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Object Type
Museum number: PDF,A.46
Description: Guan stoneware foliated dish in the form of a chesnut flower with eight petal-shaped foliations. The dish has a dark grey body and thick clear blue glaze with wide, fine golden brown crackle. The base is glazed and the foot rim unglazed.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 1127-1279
Production place: Made in: Hangzhou
Materials
Ware
Technique
Dimensions: Diameter: 100 millimetres (base); Diameter: 168 millimetres; Height: 39 millimetres
Curator's comments: Published PDF date : Southern Song 12th-13thC; Room 95 label text: PDF A46 Eight-petal lobed dish The shape of this dish is refined. Each petal lobe is curved and indented to create a naturalistic mallow flower form. Similar dishes made of silver were recovered from a Southern Song dynasty hoard of gold and silver wares at Pengzhou, Sichuan 四川,彭州. The glazer has left his fingerprints in the glaze on the base, a tantalising and rare trace of the craftsman’s hand. Writers described guan ware as having 紫口鐵足(zikou tiezu ‘purple mouth and iron foot’), referring to the dark purplish-grey body showing through the glaze where it runs thin at the rim and to the ferrous-brown colour of the unglazed foot. Stoneware with celadon glaze Guan ware 官窯 Hangzhou, Zhejiang province 浙江省，杭州市 Southern Song dynasty, AD1127–1279; PDF A46 八瓣葵花式盤此盤造型文雅，每個花瓣都有弧度并內凹，模仿出了錦葵花的自然形態。四川彭州南宋金銀器窖藏中曾出土類似器形的銀盤。器外底釉上留有施釉工的指紋，這種古代匠人的遺痕非常罕見引人遐想。學者將官窯器物描述為“紫口鐵足”（意為紫色的口沿和鐵色的足部），指代口沿燒窯時流釉較薄處可見的釉下灰紫色胎體，以及無釉圈足的鐵褐色。炻器，青釉官窯浙江省杭州市南宋，1127-1279年
Bibliographic references: Pierson 1999 / Illustrated catalogue of Ru, Guan, Jun, Guangdong and Yixing wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (p.64, no.A46); Yorke Hardy 1953 / Tung, Ju, Kuan, Chun, Kuang-tung & Glazed I-hsing Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (p.35, no.A46); Krahl & Harrison-Hall 2009 / Chinese Ceramics: Highlights of the Sir Percival David Collection (pp 38-39, no.13); Scott 1989a / Imperial Taste - Chinese Ceramics from the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (p.40, no.16); Pierson 2002 / Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art: A Guide to the Collection (p.49, no.28 (right)); Scott 1989b / Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art: A Guide to the Collection (p.54, no.40); Oriental Ceramic Society 1971 / Catalogue of an Exhibition of the Ceramic Art of China (p.88, no.108); Medley 1975 / Volume 7: Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art (Colour pl. 23 and p. 307)
Location: On display (G95/dc54)
Acquisition name
Acquisition notes: PDF Card: Acquired before 1934.
Department: Asia
Registration number: PDF,A.46

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