Porcelain flower pot with garden scene in fencai painted enamels and “Daya zhai” mark, Qing dynasty, Guangxu reign (1871-1908)

Porcelain flower pot with garden scene in fencai painted enamels and “Daya zhai” mark, Qing dynasty, Guangxu reign (1871-1908)

• Image Number: K1B000211N000000000PAB
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Floral apparatus
• Material: Mineral/ceramic/porcelain
• Description:
  Rectangular flowerpot, open, shallow straight wall, four short feet. The body is thick, the sole of the foot is unglazed, and there are two circles of nails at the bottom, with twelve nail points in total. The inside and outside of the vessel are decorated with low-temperature pastel on the glaze. In the vessel is turquoise pigment; The mouth edge is blue palindrome; The outer wall is painted with ink on the yellow ground, depicting the autumn garden scenery. Radishes are ripe, chrysanthemums are in full bloom, bees and butterflies are flying, and grass insects such as crickets are chirping. On one side, the seal imprint of “Daya Zhai” and “Tiandi Yijia Spring” was written horizontally. “Yongqing Changchun” double block letters are printed on the bottom. This kind of vessel is made by the order of Empress Dowager Cixi.