The verse has clouds: "Under the whole world, can not be the king's land, lead the coast of the land, can not be the king's subjects." Ancient emperors were rich in the world, and their royal objects have always been the most exquisite, most expensive, and most luxurious under the heavens.
He once auctioned 280 million yuan, the world's most famous court porcelain - the Ming Dynasty Chenghua Doucai Chicken Bowl Cup is the Chenghua Emperor's imperial palace cup.
Chenghua Emperor
Chenghua Doucai chicken bowl cup
Ming Chenghua, there is also a doucai porcelain, more precious than the chicken bowl cup, can be called the treasure of the palace museum! That is the only pair of Chenghua Doucai Sanqiu Cup in the world.
Chenghua Doucai Sanqiu Cup
In 1956, Mr. Sun Yingzhou, a famous collector and appraiser of ancient ceramics, donated more than 3,000 cultural relics from his family collection to the Palace Museum, including a pair of Ming Chenghua Doucai Sanqiu Cups!
At that time, Sun Yingzhou, who "only ate pork once a week," gritted his teeth and spent 40 gold bars to buy it from the pawnshop that was about to close.
It is said that when Mr. Lu Xun bought a set of courtyards in Beijing, he also spent 2 gold bars, and the value of a three-autumn cup was equal to 20 sets of courtyards!
Chenghua Doucai Sanqiu Cup, the world's only one pair of the Forbidden City, there is no two pairs, is the head of porcelain, is the priceless treasure of the Forbidden City, but also the country's heavy weapon.
In recent years, the Ming Dynasty emperor porcelain treasures have continued to dominate the list in the collection industry, and have successively sold sky-high prices, and the Chenghua Doucai Chicken Bowl Cup has refreshed the auction record of Chinese porcelain with a sky-high price of 280 million.
Ming Jiajing's favorite porcelain, the multicolored fish algae pattern lid jar, sold for 213 million Hong Kong dollars in 2017, and had previously dominated the world's most expensive porcelain list for four years.
Colorful fish algae pattern large jar
Song Huizong's disciple Wang Ximeng's masterpiece and the pinnacle of mainland landscape painting aesthetics, "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", is even more out of the circle, dominating the screen during the Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger in 2022, and successively rushing to the hot search, becoming the top stream of the world-famous paintings.
These national treasure-level cultural relics have a distinguished status - "royal royal use".
Royal royal objects are worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and have always been treasured in the hands of major museums or large collectors, ordinary people only have to look up, and it is delusional to want to see the real face!
Today, the "Qianqiu Emperor Cup" series, jointly produced by the Jingdezhen Imperial Ware Research Institute and a palace craftsman, truly reproduces the charm of the imperial objects.
"Qianqiu Emperor Cup" is divided into four groups: Qianli Jiangshan Cup, Colorful Fish Algae Cup, Doucai Chicken Bowl Cup, and Doucai Sanqiu Cup, each group of two cups, produced by the Palace Museum's designated official kiln pastel porcelain inheritor and the Forbidden City cultural relics restoration expert - Yang Shiqi Master supervision and creation, based on the imperial objects as the prototype, so it is named "Emperor Cup".
This is a real gift from the royal family, with the royal royal as the production standard, at all costs, only for the effect, the length of the construction period, the high standard, the difficulty, once seen in a hundred years, very rare!
A set of two cups allows you to drink with friends, drink with confidants, and even cross time and space to drink with ancient emperors. Holding this cup in your hand allows you to cross the ancient and modern times and experience a poetic life.
"Qianqiu Emperor Cup" specially invited the Palace Museum to designate the official kiln pastel porcelain inheritor, the Forbidden City cultural relics restoration expert Yang Shiqi master supervision and creation.
For more than 20 years, Master Yang Shiqi has been constantly researching and breaking through the porcelain process, assisting the Forbidden City in restoring many important ceramic cultural relics, and is known as the "Contemporary Inspector of Pottery" by the industry. He has painstakingly achieved decades of achievements in order to reproduce the official kiln ware of the original proportions, the original craftsmanship, and the original Shen Yun.
In order to make the "Thousand Autumn Emperor Cup" as antique as ancient, Master Yang Shiqi has gone deep into the Forbidden City and other major museums many times to study the shape, ornamentation, material and workmanship of the replica cup at close range, so as to achieve the heart imitation of the gods, and finally restore the charm of royal art.
In the "Qianqiu Emperor Cup" series, the Qianli Jiangshan Cup and the Colorful Fish Algae Pattern Cup were created by Master Yang Shiqi in strict accordance with the prototype of the famous porcelain paintings, and the Doucai Chicken Bowl Cup and the Doucai Sanqiu Cup were reproduced by Master Yang Shiqi in strict accordance with the prototype of 1:1 and so on.
