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Chapter 749 Kangxi Colorful Twelve Flower God Cup

Although this big dragon vat is not as big as the big dragon vats in the Kangxi, Yonggan period, which were often seventy or eighty centimeters high, it is still not a small one. At least among all the porcelains found today, the only one In terms of size, this big dragon tank is the largest.

The function of this kind of big dragon tank and the big blue and white tank painted with other patterns is actually a water storage device for fire fighting in the imperial palace and the upper class.

"JDZ Taolu" said that "the vats are mostly painted with cloud dragons or blue and white flowers, so they are all named after dragon vats", pointing out the origin of the name of the utensils. It is a special thing for feudal emperors.As early as the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, the JDZ Royal Kiln Factory had a dragon cylinder kiln, which was dedicated to firing large dragon cylinders.During the Xuande period, there were 32 Longgang kilns at one time. In the Zhengde and Jiajing periods of the middle and late Ming Dynasty, due to the small number of green kilns and the idleness of the Longgang kilns, the Longgang kilns were rebuilt into sixteen green kilns, and there are still Dalonggang kilns. Sixteen seats.

During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, fires were often caused in the palace by eunuchs setting off fireworks and using fire carelessly. Therefore, Emperor Jiajing attached great importance to fire prevention and sent people to JDZ to specially burn large dragon tanks for water storage and fire prevention.But more often, the big dragon tank is left idle and becomes a de facto big fish tank.At the same time, the big dragon tank was also used to store grain, oil and water in the palace because of its durability.

After Wanli, with the gradual exhaustion of imported green materials, the craftsmen of the JDZ imperial kiln could only use domestic green materials, but the color of the blue and white dragon vats fired could no longer be compared with that of the Jiajing period, and Jiajing blue and white dragon vats became precious. As a rare thing, although Emperor Wanli was the son of heaven, he had to use the "Daming Jiajing Annual System" large dragon tank in his mausoleum.

Most of Jiajing blue-and-white dragon vats are large and upright, with a simple and simple style, and rich green and bright colors.Therefore, it is specific and versatile, durable, elegant and mellow, and pleasing to the eye. Therefore, in the Ming Dynasty, only the Jiajing blue and white dragon tank was the best.

Although this big dragon vat is not very big, it is not too small either. It is definitely a rare top-quality blue and white big dragon vat.Just this big dragon tank is definitely a national treasure.

However, the big dragon vat is full of thatch. At first Yang Jing thought that the thatch was to protect the blue and white big dragon vat, but when he cleaned it up, he found that there was a lot of grass in the belly of the big dragon vat. There are also some small porcelain hidden away.

These small porcelains were not big in size, and they were all wrapped in tissue paper. When Yang Jing opened the tissue paper of one of the porcelains, his two eyeballs suddenly became round.

"Damn it! Brother's luck can't be so good, right?"

Looking at the small cup floating quietly in the space, Yang Jing almost cried out!The small cup in his hand is not big, with a diameter of less than seven centimeters, a bottom diameter of less than three centimeters, and a height of less than five centimeters.But such a small cup has a cluster of bright peonies drawn in five colors!
This pattern immediately made Yang Jing's mind pop out the name of a piece of porcelain——Colorful Twelve Flower God Cup!

And this first opened cup has peony flowers drawn on it, which should be the fourth cup of the Twelve Cups of the Flower God, the Peony Flower God Cup!
As for the base payment, it is the six-character two-line regular script "Kangxi Year System of the Great Qing Dynasty".

"Could it be that the legendary Twelve Cups of the Five-Colored Flower God are hidden in the stomach of this blue-and-white dragon vat? Or the Twelve Cups of the Five-Colored Flower God during the Kangxi period?"

Thinking of this, Yang Jing was really a little excited. If there is really a set of Kangxi Colorful Twelve Flower God Cups here, then the harvest will be really great.

Yang Jing took out all the cups hidden in the big dragon jar, sure enough, there were exactly twelve cups, no more, no less!
Now, Yang Jing's breathing became a little short.

