Dish with “Melon of Everlasting Progeny” motif on a polychrome blue ground in falangcai painted enamels, Qianlong reign (1736-1795), Qing dynasty

Dish with “Melon of Everlasting Progeny” motif on a polychrome blue ground in falangcai painted enamels, Qianlong reign (1736-1795), Qing dynasty

• Image Number: K1B006397N000000000PAE
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Container
• Material: Mineral/ceramic/porcelain
• Description:
  Open, shallow arc wall, flat bottom, short circle foot. On the white floor of the plate, enamel is painted with brocade melons, pods and bean flowers. On the blue brocade floor of the outer wall, six branches of flowers are painted in the space. The bottom edge is awl palindrome, and the foot edge is curly cursive. The mouth and foot are all left blank. The tire is thin and transparent, and the bottom is made of blue material, “made in the year of Qianlong”, in four characters and two lines, in imitation of Song typeface regular script, with two side frames.