Garlic-head-shaped vase with flower and fruit sprays in underglaze blue, Qing dynasty, Qianlong reign (1736-1795)

Garlic-head-shaped vase with flower and fruit sprays in underglaze blue, Qing dynasty, Qianlong reign (1736-1795)

• Image Number: C1B004401N000000000PAB
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: furnishings
• Description:
  Garlic bottle, garlic mouth, long neck, sloping shoulders, sagging abdomen, round feet. Decorated with blue and white flowers, the belly is painted with six groups of flowers and fruits, such as plum blossom, camellia and chrysanthemum, peach, pomegranate and bergamot. A pair of ganoderma lucidum is lined at the bottom, and a circle of Ruyi cloud pattern and lotus petal pattern are decorated at the top and bottom respectively; The mouth is decorated with a circle of ripples and chrysanthemum patterns, the upper part of the neck is blank, the lower part is painted with lotus petal patterns and ripples, and a circle of wave patterns is outside the circle foot. The foot rim is exposed and white. The center of the outsole is made of six characters and three lines of seal characters written in blue and white in the year of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty.