Treasure Hunting Divine Eyes Chapter 253

  Chapter 253 The most expensive porcelain ever auctioned

  On the sixth day of the lunar month, the weather in Kyoto began to become gloomy again, with cold air blowing, and the weather forecast said that there would be light to moderate snowfall. It was near noon when Li Mo wandered towards Beijing University. On the campus, he saw that some students had already returned to school, but depending on the situation, they should be couples or something. They walked in the cold wind holding hands.

  Hands are cold, but heart is hot.

   "Is that the Eight Crowns?"

   "It looks very similar, it should be him."

  Li Mo heard someone talking about him, so he quickly put on his down jacket and hat, and left at a faster speed.

  Zhu Changping's hot pot has been set up at home. There are more than a dozen kinds of meat and vegetables. The bottom of the pot is a big stick of bone mushroom soup. If you like spicy food, you can make it yourself.

   "Teacher, this pot has enough ingredients, and it has been boiled for at least six hours."

  Li Mo made some soup to drink first, and the warm current rose from his stomach in one gulp.

   "It's been stewed since last night, and the bone marrow in the big bone is stewed into the soup. There are still more than ten days left for school, why did you return so early?"

   "It's something important, but I didn't expect the weather in Kyoto to be so cold." Li Mo started to scald the mutton roll, brushed it in the boiling soup a few times, dipped it in sesame sauce, and swallowed it in one bite. The taste was really refreshing.

"The weather in Kyoto is like this. It's still very cold now. Maybe the temperature will rise in a few more days. Brother Daxia, I heard that you found several antiques a few years ago. What do you think about my qualifications? If I can If so, can I ask you to be my teacher?"

  Cai Cai said casually while gnawing on the big stick bone.

"At your level, you can't even learn well in your own studies, and you still want to worship Mr. Li as a teacher? Go to review after eating, and don't think about those things that don't make sense." Zhu Mingcheng stared, and the child was doing something. It's becoming more and more incoherent.

   "Your father is right, you should learn the knowledge well first, and it will be great to be able to learn grandpa's skills three or four times in the future."

  Cai Cai pouted and said, "That's all I said, do you really think that anyone can learn the skills of Brother Daxia?"

"Actually, the appraising skill of our lineage is actually quite easy if you say it is easy. If you say it is difficult, it is harder than reaching the sky. It is easy because you can rely on this unique skill to support your family. Because so far, I have barely mastered two of the three great treasure-appreciating tricks handed down by my patriarch, and I haven't mastered the other one at all."

   "Using what my master said, this kind of stunt does not rely on understanding."

Zhu Changping agreed with his words, lightly touched his son Zhu Mingcheng and said, "I have known your master for many years, and he still has the ability to appraise treasures, but he is not as superb as you. Your master also sighed and said I am afraid that the unique skill of the old ancestor will be lost in his hands, but he never expected to teach such a powerful apprentice like you."

  Li Mo doesn't drink alcohol, and he drinks fruit juice with Cai Cai. Halfway through the hot pot meal, his already hot face begins to sweat.

   Beep ring, beep ring. . .

  Li Mo put down his chopsticks to connect to the phone, and San Pang's voice came from inside, and said anxiously: "Young Master Li, where are you?"

   "I'm cooking hot pot at the teacher's house, what's the matter?"

   "Come to China World Financial Building, here is the most expensive porcelain auction in history. It spreads among the people in the circle, and everyone wants to see it like crazy."

  The most expensive piece of porcelain in history?

  Li Mo kept recalling in his mind, and finally asked a little suspiciously: "You are talking about Qing Qianlong famille rose hollowed-out revolving heart bottle?"

   "I haven't seen it yet, but I heard rumors in the circle. The specific situation will not be known until the scene of the China World Trade Financial Building. Are you going?"

   "Go, you send me the address."

   More than ten seconds later, Li Mo received an address navigation text message, about forty minutes away from here.

   "Xiao Mo, what did you just mention about the Qing Qianlong powder enamel hollowed-out heart-shaped vase?"

   "I don't know the details, I'll go and have a look after dinner, and I'll talk to you in detail later.

When Li Mo rushed to the China World Financial Building, he saw Sanpang standing beside the car smoking a cigarette. He obviously lost a lot of weight. I don't know if he lost weight because of exercising or because he was too tired day and night. of.

   "Why are you alone?"

Niu Sanpang knew who he was asking, threw away the cigarette **** and stomped on it and said, "Jiaxin hasn't come back from the magic capital for the Spring Festival. Let me tell you, that porcelain is really the Qianlong hollowed out heart that you mentioned on the phone. Bottle. Good guy, I don't know which expert actually exhibited it in public?”

