After reading it carefully from beginning to end, Chen Wenzhe had almost concluded that the Sanqiu Cup in his hand should be a genuine Chenghua product.
It is difficult to identify this kind of cup, it is really difficult!
Because you think it is true, many people will tell lies with their eyes open and say it is false.
Because your butt determines your head, why should people speak for you?
However, to say that it is easy to identify, it is really easy.
The Ming Chenghua Doucai Sanqiu Cup is one of the many Doucai cup shapes.
The characteristics are also very obvious. The glaze is green with a hint of gray and is as thin as a cicada's wing. The cup is painted with two groups of colorful mountain stone and flower patterns, with flying butterflies in between.
The purple color applied to the butterfly wings is the famous bright purple color. Its characteristic is that the color is dense and matte, which is unique to Chenghua Doucai and is unmatched by later imitations.
We all know why it is called the "Sanqiu Cup".
Such a picture itself is not easy to copy.
In addition, the firing process is also relatively demanding.
Sanqiu cup, chicken vat cup, grape pattern cup, each cup is the crystallization of three times of calcining, and the cup body has a strong sense of layering.
If you can get your hands on it and touch it, the image on the cup will be clearly concave and convex.
In particular, the combination of doucai and blue and white is very interesting, and it has a unique feel to the touch.
Finally, there is the inscription on the bottom of the Doucai blue and white cup. The writing is thick, the font is fat, and the softness contains strength. It is particularly round, powerful and subtle.
Let’s look at the history of China: Liu Bang, the founder of the Han Dynasty, Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, and Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty.
These wise and accomplished kings drove the vigorous development of history.
At the same time, we also find some emperors who were politically incompetent but had high artistic attainments.
Li Yu of the Southern Tang Dynasty in the Five Dynasties, Huizong of the Northern Song Dynasty, and Xianzong of the Chenghua Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty.
Ming Xianzong Zhu Jianshen was a weak and superstitious emperor who made no political achievements.
However, during the Chenghua period of his reign, the porcelain produced by the Jingzhen Royal Kiln Factory showed remarkable artistic achievements.
Our country has always been a country of feudal centralization. As a Xianzong who loves art, he can use the government as a sponsor and guide of art.
He spared no expense, manpower, or material resources to produce fine porcelain.
Thus, it set a new example in the history of ceramics in our country.
In particular, the use of doucai brings the technique of underglaze color and overglaze color together to present the picture to its extreme.
It can be said that the outlines and touches complement each other.
The fired Doucai porcelain enjoyed the highest praise at that time and in later generations.
Even today, 500 years later, Chenghua Doucai porcelain is still recognized as the most elegant, rare and expensive porcelain.
It's a pity that such precious porcelain is highly prized for inheritance.
For example, a pair of Chenghua doucai Sanqiu cups collected by the Forbidden City in Shendu were purchased by the late patriotic collector Mr. Sun Yingzhou for 20 gold bars in the 1930s.
He donated it to the Palace Museum in Shendu in the 1960s after the founding of New China.
In the Wanwan Palace Museum, there is also a Chenghua Doucai Sanqiu Cup in the same collection.
Currently, only three of them are known to have been found in the world, so one can imagine their rarity.
I don’t know where the one in Chen Wenzhe’s hand came from.
I'm afraid Wu Er doesn't know it either. If he had the origin, he would definitely not send it to Chen Wenzhe.
However, this is definitely a good thing.
A priceless treasure, it must be synonymous with things used by ancient emperors!
There is a saying in the Book of Songs: "In the whole world, is it the land of the king, and on the shore of the land, is it the king's ministers".
Ancient emperors were rich in the world, and their royal possessions were always the most exquisite, precious, and luxurious in the world.
There are only three Chenghua Doucai Sanqiu Cups in the world, and they can even be said to be unique.
If Chen Wenzhe's one is real, can it be paired with the Wanwan one?
This is definitely the leader among porcelains. Even in the Forbidden City, it is considered a priceless treasure and a national treasure.
This is something that truly comes from the royal family. It is made according to the royal standards, sparing no effort and only seeking the effect.
The long construction period, high standards and great difficulty in making one piece are rare. It is only seen once in a thousand years and is very rare!
In order to achieve a better artistic appreciation effect, we also strive for excellence in the selection of blank materials.
Chen Wenzhe could tell that it was made from special kaolin from Jingzhen.
Jingzhen high-grade porcelain clay has been famous all over the world since ancient times. It is non-renewable and cannot be recycled. Nowadays, it has become increasingly scarce due to long-term mining, and every inch of land is valuable.
Special high-grade porcelain clay has a fine white color. After being fired into porcelain, the texture will be white and fine, the white glaze will be soft, and the exterior and interior will be the same.
The Sanqiu cup made of special high-grade porcelain clay does not have the dazzling white color of ordinary cups, but exudes a warm and jade-like luster, and the cup body is light and translucent.
With such a cup, no matter whether you are a porcelain expert or not, you can see the extraordinary quality at a glance.
The Ming Dynasty was the heyday of the development of colored porcelain in my country, and two new varieties, Doucai and Wucai, were created and burned.
Doucai is fresh and elegant, with rich and gorgeous colors, which are responsible for the appearance in the porcelain industry.
There was no blue color in the color materials of the Ming Dynasty. Wherever blue was needed to express the color, blue and white were used instead, which became a unique feature of the times.
The reason why the "Emperor Cup" has such a thin body and smooth glaze is attributed to a special blue and white glaze, Zhuming.
It’s a pearl that most people may have never heard of.
But many people may not know that this art of calcining pearls, which has been included in the intangible cultural heritage list, is now only in the hands of a very small number of people.
Only by using this precious pearl material and combining it with the complex ancient extraction process of picking, calcining and grinding can one be made.
Often the cups in a kiln are full of defects after firing.
The top-quality Sanqiu cup like the one in Chen Wenzhe's hands often has to be fired hundreds of times before he can get one.
In the end, you will get a pair of treasures that are pure blue, neither stagnant nor astringent, and the glaze color naturally flows with ancient charm.
When making doucai porcelain, in order to make it more antique, every small step such as the ratio of glaze to water and the importance of painting techniques are crucial.
Making such a cup starts from the selection of materials, clay refining, proportioning, drawing, painting, and firing...
After more than a hundred complicated and detailed processes, if there is a slight difference in any link, the finished work will be completely different.
For example, the billet repair process alone includes 16 process details.
The thickness difference of each blank must be less than 0.2 mm, and the weight difference must be less than 3 grams.
Only with this almost strict art standard and craftsmanship difficulty can the exquisite charm of Ming Dynasty imperial porcelain be produced.
The firing process is also quite demanding. Both Sanqiu Cup and Chicken Jar Cup need to be fired at least three times to complete.
Even with modern technology and the top craftsmen in the country, it is very rare to have 10% of the finished products in each kiln when firing porcelain of this level.
After these finished products come out of the kiln, each work must pass through the hands of four or five people and be carefully selected one by one before it is considered qualified.
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