The chicken jar cup is a kind of colored porcelain cup, the cup body is generally painted with a hen feeding the chicks, inside the scene gesture is lifelike, is the Ming and Qing Dynasty colored ware in the famous products. This kind of cup is with the blue and white fine line first depicts the approximate outline of the figure, and then put into the kiln to burn into the body, and then use mineral pigment to apply color again to fill the space. The shape of the chicken jar cup is mostly open-mouthed, with a delicate and refined body. The bottom of the cup is usually framed by two sides of blue and white, which can be used for calligraphy.

"Because the body of the cup with fighting colors depicting line chicken pecking early feeding the chick, a lifelike posture, supplemented by peony, orchids, columns and stones pattern, so the name. According to the "Cheng kiln chicken cylinder song note": 'Cheng kiln wine cup, a lot of types, are depicted in fine work, point color shades, porcelain Ying clean and hard. The chicken jar is painted with peonies on the top, and there are chickens and hens underneath, leaping and moving." The pottery said: "into the kiln to five colors for the most, wine cups to chicken tank for the most, Shenzong fashion food imperial, into a pair of cups, worth 100,000.'" -- quoted from Baidu Encyclopedia.

So the chicken jar cup is still a relatively fixed painting material. To see if it is a real cocktail cup, be sure to compare the size of the original cocktail cup more often. There are very few chicken jar cups in existence, and most require a trip to the Forbidden City Museum in Beijing to view the real thing. In addition to paying attention to the painting process on the cup, whether the lines are intact, whether the colors are bright, but also to see whether the pattern protrudes from the surface of the carcass.

Cocktails cups are made after the approval of the king, the general brushwork are more than sophisticated, lively lines. With the painting material are also fine, the fetal soil also choose the best quality, only to create the most special Doucai porcelain. And the bottom of the chicken bowl cup is flat, there is no foot, and there are six words box regular script paragraph, clear lines, flexible decoration.