Planter with good fortune and longevity decoration in famille rose on a yellow ground, Jingdezhen ware, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)-China Archive

Image Number: K1B001111N000000000PAB
Dynasty: Qing dynasty
Category: Ceramics
Function: Floral apparatus
Material: Mineral/ceramic/porcelain
Description:
Tubular flower pot, skim mouth, short circle foot, and a water seepage hole at the bottom of the pot. The body is decorated with a red colored book with the character of “longevity”, and the gaps are filled with blue color; Outside the group “longevity” pattern, there is a deformed swastika pattern. Red bats fly in it, and the gaps are filled with yellow. The border of the pot is decorated with blue ground black line “Wan” character pattern and Ruyi cloud pattern, which are full of auspicious pictures of “Wanfu Shoushou”. In the painting “Hanging Screen of Spring Vegetables with Kesi”, which was collected by Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty in the courtyard, a cluster of flowering evergreen flowers were planted in a red flowerpot with Tuanshou patterns. Here, the words “long”, “ten thousand years” and “longevity” all have the meaning of constant length; The word “Qing” of evergreen is homophonic with the word “Qing” of the Qing royal family. Therefore, the title of the scroll “Changqing” is a combination of the auspicious homophone and moral of the flowerpot decoration and the planting in the pot. Kesi Tuanshou flowerpot, the technique of using silk thread and gold thread to hammer gold at the mouth edge, Tuanshou, etc; And the evergreen in the basin