A BLUE GLAZE AQUATIC PICTURES CALABASH WAS MADE ON SHUN-DER YEARS OF MING-DYNASTY 
This blue and white porcelain bottle was preserved in very good condition long time, the surface was glossing as a jade. There was no glass luster, and appear the gloss as the agate or jade. This blue and white porcelain calabash bottle had a small exit mouth, short neck with a circle of long life patterns, and slashed shoulder. Connected down to a small ball body, the upper porcelain belly, the upper belly was pictured many aquatic plants and animals, such as the water weeds, lotus, duckweeds, and food looking fishes. Then, the porcelain ball is reduced and connected to the lower but large porcelain ball. Under the circle of long life patterns, there were 6 character Chinese words” Made on the Shun-Der year of Ming Dynasty” to mark and show the period of produced time. There were more aquatic plants and animals pictured on the big porcelain belly. Because of its small exit mouth and large container of calabash bottle, it was symbolized that tradition people believed that large wealth and fortune could easy be grasped and contained inside the calabash bottle, thus, calabash bottle was delighted by the business person and enterprises since the ancient time. This blue and white glaze aquatic calabash bottle was very auspicious and luck for decoration. The bottom of Bottle had several spark points, which always appeared on the porcelain manufactured from the beginning of Ming-Dynasty. Bottle high: 31.5 cm, wide: 17cm, mouth: 3.5cm, foot: 9cm, weigh: 1.57kg.
這個保存良好,包漿渾厚的青花釉葫蘆瓷瓶,表面如玉般的光潤,無一般玻璃的光澤,自然滑潤,小口,短頸,頸上一圈壽字紋.這尊青花葫蘆瓷瓶有著大小兩球體 ,在上位的小瓷球圍繞繪著水裏生物群體, 有飄搖水中水草, 水蓮花葉, 移動不定的浮藻, 還有游曳其間覓食的魚族, 青花釉彩作畫, 清晰動人, 小球腹縮束,  接著大球體,另一圈壽字紋, 其下六字落款”大明宣德年製”之下的球體圍繞畫著更多水生動植物群體: 飄盪的水草,水蓮花,蓮蓬,荷葉,浮萍,與覓食魚族,霎是美麗生動,由於葫蘆是小口大腹,又甚是神秘感,自古就被形容象徵財富的易進難出,匯聚保守 貯藏財富, 是經商人士最喜歡的吉祥擺設飾物,瓷瓶底有數點火星灼點,試燒結時引起的,明初瓷器往往有這樣的灼記,葫蘆瓷瓶高 :31.5公分, 寬:17公分, 口徑:3.5公分, 足徑:9公分, 重:1.57公斤.