Description

Blessing Tube Vase with Deer-Head Handles and Hundred-Horse Painting

Shape Highlights: 

Adopts deer-head handles with ring holders. The Chinese character "deer" is homophonic with "lu" (official salary), symbolizing promising official career and good fortune & wealth.

Craftsmanship Value: 

The whole body of the vase is hand-painted with a Hundred-Horse Painting, featuring horses in varied postures and delicate hair textures, embodying the auspicious implication of "immediate success and prosperity brought by a hundred fine steeds".

Collection Value: 

Integrates the porcelain painting craftsmanship of the "Hundred Steeds Painting" from the Qing imperial court with the traditional blessing tube shape, boasting both ornamental value and cultural inheritance significance.