   "Go in and have a look and you'll know."

   When the two entered the building, they saw a signboard directing them to a business hall on the eighth floor.

   "Young Master Li, look at those people, they are all upstarts on the Internet. If they also came for the Qianlong hollowed-out revolving heart bottle, it would be a bit interesting, and maybe it will trigger an unprecedented battle between dragons and tigers."

  Li Mo also felt that those people looked a little familiar, but he didn't ask carefully who it was.

   Arrived on the eighth floor, as soon as I got out of the elevator, I saw many people standing in the corridor. Judging from their clothes, they were all bodyguards.

   "Two gentlemen, do you have an electronic invitation letter?"

  A tall man stopped them, his accent sounded weird, he didn't look like a Chinese.

  Niu Sanpang took out his mobile phone, looked at him and said, "Two people."

   "Two, please come in."

   "Is it an islander from the East China Sea?" Niu Sanpang asked uncertainly.

   "It's kind of like, maybe the owner of the turning bottle is an islander."

  Push the door and walk into the business hall. There are already more than 30 people inside. They form a huge circle and look carefully at the beautiful pastel porcelain in the middle.

   Li Mo looked at it at a glance, and the one displayed was indeed the shape of the Qianlong pastel hollowed-out rotating heart bottle. It is protected by a huge special glass cover, and there are four sturdy security guards standing in four directions to prevent anyone from approaching.

   "It's so beautiful." Sanpang let out a voice of admiration, and he asked in a low voice, "Li Shao, tell me about this revolving bottle."

"I've also read in books that the Qing Dynasty Qianlong powder enamel hollowed-out heart-shaped vase is the most expensive porcelain ever auctioned, and it ranks first in the list of Chinese artworks. Counting the time, it was in Bainbridge, England eleven years ago. So far, there has been no auction price for any porcelain that has surpassed the record at the auction."

  Li Mo remembers that the auction price reached 550 million yuan.

   Now that eleven years have passed, if this porcelain goes to auction again, I don't know how much it will skyrocket.

"Three Fatty, I think the owner of this porcelain wants to sell it, otherwise it would not be exhibited here. You must know that only Chinese people understand the true artistic value of Chinese porcelain, and the price of a ceiling is also very high. easy."

  Li Mo looked up and looked around. Sure enough, there were several high-definition cameras pointing at this place above his head. There were four bodyguards in the light, and there might be more bodyguards hidden in the dark. The owner of the porcelain must have a perfect plan to go to the public exhibition here, and he is not afraid of anyone who dares to make trouble.

   "Li Shao, can such a thing be worth 550 million?"

"That was the price ten years ago." Li Mo reminded him, and then continued, "The heart-spinning vase is a rare treasure of Chinese ceramic art. Various patterns. The body of the bottle is composed of the inner bottle, the outer bottle, and the base, which are fired separately."

"The upper part of the inner bottle is an exposed bottle mouth. The body of the bottle is like a cylinder. There are decorative paintings on it, including scenery of the four seasons, landscape figures, flowers, birds, insects and fish. When moving the inner bottle, you can see different pictures through the holes in the outer bottle. , like a revolving lantern."

"In the National Museum, there is also a Qing Qianlong pastel hollowed-out revolving vase, but that one is red glaze plus celadon, which is on-glaze color. The revolving vase in front of me is yellow glaze plus celadon, two revolving vases The patterns and cutouts on the surface are different.”

The pastel hollowed heart-shaped vase in front of me is also called the hollowed-out 'Jiqing Youyu' heart-shaped vase. This bottle is an imperial vase made by an official kiln in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. It is about 40 cm high, 12 cm in diameter, and 13 cm in bottom diameter. The body is well-proportioned, the color is full and elegant, and the carp pattern on the bottle body is lifelike. With the hollow water ripple carving design, it looks grand and rich, and it just reflects the auspicious meaning contained in the red "auspicious" character on the bottle neck.

Take a closer look at the blue and white paintings on the inside, foreign colors, enamel colors, pastel colors on the outside, and various techniques such as gold painting, hollowing out, heart turning, embossing, shallow engraving, etc., which are extremely luxurious and breathtaking, and belong to the pinnacle of porcelain in the three dynasties of the Qing Dynasty. .

   No wonder the sky-high price of 550 million yuan was achieved more than ten years ago, and no one has surpassed it so far.

  Seeing this, a ray of golden light flashed in the depths of Li Mo's pupils, and the eyes of different pupils covered the heart-changing bottle inside the special glass cover.

   A milky white halo was emitted from the body of the revolving bottle, spreading out thirty or forty circles of light.

