Five-color hollowed-out cloud phoenix vase

[Five-color hollowed-out Yunfeng vase]

Five-color hollowed-out Yunfeng vase, 49.5cm high, 15cm diameter, 17.2cm foot diameter
Bottle wash mouth, long neck, sagging belly, circle foot. Lion ears are pasted on both sides of the neck. The whole body is outlined in brown or russet, and is decorated with underglaze blue and white, red, yellow, green, eggplant purple, and peacock green, with eight layers of decoration. Nine phoenix carved on the bottle belly fly among the auspicious clouds, forming the theme pattern of the implements. The bottle mouth is hollowed out with Ruyi cloud head pattern, the neck is painted with colorful banana leaf pattern, and a number of flying butterflies are carved. The lion ears carved on both sides of the neck have the word “longevity” in the blue and white seal script. The neck is decorated with flowers and patterns of eight treasures. No style
The whole utensil is covered with layers of patterns from the mouth to the bottom, without any gaps, which can be called gorgeous. The multicolored porcelain in this period, instead of the sparseness, elegance and tranquility of the colored porcelain in the Ming Dynasty, has become a colorful and warm style, with dense and disorderly decoration and full of body. This bottle is a typical utensil
This hollowed-out Yunfeng vase not only successfully uses colorful decoration, but also gives people a sense of exquisite craftsmanship with skilled carving skills. Such a dense combination of hollow-out and multicolored decoration reflects the superb skills of the porcelain craftsmen at that time, and is a rare treasure in the multicolored porcelain of the official kiln in the Wanli period.

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