Basin with wood grain, Qing dynasty, Yongzheng reign (1723-1735)-China Archive

Image Number: K1B006716N000000000PAB
Dynasty: Qing dynasty
Category: Ceramics
Function: Container
Material: Mineral/ceramic/porcelain
Description:
A basin with a deep wall and a flat bottom sits on the feet of three clouds. Each foot has a long seepage hole, which is ingeniously designed. The surface of the utensil is decorated with ochre red color as the ground, black lines are divided and painted with tree knot ghost face wood patterns, and then transparent glaze is applied and fired at a high temperature, which is a continuation of the high-temperature underglaze color since the Kangxi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty. The grain is similar to rosewood, and it is surrounded by two white braided rope hoops. The whole device presents a barrel shape, which is quite ingenious. There is no glaze on the bottom, and the bottom is concave and round. The underglaze blue and white script is “made in the reign of Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty”. In December of the fifth year of Emperor Yongzheng’s reign (1727), it was recorded in the “Work File” that “a piece of pear wood grain magnetic barrel… was displayed in the tea set of Jiuzhou Qingyan”. It can be seen from this record that in the fifth year of the reign of Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty, Jingdezhen imperial kilns began to burn porcelain with wood like patterns. Barrel shaped flower vessels often appeared in the Qing Dynasty, and were mainly used to plant evergreen plants. The category was “unified”