Painted enamel garlic-head vase with floral decoration , Kangxi reign (1662-1722), Qing dynasty

Painted enamel garlic-head vase with floral decoration , Kangxi reign (1662-1722), Qing dynasty

• Image Number: K1E001028N000000000PAB
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Enamel wares
• Function: Container
• Material: Minerals/Metals/Copper
• Description:
  The bottle has a flat round abdomen, a long neck, and a bulging mouth, forming six convex valves, so it is called “garlic bottle”. It is decorated with yellow ground, red, blue, purple and other colorful flowers, and the color is obviously bright. The inner wall of the mouth rim, the inner wall of the foot ring and the sole of the foot ring are all made of copper without color. The rest of the parts are fully coated with enamel. This kind of enamel ware is also called painting enamel ware, which is different from filamentary enamel. The arrangement and color of flowers with yellow patterns and the painting method of green leaves became the template of porcelain body enamel in the late Kangxi period. In order to develop porcelain body enamel in the late Kangxi period, considerable research was done. On the bottom of this piece, there are four characters in blue material, “Made by Emperor Kangxi”, plus two side frames.