Dish with coquelicot in falangcai painted enamels, Qing dynasty, Yongzheng reign (1723-1735)

Dish with coquelicot in falangcai painted enamels, Qing dynasty, Yongzheng reign (1723-1735)

• Image Number: K1B014027N000000000PAE
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Container
• Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
• Description:
  This dish has a wide mouth, shallow walls and short legs. The glaze is white and decorated with enamel paint. The color is elegant. The belly is painted with a scene of flowers, grass and stones. The flowers are opened and closed in pitch, the branches and leaves are curled and twined, swaying and colorful, and the colors are soft and dark, making the panorama more vivid and natural. On the other side of the abdomen, there is an inscription in ink, “The Sutra and the Sleeves Drop in the Rain”, which is a poem written by Xu Maowu of the Ming Dynasty, “The Poems of Yu Beauty Flowers”, and three red ink prints, “Jiali”, “Jincheng”, and “Xuying”. The round foot end is exposed, and the outsole has two lines of four character imitation Song typeface in the blue material book “Made in Yongzheng”, surrounded by two sides of the box.