The person in the photo is Liu Yiqian (from Shanghai)
In 2014 he posted this picture of drinking tea
cause a stir
You might say no, just drink tea
The tea he drinks is ordinary tea
But this cup is the Ming Dynasty Chenghua Doucai Chicken Cup worth 280 million
April 8, 2014
It was this man who bought it at a sky-high price of 280 million (including service fees) at Sotheby's in Hong Kong.
Ming Chenghua Doucai Chicken Tank
The height of the cup is only about 3 cm, and the diameter is 8.2 cm
Why is it so expensive?
The Dou Cai chicken pot cup is not actually a tea cup.
It was the imperial wine cup of Emperor Chenghua in Ming Dynasty.
Born with authentic royal blood
There are rumors that:
There are only more than 10 pieces of Chenghua Doucai Chicken Cups in Ming Dynasty.
Most of them are collected in major museums.
What is in the museum must not be circulated among the people
There are only three private collections,
The other two have some flaws.
Only this well preserved
That's what's rare
The Ming Dynasty book "Records of Shenzong" records: "There is a pair of cups in front of the royal family, worth 100,000"
Cheng Cup is talking about the fighting color chicken pot cup
The 100,000 at that time was just a meaning to describe the priceless
If you have to convert
100,000 during the Chenghua period is equivalent to 50 million today
You couldn't buy it back then even if you were rich
Because it is a royal product,
Only for the emperor and concubines
Therefore, the firing requirements are very high, and the yield is very low.
The top grades are enshrined in the palace, the inferior ones are destroyed directly, and very little is revealed to the people
There are two guesses about drawing chickens on cups:
First, the first year of Chenghua in the Ming Dynasty was the Year of the Rooster
The second is that "chicken" and the auspicious word "ji" are homophonic, so chicken means auspicious
Expensive for its own reason
Not sure what it's like to drink tea with this cup?
Hurry up to a treasure to see if there is a similar model
Buy one back and enjoy the emperor-like feeling
