The northern song dynasty kiln white glazed carved lotus grain kwai 盌 mouth

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related information of this product shape dignified, decorative score and lively, glazing fine elegant, kiln treasures factually. Setting regulator praised for thin foetus meticulous, elegant white glaze, do not need to add the nursing child soil after firing, only transparent tooth white glaze, and the shape of a cult, both based in the same period of silver and lacquer, also have the builders ingenuity, this product belongs to the latter, the shape, popular in northern song dynasty (1115-1234) and gold generation of imperial government, and the temple pagoda. Due to the constant thin, kiln easy to deformation, so the diameter is about 22 cm.
lotus ornamentation, fair meaningful, carved like contemporary ink painting as a flowing, foil and elegant shape, very appropriate. Lotus out of mud without dye, pure moral integrity, Confucian suntech line, so the popularity of lotus in song dynasty. Craft pure white refined, more reveal the lotus noble and pure, so setting mechanism more act the role of grain.

comparison example, shape, now in the Palace Museum, see figure of the set porcelain elegant set: the national Palace Museum collection and unearthed kiln porcelain assemble “, the Palace Museum, Beijing, 2012, 64; Chart Another example from Alfred Schoenlicht collection, sotheby’s ‘s sale in London on Another awarding 13, 1955, no. 58, after changed hands on Another awarding 14, 1971, no. 194; 4 cases were sold at sotheby’s Hong Kong on May 2, 2000, no. 588, change hands after sotheby’s in London on May 16, 2012, no. 88.

this mouth along with exquisite metal edge, is a fashion at that time. Song “temple lent pen scale” cloud “mans unbearable this toward I came with white porcelain, have to use, I ordered the ruzhou build green kiln”, scholars of reference, don’t think court because of the set porcelain acerbity mouth glazing, is will take you. Taipei’s national Palace Museum Cai Meifen symposium on the metropolitan museum of art in 1996, put forward on the porcelain products add metal edge is at palace noble taste good, hard just can avoid gold edge in danger of slipping, so “mountain” is not for use by burning technology and derivative of the defect. “Arrises buckle so popular, other kiln porcelain not done, in the middle of the northern song dynasty before burning technology, is mainly gold edges due to hide mans mouth, on the contrary, mans mouth may for ridge buckle and other life”. Responsible for accessories, belonging to ministry of “writer’s block”, and to undertake NaGong product of the “garden after artificial”, are equipped with “edge”, under the special and compose the gold and silver ridge buckle. Tsai therefore refers to “I white porcelain, is mans is to use”, or does not reflect Song Ting there mans for porcelain too, and may be set porcelain ornaments ridge buckle opportunely, for specific imperial cult it very comfortable. Theory of full text see Cai Meifen, <"I white porcelain, is mans use" sentence of heredity and the problems of the twelfth century the official porcelain>, the imperial palace academic quarterly, 1997, no. 2, pp. 63-102.