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Object Type
Museum number: PDF.60
Description: Ru stoneware dish with rounded sides and everted rim. The dish has thick, translucent greenish-blue glaze with fine crackle. There are three small eliptical spur marks on the base.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 1050-1150
Production place: Made in: Henan (province)
Materials
Ware
Technique
Dimensions: Diameter: 93 millimetres (base); Diameter: 170 millimetres; Height: 31 millimetres
Curator's comments: Published PDF date : Northern Song early 12thC; Room 95 label text: PDF 60 Dish with crackled celadon glaze This shallow dish is covered inside and out with a classic thick celadon Ru ware glaze. Production of imperial-quality Ru wares ceased when the Northern Song court was forced by the invading Jin armies to flee their capital Bianjing 汴京 (modern Kaifeng 開封) in northern China and re-establish their government south of the Yangtze River 長江 in Lin’an 臨安 (today’s Hangzhou 杭州) in AD 1127. Stoneware with celadon glaze Ru ware汝窯 Qingliangsi, Baofeng county, Henan province 河南省, 寳豐縣, 清凉寺 Northern Song dynasty, about AD 1086–1125; PDF 60 天青釉開片盤此淺盤施天青釉，釉層較厚，屬典型汝窯釉色。1127年，金人入侵北宋都城汴京（今開封），宋室被迫南遷至長江以南的臨安（今杭州），建立了新的政權，而汝窯也就停止燒造御用質量的器物了。炻器，青釉汝窯河南省寶豐縣清涼寺北宋，約1086-1125年
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.60, colour, p.17); Yorke Hardy 1953 / Tung, Ju, Kuan, Chun, Kuang-tung & Glazed I-hsing Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (p.17, no.60)
Location: Not on display
Department: Asia
Registration number: PDF.60

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