In the 18th century qing Blue and white carp jump longmen flask

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The flack shape of elegant, slender bottleneck, round bottle, painted decorative brushwork is concise and powerful, see The wind of woodcut printmaking and contemporary painting. By the shape and style, the bottle was made for kangxi years, especially when the carp jump longmen grain. Hide a grain of Beijing the imperial palace of cans, generation of kangxi years, in the Palace Museum collection series, ceramic, qing shunzhi emperor kangxi “, 21, Beijing, 2012, 139 chart. Nanjing museum also hide a kangxi tray example, in the palace treasures: the Chinese qing dynasty imperial porcelain, Shanghai, 2003, 84 chart. See a bottle of example, draw on carp bit tower, hidden Stockholm Museum, east Asia in Jan, Dr. Wirgin
, “The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities Bulletin”
, 1974, 45, chart 丨 丨.
the carp jump longmen decorative painted bottle from ancient folklore. From each spring carp hordes from the Yellow River upstream to spawn, leap in longmen, across the waterfall, hence a successful leaped over few can incarnate as a dragon. Folk therefore metaphor on the imperial jinbang title, the apprentice.