Four-angled hanging vase with handles and poems and pattern of flower brocade on a blue ground, Qing dynasty, Qianlong reign (1736-1795)

Four-angled hanging vase with handles and poems and pattern of flower brocade on a blue ground, Qing dynasty, Qianlong reign (1736-1795)

• Image Number: C1B001939N000000000PAB
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: furnishings
• Description:
  In the front is a two bat ear bottle with garlic mouth vertical edge, long neck, round shoulder, round belly, and round feet, which is connected to Ruyi cloud foot seat. It is flat against the wall, and has four round holes and a trapezoidal recess in the back, which can be directly hung on the nails on the wall. Therefore, it is called a wall bottle and a car bottle in the Qing Dynasty. This type of utensil was first seen in the Wanli Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty and prevailed in the Qianlong Period of the Qing Dynasty. The red ground of this bottle is painted in five colors. The mouth edge is decorated with Ruyi cloud patterns. The neck is painted with flower patterns, lotus patterns and double fish patterns. The ears are painted with the pattern of a bat holding a swastika. The abdomen is in the shape of a golden border crabapple. The imperial poem “Henggao gathers the algae? The room is accompanied by Qingjia? Xiduo’s charm is better to cover the green clumps with red and gorgeous people in the moonlight. It is also like Wenxuan whispering on the side of the blue yarn” and the words “Qian” and “Long”. Around Kaiguang, the flowers and leaves are painted in circles. The seat is painted with golden scroll pattern and Ruyi cloud pattern on the brown ground, and the bottom is a single horizontal line of “Qianlong Year System” in the gold script on the brown ground