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Copper Kettle Drip Leak, Qing Dynasty Palace Museum Office, 1799, height 591 cm, base 458 × 259 cm
This copper pot dripping glass was originally stored in the Huangji Hall. The leaking pot consists of five copper pots. Drip water down from the spout of the pot using a dragon head jade tube. The three square pots with open openings and closed bottoms on the front are collectively referred to as watering pots. From top to bottom, they are “Day Sky Pot”, “Night Sky Pot”, and “Flat Water Pot”. There is a water distribution kettle on the lower side of the back of the flat kettle, and the cylinder in front of the flat kettle is a “receiving kettle”. On the lid of the kettle stands a bronze man carved with a leaking arrow. The arrow body is engraved with twelve hours and ninety-six quarters, and a copper drum shaped arrow boat is attached below the arrow. When the water rises and the boat floats, the scales are displayed in turn. The receiving kettle is full, and the leaking arrow also floats to the end. Due to the use of mechanical clocks and watches in the Qing Dynasty, this copper kettle drip glass is only a ritual display.

皇宫内古老的铜壶滴漏

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