May you enjoy wealth and prestige to a ripe old age
富贵白头
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‘Fu Gui Bai Tou 富贵白头’ is interchangeable with ‘Bai Tou Fu Gui 白头富贵’, with the same meaning of ‘May you enjoy wealth and high position to a ripe old age’.
Pun Design:
Peony + Chinese bulbul
Punning Details：
– ‘fu gui 富贵’ in ‘fu gui hua 富贵花 peony’ literally, the ‘flower of wealth and prestige’, which is a nickname of ‘mu dan 牡丹 peony’;
– ‘bai tou 白头 white-headed’, of ‘bai tou weng 白头翁 Chinese bulbul’ (the white-headed-old-chap bird) can imply a ripe old age;
Therefore, the motif combination of peony and Chinese bulbul expresses the auspicious wish to the recipient to enjoy wealth and prestige to a ripe old age.
画面要素: 牡丹 + 白头翁
谐音详情: 牡丹别名‘富贵花’, 取‘富贵花’中‘富贵’二字; ‘白头翁’中‘白头’, 意为‘年长, 长寿’
Related Pun Pictures:
May you both live together to a ripe old age in married bliss 白头偕老
May your wealth and privilege expectable 富贵有期
Further Reading:
Appreciation of a top-tier Qianlong falangcai vase with red-whiskered bulbul decoration
Fig 1: famille rose porcelain dish, c.1730–1780, Qing dynasty, courtesy of Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, Accession no. EAX.1524
Fig 2: a pair of famille rose jars, Daoguang period (1821–50), Qing dynasty, courtesy of former Bouza Serrano Collection, Museum of the Orient, Lisbon, Portugal
Fig 3-4: famille rose porcelain planter, 19 century, courtesy of the National Palace Museum, Taipei
Fig 5: famille rose porcelain planter, 19 century, courtesy of the National Palace Museum, Taipei
Fig 6: famille rose porcelain planter, 19 century, courtesy of the National Palace Museum, Taipei
Fig 7: famille rose porcelain bowl with lid, late Qing dynasty, courtesy of Nordic Antiques, Sweden, No. 1912