Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Chicken Cylinder Cup sold for HK$ 280 million. How many billions are still buried underground in the factory?
Starting from the Laoye Temple beside Poyang Lake, the sky is getting dark. We drove directly to the hotel in Jingdezhen. I walked on the Hangrui Expressway for about 2 hours, and the whole journey went smoothly, without going the wrong way as before. It's already past 8 o'clock in the evening in Jingdezhen, and my companion's other car has arrived at the hotel in advance and helped us to open a room.
Schematic diagram of the route from Jiujiang and Laoye Temple to Jingdezhen go on road trip
I have to say that this 1004 porcelain culture boutique hotel is very good. From the gate to the yard to the room, you can see all kinds of exquisite porcelain and tiles everywhere. I didn't expect to see the true meaning of porcelain capital, but I have already felt her charming atmosphere in the hotel.
The next morning, after a hasty visit to Jingdezhen ancient kiln, we drove along Wenhua Avenue to the Imperial Kiln Factory Scenic Area. Manager d of the scenic spot is standing outside the gate waiting for us at this time. As soon as he met, he proudly said that when he came to Jingdezhen to see porcelain, he must go to the Imperial Kiln Factory, which is equivalent to the soul of Jingdezhen porcelain!
Yuyao factory archway
Different from the ancient kiln, the main purpose here is to repair the official porcelain fragments excavated by archaeology and then show them to tourists. The appearance of the Imperial Kiln Factory is actually very interesting: as early as the winter of 1982, when Jingdezhen Municipal Engineering Department laid an underground cable along Zhushan Road, it accidentally excavated the remains of the official kiln in Xuande period of Ming Dynasty. Since then, the Ming Dynasty imperial porcelain factory has been rediscovered and strictly protected.
Yuyao factory kiln site ruins
In other words, after we enter the park, every inch of land under our feet may be buried with priceless porcelain treasures. Manager D pointed to the half-excavated horseshoe kiln site and joked that many people who don't know it may think it is just a broken wall lying here. In fact, there are many articles in it!
Through the reddish-brown kiln bricks in the kiln site, it seems that you can still feel the temperature of the kiln when firing porcelain.
Laiyu Kiln Factory is actually related to a news I saw on the Internet. In 20 14, Liu Yiqian, a wealthy businessman, photographed the only chicken jar cup in the world for HK$ 280 million. At that time and many years later, the auction figures created by Jigang Cup occupied the first place in the porcelain auction list, and no one else was like it. It can be said that it was the best and only performance!
Manager d knew I was interested in the chicken cylinder cup and told me some stories about it. In the Ming Dynasty, Tang Xianzong Zhu Jianshen fell in love with his wet nurse and named him Wan Guifei. However, they haven't had children for a long time, so the emperor ordered the imperial kiln factory to burn the chicken cylinder cup carefully, which means they hope they will have a happy dragon. (Looking back, that's right. The pattern on the chicken jar cup is just a male, a female and a chicken.
On the top floor of the exhibition hall, we came to collection room of Jigang Cup, and the projector played the process of making and repairing Jigang Cup on the wall. There is a photo of Liu Yiqian, a Shanghai collector who took away the chicken jar cup, drinking tea with it in his hand. Liu Yiqian in the photo is very proud.
I remember in an interview, Liu Yiqian said that he wanted to express his excitement in this way. I thought to myself, this cup has a history of five or six hundred years. Emperor Daming and Wan Guifei should have used it in those years. If you drink tea with it, does Liu Yiqian also attract royalty?
Reminiscent that this 280 million Hong Kong dollar chicken cylinder cup was taken from Jingdezhen Imperial Kiln Factory, I can't help thinking, how many cultural relics worth hundreds of millions of dollars are buried underground in this ancient factory?
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