Revolving vase with “Auspicious Eight Diagrams” motif in yangcai painted enamels, Qianlong reign (1736-1795), Qing dynasty

Revolving vase with “Auspicious Eight Diagrams” motif in yangcai painted enamels, Qianlong reign (1736-1795), Qing dynasty

• Image Number: K1B017648N000000000PAB
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Container
• Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
• Description:
  The hollow rotary flask is made of four sections after individual firing and tenoning: one section for the foot ring, the body, the liner, and the neck. Bottle mouth, short neck, flat shoulder, cylindrical body, feet. The outer abdomen is carved with four groups of wishful cloud patterns, interspersed with the Eight Diagrams text and colored drawings of distorted lotus patterns, anemones and other foreign flowers and patterns. The Eight Diagrams text all protrudes, with the gold color depicting the curling grass pattern flowers and gilt edged; The neck and inner liner are decorated with magenta cone, and the foot edge holly is painted with Ruyi clouds and patterns for a week. The carcass is thick, and the holly on the bottom of the utensil is printed in blue and white with six characters and three lines of seal characters.