Tea bowl with imperial poem Brewing Tea with Lotus Dew in overglaze red, Qing dynasty, Qianlong reign (1736-1795)

Tea bowl with imperial poem Brewing Tea with Lotus Dew in overglaze red, Qing dynasty, Qianlong reign (1736-1795)

• Image Number: C1B000246N000000000PAF
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: drinking vessel
• Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
• Description:
  Skim mouth, deep wall, round foot. The whole body is painted with alum red, and the inside and outside of the mouth and foot are decorated with red background and white Ruyi. On the outside of the cup is a poem written by the Emperor Qianlong, “Making Tea with Lotus”. On the inside is a lotus flower, and on the outside is Ruyi Wen, which is the same as the mouth and foot. The carcass is light and thin, with fine texture and bright red color. “Made in the year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty”, a six character, three line seal script, is written in alum red on the bottom of the vessel. The tea bowl of the poem “Making Tea with Lotus” was used by the Emperor Qianlong to hold tea made with lotus leaf dew water. The Emperor Qianlong wrote a lot of poems about “Lotus Cooking Tea”, all of which are different in content, but the poems about “Lotus Cooking Tea”, teapots and bowls, all of which were written in Qianlong’s Jimao (24th, 1759) poems.