Qing qianlong Blue and white lotus flower tattoo design

• RMB 1380000
• HKD 1695332
• USD 207000
• EUR 151800

source: old Tibetan cultural relics in Beijing company.

at the beginning of the design of “okho spring bottle”, due to its blue and white color material and tie up lotus flower pattern, homophonic “clean”, it is often used to reward work, including “admonishment” carefully, an official clean, also known as design. According to the “qing dynasty palace built does work place file”, yongzheng eight years (1730) “, October 30, sea we hope you will enjoy with porcelain capital ChengLan also draw samples, pay NianXiYao fire to “, “reward with porcelain” in the file that should be refers to the bottle. This design grain varieties for during the innovation, the abdomen is round, not act the role of rib, the foot up his lips for a week, the abdominal wrap branch lotus for double, breed more advanced.
this tiny bottle mouth, long neck, abdomen, outer ring foot. Mouth along the blue sea water lines, meet variations under different lotus-shaped lines, neck painting in grain, to meander interval, which is bound lotus flower, abdominal theme grain for lotus flower pattern. Blue and white “qing qianlong year at the end of the book” three lines of six seal character.
collection in Beijing and Taipei’s Palace Museum are all in Tibet and the Boston museum also has a JohnGardnerCoolidge old hidden in the bottle. Other sotheby’s in London on June 6, 2004 also sold Toguri similar design of old Tibet.