An important part of the history of the development of the Chinese nation is the history of the development of ceramics. The essence of aesthetics has gradually entered the public leadership. One of the best embodiments is the ceramic vase. Flower arrangement with bottles has an ancient history, and flower arrangement tools are also quite elaborate. Zhang Deqian's "Vase Flower Notation" of the Ming Dynasty is an earlier monograph on the art of vase flowers. So when the vase is associated with Chinese style, what kind of shock will give you?
In traditional Chinese marriage customs, there has always been a tradition of dowry vases, which used to be porcelain vases, until the Cultural Revolution period gradually transformed into a unique glass vase, using it to imply "peace and security (bottle), round and perfect (round), glory and wealth (carved rich peony flowers), peace and ruyi". China's traditional eight bottle types: gourd bottle, Guanyin bottle, plum bottle, appreciation bottle, garlic bottle, celestial ball bottle, elephant leg bottle, jade pot spring bottle.
【Gourd bottle】
The bottle type created by the Longquan kiln in the late Southern Song Dynasty has a bottle body that resembles a gourd, hence the name. Small mouth, short neck, bottle body is made of two sections glued together. The name is in harmony with "Fulu", and the instrument is shaped like the word "Ji", so it is also known as "Daji Bottle", which means "Daji Dali". During the Song and Yuan dynasties, Longquan kilns and Jingdezhen kilns were produced. Varieties include blue and white, multicolored, multicolored gold, imitation glaze, tea leaves and blue glaze, white glaze, yellow glaze and other monochromatic glazes. Most of the ornaments have Taoist overtones, but there are also auspicious characters written.
Furnace glazed gourd bottle
Tortoiseshell vermilion lacquer depicts a golden gourd bottle Clear
Glazed red tuan dragon gourd bottle Qing Qianlong
Qing Yongzheng green glazed gourd bottle
Qianlongguan white glazed peach gourd bottle
Qing Xuantong Blue and white alum red depicting gold cloud bat pattern gourd bottle
Qingqianlong tea tea end glaze ruyi ear flat bottom gourd bottle
Blue and white gourd bottle
Blue glaze printed gourd bottle
Lacquered line carved Kowloon Supreme Gourd bottle
Qing Yongzheng yellow glazed gourd bottle (pair)
【Guanyin bottle】
Guanyin bottle, also known as "Guanyin Zun", one of the popular bottle types in the Kangxi to Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, the instrument is extravagant, the neck is short, the shoulders are plump, the arc under the shoulders is adducted, the outer skimming below the shin, the shallow circle foot, the bottle body is slender, and the line is smooth. During the Kangxi Dynasty, Jingdezhen fired more bottles, sometimes bottles, Zun in the title is not easy to distinguish, in general, the mouth and abdomen are called bottles, colorful, blue and white products are more common.
Qingqianlong Turquoise Green Depiction Gold Pastel Lotus Guanyin Bottle
Clear ice crack plum pattern Guanyin bottle
Peacock blue glazed Guanyin bottle
Qing Yongzheng pink glazed lotus petal Guanyin bottle
Pastel Red Chamber character Guanyin bottle
Qingqianlong Blue and white tangled branches flower Guanyin bottle
Qing Kangxi white glaze dark engraved flower Guanyin bottle
Qing Kangxi Green Lang kiln Guanyin bottle
Qing Guangxu Pastel character Guanyin bottle
【Plum bottle】
Plum bottle is a traditional Han chinese porcelain, is a small mouth, short neck, shoulders, thin bottom, circle foot bottle type, named after the small mouth can only insert plum branches. Because of its slender body, it was called "jing bottle" in the Song Dynasty, which was used as a wine container, with a beautiful and beautiful shape, and was called a plum bottle after the Ming Dynasty. The Qinghua plum vase in Jingdezhen in the Yuan Dynasty is the most exquisite, and its superb firing skills and immortal artistic value embody the crystallization of the wisdom and art of the working people of the ancient Han nationality.
Blue and white plum vase
Blue glaze engraved flower plum vase
Turquoise Greenland Fushou plum bottle
Pastel plum bottle
Qingqianlong blue and white wearing flower dragon pattern plum vase
Qing Yongzheng Pastel plum bottle
Red plum bottle
Blue and white dragon pattern a plum bottle
Cold three friends green glazed plum bottle (a pair)
Yellow glazed blue and white plum vase Yuan
Blue and white folded branches rui fruit pattern plum bottle
【Bottle Viewing】
Appreciate the bottle, a treasure of Han ceramic art. It is a new form of the Yongzheng Dynasty and is used as a reward. Its vessel type is derived from the jade pot spring bottle, and the shape of the heirloom product is basically the same, with a skim, a slender neck, a convex string pattern on the shoulders, a round abdomen, and a circle foot. The bottle is generally decorated with such a fixed pattern, the neck is decorated with blue and white banana leaf pattern, and the abdomen is decorated with tangled branches. Its meaning is profound, "Qing" represents "Qing", "Lotus" represents "Lian", "Qing" and "Lotus" together, containing the will of the society in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, hoping that the current politics will be "clean".
