Planter with wisteria and bird decor. Porcelain, fencai painted enamel. Late Qing dynasty

Planter with wisteria and bird decor. Porcelain, fencai painted enamel. Late Qing dynasty

• Image Number: K1B012352N000000000PAB
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Floral apparatus
• Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
• Description:
  Round basin, lip outlet, straight wall deep abdomen, exposed fetus at the bottom of the organ, with round seepage holes. With white glaze, purple flowers and vines hang on the lake green land, stretching the whole flowerpot. The thrushes on the ochre branches are singing, and the pink roses are in full bloom under the trees. The picture is lively and lively. The fine brushwork of decorative patterns is detailed, and the painting is colorful and colorful. The content of the beautiful Chinese rose, the happy thrush and the long vine representing thousands of generations symbolizes auspiciousness and harmony, which is one of the decorative features of porcelain in the late Qing Dynasty. Wisteria vine is a common decorative motif of palace porcelain in the late Qing Dynasty, which appeared at the latest in the Daoguang year of the Qing Dynasty. Collected in the courtyard is a bowl covered with pink porcelain made by Shendetang in the Qing Dynasty with wisteria, flower and bird patterns and blue ground (hence porcelain 08322), which is a work of the Daoguang period. The bottom glaze of the cover bowl is sky blue, and the vine is purple with gray. The pattern is arranged in the whole vessel according to the decoration method of “crossing branches” commonly used since the Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty