Throughout the history of China for thousands of years, the cup seems to have become a carrier of culture, constantly enriching and evolving, and is the inheritor of culture.
Chinese cups for drinking tea were mostly bowls for drinking wine at the beginning, and when the literati and inkers feasted on the water on the Shangwei Festival, Wang Xizhi's "Orchid Pavilion Preface" made the "Song Of The Flowing Water" a unique cultural symbol and became the most culturally tasteful cup in history. In the Ming Dynasty, due to the improvement of winemaking technology, the degree of wine became higher, and the most intuitive thing was that the cup became smaller. In the middle and late Qing Dynasty, under the influence of Western mugs, the cup gradually became the most familiar appearance today.
If drinking alcohol is unbridled romance, drinking tea is frank sobriety. The cup of each period also became a microcosm of the culture of that time.
Goblets
The high foot bowl, also known as the horse cup, has two kinds of hollow foot closed bottom and unsealed bottom. This bowl is bowl-shaped on top and has a high handle on the bottom. The goblet has a beautiful appearance, is practical and convenient, and is a typical utensil in ceramics.
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Daming Chenghua Yellow glazed floral pattern high foot Queen Cup
Height 7.6cm diameter 8.1cm
Paragraph knowledge: "Daming Chenghua Year System" six-character letter paragraph
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Daming Xuande gem blue glaze fish pattern figure goblet pair
Height 3.8cm diameter 7.9cm
Style: "Daming Xuande Year System" six-character double-line lettering paragraph
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Qingqianlong Alum red glaze tuan phoenix pattern goblet pair
Height 10cm diameter 9cm
Paragraph knowledge: "Qianlong Year System of the Great Qing Dynasty" six-character seal book paragraph
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Daming Chenghua Doucai beast face pattern goblet pair
Height 8.3cm diameter 7 .6cm
Paragraph knowledge: "Daming Chenghua Year System" six-character letter paragraph
Hand cup
During the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, the presser cup created and fired in the Jingdezhen Royal Kiln Factory was the most famous. The shape is flat and outward, the abdominal wall is nearly vertical, and the lower abdominal wall is adducted and circled. The shape of the hand cup is dignified and generous, and the dexterity is seen in the solemnity. When held in the hand, the edge of the mouth of the slight outer skimming is just pressed against the edge of the hand, the volume is moderate, the weight is moderate, and the hand is stable, so it is called "hand cup".
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Daming Yongle A pair of blue and white fish algae pattern hand cups
Height 7cm diameter 12.4cm
Knowledge: "Yongle Year System" four-character double-line seal book
Recumbent cup
Lying foot, which refers to a cup or bowl as a flat foot, is a traditional style. It began in the Western Jin Dynasty, and thereafter it was produced in successive dynasties, and began to flourish in the Ming and Qing dynasties.
Among the recumbent cups, plates, and bowls of the past dynasties, the most used recumbent feet was the Chenghua Dynasty. The most famous bowl cup of this period is also in the form of a recumbent foot. The shape is shallow abdomen, recumbent feet; the overall exquisite and beautiful, from top to bottom with a certain arc of slow adduction, not exaggerated but introverted, the linear shape is smooth.
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Daming Chenghua Doucai Chicken Bowl Cup
Height 3.9cm diameter 8.3cm
Style: "Daming Chenghua Year System" six-character double-line lettering paragraph
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Daming Chenghua Chenghua Chenghua Court Yellow Glaze Empress Dowager Luminous Cup
Height 8.5cm diameter 9 .8cm
Paragraph knowledge: "Daming Chenghua Year Imperial System" seven-character letters
Curved belly cup
Refers to the upper part perpendicular, the lower part of the adductor is a curved abdomen. It is also one of the most common cup types.
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Daming Chenghua Doucai pair head phoenix cup pair
Height 14.3cm diameter 9cm
Style: "Daming Chenghua Year System" six-character double-line lettering paragraph