Lidded spittoon in yang-ts’ai enamels with incised pattern of flower brocade 1741 (Ch’ien-lung reign)

Lidded spittoon in yang-ts’ai enamels with incised pattern of flower brocade 1741 (Ch’ien-lung reign)

• Image Number: K1B017439N000000000PAB
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Container
• Description:
  The cup has a round mouth, wide folding edge, straight abdomen, flat bottom and slightly concave, with a lid. The cover is slightly arched with a pearl shaped button. A banana leaf is decorated around the cover button. The cover is painted with a series of Ruyi patterns and five petals of deformed lotus patterns. A bat is painted inside the flap, and gold color is added to the cover button and the sideline. The outer wall of the utensil is decorated with eight intertwined deformed lotus patterns, and the folding surface is painted with a circle of yellow twigs and foreign flowers. In magenta, the ground is carved with conical and phoenix tail shaped curly grass patterns. The inside and bottom of the ware are decorated with turquoise green glaze. The blue and white script “made in the reign of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty” in three lines and six characters is left in the white box at the bottom of the ware.