Gall-bladder vase in yang-ts’ai enamels with gold Indian lotus décor on cobalt blue ground 1743 (Ch’ien-lung reign)

Gall-bladder vase in yang-ts’ai enamels with gold Indian lotus décor on cobalt blue ground 1743 (Ch’ien-lung reign)

• Image Number: K1B017208N000000000PAD
• 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. The whole body is decorated with blue glaze, and the patterns are described with gold color. There are one curly grass pattern, one wreath pattern and one deformed cicada pattern along the mouth, one flower chrysanthemum pattern and one Ruyi cloud pattern on the shoulder, and the main pattern of the bottle belly is painted with a lotus pattern with tangled branches, and the lotus petal pattern around the bottom. On the white ground at the bottom of the bottle, there are six characters and three lines of seal characters in the blue and white script “Made in the reign of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty”.