Revolving openwork vase in yang-ts’ai enamels with incised pattern of flower brocade on yellow ground and eight trigram dècor, Ch’ien-lung reign, Ching Dynasty

Revolving openwork vase in yang-ts’ai enamels with incised pattern of flower brocade on yellow ground and eight trigram dècor, Ch’ien-lung reign, Ching Dynasty

• Image Number: K1B017215N000000000PAB
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Container
• Description:
  The bottle has a long mouth, a short neck, a big belly, and feet. The whole bottle is composed of four parts: the bottleneck, the inner bottle, and the upper and lower abdomen. The bottle belly is composed of four Ruyi cloud patterns that are interlaced with each other. There are some micro gaps between the upper and lower parts that can be moved to form the “Jiaotai” bottle style. Ruyi cloud patterns are carved with eight trigrams. The outer bottle is tenoned with the inner bottle at the ridge between the necks. When the neck bottle is pulled by hand, the inner bottle also rotates. The blue and white lotus patterns on the inner bottle can be seen through the hollow window. The bottle is covered with enamel yellow glaze, the upper cone is carved with curly grass patterns, the gaps are painted with foreign lotus, foreign chrysanthemum, banana leaves and flowers, and the mouth foot, boundary and the Eight Diagrams Ruyi cloud patterns are decorated with gold edges. The inside of the neck and the bottom are painted with lake green glaze, and the bottom is painted with blue and white script “made in the year of Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty”.