Ming hongzhi jiao yellow glaze bowls

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tiny mouth, arc wall, deep belly, bottom bearing ring foot, tire body is thinner. Device inside and outside The Times jiao yellow glaze, glaze color even light, quietly elegant of tender. Foot in white glaze, ring foot double circle blue book “da Ming hongzhi years” six pairs of travel model to come. This bowl diameter 20 cm, similar to Beijing’s Palace Museum collection, belong to the larger size of the now known, are rare. The bowl of light color stability, glaze, as the most representative of yellow glaze porcelain in the Ming and qing dynasties.
“daming reign” load: “hongwu nine years, private jiao ling porcelain, round altar cyan, the yellow hill, ritan red, 20:30 liu jianhua calls” white, yellow implements is dedicated to offering to god. Because of the water the glaze method glazing, color is light and delicate and charming, like chicken oil, so the hongzhi yellow glaze is also called “water the yellow” or “jiao huang”. Because the yellow glaze its homophonic “emperor” element to the Ming and qing dynasties the strict control of glaze, or as the highest rulers from long time, or to sacrifice to god.
yellow glaze is a kind of iron as a low-temperature glaze color agent, have been as early as the tang sancai, element face yellow glaze in the chenghua period, to hongzhi once inherit and carry forward, hongzhi yellow glaze is more chenghua yellow glaze is deep, than later zhengde pale yellow glaze is moderate, its glaze color stability, light, then become a generation of famous brand. Museum of Beijing the imperial palace old qing, similar to the product size, recorded in the Palace Museum hidden treasures series ─ ─ color glaze “, the commercial press, Hong Kong, 1999, pp. 43, chart 38.