basin
- Museum number
- PDF.104
- Description
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Ding stoneware basin, with eight-lobed sides and copper-bound mouth rim. Creamy white, with lotus scroll on interior.
- Production date
- 11thC-12thC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 216 millimetres
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Height: 84 millimetres
- Curator's comments
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Published PDF date : Northern Song 11thC-12thC
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Room 95 label text:
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Lobed basin with incised lotus scroll
This eight-lobed basin is incised inside with lotus scroll. Craftsmen used sheet copper and occasionally gold or silver, cut to size and heated to fit the rims to hide the unglazed rim. Historical accounts suggest that dressing the rim with metal actually enhanced the status of the clay vessel.
Stoneware with carved and incised decoration, transparent glaze and copper rim mount
Ding ware定窯
Quyang county, Hebei province 河北省, 曲陽縣
Northern Song or Jin dynasty, about AD 1086–1127
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白釉刻劃花卷蓮紋花口盆
此盆呈八瓣形,內底刻劃花卷蓮紋。工匠以銅,偶爾也使用金或銀來包鑲口沿,以掩飾“芒口”的缺陷。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
北宋或金代,約1086-1127年
- Location
- On display (G95/dc9/sh1)
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- PDF.104