Hanging vase with poem in yangcai painted enamels, Qianlong reign (1736-1795), Qing dynasty

Hanging vase with poem in yangcai painted enamels, Qianlong reign (1736-1795), Qing dynasty

• Image Number: K1B017288N000000000PAE
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Container
• Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
• Description:
  The bottle is shaped like a flat, square and round bottle with a trapezoidal mouth, a wide neck, a deformed phoenix ear, an elliptical abdomen, and feet. The outer wall is painted with yellow glaze, and the bottle is painted with Ruyi circle pattern of foreign flowers. There are five bats, two pairs of which fly opposite the bottle’s belly. One is decorated in Ruyi’s intertwined foreign lotus leaves on the neck of the bottle. Above the bat’s mouth is the four character seal character of “Qianlong Imperial Inscription”; The belly is painted with double phoenixes and ruyi patterns. The imperial poem “Chanting Hanging Bottles” in the seventh year of the reign of Emperor Qianlong is written in ink: “The official is famous, and the new bottle is more beautiful. Follow the Yan and sing, and pick up the fragrance along the road. The hanging place is called by the light car, and the hairpin comes with wild flowers slanting. The world of mortals is near, and the fragrance is beautiful.” At the end of the sentence, the red material depicts the two seal script of “Qianlong Chenhan” and “Only One”. The mouth and foot are painted with two lines of gold edge and red gold color curling grass patterns, and the ears of the double chi are also painted with gold color curling grass flowers and leaves. The back is flat and full of yellow glaze. A small circle is left on both sides of the bottom to wear