Deqing kiln black glaze chicken head pot

[Deqing Kiln Black-glazed Cock-head Pot]

Deqing Kiln Black-glazed Cock-head Pot, Eastern Jin Dynasty, 18 cm high, 7.9 cm diameter, and 10 cm bottom diameter
Pot pan mouth, short neck, shoulder slip, belly drum. One side of the shoulder is decorated with a chicken head shaped flow, with a hole in the flow connecting with the pot body, the flow mouth is tubular, the cock crown is high, and the eyes are wide open. The side opposite to the chicken head is decorated with a curved round handle, which is connected with the mouth edge and shoulder respectively from top to bottom for easy holding. The other two sides of the shoulder are decorated with a bridge-shaped tie, which can be carried with ropes. The pot is painted with black glaze. The glaze layer is rich, the glaze surface is moist and transparent, the color is black as paint, and is even and clean. The outer wall is not completely glazed, and the brown carcass is exposed near the foot. There is no glaze at the bottom, and there are five large nail burn marks
This utensil is properly made and the proportion of all parts is coordinated. Especially, the chicken head is used to decorate the pot body, giving a visual aesthetic feeling
The chicken head pot is one of the main shapes of early porcelain in the south and north. It was first seen at the end of the Three Kingdoms and was popular in the Jin and Sui dynasties. It was named after the chicken head on the shoulder of the pot. The porcelain kilns fired include Yue Kiln, Ou Kiln, Fuqing Kiln, etc. In the early days, the chicken head and tail are usually symmetrically pasted on the shoulder of the pot to make its head and tail echo each other. The chicken head is short, has no neck, and is not connected with the pot body, and is purely decorative. In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the body of the pot became larger, the chicken head changed from a decorative object into a practical pot flow with a mouth and neck, and the short tail changed into a round long handle. In the late Eastern Jin Dynasty, a dragon head handle appeared on the handle of the pot. In the Southern Dynasty, the chicken head pot changed from round to slender, the chicken neck was raised, the chicken crown was high, and the handle of the dragon head was lengthened. After the Tang Dynasty, the chicken pot gradually disappeared
The site of Deqing Kiln is located in Deqing County, Zhejiang Province today. The excellent black porcelain fired is unique and has become a famous special porcelain kiln at that time. At the same time, it also fired celadon. Although both black and blue glazes use iron oxide as colorant, the content of iron oxide in black glazes is higher than that in blue glazes, reaching 6-8%. The black glazed porcelain of the Eastern Jin Dynasty is represented by the Deqing kiln in Zhejiang Province. In addition to the chicken head pot, the common utensils also include bowls, bowls, plates, pots, pots and other daily utensils. Its firing history is relatively short, probably more than 100 years from the Eastern Jin Dynasty to the early Southern Dynasty.

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