Revolving gourd-shaped vase with decoration of floral pattern on yellow ground in yangcai painted enamels, Qianlong reign (1736-1795), Qing dynasty

Revolving gourd-shaped vase with decoration of floral pattern on yellow ground in yangcai painted enamels, Qianlong reign (1736-1795), Qing dynasty

• Image Number: K1B017647N000000000PBB
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Container
• Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
• Description:
  The bottle is in gourd style, and the whole device is composed of four parts: the upper vial, the middle abdomen with hollow half palindrome, the base with hollow half palindrome, and the liner. This kind of revolving bottle usually has a small semicircle protruding from the inner bottom of the base, and the bottom of the inner tank is concave semicircle, which can be sleeved with each other and can move. The upper mouth of the inner tank is tenoned and sleeved with the inner foot edge of the upper bottle. As long as the upper bottle is rotated, the inner tank will rotate, so it is also called revolving bottle; The hollow half palindrome on the base and the hollow half palindrome on the middle abdomen are combined to form a complete palindrome and a gourd section. The palindrome can be moved up, down, left and right. There are two main patterns in the whole device. One is yellow brocade patterns painted on the mouth, abdomen and bottom, and various leather ball shaped flower patterns painted on the gap; The other is that the neck, waist and hollow palindrome are all painted with patterns on the sky blue glaze. The mouth and waist are painted with lotus petal patterns in gold, and the hollow palindrome is painted with gold