brush-washer
- Museum number
- PDF,A.53
- Description
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Guan stoneware brush-washer with eight petal-shaped lobes. The brush-washer has a dark greyish-brown body and greenish-grey glaze with close crackle. There are six small round spur marks on the base, which is glazed, as is the foot.
- Production date
- 1127-1300
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 122 millimetres
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Height: 35 millimetres
- Curator's comments
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Published PDF date : Southern Song 12th-13thC
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Room 95 label text:
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Brush washer
Jin soldiers overthrew the Northern Song court in AD 1127. Emperor Song Gaozong (ruled AD1127–1162), his family and staff fled from their capital in Bianjing (Kaifeng) and established a new government in the south in Lin’an (Hangzhou). He established an official guan kiln there to recreate Ru wares (case 53). 官(guan ‘official’) stonewares such as this brush-washer are characterised by a thin, dark clay body and a luscious celadon glaze with tiny bubbles and a distinctive crackle.
Stoneware with crackled pale blue-green glaze
Guan ware 官窯
Laohudong, Hangzhou, Zhejiang province 浙江省, 杭州, 老虎洞窯,
Southern Song to early Yuan dynasty, about AD 1127–1300
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筆洗
1127年,金人滅北宋,宋高宗(1127-1162年在位)及其家眷與臣屬逃離都城汴京(今開封),在南方的臨安(今杭州)建立了新政府。他設立了官窯,仿燒汝窯器物(參見53號柜)。深色薄胎,青釉瑩潤并有微小氣泡和明顯開片,是官窯器物例如此洗的特徵。
炻器,淺藍綠色開片釉
官窯
浙江省杭州市老虎洞窯
南宋至元代早期,約1127-1300年
- Location
- On display (G95/dc7/sh2)
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- PDF,A.53