Hanging vase with floral medallions decoration in fencai painted enamels, Jingdezhen ware, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)

Hanging vase with floral medallions decoration in fencai painted enamels, Jingdezhen ware, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)

• Image Number: C1B005159N000000000PAB
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: furnishings
• Material: Mineral/ceramic/porcelain
• Description:
  The whole device is like a longitudinally split half device, which is in the shape of a bottle with a seat on the half face. The mouth is wide, the neck is tied, the shoulders are full, and the belly is slightly lower. The back of the utensil is flat and can be fastened to the wall or sedan chair with holes, so it is called wall bottle or sedan chair bottle. It is called a car bottle in the archives. This type of utensil was first seen in the Xuande Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty and prevailed in the Qianlong Period of the Qing Dynasty. The outer wall of this bottle is decorated with purple glaze and colorful glaze. The main decorative tone is corundum flowers. There are banana leaf patterns on the neck and lotus petal patterns on the lower part of the abdomen. The brown glaze gold color calligraphy “made in the year of Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty” in the foot is a single line horizontal seal script.