Teacup in cobalt blue glaze with a bronze rim, Ming dynasty, Jiajing reign (1522-1566)-China Archive

Image Number: K1B017837N000000000PAB
Dynasty: Ming dynasty
Category: Ceramics
Function: Container
Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
Description:
The mouth is skimmed and the feet are circled. It looks like a bamboo hat tea cup in the Song Dynasty. The mouth is inlaid with a copper clasp. The whole body is covered with blue glaze except the bottom, and the glaze color is rich and colorful. There is no style on the bottom, but the glaze color and shape are typical Jiajing style. Huiqing Glaze is a kind of colored glaze introduced from Yunnan. Like Jiqing Glaze, it uses cobalt oxide as the colorant. Jiajing Huiqing Glaze is the same as blue and white glaze. The glaze color is uniform and purple, which is obviously different from the blue tint of other times. Jiqing tea bell made of Huiqing glaze is one of the common utensils used by scholars in the late Ming Dynasty after the white glazed tea cup. In the late Ming Dynasty, Xu Cishu said in his Tea Shu (Ou Note) that tea Ou preferred “pure white”, and that “when it is used to restore green, it must be rounded.” It is obvious that this kind of Huiqing glazed tea bell is very popular with scholars in the late Ming Dynasty. In the Spot Check Report, the title is “Two Rao shaped Tea Bells with Ji Bronze Inlaid Mouth” (hence Porcelain 017837, hence Porcelain 017838), that is