#chicken cup

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[britatartar]

I love the way home made marshmallows melt in hot cocoa and float on top so you get a sip of this gooey marshmallow and cocoa at the same time. My favorite hot cocoa with marshmallows, cinnamon, chocolate pieces one of the lord of the rings playing on tv is critical to my hot cocoa experience along with chicken cup.

[brieflyinfatuated]

Once again sharing my chicken cup with y'all

Look, she's standing on a hill

what more could u want

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[vintagepigeon]

New coffee cup and #crimejunkiespodcast 
Happy Wednesday, bitches
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[artcentron]

Chicken Cup Sold for $36 Million at Sotheby’s Now With New Owner

Chicken Cup Sold for $36 Million at Sotheby’s Now With New Owner

The Ming Chenghua Chicken Cup is officially presented to Mr Liu Yiqian by Nicolas Chow, Deputy Chairman of Sotheby’s Asia and International Head of Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art. Image courtesy of Sotheby’s

ART AUCTION Sotheby’s hands over Chicken Cup, the most important Chinese Porcelain sold for a record auction price, to buyer Liu Yiqian

Mr. Liu Yiqian puts down his signature,…

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[chadlethbridge]

The Meiyintang 'Chicken Cup'

On April 8th at Sotheby's Hong Kong this 500-year-old wine cup known as the 'Holy Grail' of Chinese Art smashed the previous world record price for porcelain and sold for £19.3million (£21.7million, once Sotheby's took their commission charge) to Liu Yiqian of Shanghai.

http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/2014/meiyintang-chicken-cup-hk0545.html

http://www.sothebys.com/en/news-video/videos/2014/03/meiyintang-chicken-cup.html

The 500-year-old treasure, which measures just 3.1 inches in diameter, is known as a 'chicken cup' due to its decoration of a cockerel and hen tending to their chicks, and is one of only 17 in the world.

The cup was made during the reign the Ming Chenghua Emperor, who ruled from 1465 to 1487. “Chicken Cups” are the most expensive, most sought-after and most reproduced chinese objects since the Ming dynasty. They originated from the Chenghua reign of the Ming dynasty and the 'Meiyintang' simply refers to the name of the current collection from which it came.

Created in the Chenghua reign (1465-87), when quality was at its peak, “chicken cups” are outstanding in their tactile material, their range of colours, and their charming, unmannered painting style.

There are only 16 documented Chicken Cups and until now, there was no such cup left in China. Liu Yiqian stated that the 'chicken cup' is likely to go on display at the Shanghai Long museum that he recently opened with his wife Wang Wei.

Apart from the present example, only three others are preserved in private hands and examples can be found in these museums: The National Palace Museum, Taipei The British Museum, London The Victoria & Albert Museum, London The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Collections Baur, Geneva

Liu Yiqian

Liu Yiqian became a multimillionaire during communist China's increasing shift towards capitalism in the 1980s and 90s, investing much of that money in art. Forbes estimates estimates Liu Yiqian's fortune at £540million - making him China's 200th richest person.

Liu dropped out of school when he was 14, to work with his family making leather handbags. He moonlighted as a taxi driver once he was old enough to drive. Then he began investing in the stock market. In 1990 he bought 100 shares in Yuyuan Garden Shopping Mall for RMB 100 ($15). He sold them two years later at a profit of almost RMB 1 million ($160,230).

Liu is known as the King of ‘Legal Person’ Shares. ‘Legal Person’ shares were created during China’s privatisation process in the 1990s, when state firms were converted to joint stock companies. They were not listed and were thus relatively cheap. But they still provided a substantive ownership interest.

Still, many investors shunned this share class. But Liu took more of a ‘private equity’ approach and realised that he could improve the performance of the companies. He also bet that over the long term this class of shares would merge with the listed class, and he would make capital gains.

He likes to buy art according to the idea that “one should buy shares that are cheap and art pieces that are expensive”.

[baisao]

Ming dynasty "chicken cup" fetches $32 million at auction more info