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* Daming Chenghua Doucai Chicken Cup ** is the top treasures in ancient Chinese porcelain, famous for its exquisite craftsmanship, unique historical background and extremely high market value. In 2014, a Ming Chenghua bucket color chicken cup was sold at a Sotheby's auction in Hong Kong for HK $281.24 million ** (about 280 million yuan), setting a new world auction record for Chinese porcelain, and the buyer was Shanghai collector Liu Yiqian.
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### ** Key information analysis: **
1. ** Historical background **
- Made in the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty (1465-1487), it is a special imperial wine glass made by Emperor Zhu Xianshen for his favorite concubine Wan Guifei.
- Because the cup body is painted with the pattern of "rooster and hen leading chicks for food", it is named "Chicken bowl cup", meaning auspicious (" chicken "homonyms" auspicious ").
2. ** Arts and Crafts value **
- ** Bucket color process ** : The combination of underglaze blue and white and overglaze color needs to be fired twice, and the technical difficulty is extremely high. The bucket color of Chenghua period is known as "the crown of Ming Dynasty porcelain".
- ** Small and delicate ** : size about 8 cm, delicate white, enamel warm, vivid painting, bright color (especially "beautiful red" known).
3. ** is rare **
At present, there are only about 19 recognized authentic Chenghua bucket color chicken cup, most of which are stored in top institutions such as the Palace Museum in Taipei and the British Museum in London, and few folk circulation.