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Object Type
Museum number: PDF,A.43
Description: Ge-type stoneware globular jar. The jar has a dark grey body and thick, glassy greenish-grey glaze with two layers of crackle, the wide layer stained dark grey, and the narrow ginger. Where exposed in firing, the body is reddish-brown. The base is glazed and the foot rim unglazed.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 19thC
Production place: Made in: China
Materials
Ware
Technique
Dimensions: Diameter: 160 millimetres; Height: 123 millimetres
Curator's comments: Published PDF date : Qing 18thC; Room 95 label text: PDF A43 Jar with glossy celadon glaze This jar is covered with a crackled celadon glaze, recreated on a porcelain body. Porcelain with crackled celadon glaze Guan-type ware Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province江西省, 景德鎮 Qing dynasty, AD 1800–1900; PDF A43 亮青釉罐此罐施開片青釉，創造性地用於瓷胎之上。瓷器，開片青釉仿官窯器江西省景德鎮清代，1800-1900年
Bibliographic references: Pierson 1999 / Illustrated catalogue of Ru, Guan, Jun, Guangdong and Yixing wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (p.63, no.A43); Yorke Hardy 1953 / Tung, Ju, Kuan, Chun, Kuang-tung & Glazed I-hsing Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (p.34, no.A43); Scott & Kerr 1994 / Ceramic Evolution in the Middle Ming Period (p.44, no.98)
Location: On display (G95/dc49/sh9)
Department: Asia
Registration number: PDF,A.43

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