Dish with blue landscape in falangcai painted enamels, Qing dynasty, Yongzheng reign 1723-1735

Dish with blue landscape in falangcai painted enamels, Qing dynasty, Yongzheng reign 1723-1735

• Image Number: K1B017005N000000000PAF
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Container
• Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
• Description:
  This plate has a narrow mouth, shallow walls, short legs, and extremely thin fetal bone. The inside of the utensil is plain without lines, and one side of the outer wall of the utensil is painted with thick blue material, with mountains, towers and trees on the mountain sides. On the other side of the outer wall, there is a poem written in ink, “The trees are close to the Nanshan Mountain, and the smoke is far from the north.” The two lines are from the neck couplets of Li Jiao’s five character poem “Serving a banquet for Princess Changning in Dongzhuang” of the Tang Dynasty. There are three red seals in front of the poem, “Longevity is like”, and behind it, “Mountain is high” and “Water is long”. The bottom of the utensil is provided with two lines of blue Song typeface made in Yongzheng year. In the Yongzheng Dynasty, the enamel colored porcelain decorated with green mountains and waters included plates, bowls, teapots, wine balls, tea balls, etc. According to the archives, Emperor Yongzheng loved such works very much. He not only hoped to burn more, but also encouraged Zou Wenyu, the enamel painter who drew the patterns, to get a raise.