Ming xuande sauce glaze dark moment YunLongWen small dish

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sauce glaze which is also called “zijin glaze”, named after the deep with glazed “zijin soil”, is a kind of iron as colouring elements of high-temperature glaze, and caramel color is very close to, so also called sauce glaze, its roots may come from the song dynasty kiln purple varieties. Ming xuande period, the main glaze sauce glaze porcelain is jingdezhen kiln production varieties, but the spread is relatively scarce, so it has always been to collectors in treasure, consult from known data, currently only unearthed ruins of the Palace Museum and the jingdezhen bead mountain to see several sauce glaze dish, bowl. And under glaze dark carved dragon, is very few, only Taipei’s Palace Museum collection of the same grain sauce glaze bowls, and released in the market in 1986, zhao from yan Hong Kong’s old Tibetan larger than this size plate (plate diameter 20 cm), the variety is particularly important.
this product size is small, disc diameter more than 13 cm, inside and outside wall sauce glaze, glaze under dark carved ornamentation, dish heart accessories glyph arranged three moire, the outer wall dark moment ssangyong cast bead, glaze even light, the view have metallic luster. Bottom of white glaze, engraved “da Ming xuande years” six regular script. Such patterns, as early as in the yuan dynasty, the Palace Museum in Beijing with yuan YunLongWen red glaze printing plate, no money. Because of the glaze layer is thinner, patterns appear relatively clear. Xuande period to veins decoration, also unearthed sprinkled with jingdezhen blue glaze carved dragon plate, the interior white glaze dark moment moire, the outer wall in under dark blue glaze carved dragon. And Beijing Palace Museum hid the blue glaze, from entry shows that the double wall dark seal yunlong cast bead, because enamel hypertrophy never know whether dish heart with moire. In Hong Kong from Mr Yan zhao old also have a thermal fluid activity with grain varieties of blue and white. In all kinds of glaze color varieties of pan fire this pattern, it serves to show the emperor xuande affection to this pattern.

[source] original English collector.

[see] 1. “the museum of Beijing the imperial palace hidden treasures series Color glaze, Shanghai century publishing co., LTD., 1999, page 4, figure 3; Page 61, the figure 55; Page 73, the figure 66;
2. Zhao from yan family hiding important special Chinese porcelain and jade carvings (part I), sotheby’s Hong Kong, November 18, 1986, no. 33, and no. 69;
3. The jingdezhen imperial kiln porcelain of Ming dynasty unearthed cultural relics publishing house, 2009, pp. 128-129, 66.