Tea caddy with kui-dragon pattern in underglaze blue, Qing dynasty, Yongzheng reign (1723-1735)-China Archive

Image Number: C1B000217N000000000PAC
Dynasty: Qing dynasty
Category: Ceramics
Function: Container
Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
Description:
Small round mouth, short neck, oblique shoulder, straight round belly, shallow concave foot, with flat top and round cap. The whole vessel is painted with blue and white flowers. The cover is painted with five petals of flowers. The body is painted with a pair of Kui dragon patterns. The dragon patterns have a special shape, which is a creative transformation of Kui dragon patterns. The blue and white glaze is uniform and thick, leaving a lot of white, and the whole piece is neat and elegant. The blue and white book with the bottom of the heart is “made in the reign of Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty” in six character and two line regular script. The shape of the tea pot is similar to the Yixing Kiln tea pot used by Yongzheng to store Zhulan tea and Lu’an green tea. The tea pot in Yongzheng Dynasty has a simple overall shape and beautiful lines, which conforms to the requirements of Emperor Yongzheng that the manufacturing of utensils must be “elegant and elegant”. During the Yongzheng period, there were many kinds of tea cans. Emperor Yongzheng was also fond of drinking tea. Although there were few poems and essays about drinking tea and tasting tea ware, it was frequently seen in the Memorial to Yongzheng Dynasty in the middle of the palace that he rewarded ministers with tribute tea, often with a cup of tea