What is a plum bottle like?

Plum vase is a kind of porcelain vase with small mouth, short neck, rich shoulders and thin bottom, so it is named because its mouth is small enough to insert plum branches. In the Song Dynasty, it was called "Beijing Bottle" to hold wine. Porcelain kilns were fired everywhere in the Song and Yuan Dynasties. Among them, Jingdezhen blue-and-white plum vase in Song Dynasty is the most exquisite, with high and thin shape, sloping shoulders, long and nearly straight feet and small bottom. The smallest diameter of a blood vessel is from the shoulder to the lower part of the mouth, which usually has an angular turning point. In the Yuan Dynasty, there were also plum bottles with seats, which were hollow flower windows with hexagonal lace and hexagonal round feet at the bottom. The bottle body and the bottle seat can be freely disassembled. In the Ming Dynasty, the mouth of plum bottle was round and thick, with no obvious line corner turning. Shoulders up, full and powerful lines; Below the abdomen, it is vertical, and some are slightly inward; The ends of the feet tilt slightly outward. Some white glazed plum bottles have the word "Neifu" in blue and white script on the bottle shoulder, indicating that they belong to intrauterine devices.