dish
- Museum number
- PDF,A.25
- Description
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Ru stoneware dish. The dish has an ash-grey body covered in translucent blue-grey glaze. There are four tiny elliptical spur marks on the base, which is glazed. Shape distorted in firing.
- Production date
- 11thC(late)-12thC(early)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 121 millimetres
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Height: 20 millimetres
- Curator's comments
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Published PDF date : Northern Song 11th-12 century
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Room 95 label text:
PDF A25
Misfired Ru ware dish
Potters in Henan province made Ru wares for just twenty or possibly forty years for the Northern Song court between AD 1086 and 1106 or 1125. Very few examples survive today outside the kiln sites. Ru wares have a slightly under-fired (1200 to 1250 degrees centigrade), thin, pale-grey, stoneware body, with a comparatively thick celadon glaze. Most Ru wares were fired upright in saggars on setters with three or five spurs which left tiny sesame-seed shaped unglazed marks on the base. This dish has distorted during firing and its glaze has failed. That it has been preserved and collected is perhaps testimony to the high regard for Ru ware both in China and by international collectors.
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
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PDF A25
汝窯盤（燒壞）
河南窯工為北宋宮廷燒造汝窯器的時間可能只持續了二十或四十年（1086至1106年或1125年）。窯址之外存留至今的器物極少。汝窯器物略欠火候（燒成溫度在1200至1250度左右），淺灰色薄炻胎，青釉相對較厚。大多數汝窯器以三個或五個支釘承托，置於匣缽中燒造，器底留有細小的芝麻粒狀無釉掙釘痕跡。此盤燒造中發生變形、釉色呈色失敗。這樣的作品還能被收藏與保存，可能證明了中國及國際收藏家對汝窯器的高度推崇。
炻器，青釉
汝窯
河南省寶豐縣清涼寺
北宋，約1086-1125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.55, no.A25, pl.XII)
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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.30, no.A25)
- Location
- On display (G95/dc2/sh3)
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- PDF,A.25