Taking the chicken bowl cup as an example, many replica chicken bowl cups on the market are industrial products, and in order to achieve mass production, the cup type has been artificially improved.
In fact, the prototype of the chicken bowl cup has a curved corner, and in order to restore the cup shape, Master Yang Shiqi can only repair the blank by hand, and after dozens of debugging, he finally reached a high degree of accuracy in the curve and proportion of the cup.
In order to better appreciate the effect of art, Master Yang Shiqi's choice of embryos is also excellent, he collected a large number of old porcelain objects and porcelain pieces from the Ming Dynasty official kilns, studied the tire glaze, and after more than 100 times of tire glaze firing experiments, it was finally determined to use the high porcelain clay in the Jingdezhen area as the embryo.
Jingdezhen high porcelain clay, since ancient times famous all over the world, its non-renewable, non-recyclable, and now it is more and more scarce due to long-term mining, inch of land.
Special grade high porcelain clay, white and delicate, after firing into porcelain, the tire quality is white and delicate, the white glaze is soft, and the appearance is consistent.
The four groups of imperial cups fired with special high porcelain clay do not have the dazzling white of ordinary cups, but emit a luster like warm jade, and the cup body is light and transparent, and the tea soup is more brown and full of charm.
Whether you understand porcelain or not, you can see what is extraordinary at a glance.
The Ming Dynasty was the heyday of the development of colored porcelain on the mainland, and two new varieties of doucai and five colors were created and burned. Doucai is fresh and elegant, and the colorful is rich and gorgeous, which is the face value of the porcelain industry.
There is no blue color in the Ming Dynasty color material, and where it needs to be expressed in blue, it is replaced by blue and white, which has become a unique characteristic of the times.
The reason why the "Emperor Cup" is so thin and glazed is due to a special blue and white glaze - pearl material.
Pearl material, probably the vast majority of people have not heard of it.
This kind of pearl burning technique, which has been included in the intangible cultural heritage list, is now only in the hands of a very small number of people.
In the reproduction, Master Yang Shiqi insisted on using this precious Yunnan pearl material, and cooperated with the complex ancient extraction process, picking, calcining, grinding... After hundreds of experiments on the ratio, it finally produced a pure blue, unstapped, glaze color flowing naturally.
In order to make Doucai porcelain more ancient, the proportion of glaze water, the weight of the painting technique, etc., every small step is crucial.
In the reproduction of the Huahua Doucai Chicken Bowl Cup and the Chenghua Doucai Sanqiu Cup, Master Yang Shiqi spent a lot of effort, when the early reproduction of the pattern, he chose to lightly outline, heavy color, a large number of traditional painting point, painting, flat, tuo and other techniques, the painting style is simple and clean, not only retains the essence and style of the original instrument, but also makes the whole picture rich in layers and full of spirit.
As a specially invited cultural relics restoration expert of the Forbidden City, Master Yang Shiqi has personally hand-painted and successfully reproduced the Ming Jiajing multicolored fish algae pattern lid jar 1:1, with a profound foundation in hand-painted art, and is a porcelain master of the original craft and the original Shen Yun reproduction of official kiln ware.
The patterns on the multicolored fish algae pattern cup and the Qianli Jiangshan cup were hand-painted and reproduced by Master Yang Shiqi himself.
Material selection, mud refining, proportioning, pulling blanks, painting, firing... "Qianqiu Emperor Cup" has gone through more than a hundred complicated detailed processes, any one link has a slight difference, and the firing work is very different.
For example, the repair process alone contains 16 process details, the thickness difference of each plain blank should be less than 0.2 mm, the weight difference is less than 3 grams, and the almost strict art standards and process difficulties strive to highly restore the wonderful charm of Daming Imperial Porcelain.
The firing process is also more demanding, the three autumn cups and the chicken bowl cup are the crystallization of Yang Shiqi's 3 times of calcination, and the cup body has a strong sense of layering.
Careful friends can pay attention to it, the picture on the cup is concave and convex, and the hand touches it, which has a unique feel. The ornamentation and pattern of the cup noodles are highly respectful of the original work, and the picture is clear and delicate and rounded.
It is such a demanding production process that only 10% of the fine products per kiln are produced. After the finished product is produced in the kiln, each work must be carefully selected by four or five people before being boxed.
"In order to achieve that every piece of work is flawless and meet the aspirations of every porcelain lover for perfection, we have been strictly controlling quality, but the yield rate is too low, so the output is really limited." Master Yang Shiqi said.
Craftsmanship, refinement. The key is that the price is yummy. The official price is 1280 yuan a set (a set of two), now only 398 yuan, and limited to 5000 sets, sold out of print!
