Blue-glazed chicken head pot

[Blue-glazed chicken head pot]

The blue-glazed chicken head pot is 24.4 cm in height, 8.8 cm in diameter, and 10.7 cm in bottom diameter
The pot has a long neck, full shoulders, straight abdomen, flat bottom and burn marks at the bottom. One side of the shoulder is carved with chicken head, the opposite side is an arc handle, and the other side is decorated with a bridge-shaped system. The shoulder is carved with string pattern for two weeks, and double-layer lotus petal pattern is carved. The whole body of the ware is painted with blue glaze, but the outer wall is not painted to the end. There is a phenomenon of vertical glaze. The glaze color is blue and yellow, and there are small open pieces
Compared with the Jin Dynasty, the chicken head pot in the Southern Dynasty has become taller, and the shoulders have evolved from shoulders to full shoulders and straight abdomen. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the rise of the northern porcelain industry was affected by the southern porcelain industry to some extent, and the pots with chicken heads as the flow also began to appear in the north. This chicken head pot decorated with lotus petal pattern shows the era characteristics of the integration of northern and southern celadon