Vase with lotus petals in green glaze, Qing dynasty, Yongzheng reign (1723-1735)
- Image Number: K1B012736N000000000PAB
- Dynasty: Qing dynasty
- Category: Ceramics
- Function: Container
- Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
- Description:
The bottle mouth is slightly tilted, the neck is thin and straight, the shoulders are flat and round, the abdomen is flat and round, and the feet are short and round. Nine lotus petal patterns are arched on the abdomen, and the body looks like a flat bud lotus. The glaze is green, plump and clean. The foot is exposed to white body, and the light ochre Φ body glaze is applied. The blue and white script with the bottom of the heart “was made in the Yongzheng year of the Qing Dynasty”. Long necked bottles, as soy sauce containers, have been seen in the Dunhuang mural tombs of the Tang Dynasty, and continue to become an important choice of floral tools in various dynasties. According to the function, the thin neck can make the plant branches straight against the neck wall, and the branches and legs close to each other. It has the function of fixing the position of flowers and leaves, or it will last forever. For example, Sun Hu of the Qing Dynasty in the courtyard collected the “Longevity Atlas. Shouweng Playing Chess” (hence the painting 03372-2). On the stone table, three longevity chrysanthemums were inserted in a round bellied bottle with different postures; He echoes with the old chess player in the picture. Such a scene
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