Yellow ground pink butterfly eight xi pattern stiff bucket

[Yellow ground pastel butterfly eight xi pattern stiff bucket]

Yellow ground pastel butterfly eight xi pattern stiff bucket, Tongzhi of the Qing Dynasty, height 8.7 cm, caliber 8.5 cm, foot diameter 5.9 cm
With extravagant mouths, necks, rounded bellies, and rounded feet, the feet are decorated with four characters of regular script in red and colored “Tongzhi Year System”. The outer wall is decorated with yellow ground painted pastel patterns. The neck is painted with a butterfly pattern, the abdomen is painted with a butterfly pattern, and there are four double “hi” characters between them. The butterfly pattern is first outlined in ink and then painted in gold, filled with colored material. The word “Xi” is edged with red color and filled with gold color. The rim of the mouth, neck, and foot edges are decorated with gold color for a week. Rich in decorative colors
Due to the homonym between butterfly and “octogenarian”, butterfly and the double “xi” character patterns are used together on porcelain, implying happiness and auspiciousness. It is a common pattern on palace porcelain in the Qing Dynasty, especially in the late Qing Dynasty


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