Mallet-shape vase in yang-ts’ai enamels with painted pattern of flower brocade on yellow ground 1742 (Ch’ien-lung reign)

Mallet-shape vase in yang-ts’ai enamels with painted pattern of flower brocade on yellow ground 1742 (Ch’ien-lung reign)

• Image Number: K1B017124N000000000PAD
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Container
• Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
• Description:
  With a straight mouth, a long neck, a round belly and round feet, the Qing Palace called this kind of bottle with a slightly wider neck a paper mallet bottle. The outer wall is painted with yellow glaze. Ruyi patterns on the mouth edge, shoulder, foot edge and deformed lotus petal patterns are all icing on the cake patterns painted with blue curly grass patterns in pink. The sidelines are all painted with blue edges, and the Ruyi patterns on the floor of the mouth and neck are decorated with chime patterns, longevity patterns and Yingluo patterns; Add banana leaf pattern at the bottom; The white ground on the neck is decorated with crocus flowers. The main pattern on the abdomen is four groups of blue and white concentric crocus flowers. A circle of flowers is painted around the feet. The mouth edge and the sole of the foot are painted with gold. The body is thin and light. The bottom and inner neck are covered with lake green glaze. The blue and white script “made in the reign of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty” is written in a blank box in the bottom.