Qing yongzheng pastel peony bees tray

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plate exposure, arc wall, ring foot. Plate of heart body painting three peony flowers, two delicate and charming be about to drip, a budding, painters delicate, distinct, responsibly and color depth; Branches and leaves nearly rhizome part with Daisy some light blue cute; Two bee hovering between flowers, tentacles and bee wings fraction scene, is very vivid. At the end of the book “the qing yongzheng year” six pairs of blue and white regular script style.

1. [source] hon jubilee original gallery (pass);
2. BaiXuan study collection, Hong Kong.

in the qing dynasty imperial kiln enamel, began in the kangxi in his late years, is on the basis of wucai, fusing colored enamel skill and into new products. Have perfected yongzheng when powder enamel skill, well made and of later generations. Famille rose porcelain color before, first with mixed with arsenic powder “glass white” render, toning oil, brushwork heavy rendering, among Yin and Yang, the colorful one ping tu is exquisite. Other pigment powder enamel are partially used western recipe, color is rich, so draw the painting of flowers and Chinese caterpillar fungus is more vivid, more colorful porcelain also low firing temperature. A lot of skills in the exploration and innovation, just made this elegant and soft pastel flowers tray.
the famille rose plate draw three peony flowers, two delicate and charming be about to drip, a budding, is very bright. Peony colour and lustre is gorgeous, jade bead, romantic natural and unrestrained, gorgeous, known as “the king of flowers” reputation, with the meaning of “rich”. Yongzheng dynasty royal porcelain, are “out” ouchi samples, pastel of grain can be mostly in the work of the court of the most famous painter at that time to find a similar composition and brushwork. Tingxi to kangxi 42 years (1703) jinshi, yongzheng years served as does assistant minister, college students, the mandarin house, prince who ministers and so on, is one of the important court painter of the qing dynasty. Tingxi is especially good at flower and-bird painting. Because of its profound literature, historical culture, his works fine without fiber pen, color bright and not common, a yong li of rich gas. Tingxi’s near Qian Xuan qunfang in delight figure “sold in China Gardner on October 28, 2012, Lot 864 (figure 3) (figure 5), painting of flowers and birds to bee butterfly plays in between. Read the topic, known as with retained in the temple, when life should be emperor, therefore GongLi. This second auction pastel tray of peony and bees, and drawing and painting style is not consistent.
throughout the public and private collections, yong zheng famille rose plate are similar composition, usually for a winding wrapped in leaf stems from the rim, length of the two branches to stretch on both sides, there are many flower branches. Which had cuttlefish wall and wall two, however, the wall, as the national Palace Museum hide powder enamel branch yulan peony figure grail, description in the Palace Museum collection series pastel colored enamel, and possesses the 57 (figure 1). Plate of heart and draw examples of bees, butterflies, dragonflies racing through the branches, such as Tokyo mei ohsawa commemorative collection pastel peony dragonfly figure grail (figure 2), seen in the ceramic series qing guanyao, black and white chart 21. And this powder enamel plate only the most close to hon jubilee carmine famille rose flower art collection tray, description on the ceramic anthology of Chinese past dynasties, Taipei, 145 chart (figure 4).