Tea bowl with floral scroll on a carved blue ground in falangcai painted enamels, Qianlong reign (1736-1795), Qing dynasty

Tea bowl with floral scroll on a carved blue ground in falangcai painted enamels, Qianlong reign (1736-1795), Qing dynasty

• Image Number: K1B017940N000000000PAF
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Container
• Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
• Description:
  The mouth is narrow, the abdomen is curved, and the feet are short. The white glaze inside the vessel is painted with enamel colored rosettes and a green bamboo, and the blue ground on the outer wall is carved with “ten thousand” character number brocade flower patterns, on which four folding flowers are painted, and the bottom edge is surrounded by cone-shaped flowers and grass patterns. The ground of blue glaze is covered with fine flakes, with opaque bubbles and brown eyes. The tire is fine and white, thin and transparent, with a white border at the mouth and foot. In the blue material on the bottom of the vessel, “Made in the year of Qianlong” is a four character, two line, imitation Song typeface regular script with double frames. This bowl may be the “porcelain body painting enamel icing on the cake blue ground tea clock” recorded in the “Archives of Enamel, Glass, Yixing and Magnetic Body Furnishings”. There are two pieces in the account book.