Teacher Yu, this is the most famous Harajuku open-air market in Tokyo. Yu Fei asked Kong Dashan for help, of course, to find the antique market in Tokyo.
Harajuku is a must-visit place for many tourists when they come to Tokyo. Xiaogane plays the role of a tour guide: there is Yoyogi Park, and the spectacular building is Meiji Jingu Shrine. On the other side is the original host with a Champs Elysees style.
neighborhood
But the introduction was immediately interrupted rudely by Kong Dashan: Teacher Yu is here to see antiques, what are you doing with those useless things?
Xiao Jin's face turned red. Yu Fei smiled and helped him out and said: What Boss Kong said is wrong. This is my first time in Tokyo. It's not a bad thing to gain more experience.
After all, he is a cultural person, so what he says is different. Kong Dashan laughed and said: Na Cheng, Xiao Jin, take Teacher Yu to the Dongxiang Shrine Flea Market.
The Dongxiang Shrine Flea Market is an open-air market that only opens on the first weekend of every month. Yu Fei was just lucky that the market opened today. If it had been another day, he would have had no choice but to find another place.
The flea market mainly sells Japanese antiques and other old or traditional goods, such as second-hand kimonos, vintage cameras from the 1960s, old comic books, and of course more wooden dolls. The dolls are used to celebrate Dolls' Day.
.Hina Matsuri is a festival for Japanese girls, also known as the Doll Festival and the Peach Blossom Festival. During the festival, girls’ homes will be decorated with exquisite dolls and decorated with peach blossoms to bless the girls’ healthy growth.
In addition to dolls, there are also some traditional Japanese items on the flea market, such as Japanese wardrobe teapot woodblock prints and the woodblock masks used in them, wine glasses, statuettes, and medals.
Boss Yu. If you like something later, don’t rush to buy it. I’ll bargain for you. Everything here is negotiable. Xiao Jin said. He is a few years older than Yu Fei, but Yu Fei
When Fei took a sip, Xiao Jin screamed, but he didn't think it was weird at all.
Yu Fei has no interest in these Japanese gadgets. He originally wanted to buy some small dolls for Niuniu to play with, but when he thought about it again, many of the Japanese girls who were blessed by the dolls later became actors in love action movies.
Heroine, after thinking about it, I might as well forget it. It was obvious that Yu Fei was not interested. After a quick browse, Xiao Jin took Yu Fei to the antique market.
The antique market here is the largest in Tokyo, and the stalls almost fill the bustling Harajuku commercial street outside. I heard that Togo Shrine is planning to limit the size of the antique market.
Yu Fei couldn't help but feel disappointed when he saw the things sold in the antique market. Most of the so-called antiques were handed down from Japan's Edo period, which were only three to four hundred years old at most, and there were not many antiques in China. This was different from his
The original expectation was far different. He originally thought that there were Chinese antiques everywhere here.
This was of course Yu Fei's previous misunderstanding. In previous wars, although Japan had robbed millions of Chinese antiques, some of them had been damaged and lost in the war, and most of the others were concentrated in some big families.
In hand, there are not many circulating on the market, and this was still the beginning of the 2000s. China's collecting craze has not affected Japan, so there are not many Chinese antiques for sale.
Teacher Yu, according to my opinion, if you really want to buy antiques, it is better to go to the auction. There are not many interesting things here. It seems that Kong Dashan already knows the situation here.
Yu Fei nodded, and when he was about to turn around and leave, he was attracted by a stall.
Hey what is this
What attracted Yu Fei was a stall piled up like a grocery store. It was filled with all kinds of items, including old wooden cabinets, Japanese porcelain wine bottles, broken masks, and several woodblock prints.
and several samurai swords.
What Yu Fei was interested in was a tea set that the boss put on the newspaper.
The teapot is of the style of the Meiji period, with white porcelain plain skin, hand-painted red, painted with gold, and layered on top of each other. Each scene has its edges drawn by hand, which is complicated and complicated. The small porcelain teapot is not big, but it has rich patterns, and the colors are painted on top of each other.
Delicate and clear in composition, it can be considered a rare high-quality product. If it were just the teapot, of course it wouldn't attract Yu Fei's attention. What really attracted him was the cup next to the teapot.
The shape of the cup does not quite match the teapot. The rim of the cup is slightly slanted, the belly is tucked in, the bottom is flat, and the feet are lying down. On the dirty outer wall of the cup, two groups of hens can be vaguely seen, with lake rocks alternated with roses, flowers, orchids.
