Bowl with willows and swallows in falangcai painted enamels, Qing dynasty, Yongzheng reign (1723-1735)

Bowl with willows and swallows in falangcai painted enamels, Qing dynasty, Yongzheng reign (1723-1735)

• Image Number: C1B001234N000000000PAC
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Food utensil
• Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
• Description:
  This bowl is slightly sloped, with deep arc wall, flat bottom and shallow circle feet. One side of the outer wall of the bowl is painted with apricot blossom willows. Double swallows stand and perch among the branches and forests. The combination of pink and tender stamens and fresh green weeping willows conveys the flavor of spring. Soft and beautiful strokes, bright colors; On the other side, Shen Shixing, the number one scholar of the Ming Dynasty, wrote two lines in ink: “The jade cut through the flowers, and the neon dress brings the moon home.”. At the end of the poem, the three seals of “Jiali”, “Sishi” and “Changchun” are depicted in red materials. The auspicious words of “Jiali Sishi Changchun” echo the artistic conception created in the painting. The inner wall of the bowl is plain without lines, and the inner bottom is inscribed with “Made in Yongzheng” blue material in Song Dynasty.