Mallet-shaped vase in yang-ts’ai enamels with incised red ground pattern of flower brocade 1743 (Ch’ien-lung reign)

Mallet-shaped vase in yang-ts’ai enamels with incised red ground pattern of flower brocade 1743 (Ch’ien-lung reign)

• Image Number: K1B017216N000000000PAB
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Container
• Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
• Description:
  It is shaped like a gall bladder, with a round mouth, a long straight neck and a belly like a gall bladder. In addition to the mouth edge, shoulder and bottom edge, the whole piece is decorated with red ground cone carvings of “Swastika” and “Flower”, which are added to the brocade. Outside the brocade ground, the long neck is painted with a lotus pattern of twigs, and the round belly is composed of four groups of twigs and lotus patterns. There are four petal patterns around the mouth, and Ruyi cloud pattern is painted on the shoulder with flowers and dot patterns. The remaining gaps are painted with the green lake phoenix tail curling grass pattern on the white ground. The mouth edge and foot bottom are painted with gold, and the bottom and inner neck are painted with lake green glaze. The blue and white calligraphy “made in the reign of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty” is left in the white box with six characters and three lines of seal characters.