▲Guanfu Museum [Three Dynasties Ming and Chicken Bowl Cup Set]: imitation Ming Chenghua Chicken Bowl Cup, Imitation Qing Qianlong Imperial Inscription Poetry Chicken Bowl Cup, Guanfu Chicken Bowl Cup. A road of art inheritance, a history of the past and present lives of a tool, this set is clear.
You know: throw away the price, the core value of a thing, must be in its history and culture
I believe that many people pay attention to the Chenghua chicken bowl cup, which began in 2014.
That year, at Sotheby's in Hong Kong, a Chenghua chicken bowl cup set a world auction record for Chinese porcelain at the time for 281,240,000 Hong Kong dollars, "so expensive", which was its initial impression.
In fact, not only in the contemporary era, the value of the Chenghua chicken bowl cup in the Ming Dynasty is also very high, according to the Ming Wanli calendar year "Shenzong Shilu" recorded: "Shenzong fashion food, before the imperial court has a pair of Chenghua color chicken bowl cups, worth 100,000"; Zhu Yizun's "Exposure Pavilion Collection" also said: "Wanli instruments so gold number two, Xuande, Chenghua people double the number, to the chicken bowl is not platinum five-ytterbium city is indispensable, the powerful are not many pity." Jade is priced above the price of pottery, and its preciousness is so "...
Why is the price of Chenghua chicken bowl cup so high? First of all, because the Porcelain Burning Process of the Ming Dynasty has not yet matured, there is only one kind of Colored Porcelain Technique, so naturally it is extremely refined.
According to the records of the "Ming Shi Food And Goods Chronicle": "Chenghuajian sent the floating liang Jingdezhen of the zhongguan to burn the royal porcelain, the most and long, the cost is not expensive", at that time, the Chenghua Emperor specially ordered Jingdezhen to burn a batch of exquisite porcelain, its ware is exquisite and elegant, unparalleled; the tire quality is lustrous, the shape is exquisite, the color of the doucai is light and quiet, the xiongjian of the upper Chengyong Xuan, the fashion of the lower Kai Jiawan, the influence is very far-reaching.
Among them, the chicken bowl cup occupies a very high position, as the Ming Dynasty Guo Zizhang said in the "Yuzhang Taozhi": "The kiln has a chicken bowl cup, which is the best of the wine vessels, painting peonies on the top, painting the hens on the bottom, and jumping to move", Zhu Yan of the Qing Dynasty also summed up in his "Tao Saying": "The kiln is the most colorful, and the wine cup is the most chicken bowl.".
▲Sotheby's Hong Kong auctioned a sky-high chicken bowl cup
▲Ming Chenghua Doucai Chicken Bowl Cup Collection of the Palace Museum
Secondly, there is the story behind this chicken bowl cup, for the reasons why the Chenghua Emperor loved the chicken bowl cup, there are three historical legends: first, the year he ascended the throne was the Year of the Rooster; second, the chicken is one of the very ancient images in traditional Chinese culture, the chicken is a good bird, there are five virtues, and its sound is "auspicious", which is a symbol of auspiciousness and auspiciousness; third, Wan Guifei is very fond of the chicken bowl cup.
Among them, the third theory is the most widely circulated. According to legend, the original intention of the design of the chicken bowl cup was that when the Chenghua Emperor admired the Song People's "Picture of the Sub-Hen", he saw that the scene of the hen taking the chicks foraging for food felt warm, so he chose this theme as a porcelain cup pattern to express his love for his wife and children and the expectation of the happiness of the family, and every time he drank and feasted, he would share it with Wan Guifei, so Wan Guifei also loved this chicken bowl cup very much.
Speaking of which, this is also a legendary imperial concubine love. Wan Guifei Dachenghua Emperor was seventeen years old, and "a man with a huge appearance", and the birth mother of The Chenghua Emperor also did not understand why her son loved her so much, and once asked, "What beauty does he have and how much he accepts Grace?" The Chenghua Emperor replied: "He touched Wu Anzhi and was not in The Face", and after the death of Wanfei, the Chenghua Emperor also went with him in the autumn of that year.
From this, thinking about the mood of the hen and the chick on the chicken bowl cup as depicted in the Song Ren's "Picture of the Sub-Hen", we have to admit that this statement has a certain degree of credibility.