What kind of existence is the Qianli Jiangshan Cup, the Colorful Fish Algae Pattern Cup, the Doucai Chicken Bowl Cup, and the Doucai Sanqiu Cup in the "Qianqiu Emperor Cup" series? Let's take a look at it.
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The weight of the country, the world's only pair of forbidden city
Chenghua Emperor
In the collection industry, there has always been a saying that "Ming looks into Transformation, Clear looks at Yongzheng". Chenghua refers to the Doucai porcelain used by the Chenghua Emperor.
At that time, the craftsmen of Jingdezhen waited for countless days and nights in front of the kiln fire with a high temperature of 1300 degrees, smashed countless cups, and finally burned dozens of exquisite and small palace cups for the Chenghua Emperor.
Among these Imperial Palace Cups, the "Chenghua Doucai Chicken Bowl Cup" that is unique in the world is almost unknown to everyone. However, many people do not know that the "Three Autumn Cups" hidden in the city are the first of the porcelain and the heavy instruments of the country.
The Ming ChengHua Doucai Sanqiu Cup is the treasure of the Palace Museum in Beijing and the Palace Museum in Taipei!
The so-called "three autumns" refers to autumn that is only brief for three months. The three autumn cups also depict autumn scenery, with autumn flowers, autumn grasses, and dancing bees and butterflies.
The shape of the three autumn cups is unique, like the horseshoe of the upside-down buckle, small and exquisite, very cute. The cup is painted with two sets of Doucai mountain stone floral patterns, interspersed with flying butterflies.
The purple color applied on the butterfly wing is the famous purple color, which is characterized by a thick color and no light, which is the only one in Chenghua Doucai, and it is also beyond the reach of future imitations.
The shape of this cup is light and delicate, the carcass is as thin as a cicada wing, the color is light and elegant, and the painting is fresh.
In particular, the colorful butterflies that fly among the flowers and grasses must be full of feet and come to life if they want to fall and fly, reflecting the superb painting skills and artistic accomplishment of the painter.
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The highest of the royal wine vessels, breaking the auction record of Chinese porcelain
Nowadays, the complete Chenghua Doucai porcelain worldwide museum even has a private collection of only a dozen pieces, and the Chenghua Doucai Chicken Bowl Cup is even rarer.
The carcass of the chicken bowl cup is white, the wall of the cup is as thin as a cicada wing, and it is transparent to the light, which is the favorite imperial wine glass of the Chenghua Emperor, and is called the most important wine vessel.
During the Ming Dynasty, the Records of the Divine Sect recorded that "the Divine Sect is fashionable to eat, and there is a pair of Chenghua color chicken bowl cups in front of the Imperial Palace, worth 100,000 yuan." ”
How much is this "100,000" figure worth? In other words, this is equivalent to the current 52,000,000 yuan!
The chicken bowl cup is fired according to the aesthetic standards of Wan Guifei, and the cup noodle pattern is derived from the "Hen Diagram".
It is said that the Chenghua Emperor Zhu Jianshen, as soon as he was born, was served by the palace maid Wan Shi (Wan Guifei), which gave rise to a relationship of wife and sister and mother.
To the delight of Bowan Guifei, the Chenghua Emperor ordered the firing of doucai chicken bowl cups in the Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln. The pattern on the chicken bowl cup is exactly the portrayal of the "mother-son feelings" of Emperor Chenghua and Wan Guifei.
The outer wall of the chicken bowl cup is divided into two groups with peony lake stone and orchid lake stone, one group depicts a rooster looking up, a hen and a chick pecking at a centipede, and two chicks playing; the other group depicts a leading the neck to cry, and a hen and three chicks pecking at a centipede.
The picture is vivid and interesting.
Later generations of emperors also pursued the chicken bowl cup. The Three Dynasties of Jiajing, Longqing and Wanli in the Ming Dynasty and the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Dynasties of the Qing Dynasty all had imitations of the Chenghua Doucai Chicken Bowl Cup.
The Yongzheng Emperor imitated the chicken bowl cup
The Qianlong Emperor was even more fond of the chicken bowl cup, and after getting a Ming Chenghua Doucai chicken bowl cup, he loved it and played it all day, even at the expense of exhausting the national treasury to imitate, and also wrote a poem in his own handwriting: "Han Mang Xiu Cai is called Zhen, and the chicken bowl is the crown." ”
Being able to write such an overflowing word shows how much the Qianlong Emperor liked this wine glass.
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A thousand miles of rivers and mountains cup
National treasure-level picture scroll, emperor-level aesthetic
Emperor Huizong of Song
Song Huizong's beloved "Map of a Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" is very familiar to everyone.
At the Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Tiger in 2022, the dance poetry drama "Only This Green" made a stunning appearance, quickly appeared on the hot search, and once again ignited the "Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains".
