Pair of dishes in fa-lang-ts’ai enamels on blue ground with Chinese rose décor 1742 (Ch’ien-lung reign)

Pair of dishes in fa-lang-ts’ai enamels on blue ground with Chinese rose décor 1742 (Ch’ien-lung reign)

• Image Number: K1B017520N000000000PAB
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Container
• Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
• Description:
  Open, shallow arc wall, flat bottom, short circle foot. On the white floor of the dish center, pink roses and pink bamboos are painted in enamel. The inscription on the ink is: “The powder must be greasy with bees, and the light coagulates the wings of butterflies.” The upper and lower vermilion seals are printed with “Jiali”, “Cuipu”, and “Xiaying”. On the blue ground of the outer wall, four folded flowers such as Anemone, Daisy and Xuanhua are painted, with a white line at the mouth and foot, and a tapestry palindrome at the bottom of the mouth. The tire is thin and transparent, and the bottom is made of blue material, “made in the year of Qianlong”, in four characters and two lines, in imitation of Song typeface regular script, with two side frames.