Wanli style filigree enamel gardenia pattern wax stand

[Wanli type filigree enamel gardenia pattern wax table]

Wanli type filigree enamel gardenia pattern wax table, the Ming Wanli height is 9.6 cm, the disc diameter is 18 cm, and the disc bottom diameter is 13.3 cm. The old collection of the Qing Palace
The candlestick disc type, with three copper gilding vertical clouds on the bottom. In the center of the plate is a gilded bronze vase with wax cutlets. The plate is decorated with flower patterns of broken branches, and the edge is decorated with gardenia patterns of broken branches in green space, with different colors. In the center of the outsole, there are six characters in the vertical regular script “made in the calendar year of the Ming Dynasty”
During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, the decorative colors of filigree enamel ware became increasingly rich, and sometimes two or three colors were used for different decoration of the ground color, which made the overall sense full of changes. This candlestick is one of the representative works.