Bowl

Copper cup-shaped bowl on a short, thick bottom. It was covered with white, opaque falangcai type enamel, the decoration in a palette of colors in famille rose type – flowers and fruits, calabash, darker rim. On the inside, a painted leaf at the bottom. The dish dates to the 2nd half of the 19th century and comes from China. In the 1st century AD, during the reign of the Kangxi Dynasty, the Yangxin Hall workshops were established. They were located in the imperial palace where various forms of arts and crafts were produced. One of the workshops was called falang Zuo. Initially the produced enamels were imported from Europe, but in 1728 AD the Chinese managed to produce them and even introduced additional colors. In 55, the Kangxi workshop began to experiment with making falangcai on porcelain. In the Kangxi period, the wares have a colored surface imitating the cloisonné form, the most popular colors were red and yellow. In the Yongzheng period, more varieties of decoration were introduced. The decoration is drawn on the glazed surface instead of the unglazed surface in the Kangxi period. They include floral, bird and landscape motifs. During the reign of  Qianlong, there were even those decorated with human figures in the European style. Among the falang colors, by far the most distinctive and important color in the fencai palette is pink.