  Li Mo thought there was something wrong with his eyes, so he looked at it again, and finally confirmed that the revolving bottle in front of him was not an authentic Qianlong product of the Qing Dynasty at all, but a modern high-quality imitation.

  It is the kind of high imitation that is enough to be fake.

Li Mo frowned, thought for a while and looked through the eyes again, scanning from the outer bottle to the inner bottle, carefully looking at it inch by inch, and finally found four tiny characters 'eight' on a hard-to-see inner wall at the bottom of the inner bottle Eight Years Autumn'.

  This time, I can say with certainty that the pastel hollowed-out revolving bottle in front of me was fired in the autumn of 1988. This kind of superb level of imitation made him suddenly think of the Nine Fingers gang who had already been punished, and the high-quality imitations they made were enough to be fake.

   "Three Fatty, you know a lot of people, go find out the origin of this Qianlong pastel hollowed-out heart-shaped vase, and see if it is from the island country?"

   "Okay, I'll ask." San Pang squeezed out of the crowd, and Li Mo continued to watch from here. The surroundings were bustling with people constantly exchanging comments.

  Li Mo sighed secretly. When he was about to go out, he happened to see Li Jiayu walking towards this side with a few sons and brothers smiling.

  The two looked at each other, Li Jiayu didn't change at all, he was still chatting and laughing with the son beside him, but Li Mo began to wonder if this was another trap set by Li Jiayu.

He stood in the corridor at the door and waited for less than ten minutes, when he saw Niu Sanpang come out and said, "Young Master Li, I really found out some news. The Qing Qianlong powder enamel hollowed-out revolving heart bottle is indeed an islander from there. He brought it here, and he plans to exhibit it here for a week, and then prepare to auction it on the spot."

   "Since there is going to be an on-site auction, what evidence does this revolving bottle have to prove that it is real?"

"There are auction records and archives information provided by the British auction house in the past, and there are also carbon-14 test results issued by domestic authoritative institutions. I heard that several experts from Kyoto were invited to jointly appraise them, and they all took videos as a guarantee. Li Shao, Are you interested in that revolving bottle?"

How is this going? He looked at it very carefully just now, and didn't see any seams on the entire bottle body, that is, it couldn't be old and new porcelain, but the domestic authoritative organization's carbon fourteen test results proved that it was genuine.

   There are also many expert joint appraisals. Since the video was taken, it means that those people are really experts in porcelain appraisal. If they are famous, they will not smash their reputation and make a fake appraisal result.

   This thing is weird.

   "Let's go."

   Li Mo walked outside with his hands behind his back.

   "That is really a treasure, Young Master Li, are you not tempted?"

"I can't afford it if I'm tempted, unless I sell one of the top collectibles in my hand." When he got outside, Li Mo whispered, "San Fatty, you send someone to keep an eye on the movement here. I just made a preliminary appraisal just now. Understand."

   This is a code word in the antique shop. If you don't understand it, it means that he is not sure that this porcelain is genuine. There are suspicious points on it, which cannot be seen through or explained clearly.

  Niu Sanpang knew something about this industry anyway, and was stunned when he heard what he said. Who is Li Mo? He has golden eyes. He can find top-level treasures in the gravel. In his eyes, there is no porcelain that cannot be identified.

  Today is the first time I heard him say that, saying that he didn't understand it, but he was actually telling him in a disguised form that the Qing Qianlong famille rose hollowed-out revolving heart vase was probably a fake.

   "Young Master Li, did you really take a good look just now?"

   "What do you think, anyway, I really didn't understand it. As for other people, I don't know. Maybe my level is not up to the mark. By the way, where are you going now?"

Niu Sanpang stood on the spot and thought for a while, then trotted to Li Mo and said, "Young Master Li, that thing was brought over by an islander, if it is really auctioned off by him as a genuine product, then our countryman's loss will be real." It's very serious."

   Li Mo turned to look at him and asked, "What do you want to do?"

   "At least expose it."

   "So how do you prove it's a fake?"

   "I don't have the ability, but you have it." Niu Sanpang said it as a matter of course, as if Li Mo should come forward and say that it is a lie, and the world can be settled with one word.

  Li Mo shook his head, he felt that there was a layer of fog behind this matter.

   "Three Fatty, I didn't say anything, and you don't want to talk nonsense in front of outsiders. You don't want to get involved with this matter, just stay away from it."

   Seeing his serious tone, Niu Sanpang became serious.

   "I'll send someone to watch secretly."

   Li Mo twisted his waist in the square, stretched his chest and said: "Why don't we both go to the hot springs now, it's comfortable to sweat in such a cold day."

   "That's exactly what I mean, let's go, I'm treating you today."

  (end of this chapter)

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