작품 상세

each delicately potted with deep rounded sides rising gracefully from a straight foot to an elegant flared rim, exquisitely painted to the exterior with a continuous frieze of five iron-red bats, forming the wufu ('five abundances'), depicted flying amongst a fruiting and flowering double-gourd vine, interspersed with flower heads and double-gourds in varying stages, some just budding, others full and ripe, delicately rendered in a rich yellow enamel tinged with darker mottling simulating the natural grain of the gourd, the naturalistically rendered meandering vine leaves picked out in differing shades of green with precise black outlines detailing the veins of the leaves, all above a band of auspicious ruyi-shaped petal lappets radiating around the foot, vividly enamelled with rich pink linear details enclosed within the undulating green-enamelled tendrils, all skilfully silhouetted within a rich blue enamelled border, the base inscribed with a six-character reign mark within a double-square