Dimensions: Width: 9cm, Height: 12.5cm

Chinese Qing Dynasty Qianlong Famille Rose Peking Glass Brush Pot. Potted in thick, round and straight body, close mouth lip, raised with round flat foot base. Hand painted ornamentations are rendered all in clean white base color which contrast against famille rose design color, depicted of small pavilion surrounded with dense tree, rocky rock, Lishui river and mountain landscape. Many mountains in China are sacred, some to Daoist, some to Buddhists and some to both. In folk religion each mountain has its own deity associated with it. The pictogram character for mountain sea represent an all encompassing phrase for the whole world shan hai. Mountains represent the yang element in the landscape and as such connect to the governing yang element in China the Emperor. Mountain is one of the eight trigrams in Feng Shui and Yi Jing. Of these Taishan is considered the most important and stones from the mountain were often placed in towns across China as a lucky charm.The Under base bears a reign mark, a four under glazed blue script characters reign mark, enclosed within blue rectangle lines. Made in The Years Qianlong Reign Period of The Great Qing Dynasty.

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