COLLECTION NAME:
National Palace English
Record
Work ID:
M01A00206
Title:
Porcelain vase with decorations of the auspicious peach and lingzhi motifs
Creation Date:
Qian-long reign, Qing Dynasty
Start Year Date:
A.D.1736
End Year Date:
A.D.1795
Dynasty:
67 Qian-long reign (A.D. 1736~1795)
Kiln:
Qian-long ware
Creation Place:
China
Measurements:
Height: 21.0 cm; Diameter (mouth): 5.15~4.90 cm; Diameter (base): 7.25~7.00 cm; Weight: 618.5g
Material:
Porcelain
Form:
Pin (vase)
Type:
Ceramics
Subject:
Vegetable
Repository:
The National Palace Museum, Taipei
Description:
The shape of the vase mouth, belly, and foot imitates a trefoiled flower. The vase lip is slightly skewed, and the vase neck is long and followed by slip shoulder and round belly. The foot-ring is also slightly skewed. The neck and shoulder is decorated with a mahogany tree that has five peaches. Next to it is a shrub of lingzhi. The vase body is coated with a brown glaze and full of decorative branches painted in gold. Among the branches are decorative quatrefoiled flowers. The vase lip and the foot-ring are coated with a gold-lacquer glaze. The inner-wall of the vase is coated with a light blue-green glaze. At the bottom of the vase, an inscription "Made in Qing Qianlong" in shuen-shu (seal character) is engraved under the glaze.
ImageV ID:
M01A00206AS001
Rights:
Lee & Lee Communications