Tea bowl with flower and aquatic plants on a carved red ground in falangcai painted enamels, Qianlong reign (1736-1795), Qing dynasty

Tea bowl with flower and aquatic plants on a carved red ground in falangcai painted enamels, Qianlong reign (1736-1795), Qing dynasty

• Image Number: K1B017938N000000000PAB
• 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 enamel inside is red and green and painted with fish and algae patterns. The red color on the outer wall is the ground and the cone is carved with brocade patterns. Two groups of flower patterns are painted on it. The mouth and foot are left blank, and the workmanship is exquisite. The fetal bone is thin and thin, fine and white. 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 without a frame or circle. This tea bowl may be “a pair of tea bowls with porcelain body painting enamel as an icing on the cake” in the account of “Archives of Enamel, Glass, Yixing and Magnetic Body Furnishing”.