Long-necked vase with tea-dust glaze, Qing dynasty, Qianlong reign (1736-1795)

Long-necked vase with tea-dust glaze, Qing dynasty, Qianlong reign (1736-1795)

• Image Number: C1B000234N000000000PAB
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Container
• Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
• Description:
  Round mouth, long straight neck, big belly, and round feet. The outer wall is covered with tea powder glaze, showing dark green leaves, and slightly yellow in green. The foot margin is exposed for a circle, and the foot is full of glaze. The center underglaze pattern is printed with three lines of six character seal characters “made in the year of Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty”. The so-called tea powder glaze is a kind of high-temperature colored glaze. Its color is often mixed with green and yellow, showing a more detailed but not eye-catching milk soup like color. This seems to be consistent with the description of “Changguan glaze” in Tang Ying’s “Records of Steles in the History of Pottery Formation”, which includes “eel yellow”, “snake skin green”, etc., so researchers also call this glaze “Changguan glaze”. However, compared with the performance of glaze color, the word “tea powder” is obviously more appropriate. Therefore, it is also common to see such glazes named “tea powder”.