Kuan-yin vase in yang-ts’ai enamels with Indian lotus décor on cream-coloured glaze 1742 (Ch’ien-lung reign)

Kuan-yin vase in yang-ts’ai enamels with Indian lotus décor on cream-coloured glaze 1742 (Ch’ien-lung reign)

• Image Number: K1B017128N000000000PAF
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Container
• Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
• Description:
  Mouth skimming, short neck, sloping shoulders, and feet curling outward. The whole product is painted with decorative patterns on the beige ground, six undulating cloud head patterns are painted on the neck, and the interior blue ground is decorated with brocade patterns of grass and flowers; The shoulder is red, blue and green, intertwined with curly grass patterns; The main pattern on the abdomen is a Ruyi circle with intertwined sizes. The large circle is painted with three color chrysanthemums. The small Ruyi circle is decorated with flowers and circle dots. The bottom edge is decorated with lotus petals. The foot circle is decorated with red gold flowers. The mouth, foot and side lines are painted with gold colors. The bottom of the device is lightly printed with “made in the year of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty”, with six characters and three lines of seal characters.