Qing qianlong Blue and white branches passionflower grain big pot

• auction

record: sotheby’s in New York, Dec. 2, 1979, no. 328

note: classic shape and variety of qianlong imperial kiln, decorative and blue rendering style has obvious archaize implication, qianlong once archaize wind prevails, generic former generation can achieve the effect of xingshenjianbei, for all kinds of artifacts from the original organ.
put lotus flower grain canister style in the early Ming wanli period (see “Jin Mingji porcelain excerption”, 168, 169, 78). Lots of modelling of primitive simplicity is composed, the shape of tall, solid carcass. Abdomen to tie up branch lotus lines to act the role ofing, layout is incredibly neat, smooth finished painters, flower form full, with two kinds of blue and white color shade among the flowers, rich stereo feeling, line with the density of branches and leaves, it contains the meaning of “endless, endless”. Blue and white hair color more suffused with purple, pure and bright, intended to recreate the diachronic Mohammedan blue of effect.

see: sotheby’s Hong Kong, November 8, 1986, no. 75
the Jin Mingji porcelain of extracts, international cultural publishing company, 1994, pp. 168-169, 78