Coupled vase with flower-and-bird panels in fen-ts’ai rose enamels, Ch’ien-lung reign (1736-1795), Ch’ing dynasty

Coupled vase with flower-and-bird panels in fen-ts’ai rose enamels, Ch’ien-lung reign (1736-1795), Ch’ing dynasty

• Image Number: K1B017171N000000000PAB
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
• Description:
  The bottle is oblate. In order to highlight the new cut shape, two oblate bottles appear in the form of staggered front and back but connected abdomen. The mouth is made of lips and closed inward, short neck, oblong short foot, thick fetal bone, and the bottle surface is decorated with blue and purple brocade patterns. On the brocade ground, various kinds of flowers are painted. The two sides of the center of the abdomen of the double connected vase are illuminated, and plum blossom, magpie, narcissus, and quail are painted separately. Because the two vessels are connected, the illumination on the front and back sides is circular and semicircular because of the crisscross. This change, together with the intersection of blue and purple glaze colors, forms an interesting correspondence and change. The inside and bottom of the vessel are all covered with lake green glaze, and the bottom is made of six character seal characters in blue and white script “made in the year of Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty”. The shape of the double connected bottle has been seen in the official kilns and civilian kilns before Qianlong. In order to show its outstanding manufacturing capacity, Qianlong official kiln was built on the basis of predecessors