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Yasiko walked out of the crowd with Mieko Kato and entered the auction hall he saw just now, just as the crowd was surging, which can be described as a sea of people, which is unique. Some of them are bidding enthusiastically, and the auction item turned out to be an antique called a *cylinder cup.

When Mieko Kato looked at a palm-sized wine glass on the table, she couldn't help but wonder, thinking that isn't it just a small bowl for drinking, with so many people competing for me and competing for the price? It didn't take long for a middle-aged man with an unattractive appearance to stand up and stretch out the index finger of a hand, and shouted, "Fifteen million, dollars." ”

The audience suddenly seemed to be boiling a pot, and there were many discussions, and suddenly someone stood up, this person was wearing myopia glasses, a beige casual suit, which looked particularly eye-catching, only to see him calmly say: "I'll add a million." ”

"Isn't it just a little bowl, my dear? How can it be so expensive? Mieko Kato couldn't hold back and asked Yasiko curiously. Iasi glanced at the bowl on the table, and then said slowly: "This bowl is not an ordinary bowl, this bowl is from country Z, called Ming Chenghua Doucai Chicken Bowl Cup." ”

"Oh? It turned out to be an antique from country Z, how to get it to country R for auction? Mieko Kato asked in surprise.

"Of course, good things have to be sold to rich people, there are so many rich people in country R, it should be able to sell them at a good price, but the owner of this thing should not be from country Z now, because as early as more than a hundred years ago, because country Z was invaded, a large number of precious cultural relics like this have been taken out of the country by the invaders and scattered all over the world." Yasiko said.

"Ah, it's no wonder that the people of country Z hate the country that invaded them, and the good things saved by the ancestors have been snatched away, as if country R also robbed a lot of treasures in country Z or the Manchu Qing Dynasty." Mieko Kato listened to the bidding while chatting with Yasiko.

"Yes, in fact, there are more precious cultural relics than this Ming Chenghua Doucai Chicken Bowl Cup, but today I want to see how much this cup can be sold for, hehe." Yasiko smiled and grabbed Mieko Kato's elbow and stood aside, watching quietly.

"Honey, do you know where this cup came from?" Mieko Kato looked at Yasiko's focused expression and asked.

"I really checked the information of this cup on the Internet a while ago, and it seems that there are less than ten such cups in the world." Yasiko said.

"Wow, it's so little, no wonder it's so expensive." Mieko Kato exclaimed in surprise.

"And this cup also has a special origin. There are history books that there was a Chenghua emperor in the Ming Dynasty of Z country who was very keen on calligraphy and painting, once he appreciated the painting of the Song Dynasty, and saw the warm scene of the hen foraging for food with a few chicks, and was very touched, so he inscribed a seven-word poem on this painting, expressing the hen's care for the chickens. Perhaps because of this, Emperor Chenghua germinated his wish to make a Chenghua Doucai Chicken Cup. Another scholar analyzed that there are two purposes for painting chickens: first, the first year of Chenghua is the Year of the Rooster; Another is the homonym of "auspicious" of "chicken" and "auspicious". Yasiko searched for the magnetic waves inside the melon seeds in his head, and said to Mieko Kato with interest.

"Ah, it turns out that the pattern on this cup has a very special meaning." Mieko Kato echoed.

"Haha, this cup is expensive not only in the pattern, first of all, because it is respected by the dynasties of country Z, but also because there are few surviving generations. The reason why this Ming Chenghua Doucai Chicken Bowl Cup is expensive is that it is small and thin, fragile, for more than 500 years, a little careless will become a thousand years of hatred, so there are few survivors in the world so far, and it is an unbreakable law to be rare and expensive. There is also the fact that this small cup was born with royal blood in the Ming Dynasty and has never fallen into the people's family. Emperors of all dynasties have respected it. There are only 10 of them that are recognized as genuine and intact, and 4 of them are in the hands of private collectors, and there are still vacancies in public museums in country Z. As he spoke, he stopped, only to hear that the total price had reached twenty million dollars.

"Chenghua Doucai chicken bowl cup for the Ming Dynasty Chenghua Emperor's royal wine cup, firing due to the high requirements of the emperor's house, the yield is not high, the top grade is dedicated to the court, the defective product is destroyed, so the number of people spread to the people is very small. There is already a saying among ancient porcelain collectors: "It is better to be a kiln than to be rich." In addition, there is "a kiln wine glass, not to Bo Yin Baijin." "The popularity of Chenghua official kiln porcelain can be seen." Iasiko suddenly became wrinkled and a little difficult to understand, as if he was explaining and as if he was talking to himself: "Since the Ming Dynasty in country Z, chicken bowl cups have been regarded as difficult to buy. The Chenghua Chicken Cup was auctioned in 1980 and 1999, both setting new world auction records for porcelain from country Z. Similarly, in 1999, it was auctioned at XG Sotheby's for 29.17 million Hong Kong dollars, setting a new world auction record for porcelain from country Z. Chicken bowl cup, that is, a small cup of wine decorated with a hen picture, ringed with a rooster and hen leading the young to forage. The picture of the hen was born in the S Dynasty early, and it was painted on porcelain, which started from Chenghua. Because the chicken bowl cup is colorful and vivid, the painting rate is really lovely, and it is known as a god in the industry. ”

"Iasiko, are you memorizing the text? Ah, I don't understand a little, what does it mean to be a kiln rather than be rich and noble? Mieko Kato asked, looking at Yasiko with wide eyes and a daze.

"These are the ancient classical Chinese of country Z, and now it is more interesting to analyze, it should be to get this cup, you can spend all your savings, in fact, it means that this cup is valuable." Yasiko said.

"Then you said that such a small thing is worth so much money, who can tell if it's real or fake, it's all made hundreds of years ago." Mieko Kato looked at the small cup on the stage from afar, and asked Assiko with a curious face.

"This cup is most commonly counterfeited with a Doucai chicken bowl cup. The imitation of the Kangxi Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty is slightly higher than the genuine product, the bottom diameter is slightly smaller than the genuine product, and the unglazed part of the foot is wider than the genuine one; The bottom six-character square box regular script will occupy the bottom, the line is thick and heavy, and the text decoration is relatively sluggish; The blue and white mountain stone pattern has heavy blue and white dots, which is not found in the real thing. During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, there are imitations with high-handled lying feet, with Qianlong imperial inscription poems on the outside, and there are "Qianlong antique in the Qing Dynasty" seal on the bottom foot. During the Republic of China, the imitation glaze was blue, the blue and white color was floating, the color was light, and the decoration was sluggish. ”

Iasiko said while thinking: "The three dynasties of Jiajing, Longqing, and Wanli in the Ming Dynasty and the Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong dynasties of the Qing Dynasty all have imitations of Chenghua models. Although the color and style of the imitation are similar to the real thing, there are still flaws to be found. Jia, Long, Wanshi imitation model appears thick strokes, sparse arrangement, the circle bar is too large, and the penmanship of the Chenghua section looks like and the pen power is different, the color is also thick but not bright, only the clouds, bubbles and Chenghua kiln are similar, almost chaotic. ”

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