The two of them tangled for a few more minutes, and Li Yi increased the price to 30,000, but Pat only gave the price to 720,000.

It was not a solution to continue like this, so Li Yi made up his mind. Anyway, this painting has been here for so long, so there is no reason why he would be bought by someone else as soon as he saw it. What's more, if he doesn't make a decision, Pat couldn't sell it to others at a lower price, so he decided to just hang it on. If it really doesn't work, wouldn't there be such a guy Luo Guofu?

The plan was decided, and Li Yi stopped bargaining and stood up to say goodbye. Mr. Liu was still waiting for him below.

Seeing Li Yi get up and leave, Pat shrugged his shoulders and looked regretful, but in fact he was not in a hurry at all. Because he almost knew Li Yi's bottom line, and this bottom line was higher than his original expectations. What's more, like Li Yi, he thought of the existence of Luo Guofu, the middleman.

After coming out of the VIP room, Li Yi arranged for Pang Xiang to take the things he had just bought back to the hotel, then took Gu Feng to Mr. Liu's car and drove to Mr. Liu's residence.

"This one is Yuan blue and white, and this one is Doucai Chicken Cup from the Chenghua Period..."

The Yuan blue and white pieces collected by Mr. Liu are a square ornamental bottle with a height of about 15 cm. They look like a graceful lady. The bottle neck is arc-shaped and the belly is slightly bulging. Then they form a symmetrical connection with the bottle neck and are placed at the bottom of the bottle. The whole product line is very beautiful.

This Yuan blue and white porcelain is not only unique in shape, but also the blue and white patterns are not common in Yuan blue and white porcelain, such as dragon patterns, phoenix patterns, and unicorn patterns, but two lions, one big and one small.

This pattern is called Taishi Shaobao, which is a common pattern among ornamental instruments. However, it appears more in porcelain patterns after the mid-Qing Dynasty. It can be seen occasionally on some ornamental instruments in the Ming Dynasty. This is the first time Li Yi has seen it.

In addition, the blue and white color adjustment of this blue and white device presents a light gray-blue color. Moreover, because there is no obvious water dispersion, it does not look like a vivid and fluid feeling of normal blue and white patterns. So Li Yi judged that this is probably a fabricated imitation.

After a brief look at the porcelain quality and some other characteristics of the exposed part of the bottle. Li Yi sentenced the so-called Yuan blue and white porcelain to death in his heart. This should be a blue and white porcelain Taishi Shao’s reserved square bottle from the late Qing Dynasty or the Republic of China period. It is not even a imitation, and it has nothing to do with Yuan blue and white porcelain!

When the spirit-recording card was opened, a faint cool air flowed by. The identification results of the spirit-recording card confirmed Li Yi's guess. This was a blue and white square bottle from the Guangxu period. I don't know who fooled the old man, but he actually thought it was a Yuan blue and white.

Putting the square bottle aside, Li Yi picked up the Doucai Chicken Cowl again. After just taking a few glances, he shook his head gently. This cup should be a copy of the Yongzheng period. Although it also has high collection value, the old man's eyesight...

"Old man, how much did you pay for this square bottle?"

"This one was given to me by a foreign friend of mine a year ago. His grandfather joined the Eight-Nation Alliance that year. This bottle was brought back from China. It is said to be something from the palace. Xiao Li, what do you think?"

Li Yi shook his head with a smile.

"Old Liu, I don't know exactly this one. By the way, you won't give it to him, right?"

"Not this one, I bought it myself. I only spent 1 euros at that time. I looked at it online a while ago, and it scared me. Just such a small cup is worth 280 million yuan?"

"Well……"

Li Yi hesitated for a moment and decided not to say more. However, he had no interest in looking at the rest. As his eyes flashed, he was about to find an opportunity to say goodbye and leave.

"Why? I didn't like both? I also said that in order to show sincerity, I would give the best out of the beginning... Forget it, wait, wait until I take out all the things, let's talk about which one you like!"

"Mr. Liu, you..."

Li Yi reached out to stop him, and saw that the old man was not moved at all, so he had to sit down with a wry smile. It seemed that he was wrong to come this time, because looking at the old man, it seemed that he had already decided that he would definitely exchange.

After a while, Mr. Liu pushed out a storage box from the room. The bottles and jars inside were filled with some porcelain. Then he carried out a small carton with a few scrolls inside. Judging from the appearance, it was a bit history, but I don’t know if it was a thing of old.

"Okay, all my good things are here, so let's not hurry, look at it slowly, there is time!"

Li Yi nodded with a wry smile. It seemed that he had to make the words clear in the end before he could get out of here. However, before that, he was going to help the old man check all these collections so as to save the mischief from happening again.

After reading two pieces of porcelain, he already knew a rough idea, so he decided to look at the scroll first, because the old man said that he had works by Tang Bohu and Ma Yuan, and he didn't know if it was true.

When Li Yi opened the first scroll, he couldn't help but jumped. The style of this painting looked very familiar, and there was a shadow of Li Cheng, a famous painter in the early Song Dynasty in the Five Dynasties!

This work is a vertical silk-painted landscape painting, which paints the scenery of the valley in winter. The peaks stand tall and the waterfalls fly down. There are temples, towers and pavilions built on the hills in the middle. Water pavilions, thatched huts, and banqiaos are built on the waterfront of the mountain. There are activities of travelers.

The mountains and stones in the painting are majestic and beautiful, and the brushwork is solid and powerful. The pavilions and towers on the mountain are all over the eaves, outlined and overlapping, with very few brushstrokes and firm backbones, all of which are the characteristics of Li Cheng's paintings. However, the painting is not signed, and only a seal of the collection of Liang Qingbiao, a famous book collector in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. It is difficult to judge whether it is the original work of Li Cheng for a while.

Li Cheng was a famous landscape artist in the Five Dynasties and the early Song Dynasty. He was known as the "Three Family Dingzhi" and the "Hundred Generations of the Years" and a master figure in the landscape painting exhibition in the Northern Song Dynasty. Famous painters Xu Daoning, Li Zongcheng, Zhai Yuanshen, Guo Xi, Wang Sheng and others all learned from him. There is even a saying in history books that "Xu Daoning got the spirit of success, Li Zongcheng got the shape of Li, and Zhai Yuanshen got the style of success."

There are about 160 paintings recorded by Li Cheng, but to this day, there are only 4 of them that can be confirmed to be their original works, and three of them are all abroad. Only one "Maolin and Far Peak" is stored in the Ningliao Museum. There are more than 100 seals on it. If this is also Li Cheng's original works, its value is not as valuable as Dong Yuan's "Autumn Mountain View" that Li Yi saw before, but it should be less expensive.

People in the world describe Li Cheng's paintings mostly use a comment from Mi Fu, "The light ink is like a dream in the mist, and the stones are like clouds moving." Li Cheng's paintings of mountains and rocks are like scrolling clouds. This painting method is called "crolling clouds" by later generations. This feature is particularly obvious in this painting. In addition, the characteristics of the atmosphere are gloomy, the smoke is clear and vast, the hair is bright and the ink method is subtle, and even if you don't use a spiritual card, Li Yi is 80% sure. This is Li Cheng's work!

But then he frowned slightly. If this painting was really Li Cheng's work, then, would he change it or not? (To be continued.)8

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Chapter completed!