When Zhong Huan saw Li Yi picking up half of the waste, he didn't care. He patted the floating ash on his hand, pointed to the piece of green stuff, and asked Zhong Meng:

"Do you solve it yourself or let Xiao Liu help you solve it?"

Zhong Meng and the other two exchanged their eyes, Xu Ziling walked forward and said with a smile:

"I'll do it, I haven't untie the Baotou Green material yet!"

A few minutes later, the sound of the grinding wheel stopped. Xu Ziling's face looked very bad because the material was wiped off!

"Impossible, why can the Baotou Green material not even jade? Zhong Meng, come and take a look, is this material not fake, right?"

The three of them whispered around the material, while Zhong Huan frowned and didn't know what he was thinking. After a while, he walked behind Zhong Meng.

"Show me the material."

Zhong Meng handed the wool to the master, and then the three of them stood silently. Losing that little money was a small matter, but this person lost a lot, especially since Zhong Huan had already made a reminder before, and this time the three of them took the action together.

"Don't move here again. It's better to be a sample in the future. Let's take a look from here. If it fails, just treat it as a lesson."

After almost an hour of struggling in the courtyard, all the wool materials were finally removed. In addition to Baotou Green, the other three wool materials they selected were all ice-like, which also allowed Li Yi to see the strength of the professional stone gambling master. He couldn't help but worry about the upcoming public tour. At that time, don't get nothing!

Recognizing that Li Yi's level is qualified to make friends with them, Zhong Meng and others' relationship with him quickly heated up. In the afternoon, he took him around the company and discussed the cooperation issues on the public market for a long time. In the evening, the person sent to watch the spring auction in Yintong Auction was directly picked up from the airport to the hotel. After a banquet of Hello, I, everyone, Li Yi returned to the room of Renli Seaview.

The preview was attended, Ouyang Chun's problem was solved, and his gambling skills were recognized. The auction will be held one day. Li Yi lay on the bed, what will he do tomorrow?

After thinking for a while, he decided to go to Helihuo Road for a walk because he was not ready to take action except for the white jade cup. But even if he participated in the competition for the white jade cup, he was just a soybean character at 99:9%. Why not pick up a small leak and comfort his heart that was about to be injured in advance?

There are three antique streets in Hong Kong, the most famous of which is Hollywood Road. It was once listed by a foreign magazine as one of the ten most popular tourist attractions in the world.

Holee Road is the earliest street to be built since the opening of Hong Kong. This ancient street is long and curved. To this day, hundreds of antique shops have been opened on both sides! Basically, antique categories that can be named can be seen here, especially ceramics and carvings.

Follow the stairs in front of the Wenwu Temple on the Holihuo Road, you can reach another famous antique distribution center, Moro Street.

Moro Street is located between the west of Queen's Avenue and Holee Road. Since the 1920s, it has been a market for merchandise. Now it is a famous antique street with more than 30 antique shops. The antique categories are mainly jade, bronze, gold, stone, calligraphy and painting.

The Le Ancient Road, located between Holee and Queen's Avenue, was opened in the 1970s. To this day, there are about 60 antique shops and are also a famous antique street.

I don’t know if it was because of the excitement of the preview of the Sotheby’s Spring Auction, or because there were only so many people, Li Yi stood at the intersection of Helihuodao Street, looking at the crowded crowds that seemed to be more crowded than the Panjiayuan freakfast market, and shook his head. It is indeed different to be able to use an antique street as a famous tourist attraction!

The streets of Holihuo Road are not wide, and many businesses have set up stalls at the door of the store, so it is difficult to move them.

Li Yi, who had been touched twice in a row, walked with great caution. Not long after, he lost his patience and decided to find a shop to check it out. If it didn't work, he would go to Moro Street.

At this time, there was a store that mainly deals in ceramics by his side. Seeing that the scale was OK, Li Yi turned around and walked in.

There are many tourists on the street. There are not many customers in the store. Except for Li Yi, there are only three or five people. When you look at the cameras on their chests, you will know that they are tourists.

Li Yi first looked at the layout of the store habitually. This was a rectangular space with a deeper depth but narrower left and right, so there were shelves on one side. There were some old-looking walls hanging on the other side, but you could see that they were calligraphy and paintings that were printed.

The porcelain placed on the container was mainly basins, bowls, plates, and plates, and they were all piled up. It was obvious that they were modern products. Li Yi touched it a few times and found that it was indeed the case. After that, he walked directly to the deepest part of the store.

Starting from this place, the layout of the store began to change. The whole room was more than twice as wide as the one I just entered the store, forming a square space. The shelves also became ancient shelves, and various porcelain shapes began to appear, and some of them looked quite ancient at first glance.

