cup
- Museum number
- PDF,A.6
- Description
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Jun stoneware cup. The cup has opalescent blue-grey glaze, and is pale olive green where glaze runs thin at the rim. The base is partly glazed.
- Production date
- 1000-1127
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 32 millimetres (base)
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Diameter: 89 millimetres
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Height: 43 millimetres
- Curator's comments
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Published PDF date : Northern Song 11th-12 century
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Room 95 label text:
PDF A6
Blue Jun cup
This cup was probably used for drinking wine and might have been used in conjunction with a stand. Where the Jun glaze runs thin towards the edge of the cup, it becomes semi-transparent to olive green. Compared with 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. This type of cup is known as a ‘bubble bowl’. When held under an artificial light, it appears that a bubble rises up and moves around as you turn the bowl.
Stoneware with opalescent blue glaze
Jun ware鈞窯
Yuxian, Henan province 河南省, 禹縣
Northern Song dynasty, about AD 1000–1127
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藍鈞釉杯
這種形製的杯很可能是酒器,並配有杯托。口沿處因燒窯時流釉較薄,而呈現半透明的橄欖綠色。與同期的北宋青釉,如汝窯、燿州窯相比,鈞窯的胎質較粗。鈞窯以藍色乳濁釉、紫色釉及偶爾出現的青釉為特色。此類杯亦稱“泡泡碗”,因處於人工光線下轉動器物時,像肥皂泡在上升移動。
炻器,乳濁藍釉
鈞窯
河南省禹縣(今禹州市)
北宋, 約1000-1127年
- Location
- On display (G95/dc13/sh6)
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- PDF,A.6