Colorful melon butterfly vase

[Colorful Melon Butterfly Pattern Bottle]

Colorful Melon Butterfly Pattern Bottle, Jiaqing, Qing Dynasty, with a height of 36 cm, a caliber of 8 cm, and a foot diameter of 10.5 cm
Bottle skimming, long neck, round belly, and circular feet. The whole body is painted with tangled melon and butterfly patterns. Apply white glaze inside the ring foot. On the outsole, there are six characters and three lines of blue and white seal script “Made in the Jiaqing Year of the Qing Dynasty”
The pattern of melon and butterfly is derived from the homonym of “melon and butterfly”. In the “Book of Songs”, there is a sentence “continuous melon and butterfly, the first generation of the people, comes from the soil and juqi”. Because the melon is often small at first, but its vines continue to grow, and at the end, it becomes large, so the term “melon and butterfly” is used to refer to the reproduction of descendants, which continues to continue one after another.

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