Vase with dragon-shaped handles with western figure on a polychrome ground in falangcai painted enamels, Qianlong reign (1736-1795), Qing dyansty-China Archive

Image Number: K1B017600N000000000PAE
Dynasty: Qing dynasty
Category: Ceramics
Function: Container
Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
Description:
Lip edge, short neck, sloping shoulders, long and big belly, short circle feet. Both sides of shoulder are decorated with chi shaped ears. The fetal bone is slightly thick and white glaze is applied throughout. Add a decorative ink ring on the mouth and foot, and leave a white edge on each side. The two sides of the abdomen are surrounded by a western style frame, and two groups of pictures of women and children in Western landscapes are painted inside. The western patterns of ochre ink are also decorated under the mouth, and various flowers are painted on the side abdomen of the opening room. There is a four character Song typeface “made in Qianlong’s year” in blue on the bottom, plus a double box. Compared with the standard that it was strictly forbidden to bring in nude Western portraits in the Kang and Yong dynasties, the Western ladies in bare chests painted on enamel colored porcelain in the Qianlong dynasty obviously broke through the previous taboo. In particular, the women and children’s faces were deliberately painted white to highlight the three-dimensional contour of the face, which was once regarded as closely related to Lang Shining against the western landscape. On the other hand, it may be the pattern of flowers inspired by the western copper body painting enamel,