Yellow-glazed Jar with Two Animal-head Handles and Gold Bowstrign Design

To make a yellow-glazed porcelain ware, the craftsman needed to pour yellow glaze immediately onto the fired unglazed biscuit. The lustrous yellow glaze resembles chicken‘s oil. Thus, the glaze is also known as “tender yellow”. In the Ming dynasty, yellow-glazed vessels were not only used as eating utensils, but also as offering containers at sacrificial ceremonies in the Altar to Earth (Di tan).