Multicolor butterfly vase

[Colorful butterfly bottle]

Colorful butterfly bottle, Kangxi of Qing Dynasty, 44 cm high, 12 cm caliber, 13 cm foot diameter
Bottle skimming, short neck, full shoulder, gradually converging below the shoulder, and circle foot. Full body white glaze multicolor decoration. The middle part of the neck is painted with Ruyi head pattern, brocade flower pattern, and dot pattern. The joint of the neck and shoulder is painted with brocade Ruyi pattern for one week. The lower part of the shoulder is painted with flying butterflies, with dragonflies between them, and the outer blue and white circles are painted with ganoderma lucidum inside. The painter painted the scene of butterflies in groups, or gathered or scattered, with exquisite brush strokes, to the best of the beauty of painting
The Kangxi Five-color Porcelain is a famous product in the Qing Dynasty, enjoying a high reputation. It is known as “Kangxi Colorful Wonderful” and “Kangxi Colorful Hard”, which is very different from the pastel with soft feeling later. Because the multicolor is painted by single-line flat coating method, the color material is thick and colorful, transparent and bright, the color burning temperature is slightly higher than the pastel color, and the picture gives people a beautiful and hard feeling, so it is also known as “hard color”. After Kangxi, with the prevalence of pastel porcelain, multicolored porcelain was rarely produced, and the Kangxi multicolored porcelain was often used as the object of ancient imitation, so the Kangxi multicolored porcelain was also called “ancient color”. In the late Qing Dynasty, an old man in Jiyuan’s Tao Ya said, “The color paintings of the Kang kiln are often inferior to those of the official kilns, which are also marvelous. The official kilns strive to be meticulous, and they are not willing to be sloppy in their writing, and they marvel at their own merits. The official kilns are sloppy, and the old ones are scattered, and sometimes they have unique natural interests, which make it impossible to use them.” The “guest goods” are the artifacts fired by the civilian kilns
The Kangxi multicolored porcelain has a variety of shapes, especially the large phoenix tail vase, stick mallet bottle, plum bottle, jade pot spring bottle, Guanyin statue, oil mallet bottle, etc., which are all famous for their simplicity, solemnity and vigor. Its decorative themes are extremely rich, and most of them are “the picture must be intentional, and the meaning must be auspicious”. This bottle is full of butterflies. “Butterfly” is homophonic with “octogenarian”. “octogenarian” means the age of 70 or 80 years old, generally referring to old age, and “hundred butterflies” means longevity
This Kangxi multicoloured butterfly vase depicts a picture that people like to see with colorful colors and exquisite painting style. The posture and color of each butterfly are different. Some use blue and white color to make the pattern have three-dimensional effect, some use black color caviar pattern on the green butterfly wings, and some use glittering gold color on the red stripes of the butterfly wings. Blue and white are combined with red, yellow, blue, brown, black, purple, green and other colors on the glaze. The whole picture is colorful and dazzling


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