In the Chinese ceramic circle, there are not many complete sets of porcelain. The sets of porcelain were already popular around the Eastern Jin Dynasty. etc. as a group of tea sets, but there were relatively few varieties of combinations at that time.

The Ming and Qing Dynasties were the periods when sets became more and more abundant, and the largest set could reach two hundred pieces.

But the most precious of the sets is the Chenghua Doucai Chicken Crock Cup.But in fact, it is not the Ming Chenghua Doucai Chicken Crock Cup that is thriving. The Qing Kangxi Five-color Twelve Flower God Cup and the Qing Kangxi Blue and White Twelve Flower God Cup are also peerless works comparable to the Chicken Crock Cup.

In the 19th year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, Zang Yingxuan was ordered to enter JDZ as a pottery supervisor, responsible for supervising the manufacture of official kiln porcelain, marking the official start of production of official kilns in the Qing Dynasty.At that time, Liu Yuan was specifically responsible for designing the porcelain style.He is versatile. He was ordered to preside over the design of various imperial porcelains. He is good at firing colorful and fighting color products, and has made great achievements.Among the hundreds of porcelain samples designed by Liu Yuan, the Twelve Flower God Cup is unprecedented.

The December Flower God Cup designed by Liu Yuan is themed with narcissus, magnolia, peach blossom, peony, pomegranate, lotus, sunflower, sweet-scented osmanthus, chrysanthemum, hibiscus, rose and plum blossom. One flower and one month, these twelve kinds of flowers represent China Twelve famous women in history are regarded as "flower gods" and decorated with corresponding poems.

The twelve flower gods enshrined are: Luoshen, the god of daffodils in the first month, Yang Yuhuan, the god of apricot flowers in February, Mrs. Xi Shi, the god of peach blossoms in March, Lijuan, the god of peony flowers in April, Gongsunshi, the god of pomegranates in May, Xi Shi, the god of lotus in June, Mrs. Li, God of Sunflower in July, Concubine Xu Xian, God of Osmanthus in August, Concubine Zuo, God of Chrysanthemum in September, Lady Huarui, God of Furong Flower in October, Goddess of Flower Wang Zhaojun in November, God of Plum Blossom in December, Princess Shou.

There are different poems on each cup. The poem of the Narcissus Flower God in January is: The spring breeze makes the sun come to clear the books, and the night moon lingers on the embankment.

The poem of the magnolia flower god in February is: Jinying Cuicalyx brings spring cold, and there are several kinds of yellow flowers.

The poem of the peach blossom god in March is: Fenghuaxinsheyan, the old spring is thick.

The poem of the peony flower god in April is: Xiaoyan is far away from the golden palm dew, and the evening fragrance deeply provokes the jade hall.

The poem of the pomegranate flower god in May is: the dew is reflected by the bead curtain, and the fragrant wind is covered by the powder wall.

The poem of the lotus flower god in June is: the root is the jade in the mud, and the heart is exposed to the pearl.

The poem of the sunflower flower god in July is: the wide hall is lightly fragrant, and the high platform is far away.

The poem of the August osmanthus flower god is: the branches grow infinite moons, and the flowers are full of natural autumn.

The poem of the chrysanthemum flower god in September is: white clothes wine for thousands of years, and the fragrance of young women for a lifetime.

The poem of the God of Hibiscus in October is: Fragrance and constant rain, beautiful colors come out with clear smoke.

The poem of the rose god in November is: Don't follow the thousands of species, and let it bloom for a year alone.

In December, the poem of plum blossoms is: plain and snowy trees, fragrant and windy.

The front of the cup is a flower, and the back is a blue and white poem in regular script, with the word "Shang" stamped at the end.

The Twelve Flower God Cup is the first time in Chinese history that "poetry, calligraphy, painting, and seal" are used together on the same vessel, so Emperor Kangxi loved it very much. He took it with him on several southern tours. He not only likes the Flower God Cup porcelain I prefer the cultural artistic conception of flowers with Tang poetry.

