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Up to now, there are no more than a dozen complete Chenghua Doucai porcelains in museums and private collections all over the world.

There are very few Chenghua Doucai Chicken Crock Cups.

This cup is an imperial porcelain fired by the Royal Kiln Factory in Chaojing Town, Chenghua, Ming Dynasty.

"Shenzong Veritable Records" during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty recorded "Shenzong's fashionable food, there is a pair of Chenghua colored chicken cups in front of the imperial court, worth [-] yuan."

How much is this "one hundred thousand" figure worth?

In conversion, it is equivalent to the current 52 yuan!

It is said that Zhu Jianshen, Chenghua Emperor of Xianzong, was served by the maid Wanshi (Wan Guifei) as soon as he was born, and a relationship between wife, sister and mother arose from this.

For the favor of Concubine Bowan, Emperor Chenghua ordered the firing of Doucai Chicken Crock Cups in Jingzhen Imperial Kiln.

The pattern on the chicken bowl cup is the portrayal of the "child-mother emotion" between Emperor Chenghua and Concubine Wan Gui.

The biggest feature of the chicken cup is that the outer wall is divided into two groups by peony lake stone and orchid grass lake stone.

A group of painted roosters stand proudly, a female chicken and a chick are pecking at a centipede, and another two chicks are playing and chasing each other;

Another group painted a rooster crowing, a hen and three chicks pecking at a centipede.

The pictures are vivid and interesting, but there are many imitations in later generations.

On April 2014, 4, it broke the world auction record of Chinese porcelain. Since then, I don’t know chicken bowl cups, and I am not a social person!

Let’s go back to the Sanqiu Cup. Nowadays, people only know that the “Chenghua Doucai Chicken Crock Cup” is unique in the world, but they don’t know that the “Sanqiu Cup” hidden in the world is the leader of porcelain and the most important weapon in the country.

The Ming Dynasty Chenghua Doucai Sanqiu Cup can be called the treasure of the Palace Museum and Wanwan Palace Museum!

Wang Qingzheng, the former curator of the Maritime Museum and a well-known porcelain appraisal expert, said bluntly: "If this cup is put on the market for auction, the starting price will be at least 5 million US dollars!"

The granddaughter of Sun Yingzhou, who donated the pair of Sanqiu cups, said that the value of the cultural relic has been estimated by the people, and it is worth at least 10 billion US dollars!

So why is it so expensive?

Although the Chenghua Doucai Sanqiu Cup is one of the many Doucai Cup shapes.

However, its glaze color is blue and gray, and the body is as thin as a cicada's wings. The cup is painted with two groups of doucai mountain stone flower patterns, with flying butterflies in between.

The purple color on the butterfly wings is the famous variegated purple color, which is characterized by a thick and dull color, which is unique to Chenghua fighting colors, and is beyond the reach of later imitations.

Because it depicts the scenery in the courtyard or garden in autumn, and autumn generally lasts for three months, it is called "three autumn cups".

The shape of this cup is light and elegant, the carcass is as thin as a cicada's wings, the color is light and elegant, and the painting is fresh.

In particular, the colorful butterflies flying among the flowers and plants are lifelike and reflect the superb painting skills and artistic accomplishment of the painters.

Looking closely at the whole cup, this Doucai Sanqiu cup is 4.3cm high, 6.8cm in diameter, and 2.6cm in foot diameter.

The mouth of the cup is wide open, the edge of the mouth is not restrained, the belly is deep and oblique, the feet are thin and round, and the edge of the mouth is slightly flared.

There are two underglaze blue and white string patterns on the edge of the outer mouth, and two underglaze blue and white string patterns on the outer wall of the ring foot.

The underglaze blue and white on the outer wall of the Chenghua Doucai cup and the outer wall of the bottom foot outlines two string patterns each.

But this cup is the same as a small cup with sunflower pattern in bucket color unearthed from the Zhushan Imperial Kiln in Jingzhen.

The inside of the cup is plain without decoration, and the outside of the cup is decorated with bucket colors.

The outer wall of underglaze blue and white outlines six butterflies, two bees, three wild chrysanthemums, and three lilies, with rocks, orchid grass, flowers and leaves as the backdrop.

