Qing qianlong official kiln enamel eight auspicious kwok-bun bottle

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the bottle mouth, cylinder head, neck, shoulders, drum abdomen, ring foot out, “the qing qianlong year” six to three lines at the bottom of the red color seal character. The whole body turquoise glazed, famille rose to adorn. Mouth along the outer ring of the pink to blue color marks for grain. Gold outline fold along the two rings, cylinder head on the inclined plane and cylinder wall are tangled branches flowers, cant turquoise glazed light under no grain. Eight auspicious theme crisscrossed rivers, Pisces, canopy, falun, umbrella, plate intestine, triton, lotus, Aquarius. Belly bottom AngLian lines for a week. Ring foot peripheral fine line draw the outline of the double lotus lines. This bottle, fan shape end, a hoard of green enamel paint decoration, view of luxuriant and tidy. Intact.
“Ben ba” for the Tibetan transliteration, brahman sound original “army holds,” “bottle” in the Tibetan language. At that time, this kind of porcelain appliances not only be used as a multiplier temple, Buddhism also bear the important mission of national diplomacy, the court will reward them to the Tibetan monasteries or Chinese, despite buddhist temple, also often tribute to Confucius temple, to maintain national relationship. Known, qianlong once (height, the qianlong emperor and believe in Buddhism, even by theirselves imperial kiln of buddhist supplies fire, “Ben ba” fire craft peaked at this time. After the qing government to pacify the gorkha invasion, to cut out the disadvantages of living Buddha reincarnation, in error rules since the dalai and panchen, zhangjia, Agatha, hole broadly as big living Buddha reincarnation in jokhang temple, the lama temple with lot-drawing cognizance, gold Ben ba bottle “lot-drawing” become a system’s important component, its historical and cultural value.

refer to: “the qing dynasty porcelain objects” “qianlong pastel eight auspicious Ben ba bottle” (figure 148)
on May 29, 2007 “Qing qianlong at Christie’s in Hong Kong To pastel yellow lotus Lot1507 at eight auspicious Ben ba”