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: K1B008488N000000000PAE
• 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 round hole is opened in the center of the upper bearing plate to stick the candlestick. The base bearing plate and the candlestick are decorated with foreign red cone to cut the brocade ground with grass patterns, and the empty 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: “Who will combine Dayi porcelain with nine Chinese branches?”; The next script is “Qianlong” Zhu Wen Zhuan. The upper layer of the candlelight plate is skimmed, 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 petal patterns painted on the gold ground in the center, and a pink lotus petal and a red brocade pattern painted on the outer wall. The middle layer and the folding edge of the candle holder are also full of decorative patterns. The whole mouth and foot of the device and the decorative patterns of each layer are decorated with gold, and the bottom is