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Object Type
Museum number: PDF.59
Description: Ru ware stoneware dish with rounded sides and splayed foot. The dish has thick, translucent grey-green glaze(celadon) with fine crackle. There are five large spur marks on the base, which is glazed.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 1086-1125
Production place: Made in: Qingliangsi
Materials
Ware
Technique
Dimensions: Diameter: 102 millimetres (base); Diameter: 149 millimetres; Height: 37 millimetres
Curator's comments: 汝窯天青釉洗史料研究和法醫考古技術證實這件青釉筆洗為宋代汝窯產品。這件筆洗由斐西瓦樂·大維德爵士於1928年在紐約購得，長期以來被認為是高麗青瓷。克蘭菲爾德大學法醫研究所的研究人員使用手持式X射線熒光光譜儀對這件藏品進行了檢測，證實其為汝瓷。現今傳存於世的汝窯器不足百件。炻器，青釉河南省寶豐縣清涼寺北宋，約1086-1125年; Published PDF date : Korea 12thC; Room 95 label text: PDF 59 Ru ware dish Historical research and forensic science have proven that this stoneware dish is a product of the Ru kilns. Cranfield University’s Forensic Institute used new hand-held XRF technology to confirm this brush-washer, long believed to be of Korean origin, is in fact one of under 100 surviving known examples of ‘Ru’ ware. Sir Percival David acquired it in New York in 1928. Stoneware with celadon glaze Qingliangsi, Baofeng Henan province Song dynasty, about AD 1086–1125
Bibliographic references: Pierson 1999 / Illustrated catalogue of Ru, Guan, Jun, Guangdong and Yixing wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (p.37, no.59); Yorke Hardy 1953 / Tung, Ju, Kuan, Chun, Kuang-tung & Glazed I-hsing Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (pp 16-17, no.59, pl.VI)
Location: Not on display
Department: Asia
Registration number: PDF.59

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