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cup-stand

• Object type

  • cup-stand

• Museum number

  PDF.107

• Description

  Ding stoneware cup-stand, with copper-bound rim. Creamy white, with lotus design on interior.

• Culture/period

  • Northern Song dynasty

• Date

  • 11thC-12thC

• Production place

  • Made in: Quyang (county)
  • (Asia,China,Hebei (province),Quyang)

• Materials

  • stoneware
  • copper

• Ware

  • Ding Ware

• Technique

  • incised
  • glazed

• Dimensions

  • Height: 20 millimetres
  • Diameter: 192 millimetres

• Curator's comments

  Published PDF date : Northern Song 11thC-12thCRoom 95 label text:

  PDF 107

  Cup stand with incised lotus decoration

  
  The base and foot of both are glazed. Between AD 1086 and AD 1127, Ding potters pioneered the technique of fushao (firing a vessel upside down on its rim). Kiln managers saved on fuel by firing a greater number of pots at one time, stacking them in stepped saggars. The disadvantage was the unglazed mouth rim, cleaned free of glaze to avoid the vessel sticking to the saggar. Craftsmen used sheet copper and occasionally gold or silver, cut to size and heated to fit the rims to hide this flaw. Historical accounts suggest that dressing the rim with metal actually enhanced the status of the clay vessel.

  
  Stoneware with carved decoration, transparent glaze and copper rim mount
  Ding ware 定窯
  Quyang county, Hebei province 河北省，曲陽縣
  Northern Song dynasty, about AD 1086–1127PDF 107

  白釉刻劃花蓮花紋杯托

  
  器底及圈足滿釉。1086年至1127年，定窯窯工們開創性地使用了將器物口沿向下放置燒窯的覆燒技術。窯工使用階梯式匣缽疊放器物，這樣一次燒窯可以燒造大量的器物，節省了燃料。但覆燒的缺點是，為了避免向下放置的器物口沿與匣缽粘連，口沿處須刮掉釉層，使之成為“芒口”。工匠們以銅片，偶爾也使用金或銀片，切割成合適的尺寸，加熱后包鑲在口沿上來掩蓋這一缺陷。史料記載表明，以金屬包鑲口沿事實上提高了黏土燒成品的地位。

  
  炻器，刻劃花，透明釉，鑲銅口
  定窯
  河北省曲陽縣
  北宋，約1086-1127年

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• Bibliography

  • Medley 1975 Monochrome pl. 17
  • Medley 1980 p.12, no.15

• Location

  On display: G95/dc10/sh3

• Acquisition name

  • On loan from: Sir Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art

• Department

  Asia

• Registration number

  PDF.107