Chapter 378: Choosing Porcelain
Li Yi shook Lu Ningshuang's little hand, which was also slightly sweaty, calmed down his agitated mood, and asked:
"Mr. Dean, can I choose these things myself?"
"Of course, you can choose at will, even including the 243 pieces of bone china, Mr. Li, tell me your answer, I dare to use the reputation of all the ancestors of my Dean family to guarantee that these ancient Chinese porcelain, all of them are genuine."
Li Yi closed his eyes, exhaled a long breath of turbidity, and then said slowly:
"Mr. Dean, I need to take a look at the goods first"
A smile crossed Dean's face,
"No problem, you watch slowly, you can't finish watching today, you can continue to watch tomorrow, you can keep seeing until you are satisfied"
Li Yi nodded, stopped talking, pulled Lu Ningshuang's little hand, and resolutely walked into the treasure room.
In this huge treasure room, the porcelain is arranged very regularly, basically according to the type, among them, the ten shelves in the first row, all of them are various kinds of white porcelain.
White porcelain is one of the four categories of traditional Chinese porcelain, which is made of porcelain blanks with low iron content and fired with pure transparent glaze.
White porcelain has no or only a very small amount of colorant in the glaze, so after firing, it will show a clean plain white.
Li Yi had studied the history of white porcelain when he was training in Tongruibao, so he knew that the earliest white porcelain should have appeared in the Northern Dynasties during the Northern and Southern Dynasties. The white porcelain unearthed from the tomb of Fan Cui in the Northern Qi Dynasty is the earliest white porcelain seen in China so far.
According to the different glazes, white porcelain is divided into sweet white glaze, green and white glaze, ivory white and other varieties, among them, the green and white glaze is the famous shadow blue, and the ivory white is the pure white glaze of the Dai Dehua kiln.
In the history of China, there are two kinds of most famous white porcelain, one is one of the five famous kilns, the Ding kiln white porcelain of the Northern Song Dynasty, and the other is the ivory white of the Dehua kiln of the Ming Dynasty, also known as Huaxia white
But obviously. The white porcelain on this row of shelves could not be these two, and Li Yi never expected it to be these two.
Li Yi first walked slowly along this row of ten shelves, and he found that all the shelves here were some daily utensils.
And. Many of these daily utensils are still the same, and this kind of utensils are generally stacked and placed.
Ancient Chinese porcelain is not a single piece of display, but just like the dishes of ordinary families, they are stacked and placed together. This is the first time Li Yi has seen this kind of scene.
Nima, if you can make a deal this time, Lao Tzu will go home and put it like this
The breath of the nouveau riche was still quietly brewing, and Lu Ningshuang beside him had already begun to raise his own questions,
"These dishes don't look like they're any different from the ones we usually use, but they don't look as good as the ones I use now."
Li Yi couldn't help but smile and glanced in the direction of her finger. Oh, my aunt, that's a big white glazed bowl in the Daoguang period, this quality, there are at least 20,000 on the market, you are sure, your family usually uses this to eat
Lu Ningshuang glanced at him, and the coquettishness in his eyes made him move his index finger for a while, this trip to Bordeaux was really a bumper harvest. Not only did the baby load a basket, but also picked up a daughter-in-law who was so satisfied that she couldn't be more satisfied
Roughly knowing what kind of porcelain there was, Li Yi began to look carefully at one shelf after another.
The first shelves are basically the practical utensils of the folk kilns in the Daoguang and Xianfeng periods in the late Qing Dynasty. This kind of thing, the age is relatively recent, and the output is relatively large, so the amount of inheritance is more, and the price in the antique market has not been very high, and its average price has been maintained between 000 and 20,000 for a long time.
The same is true for the second shelf. Then there is the third shelf, the fourth shelf
Soon, after reading the ten shelves, Li Yi also changed from excitement at the beginning to silence. In his heart, he has also begun to understand, no wonder that old guy is so generous, if this treasure room is full of these tattered goods, let alone 6,000 pieces, even if the more than 10,000 pieces are all given to him, how much can it be worth, and what use can it be
If he really shipped them all back, he would have to worry about how to disperse them all
He was afraid to compare everything, especially since he had just seen dozens of fine products worth tens of thousands of dollars. And now these things are not only far from comparable in terms of the value of a single piece, but also the number is so huge, therefore, in his heart, these ancient Chinese porcelain have been reduced to the point of tatters.
"What's wrong, isn't the thing bad?"
Lu Ningshuang noticed his face and asked quietly.
Li Yi smiled bitterly and nodded,
"The porcelain on these ten shelves all adds up, which is about the price of the two snuff bottles you just saw, do you say the things are good?"
Lu Ningshuang's mouth opened and closed suddenly, although she knew that the things here might not be too good, but it was still a little difficult for her to accept that it could be so bad.
"So what should we do?"