"A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" is one of the top ten famous paintings in China, and also the peak of the aesthetics of mainland landscape painting, which is now stored in the Palace Museum and is the treasure of the Forbidden City.
This divine work was personally taught by Emperor Huizong of Song and painted by the genius painter Wang Ximeng, which is not only "the first divine product of green landscape painting in the past thousand years", but also a national first-class cultural relic, and an authentic national treasure-level picture scroll.
"A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" adopts a large-scale long-scroll composition to express the continuity of time by wandering and watching the landscape, which is the Northern Song Dynasty version of "aerial photography of China".
The whole volume shows the vast territory of the Song Dynasty, and there are magnificent mountains and rivers in the scroll, as well as the strong aroma of folk fireworks.
The prosperous scene in the painting, stretching through the rivers and mountains, is not only the requirement of Song Huizong as an artist for the painting, but also his expectations for so many delicate rivers and mountains as an emperor and a generation of monarchs.
"A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" is the majestic Jiangshan in Song Huizong's heart, and it is also his Chinese dream.
The Qianli Jiangshan Cup reproduces the god painting of "Qianli Jiangshan Map" on the surface of the cup, the picture is rich and gorgeous, exquisite and dexterous, and every frame is extremely beautiful.
Take this cup in your hand and play with it, as if you are immersed in the scene, wandering between the mountains and rivers. It is as if you travel through time and space, talk to the ancient emperors, and experience the majestic atmosphere of holding a rich country and mountains.
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Multicolored fish algae pattern cup
The world's most expensive list has dominated the list for 4 years
Jiajing Emperor
The most ideal porcelain of the Jiajing Emperor is the multicolored fish algae pattern porcelain.
The emperor was frail and sickly from an early age, and he had a special fondness for the Taoist idea of self-cultivation and immortality. The five-colored porcelain of the Ming Dynasty is precisely the Taoist idea of the "Five Elements Theory", and the folk also call the "five-color line" "five-color long life", believing that the more vivid the color and the higher the purity, the more it can play a role in deterring and warding off evil spirits.
Therefore, Jiajing's five colors were changed to the warmth and tranquility of the huadou color, highlighting the visual impact effect of big red, big green, big blue, big yellow and purple, using highly saturated colors, and being famous for its bright and colorful colors.
Jiajing also loved fish patterns, and once called himself "Tianchi Fishing", which showed his love for fish.
The carp is a sacred relic revered by Taoists and is known as the "Chihui Gong". Chinese has developed a mysterious worship of fish since ancient times, so there is a totem of fish patterns.
The pattern of jiajing multicolored fish algae pattern lid jar is fish pattern, which is a famous product in the official kiln, and the authentic products that exist in the world do not exceed double digits.
In 2000, Jiajing multicolored fish algae pattern lid jar sold for a high price of 44.04 million Hong Kong dollars, breaking the auction record of Chinese porcelain at that time. After that, the value of the world's most expensive porcelain was maintained by this vessel for four years.
After 18 years, Jiajing multicolored fish algae pattern lid jar was auctioned again, and its value soared to a sky-high price of 214 million Hong Kong dollars, nearly 5 times, which set off a boom in Jiajing five-colored porcelain collection.
This fish algae jar uses blue and white multicolor, combined with underglaze blue and glaze color, and has been fired at least three times. This practice contains the meaning of "yellow on red", that is, the auspicious wish of "Emperor Hong Fuqi Tian", thus having the meaning of longevity.
The pattern of the fish algae cup is taken from the Jiajing multicolored fish algae pattern lid jar, the eight-tailed red carp in the painting has different postures, leisurely and self-reliant, while the water grass is charming and floating, although there is no painting water, and the water appears naturally.
The Qianli Jiangshan Cup, the Colorful Fish Algae Cup, the Doucai Chicken Bowl Cup, and the Doucai Sanqiu Cup in the "Qianqiu Emperor Cup" series are from prominent origins, based on the imperial objects, created by Master Yang Shiqi, and truly reproduce the charm of the national treasure.
These 4 cups are of extraordinary quality, made of special high-grade porcelain clay, calcined with intangible pearl materials, and fired after hundreds of ratio experiments.
"Thousand Autumn Emperor Cup" is packaged in a beautiful gift box, a dark blue gift box, with a traditional pattern of flowers, with a noble and restrained temperament.
To protect the cups, each cup is equipped with a high-quality brocade bag, which is not only beautiful but also very stylish.
The Yang Shiqi Master Supervision Creation Certificate, Production Certificate, Collection Certificate, and Anti-counterfeiting Card issued by "Qianqiu Emperor Cup" ensures that each set is authentic and is an excellent choice for gifts to relatives and friends!
A gathering of royal objects not only blooms the glorious light of royal art treasures, but also contains auspicious meanings, with high artistic and collection value.
Loved friends must not miss it!