Colorful Baby Playing Picture Jade Pot Spring Bottle

[Colorful Baby Playing Picture Jade Pot Spring Bottle]

Colorful Baby Playing Picture Jade Pot Spring Bottle, Qing Qianlong, height 21.5cm, caliber 6.9 cm, foot diameter 7.4 cm
Bottle with round lips, flaring mouth, thin neck, smooth shoulders, full belly, rounded feet, and heel flaring. Decorated all over with combat colors. The abdomen is painted with a picture of a child playing in a courtyard with a view to the scene as the theme pattern. With bamboo and stone, plantains, railings, and wild flowers as the backdrop, sixteen children may play hide and seek, fight crickets, or lift poles. The children’s clothes are of various colors, and are decorated with gold paintings. The neck is decorated with deformed banana leaf patterns, yellow ground twig patterns, and hanging Ruyi head patterns. A deformed lotus petal pattern is painted near the foot, and the foot is decorated with a circular pattern. The blue and white seal script “made in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty” is stamped on the bottom of the bottle in six characters and three lines
The introduction of gold color into the Doucai painting is a prominent feature of Qianlong Doucai porcelain, which not only enriches the types of overglaze color, but also makes the painting present a more magnificent artistic effect.

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