This is a pile of smashed and broken bottles and jars. The top layer is all white porcelain with blue and white patterns. Some of the vases have their handles smashed off, and some of the jars have a big hole smashed in one side. These probably aren't worth much anymore!
These should all be porcelain from the Republic of China period!
The porcelain of the Republic of China period lasted only a little over thirty years and had not yet formed its own style. Most of the porcelain produced was still blue and white, famille rose, and wucai (five-color) porcelain.
The cobalt blue pigment used is either from the Qing Dynasty, but it contains many impurities, resulting in a grayish color that is not deep enough and does not penetrate the core, giving it a floating appearance.
Unlike Yuan and Ming dynasty porcelain, which has a vibrant color.
Li Xiangdong continued digging down and found another pile of broken porcelain shards.
Suddenly, Li Xiangdong discovered a complete small cup!
The cup's color is no longer visible, but it's intact inside and out, without any damage.
Li Xiangdong held his breath and vigorously rubbed a handful of the dirt stuck to the outside of the cup. A bright but not glaring red appeared before his eyes!
The red glaze is covered with fine, hair-like spots, and there are tiny pores beneath the glaze.
Rub the bottom and rim of the small cup again; there's no glaze dripping!
Wow!
Holy crap!
This should be a small sacrificial red glazed cup from the mid-to-late Qing Dynasty!
This Jihong glaze is a type of high-temperature red glaze porcelain. Because Jihong glaze was used as a ritual vessel by the Ming and Qing imperial families for sacrificial purposes, it was also called sacrificial red by later generations.
The reason why Jihong glaze can present a bright red color is because it uses copper as a colorant and is fired in a reducing state at around 1300℃!
The firing cost of Jihong glaze is high and the controllability is low, so firing stopped after the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty and was not resumed until the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty!
These are a pair of small sacrificial red glazed cups from the Yongzheng period. They were auctioned for 120,000 RMB in 2013.
In his past life, besides fishing and long-distance running with sandbags, Li Xiangdong loved studying antiques!
He has a wide range of interests, including common items such as porcelain, wooden furniture, calligraphy and paintings, and coins. He has even collected a lot of cricket cages and calligraphy brushes.
At that time, Li Xiangdong was already financially independent, and wine, women, wealth and power seemed to have lost their appeal to him.
Only things that have withstood the test of time can arouse his curiosity!
Of course, these were the words Li Xiangdong said to others in his previous life.
He wouldn't tell anyone that he bought antiques to appear cultured and use it as a way to do business!
I want to curse just thinking about it!
How many times did I get slapped in my past life?!
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