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Object Type
Museum number: PDF.300
Description: Ding stoneware bowl with metal-bound rim. The bowl has black glaze.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 11thC-12thC
Production place: Made in: Quyang (county)
Materials
Ware
Technique
Dimensions: Diameter: 185 millimetres
Curator's comments: Published PDF date : Northern Song 11thC-12thC; Room 95 label text: PDF 300 Black glazed tea bowl with copper rim Ding potters manufactured vessels of exquisite quality and pure white bodies, but also with coloured glazes. This example is coated in a solution rich in iron oxide which, when fired, lends it a glossy ink-black colour. Song dynasty writers celebrated black and brown (see case 12) Ding wares in contemporary texts, associating them with luxurious lacquer wares. The presence of Ding wares in monastery treasuries, palaces and noblemen’s tombs testifies to their high status. Stoneware with iron-black glaze and copper rim Ding ware定窯 Quyang county, Hebei province河北省, 曲陽縣 Northern Song dynasty, about AD 1000–1127; PDF 300 黑釉鑲銅口茶碗定窯陶工燒造高品質的純白釉器物，同時也製作其他釉色的器物。此碗施富含氧化鐵的釉料，經燒造後，形成如墨般的釉色。宋代文人對黑色及褐色的定窯器物甚為鍾愛（參見12號展柜），並在當時的文獻中將其比之於奢華的漆器。寺廟、宮殿及貴族墓葬出土的定窯器物，證實了其高貴的身份。炻器，鐵黑釉，鑲銅口定窯河北省曲陽縣北宋，約1000-1127年
Bibliographic references: Medley 1980 / Illustrated Catalogue of Ting and Allied Wares (p.16, no.31, pl. V); Krahl & Harrison-Hall 2009 / Chinese Ceramics: Highlights of the Sir Percival David Collection (p.12, Fig.3); Scott 1989a / Imperial Taste - Chinese Ceramics from the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (p.30, no.8); Pierson 2002 / Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art: A Guide to the Collection (p.44, no.22 (left)); Scott 1989b / Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art: A Guide to the Collection (p.42, no.25); Hobson 1934 / A Catalogue of Chinese Pottery and Porcelain in the Collection of Sir Percival David Bt., F.S.A. (p. 84, pl. LXXXIII); Medley 1975 / Volume 7: Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (Monochrome pl. 15); Wood 1999 / Chinese Glazes (p. 155)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Acquisition notes: R. L. Hobson, 1934 records: From the Collection of Sung To-de, Shanghai. Reputed to be an example of black Ting ware and to have been given by the Emperor Kuang Hsu to Mr Sung's uncle, the Imperial Tutor.
Department: Asia
Registration number: PDF.300

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