The title of the work Qingqianlong Blue and White Alum Red Imperial Inscription Poetry Blue and White Bowl
Dimensions diameter 11cm
Created in Qianlong, Qing Dynasty
Estimate 280,000-380,000
Realized price RMB 322,000
Style: "Qianlong Year of the Great Qing Dynasty" six-character three-line seal book paragraph
Source: Old Collection of European Collectors
Description: This bowl skimmed, curved wall, circle foot. The whole body is decorated with blue flowers and alum red, and the outer mouth is painted with strings along the lower blue flowers, and the blue flowers are left white and the clouds are left white for a week, and the shins are decorated with a week of lotus petals. The abdomen is left empty, and the Qianlong imperial poem is written in pure alum red color: "The new sprouts of wheat spit soft branches, and the water station has no Laogong riding." I remember the Longjing Valley in Huxi, when the old and young baskets were busy. The first spring flower is cooked in living water, Yue Ou Xiangding is accompanied by HD, Nie Yi is remembered in the middle sentence, and the new valley is sympathetic. Two tea songs before Wing Yu, Qianlong Chengjiao Twilight Spring Imperial System." The body of the book is a small letter in the style of the Pavilion of the Qing Dynasty, the strokes are neat and beautiful, and the writing is meticulous and exquisite. And "dry" and "long" two sides of the alum red seal. The white glazed blue and white book at the bottom of the bowl "Qianlong Year of the Great Qing Dynasty" six-character seal book. This bowl tire glaze is white and delicate, the red color is elegant and elegant, the freshness is magnificent, the gentleness contains richness, the calmness is not lost, the extremely exquisite ability, especially graceful and elegant, for the Qianlong Emperor to taste tea for tea.
The Qianlong Emperor was good at writing and loved tea tasting. In the eighth year of Qianlong (1743), it was stipulated that a tea feast would be held at Chonghua Palace on an auspicious day between the second and tenth days of the first month of the first month of each year, and the Tianzi and the poets would taste tea and chant. According to the "Poetry of Drinking Tea", Qianlong loved tea as much as his fate and reigned for sixty years. Even when a generation of emperors abdicated, it was arranged to drink tea at chonghua palace in the first month. On the same day, a courtier advised, "A country must not be without a monarch for a day." Qianlong twisted his whiskers with his hands and replied with great interest, "You must not go a day without tea!" Qianlong loves tea, tea, and tea, and pours infinite affection into the spiritual buds bred by the essence of this mountain and river. The light and clear tea has attracted countless pleasures from the Qianlong Emperor, and the poetry is overflowing. The tea poem itself makes the ordinary tea become superior due to the strong poetry infused. Tea was a famous poet who made a name for itself and formed an important part of the tea drinking culture of the Chinese Qing Dynasty court, which continued until the Later Dynasty.
This type of bowl is a porcelain tea set used in the Qianlong Tea House, the most common one is the Jingdezhen Royal Kiln Factory firing with imperial poetry blue and white and alum red color two categories, the outer wall of the tea bowl surrounded by imperial poetry decoration. For example, In the eleventh year of Qianlong, he composed poems such as "Three Qing Tea", "Lotus Cooking Tea" and "Tea Before Cooking Rain". The "tea before the rain" in the poem, that is, Gu Yu tea, is a spring tea picked during the rainy season of the valley, also known as erchun tea, which is the same as Qingming tea as the best product of the year. Xu Cishu said of the tea picking season in "Tea Shu": "Qingming is too early, summer is too late, before and after the valley rains, the time is moderate." For the ordinary stir-fried green tea in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, after the Qingming Dynasty and before the valley rain, it is indeed the most suitable season for picking spring tea. The tea before the rain has a good shape and taste is not inferior to that of Mingqian tea, so it is loved by Qianlong, and he also writes a poetry tea bowl to remember, which shows the elegance of this emperor.
The Old Collection of such tea cups in the Qing Palace of the Palace Museum in Beijing is mostly used for matching purposes, and there are purple sand tea pots, which are placed together in the tea basket made of precious wood, which can be seen in the "Collection of Cultural Relics and Treasures of the Palace Museum - Purple Sand Ware", Shanghai Science and Technology Publishing House, 2008, pp. 43, 46, Figures 31 and 33. The National Palace Museum in Taipei also has similar collections, which can be seen in "You Can Also Purify your Heart: Tea Utensils, Tea Affairs, And Tea Paintings", 152 pages, Figure 128, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 2002.
See: Qingkang Yonggan Famous Porcelain, p. 169, Figure 142
The Cultural Undertakings of the Qianlong Emperor, p. 51, FigureS I.-40
"You Can Also Purify your Heart: Tea Utensils, Tea Affairs, And Tea Paintings," p. 152, Figure 129
"Shanghai Museum Collection Research Series: Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty - Xuantongguan Kiln Porcelain", p. 96, Figure 3-18