Colorful Grapevine High Feet Cup

[Colorful Grapevine High-foot Cup]

Colorful Grapevine High-foot Cup, Mingcheng, height 6.8 cm, caliber 8.0 cm, foot diameter 3.5 cm. The old collection of the Qing Palace
The outer wall of the cup is decorated with colorful folded grape patterns, and the mouth and height are exposed in a large area, making the pattern more prominent. In the foot, the blue and white regular script “Ming Dynasty Chenghua Year System” is arranged horizontally in six characters
This style of high-foot cup was first created by Chenghua official kiln in the Ming Dynasty, and it was called “multicolored grape cup with flat belly” in the Ming Dynasty. Before its appearance, people always thought that the Gaozu Cup in Xuande official kiln of the Ming Dynasty was the most beautiful. After its appearance, it was more popular with the world. In the late Ming Dynasty, Gu Tai wrote the “Museum Highlights”, which said: “The top quality of the kiln is better than that of the multicolored grape with a flat belly, and the style is better than that of the Xuanbei.”


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