Flask with scenes from “Odes on the Red Cliff” in cloisonne enamels, Qianlong reign (1736-1795), Qing dynasty.

Flask with scenes from “Odes on the Red Cliff” in cloisonne enamels, Qianlong reign (1736-1795), Qing dynasty.

• Image Number: C1E000891N000000000PAB
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Enamel wares
• Function: Container
• Material: Minerals/Metals/Copper
• Description:
  On both sides of the instrument, the belly is decorated with smoke and waves under the dangerous wall, and a boat swims in it. It seems to be a regular scene, but it is a traditional way to depict Su Shi’s “Red Cliff Fu”. The diagonal composition is used to make up cliffs, rivers and boats, which is the formula for the formation of the image of Red Cliff Fu, which is “like a reed, like a vast expanse of water”. This work adds more colors rarely seen in Chinese painting. Although it was made in the Qing Dynasty, when many filigree enamel colors could be made, it deliberately chose more stable colors such as blue, green and earth, which shows its ingenuity.