Copper box with painted enamel decor in the shape of a bottle, Qing dynasty, Yongzheng reign (1723-1735)

Copper box with painted enamel decor in the shape of a bottle, Qing dynasty, Yongzheng reign (1723-1735)

• Image Number: K1E000212N000000000PAE
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Enamel wares
• Function: Container
• Material: Minerals/Metals/Copper
• Description:
  Copper body painted enamel, and the glaze layer on the body peeled off. Bottle type box, the dome box is connected with a straight neck with a flat mouth. The whole vessel is painted with yellow glaze as the ground and decorated with twining flowers. The flower core on the front is decorated with the word “Tuan Shou”, and the long neck is decorated with cloud head pattern. Light blue glaze is applied to the inside and neck of the utensil, and the regular script “made in the year of Yongzheng” is printed on the white ground in blue, with double boxes. Both the design box and the long neck bottle can be used to store things, which is suspected to be a incense utensil with separate incense sticks and chopsticks.