Carved lacquer gourd vase with the characters “da ji”, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)

Carved lacquer gourd vase with the characters “da ji”, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)

• Image Number: K1H000092N000000000PAB
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Lacquer wares
• Function: Container
• Material: Plants/Paint/
• Description:
  The red gourd bottle is red and gray. A gourd shaped bottle with an open mouth, a large belly, a shallow circle of feet, a few cloud feet under it, and a metal rim inside. The whole vessel is carved with lotus flowers and leaves, with a cicada pattern at the mouth edge, and a palisade at the waist in the center. The upper and lower parts of the vessel are carved with lotus petal patterns around each other. Large and small round bellies are carved with “big” and “lucky” lights on the upper part, and small ones are decorated with hexagonal flower patterns on the lower part.