Jianyang kiln black glaze rabbit hair cup

[Jianyang kiln black glazed rabbit hair cup]

Jianyang kiln black glazed rabbit hair cup, Song Dynasty, height 5.8 cm, caliber 12.8 cm, foot diameter 3.9 cm
The mouth is skimmed, the wall is oblique and straight, and the feet are small. The inner wall is full of glaze. The external glaze is not applied to the bottom, and the lower part of the belly glaze flows like tears. The glaze at the mouth edge is brown, and the lower part is gradually brown and black, the inner bottom is pure black, and the outer bottom is iron black where the tire is exposed. There are filamentous black brown rabbit hair crystals in the glaze, commonly known as “rabbit hair”
During the Song and Jin Dynasties, rabbit hair lanterns were fired in many places in China, such as Jiangxi, Shandong, Henan, Hebei, etc. Among them, Jianyang kiln was the most famous for its “Jianzhan”
Because of the great popularity of the rabbit hair lamp in the Song Dynasty, scholars have many words of praise for it. For example, Cai Xiang’s “Tea Record” said: “The rabbit hair is purple and fresh, and the crab eyes are boiled in a clear spring.”

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