Revolving brush holder with “Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches” motif in yangcai painted enamels, Qianlong reign (1736-1795), Qing dynasty

Revolving brush holder with “Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches” motif in yangcai painted enamels, Qianlong reign (1736-1795), Qing dynasty

• Image Number: K1B013532N000000000PAB
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Stationery and stationery
• Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
• Description:
  The utensil is in a straight tube shape, with the mouth and foot as the edge, and the tube wall can rotate up and down. The device is divided into four pieces for joint. The mouth is one piece along the inner wall of the device, and the base is one piece. After the cylinder wall is sleeved into the inner wall from top to bottom, the base is sleeved with the tenon at the bottom of the inner wall, and it can rotate freely from top to bottom. The mouth and foot are painted with gold flowers and brocade patterns in red. The body is painted with grass brocade patterns in blue. The gaps are painted with melon vines and melon flowers up and down. The middle section is cleverly placed between the upper and lower tube walls. It depicts twelve yellow gourds growing from the vines. The upper section is painted with ink “Ten Thousand Years”, “Jiazi” and “Ten Heavenly Stems”. The lower section is twelve earth branches. The upper and lower sections are rotated together, which can change a Jiazi for 60 years. So it is called Jiazi pen pot. The inner wall and the bottom are covered with lake green glaze, and the bottom center is left with a white box with red material, “made in the year of Qianlong”, two lines of four character seal characters.