Ru kiln azure glaze plate

[Ru Kiln Celestial Glaze Plate]

Ru Kiln Celestial Glaze Plate, Song Dynasty, height 3.5 cm, caliber 19.3 cm, foot diameter 12.6 cm
Pan skimming, shallow belly, circle foot skimming. The whole body is covered with light sky blue glaze, and the glaze surface has fine grain. At the bottom, there are five small burn nail marks, and there are six characters carved “Queen’s Pavilion of Shoucheng Hall”
This porcelain is exquisite in workmanship, pure in glaze, and cracked in ice. It is the top quality of Ru porcelain in the Song Dynasty. There is a “Shoucheng Palace” in the court of the Southern Song Dynasty. The inscription on this article may indicate its origin with the palace.