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The porcelain in this big iron box is not a large one, but some small and medium-sized ones, so there are a lot of porcelain in this box.

In addition to being protected by thatch, each porcelain is also wrapped with a layer of oil paper, and inside the oil paper is wrapped with a layer of tissue paper. Obviously, among the little devils who stored these treasures at the beginning, there were masters who were proficient in antiques. Otherwise, with the temperament of those big soldiers, it would be absolutely impossible to protect these porcelains so well.

Randomly pick up a piece of porcelain wrapped in oiled paper and tissue paper. Judging from the shape of the vessel, this porcelain should be a bowl. After carefully uncovering the oiled paper and tissue paper, it is indeed a bowl. Bowl with tangle of flowers.

This bowl has the typical characteristics of blue-and-white porcelain in the early Ming Dynasty, that is, the carcass is thicker, thicker than the blue-and-white porcelain of the Yuan Dynasty. However, this bowl has a relatively high degree of porcelain, so although the carcass is thick and heavy, it is dense and white. One can tell at a glance that this is definitely not porcelain that can be fired in a folk kiln. This point, Yang Jing can judge even without the holy ring appraisal.

The green material used in this bowl is quite smudged, which is obviously the domestic green material used. In history, the blue and white porcelain in the early Ming Dynasty was more dizzy, which has become an important evidence for the identification of blue and white porcelain in the early Ming Dynasty.

Yang Jing turned the bowl over, but the inscription on the bottom of the bowl surprised Yang Jing.

Hongwu year system.

The inscription on the bottom of the bowl is only four words, but these four words made Yang Jing's heart beat wildly involuntarily.

This blue and white flower pattern bowl is actually an official kiln porcelain from the Hongwu period in the early Ming Dynasty, and it is also an official kiln porcelain with a style! This is simply the feeling of a pie in the sky.

You must know that ancient Chinese porcelain was not marked with the emperor's year name before Yongle in the Ming Dynasty. Of course, this statement is only based on the porcelain discovered so far. Song porcelain, including Yuan porcelain, did not use the emperor's year name as an inscription, which can already be determined. The use of the emperor's year name as an inscription began in the Ming Dynasty.

It's just that no one can be sure whether the inscription using the emperor's year name began in Hongwu or Yongle.

Because there is no official kiln porcelain with year mark in Hongwu period, and folk kiln is very rare, only blue and white writing Fu and Shou are seen. In addition, the bluish-white porcelain pot with the date of made this on February 27, the seventh year of Hongwu discovered in Yushan, Jiangxi Province. The inscription is engraved on the belly of the pot, which is an extremely rare utensil with a clear Hongwu date.

It is for this reason that archaeologists unanimously believe that the use of the emperor's year name as an inscription began in the Yongle period.

But the appearance of this blue and white entangled branch flower pattern bowl directly broke this identification, that is to say, once this bowl is born, then the ancient Chinese porcelain related to the beginning of using the emperor's year name as the inscription will no longer be the Emperor Yongle No, but his father Zhu Yuanzhang!

This discovery is definitely a breakthrough in the research of ancient Chinese porcelain, but it is no wonder that no matter it is Hongwu or Yongle, they are serious fathers and sons. You have to honestly call Daddy!

Since Yongle always used the emperor's year name as his inscription, he probably learned it from his father.

Although it is an estimate, the possibility is extremely high! Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di are both talented and generous emperors. I am a hero and a hero, and what is reflected in this pair of fathers and sons is called a vivid one. But the reason why Emperor Yongle is so powerful, if not for the teaching of his father Zhu Yuanzhang, it is obviously impossible.

Therefore, it is not surprising that Zhu Di learned a lot from his father after hearing and seeing him since he was a child, and then even used the year number as an inscription to make official kiln porcelain.

It was not determined before that the use of year names as inscriptions did not start with Emperor Hongwu, because these archaeologists in later generations did not find any Hongwu official kiln porcelain with year names at all. Now there is such a serious Hongwu official kiln blue and white porcelain, and it still bears the date of the year. If this is not a breakthrough discovery, what is it?

Just from the perspective of archaeological value, the archaeological value of this small blue and white flower pattern bowl is even higher than that of the two large pots with blue and white figures in Yuan Dynasty!

After appraising it with the holy ring, Yang Jing was really satisfied after confirming that this blue and white bowl with twigs and flowers pattern was indeed produced in the JDZ official kiln in the 21st year of Hongwu.

Good stuff! Really good stuff! Yang Jing thought joyfully.

In fact, this bowl is not only of archaeological value, but its own value is absolutely extremely high. This is the only official kiln blue-and-white porcelain with the Hongwu Year mark found in the world so far. It is unique in the world. How high do you think it is worth?