"This is an absolute good thing. It's really no worse than the Chenghua Doucai Chicken Cup set just discovered! It's a pity that this set of Huashen Cup should not be the one used by the old man Kangxi back then, but should be It is a high-quality official kiln imitated in the later stage." Yang Jing looked at the bottom of this set of Huashen cups, thinking with regret in his heart.

It is said that the set of five-color twelve-flower god cups used by the old man of Kangxi has the bottom payment of "Daming Chenghua Year System". The reason why there is such a strange bottom payment just proves a major feature of Kangxi's early porcelain.

Kangxi's early porcelain was rarely inscribed.The reason is that Kangxi believed that inscriptions could not be written on porcelain, and if an inscription was written, it would be unlucky if it was broken, so he was not allowed to write it.However, there is a special phenomenon on many Kangxi porcelains, that is, a large number of entrusted funds are written.For example, "Daming Xuande year system", "Daming Chenghua year system", "Daming Jiajing year system", these three dynasties wrote the most.

This is a big taboo in our imagination. Anyone who reads history knows that the Qing Dynasty’s literary inquisition was very severe. Especially during the Kangxi Dynasty, a large number of Han people proposed "anti-Qing and restoring the Ming Dynasty", which can often be seen in TV dramas.At that time, if you had any tendency to oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, you were beheaded.But the inscriptions written on the porcelain are all the inscriptions of the previous dynasty.This has to be said to be a major feature of Kangxi's early porcelain.

Even if Kangxi reopened the official kiln in JDZ in 19 years, most of the early official kiln porcelain had no deposit, or the deposit was some entrusted money.

The set of five-color Twelve Flower God Cups used by Kangxi’s old man was fired 25 years ago in Kangxi, and this set of Twelve Flower God Cups also contains Kangxi’s commemorative significance for Chenghua Doucai Porcelain, because Kangxi liked Chenghua very much. Doucai porcelain, so it is not surprising that this set of cups has the bottom payment of "Daming Chenghua Year System".

In the middle and late period of Kangxi and later in the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, official kilns and private kilns respectively imitated the Twelve Flower God Cups, with slightly different sizes and sizes.The base payment also uses the words of the Kangxi year of the Qing Dynasty.But the imitations of later generations are not as good as those of Emperor Kangxi in terms of quality.

This set of the Twelve Cups of the Flower God was obviously imitated in the middle and late Kangxi period, but even if it is an imitation, it is still a high-quality official kiln, and it is a rare set.

You must know that only the Kaifeng Museum in Henan Province has a complete set of Kangxi multicolored twelve flower god cups. In addition, Mr. Liu Yiqian also has a complete set of Kangxi blue and white twelve flower god cups.Even the Palace Museum has only a few single ones, not complete sets.It is conceivable how rare this set of Twelve Flora Cups is.

But this time, a set of Kangxi multicolored Twelve Flower God Cups was harvested in this Jiajing blue and white dragon vat, which is simply pie in the sky!

"Could it be that this set of multi-colored twelve flower god cups is the one that the little devil looted from the country?" Yang Jing thought to himself.

According to legend, during World War II, the little devil once searched for a set of Twelve Flower God Cups in China, intending to transport them to Japan and dedicate them to the emperor of the little devil.But unfortunately, it sank with the Awa Maru on the way, and this part of precious porcelain and some precious cultural relics also sank into the sea together.

Now it seems that the precious porcelain transported together with the set of Twelve Flower God Cups was not loaded on the Awa Maru, but was transported to the Philippines by another ship, but why did the Japanese transport it to the Philippines first? It was not shipped to the mainland of Japan, so there is no way to know.

Of course, it is also possible that this set of Twelve Flower God Cups was not obtained from China, but from other sources, but Yang Jing has no way of knowing where it came from.

But no matter what, no matter where the little devil snatched this set of Twelve Flower God Cups back then, it's all his own now!

(End of this chapter)