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• Object type

  • sample

• Museum number

  PDF.98

• Description

  Jun stoneware square test piece. The test-piece has translucent greenish-grey glaze.

• Culture/period

  • Northern Song dynasty
  • Jin dynasty

• Date

  • 1000-1234 (?)

• Production place

  • Made in: Yuxian
  • (Asia,China,Henan (province),Yu Xian)

• Materials

  • stoneware

• Ware

  • Jun Ware

• Technique

  • glazed

• Dimensions

  • Width: 30 millimetres
  • Depth: 30 millimetres

• Curator's comments

  Published PDF date : Date uncertainRoom 95 label text:

  PDF 98

  Jun glaze test piece

  
  This test piece was used by potters to assess ideal kiln temperatures and glaze recipes. Where the Jun glaze runs thin towards the edge, it becomes semi-transparent to olive green. Compared to contemporary Northern Song celadons such as Ru and Yaozhou wares, Jun wares have relatively coarse stoneware bodies. Jun wares are characterised by opalescent blue, purple or occasionally green glazes.

  
  Stoneware with opalescent blue glaze
  Jun ware鈞窯
  Yuxian, Henan province 河南省, 禹縣
  Northern Song to Jin dynasty, about AD 1000–1234

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• Bibliography

  • Yorke Hardy 1953 p.25, no.98
  • Pierson 1999 p.50, no.98

• Location

  Not on display

• Acquisition name

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

• Department

  Asia

• Registration number

  PDF.98