Hanging vase with handles and Indian lotus scrolls in gold tracing on cobalt blue glaze, Qing dynasty, Qianlong reign (1736-1795)

Hanging vase with handles and Indian lotus scrolls in gold tracing on cobalt blue glaze, Qing dynasty, Qianlong reign (1736-1795)

• Image Number: C1B000622N000000000PAB
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Furnisher
• Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
• Description:
  The whole device is like a longitudinally split half device, which is in the shape of a bottle with a double leaf ear and a half face with a seat. The back is flat, and it can be threaded and fastened to the wall or sedan chair with holes, so it is called a wall bottle or sedan chair bottle. It is called a car bottle in the archives. The outer wall of this bottle depicts various patterns with Ji Qing as the ground gold color. The curling branches and lotus leaves cover the outer wall, with a circle around Ruyi Cloud Head at the mouth and a circle of lotus petal patterns near the foot. The foot is decorated with red glaze, and the single line horizontal four character seal script is written in gold color “made in the year of Qianlong”.