bottle; vase

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Object Type: bottle; vase
Museum number: PDF.92
Description: Jun stoneware pear-shaped bottle-vase with tall slender neck and flared mouthrim. The vase has thick, opalescent blue-grey glaze with large purple areas of in-glaze copper pigment.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 11thC-12thC
Production place: Made in: Yu Xian
Materials
Ware
Technique
Dimensions: Diameter: 130 millimetres; Height: 290 millimetres
Curator's comments: Published PDF date : Northern Song 11thC-12thC; Room 95 label text: PDF 92 Bottle with purple-splashed blue glazes This pear-shaped bottle with tall, slender neck was made by throwing horizontal clay sections on a wheel and luting them together. Potters decorated the dry, unfired glaze with copper-rich pigment, to create a purple in-glaze splashed effect. Jun wares are not as well finished off as Ru or guan wares. In this instance, craftsmen glazed the bottle’s base inside the foot ring but only glazed just inside the neck of the bottle. Northern Song tomb murals show bottles of this shape being used to display a single flower stem, but people may also have employed them for decanting wine. 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; PDF 92 藍釉紫斑膽瓶此瓶呈梨形，細長頸，為分段拉坯而後拼接成型。窯工們入窯前在幹澀的釉面塗抹富含銅的釉料，以取得自然暈散的紫斑效果。鈞窯器的製作不如汝窯或官窯精細，如此瓶外部施釉至圈足內，但瓶內施釉僅至頸部。北宋墓葬壁畫顯示此瓶用作陳設插單支花卉，但人們也可能將其用作酒器。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: Pierson 1999 / Illustrated catalogue of Ru, Guan, Jun, Guangdong and Yixing wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (p.48, no.92); Yorke Hardy 1953 / Tung, Ju, Kuan, Chun, Kuang-tung & Glazed I-hsing Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (p.24, no.92, pl.XI); Krahl & Harrison-Hall 2009 / Chinese Ceramics: Highlights of the Sir Percival David Collection (pp 36-37, no.12); Scott 1989a / Imperial Taste - Chinese Ceramics from the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (p.38, no.14); Pierson 2002 / Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art: A Guide to the Collection (p.39, no.14); Scott 1989b / Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art: A Guide to the Collection (p.49, no.33); Hobson 1934 / A Catalogue of Chinese Pottery and Porcelain in the Collection of Sir Percival David Bt., F.S.A. (p. 71, pl. LXX); Medley 1975 / Volume 7: Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (Colour pl. 13 and p. 306)
Location: On display (G95/dc52/s3)
Department: Asia
Registration number: PDF.92

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