Qianlong style factory official glaze ribbon ear gourd bottle

[Qianlong style factory official glaze ribbon ear gourd bottle]

Qianlong style factory official glaze ribbon ear gourd bottle, Qing Dynasty Qianlong style, height 25.8 cm, caliber 2.8 cm, foot diameter 8.2 cm
Bottle gourd style, waist girdling, and looped feet. The waist is molded with lotus petal patterns, and the bottle is decorated with elongated ribbon ears on both sides. The entire body is covered with tea powder glaze. The outsole is engraved with six characters and three lines of characters in seal script “made in the reign of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty.”
The factory official glaze is a high-temperature crystalline glaze that was first fired in the Tang Dynasty. During production, a colorant containing iron and magnesium in the glaze is hung on the blank and fired at a high temperature. The glaze is yellow green in color. Irregular yellow stars are scattered in the glaze. Some are similar to tea powder, some are similar to eel skin, and some are like crab shell color. Therefore, there are also names of tea powder, eel yellow, crab turtle green, etc
During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, there were various colors of factory official glazes, such as eel yellow, crab shell green, and tea powder glazes. This bottle is a traditional style, with chartreuse glaze, simple and elegant. It is a typical official kiln product of the Qianlong Dynasty.

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