Yu Fei just thought it was a bit strange to put such a teapot and cup together. No matter the color or style, they were not of the same tone. He didn't know why they had to be put together.
After using the energy of chaos to investigate, Yu Fei could not calm down. Not only were the two items different in color and style, but they were also different in age and even country.
The teapot is indeed from the Meiji period, with a history of 134 years, but the concentration of the chaotic energy in this cup is an old object from the Ming Dynasty. If I read it correctly, it should be a Chenghua Doucai Chicken Cup.
It's just that the original appearance of this chicken pot cup was obscured by tea dirt. It was so dark that the pictures on the outer wall could not be clearly seen.
The chicken cup is a small wine cup decorated with a picture of a hen, with a rooster and a hen leading the chicks to forage. The picture of the chicken was popular in the Song Dynasty and was painted on porcelain starting from Chenghua. The design of the chicken cup
The shape of the utensil was created by the imperial kiln factory of the Chenghua Dynasty in the Ming Dynasty. Because the Chenghua chicken pot cup is colorful and bright, and the painting is straightforward and pleasant, it is called a divine product. It was imitated in the Ming and Qing dynasties.
The kiln imitation is the best. During the Qianlong period, the chicken vat cup was heightened, and the picture was inscribed with Emperor Qianlong's imperial poem Chicken vat song.
Chicken jar cups are very valuable. According to the records of Emperor Shenzong of the Ming Dynasty: Shenzong promoted food, and there was a pair of Chenghua colored chicken jar cups in front of the emperor, worth one hundred thousand. There are not many Chenghua colored chicken jar cups in existence, and even fewer are in private collections. It is said that
There are only three. Since the Ming Dynasty, there has been a saying that a lot of money cannot buy a chicken vat cup. In 1980 and 1999, the chicken vat cup was sold for HK$5.28 million and HK$29.17 million respectively, setting a new record for the auction of ancient Chinese porcelain at that time.
record.
Most of the chicken jar cups that can be seen now are imitations from the Ming and Qing dynasties. In 2000, a Qing Yongzheng fighting color chicken jar cup was sold for 1.805 million Hong Kong dollars. In 2001, a pair of Qing Qianlong pastel chicken jar cups were sold for 620,000 Hong Kong dollars.
Price deal.
What Yu Fei didn't expect was to find a chicken pot cup from the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty in this open-air market. It was in such good condition without any damage. What made Yu Fei feel dumbfounded was that the chicken pot cup was originally a drinking utensil.
, here it is actually regarded as a teacup, and it is really like a pearl covered in dust when placed next to a teapot.
Teacher Yu, isn't it just a broken teapot? What's so good about it? Kong Dashan saw Yu Fei tripped over a tea set and couldn't help but asked curiously.
This set of teapots is somewhat interesting. Yu Fei squatted down and took a closer look at the chicken cup. Although the energy of chaos had clearly shown that it was indeed an old object from the Ming Dynasty, such a precious and divine chicken cup
, it was so casually placed on an open-air junk stall, and it happened to be seen by him again. This was really unbelievable. To put it bluntly, Yu Fei couldn't believe that this was real.
Some people may think this is too unbelievable. After all, Chenghua Doucai Chicken Cup is so famous, how could the stall owner not know him? Even if he didn't know him, there are so many people visiting the market, wouldn't there be anyone who knows him?
Let me explain here: just because the Chenghua Doucai Chicken Cup is so famous, there are too many imitations in later generations, even in Japan. As mentioned before, Toyotomi Hideyoshi captured a group of craftsmen to imitate China through the two Korean Wars.
Chenghua Doucai Chicken Cup has also been imitated in China's ceramics, but the artistic value is too low. If such a chicken cup appeared here, 80% of people would think it was an imitation, which is different from Yu Fei's idea.
There are some similarities, but I just find it too unbelievable.
At the same time, in the early 2000s, although Chinese art gradually appreciated in value, many collectors had not yet extended their tentacles to foreign markets, so some loopholes were possible.
The third point is also a very critical point. The chicken cup was mistaken for a tea cup, and its true appearance was covered up by layers of tea dirt. Even the six characters "Da Ming Chenghua Year System" at the bottom could not be seen clearly. No wonder no one
Know.
Yu Fei estimated that this chicken bowl cup had just been taken out, otherwise even if there were many reasons, it would inevitably be recognized by people with good eyesight.
How much will such a divine chicken vat cup cost? To be continued...