작품 상세

conjured out of immaculate kaolin clay with steep rounded sides flaring out just barely at the rim, fired plain in the imperial kilns in Jingdezhen and thereafter carted off to the Imperial Workshops beyond the walls of the Forbidden City in Beijing, most delicately painted using imported enamels finely ground and blended with four five-lobed azure-ground window panels the colour of a fair morning sky, each revealing respectively, narcissus with cinnamon rose, hibiscus, poppy with tuberose, and gardenia with mallow, each cluster with its characteristic stem and leaf, the panels reserved on a radiant pink enamel ground studded at the rim with single chrysanthemum sprays overturned, their petals dramatically jutting out towards the viewer, encircled round the footring by broad green leaves overlapping blue petals, centred with a multi-coloured florette, the emphatic European manner hinting the hand of a Jesuit master, the interior left white, the four character Kangxi yuzhi mark inscribed in puce enamel on the base within a square, the enamels brilliantly fired on the premises

재료

Enamel