Dish with melon and fruit inside a polychrome yellow exterior in falangcai painted enamels, Qianlong reign (1736-1795), Qing dynasty

Dish with melon and fruit inside a polychrome yellow exterior in falangcai painted enamels, Qianlong reign (1736-1795), Qing dynasty

• Image Number: K1B017519N000000000PAE
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Container
• Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
• Description:
  Open, arc wall, ring foot. The outer wall of the dish is Huangjindi, and the gaps are painted with three groups of melon and fruit patterns, including grapes, pods and vines; On the white ground in the dish, nine melons and fruits such as grapes, bergamot, cherries, pomegranates, persimmons, peach fruits and melon fruits are painted. The tire is thin and transparent, white and delicate, and the bottom is white. The blue material on the ground is printed with “Made in Qianlong’s Year” in four characters and two lines of regular script in Song Dynasty, with double boxes. The dishes are soft and elegant in color, and the light yellow brocade ground is equipped with green and purple branches of melon fruit, which reflect each other with the fruits inside. This kind of autumn fruits decoration is not only pleasing to the eyes, but also implies abundant harvest.