Gall-bladder vase in yang-ts’ai enamels with plum flower décor on sacrificial red glaze ground 1742 (Ch’ien-lung reign)

Gall-bladder vase in yang-ts’ai enamels with plum flower décor on sacrificial red glaze ground 1742 (Ch’ien-lung reign)

• Image Number: K1B017438N000000000PAD
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Container
• Description:
  It is shaped like a gall bladder. The outer wall is painted with bright red glaze, and two white plum trees are painted on it. The old trunk is oblique, and the plum flowers on the branches are in full bloom, half open, and budding. The calyx of the white plum blossom is dyed with yellow material, the petals are slightly dyed with carmine and green enamel material, the white plum has open patterns, the gray purple plum is dyed with moss dry, and the moss spot is dyed with white material on the green glaze. The carcass is even thick, and there are casting marks on the inner edge and bottom. There are flowing patterns of red and orange interwoven in the Laetite red glaze, as well as large and small transparent bubbles. Transparent white glaze is applied to the inside and bottom of the utensil, and the blue and white script “Made in the reign of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty” with six characters and three lines is printed on the bottom.