Mei Yin Tang treasures the Ming ChengHua Doucai Chicken Bowl Cup
Today, I would like to tell you about the famous Chengyao five-colored chicken bowl cup, which is what we call Chenghua Doucai today.
On the morning of April 8, 2014, Sotheby's "Important Chinese Porcelain and Crafts" spring auction was held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.
Mei Yin Tang Treasure Ming Cheng Hua Doucai Chicken Bowl Cup was sold for HK$280 million.
Taipei National Palace collection into a Chinese fighting bowl cup
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has a collection of Bowl Cups
The Great Vid Foundation in the United Kingdom has a treasure between the bowl cups
The Bauer Museum of Oriental Art in Geneva, Switzerland, has a collection of Fighting Bowl Cups
According to the available statistics, there are 17 chicken bowl cups in the world that can be found to be basically complete, which is less than the famous Ru kiln.
Among them, the big head is in the National Palace in Taipei, there are 10, don't ask, it must be the national treasure brought over when it moves south. The other 7, 3 in the collection, 1 in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, 1 in the Great Vived Foundation in the United Kingdom, 1 in the Bauer Museum of Oriental Art in Geneva, Switzerland, and the remaining 4 have been auctioned by sotheby's, a famous auction house.
And there are no public museums on the mainland, nor do we have the Forbidden City in Beijing.
The Forbidden City hides the chicken bowl cup
Previously, we thought that there were 2 in the Forbidden City in Beijing, but in 2016, after re-identification by experts, it was believed that these two chicken bowl cups were imitated in the Kangxi period, not the works of the Chenghua period.
So who are the 4 chicken bowl cups that have been auctioned off in the history of a hundred years?
Mr. Qiu Yanzhi, photographed in Shanghai in 1940
It is related to Qiu Yanzhi. Qiu Yanzhi was a native of Taicang, Suzhou, and the fourteenth grandson of Qiu Ying. He looked more gentle, the most gentle compared with Lu Qinzhai and Dai Runzhai.
He had a large antique business, and he had a lifetime collection of two pairs of 4 chicken bowl cups. In other words, the 4 chicken bowl cups that entered the market came out of his hand.
One of them sold for HK$29.17 million in 1999 and later sold for HK$280 million in 2014, setting a world record for Chinese ceramics at the time.
What is a Chicken Bowl Cup? How many chicken bowl cups are there in existence around the world? Who does it have a special story with?