Bowl with flowers and birds in falangcai painted enamels, Qing dynasty, Yongzheng reign 1723-1735

Bowl with flowers and birds in falangcai painted enamels, Qing dynasty, Yongzheng reign 1723-1735

• Image Number: K1B017692N000000000PAE
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Container
• Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
• Description:
  The bowl has a wide mouth, a deep arc wall, a flat bottom, and a shallow circle foot. The white side of the bowl is painted with two phoenix, two crane, two wagtail, two oriole, and two mandarin duck. They perch under the bamboo and on the branches of wutong trees in an environment with slope stones, lotus and flowing water. The painted animals and plants are outlined with black lines, and then filled with color. The description is extremely delicate. The stone is divided into outlines and shapes, and then several lines are drawn to make it resemble the texture of the stone painted by the artist. On the other side of the bowl, two lines were inscribed in ink: “Phoenix in the heyday should keep the calendar, and the four feathers should assist the virtues”. At the beginning and end of the poem, three red and white seals, “Phoenix Picking”, “Binran”, and “Scholar”, were painted in red ink. There is a crack from the mouth edge to the bottom of the bowl, and the ring foot is exposed. There are two lines of Song typeface in the blue material book “Made in Yongzheng” on the bottom of the bowl, plus two side frames. Mencius Teng Wengong: “Father and son are related, the emperor and his officials are righteous, and the couple