Bowl with peony in falangcai painted enamels, Qing dynasty, Yongzheng reign 1723-1735

Bowl with peony in falangcai painted enamels, Qing dynasty, Yongzheng reign 1723-1735

• Image Number: K1B014013N000000000PAD
• 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 short circle of feet. The whole body is white glazed, and one side of the bowl is painted with colorful peony flowers in fine brushwork. The other side is inscribed in ink with two lines from the five character quatrain poem “Peony” by Han Cong, a poet of the Tang Dynasty: “The tender pistil is wrapped with gold powder, and the heavy flowers are knotted with embroidered clouds.” Those who have not yet opened by singing peonies. The poem depicts three red and white two seal script square seals of “Jiali”, “Jincheng” and “Xuying” in red, praising the beauty of the flourishing plants reflected by the sunlight in autumn. The inside of the bowl is plain with no grain, and the bottom of the bowl is made of blue material with four characters and two lines of imitation Song typeface, and two sides of the box. The whole body is thin and the glaze looks like jade.