Zhang Qiwei actually felt the same as Luo Tian. This Liao Chuqing didn't look like an ordinary person. Luo Tian shook his head: "I'm not sure about this. This is her personal privacy."
"I have a feeling that she will come again:" Zhang Qiwei said: "Maybe we can wait and see."
Luo Tian nodded. Coincidentally, he also felt this way. During Luo Tian's absence, a lot of inventory was accumulated for him to appraise. This is because he was tired of his reputation. Many people sent antiques to his door for appraisal, and they always
Luo Tian was called, but Luo Tian was not there, and the other customers were not satisfied, so they could only pile them here and wait for Luo Tian to come back to identify them. Now there are five antiques here.
After what happened just now, Fatty Yuan knew that he was going to be reprimanded. Now he was very proactive and quickly moved out the antiques that needed Luo Tian's eyes one by one. The first thing he brought out was a set of porcelain, which was very shaped.
It is peculiar that the entire cup is decorated with nine dragons, with the head of one dragon extending to the bottom of the cup and the tail of the cup.
The other eight dragons form four pairs, with one head pointing up and one head pointing down. The four dragon heads pointing upward extend into the mouth of the cup in the shape of drinking water. Luo Tian knew that when the cup
When the body is filled with liquid, it passes through the inverted U-shaped tube inside the cup and is ejected from the four dragon mouths pointing downward.
There are many stories about the origin of the Kowloon Cup. There are some stories in each dynasty. For example, in the Ming Dynasty, during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, the government opened an imperial wares factory in Jingdezhen, also known as the imperial kiln factory, which specialized in manufacturing imperial porcelain for the palace. At that time,
Jingdezhen belongs to Fuliang County, Jiangxi Province, and the porcelain workers in neighboring Duchang, Fuzhou, Fengcheng, Leping, Boyang and other counties hear the scene.
After the news of the opening of the imperial kiln factory in Dezhen, many porcelain workers gathered in Jingdezhen. Among them, the number of porcelain workers from Duchang and Fuzhou was the largest. The requirements for imperial porcelain were high and difficult to manufacture. All the porcelain workers selected for the imperial kiln factory were some.
Skilled craftsmen with superb porcelain skills, the imperial porcelain produced by their hands are all exquisite and exquisite, and the Kowloon Justice Cup is one of them.
According to legend, in order to please the emperor and win his favor, the magistrate of Fuliang County at that time ordered the porcelain workers in the imperial kiln factory to make a kind of Nine-Dragon Cup within half a year to pay tribute to the emperor. Good ones would be rewarded, and bad ones would be punished. After the order was issued,
, the county master personally supervised the production. Due to the difficulty of manufacturing the Kowloon Cup and the short time, the porcelain workers were so anxious that they could not sleep or eat. They developed it day and night, giving full play to everyone's ingenuity. After more than three months and dozens of iterations,
test, final
Yu succeeded. Seeing the exquisite Kowloon Cup, the county magistrate beamed with joy and rushed to deliver the Kowloon Cup to the capital in person to pay tribute to the emperor. Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Fuliang County magistrate Jinzhen's art treasure pot Jiulong Cup and fell in love with it.
He couldn't put it down and repeatedly praised Jingdezhen's porcelain craftsmen for their superb porcelain making skills and that Jingdezhen was worthy of being called the capital of porcelain. The magistrate of Fuliang County was appreciated by the emperor for his meritorious service in paying tribute, and soon he was promoted from county magistrate to prefectural magistrate.
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After Zhu Yuanzhang got the Kowloon Cup, he often used this treasure to serve wine and entertain ministers of civil and military affairs. At a banquet, Emperor Hongwu wanted to reward several close ministers for drinking more wine, so he specially filled the imperial wine for them.
Some other ministers who usually like to speak out and give advice sifted through the wine. But contrary to expectations, those ministers who were deliberately taken care of by the emperor did not order wine, and all the imperial wines were served.
The bottom of the Kowloon cup leaked out, and other ministers happily drank the royal wine gifted by the emperor. The emperor was very puzzled by this. After investigating the reason, he knew that this cup was the most reasonable way to hold wine, and he could only hold it lightly.
It should be flat and should not be too full, otherwise, all the wine in the cup will be leaked, and not a drop will be left. In order to keep in mind the justice of the Kowloon Cup, Emperor Hongwu named the Kowloon Cup the Kowloon Justice Cup. Those who are content will have water, and those who are greedy will have water.
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It is said that Emperor Kangxi also had a Kowloon Cup, which was named Kangxi's favorite thing. Later, Kangxi was buried in Jingling in the East Tomb of Zunhua. Legend has it that the Kowloon Jade Cup was actually discovered after Jingling was stolen in 1945. The thief Tian
Threatened before robbing the mausoleum
As expected, the Kowloon Jade Cup finally came into his hands. Later, through the patient work of local cadres of the People's Government of New China, Tian handed the cup to the government. However, no one knows where the cup is now, and it has become a mystery.
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The Kowloon Justice Cup is actually made using the siphon principle. In order to further explore the traditional ceramic craftsmanship, some ceramic artists in Jingdezhen and others made bold improvements to the Kowloon Justice Cup. The original cup had the faucet angle facing downwards, single decoration, and
When the water content is less than 70% of the cup's capacity, all the water will leak out. After repeated trials and improvements, the Kowloon Fair Cup has its dragon corners facing upwards, decorated with blue and white flowers and pastels, making it colorful and beautiful, and the water capacity has also changed from the original
70% increased to 90%.
Nowadays, some hotels often introduce Kowloon cups, which are mainly used to promote drinking, increase the lively atmosphere, and give people a sense of mystery. In addition, it can also be used as a special handicraft with appreciation and collection value.
"Kowloon cup?" Luo Tian shook his head. This shape is undoubtedly that of the Kowloon cup. However, the porcelain is new. It is just a modern handicraft that has been aged. The cracks on the porcelain are also imitated. Luo Tian placed the Kowloon cup
Turning it over, he saw the engravings on the bottom. He could tell the difference from the appearance of the porcelain.
It’s not that big. The appearance of porcelain from the Shang Dynasty is not necessarily greater than that from the Tang Dynasty. The difference between which dynasty is mainly depends on the characters engraved on the bottom of the porcelain. The porcelain of each dynasty represents a dynasty and the craftsmanship of this dynasty.
They are all stamped, and whether the characters are authentic or not, it is very important whether they are from that dynasty.
The writing is fake, the cracks in the porcelain are made, and even some marks on the corners are made to make it look like it has been used. Today’s distressing methods are very clever. For example, people who make distressed items will
The fired porcelain is rubbed back and forth to give it an aged feel, and then the porcelain is
After burying the utensils, they would do a simple treatment every once in a while, and then take them out after a few months. The treatment they did was to apply hydrochloric acid and absolute ethanol to the utensils, which could make the porcelain and soil better combined.
Tightly, this will give people a sense of vicissitudes of life that has been buried underground for many years.
Nowadays, professional distressing has become an industry. The distressed things are so fake that they have deceived many antique players. The technology of the Kowloon Cup has long been no secret. Most of the people who distressed it took advantage of this.
Because of my curiosity, I was coaxed into buying it after some persuasion.
Luo Tian wrote down these distressed areas one by one. When he was done, Yuan Jie couldn't wait to move in the second thing. This was a big piece, a kind of chair that everyone often sees in TV movies-the Taishi Chair.