Yue Kiln Secret Color Porcelain Octagonal Clean Bottle

[Yue Kiln Secret Color Porcelain Octagonal Clear Bottle]

Blue glazed Octagonal Bottle, Tang Dynasty, 22.5 cm high, 1.7 cm caliber, 7.2 cm foot diameter
The whole body of the bottle is octagonal, straight mouth, long neck, shoulders rolling and belly bulging, and the lower part of the belly is gradually closed to the bottom, and the feet are circled. The carcass is grayish white. The glaze is bright and green, like a lake. The glaze color of the convex part of the bottle body is light, which further increases the aesthetic feeling of the shape of the vessel. This bottle is quite ingenious in decoration. Most of the bottles are round, while this bottle is octagonal, and there are three convex edges at the joint of neck and shoulder, which can be said to be different
This product is used as a water purification bottle for washing hands
In the Tang Dynasty, the porcelain industry reached a historical peak, with a situation of “green in the south and white in the north”. The south was represented by the celadon of Yue kiln, and the north was famous for the white porcelain of Xing kiln. At that time, the production scale of Yue kiln was huge, and its products were favored by the world. Many scholars chanted poems and wrote poems to praise it. Lu Yu of the Tang Dynasty wrote the Tea Classic, describing the Yue kiln celadon as “jade like” and “ice like”, and listed the Yue kiln as the first of the kilns in the Tang Dynasty. Lu Guimeng, the poet, said that the Yue kiln opened in the autumn wind and won the green color of the thousand peaks. He compared the blue porcelain of the Yue kiln to the green color of the thousand peaks. It was verdant and quiet and profound, and vividly expressed the artistic charm contained in the blue porcelain of the Yue kiln
In 1987, 14 pieces of Yue kiln celadon of the Tang Dynasty were unearthed in the underground palace of the Famen Temple in Fufeng, Shaanxi Province. These Yue kiln celadon were clearly recorded as “porcelain secret color” on the clothes tablet unearthed in the underground palace. One of them is the same as this octagonal bottle, so this blue glaze octagonal bottle of Yue kiln should also belong to secret color porcelain.

青釉八棱瓶底部