Dingyao sauce glaze covered bowl

[Dingyao sauce-glazed covered bowl]

Dingyao sauce-glazed covered bowl, Song Dynasty, with a height of 6cm, a diameter of 12cm, and a foot diameter of 5.3cm
The bowl has a straight mouth, deep belly and round feet. Cover the top with melon pedicle button. The whole body is coated with sauce colored glaze, the rim of the bowl mouth and the ring foot are unglazed, and the exposed part is white
In addition to being famous for firing white glazed porcelain, Ding Kiln of the Song Dynasty was also famous for its black glazed and sauce glazed porcelain, which was also known as “black glazed” and “purple glazed”. Compared with the white glazed porcelain of Ding Kiln, the number of these utensils fired is less, so they are more precious
This type of covered bowl was widely fired in kilns in the northern part of the Song Dynasty, mainly in Henan and Hebei provinces. In addition to the variety of sauce glaze, there are also white glaze and blue glaze utensils. These implements are generally without decorative patterns, and some are decorated with carved lotus petal patterns.

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