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宜兴窑绿地粉彩公道杯

Green pastel fair cup, the Qing Emperor Guangxu, height of 6cm, diameter 12cm.This is the Yixing kiln works. Cup assumes the lotus leaf shape, round bottom, nail three foot. The whole device in Yixing purple sand as the tyre, and applying glaze, outer wall decorative flower. Cup of heart is a comb of hammerhead, topless Lu ventral, beam fairly fairy, in the face of a cylindrical cast Huang Cai sitting. The cylinder is hollow, with purple sand pottery matter elongated floating column, as to shape, cylindrical around floating column has 5 red dots.Fair cup produced in the Song Dynasty, in order to help when used for drinking, drinking. The cup on the column of 5 red dots were pointing at present the people drinking. When wine is poured into a cup slowly, cylindrical in the floating column slowly rise, to what the face of red dot, then by the corresponding people drinking. Floating column has a scale, when the scale is exposed if still wine, is considered to be fair, reception from the celestial body under the small holes at the bottom of the glass outflow.

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