Teapot in yang-ts’ai enamels with incised red ground pattern of flower brocade 1741 (Ch’ien-lung reign)

Teapot in yang-ts’ai enamels with incised red ground pattern of flower brocade 1741 (Ch’ien-lung reign)

• Image Number: K1B017182N000000000PAF
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Container
• Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
• Description:
  Straight and round mouth, short neck, elliptical abdomen, slightly converging bottom, long meandering flow, bow shaped handle. There is a vent above the inner side of the handle. The bottom is flat, the feet are slightly skimmed, with a round button arch cover. There is a connected vent on the side of the button and the inner top of the cover. The inside and outside of the utensil are decorated with lake green glaze. The outside of the utensil, except for the neck and the round foot, is all over the purple and red ground, where the phoenix tail curling grass pattern is tapered, and the remaining gaps are painted with four foreign lotus leaves. The neck is decorated with two pairs of dragons and dragons. The shoulder is Ruyi pattern. The bottom is decorated with a banana leaf pattern, and the round foot is decorated with a yellow flower pattern. The cover is painted with gold, and four flower and leaf patterns are painted on the cover. The body is thin and transparent, and the bottom of the lake green pot is painted with blue material, “made in the year of Qianlong”, four characters and two lines of blue material seal characters, plus two side frames.