On the surface, the porcelain cup in front of me is no different from the new porcelain tea cup sold in the supermarket. It doesn't look shabby at all, just like a new tea cup.
Chen Ran would naturally not think so, but if he had never seen it or used an energy aperture to detect it, he would probably think so.
The reason why he could recognize it at a glance was because he was no stranger to this kind of porcelain cup.
When he and Guo Hai went to Huakang Market for the first time, they picked up a cup in the antique city. The cup they picked up that time was also a kind of porcelain cup. At that time, he called Mr. Bai and asked about it. The porcelain cup turned out to be Kangxi's.
The June Lotus Cup is one of the Twelve Colorful Flower Cups.
The lotus cup is still kept in his room.
The porcelain cup in front of me that was broken by Chen Xiaomei is also the Kangxi Twelve Flower God Cup, but there are some differences between this one and the other one. The one in front of me is a flower god cup with osmanthus as the theme.
It’s the August Osmanthus Cup.
The sweet-scented osmanthus tree on the cup is very tense, and in its strong energy, it feels quite incompatible with the softness of the "flower". However, after watching it carefully for a while, you can taste the ecstatic temperament of the sweet-scented osmanthus.
As for making it different from other flowers, the whole cup also has an outstanding look.
Gently turning the pieced-together cup, you can see two blue and white inscriptions on the opposite surface with the osmanthus painting: "The branches grow infinite moon, and the flowers are full of natural autumn."
Osmanthus, also known as laurel, blooms all year round, but the flowers bloom the most in August around the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the fragrance spreads thousands of miles, so it is also named Shilixiang. "Vase History Monthly Table" lists it as the leader of the August flower.
Flowers ranked higher, so-called second grade and eight lives.
The poem on the porcelain cup is selected from Li Qiao's "Gui", and the whole poem is: In the uncolonized silver palace, Ningyi Jade Palace is quiet. The branches grow infinite moon, and the flowers are full of natural autumn. The knight's strips are horses, and the immortals
Ye Zuozhou. I hope you will use the Taoist skills to climb and break, so that you can stay in floods.
The sweet-scented osmanthus flower god in August is Xu Xianfei, also known as Xu Hui, the daughter of Xu Xiaode and the concubine of Emperor Taizong Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty. She can speak at the age of five. She is proficient in the Analects and poetry at the age of four. She is good at literature at the age of eight. Her father, Xiaode, once
The story of Li Sao was planned to be a small mountain chapter, and it was planned to be like this: "Look up at the secluded rock and look forward to it, caress the osmanthus branches to contemplate; I will meet you like this when I am a thousand years old, why will you go alone in Tsuen".
At the end of the poem, there is a square seal with the word "appreciation", making the whole Flower God Cup a perfect combination of painting and poetry.
"Aran, what's wrong? Is this cup valuable?" Li Yuzhi couldn't help but ask when she saw that Chen Ran not only put the broken cup back piece by piece, but also stared at it motionlessly,
She didn't see how valuable this porcelain cup was. It was basically the same as the porcelain cup she used to drink tea at home. But she knew that her son was an antiques person. Seeing his appearance like this, she couldn't help but think about antiques.
After finishing speaking, he gave Chen Xiaomei a fierce look.
Chen Xiaomei was startled, stuck out her tongue, curled her lips, and hid behind Li Yuzhi, not daring to say a word.
"Why are you all here?" As soon as Chen Ran looked away, Guo Hai and Chen Xiaowen walked in one after another. Seeing Chen Ran staring at a teacup, they both looked over.
"Hey, Xiaoran, what's going on with this tea cup? It seems to be the same as the porcelain cup you collected at the antique city last time..." Although this colorful Twelve Flower God Cup looks like a new one on the surface,
It looks like a tea set that I bought, but the style is the same, with flowers on one side and poetry on the other. It’s just that the flower patterns on the porcelain cups are different, so when I first saw this porcelain cup, Guo Hai
He remembered the lotus cup he picked up with Chen Ran that time. After all, the scene at that time left a deep impression on him.
"It's really an antique." Hearing what Guo Hai said, Li Yuzhi was immediately surprised, turned around and glared at Chen Xiaomei, and asked nervously: "How much is this cup worth?"
Chen Xiaomei and Chen Xiaowen also widened their eyes.
"Xiao Ran received a cup like this last time. If it's true, it seems to be worth twenty or thirty... yuan." Guo Hai replied carelessly, while taking two steps forward to take a look. Originally,
He was about to say it was worth two to three hundred thousand, but before he could say anything, he was suddenly kicked by Chen Ran. The person who knew Chen Ran best was undoubtedly him. When he saw Chen Ran, he winked at him.
, although he was a little confused, he also guessed what Chen Ran was thinking. He didn't want him to tell the true value of this cup, so he changed his mind in time.
Chen Ran was relieved when he heard that Guo Hai didn't say anything. If Li Yuzhi knew that this cup was worth two or three hundred thousand but was broken by Chen Xiaomei, with Li Yuzhi's temper, I am afraid that Chen Xiaomei would have lost all her money in the past few years.
Don't think about it.
In fact, what Guo Hai doesn't know is that the osmanthus cup in front of him is worth more than 200,000 to 300,000 yuan. The previous lotus cup was worth 200,000 to 300,000 yuan. It doesn't mean that the one in front of him is worth the same. You must know that Kangxi's Twelve Colorful Flowers
Each cup of the God's Cup has a different value, but the lotus cup that Chen Ran picked up before was the most common one.
