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The Unique Shape of the Yongle Chicken Heart Cup is a new variety of the Yongle grilled during the Ming Dynasty, which is very exquisite. The chicken heart cup has an open deep abdomen, the mouth is slightly curved along the circle foot and gradually converges, the bottom of the cup is a small circle foot, the inside is an elegant chicken heart-like bulge, and the outer wall of the vessel is decorated with blue flower lotus petals. Long Xiaotian Collection (Academic Research Welcome Exchange)
Because the Ming Dynasty promoted cultural integration of foreign trade, the Central Asian factors were absorbed in the pattern of porcelain, creating a novel blue and white ornament, because the chicken heart shape at the bottom of the cup is famous in the world, so it is called yongle chicken heart cup, because of its unique modeling process, it is difficult for future generations to imitate its charm.
Because ming chengzu Zhu Di sent the three treasure eunuch Zheng He to the West seven times, promoting the development of trade at home and abroad, on the one hand, the world-famous porcelain was exported overseas; on the other hand, from the village of Kwamsa in the Persian Kashan Mountains, brought high-speed rail low-manganese blue flower material (the local people believe that a person named "Sulaiman" found this cobalt material, so he named it after it, that is, the famous imported "Su Ni Bo Qing", also known as "Su Ma Li Qing" material. ), bring back the "cylindrical blue" pigment needed to make blue and white porcelain.
Su ma away from the green material is rich and verdant and bright, the raw material is deep in the black basket dark color, the light presents a rich sapphire blue, the color is painted on the porcelain tire, there are dark and light layers, and there is such as the phenomenon of rice paper halo, because su ma away from the green color overlap there are cobalt iron crystal spots, star-like droplet halo, light and faint crystal points less.
It is precisely because it has the characteristics of natural dispersion and its natural and free artistic charm, which is a feature that other green materials do not have. And because Su Ma is far away from the Qing production area, the Ming Dynasty period is more precious than gold, so the Yongle Chicken Heart Cup was a valuable product at that time.
Su Ma Liqing presents irregular crystalline crystals under the microscopic, emitting metallic luster, and accompanied by three-dimensional characteristics of obvious quicksand, flowing water, network pattern, which is not available in other green materials and cannot be imitated.
The porcelain clay material used in the Yongle Chicken Heart Cup is very exquisite, using the "Macang soil" of the late Ming Dynasty, the fetal bone is delicate and white porcelain with a high degree of porcelain, the light is yellow, the fetal bone is glutinous rice-like stale, and the glaze shows different regular glaze due to its age, and there are different thicknesses and thicknesses of orange peel patterns. Long Xiaotian Collection (Academic Research Welcome Exchange)