The blue-and-white Yuan blue-and-white porcelain vase with Xiao Heyue chasing Han Xintu, which fetched a sky-high price of 840 million Hong Kong dollars, there are at least three in the world. This blue-and-white porcelain with the Hongwu year mark is the only one in the world. If it goes up for auction, then How much does it cost?

It is no exaggeration to say that just this bowl is enough for Yang Jing to be satisfied.

But it's a pity that Yang Jing's surprise from this big iron box is obviously more than that.

After putting together the Hongwu blue and white flower-patterned bowl and the two large pots of Yuan blue and white characters, Yang Jingyou casually opened another wrapped porcelain, and as a result, this porcelain also brought a lot of excitement to Yang Jin. surprise.

This is a blue-and-white lion-ball heart-pressing hand cup from the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty. No matter in terms of shape, decoration or other aspects, this is another fine official kiln porcelain from the Yongle period.

Yang Jing wouldn't be surprised if it was just this hand-pressing cup, but what if it was a set of four hand-pressing cups?

That's right, among the porcelain found next, Yang Jing found three other hand-pressed cups with different decorations, one is the Yongle blue-and-white hand-pressed cup with the year of the Huaxin inner book, and the other is the Yongle hand-pressed cup with the year of the mandarin duck lying on the lotus. The blue and white hand-pressed cup, and the Yongle blue and white hand-pressed cup with bamboo stone and ganoderma lucidum. Counting the Yongle blue-and-white hand-pressed cup with the double-lion hydrangea inner book model that was first discovered, these four hand-pressed cups with exactly the same shape and specifications constitute a set of four cups.

Among them, the Yongle blue-and-white hand-pressed cup with the year of the mandarin duck lying on the lotus and the year of the bamboo and stone Ganoderma lucidum, although it is also collected in the Palace Museum, but it was imitated during the Wanli period, especially the one with the year of the bamboo and stone Ganoderma lucidum. Hand-pressed cups are not collected even in the Palace Museum, and no one has ever heard of such a pattern of pressed-hand cups in other places.

And these four hand-pressing cups are all genuine Yongle official kiln porcelain, and their value is not ordinary.

In addition to this set of hand-pressing cups, Yang Jing also discovered a total of more than 30 pieces of official kiln porcelain from Hongwu to Wanli, from Hongwu blue and white porcelain to Yongxuan blue and white porcelain, Yongxuan underglaze color, Jiawan five-color porcelain covers almost all the high-quality official kilns of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, the biggest discovery among them is the set of four Chenghua Doucai Chicken Crock Cups!

Throughout the entire Ming Dynasty, the development of its porcelain can be said to have reached the pinnacle level. In the Ming Dynasty, China's porcelain truly realized the pattern of a hundred flowers blooming.

From blue and white porcelain to underglaze color, overglaze color, and then to single-color glaze and variegated glaze, there are countless porcelains in the Ming Dynasty. But looking at the entire Ming Dynasty, the most famous porcelain is the fighting color porcelain in the Chenghua period!

Chenghua Doucai Chicken Cup is the most famous porcelain of Doucai porcelain in Chenghua period. Of course, this Chenghua Doucai Chicken Cup is composed of three aspects, Chenghua-Doucai-Chicken Cup.

Chenghua refers to the reign title of Emperor Xianzong Zhu Jianshen of the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty used the reign title Chenghua for a total of 23 years.

Doucai, also known as Doucai, is a treasure of traditional Chinese porcelain making. Created and fired in the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty, the bucket color in the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty was the most respected. It is a decorative variety that combines underglaze color (blue and white) and overglaze color.

According to historical documents, doucai began in the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty, but Xuande's doucai porcelain is extremely rare. Therefore, the doucai in the Chenghua period is the most respected. Room decoration in five colors.

The paintings handed down from generation to generation of Chenghua Doucai porcelain are concise, and the content is mainly flowers, birds and figures. Its method is to use blue and white to outline the outline of the drawn pattern on the white porcelain body, after the cover glaze is fired at high temperature, and then fill in different colors according to the different parts of the pattern on the glaze, generally three to three. Five kinds, finally put into the color furnace and fired at low temperature

Chenghua bucket color can be divided into dot color, cover color, dyed color, filling color and so on. Except for a few large bowls in Chenghua Doucai, most of them are small and unique in shape, such as cup cups, chicken bowl cups, small handle cups, etc. There is also a covered pot with seahorse or tuanhua painted on it, and a blue and white wan character on the bottom.

As for the chicken bowl cup, it is named because the shape of the cup is like a vat, and the main decoration is chicken stone. There are also many Chenghua Doucai ware decorated with chicken stones, such as chicken stone pattern hat cups, chicken stone pattern goblets, chicken stone pattern bowls, chicken stone pattern pots, chicken stone pattern tea trays, etc.

