Qing qianlong ocean color ball brocade cans

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can of short neck, small mouth, abundant shoulder, lower abdomen gradually. Outer wall paint with the color ball flower, flower shape, sizes, the 3322 irregularly combination together, colour lively, bright beautiful. Outsole slightly concave center, blue book “qing qianlong year” seal character.
the ball silk brocade is also called the pattern, implements the inspiration be drawn from Japan to represent the house of grain. On the export of the late Ming dynasty blue and white, colorful porcelain, then there was the use of the grain, refer to the gallery light hidden a multicoloured 盌, in “the light art museum collections catalog – China ceramics”, 1987, Tokyo, chart 244, in accordance with the actual of the Japanese house of depicting their grain, for special products.
up to the 18th century, jingdezhen imperial which converts directly imitate the pattern of the house of multiple disc type petals and fire for the color and color bucket two varieties. Ball brocade in yongzheng once very popular, which may be related to yongzheng emperor for Japanese design interest. A few of the old qing phuong painting, can for jingdezhen imperial which provides such grain composition of a picture the same, such as the museum had hid a is used to store phuong painting of snuff bottles cover box (figure 1).
the ball brocade is visible in the yongzheng period of the tank, 盌, cup, such as: sotheby’s auction in Hong Kong an ocean colour tank, on November 11, 1982, 690 items; Taipei’s Palace Museum hide a ocean colour 盌, yongzheng: qing sejong cultural relics exhibition, Taipei, 2009, no. 2-88 (figure 2); Hide a ocean color 盌 museum of Beijing the imperial palace, the Palace Museum hidden treasures collected – colored enamel. Pastel “, Hong Kong, 1999, 67, chart and colour tank, as shown in the focus, the Palace Museum collection Kang Yonggan porcelain, Hong Kong, in 1989, possesses the 45; Nanjing museum collection bucket color cup, the qing dynasty porcelain extraction Jane: Kang Yonggan in qing dynasty imperial porcelain “, Hong Kong, in 1995, possesses the 55; And meiyintang old hidden a pair of bucket color cup, sotheby’s Hong Kong, July, in April 2011, lot # 6.
the ball jin wen took their cue from yongzheng emperor qianlong period style, but the color is more bright, bright beautiful. Beyond this tank, the only other two examples by the description, a sotheby’s auction in Hong Kong, April 8, 2013, lot no. 3021; Another hidden in Washington, d.c., The National Art Gallery, see “The Collections of The National Gallery of Art. The Systematic Catalogue: Decorative Arts, part II: The Far Eastern Ceramics and Paintings; Persian and Indian Rugs and Carpets”, 1998, pp. 225. Ball brocade was also used in qianlong period, the most beautiful, delicate porcelain, such as the Palace Museum in Taipei to hide a fire in qianlong eight years the color valuable.such handiwork gourd bottle (figure 3), which transform the mind and pastel medallion tea cooking pot.
Taipei’s Palace Museum collection copper foetus enamel girder You paintings and flower vase with can also be found on the ball of the brocade, see the enamels exhibition focus, Ming and qing dynasties, Taipei, in 1999, the chart (figure 4), 140, 139, it serves to show the ball of the degree of interest and attention.