Drunken Beauty-1

Drunken Beauty"is also named "cowpea red glaze"or begonia red glaze. It is a kind of hign fired glaze with changeable coloration and an unique work created during Kangxi period in Qing Dynasty. After that, the technique was lost. Then, it took the domestic master of poprcelain crafts more than ten years to recover the technique. Many "Drunken beauty"porcelains fired in modern time are collected by the National palace Museum.

It is said that an emperor of Qing Dynasty was drinking with his beautiful wife when someone brought a "cowpea red glaze"vase, whose green spot was similar to the dimple of his wife's face. Then the emperor named the glaze "light pink", or "baby face", and late "light pink"is called "drunken beauty".

The surface of the "drunken beauty"takes on dark red. Its different position shows different green spot in size and shade of color, so that the color of the glaze is more transparent, rich and surprising. A poem reads: "it is as green as the water in the early spring and as red as the aurora at down", which described the fine glaze vividly and poetically.

Because it is easy to be influenced in the process of firing, so the "drunken beauty"is difficult to be fired. That's the reason why "drunken beauty"is so expensive and becomes the object of collectors. In addition, the "drunken beauty"has wide added value space. In an auction abroad, a "cowpea red glaze"Kwan-yin bottle from Kongxi period in Qing Dynasty won the bargain price of RMB 330, 000