Chenghua Doucai Chicken Crock Cup is to place a skimming bowl with a diameter of about eight centimeters on the outer wall of the foot bowl, first use blue and white thin lines to lightly trace the outline of the decoration, and then glaze it into the kiln to burn the carcass at a high temperature of about 1300 degrees. Then fill the reserved blue-and-white decoration with red, green, yellow and other colors into the kiln for low-temperature roasting for the second time.

The outer wall is divided into two groups with peony lake stones and orchid grass lake stones. One group is painted with a rooster holding its head high, a female chicken and a chick are pecking at a centipede, and another two chicks are playing and chasing each other; the other group is painted with a rooster Crowing, a hen and three chicks peck at a centipede. The pictures are vivid and interesting.

Chicken Crock Cup is one of Mingcheng Huadoucai cups, drinking utensils. The shape is open, with a shallow belly and lying feet.

In fact, strictly speaking, the name Chenghua Doucai Chicken Crock Cup is really a bit earthy compared to other high-end names of Ming Dynasty or Qing Dynasty porcelain, but it is such a name. The value of the earthy porcelain is among the top among Chinese porcelain, and there is a very touching story about the origin of this chicken bowl cup.

Although Emperor Chenghua had infinite glory after becoming an emperor, he was a generation of emperors, but who knew that Zhu Jianshen was actually a lonely and helpless child when he was young.

When Zhu Jianshen was less than two years old, his father Zhu Qizhen, Emperor Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty, was captured by the Wala people because of the Tumu Fortress, and then the emperor became his uncle. So this child is helpless in the deep palace, danger is everywhere, his uncle will get rid of him for the throne at any time. From the age of two, loneliness and fear have been haunting this child. For him, childhood is gray. And in this gloomy childhood life, the only person who can bring him comfort is the court lady Wan Shi.

Wan Shi, who was only a court lady at that time, was seventeen years older than Zhu Jianshen, but it was this mother-like woman who accompanied Zhu Jianshen all the time, comforting him and taking care of his life. In his young heart, the person who guards him day and night is the one he can rely on.

Later, Zhu Jianshen's position as the prince was abolished, the tree fell and the monkeys scattered, and everyone around him packed up and left. Only the court lady surnamed Wan stayed by his side from beginning to end.

Later, Zhu Jianshen's father, Zhu Qizhen, launched the Change of Seizing the Gate and regained the throne. After his father died, Zhu Jianshen became a great treasure and became the emperor of a generation.

Although he became the emperor, Zhu Jianshen's tragic childhood experience made Zhu Jianshen have a deep desire for family affection. The love of his life is Wan Zhen'er who has always been by his side.

The Chicken Crock Cup was made by Zhu Jianshen to please Concubine Wan Gui, who is seventeen years his senior. According to textual research, the pattern of the chicken cup comes from the Song Dynasty's Picture of Hen and Son, which expresses the emperor's feelings of commemorating the years when Concubine Wan Gui took care of him when he was young, and hoped for family harmony and a long life for his son.

This kind of chicken bowl cup, which supports the deep friendship of Emperor Chenghua, belongs to the imperial wine cup of Emperor Chenghua. It is very difficult to fire this kind of porcelain, and it is the emperor's imperial wine cup, so this kind of chicken cup is extremely precious. Even at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Wanli was very eager to own a Chenghua Doucai chicken cup, and the price at that time could already be described as sky-high. Records of Shenzong: Shenzong's fashionable food, there is a pair of Chenghua colored chicken cups in front of the imperial court, worth 100,000 yuan.

This small cup is of royal blood since it was born, and it is only used by the emperor and a few concubines. According to historical records, at that time, the Emperor Chenghua used this chicken bowl cup as a reward to reward several envoys from the vassal states who came to pay tribute. In addition, even his closest ministers have never rewarded him. And because the emperor had very high quality requirements, almost making one out of a hundred, before the Republic of China, there was no possibility of it flowing out of the court.

Therefore, there are almost no such small cups in existence. In modern times, there are only ten Chenghua Doucai chicken cups known to the world!

On April 8, 2014, at the Spring Auction of Huaxia Porcelain and Handicrafts held by Sotheby’s Hong Kong Island, Mr. Liu Yiqian, a famous collector in Shanghai, finally won the price of 281.24 million Hong Kong dollars after eight rounds of bidding. The Chenghua Fighting Color Chicken Cup!

And now, four complete sets of Chenghua Doucai Chicken Cups were discovered in this big iron box at one go. This discovery is really no less than the two large pots with blue and white characters in Yuan Dynasty just discovered!