Yixing bowl with flowers and fruits in painted enamels, Qing dynasty, Kangxi reign (1662-1722)

Yixing bowl with flowers and fruits in painted enamels, Qing dynasty, Kangxi reign (1662-1722)

• Image Number: K1B016978N000000000PAB
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Container
• Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
• Description:
  Skim mouth, deep arc wall, circle foot. The mouth and foot are decorated with concave ribs and strings for one week, the inner wall has no lines, the outer wall is not covered with transparent glaze on the purple clay body, but the four season flower and fruit patterns are directly painted with enamel color, mainly fruit: peach fruit, litchi, citron, loquat, persimmon, pomegranate, grape, water chestnut, water chestnut, cherry, etc. The fruit is decorated with orchid, rose, daisy, etc. The purple clay bed is slightly thick, with black and yellow sand spots intermittently. There is no transparent glaze hanging inside and outside the bowl. On the bottom of the bowl, there are two lines of four character yellow regular script, “Made by Emperor Kangxi”, without a frame. Three season flower and fruit shaped tea bowls are mainly decorated with fruits and flowers. In order to highlight the fruits, peach fruits, lychees, loquats, etc. are painted larger and flowers smaller. There is only one such decorated tea bowl in the hospital collection, while the old account name in the Archives of Enamel, Glass, Yixing, and Magnetic Embroidery in the 15th year of Daoguang’s reign in the Qing Dynasty is Yixing Embroidery