Triangular flowerpot with orchid verses engraved in purple sand of Yixing kiln

[Yixing kiln purple sand dark engraved orchid verse triangular flowerpot]

Yixing kiln purple sand dark engraved orchid verse triangular flowerpot, Qingyongzheng, 13cm high, 35cm side length
The flowerpot is triangular, folded, flat bottom, with a hole in the center of the bottom and three right-angle feet underneath. Light brown sand and mud, with excellent mud quality, coarse to fine. A clump of orchids is carved on one side of the flowerpot, with bold and unconstrained knife technique. The other side is carved with a seven-character poem in seal script: “Qiqiao Honglou yearns for thirst in autumn, and stands in the cold snow at the night of holding the piano.”
This flowerpot has a unique mud color, and the ochre is gray, commonly known as “squirrel skin”. This kind of mud color is simple and endurable. It was created at Yongzheng and disappeared after Qianlong.