Hanging vase with Indian lotus scrolls in yangcai painted enamels and gold tracing on a turquoise ground, Qing dynasty, Jiaqing reign (1796-1820)

Hanging vase with Indian lotus scrolls in yangcai painted enamels and gold tracing on a turquoise ground, Qing dynasty, Jiaqing reign (1796-1820)

• Image Number: C1B000608N000000000PAB
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Furnisher
• Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
• Description:
  The whole device is like a longitudinally split half face bottle, with a flat back. It can be fastened to the wall or sedan chair with holes, so it is called a wall bottle or sedan chair bottle. It is called a car bottle in the archives. This bottle has a wide mouth and a narrow neck. The outer wall is covered with lake green glaze, and painted with golden lotus patterns. There is a chime at the neck and peach fruit hanging under it. On the outer wall of the abdomen, there is a golden longevity character, and a circle of lotus petal patterns near the bottom. The base is made of single line horizontal six character seal characters in brown glaze gold color calligraphy “made in the year of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty”.