Revolving ts’un vessel in yang-ts’ai enamels on blue ground with incised pattern of flower brocade and landscape imperial poem décor 1743 (Ch’ien-lung reign)

Revolving ts’un vessel in yang-ts’ai enamels on blue ground with incised pattern of flower brocade and landscape imperial poem décor 1743 (Ch’ien-lung reign)

• Image Number: K1B017442N000000000PAH
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Container
• Description:
  The bottle is shaped like a bronze pot, which is joined in three sections. The middle neck can be rotated, with pendants and double ears. The outer wall of the utensil is decorated with patterns on the emerald blue ground brocade on the belly and mouth, except for the main patterns of the four openings and the neck ornaments. The gaps are painted with foreign chrysanthemums and foreign flowers and leaves. Four pictures of spring, summer, autumn and winter are drawn in the four circular openings. On the four pictures, four poems written in the era of Emperor Qianlong in the 12th to 13th years of Yongzheng era are written in four styles: Li, Kai, Xing, and Zhuan. The four pictures are accompanied by two seal characters: “Qianlong Chenhan” and “Only One and Only”. The inner neck is covered with lake green glaze, and the bottom center is left with a white box with a six character and three line seal script of “Made in the reign of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty”.