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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Francisco G Kempton, post: 4531420, member: 22714&quot;]I think i would classify this as Doucai but this particular style is called Wucai.&nbsp; The distinction being that the origin of this style lies in Doucai where the design and some of the outlines are painted in underglaze blue and then fired, and then the design is painted again in overglaze enamels. However with Doucai most of the design has underglaze blue underneath the overglaze coloured enamel.....In Wucai which followed Doucai it is the same except there is no underglaze blue benetah or under the overglaze coloured enamel but instead, parts of the design is in underglaze blue and the rest is in overglaze coloured enamel.... Hence on your item you have that strange underglaze blue head atop of the more finely painted overglaze enamel body. It might be noted that some of these odd appearing Doucai and wucai items can sell for huge sums of money. </p><p><br /></p><p>Many replicas of the chicken cup were made in China in Qing dynasty 18th and 19th century and sold provincially and to South east Asian countries and were called Sawtow wares. Similar I suppose to &#039;Kitchen Qing&#039;. The Malaccan term usually applied to every day porcelain used there by the common people; mostly provincial blue and white 19th century Chinese export dishes and bowls with simplified decoration.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]400499[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>A Chenghua chicken cup from the private Meiyintang collection of Chinese ceramics was sold at the auction for a record US$36.05 million (HK $281.24 million) to Shanghainese billionaire <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Yiqian" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Yiqian" rel="nofollow">Liu Yiqian</a>. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://news.justcollecting.com/500-year-old-chinese-fish-jar-sells-for-27-million/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://news.justcollecting.com/500-year-old-chinese-fish-jar-sells-for-27-million/" rel="nofollow">https://news.justcollecting.com/500-year-old-chinese-fish-jar-sells-for-27-million/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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