"It's okay, it's less than a tenth, look at it slowly, anyway, things are in our hands, whether we can change it or not, how to change it, it's up to me to decide, what are you afraid of"
Lu Ningshuang rolled her eyes, what she said at this time is good, but your face just now
"Accident, it was definitely an accident"
The second row is also white porcelain, but in these white porcelain, official kiln products began to appear, and seeing this, Li Yi finally let out a long breath of turbidity.
When Dean had just offered the ten-for-one condition, he really hadn't considered the exchange. But when he led them to this treasure room, and told him that he could exchange half of the porcelain for the Bronze Age, he was tempted, and very tempted.
This is related to both the value of antiques and the quantity.
In the treasure room just now, the top ten boutique antiques, according to Dean's quotation, should add up to about 5.5 billion.
But at that price, Dean himself left a lot of room for bargaining when he quoted, and there were a few of them, just like the blue and white flat pot of Ming Yongle, the auction price as a reference price Li Yi did not recognize at all.
However, even if these are eliminated, his ten fine products will add up to more than 400 million. Moreover, this price does not include nearly 100 million overflows from the hibiscus frozen stone carving pen holder that Li Yi saw
And Li Yi's Bronze Age, according to Ma Dashen, has a maximum valuation of more than 100 million US dollars. In this way, he only needs to find ancient porcelain worth more than 2.5 billion yuan from this treasure room. You can make a steady profit without losing money.
According to common sense, 6,623 pieces of ancient porcelain, even if they are not valuable, should be worth 2.5 billion.
Such a deal. There is not only quality, but also quantity, so for Li Yi, it is really a good opportunity, so he opened the conditions at the same time as Dean. Basically, the deal has been approved.
Therefore, when he saw that the nearly 1,000 pieces of ancient porcelain, all of which were unpopular goods, he felt a little difficult to accept and lost his temper.
As the saying goes, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment, and that's what it means.
And at this moment, seeing that there was finally an official kiln porcelain began to appear, he slowly relaxed, and it seemed that this deal was still likely to be successful.
The official kiln porcelain in the second row is also made from the Daoguang and Xianfeng periods. There are almost more than 300 pieces, although they are all practical utensils, but these porcelains have begun to have prints, engravings and some colorful patterns, plus they are official kilns, so the estimate of each piece can already be seen between 3 and 10,000 yuan.
The third row, although it is still dominated by white porcelain, finally appears in other colors, and in white porcelain. They are also mainly ornamental vessels, and even began to appear Yingqing and Dehua kiln products, so far, Li Yi can be regarded as completely relieved.
"It doesn't seem like a big problem. Of these more than 10,000 pieces of porcelain, if you pick them well, you should still be able to make up 6,000 pieces. Xiaolu, if you don't feel bored, if you don't find it boring, you can go to visit the wine cellar first, I will need some time. ”
When Li Yi's face was not good-looking just now. Lu Ningshuang didn't dare to speak much, and when she saw that he had finally eased up, she couldn't help but smile,
"It's okay, I'll accompany you, didn't you say that my luck is invincible, Hmph, I don't believe it, there are more than 10,000 pieces of porcelain here, and there will be no leakage"
Hearing this, Li Yi smiled and touched her little head,
"Just looking at the placement of these porcelain, you know that there are masters who have seen it, and these are all in batches, and it is very difficult to pick up leaks here."
"Is it difficult, if there is difficulty, we have to go up, and if there is no difficulty, we must also go up"
"Okay, then let me take a good look at what kind of good treasures we can find under the invincible luck of our family."
The sixth shelf in the third row, and the last white porcelain shelf, are all placed on top of some study supplies. There are incense burners, pen holders, pen holder mountains, pen washes, and some relatively simple ornamental vessels, and some pen holders and ornamental vessels are also equipped with beautiful patterns and inscriptions, which look quite exquisite
Li Yi touched them all with his hands, one by one, and when he checked to the bottom row, and was about to finish reading them all, his eyes suddenly jumped, and there was something wrong with the pen wash
After looking left and right, Dean was still at the door and did not follow, while Lu Ningshuang had already seen enough of these monotonous white porcelain, and had already gone to the back to look at other beautiful porcelain.
Li Yi turned his body at an angle slightly, blocking the camera, and then picked up the pen wash.
This is a round chrysanthemum printed white porcelain brush wash, from the shape and glaze, there is not much difference from other white porcelain brush washes, and what caught Li Yi's attention is a horizontal drop of glaze like tears.
Porcelain is glazed on the surface of a porcelain blank made of porcelain clay, and then fired at a high temperature in a kiln. Because of the different glazing processes, some coated glaze layers will have a natural flow phenomenon during the sintering process, and after such porcelain is out of the kiln, it will naturally leave some traces, and this trace is the flow glaze.
But under normal circumstances, most of the glaze is longitudinal, and this kind of white porcelain with tear-stained glaze will appear, and in Li Yi's memory, it seems that there is only that kind of porcelain. To be continued.
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