White pottery carved beans

[White pottery carved beans]

White pottery carved beans, commercial, 12.5 cm high, 22.7 cm caliber, 15.2 cm foot diameter
The bean has a shallow belly and a wide mouth edge. The lower part of the mouth is gradually retracted, and the lower part is flared with high feet. Carved patterns throughout the body. Carve convex string pattern under the mouth, cloud and thunder pattern on the bronze on the abdomen, money pattern in the middle of the high foot, deformation echo and gluttonous (t ā O ti è Yin Tao Tie) pattern as auxiliary decoration. The trimming is fine, and the shape line is strong
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), 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
In daily life, beans are used to hold pickles, meat sauce and other foods. In bronze ware, bronze beans are also a ritual vessel.

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