bottle

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Object Type: bottle
Museum number: PDF.4
Description: Guan stoneware bottle with long slender neck, globular body and wide, flaring mouthrim. The bottle has thick, translucent bluish-grey celadon glaze with wide, irregular crackle stained golden brown, and copper-bound mouth- and foot- rims.
Cultures/periods: Southern Song dynasty
Production date: 1127-1279
Production place: Made in: Hangzhou
Materials: stoneware; copper
Ware: Guan Ware
Technique: glazed
Dimensions: Diameter: 52 millimetres (base); Diameter: 85 millimetres; Height: 180 millimetres; Depth: 46 millimetres (mouth)
Curator's comments: Published PDF date : Southern Song 12th-13thC; Room 95 label text: PDF 4 Bottle with copper-mounted rim and foot Potters made guan wares at the Laohudong 老虎洞kiln site in Hangzhou. Scholars suggest this site may be the one described in historical texts as修内司 (xiuneisi ‘Palace Maintenance Office’) or 内窯 (neiyao ‘Inner Kiln’). Most scholars believe the Laohudong kiln was set up before the Jiaotanxia郊壇下kiln. Craftsmen at both these production sites made ritual, table and ornamental wares for the imperial court. Archaeologists excavated sherds from copies of similar slender-necked bottles with pear shaped bodies at the Jiaotanxia kiln site, beside the Wuguishan hill near Hangzhou. Stoneware with celadon glaze Guan ware 官窯 Hangzhou, Zhejiang province 浙江省，杭州市 Southern Song dynasty, AD1127–1279; PDF 4 鑲銅口銅足長頸瓶杭州老虎洞窯是陶工燒造官窯瓷器之地。學者們認為老虎洞很有可能就是文獻記載的“修內司窯”或者“內窯”。多數學者認為老虎洞窯的設立時間要早於郊壇下窯。老虎洞與郊壇下兩窯皆為宮廷燒造禮儀、陳設及裝飾用官窯瓷器。考古學家曾在杭州烏龜山附近的郊壇下窯址發掘出了與此瓶類似的梨形長頸瓶殘片。炻器，青釉官窯浙江省杭州市南宋，1127-1279年
Bibliographic references: Pierson 1999 / Illustrated catalogue of Ru, Guan, Jun, Guangdong and Yixing wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (p.16, no.4, colour, p.59); Yorke Hardy 1953 / Tung, Ju, Kuan, Chun, Kuang-tung & Glazed I-hsing Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (p.2, no.4, pl.I); Krahl & Harrison-Hall 2009 / Chinese Ceramics: Highlights of the Sir Percival David Collection (p.40, no.14); Scott 1989a / Imperial Taste - Chinese Ceramics from the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (p.41, no.17); Pierson 2002 / Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art: A Guide to the Collection (p.49, no.28 (left)); Scott 1989b / Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art: A Guide to the Collection (p.54, no.39); Oriental Ceramic Society 1971 / Catalogue of an Exhibition of the Ceramic Art of China (p.86, no.103); Hobson 1934 / A Catalogue of Chinese Pottery and Porcelain in the Collection of Sir Percival David Bt., F.S.A. (p. 18, pl. XVII); Medley 1975 / Volume 7: Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (Colour pl. 21 and p. 307)
Location: On display (G95/dc54)
Department: Asia
Registration number: PDF.4

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