Lushan porcelain waist drum

[Lushan porcelain waist drum]

Lushan porcelain waist drum, 58.9 cm long, 22.2 cm in diameter
The waist has a wide mouth, a slim waist, and seven string lines protruding from the body. The whole body is decorated with flowered glaze, showing patches of blue and white on the dark and even glaze, just like the color decoration on the black flash satin, beautiful and elegant
Waist drum is a wooden musical instrument introduced into the Central Plains from the Western Regions. It has been absorbed into Tang music through the Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Sui and Tang Dynasties, and it has also been fired into a ceramic waist drum, with unique characteristics. In the 1970s, cultural relics workers from the Palace Museum and the Henan Provincial Museum went to Lushan, Henan Province to investigate the kiln site according to the records of “not the end of the Qingzhou stone, but the Lushan flower porcelain” in the Jiegu Record written by Nanzhuo of the Tang Dynasty, and found the fragments of the black-glazed flower porcelain waist drum, whose characteristics are completely consistent with the handed down waist drum, thus confirming that the black-glazed flower porcelain waist drum is indeed the product of the Lushan kiln in Henan Province
The waist drum has a large and regular shape, soft lines, and unrestrained decoration. The black glaze with bright black color and changeable blue and white glaze spots set off each other, such as misty clouds and misty clouds, like ink and water, and has a strong decorative effect. It can be called the best of the Tang Dynasty porcelain handed down.