Basin in tea-dust glaze, Qing dynasty, Yongzheng reign (1723-1735)

Basin in tea-dust glaze, Qing dynasty, Yongzheng reign (1723-1735)

• Image Number: C1B000209N000000000PAB
• Dynasty: Qing dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: water vessels
• Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
• Description:
  Lip mouth, a circle of deep concave below the lip margin, the deep arc wall is lower, and the concave bottom is the foot. The whole device is plain and without lines, and the tea powder glaze is applied inside and outside, which is dark green and yellow in color. The bottom of the tire is exposed for a circle, showing light reddish brown. Three lines of six character seal characters “made in the reign of Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty” are printed on the center underglaze mold outside the bottom. 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”.