Li Yi first glanced at the shape of the porcelain and found that the things placed on these ancient shelves were regular. Regardless of whether they are real or fake, at least from the perspective of the shape, things from the early Qing Dynasty and the late Qing Dynasty were separated during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. This really created a lot of convenience for customers who really wanted to buy ancient porcelain.

What he first looked at was a Yuan blue and white dragon-patterned elephant ear bottle placed directly on the ground. This was a large item, with a height of about 90 cm, with a diameter of the upper and lower, both of which were more than 20 cm.

The main pattern of this elephant-eared bottle is blue and white dragon pattern, and the theme pattern is a dragon swimming, reflecting the magnificent scene of a divine dragon coming out of the water and wielding the clouds.

Li Yi squatted down and observed the dragon pattern carefully, and a trace of unexpected surprise appeared in his eyes. This porcelain, at least from the dragon pattern, really has the typical characteristics of the dragon pattern in the Yuan Dynasty!

It is almost impossible for antiques placed in such stores to be authentic. Now this elephant ear bottle looks very similar in terms of blue and white hair color and dragon pattern. Now Li Yi's interest is coming.

He first gently touched the surface of the porcelain with his hand, then approached and smelled it. Finally, he tapped it with his knuckles, and then shook his head. The body is of great quality, and this should be a modern refined imitation.

After the result, he gently touched it with his left hand. Sure enough, it was produced by Modern Jingdezhen.

There are several large items next to this elephant-eared bottle. Li Yi finished reading it patiently, shook his head, and started to look at the small pieces of porcelain on the ancient shelf with his hands behind his back.

Because there were no customers in the store, the boss didn't greet them at first. After noticing that Li Yi's actions were a little more meaningful, the boss couldn't sit still.

"Sir, don't know what kind of porcelain you want? Should you decorate or collect?"

"collect."

The boss nodded and smiled:

"There are some modern imitations here, mainly for decoration. If you want to collect them, please come with me.

The boss led Li Yi to the front of a container with a glass door, and introduced while unlocking the lock:

"I mainly use some Qing Dynasty porcelain. These blue and white porcelains and pastels are good. Look slowly. Just call me if you have any questions."

There are not many porcelains in this container, probably only about a dozen pieces, but the blue and white pieces and pastels are indeed more conspicuous. Li Yi glanced at them and picked up a blue and white Ruyi ear flat bottle that is rare in shape.

Not only is this flat bottle slightly different from the flat bottles of all ages, but the patterns on the bottle are completely different from those of the traditional Chinese patterns. Its patterns are actually a group of ever-changing geometric patterns!

I first looked at the color of blue and white hair and found that the color of blue is quiet and even, and the overall color is relatively elegant, but there is still a little dizziness. This characteristic is very similar to the products of the Yongzheng Dynasty.

Looking at the fetal quality, although it is not as delicate as the modern fine products just now, it is also a top-quality one.

After taking a look at the two rows of six-character regular script blue and white styles "Made in the Yongle Year of the Ming Dynasty" at the bottom of the bottle, Li Yi smiled. This should be an export porcelain from the Yongzheng period, also called Clark porcelain.

Clark porcelain is a synonym for the export of blue and white porcelain from Europeans to China in a specific historical period. There is still a past story here.

100 years after Zheng He's voyage to the West, Portugal rose and established a colony in Macau, monopolizing the trade and transportation between the Ming Dynasty and Europe at that time. Later, after the rise of the Dutch, they developed control of East India with Portugal, and both sides often sank or capture each other's ships at sea.

In the early 15th century, the Netherlands captured two large Portuguese sailboats and brought them to the Netherlands. These two sailboats were called Clark by the Dutch, and these two ships happened to be loaded with tens of thousands of blue and white porcelains sold by the Ming Empire. This was the first time in Western Europe that there was such an amazing number of Chinese blue and white porcelains, so Clark porcelain was named after this.

In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, due to war, export porcelain was out of stock. After the economic revival of the Kangxi Dynasty, export porcelain flourished again. Merchants from European countries moved into Yangchenggang and customized a large number of porcelains through government channels. Most of these porcelains were requested by foreigners or directly provided samples, and then batch-fired by Jingdezhen or Dehua Kiln Factory.

This blue and white Ruyi flat pot should be produced by Dehua Kiln during the Yongzheng period.

After verifying with the Spiritual Card, Li Yi picked up another pastel bead box.

The court bead box, as the name suggests, is a box used to hold court beads. Because only civil and military officials who reached a certain level in the Qing Dynasty were qualified to wear court beads, the court bead box was also a valuable item at that time.

There are many materials for the bead box, including wood, tin, bamboo, lacquerware, porcelain, etc. The box shapes are a whole square and a ring-shaped one. Officials must go to a special store to purchase, and ordinary people will not be able to obtain it.
Chapter completed!