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

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

• Image Number: K1B017064N000000000PAG
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Container
• Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
• Description:
  This dish has narrow mouth, shallow arc wall and short circle foot. The inside of the utensil was plain without lines. One side of the outer wall of the utensil was painted with ochre ink. Beside the stone, there were yellow hemlock flowers and autumn scissors (pink), and two bees were flying in it. On the other side, there is a poem written in ink, “The color of the fairy dew is superb, and the fragrance conveys the girl’s style”. The two lines are quoted from the neck couplet of Li Qiao’s five character poem “Xuan” in the Tang Dynasty. There are three red ink seals in front of the poem, “Jiali”, and behind it, “Jincheng” and “Xuying”. The bottom of the utensil is provided with two lines of blue Song typeface made in Yongzheng year.