Mei-p’ing vase in yang-ts’ai enamels with landscape and imperial poem décor 1743 (Ch’ien-lung reign)

Mei-p’ing vase in yang-ts’ai enamels with landscape and imperial poem décor 1743 (Ch’ien-lung reign)

• Image Number: K1B017204N000000000PAB
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Container
• Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
• Description:
  Plum bottle shape. The outer wall is painted with a landscape figure painting of the Tongjing Palace. In the foreground, Qiao Song is winding, maple and bamboo lean against the stone, and the old man selling chrysanthemums is selling. In the background, the palace in the distant mountain is surrounded by black tiles of the Zhu Gate. The stone wall is surrounded by a beautiful scene of autumn light. The poem “Selling chrysanthemums” (1732), written in ink between the pine rocks and a clerical style by the Emperor Qianlong, says: “Before the autumn light reaches the east of Xiaoli, there are already chrysanthemums selling on the street. It is full of cold, fragrant, jade dew, and a curtain of cool, elegant, golden wind.” After the poem, the red material depicts “Qianlong Chen Han” “Only one and the best”, two chapters in red and white seal script. The white glaze is smooth and delicate, the body is thin and transparent, and the blue and white script “made in the reign of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty” has six characters and three lines.