Bowl with ink bamboo and rocks in falangcai painted enamels, Qing dynasty, Yongzheng reign (1723-1735)-China Archive

Image Number: C1B000206N000000000PAB
Dynasty: Qing dynasty
Category: Ceramics
Function: Food utensil
Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
Description:
A wide mouth, a deep arc wall, and a round foot. The outer wall is white and painted with black enamel. First, the outline of the craggy stone is drawn with the dark glaze, and the concave convex texture of the mountain stone is carefully drawn in different shades. In contrast, bamboo is more dynamic, either straight up or staggered. Dark bamboo leaves are as beautiful as they are at present. If you can rest under the bamboo and block out the sun to cool off, it is like a picture of bamboo and stone waving ink on the white porcelain ground. It is consistent with the two lines in the poem “Bamboo Yin” written on the wall by Bai Li: “It is not smoke, it is not fog, it is green in the forest, it is like rain, it is like sunshine, and it is cool in the three paths”. The blue material on the bottom of the tool is “made in the year of Yongzheng”, with double lines and four imitation Song characters, plus a box. In the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, porcelain decorated with ink and wash effect in enamel and inscribed with poems and painting marks were frequently made, which not only showed that