Yellow ground pastel colored bowl with five bats holding longevity characters

[Yellow ground pastel colored five bat holding longevity character covered bowl]

Yellow ground pastel colored five bat holding longevity character covered bowl, Tongzhi of the Qing Dynasty, with a height of 9 centimeters, a caliber of 10.5 centimeters, and a foot diameter of 4.3 centimeters
The bowl is open, with deep curved walls and rounded feet. The cover is arched with circular grip buttons, and the inside is painted with white glaze. The cover and abdominal wall are all painted with yellow glaze on the ground, evenly distributed with four sets of five blessings and longevity patterns. The pattern space is decorated with four sets of folded peaches above and below, and each group is decorated with four tied “Swastika” characters. “The grip button and the foot are painted with white glaze, and both are stamped with a red color” Tongzhi Year System “4-character double line regular script.”< This cover bowl has a regular shape and a glossy glaze. The arrangement of the decorative patterns is so dense that it is a porcelain specially ordered and fired by the imperial kiln during the Tongzhi period for the birthday celebration of Empress Dowager Cixi


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