Candle stick with poem on a polychrome red ground in yangcai painted enamels, Qianlong reign (1736-1795), Qing dynasty

Candle stick with poem on a polychrome red ground in yangcai painted enamels, Qianlong reign (1736-1795), Qing dynasty

• Image Number: K1B008489N000000000PAE
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: furnishings
• Material: Mineral/ceramic/porcelain
• Description:
  The candlestick is divided into three sections, each of which is connected by a bearing plate. A concave part in the center of the upper bearing plate can be adhered to the candlelight path. The base bearing plate and the candle pillar are decorated with western red cone to cut the brocade ground with phoenix tail shaped curly grass patterns, and the space is decorated with foreign chrysanthemums, crocuses, etc. On the middle bearing plate, there is a poem written in white on the ground and in ink at the beginning of February of the ninth year of Qianlong’s reign, “Chanting the Flower Porcelain Lantern”, which was made by the imperial court: “Who will combine Dayi porcelain with the nine Chinese branches? It is better to use it after the dawn. It is quiet and appropriate to have no dust. When you are leisurely looking for a sentence and reading with your shadow, why do you praise the gold and jade in the Chaoyang Hall?” Seal “Qianlong” Zhuwen Zhuanshu. The upper layer is in the shape of a candlelight plate, with a circle of gold curling grass patterns painted on the coral ground along the inner edge, a circle of chrysanthemum petal patterns painted on the inner wall, four flower patterns painted on the gold ground in the center, and a pink lotus petal and a red brocade pattern added on the outer wall. The middle layer and the folding edge of the candle holder are also full of decorative patterns, and the whole mouth and foot of the device and the decorative rooms of each layer are decorated with gold