bowl

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Object Type: bowl
Museum number: PDF.262
Description: Yue stoneware bowl with shallow curving sides. The bowl has a silver-green glaze. There are two phoenixes and a jewel incised in the centre, a plant scroll around the rim, and overlapping lotus petals carved on the exterior. There is an inscription on the base.
Cultures/periods: Tang dynasty
Production date: 850-907
Production place: Made in: Shanglinhu
Materials: stoneware
Ware: Yue Ware
Technique: glazed; incised
Dimensions: Diameter: 175 millimetres; Height: 59 millimetres
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Curator's comments: Published PDF date : Five dynasties 10th century; Room 95 label text: PDF 262 Dish with two phoenixes chasing a jewel Potters carved this dish with overlapping lotus petals outside. Silver and gold workers made vessels in this form. The phoenixes, an auspicious emblem, incised on the inside may have been adapted from chiselled metalwork designs. In the Tang dynasty (AD 618–907), craftsmen at the Yue kilns introduced saggars (clay fire boxes) to protect vessels during firing and their use improved the quality of output dramatically. Indeed, Yue wares are the first ceramics to feature in Tang texts. Officials praised them, likening them to jade and recommending their use for tea. This dish is incised with the character 永 (yong ‘eternal’) on the base. Stoneware with incised decoration and inscription and thin green glaze Yue ware 越窯 Shanglinhu kilns, Zhejiang province 浙江省, 上林湖窯 Tang dynasty, about AD 850–907; PDF 262 青釉雙鳳戲珠紋盤　此盤外壁刻劃重疊蓮瓣紋，造型仿金銀器。內底飾劃花鳳紋，屬吉祥紋飾，裝飾手法借鑒了金屬器的鏨花技法。唐代（618-907年），越窯窯工使用了匣缽裝燒器物，在燒制過程中保護器物，匣缽的使用大大提升了越窯的品質。事實上，越窯也是唐代文獻記載的第一個名窯，官方稱讚越窯“似玉”，宜作茶具。此盤器底刻“永”字銘文。炻器，劃花，刻銘，薄青釉越窯浙江省上林湖窯唐代，約850-907年
Bibliographic references: Pierson 1997 / Illustrated Catalogue of Celadon Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (p.42, no.262); Medley 1977 / Illustrated Catalogue of Celadon Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (p.11, no.9); Krahl & Harrison-Hall 2009 / Chinese Ceramics: Highlights of the Sir Percival David Collection (p.10, Fig.2); Scott 1989a / Imperial Taste - Chinese Ceramics from the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (pp 22-23, no.3); Pierson 2002 / Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art: A Guide to the Collection (p.33, no.4 (and interior)); Scott 1989b / Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art: A Guide to the Collection (p.36, no.17 (and interior)); Medley 1974 / Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art: Illustrated Guide to the Collection (p.5, no.262); Oriental Ceramic Society 1971 / Catalogue of an Exhibition of the Ceramic Art of China (p.69, no.54); Hobson 1934 / A Catalogue of Chinese Pottery and Porcelain in the Collection of Sir Percival David Bt., F.S.A. (p. 39, pl.XXXVIII(b)); Medley 1975 / Volume 7: Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (Colour pl. 3 and p. 305); Pierson 2001 / Designs as Signs: Decoration and Chinese Ceramics (p. 70, no. 68)
Location: On display (G95/dc52/s1)
Department: Asia
Registration number: PDF.262

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