Guanyin vase with flower on a carved blue ground in yangcai painted enamels, Qianlong reign (1736-1795), Qing dynasty

Guanyin vase with flower on a carved blue ground in yangcai painted enamels, Qianlong reign (1736-1795), Qing dynasty

• Image Number: K1B017287N000000000PAB
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Container
• Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
• Description:
  Skim mouth, thin neck, oblique shoulder, arc abdomen, and foot. The whole body is a blue ground brocade with patterns added on it. The tapering on the blue ground is as thin as silk. The gaps are decorated in two sections. The upper part of the neck is surrounded by foreign flowers, and the lower part of the bottle is painted with the leaf patterns of the twirling lotus, anemone and chrysanthemum. The body is light and thin, the mouth and foot are all painted with a thin gold border, the neck and bottom are all painted with lake green glaze, and the bottom is painted with blue material, “made in the year of Qianlong”, four characters and two lines of seal characters, plus double circles. This kind of bottle system is called “Guanyin bottle” in the Qing Palace. There are long and thin necks.