cup
- Museum number
- PDF.45
- Description
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Pair of Jun stoneware cups with rounded sides and inverted rim. The cups have opalescent blue glaze coloured purple on the interior and exterior with splashes of in-glaze copper pigment. The glaze is olive green at the rim.
- Production date
- 1000-1127
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 31 millimetres (base)
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Diameter: 85 millimetres
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Height: 41 millimetres
- Curator's comments
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Published PDF date : Northern Song 11thC-12thC
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Room 95 label text:
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Small blue cup with splashed glaze
This cup has a lavender glaze splashed with deep purple. It was probably used for drinking alcohol and might have been used in conjunction with a stand. Where the Jun glaze runs thin towards the edge of the cup, it becomes semi-transparent to olive green. Compared to contemporary Northern Song celadons such as Ru and Yaozhou wares, Jun wares have relatively coarse stoneware bodies. Jun wares are characterised by opalescent blue, purple or occasionally green glazes. This type of cup is known as a ‘bubble bowl’. When held under an artificial light, it appears that a bubble rises up and moves around as you turn the bowl.
Stoneware with opalescent blue and purple glazes
Jun ware鈞窯
Yuxian, Henan province 河南省, 禹縣
Northern Song dynasty, about AD 1000–1127
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藍釉紫斑小杯
此杯以淺紫色斑紋裝飾深紫色釉面。這種形制的杯很可能是酒器,並配有杯托。口沿處因釉薄而呈現半透明的橄欖綠色。與同期的北宋青釉,如汝窯、燿州窯相比,鈞窯的胎質較粗,以藍色乳濁釉、紫色釉及偶爾出現的青釉為特色。此杯亦稱“泡泡碗”,因處於人工光線下轉動碗時,象肥皂泡在上升移動。
炻器,乳濁藍釉及紫釉
鈞窯
河南省禹縣(今禹州市)
北宋,約1000-1127年
- Bibliographic references
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Pierson 1999 / Illustrated catalogue of Ru, Guan, Jun, Guangdong and Yixing wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (p.34, no.45)
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Yorke Hardy 1953 / Tung, Ju, Kuan, Chun, Kuang-tung & Glazed I-hsing Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (p.14, no.45)
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Pierson 2002 / Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art: A Guide to the Collection (p.39, no.15)
- Location
- On display (G95/dc52/s3)
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- PDF.45