Qing qianlong bucket color lotus’s sweet grain Ben pot

• RMB 4370000
• HKD 4926719
• USD 655500
• EUR 480700

“Ben ba” for the Tibetan transliteration, brahman sound the original “hold” army, is the meaning of “bottle” in the Tibetan language. Tantric “great thousand-arm heart sutra” yue: “if a living brahma, when holding the armed force”. “Precious things different the hydrophobic” : “Sanskrit army, a YunJun late, the cloud bottle also”. And “shih’s key” cloud: “net bottles of Sanskrit army late, this bottle of cloud, water storage, often take to clean hands”. “The great heart sutra” and yue: “if everything hungry feeling can cool and refreshing, when the dew to hand”. The fingerprint diagram for holding bottle, the army after a dew bottle said. Ben Barnes pot has a mouth, but no handle, hand pot neck when using, save flow but if Ben pot mouth, said Ben bottle, buddhists used in water, or in the grass as a display and course called Tibetan herb bottle, therefore, Ben pot pot also said the grass.

Ming dynasty porcelain army are mostly have flow mouth, shape and Ben in the qing dynasty the pot a little similar, just outline structure is concise, decorative porcelain, without much decoration, is still the appliance, and Ben ba pot out of qing guanyao multiplier is lamaism. Legend has it the Buddha, Kowloon empowerments deeds in his life. “Lanka sutra says:” the big wisdom bodhisattva maha, and for the first, all the buddhas hand to fill the top “, were reportedly tianzhu shall be effected by the water of the four empowerments acceded to the throne, king wishes to watch. Therefore, our country would Ben pot of Tibetan Buddhism dedicated to religious ceremonies. The yuan dynasty Tibetan lamaism (branch), Buddhism spread of Mongolia, the manchu influenced by Mongolian culture deep, also lamaism. Ben Barnes pot became the buddhist rituals of Tibetan Buddhism in net kettle of water use, use gold, silver, copper, and porcelain Ben pot from the qing dynasty kangxi period starts to make the earliest. Royal buddhist in the qing dynasty, jingdezhen’s royal plant in the office, the court created a large number of production of various kinds of porcelain Buddhism appliances, emperor qianlong is personally to give specific guidance to the its use, modelling, decorative design, as well as the palace temple multiplier, also used to for the court to give buddhist monasteries in Tibet. Ben pot is one example. Qianlong and jiaqing period, the literature was documented, the qianlong emperor worship dai temple, mount tai has seen Ben pot. Ben Barnes pot fire craft, peaked in qianlong period, jiaqing, Ben pot of basic stopped the fire. Fire of religion with same period in the qing dynasty imperial kiln porcelain works, besides such kwok-bun the pot, and hidden grass, jose pot, Ben ba, dharma wheel gold glaze, gold glaze amitayus, seven Jane, such as porcelain, they not only make the Tibetan culture spread in the qing dynasty palace, more promoted the han, Tibetan, manchu, Mongolian upper culture communication. San Francisco museum of Asian art have a similar product for reference.

[see] The CHINESE CERAMICS: The New Standard Guide “, The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, THAMES AND HUDSON, 295, 612.