Tang (618-907) xing kiln craft “surplus” note pot

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pot for exposure, round lips, the high beam of the neck and shoulder. Down the long drum abdomen, gradually accept a circular pie chronological, foot wall of the lateral oblique cutting a circle. Shoulder one side short dc, the double round clay-strip ribbon handle. The umbrella cover, along, round button, the seam allowance, and the pot body matching fitting, characteristics of unification, should be used at the time, intact, is very rare.
with perfect white glaze, glaze green, especially put button below the product still show green glaze, glaze in the bubble is rich. Glaze renew, burnish feels stronger. Plantar acerbity tire, tire white ash, fine texture, hard near the foot heart shade is engraved “profits” word. The whole device is generally xing kiln that make is more careful, temperament dignified and easy, for xing kiln in tang dynasty.
studies have shown that “surplus” porcelain is xing kiln designed specially for tang daying library special fire tributes. Tang daying libraries can be found in literature, referred to as “treasure daying library”, hereinafter referred to as “daying library”, belong to the emperor directly withdraw “private library”, in the library of access, depends on the will of the emperor himself, and more with the eunuch Lord brought it in the library of origin, one is the reward, 2 it is used for expenditures under emergency conditions, so the daying library is also known as “cooking”, “inside”, “ban Tibet”, “library”, in the “library” and so on.

refer to:
1, the China ceramics corpora, 5, sui and tang dynasties “, Shanghai people’s fine arts publishing house, 2000, pp. 155, 162, yangzhou museum
2, “one thousand xing kiln”, cultural relics publishing house, 2011, pp. 69