Chapter 094 December Flower God Cup

As soon as the phone was connected, Bai Lao's slightly excited voice came: "Xiaoran, is this the only porcelain cup you saw? Is there anything else?"

Although Chen Ran was a little surprised that Mr. Bai didn't say the origin of the teacup, he asked first, but immediately replied, "Mr. Bai, I saw this one."

"Oh." Hearing Chen Ran's answer, Mr. Bai answered with a little disappointment, and his excited tone returned to normal.

Chen Ran couldn't help asking again, "Mr. Bai, what is the origin of this porcelain cup?"

"Haha..." Bai Lao laughed as soon as he heard Chen Ran's question: "Xiaoran, generally speaking, porcelain collectors have three biggest wishes. Do you know which three are these three wishes?"

Chen Ran was stunned. Bai's question really stopped him. He really hadn't heard of such a thing. In fact, it's not his fault. First, he just entered the industry. Although he touched some antique doors, he didn't know much about collectors. In addition, he himself was not a ceramic collector.

Chen Ran couldn't answer, and Mr. Bai didn't mean to let Chen Ran answer. After asking, he said, "Let's talk about the first wish first. This first wish is to have a genuine Yuan Qinghua product."

Chen Ran nodded. Naturally, every porcelain collector will be crazy about the name of Yuan Qinghua. Speaking of the three biggest wishes of porcelain collectors, Bai Lao also had a lot of fun. After talking about Yuan Qinghua, he continued with a smile and said, "The first wish is Yuan Qinghua. The second wish is naturally to have a genuine enamel color of the three generations of the Qing Dynasty!"

Enamel porcelain was born in the Kangxi period. It is an extremely valuable royal supplies, representing the highest artistic level of porcelain fired in official kilns in the Qing Dynasty. In terms of market prices, the average price of a single piece is the most expensive among all porcelain.

The cost of enamel itself is extremely high, the artistic level is also the highest, and the quantity is small. It is only for the secret play of the emperor's concubine. Each piece is finely, and each piece is not heavy. According to the data, the original Qing Palace has a total of 400 pieces of enamel porcelain from the Kang, Yong and Qian Dynasties, of which more than 300 pieces are 19 After 33 years, the antiquities left the Forbidden City and were shipped to Taiwan in 1949. The remaining 40 pieces are now collected in the Palace Museum in Beijing. The enamel porcelain scattered in museums and private hands around the world should have been scattered out of the palace in the late Qing Dynasty or taken away from the Yuanmingyuan by the British and French allied forces, which is rare among the people.

The greatest wish of many porcelain collectors is to have a genuine enamel of the three generations of the Qing Dynasty.

After Bai Lao said the second wish, it was time to say the third wish. Chen Ran knew that the third wish should be the main topic. The teacup in his hand was not blue and white, nor enamel porcelain, so it was obviously related to the third biggest wish of the porcelain collector.

"This third wish is to collect a set of Kangxi colorful twelve flower cups..."

Bai Lao was happy when he spoke, but there was still a trace of regret in his happy tone. As soon as he said this, Chen Ran immediately guessed the origin of the teacup.

It is definitely one of the colorful twelve flower cups.

In fact, as soon as Bai Lao said the name of the Twelve Flower God Cup, Chen Ran immediately came to his mind with information about the December Flower God Cup. At first, he did not recognize it, but because the December Flower God Cup was too rare, and there was basically nothing circulating among the people, and few people talked about the December Flower God Cup. Chen Ran I just knew that there was such a thing as the December Flower God Cup, but I didn't see it and didn't recognize it.

December Flower God Cup is a famous product in the official kiln porcelain of the Qing Dynasty. It was burned in the Kang, Yong, Qian and Jia periods. There are two colorful forms of blue and white and blue and white, which is most famous in the Kangxi Dynasty.

12 flower pattern cups are set of 12 pieces, and the flowers representing each month are depicted on the cups according to 12 months of the year, and are praised with poems. They are: January daffodil, February magnolia, March peach blossom, April peony, May pomegranate, June lotus, July orchid, August osmanthus, September**, October hibiscus, November month season, December plum blossom.

This device is precious as a double pair and is a typical tool in Kangxi official kiln.

The production volume of the December Flower God Cup in the 61st year of Kangxi is very large. According to the last 40 years, it will not be produced until the next 40 years, with a total of 10 sets of at least 400 sets. However, a complete set of twelve cups is still very common at the time of Tongzhi, but it is difficult to find a complete set in the Guangxu period.

The December Flower God Cup has always been loved by collectors because of its exquisite shape and delicate painting. Due to the very few handed down products, the complete sets have basically never appeared.

In addition to some large museums such as the Forbidden City, Taipei Forbidden City, Nanjing Palace Museum, Jingdezhen Ceramic Museum, etc., it is not common in auction houses at home and abroad, and the December Flower God Cup collected in the above museum is not a complete set.

Over the years, I have only occasionally seen one or two auctions on auctions, and the price is about 400,000 yuan, but a complete set has never appeared. It is said that if someone can collect one set, at least worth more than 10 million. Without this price, then don't want to compete, tens of millions are just A low price may be higher, but although there are such rumors, there has been no such thing for many years.

Generally speaking, it's good to collect a pair. If there are four in the collection, it will be difficult to see.

