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

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

• Image Number: K1B017024N000000000PAB
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Container
• Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
• Description:
  Skim mouth, narrow lip, deep arc wall, short circle foot. The glaze is applied inside the vessel, and the color is white and plain without lines. The outer wall is painted with black color. The main patterns are peony, crocus lotus and other four season flowers. The flowers with the main patterns are arranged in groups of two and distributed around. Many small flowers, branches and leaves are arranged between the four groups of flowers to create a lively atmosphere of letting a hundred flowers bloom. A layer of white glaze is left along the outer wall opening. Draw a yellow and blue pattern on the foot circle. The tire floor is delicate and white, and the tire is thin and transparent. The blue and white book “made in the year of Qianlong” on the outer bottom of the utensil has two lines and four characters in imitation Song typeface regular script, with two side frames. In the early Qing Dynasty, tea bowls or tea clocks were used for tea tasting in the Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong dynasties. Their caliber was about 10 to 11 centimeters, and there were skimming, opening, and straight opening. The flower painting method of this bowl is Western light and dark techniques, so the Qing Palace was formerly known as “porcelain body painting enamel five color crocuses black tea bell, a pair”.