玉壶春瓶与梅瓶、赏瓶并称为“瓶中三宝”，是器物美学发展史中最具代表性的造型。许多瓶类都是以这三种造型为母本延伸创作出的。三种瓶型相比，玉壶春的造型最为经典。清新挺俊的身姿、曼妙的曲线更显女性阴柔的丰满与纤细，所以不少收藏家也习惯称其为“女性瓶。
Jade pot spring bottle, plum bottle and appreciation bottle are called "three treasures in bottle ", which is the most representative shape in the history of aesthetic development of utensils. Many bottles are created by the extension of these three shapes. Compared with the three bottle types, the shape of jade pot spring is the most classic. Fresh and handsome posture, graceful curves more feminine feminine feminine plump and slender, so many collectors also used to call it "female bottle.
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壶春瓶尺寸较为矮小，“S”形的设计更能迎合人们抓取物品时的习惯，也更适宜在手中把玩观赏。而明初大花大叶的潇洒风格与釉里红展现的奔放热烈更加凸显其妩媚，红彩卷草纹装饰的喇叭形瓶口犹如带彩的双唇，倾吐胸中的躁动，给人以美的享受。故而明洪武釉里红缠枝牡丹纹玉壶春瓶颇受收藏大家的垂涎。
Bottle spring bottle size is relatively small ," S" shape design can more cater to people's habit of grabbing items, but also more suitable to play in the hands. In the early Ming Dynasty, the chic style of the big flowers and the unrestrained enthusiasm of the red display in the glaze highlighted its charm. The bell-shaped bottle mouth decorated with red curly grass lines was like a colorful lips, spitting the restlessness in the chest and giving people the enjoyment of beauty. Therefore, Ming Hongwu glaze red twined peony jade pot spring bottle quite coveted by the collection.
玉壶春瓶最早出现在宋代，以后历代都有烧制，但每个历史时期的造型和装饰都略有不同。从宋至清，年代越晚，瓶的颈部越短，腹部越大、越圆，圈足越宽。釉彩装饰在宋代目前仅见北方窑口的品种，如定窑的白釉刻花、磁州窑系的白地黑彩或褐彩等；元、明时主要有青花、釉里红、白釉（元代为卵白釉、明初为甜白釉）等；到清代又增加了粉彩及其他颜色釉等品种。
The jade pot spring bottle first appeared in the Song Dynasty, after all dynasties have been fired, but each historical period of modeling and decoration are slightly different. From Song to Qing Dynasty, the later the age, the shorter the neck of the bottle, the bigger and more round the abdomen, and the wider the circle foot. Glaze decoration in the Song Dynasty is only seen in the northern kiln mouth varieties, such as Ding kiln white glaze engraving, Cizhou kiln system white black color or brown color; Yuan, Ming mainly blue and white, glaze red, white glaze (Yuan Dynasty for egg white glaze, early Ming sweet white glaze) and so on; to the Qing Dynasty added pink and other color glaze varieties.
金代北方以磁州窑为代表的玉壶春瓶，在承袭宋代形制的基础上，有所改进，一是器型尺寸上有所加大，而是腹部更饱满，颈部更纤细，加之特有的窑变、铁秀花的代表性装饰，令这个器型更加俊秀、舒朗、雅致，玲珑有致。这个时期的玉壶春瓶大多底部支烧，保留下来的器型有支烧痕迹，由于高温烧制，有垂釉现象。
In the north of Jin Dynasty, the jade pot spring bottle, represented by the Cizhou kiln, was improved on the basis of the Song Dynasty shape of the Song Dynasty. First, the size of the but the abdomen was fuller and the neck was more slender. In this period, most of the jade pot spring bottles are burned at the bottom, and the retained type has a burning trace. Because of the high temperature firing, there is a vertical glaze phenomenon.
玉壶春瓶发展至清代，造型上并未有多大的变化，工艺上较前代更为成熟。康熙、雍正、乾隆三朝玉壶春瓶在造型上区别虽然并不显著，但其赏鉴意义进一步浓郁，这一点主要表现在器物的釉彩品种不断增多，远较明代丰富。青花、青花釉里红、釉里红、祭红、斗彩、珐琅彩、粉彩、各色釉地五彩等等。从纹饰内容看，除继续沿用明代的图案外，人物故事、吉祥文字也多了起来，特别是以竹石芭蕉为主题纹饰的青花玉壶春瓶十分流行，从乾隆时期到清末都有烧造，成为一个具有时代风格的系列品种。
Jade pot spring bottle developed to the Qing Dynasty, the shape has not changed much, the craft is more mature than the previous generation. Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong three dynasties jade pot spring bottle in the shape of the difference is not significant, but its appreciation significance is further rich, this is mainly reflected in the increasing variety of glaze, far richer than the Ming Dynasty. Blue and white, blue and white glaze red, glaze red, sacrifice red, bucket color, enamel color, pink color, all kinds of glaze colorful and so on. From the decoration content, in addition to continuing to follow the pattern of the Ming Dynasty, character stories, auspicious characters are also more, especially with bamboo and stone banana as the theme of blue and white jade pot spring bottle is very popular, from the Qianlong period to the end of the Qing Dynasty have been burned, become a series of varieties with the style of the times.