"For so many years, I have been collecting the December Flower God Cup, but until now, I have only collected three. One is a January narcissus, one is a March peach blossom, and the other is a June lotus flower. Xiaoran, yours is also the most common one. According to the degree of rarity of each cup, the price of each cup is also different, like the January daffodil, which can be auctioned to at least 60 at the current market price. More than 10,000 The rarest kind is August osmanthus, which has not been heard of who has collected it. If anyone has it, it can definitely be auctioned at a sky-high price. Your lotus cup is the most common one, with an estimated value of about 250,000 to 300,000 yuan. Xiaoran, if you collect this cup, I suggest you keep it for your own collection. You don't lack this money. In the future, you will collect it slowly. With your luck, you may really collect a set. At that time, it will definitely make a sensation in the whole ceramic industry. Collection and fun are here, haha ......”

"Xiaoran, this cup is really worth 230,000..."

For such a long time, Guo Hai had already found a place, but when he saw that Chen Ran was still answering the phone, he did not disturb Chen Ran. He directly parked his car at the door of the hotel. What Mr. Bai said on the phone was also clear. He didn't understand the rest, but Bai Lao's valuation of Chen Ran's cup, he After Chen Ran hung up the phone, he couldn't help but confirm it again.

"Almost!" Chen Ran clicked a little with great interest. Although this cup is the most common lotus cup in the December Flower God Cup, he was not disappointed. Instead, he suddenly became interested in collecting a set of December Flower God Cups. As Bai Lao said, this lotus cup is worth about 200,000 to 300,000 yuan, and he is not short of this money. It's better to keep it for himself. I have collected it and slowly collected a set of December Flower God Cup. Thinking about this collection process, it feels very interesting. As Mr. Bai said, maybe this is the fun of collection.

The ivory long life lock is his first collection, and now the lotus cup is his second collection, Chen Ran said to himself silently.

Guo Hai's lips squirmed and looked at this ordinary cup in disbelief. For him, the past two days of things were like a dream, which shocked him too much. He felt that there was no such shock as picking up money. I have to say that at this moment, he has been completely attracted by the charm of antiques. I'm convinced.

At this time, in Guo Hai's heart, he couldn't help but jump out of the idea of learning antiques with Chen Ran again. In fact, he had such an impulse last night, but when he told Lao Guo about his decision, Lao Guo advised him not to see Xiaoran making money, and you blindly bumped into it. Xiaoran has made money. That's Xiaoran's luck. Look at how many other antiques have made. If any antiques can make a fortune, not to mention that you have this impulse, I'm going to do it.

Lao Guo said this and gave up his idea, but he finally calmed down. As soon as he was stimulated by today's incident, he had an impulse again.

"This is the place. Why don't you get out of the car? I've been hungry for more than half an hour!" After keeping the teacup and putting down this mind, Chen Ran felt his stomach cooing. When he went out in the morning, he was pulled out by Guo Hai before breakfast. He was busy for most of the morning and was hungry.

"Damn it, you still said, buddy, isn't it waiting for you?" Chen Ran's words suddenly pulled Guo Hai's impulse back. He was more hungry than Chen Ran. He laughed and scolded, opened the car door and drilled out. Chen Ran also drilled out.

The SUV was parked at the door of the hotel. When he got out of the car, Chen Ran smelled the smell of roast mutton. Looking at the restaurant in front of him, it was obvious that it was a restaurant run by Xinjiang people. The hotel covers an area of not small. It is a two-story building. The signboard at the door is made of black wood with three words--

Hand-made rice.

When I followed Guo Hai into the hotel, I found that the business in the hotel was good. The whole hall on the first floor was full of people. Seeing that the first floor was full, Guo Hai took Chen Ran directly to the second floor, but the second floor was also full. Fortunately, a guest in the box was just about to leave after eating.

After the waiter cleaned up the table in the box, the two entered the box. The box was a large box with two tables in it. The two of them chose to sit down against the window.

followed by a little girl dressed in Xinjiang, who was the waiter of the restaurant. Guo Hai directly ordered two signature dishes of the restaurant, one of which was naturally pilaf. In addition, he ordered a roasted whole lamb and directly ordered a Harbin beer.

If you have been to Xinjiang, you will never forget three things. One is the girls in Xinjiang, the other is roast whole lamb, and the third is this pilaf. The pilaf is the favorite food of people of Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Uyghur, Kirghiz, Tajikistan and other ethnic groups in Xinjiang.

It is said that the method of hand-pilaf is to chop the mutton into small pieces and fry it in clear oil, then put onions and carrots to stir-fry in the pot, and add some salt and water as appropriate. After 20 minutes, put the soaked rice into the pot without stirring. After 40 minutes, the pilaf will be cooked. The cooked pilaf is bright and delicious.

Uighur people regard pilaf as a good meal.

You have to use your hands to eat rice. This is a technical job. Guo Hai didn't learn it for a long time. Chen Ran learned it well, which made Guo Hai angry and hate it. My buddies have come to eat it once. It's not as good as you came here for the first time. I just spent it with this thing.

Roasted whole lamb is also very authentic. It is authentic roasted whole lamb. Now none of them outside are authentic. The real roasted whole lamb is made of that kind of lamb. After taking out the internal organs and cleaning them, wrap all kinds of seasonings, hide them in the sheep's stomach, paste a layer of mud on the outside, form a completely closed state, put it in the cellar and bake it with natural anthracite. After roasting, peel off the mud and knocking on the sheep, all the meat fell off, leaving only one sheep skeleton. The fallen mutton is fragrant and tender, which is memorable.

In a short time, the two of them were full. They simply sat in the box and talked while drinking beer. However, before long, the door of the box was suddenly pushed open.