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Object Type
Museum number: PDF.244
Description: Yaozhou stoneware cylindrical box with straight sides and a low domed lid. The box has olive green glaze. There is a deeply carved peony scroll with four flower heads and a narrow leaf scroll band on the lid, and petal band carved on the sides.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 11thC-12thC
Production place: Made in: Huangpu
Materials
Ware
Technique
Dimensions: Diameter: 171 millimetres; Height: 90 millimetres
Curator's comments: Published PDF date : Northern Song 11th-12 century; Room 95 label text: PDF 244 Box carved with peonies The makers of this box deeply carved four peony flowers into the leather-hard clay, added texture using a comb tool, and then dipped the box into liquid glaze. This glaze pooled in the grooves, creating a contrasting dark and light floral pattern. Potters fired ceramics of this type in saggars within a coal-fuelled kiln. Bureaucrats may have sent items of this quality as tribute to the Northern Song Court. Merchants also traded Yaozhou wares widely. In the Song dynasty, the best kilns were located at Huangpuzhen, near modern Tongchuan city, which then was under the jurisdiction Yaozhou, hence their name. Stoneware with carved decoration and olive-green glaze Yaozhou ware 耀州窯 Huangpuzhen, Tongchuan city, Shaanxi province 陕西省, 銅川市, 黄堡鎮 Northern Song dynasty, about AD 1000–1127; PDF 244 青釉刻花牡丹紋盒製作者首先在盒的胎體上深刻出四朵牡丹花紋，並以篦劃手法裝飾，而後將盒浸入釉漿中。釉水在刻花較深處積聚，形成深淺對比鮮明的花卉圖案。窯工使用匣缽燒造，並採用煤作為燃料。當地官員可能將這類高品質器物進貢至北宋宮廷，商人也四處行銷耀州窯器物。在宋代，黃堡鎮窯址所生產的器物品質最高，因其靠近今銅川，此地舊屬耀州管轄，故而得名。炻器，刻花，橄欖綠釉耀州窯陝西省銅川市黃堡鎮北宋，約1000-1127年
Bibliographic references: Pierson 1997 / Illustrated Catalogue of Celadon Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (pp 37-38, no.244); Medley 1977 / Illustrated Catalogue of Celadon Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (p.14, no.19); Krahl & Harrison-Hall 2009 / Chinese Ceramics: Highlights of the Sir Percival David Collection (p.33, no.9); Scott 1989a / Imperial Taste - Chinese Ceramics from the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (pp 32-33, no.10); Pierson 2002 / Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art: A Guide to the Collection (p.46, no.24); Scott 1989b / Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art: A Guide to the Collection (p.43, no.26); Oriental Ceramic Society 1971 / Catalogue of an Exhibition of the Ceramic Art of China (pp.76-77, no.73); Hobson 1934 / A Catalogue of Chinese Pottery and Porcelain in the Collection of Sir Percival David Bt., F.S.A. (p. 51, pl. L(a)); Medley 1975 / Volume 7: Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (Colour pl. 15 and p. 306); Hobson & Hetherington 1923 / The Art of the Chinese Potter (pl. LXXVII, fig. 2)
Location: On display (G95/dc52/s1)
Department: Asia
Registration number: PDF.244

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