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dish
Object Type
dish
Museum number
PDF.85
Description
Guan stoneware shallow dish with six-lobed, everted rim. The dish has opaque, yellowish grey glaze with brown stained crackle. There is an inscription and six round spur marks on the base, which is glazed.
Cultures/periods
Southern Song dynasty
Production date
1127-1279
Production place
Made in:
Hangzhou
Materials
stoneware
Ware
Guan Ware
Technique
glazed
Dimensions
Diameter:
153 millimetres
Height:
28 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
Published PDF date : Yuan/Ming 13th-14th century
Room 95 label text: PDF 85 Guan ware dish with inscription Writers described guan ware as having 紫口鐵足(zikou tiezu ‘purple mouth and iron foot’), referring to the dark purplish-grey body showing through the glaze where it runs thin at the rim and to the ferrous-brown colour of the unglazed foot. This dish is incised on the base寳用(baoyong ‘for precious use’). Stoneware with guan-type crackled glaze Guan ware 官窯 Hangzhou, Zhejiang province 浙江省,杭州市 Yuan dynasty, AD1279–1368
PDF 85 官窯刻銘盤 人們將官窯器物描述為“紫口鐵足”,意為口沿因釉薄可見的灰紫色胎體與無釉圈足出現的鐵褐色。此盤器底刻“寶用”(意為須珍惜地使用)二字。 炻器,官釉開片 官窯 浙江省杭州市 元代,1279-1368年
Bibliographic references
Pierson 1999 / Illustrated catalogue of Ru, Guan, Jun, Guangdong and Yixing wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art
(p.47, no.85)
Yorke Hardy 1953 / Tung, Ju, Kuan, Chun, Kuang-tung & Glazed I-hsing Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art
(pp 22-23, no.85, pl.X)
Hobson 1934 / A Catalogue of Chinese Pottery and Porcelain in the Collection of Sir Percival David Bt., F.S.A.
(p.33, pl. XXXII)
Location
On display
(G95/dc8/sh3)
Department
Asia
Registration number
PDF.85