80 yuan sold ancestral antiques, experts "picked up leaks" and then sold 3.7 million, now has become a national treasure
China is a country with a history of more than 5,000 years, and it is also one of the world's several ancient civilizations with a long history, in the long river of history, our ancestors have made many major contributions to the progress and development of human society. With their wisdom, the Chinese ancients influenced the sons and daughters of China living on the land of China, and also influenced the world for thousands of years, and among the contributions made by the Chinese ancients, porcelain was one of them. The achievements in ceramic technology and art are of particular importance, and Chinese porcelain dates back more than 3,000 years, and to this day, has a long history.
China is known as the country of porcelain, and an important part of China's development history is the history of ceramics, which embodies the ancient Chinese technology and the pursuit of beauty. More than a thousand years before Europe, we have mastered the technology of porcelain making, it can be said that the history of China's development is also the history of porcelain. For thousands of years, people have fired a variety of porcelain in continuous practice, and the aesthetics of each dynasty are different, and the porcelain fired is also different; in this way, China's porcelain is also divided into many types. In the history of porcelain making in the Ming Dynasty, there is a color glazed porcelain, which is famous, but it is not as popular as other porcelain, and it looks ordinary, but today, it has become a rare national treasure, this porcelain, called sprinkled blue glaze.
The treasure of the town hall in the Beijing Capital Museum
Sprinkling blue glaze is not popular with people, not because it is not valuable enough, but because it is too rare to see, and people do not recognize it. It was produced in Jingdezhen during the Ming Xuande dynasty, and soon ceased to burn, until the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, when production resumed. The blue glazed porcelain of the Ming Dynasty, because of the short firing time, has been handed down very rarely, and only three pieces are known so far, which shows its preciousness. Three pieces of sprinkled blue-glazed porcelain, one in the Tianjin Museum, one in the private collection, and the other is the treasure of the Beijing Capital Museum. No one could have imagined that this sprinkled blue-glazed porcelain in the Capital Museum was bought for 80 yuan.
In the 1970s, an old lady dressed in simple clothes, carrying a cloth bag on her shoulder, walked into a cultural relics store in Beijing, and before she could say anything, she first took out a porcelain bowl from the cloth bag and said that it was for sale. The staff looked at the porcelain bowl and looked at it, it was full of mud, and there were grinding marks, asking the old man how much money he wanted to sell, the old man was also beautiful and accurate, just said that the bowl was handed down from the ancestors, looking at some generations, just give some money at will. The staff gave the old man 80 yuan, the old lady took 80 yuan, did not leave any contact information, and left happily.
Sprinkle with a blue glaze bowl
But when the staff washed the sludge on the porcelain bowl, they found that there was a simple broken bowl, the "Daming Xuande Year System" in the bowl, and the dark blue spots like water stains on the light blue bottom, showing the extraordinary bowl everywhere. The staff could not make up their minds for a while, so they invited senior experts in the cultural relics store to see that the six words of "Daming Xuande Year System" are for love words, and the strokes are neat, let alone five or six hundred years old. Subsequently, many experts in Beijing came to see this porcelain bowl, and after some appraisal, experts agreed that this was the best porcelain made in Jingdezhen during the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty, that is, sprinkled blue glaze porcelain, and finally the expert named it sprinkled blue glaze bowl.
National treasure level cultural relics
There are only three such pieces of porcelain in the world, the one in the private collection, and in 1980, collectors sold it for 3.7 million Hong Kong dollars. The capital museum, only spent 80 yuan to buy, fortunately, the old man did not know the goods, 80 yuan sold their own ancestral antiques. However, at that time, experts also believed that 80 yuan was a loss to others, so they wanted to compensate more, but they could not find the old lady who bought the bowl, so the matter was also over. The blue glazed bowl in the Capital Museum has become the treasure of the museum and the national treasure of our country.