the staff of the dozen or so exhibitors participating in the exhibition, there are almost 30 potential customers, considering that the exhibits are basically some expensive and unreasonable things, it is already very difficult to have this number of people.

"That person, did you see that person? He's Bernard. Arnott's son, Bernard Jr., a well-known young talent in Paris, is also one of the most likely buyers of the ruby you sold us. ”

"Oh."

Li Yi sighed indifferently, although the jewelry processed from that ruby is likely to be a sky-high price, there will never be a shortage of rich people in this world who can afford those sky-high prices. It's like him, if the bronze mirror he just saw is really a product of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, let alone 3 million, even if it is more expensive, he will make a move.

Seeing that Li Yi seemed indifferent, Shi Qiba laughed dryly,

"Louis Vuitton, Dior, and Givenchy, these are all brands owned by the Arnault family......"

"I wipe ......"

Li Yi stood stiff for a moment before slowly exhaling a breath of turbidity, he now remembered that this guy's son, Bernard. Arnott, who seems to be at the top of the Forbes list of the world's richest people, is worth more than $40 billion......

Shi Qiba looked at Li Yi's expression with satisfaction, shrugged his shoulders,

"Alright, now we can ask that old fellow Moder to open the cabinet and take out the exhibits, do you want to see the porcelain or the bronze mirror first?"

"Bronze mirror, I'm more curious about what dynasty that bronze mirror is."

Shi Qiba nodded, led Li Yi to find Moder, and asked to take out the bronze mirror to view, of course, other interested people can also watch and discuss with them.

Moder first asked Okita for his opinion, and then designated an area for Li Yi and them to wait there, and he loudly announced that someone was going to take out the bronze mirror to look at it, and before long, three or four people who were also interested in the bronze mirror sat down next to Li Yi.

"As a merchant, I like this way, but it's a bit disadvantageous for you buyers."

Shi Qiba greeted them with a smile, and then whispered to Li Yi:

"This is actually a small secret bidding, but it is not the same as ordinary bidding, because even if you bid the highest, the exhibitors may not reach a direct agreement with you, they will often increase the price you offer a little more, as the bid price to participate in the exhibition, if someone at the exhibition bids that price, this thing will no longer belong to you......"

"Huh?"

Li Yi couldn't help but gasp, just finished quoting the price in Okita, he has been thinking about whether he can still negotiate the price if he wants to buy it, now it seems that not only can he not cut it, but the range of the price increase is difficult to grasp, this Nima is too pitiful, right?

"What if no one bids?"

"If no one bids, it means that the price of the thing is high, and it will be moderately lowered at the beginning of the show, but you don't know if anyone will bid privately to the exhibitor, and if the price meets the exhibitor's psychological expectations, they may sell directly...... So, Lee, it's going to be complicated. ”

Li Yi rubbed his forehead vigorously, he understood what Shi Qiba meant, that is to say, if you don't make a bid and wait to go to the exhibition to get it at the marked price, this choice is also risky, because the thing you fancy may be directly sold at the salon, so even if it appears at the exhibition, it will become a non-sale item......

"How could those buyers possibly agree to you playing like that? Isn't this a pit man? ”

Shi Qiba shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands,

"Because if you don't do that, these things will be labeled as not for sale at the exhibition, so that even if you like it, you can't have it, and if you have to buy it, you can only send it to our door and let us slaughter it......"

"I'll rub!"

Li Yi scolded secretly, and a wry smile appeared on his face. Now, he would rather not come to this salon and not see these two things, so that he doesn't have to be so embarrassed.

Okita put the bronze mirror on the coffee table in the middle of the sofa, and a few people were polite, and Li Yi reached out and picked up the bronze mirror.

An extremely cold current flowed through, and the spirit card gave the identification results, and this hunting bronze mirror decorated with a knight fighting tiger picture on the back was really a product of the Warring States Period!

Gently stroking the simple and delicate ornamentation on the bronze mirror, Li Yi's heart swelled with a monstrous wave, this kind of bronze mirror with character ornamentation, the earliest age of the current domestic collection, is a hunting pattern bronze mirror unearthed from the tomb of the Qin Dynasty, and this bronze mirror, but it is qualified to compete with the hunting pattern bronze mirror collected in the Yongqing Library!

Damn, just shoot it at a sky-high price! (To be continued.) )