Hanging vase with handles and decoration of red waves and dragon in fencai polychrome enamels on a sky blue ground, Qing dynasty, Jiaqing reign (1796-1820)

Hanging vase with handles and decoration of red waves and dragon in fencai polychrome enamels on a sky blue ground, Qing dynasty, Jiaqing reign (1796-1820)

• Image Number: C1B000605N000000000PAB
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Furnisher
• Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
• Description:
  The whole device is like a longitudinally split half device, which is in the shape of a half bottle with a flat back. It can be fastened to the wall or sedan chair with holes, so it is called a wall bottle or sedan chair bottle. It is called a car bottle in the archives. This bottle has a long mouth and a straight neck, a big belly, and two ears decorated with leaves on both sides of the neck. With the lake green glaze as the ground, the outer wall is painted with the pattern of Fushan Shouhai dragon with peach glaze, and the gap is decorated with auspicious clouds. The base is covered with alum red glaze, painted with gold colored flowers and leaves, and the bottom of the base is made of a single horizontal four character seal character in a gold colored book “Jiaqing Year”. The same type of vessels were also found in the Qianlong Dynasty, but they were slightly different in detail.