The composition of the whole picture of the Sanqiu Cup is based on underglaze blue and white to outline the flat-coated rocks, wild chrysanthemums, lilies, flower buds, and orchid branches and leaves are the main colors, with light colors and elegant orchids.

Supplemented by overglaze butterflies, bees, and lily leaves.

A butterfly is lingering on three lilies, the underglaze blue and white are eyes, proboscis, and body, and the wings are filled with honey wax yellow and slightly translucent;

The underglaze blue and white single line outlines two butterflies, flying between the two mountains and rocks.

The long kiss appears in underglaze blue and white, the wings are filled with beeswax yellow color, and the body is filled with colorful purple like red iron;

Those who are exquisite, linger around the peony and the three butterflies dancing among the rocks.

The underglaze blue and white show the long snout, eyes, head, and body, and the rest are filled with red iron-like purples;

The visual effects, three colorful butterflies, are eye-catching.

Two underglaze blue and white outlines of a bee with a long snout, eyes and head.

The front half of the body is shown in underglaze blue and white, while the back half of the body is filled with colorful purple, showing a plump and sweet color.

What is even more admirable is that the painter who set the color, the lily leaves stretched out on the rocks, are filled with condensed red colors, corresponding to the colorful purples that are as red as iron, and the colorful ones are also true.

There is no one in the past, and there will be no one in the future. It is unique to the imperial kilns of the Chenghua Dynasty.

Mr. Sun Yingzhou, the donor of this cup, described the colorful purple as: "different color defects when firing", "the colorful purple is thick but dull".

The deceased Mr. Sun left a mystery to future generations. Fortunately, Mr. Sun Yingzhou left the Doucai Sanqiu Cup to the Forbidden City.

The colorful above is the best answer.

Therefore, Mr. Geng Baochang, a disciple of Mr. Sun, gave a very good and accurate interpretation of the color, that is, "the color is like red iron".

All the so-called collectors who are still arguing about what it is to be surprised today will stop arguing after going to the Forbidden City to see the Sanqiu Cup.

The colorful colors on the Doucai Sanqiu Cup are specimens.

Therefore, the "color like red iron" on Chenghua's five colors is "colorful purple".

The drawing and color matching of the Sanqiu cup are unique.

Lilies, wild chrysanthemums, orchids, daylilies and mountain rocks are displayed in large areas with underglaze blue and white flowers

Chenghua blue and white is a domestic material "Pingpingqing", which is grayish blue in color.

The underglaze blue and white flowers of Chenghua Dynasty are in the shape of clouds, and the lily flowers and leaves are filled with condensed red color, and they are connected in series and broken into pieces.

This contrasts with the faint cloud-shaped Youlan Mountain Stone, which is particularly dazzling.

The flying butterflies and bees are filled with colorful purple and honey wax yellow, especially the colorful purple, which is in sharp contrast with the large area of ​​elegant blue, which is more extraordinary, noble and elegant.

The decorative painting lines are precise and delicate, and the butterflies and bees are lifelike and lifelike.

The bees are flying, the butterflies are dancing, the flowers are laughing, the bluegrass is floating, the movement and the stillness are connected, and the rural and wild scenery is on the cup.

"The Book of Songs · Wang Feng · Cai Ge) has a saying that "one day's absence is like three autumns".

Sanqiu originally refers to the three months of autumn or the ninth month of the lunar calendar.

Later, the folks explained it for three years, saying that if you don't see each other in one day, it's like going through three autumns.

In fact, what can best represent "three autumns" is that the wild chrysanthemums and lilies painted on the cup bloom in autumn, so this cup is called "three autumns cup".

The glaze of this cup is blue, plump and moist, and the carcass is fine and crystal clear, exquisite and translucent, and its quality is like beautiful jade.

The carcass is tooth yellow under light perspective.

The narrow ring at the bottom of the bowl where the foot is exposed is light "flint red".

Underglaze blue and white on the bottom of the cup, the six-character inscription "Daming Chenghua Annual System" written in the double frame line is clever and clumsy.

It has a hazy shape as a whole, with glaze bubbles like beads.

The above characteristics make this Chenghua Doucai Sanqiu Cup the best among Chenghua Doucai.