Pale yellow ground red bat gold colored group “Shou” character plate

[Pale Yellow Red Bat Gold Color Group “Shou” Character Plate]

Pale Yellow Red Bat Gold Color Group “Shou” Character Plate, Tongzhi of the Qing Dynasty, height 4.9 cm, caliber 22.2 cm, foot diameter 13.1 cm. The old collection of the Qing Palace
The rim of the disc is painted with gold color. The white glaze on the outer wall depicts three evenly distributed broken branches in alum red color on the ground. On the ground of the light yellow glaze inside the plate, there are decorated with alum red color painted with gold bats, gold color painted with the characters “Shou”, and blue color painted with the characters “Swastika”. There are a total of 29 characters “Shou”, 24 bats, and 12 characters “Swastika”. The entire pattern symbolizes a boundless life and a long and happy life. The outsole is embossed with alum red colored regular script “Tongzhi Year System” in four characters and double lines
This plate belongs to the wedding porcelain of the Emperor Tongzhi in 1872
The Tongzhi dynasty lasted for 13 years. According to the records of the Qing palace, in December of the third year of the Tongzhi reign (1864), the imperial kiln began firing porcelain, and thereafter there was no interruption every year. There were successively Cai Jinqing, Junda, Jingfu, and others appointed to supervise pottery, among which Jingfu was more famous. However, Jingfu’s fame was not due to his meritorious supervision of Tao, but rather to his inability to handle the Tongzhi wedding porcelain. “The firing process was not legal, resulting in roughness, and it was not suitable for it.” Therefore, “Jingfu still made compensation according to the number of figures.”. Jingfu’s undertaking of the wedding porcelain began in August of the ninth year of Tongzhi’s reign (1870), and was not completed until November of the tenth year