Blue and white tangled lotus appreciation bottle Qing Qianlong
Enamel color appreciation bottle Clear
Cloisonné Auspicious Celebration has a yu appreciation bottle Clear
Pastel flower appreciation bottle republic
Pastel Blessing Bottle
Offering blue depicting gold leather ball flower viewing vase
Kiln glaze appreciation bottle
【Garlic bottle】
Garlic head bottle is one of the common bottle types in Jingdezhen kilns in the Ming and Qing dynasties, imitating the Han Dynasty bronze garlic head pot, long neck, shaved shoulders, round abdomen, circle foot, bottle mouth like garlic head and named. Shaped like a garlic head and slightly longer neck, it can also be called a tiger claw bottle. Varieties include blue and white, multicolored, sprinkled blue and gold. Ming Wanli garlic head bottle, tends to be simplified, the mouth has no garlic head, but the shape of the instrument is tall, with blue and white colorful as the most common. The shape of the garlic bottle in the Qing Dynasty tends to be light and beautiful.
Blue and white folded branches flower and fruit pattern garlic head bottle Qing Qianlong
Sacrifice blue glaze amphora garlic head bottle Qing Qianlong
Tea tea end glaze depicts golden banana leaf cicada pattern garlic head bottle Qing Yongzheng
Enamel garlic head bottle
Pomegranate skewers garlic bottle
Pastel floral garlic bottle
Blue-flowered fruit floral pattern garlic bottle
Republic of China peacock blue glazed amphora garlic head bottle
Qingqianlong blue and white glaze red lion hydrangea garlic head bottle
【Celestial Ball Bottle】
Tianqiu bottle is a kind of porcelain shape deeply influenced by West Asian culture, which began in the Yongle and Xuande years of the Ming Dynasty, and resembled a celestial ball, so it was called a celestial ball bottle. The Qing Yongzheng and Qianlong dynasties were prosperous at the time of the times, and antique styles prevailed. The imitation celestial sphere bottle is more porcelain for large-scale decoration of the court. In addition to the traditional blue and white varieties, colorful, pastel and other painted sky ball bottles have also begun to appear, and the most precious bucket color is rarely used on the sky ball bottle, the main reason is that the bucket color to no large instrument. The Qianlong Dynasty was strong in national strength, and Hongli loved precious porcelain utensils, so the Heavenly Ball Bottle, a large instrument of fighting colors, was also fired by the Jingdezhen Royal Kiln Factory.
Pastel sky ball bottle clear
Blue and white dragon pattern celestial sphere bottle Qing Kangxi
Clear red sky ball bottle
Furnace glaze small sky ball bottle
Ji blue glazed celestial ball bottle
Furnace glazed celestial ball bottle
Red glazed embossed dragon phoenix sky ball bottle
Pastel flower bird pattern sky ball bottle
【Elephant leg bottle】
Like a leg bottle, that is, a unified bottle. A porcelain shape created in the Qing Dynasty. The shape of the bottle is wide mouth, short neck, shoulder width and mouth similar, body like a straight barrel, flat bottom, shape like a stout elephant leg, so also known as "elephant leg bottle". Because of the harmonic sound of "barrel" and "unification", there is the meaning of "unification of the world under the Qing Dynasty". It is mostly found in the Shunzhi and Kangxi dynasties in the early Qing Dynasty, and the varieties include blue and white and colorful.
Blue and white characters like leg bottle Ming Chongzhen
Late Qing Dynasty Colorful character story pattern like a leg bottle
Mid-Qing Dynasty imitation glaze elephant leg bottle
Blue and white multicolored elephant leg bottle
Late Ming and early Qing dynasties Multicolored phoenix pattern elephant leg bottle
【Jade pot spring bottle】
The shape of the jade pot spring bottle evolved from the water purification bottle in the temple of the Tang Dynasty. The basic shapes are skimming, thin neck, hanging abdomen, and circled feet. It is a type of bottle with a soft curve as a contour. The unique features of its shape are: the neck is thinner, the center of the neck is slightly constricted, the neck is gradually widened downwards and transitions to an apricot-shaped drooping abdomen, the curve changes slowly; the circle foot is relatively large, or introverted or out-of-the-box. The shape of this bottle was fixed in the Song Dynasty, through the Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing, the Republic of China until modern times, becoming a typical artifact in the Chinese porcelain modeling.
Sacrifice red glazed jade pot spring bottle
Qing Dynasty Ji blue glazed jade pot spring bottle
Song green stranded glazed hanging tire jade pot spring bottle
Blue and white folded branches flower pattern jade pot spring bottle (yuan)
Jun kiln jade pot spring bottle
Song Ding kiln sauce glazed jade pot spring bottle
Black glazed flowered jade pot spring bottle
Pastel flower bird pattern jade pot spring bottle
Glazed red tangled lotus pattern jade pot spring bottle