vase; Yuan dynasty; 1279-1368; Zhejiang (province)

Ge-type stoneware vase of ancient bronze form, with flattened ovoid body, flaring mouth, and two tubular handles between two bands of low relief around the shoulder. The vase has thick, opaque grey glaze with two layers of crackle, the wide crackle stained grey and the fine crackle brown. There is an inscription on the interior of the neck.

Published PDF date : Southern Song or Yuan 13th-14th centuryRoom 95 label text:

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Vase shaped after an ancient bronze called a hu

White and green glazed stonewares were the most important types of ceramics in China until the fourteenth century when blue-and-white wares from Jingdezhen became more popular. The Qianlong emperor (ruled AD 1736–95) admired this vase and had it incised with verses inside the neck, which he composed, on the beauty of its crackled, pale beige-green ge-type glaze. The inscription reads: 百圾雖粉撫則平, 處州陶實出難兄, 一般樸質稱珍重, 那誠精工宣與成乾隆乙巳御題Baiji sui fen fu ze ping, Chuzhou tao shi chu nan xiong, yiban puzhi cheng zhenzhong, na cheng jinggong Xuan yu Cheng
Qianlong yisi yuti Despite the pattern of hundreds of intermingling crackle lines, its texture is fine and smooth to the touch. This is the work of the talented Elder brother. One discovers that the value of these undecorated wares is the same as that of unpolished gems. How could one compare this and the more elaborate products of Xuan(de) and Cheng(hua)? Each has its own individual charm. Composed by the Qianlong emperor in the cyclical year yisi [AD 1785]
Two seals at the end of the inscription Qian and Long (Qianlong). Qian is written as the trigram qian.

Stoneware with crackled pale beige-green glaze
Ge ware 哥窯
Zhejiang province浙江省
Yuan dynasty, AD 1279–1368