[Ivory gourd shaped plate]
Ivory gourd shaped plate is clear, 1.6 cm high, 17.8 cm long and 13 cm wide at most. The old collection of the Qing Palace
The plate gourd style is embossed and carved with gourd branches, leaves and small gourds as decorations, and winds at the side and bottom of the plate, and then extends into the plate, which adds to the change of the shape. The waist is decorated with a red bat
The ancients used large and small gourds and their vines to symbolize multiple children, while the bat homonym was “blessing”, so the decoration of this utensil implied auspiciousness. Some parts of the decoration are dyed again, with blue, green, red and other colors. Some parts are inevitably faded over time, but have formed an ancient effect like halo dyeing. This plate is finely carved and beautifully shaped, and its decoration seems to be more practical
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