Qing qianlong pastel baby play figure bowl (a)

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baby play symbol prosperous century one hundred generation, the earliest in changsha kiln in tang dynasty, song dynasty became widely popular auspicious subjects, flourishing during the Ming and qing dynasties is more popular, and often used in conjunction with other auspicious patterns. Such as the qianlong pastel baby play bowls, the boy hand lift lanterns, because of “light” homophonic “climb”, so the moral “, “a politician” good harvest “; Lanterns hung flapping in the four corners of the long ribbon, is not only to happens the dynamic beauty, also the implies “longevity”. A green boy to their A bucket of evergreen, symbol “jiangshan unity, last forever”. And a pair of lad, red right hand holding a pen left hand holding gold ingots, tsing yi hand the ruyi, together is the “sum of ingot ruyi” homophonic “must be the best”, is really “figure will be interested in, will be lucky”.

the water flow zhai said porcelain hailed emperor qianlong in the qing dynasty imperial kiln of painters, said its “China Ru extremely, to elaborate, a few in the creations.” Its to depict the characters who is “character small scene”. The qianlong pastel baby play bowls, the boy depicted vividly, darling, no repetitive movements, modal, each has its spirits. Head and hands with reddish contours, fine carve one’s face, scarlet lips, with light color HongRan out their faces with facial features look stereo feeling and character of qi and blood. Eyebrow eye drawing see capability, a few pen and fresh air, is the so-called “o” vivid portrayal in the wall. Body and clothes are portrayed vivid, exquisite electromotive force be vividly portrayed, bun, logical objects held by the lad, and exquisite wood and background of the grass everywhere, there is no pen never sloppy. Such superb artistic level, is based on mature technology of powder enamel. Pastel in qing dynasty and at the end of burning Yu Kangxi, which generated from the Atlantic to colored enamel, in pigment mixed with “white” glass make it more soft gentle. Yongzheng years further perfect, color material produced by western recipes, and according to the traditional European painting enamel color mixing oil and pay attention to the patterns of light and shade relations of Yin and Yang. The formulation and the adjustment on the drawing, making the famille rose porcelain tonal beautiful and refined, vivid patterns. In the literature of the pastel, but called it “the color” but also they have prepared the manpower cost, all the b in the eight years of qianlong “mold drawings” article 17 “circle cut the color” Chronicles of pastel drawing must choose “painting masters, and all sorts of color, white porcelain pieces first tried to burn, to check the color temperature, and then from coarse fine, ripe in the tricky, careful hand with eye is beautiful.” The qianlong pastel baby play bowls, namely by the country’s top craftsmen, refined but become, at workers think of opportunely hand is demonstrably not the name of “creations”.

[see] “Sun Ying chau ceramic world” pp. 250-251, 154 chart.