Teacup in yang-ts’ai enamels with incised red ground pattern of flower brocade 1742 (Ch’ien-lung reign)

Teacup in yang-ts’ai enamels with incised red ground pattern of flower brocade 1742 (Ch’ien-lung reign)

• Image Number: K1B017271N000000000PAE
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Container
• Description:
  The mouth is slightly open, with deep straight wall, short circle foot, and the insole is slightly convex. The white glaze inside the utensil has no lines. The purple red ground outside the utensil has a phoenix tail shaped curling grass brocade pattern, and the gaps are decorated with three foreign flowers. The fetal bone is slightly heavy, and the blue and white script “made in the year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty” has six characters and three lines. This kind of tea balls, which are relatively straight, deep walled, and about nine centimeters in diameter, often appear in court paintings. They are tea cups for sipping tea.