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

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

• Image Number: K1E000562N000000000PAB
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Enamel wares
• Function: Incense set
• Material: Minerals/Metals/Copper
• Description:
  The instrument type is paper hammer bottle type. The neck is decorated with pink brocade and green banana leaf patterns. The shoulder is surrounded by a circle of precious blue small Ruyi cloud head patterns. The belly is yellow ground twig flowers. 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.