Small Bowl with Rouge-red Glaze

The bowl has a flared mouth that tapers to the foot ring. The interior is glazed with white and the exterior is rouge-red. The thin paste is gracefully shaped. On the foot-ring is a double-border seal in blue-and-white with the date of manufacture written in regular script that translates, “Made in Yongzheng period of Qing dynasty”.
The rouge-red bowl is uniformly glazed and smooth. Set off by clear glaze on the interior, it is even more charming. The manufacturing process required first firing the bowl with clear glaze, after which rouge-red glaze was evenly sprayed on the outside. The bowl was then fired in temperatures of eight hundred degrees Celsius (800℃). It is one of the rarest glazes in the Qing dynasty. Rouge-red glaze was mainly used for small objects such as small bowls, vases, stem cups and chrysanthemum-shaped plates. Porcelain ware in rouge-red glaze was innovated in the Kangxi reign and fired with skill in the Yongzheng reign. Although this kind of porcelain ware was made until the late years of the Qing dynasty, the quality was increasingly inferior. The rouge-red glazed bowl is distinctive in its extremely white interior and vivid pink exterior. Graceful and exquisite, it represents the highest achievement of Qing dynasty technology.