flower-pot
- Museum number
- PDF.96
- Description
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Quadrangular Official Jun stoneware flower-pot with fluted corners, sloping sides and four cloud-shaped feet. The flower-pot has opalescent blue glaze on the interior base and lower walls, purple on the upper interior walls and rim, and a purple glazed exterior. There is an inscription and five drainage holes on the base, which is glazed.
- Production date
- 1368-1435
- Dimensions
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Height: 149 millimetres
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Width: 99 millimetres (base)
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Width: 205 millimetres (mouth)
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Width: 205 millimetres
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Depth: 136 millimetres (base)
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Depth: 165 millimetres (mouth)
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- Curator's comments
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Published PDF date : Jin-Yuan 13th-14th century
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Room 95 label text:
PDF 96
Rectangular flower pot
This rectangular numbered Jun flower pot has four cloud-shaped feet. It is very rare for both the pot and matching stand (PDF 97) to survive and both are inscribed 十 shi, meaning ten, on the base. Song Xu 宋詡 was the first scholar to mention Jun wares in AD1504 in《宋氏家規部》 (Song shi jia guibu ‘ Song family customs’). Later Ming writers mention Jun wares frequently in the literature of connoisseurship. Interestingly, however, unlike Song wares they are not described as items from another era in these works, suggesting perhaps that they were not antiques when the texts were compiled.
Stoneware body covered in blue and purple glazes with olive-green on base Numbered or Official Jun ware官鈞窯
Juntai, Yuxian, Henan province 河南省, 禹縣, 鈞台
Ming dynasty, about AD 1368–1435
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PDF 96
長方形花盆
此刻數字鈞窯花盆呈長方形,以四個雲頭形足承托器身。存世官鈞窯器物中,如此件花盆及盆托(PDF97)可配對者在傳世品中十分罕見。兩者器底均刻有數目字“十”。1504年,學者宋詡所撰《宋氏家規部》首次提到了鈞窯器,而後,晚明學者在其鑒賞類著作中開始頻繁提及鈞窯器。然而頗為有趣的是,在這些著作中,鈞窯器物並非像其他宋代器物那樣被單獨劃分出來,這也許表明在編寫這些著作之時,鈞窯器物還並非古董。
炻胎,施藍色及紫色釉,底部為橄欖綠色釉
官鈞窯或帶數字鈞窯
河南省禹縣(今禹州市)鈞台
明代,約1368-1435年
- Bibliographic references
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Pierson 1999 / Illustrated catalogue of Ru, Guan, Jun, Guangdong and Yixing wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (p.50, no.96) (set with no.97)
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Yorke Hardy 1953 / Tung, Ju, Kuan, Chun, Kuang-tung & Glazed I-hsing Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (p.25, no.96, pl.XII) (set with no.97)
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Hobson 1934 / A Catalogue of Chinese Pottery and Porcelain in the Collection of Sir Percival David Bt., F.S.A. (p. 79, pl. LXXVIII) (set with no.97)
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Medley 1975 / Volume 7: Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (Monochrome pl. 49)
- Location
- On display (G95/dc52/s7)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2014 Sep-2015 Jan, BM WCEC, 'Ming: 50 years that changed China'
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- PDF.96