The qing emperor kangxi colorful flora cup “Chinese rose”

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kangxi is very good for all previous dynasties porcelain appreciate, kangxi nineteen years ordered jingdezhen recovery plant, all kinds of porcelain in the development of the new style. Kangxi twenty-five years jingdezhen imperial plant with porcelain firing for the palace a life ─ ─ “12 flowers cup”, for the first time “poetry, books, paintings, print” and on the same vessel, each cup draw a seasonal flowers, refer to famous women in history, and questions on the corresponding lines, used to say “god of December cup”. Emperor kangxi loves, several southern China were with him, he not only likes flora cups porcelain craft, prefer flowers to match the culture of the tang poetry artistic conception. “The national Palace Museum hidden treasures collected: colorful, bucket color” on page 152, a set of old qing colorful flower grain cup, December, twelve, only the same size. Perfect blue and white color to decorate, twelve cup each twelve months of flowers and plants, and the corresponding lines. This number, is represented by the first Chinese rose in November flora cup.
cup mouth, deep abdomen, ring foot. At the end of the book “the qing emperor kangxi years” blue and white double circle six regular script. Modelling XiuQiao exquisite, tire body was thin and light. There are poems “not over one thousand kinds of all, let alone one year red.” Visible similar flora cup, in addition to the Palace Museum hidden treasures collected: colorful, bucket color “, page 152, the figure 140 outside; Can also be found in henan museum, Hong Kong and teaware “hsu museum of art, ceramic article IV, the qing dynasty”.
Chinese rose, and MingChangChun flower, red month, every month, all the year round. Even in the winter, vegetation xiao suo, flowers wither, Chinese rose is still open. Represented by the flora of wang zhaojun (king Qiang). ZiGuiRen south county, when the han emperor, take “the good child” yi chamber. Preach not bribery painter Mao Yanshou, Mao Yanshou widowed at that point in her portrait tear mole, since then has been no your face. Fill, zhao han Hungary two clan unity, peaceful country and safe people, “the book characters closed, wild horses and cattle cloth, iii, without a warning of dogs barking Li Shu forget the battle of the wars”, show a thriving scene of peace.
kangxi colorful main color has red, yellow, green, blue, black, purple, gold, blue and white color of the process is to use blue and white on white porcelain body first draw an outline of the pattern of painted lines, after high temperature glaze firing, again on the glaze according to different parts of the design, according to the different color of required to fill in people, usually three to five, the last color into the low temperature sintering furnace, this process is also called the bucket color, also known as the Ming and qing dynasties literature into “kiln color”, “blue and white color” or “five colours” between blue and white. Reference:

1. The Palace Museum hidden treasures collected: colorful, bucket color “, 1999, Hong Kong: the commercial press, pp. 152, the figure 140
2. The post ring full of beautiful things: shochiku don Chinese imperial kiln porcelain collection “, in 2016, Hong Kong, page 56