The song dynasty Persimmon tea red glaze, jianyang kiln

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light exposure, mouth edge, under the deep abdomen, ring foot. Inside and outside cover bright red glaze persimmon, hair color, such as frost persimmon, colour and lustre is depressed GuMu. In mouth edge glaze is dark brown, brown, with purple mouth along the ochre, faintly visible linear crystalline grain. Light glaze layer thick clot in full, hanging glaze is heavier, near the heart is a deep purple, the color jade. The outer wall glaze as bottom, nearly vertical glaze, ascend a brownish ring foot dew tire.

jianyang kiln is one of the song dynasty ancient jun, also known as the “build kilns” and “black mud kiln”. Began in the late tang dynasty, the kiln in song dynasty, decline in the yuan, is famous for burn black glaze porcelain, the glaze placement crystal grain, fine such as rabbit, called “TuHao lamp”. Also have burnt “partridge spot” and “silver star spot”, chic and beautiful. This museum of Beijing the imperial palace classifying song is an example, for reference.

persimmon red glaze raw materials to build kilns and kiln black glaze, the same will burn out from tonal build lamp that mainstream products, and is due to the high temperature, atmosphere, after the partial oxidation to form a red persimmon. Because persimmon red glaze after the formation of the first black red, so red persimmon in surface layer, the layer is still the black glaze, occasionally in detail with red with black. Persimmon red glaze lamp in Japan known as the “grey temmoku”, is a rare good tea, “porcelain colour and lustre of of primitive simplicity of ash is temmoku”, if not TuHao light and no oil lamp that magic, more different from sharply lamp that deep. Glaze as a layer of gray matter, in fact is due to factors such as furnace temperature, glaze proportion, make the glaze color change appears, its unique and different aesthetic feeling, loved by Japanese scholars. Literature reference

the song Beijing museum classifying
the source: the complete Palace Museum – two song porcelain (below), the Hong Kong commercial press, 1996, pp. 224, chart 206