Many people think that the Twelve Flower God Cup is a cup for drinking tea, but it is not.
The Flower God Cup is a complete set of drinking utensils produced by the Royal Kiln Factory in the porcelain capital during the Kangxi period.
Strictly speaking, it is a set of seasonal wine glasses.
In other words, the Flower God Cup is used for drinking.
The Flower God Cup does represent the porcelain production level of Kangxi official kilns to a certain extent, but its preciousness is not just its own artistic value, but because its appearance breaks the idea that official kiln porcelain is always divided into a pair or a pair.
Traditional conception of emergence.
The Flower God Cup is the first porcelain in the history of porcelain to appear in a combination of twelve, which can be said to have cross-epochal significance.
Yu Maolin's porcelain is at the level of an entry-level collector.
He can know whether a certain kind of porcelain is overglaze or underglaze.
You can also tell the difference between blue and white, pastel, doucai, and enamel. You can also name each porcelain at a glance, such as what is a gourd vase, what is a jade pot spring vase, what is a plum vase, and what is a lantern vase.
,What is Guanyin bottle.
But asking him to identify the authenticity of the porcelain and date the porcelain would be completely difficult for him.
While Lao Zhou was going to add water to the teapot, Yu Maolin quickly came over and whispered: "Shen Yu, hurry up and show it to Brother Yu. I'm afraid that Cheng Yaojin will show up on the way and ask for this Flower God Cup."
It’s a real official kiln, so let’s take it down early so we can save ourselves a long night and many dreams.”
Shen Yu smiled, Lao Yu was bitten by a snake once and was afraid of well ropes for ten years. After his beard was cut off last time, he learned his lesson this time.
The picture that Lao Zhou sent to Yu Maolin was of a peach blossom cup. Shen Yu didn't choose anything else this time and picked up the peach blossom cup gently. This peach blossom cup felt warm to the touch and was like jade.
This poem was written by Wang Zhu, a scholar of Guanwen Palace in the Song Dynasty: "The willow color is green, and the peach blossoms are red wine."
The peach blossoms reflect the red wine, which is in line with the season of the Flower God Cup.
After looking at it carefully, I can't find any faults with the overall decoration, flowers, and poetry of this cup.
So many things appear on a small wine glass at the same time. Not only does it not look messy, but it also makes people feel poetic.
When I used a strong flashlight to illuminate it, I found that the carcass was light and crystal clear, and the wall of the cup was like a thin piece of paper.
Overall, this peach blossom cup looks very much like a piece of official kiln porcelain.
Regarding porcelain, Shen Yu is not yet a master who can tell whether it is genuine or fake as soon as he gets started.
Repeatedly turning on the light and using a hand-held microscope to magnify tiny details, the more Shen looked at the Qing Kangxi blue and white twelve-flower god cup, the more he felt it was genuine.
To be on the safe side, Shen Yu silently recited a treasure appraisal.
A ball of dark blue precious light condensed and emerged from three inches above the Flower God Cup.
It starts to rise slowly from one inch, rises four times and then slowly stops.
After a few seconds, it decreased slightly, and finally turned into a ball of light the size of a walnut and settled on the Cup of Flowers.
"More than three hundred years, less than four hundred years, it is indeed the official blue and white twelve-flower divine cup. Brother Yu has found a treasure this time!"
The market price for a Kangxi Flower God Cup of this year in such good condition is at least 2 million, while Lao Zhou sold it for 400,000.
However, Shen Yu had doubts that this set of cups were all genuine official kiln products from the Kangxi reign.
Without it, the entire collection world still does not have a complete set of blue and white Twelve Flower God Cups from the same period.
That is to say, there are currently no 12 Flower God Cups of different months fired in one furnace at the same time.
The so-called Kangxi official kiln set is just a collection of twelve Flower God Cups of different months fired in different years by the official kilns of the Kangxi Dynasty.
But even so, it’s also a sky-high price.
If you can put together a complete set, the market price of the not-so-good ones will be tens of millions, and the market price of the good-quality ones will be close to nine figures.
Of course, the high price also shows the scarcity of the Flower God Cup.
The so-called complete set in the market is often a set of imitations from past generations.
After Kangxi, the Twelve Flower God Cups were imitated in all dynasties, such as Daoguang, Xianfeng, and Guangxu. There were many imitations of official kiln porcelain, and most of the bases were "Made in the Kangxi Year of the Qing Dynasty".
This will increase the difficulty of identifying the Flower God Cup.
They are all official kilns. Even though the later ones are not as good as the Kangxi official kilns, the gap is very small. Even many old collectors are easy to discern.
For Shen Yu, if he did not have the special ability to identify treasures, he would not be 100% sure that the cup in his hand belonged to Kangxi this year.
After blinking at Yu Maolin, Shen Yu gently placed the peach blossom cup in front of him.
As the saying goes, first come, first served, as long as Yu Maolin holds the cup, even if Cheng Yaojin shows up now, the Peach Blossom Cup will still belong to Yu Maolin.
Shen Yu's movements and eyes made Yu Maolin's eyes reveal a touch of ecstasy. He understood what Shen Yu meant, and he was telling him that the cup was an authentic product from the Kangxi official kiln.
Looking at the peach blossom cup in front of him, Yu Maolin's heart beat rapidly.
It's not that he was happy to make money by picking up the leaks, but it was too difficult to collect a Kangxi Flower God Cup in such good condition. For many years, he has not been able to collect one.
Yu Maolin here couldn't wait to pour a glass of wine and drink it right away, while Shen Yu held a lotus cup close to him in his hand.
As soon as Shen Yu got the cup, he knew it was not a Kangxi official kiln.
As the saying goes, you have to throw away when comparing goods. Compared with the genuine peach blossom cup just now, this lotus cup is much worse in terms of feel.
Hold it in your hand and observe carefully, no matter from the floral patterns or poetry fonts, as well as the thickness and whiteness of the cup, compared to the peach blossom cup just now, the overall quality is a big difference.
Looking at the inscription, it is still made in the Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty.
This cup is from an official kiln, but it is definitely not a Kangxi official kiln.
Just when Shen Yu wanted to use his special treasure appraisal ability to see which official kiln of the Qing Dynasty it was, four people suddenly walked in in a hurry outside the door.
The man in charge was a crew-cut man in a gray suit who was in his early thirties and less than forty years old. His appearance was very similar to that of Lao Zhou.
Behind the flat-headed man is a tall and thin young man, less than thirty years old, about 27 or 28 years old. He is wearing an Armani windbreaker and leather shoes that can be used as mirrors.
This young man doesn't look good, his face is sallow, as if he is seriously ill.
It looks like he is walking with a limp, and there must be injuries on his feet.
Behind them are two bodyguards, staying close to the young man.
"Hey, why, how, why is it you?"
The sallow-faced young man suddenly let out a cry of surprise when he saw Shen Yu.
Shen Yu was a little surprised when he saw this sickly young man, and thought to himself: "It's true that we are enemies. The antique circle is too small after all!"
Shen Yu, a sickly young man, knew the swinger with a slight stutter whom he met at Li Haiyang Guanbao Pavilion: Jing Shuiyang.
Because he failed everywhere in Guanbao Pavilion, he made people angry, and finally got tea poured all over him by Xu Duofu. This person can be regarded as completely hating him.
