Revolving openwork vase in yang-ts’ai enamels on blue ground with fish, aquatic plant, and gold tracery decor

Revolving openwork vase in yang-ts’ai enamels on blue ground with fish, aquatic plant, and gold tracery decor

• Image Number: K1B017495N000000000PAF
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Container
• Description:
  This is one of the nine new samples created by Tang Ying in April of the eighth year of Qianlong’s reign. The bottle is curiously made, hollowed out and rotated. The device is divided into internal and external layers, which are respectively fired and assembled from four parts. Inner bottle lip, long neck, oblique shoulder, straight abdomen, flat bottom. The straight mouth of the outer bottle is in the shape of lotus petals, with sloping shoulders, astringent abdomen, and feet pointing outward. The outer bottle starts from the mouth of the lotus petal and has an oblique shoulder. At the oblique shoulder, it is integrated with the inner bottle. There are four ring shaped systems on the shoulder. The four crabapple shaped rhombus on the abdominal wall is hollow and open, showing the inner bottle. The inner bottle is painted with enamel colored fish, algae and falling flowers on the ground of light green blown glaze. The inner neck and bottom of the bottle are painted with lake green glaze, and the bottom center is left with a blank box with three lines of seal characters “made in the reign of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty”. The outside of the utensil is painted with cobalt blue, and painted with gold lotus patterns and Ruyi wreaths. The whole device is gorgeous and exquisite, with the rotating neck and the inner bottle rotating with it, and you can see the swimming interest of colorful goldfish chasing falling flowers