Dish with flowers and bamboo in falangcai painted enamels, Qing dynasty, Yongzheng reign 1723-1735

Dish with flowers and bamboo in falangcai painted enamels, Qing dynasty, Yongzheng reign 1723-1735

• Image Number: K1B017163N000000000PAF
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Container
• Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
• Description:
  This piece has a wide mouth, a gentle arc wall and a short circle foot. The outer wall of the utensil is covered with yellow glaze. The center of the two plates are painted with green bamboos waving in the wind from the lower left, and the lower plate wall is decorated with pink peonies. On the blank space above the panel, there is a poem written in ink, “Wind and leaves shadow several poles, low reflection of small flowers”. Two lines are cut from Li Xian’s poem “Tingzhu” in the Tang Dynasty. The poem is preceded by “beautiful woman”, followed by “Cuipu” and “Xiaying”, three red ink seals. The bottom of the utensil has two lines of blue and white regular script double circles made in the reign of Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty.