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dish
Object Type
dish
Museum number
PDF.24
Description
Guan ware stoneware dish with flat rim, lobed sides, and lobed, splayed foot. The dish has greenish grey glaze with crackle stained grey on the interior and reddish brown on the exterior.
Cultures/periods
Yuan dynasty
Ming dynasty
Production date
1279-1400
Production place
Made in:
Hangzhou
Materials
stoneware
Ware
Guan Ware
Technique
glazed
Dimensions
Diameter:
110 millimetres
(base)
Diameter:
192 millimetres
Height:
59 millimetres
Curator's comments
Published PDF date : Southern Song or Yuan dynasty 12th-14th century
Room 95 label text: PDF 24 Water-chestnut flower brush washer 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. The form of this brush washer is compared to a water chestnut flower by Chinese connoisseurs. Stoneware with celadon glaze Guan ware 官窯 Laohudong, Hangzhou, Zhejiang province 浙江省, 杭州市, 老虎洞 Yuan to early Ming dynasty, about AD 1279–1400
PDF 24 菱花形筆洗 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呈現的鐵褐色。中國的收藏家們認為這件筆洗的器形模仿了菱花。 炻器,青釉 官窯 浙江省杭州市老虎洞 元至明代早期,約1279-1400年
Bibliographic references
Pierson 1999 / Illustrated catalogue of Ru, Guan, Jun, Guangdong and Yixing wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art
(p.28, no.24)
Yorke Hardy 1953 / Tung, Ju, Kuan, Chun, Kuang-tung & Glazed I-hsing Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art
(p.8, no.24, pl.IV)
Hobson 1934 / A Catalogue of Chinese Pottery and Porcelain in the Collection of Sir Percival David Bt., F.S.A.
(p. 29, no. XVIII)
Location
On display
(G95/dc7/sh6)
Department
Asia
Registration number
PDF.24