This time Chen Wenzhe was really shocked. Every piece of Chenghua Doucai porcelain is a national treasure, and this is a Doucai Sanqiu Cup.
However, there are only three clear records now, so where did this one come from?
"You'd better authenticate it first. Even Wu Er and the others don't know if it's true."
Li Jinli said with a smile. He couldn't help but laugh. After all, the Sanqiu Cup was so famous in the industry.
Even if Wu Er and a group of professionals obtained such an important weapon, they would still feel guilty.
Although it feels real and the appraisal cannot find any flaws, it is difficult to confirm that it is genuine.
Of course this is difficult because this thing is so expensive.
Everyone knows about the Chenghua Doucai Chicken Cup, which costs 280 million.
Ming Chenghua blue and white okra cup, rare in the world, was sold for 140 million in 3 minutes.
Ming Dynasty Chenghua doucai cup with grape pattern, cherished by the Sony family of Kangxi's auxiliary minister, estimated at 300 million yuan.
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The Xuande dragon-patterned goblet of the Ming Dynasty witnessed the glory of Xuanyao. It was auctioned off at a high price 5 years ago.
The last Doucai Sanqiu Cup, although it has never entered the auction house, is now valued at one billion US dollars.
Even if there is some exaggeration, if it sells for 100 or 200 million US dollars, it will be snapped up by others.
It is very troublesome to identify such porcelain. Unless you are confident, you can directly send it for a photo to get the identification result.
"Bright red as bright as blood, apricot yellow with reddish shimmer, aqua green, leaf green, mountain green, etc. are all transparent..."
This is the color charm of doucai. If you want to imitate chemical doucai ware, these glaze colors are indispensable.
The most popular thing is that this kind of porcelain is fired with special high-grade porcelain clay. After the porcelain is made, the texture is white and delicate, the white glaze is soft, and the surface and the inside are the same.
If you look closely, you will see that this set of cups exudes a warm and jade-like luster, full of charm, and is by no means the dazzling white color.
After thinking for a while, Chen Wenzhe made a pot of tea directly.
I drank a bowl of tea from the chicken cup I got at auction.
Chen Wenzhe is no less willing to give in. He also needs to give it a try.
Sure enough, the effect is very good.
Because the cup body is light and translucent, injecting tea soup will make the tea color more obvious.
Carefully playing with the thin cup in his hand, Chen Wenzhe observed the glaze color on it.
There is a reason why the cup has a thin glaze.
It can also be seen from here that the porcelain produced by the official kilns back then was made with great care.
Chen Wenzhe knew that this was made of domestically produced green material, because this beautiful glaze color comes from a special blue and white glaze - Zhuming material.
It should be beyond some people's expectation that such precious Nanyun pearls can be used to make such exquisite Sanqiu cups.
Whether now or in the past, there are always some people who believe that the moon abroad is round.
And this Sanqiu cup can prove that sometimes the moon in China is rounder.
Domestic pearl materials, combined with complex ancient extraction processes, picking, calcining, grinding...
After hundreds of mixing experiments and the use of a gas kiln with stable firing effects, we achieved the ancient style of pure blue, neither stagnant nor astringent, and the glaze color flowing naturally.
The glaze color of the porcelain cup is so unique, elegant, full and smart.
Especially the ancient charm on it, which is more than just a charm given by time.
In order to make doucai porcelain more antique, every small step such as the ratio of glaze to water and the importance of painting techniques are very important.
Overall, this Sanqiu cup is 3.9cm high, 6.9cm in diameter, and 2.6cm in foot diameter.
Its mouth is slightly outward, its belly is deeply curved, its proximal foot is introverted, and its feet are shallowly rounded.
Except for the exposed soles of the feet, the inside of the body is covered with glaze.
The outer wall uses blue and white to outline two groups of rocks, flowers and grass, and two groups of eight butterflies in total, set against the rocks, flowers and grass.
One of the smallest groups of butterflies is painted in blue and white.
For the other three groups of larger butterflies, the outline of the butterflies was first outlined with blue and white under the glaze, then red, yellow, and purple colors were filled in on the glaze respectively, and dots of red were added on both sides of the stem of an autumn grass.
A double-line square frame is outlined in blue and white within the shallow circle foot, and the six-character "Da Ming Chenghua Annual System" is written in vertical double-line blue and white regular script inside the square frame.
The shape of this cup evolved from the famous "pressing hand cup" of Yongle Dynasty porcelain. It looks like an inverted horse's hoof. It is small, exquisite and very cute.
Its tire wall is as thin as an eggshell, and the patterns and colors of the outer wall can be faintly seen from the inner wall.
The glaze is bright and moist, and the accumulated glaze emits a blue color like lake water.
The fetus is solid and dense, and the exposed part of the sole of the foot has a "humi bottom" like fried beige.
The blue and white hair color is elegant and pure, with a few crystal spots in the accumulation areas.
The red color is as rich and bright as pigeon's blood, the yellow color is as delicate as chicken fat, and the purple color is as matte as frosted purple.
It corresponds to Mr. Sun Yingzhou’s appraisal formula: “colorful, bright red, purple but dull”.
Hold the cup in the palm of your hand with a slightly farther distance. This will look very reasonable when you look at the entire picture layout of the cup.
The overall picture is dense and dense, and the seemingly immature painting style reveals the sophisticated and superb skills.
Turn it slightly, and a beautiful and moving autumn scene will appear vividly on the cup, as if it is ready to come out, making people unable to put it down.
Of course, this is the overall effect. If you want to imitate such an exquisite cup, you must pay attention to the details.
If you look at the details, the composition of this cup should not look simple, but it is really not simple to make it so casual.
Especially when making pictures, I used light outline and heavy color.
During this period, a large number of traditional painting techniques such as dotting, painting, flattening, and rubbing were used.
Although the technique is a bit complicated, the overall style is simple and clean.
This not only retains the essence and style of the original blue and white cup, but also makes the whole picture rich in layers.
Even people who don't know anything about porcelain can see the ingenuity at a glance.
It can be said that this cup can be regarded as a masterpiece in terms of materials, color, pattern, enamel, fineness, and craftsmanship difficulty.
When the underglaze blue and white is combined with the overglaze five colors, it not only maintains the beautiful and elegant characteristics of the blue and white, but also adds rich and gorgeous tones, which set off each other and are gorgeous.
Such a cup with exquisite craftsmanship and exquisite shape, even if it is a modern imitation, will definitely be priceless.