Twin flask in yang-ts’ai enamels in red and blue ground incised with pattern of flower brocade and medallions of bird and flower dècor, Ch’ien-lung reign, Ching Dynasty

Twin flask in yang-ts’ai enamels in red and blue ground incised with pattern of flower brocade and medallions of bird and flower dècor, Ch’ien-lung reign, Ching Dynasty

• Image Number: K1B017172N000000000PAD
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Container
• Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
• Description:
  The bottle is made of a small round mouth and a straight wall that turns downward. The palace of the Qing Dynasty generally called this mouth Tianpankou. The double round bottle is molded, the double flat round bellies are staggered in front and back, and the inside is connected; Long neck, with oblong legs. The double round bottles are decorated with magenta and turquoise blue glazes, and the upper cone is decorated with curly grass patterns, and the gaps are painted with western flowers; The floor of mouth and foot is yellow and blue, with patterns and curly grass patterns painted around. The two round ventral centers are illuminated, and each of them is painted with a pair of magpies, plum blossoms, ganoderma lucidum, and golden ears, double quails, and narcissus, which means “happy eyebrows”, “peace all the year round”, and “longevity of Zhixian”. The inner neck and bottom of the utensil are decorated with lake green glaze, and the blue and white characters of “Made in the reign of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty” are horizontally arranged in a white box on the double bottom.