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

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

• Image Number: C1B000627N000000000PAB
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Furnisher
• Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
• Description:
  The whole device, like a longitudinally split half device, is in the shape of a bottle with a half face and a double dragon ear, and its back is flat. 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. The outer wall of the bottle is covered with blue glaze and painted with various patterns. The main decorative pattern is twining lotus. One lotus is in full bloom in the center, and small lotus leaves are distributed around. There are bats and golden “longevity” characters on the neck to symbolize “happiness and longevity”. A circle of lotus petal pattern near the foot. Brown glaze is applied to the sole of the foot in a single horizontal four character seal script in a gold color script “made in the year of Jiaqing”.