East blue glaze with golden pheasant flowers

[East Green Glaze with Golden Rooster Flower Pouring]

East Green Glaze with Golden Rooster Flower Pouring, Qing Qianlong, height 18.3 cm, caliber 2.3 cm
The flower is poured in the shape of a cockerel, with its head held upright, its long tail hanging down on the ground, and a crank bile bottle carried on its back. The chicken’s mouth is the flow, and the bottle mouth is the water injection port. The flowers are poured and painted with eastern blue glaze, the chicken body is covered with gold color depicting the wings, and the bottle body is painted with gold color depicting the patterns of banana leaves and dragon dragons
Tianji is a kind of auspicious divine bird. In the poem “Sleepwalking Tianmu Chanting Farewell” by Li Bai, a famous poet of the Tang Dynasty, there is a sentence that “half the wall sees the sea and the sun, and the sky smells Tianji.”. This flower pouring is a handed down utensil from the Qing Dynasty palace. The utensil is small and exquisite in shape, and its gold description is meticulous, reflecting the noble atmosphere of royal utensils. This device can be used not only to water flowers, but also as a display device placed in the halls, skillfully combining practicality and ornamental.