Square painted-enamel basin with ladies and children, Qing dynasty (18th century)

Square painted-enamel basin with ladies and children, Qing dynasty (18th century)

• Image Number: K1E000074N000000000PAB
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Enamel wares
• Function: Floral apparatus
• Material: Minerals/Metals/Copper
• Description:
  Square basin, open and deep wall, round foot. The copper body is decorated with painted enamel. White plain ground in the container; Outer wall painting; The mouth edge is blue hanging cloud pattern, and the wall is made of yellow ground octagonal brocade, decorated with bat and long plate patterns. Open all around to paint the theme of ladies’ work and rest; On one side, she painted a picture of a woman sitting at a table, teaching children to read, while the other two children were playing around, carrying lanterns, holding sheng, and planting lake stones and peonies. The characters in the four pictures are all well dressed and luxuriously dressed; The living room is also well arranged, the furnishings are quaint, the garden is planted with flower stones, and the mountains are beautiful