Painted enamel container with lotus decoration on a yellow background, Qing dynasty, Qianlong reign (1736-1795)

Painted enamel container with lotus decoration on a yellow background, Qing dynasty, Qianlong reign (1736-1795)

• Image Number: K1E000563N000000000PAC
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Enamel wares
• Function: Incense container
• Material: Minerals/Metals/Copper
• Description:
  The box body is flat and round. The lid and body of the box are decorated with yellow flowers. The cap and foot circle are blue twig chrysanthemums. The bottom of the vessel is made of white ground, blue material and regular script, “made in the year of Qianlong”. The three stove bottle boxes were stored in the nanmu boxes made in the Qing Palace. It was recorded that “an enamel stove bottle box was painted on the yellow ground of the Qianlong Emperor”. All of them were equipped with wooden seats. The design of the box was ingenious. The stove bottle boxes and shovel chopsticks were completely and properly placed in the boxes with grids and dark drawers. It is the representative of the collection of stove bottle boxes in the Palace of Heavenly Purity.