▲ Song Dynasty Anon. "Picture of the Hen" Collection of the National Palace Museum in Taipei
▲Ming Chenghua Doucai Chicken Bowl Cup Partial Collection of the Palace Museum
In short, the chicken bowl cup has been imitated by the Ming and Qing dynasties, from Jiajing, Longqing and Wanli in the Ming Dynasty to Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty. In the almost copied imitation of the chenghua device, it was the Qianlong Emperor who jumped out of the solid and added a new understanding and innovation.
In addition to the changes in the shape, capacity and glaze, the Qianlong Chicken Bowl Cup also added elements of characters and imperial inscriptions, and there is a exquisite appreciation of the Chicken Bowl Cup in the long poems, and there are also warnings about the behavior of cockfighting and playthings in the court of the past.
Some scholars even speculate that the boy in the picture is Jia Chang, a prodigy who made his career from cockfighting during the Tang Xuanzong period, which is also a saying, in short, it shows the unique thinking and design of the Qianlong Emperor, and also shows the inheritance and development of the chicken bowl cup.
▲Guanfu Museum collection of Kangxi Doucai Chicken Bowl Cup (left) Qianlong Pastel Imperial Inscription Poetry Chicken Bowl Cup and (right) and its unfolding diagram (the upper is the Kangxi Chicken Bowl Cup Unfolding Diagram, the lower is the Qianlong Chicken Bowl Cup Unfolding Diagram)
The Chicken Bowl Cup– or any antiquities – has a broader and far-reaching cultural value than absolute value. This value will accumulate more and more in the transmutation of culture and times.
Why are chicken bowl cups so valuable? It is necessary to start from the colorful hair, among which the technical development level of porcelain, the aesthetic height of royal scribes, and the spiritual core contained in it, and even the transformation and inheritance of porcelain history, are all over the world.
Guanfu Museum thought about it again and again, decided to take the chicken bowl cup as the starting point, followed the overall cultural source flow related to it, and designed a complete set of [Three Dynasties Ming and Chicken Bowl Cup] gift boxes: with the imitation of the Ming Dynasty Chenghua Chicken Bowl Cup, the imitation qianlong Imperial Inscription Poetry Chicken Bowl Cup, and the Guanfu Chicken Bowl Cup as the core carrier, radiating to the entire cultural source flow involved in a small chicken bowl cup
▲Guanfu Museum [Three Dynasties and Chicken Bowl Cup] gift box.
In addition to the Three Dynasties Chicken Bowl Cup, there is also the most important thing - the "Chicken Bowl Cup Past and Present Life" book and supporting audio courses, which integrate its objects with its cultural origins. The above article is not exhausted due to the limited space, and the book has a detailed explanation
The Three Dynasties Chicken Bowl Cup, based on the real thing, reproduces the collection, returns to life, and integrates into the present.
First of all, of course, it is a tribute to the sky-high Chenghua Chicken Bowl Cup from the Ming Dynasty to today' high price - the imitation of the Chenghua Doucai Chicken Bowl Cup▼
Secondly, it pays tribute to the Qingqianlong pastel imperial inscription chicken bowl cup that gives changes and original ideas, so that the chicken bowl cup has a new atmosphere▼
In addition, it is the Guanfu Chicken Bowl Cup created by the Guanfu Museum combined with the wisdom of its predecessors and inherited and recreated. Three generations are seated together, accompanied by the tea party of the present, each with its own charm, in the same vein
Gift 1: [Chicken Bowl Cup Past and Present Life" Paper Book and Supporting Audio Course]
The cultural flow is consistent and clear, and the mind is aware but not confused. No matter what age, knowledge is the most precious gift, and if you want to know the value of the chicken bowl cup, you must know its past and present lives.
Paper books and audio courses go hand in hand, and no matter what your reading habits are – good at using fragmented time or keen on reading paper books in their entirety, we're willing to be satisfied
Gift 2: [Imitation Travertine Cup Holder]
Specially designed imitation travertine cup holder, one high and one short, the table taste tea is also good utensils, the seat is also good to do decoration, the so-called reward can also be used, you want, we try to do it
Du Mu said: "The boat is empty, and the ten-year-old youth does not live up to the public. Today, the sideburns are zen on the shore, and the tea smoke is lightly falling on the flower wind"——In time, tea is gentle and the instrument is honest.
The good things are elegant, and the tea fragrance stays for a long time. There is a view to accompany you, what past and present lives, the bright moon and the breeze, the history of things, enough to enjoy it...