Bowl with prunus and bambooin in falangcai polychrome enamels, Qing dynasty, Yongzheng reign, 1723-1735
- Image Number: K1B017689N000000000PAB
- Dynasty: Qing dynasty
- Category: Ceramics
- Function: Container
- Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
- Description:
Low mouth, curved deep wall, short circle foot. Red enamel material is applied outside the utensil as the ground, and a white plum tree and several bamboo poles are painted. Leave a white edge around the mouth and foot. The bowl is painted with white glaze without lines, and the bottom is made of blue material “made in Yongzheng”. The Yongzheng enamel colored porcelain bowl is handed down. The body has two walls, one is as thin as paper, and the other is thicker. This bowl belongs to the latter. According to the records in the archives, in the ninth year of Emperor Yongzheng’s reign (1731), the emperor issued a decree: “Paint plum blossoms in their original colors, or burn enamel in red.”. In the 12th year of Emperor Yongzheng’s reign (1734), the list presented by the royal workshop also included a kind of “big bowl with white plum blossoms on red ground”. In the 10th year of Emperor Yongzheng’s reign (1732), Huang Di still issued a decree to burn “four inch plate with white plum blossoms on red ground”. From this point of view, in addition to the symbolic significance of perseverance, the plum blossom can echo the firing background recorded in the archives, so it can be regarded as the focus of Emperor Yongzheng
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