Pink color vase with golden cloud bat pattern

[Pink Painted Golden Cloud Bat Pattern Appreciation Bottle]

Pink Painted Golden Cloud Bat Pattern Appreciation Bottle, Xuantong of the Qing Dynasty, with a height of 40cm, a caliber of 10.2cm, and a foot diameter of 12.7cm. The old collection of the Qing Palace
Bottle skimming, long neck, round belly, circular feet. The outer wall of the bottle is decorated with pastel gold. The motif on the abdomen is decorated with a cloud bat pattern, and the two gold colored string patterns on the shoulder are depicted in pastel color with the characters “Shou” in a gold colored seal script. The outsole is printed with six character double line funds in blue and white regular script, “Xuantong Year System of the Qing Dynasty”< This vase style is generally used for emperor rewards, hence it is called "Appreciation Bottle". It was an innovative artifact type during the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty and continued to be fired until the Xuantong Dynasty in the late Qing Dynasty. During the Yongzheng to Xianfeng dynasties, blue and white lotus patterns were often used as motifs. Due to the homonym between "green lotus" and "clean and honest", the emperor gave them to his subordinates in the hope that they would "serve the government with integrity.". After Tongzhi, new varieties such as pastel, pastel painted gold, and monochrome glaze were added