Copper square dish in painted enamels, Qing dynasty, Kangxi reign (1662-1722)

Copper square dish in painted enamels, Qing dynasty, Kangxi reign (1662-1722)

• Image Number: K1E000375N000000000PAJ
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Enamel wares
• Function: Container
• Material: Minerals/Metals/Copper
• Description:
  The square plate has a special shape. The mouth and body are designed into wavy shapes, and the bottom is inlaid with gold-plated copper edges. The mouth edge is painted white, and the red curly grass pattern is painted. The inner and outer walls are decorated with blue ground and yellow tangled crocuses. The plate surface is made of yellow enamel. The criss cross blue lines divide the bottom surface into 25 silver ingot like squares, and various flowers are painted inside. On the bottom, a grid pattern is also drawn with brown lines. Through the change of line bending, the bottles from four different perspectives, namely upper, lower, left and right, are delicately outlined, as well as the patterns in which they are decorated. The central book is “Made by Emperor Kangxi”. No matter the collection of flowers or the bottle with “wrong look” effect, all of them reflect the western fashion introduced by western missionaries in the 18th century.