Chen Ran remembered that Mr. Bai had told him that the most valuable one seemed to be the Osmanthus Cup. The reason for this was naturally because the August Osmanthus Cup was the rarest. It was estimated that it could fetch a million dollars.
It's just a pity that it was broken by Chen Xiaomei. Although it is still worth putting it together and repairing it, the value will definitely be greatly reduced.
However, Chen Ran did not blame Chen Xiaomei. For him, although the value of the osmanthus cup was great, it was not as important as family ties. This was why he did not let Guo Hai tell his mother the value of the porcelain cup.
If Guo Hai tells that this cup is worth two to three hundred thousand, Li Yuzhi will definitely be shocked. Then Chen Xiaomei will definitely be beaten. And with Li Yuzhi's temper, Chen Xiaomei will probably be nagging about this matter.
lifetime.
Chen Ran's purpose in engaging in antiques from the beginning was to make money, and the purpose of making money was to make his family happy. If Chen Xiaomei broke an antique and was complained by Li Yuzhi for several years, that would be against his wishes.
Li Yuzhi was relieved when she heard Guo Hai say that the cup was only worth twenty or thirty yuan, but she still glared at Chen Xiaomei fiercely: "You are so old and so careless, how can you get married in the future? Who cares?
I will marry you."
Chen Xiaomei was no longer afraid. She stuck out her tongue and said with a smile: "If you can't marry me, I won't marry you. I will just stay at home and eat your food and wear your clothes."
"You damn girl, you still rely on me." Chen Xiaomei's words made Li Yuzhi very angry, "See if I don't take care of you."
"I am a wealthy person, let me see if you, a rich woman, feel sorry for me."
Chen Xiaomei snorted, smiled, and ran out jumping up and down, making Li Yuzhi angry and funny.
"Mom, hit her with this." Chen Xiaowen also laughed and fanned the flames. He grabbed a plastic wreath on the bar counter and handed it to Li Yuzhi.
Li Yuzhi took it and didn't hit Chen Xiaomei who was running away. Instead, she conveniently put it on Chen Xiaowen's head and cursed with a smile: "You are not a good guy, you little devil."
Smiling and looking at Chen Ran and Guo Hai, Li Yuzhi walked out of the indoor bar, and Chen Xiaowen chased him out dissatisfiedly holding a wreath.
Seeing his mother and younger brothers and sisters playing together, Chen Ran couldn't help but smile.
"Xiaoran, is this true?" After Li Yuzhi and Chen Xiaowen left the indoor bar, Guo Hai couldn't help but ask. After experiencing the scene just now, he didn't know what was going on, so he naturally guessed
Chen Ran's thoughts came to mind.
Chen Ran nodded, not hiding anything from him.
"Oh, what a pity. Two to three hundred thousand yuan is gone like this. Is it still worth it now that it's broken?" Guo Hai's lips twitched and he shook his head with regret, seeing that two to three hundred thousand yuan was just gone.
, he still felt a little sore, even though the money was not his.
"It's worth a bit." Although it was broken and the value would be greatly reduced, Chen Ran estimated that given the scarcity of the Osmanthus Cup, it would be no problem to sell it for hundreds of thousands.
At this moment, Chen Ran is not concerned about this issue, but whether there are such cups in this indoor bar. Tea cups usually come in sets, and a set of colorful Twelve Flower God Cups is twelve. Since it appears
If you have one, there is still a high possibility that there will still be one.
Chen Ran glanced at the cabinet shelves in the bar. The entire shelf was empty, and he could tell at a glance that it was gone.
Taking a glance, there were four glass counters under the cabinet shelf. Chen Ran squatted down and opened one, but there was nothing there. Then he opened the second one. There were some high-heeled glasses inside the second cabinet door.
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Chen Ran just glanced at it, closed the cabinet door, and then opened the third cabinet door.
After opening the third cabinet door, Chen Ran's eyes were immediately attracted by the pile of porcelain cups in the corner of the cabinet door.
When he saw the number of porcelain cups in the pile, Chen Ran's eyelids suddenly jumped.
"So many!" Chen Ran was extremely happy. There must be five or six porcelain cups in the pile in front of him, and including the broken one, the number would be six or seven.
Don't think that there are twelve in a set, six or seven are not many. The Kangxi Colorful Twelve Flower God's Cup is very rare and has never appeared in a complete set. Occasionally it has appeared in domestic and foreign auctions, and it is just one.
Maybe two, or at most three.
Only larger museums such as the National Palace Museum in Beijing, the National Palace Museum in Taipei, the National Palace Museum in Nanjing, and the Jingdezhen Ceramics Museum have more collections, but they are not complete sets. For example, the National Palace Museum in Beijing only has ten collections.
For more than thirty years, Bai Lao has devoted himself to collecting Kangxi's colorful Twelve-Flower Cups. Until now, he has only collected three. From this point, it can be seen that there are only six or seven of them, not to mention the full set.
If the cup is sold at an auction, it will cause a sensation.
Chen Ran took a few deep breaths, then took the tray under the porcelain cup out of the cabinet door and placed it on the bar counter.
"So many!" When Chen Ran was rummaging through the boxes to find it, Guo Hai was not stupid. Chen Ran was looking for it here, so he went to the other side to look for it. When he saw that Chen Ran had found it, he quickly came over and looked.
Seeing so many cups like this, my eyes widened in surprise.
When Guo Hai's eyes widened, Chen Ran, who had just put the tray on the counter, also suddenly widened his eyes, even wider than Guo Hai's. His expression was as if he had seen a ghost...
