Double series pot with taotie pattern carved on white pottery

[Double series pot with taotie pattern carved on white pottery]

Double series pot with taotie pattern carved on white pottery is 22 cm high, 9.2 cm in diameter and 9.2 cm in foot diameter
The mouth of the pot is slightly retracted, the lower part of the mouth is gradually widened, the lower abdomen is full, and the feet are circled. Shoulder symmetry with round hole system. There are two round holes on the ring foot corresponding to the system. Full body carving gluttonous (t ā O ti è Yin Tao Tie), with clear patterns and skillful carving techniques. It can be called the representative work of white pottery in the late Shang Dynasty. This white pottery pot was originally broken and has now been repaired
White pottery appeared as early as the late Neolithic Age. In the Shang Dynasty, due to the increase of firing temperature, the raw materials were washed more finely, resulting in a more white and delicate white pottery. In the early Shang Dynasty, white pottery was in the form of (gu ī Yin Gui), He (h é Yin He) and Jue are mainly decorated with herringbone patterns, patted rope patterns and additional pile patterns. In the middle of the Shang Dynasty, beans, pots, bowls, etc. were added to the utensils. Except for a few rope patterns, the decoration was mostly plain polished. The late Shang Dynasty was the heyday of white pottery firing. A lot of white pottery was found in the late Shang ruins and tombs in the Yellow River basin. Among them, the white pottery unearthed in the Yin Ruins of Yin Xu in Anyang, Henan Province, is the most distinctive. The artifacts include zhi (Zhi ì sound system), hu, zun, you (y ǒ U Yinyou) and other wine vessels and tripods, beans, plates and Gui (gu ǐ Sound track). The patterns often include cloud and thunder patterns, vortex patterns, and taotie (t ā O ti è, cicada, zigzag, ku í, etc. In particular, the exquisite carving as the main decorative technique of white pottery shows the high level of development of white pottery in the late Shang Dynasty
Taotie (t ā O ti è Yin Tao Tie) is a voracious beast in ancient legend. Its head shape is often used as decoration on bronze wares in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, which is called “gluttonous pattern”. The use of “taotie pattern” to name this patterned animal face on bronzes began with the “Xuanhe Bogu Map” of the Song Dynasty.

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