[Ding Kiln White Glaze Carved Hemerocallis Pattern Plate]
Ding Kiln White Glaze Carved Hemerocallis Pattern Plate, Northern Song Dynasty, height 3.4 cm, caliber 16.9 cm, foot diameter 5.6 cm. In the Palace Museum
Plate skimming, arc wall, circle foot. The whole body is painted with white glaze, and the mouth is inlaid with copper buckle. The plate is decorated with flowers. It is full of hemerocallis with tangled branches. The outer wall is light and plain
This plate adopts the over-burning process, that is, it is installed and burned with the mouth down. In order to prevent the edge of the coil from sticking to the branch ring, the edge of the mouth should not be glazed, so that the bone fetus is exposed, forming a rough “awn mouth”. So the Song people said that the porcelain was “too shiny to be used”. In order to make up for this defect, people set a ring of gold, silver, copper, etc. at the mouth of the awn, which is called “buckle”. According to the “Wu Yue Bei Shi”, “On September 11, when the king entered the court, he thanked the worshipping hall and handed over two thousand gold fixed wares.” The “gold fixed wares” here refers to this kind of Ding kiln porcelain inlaid with gold mouth. This process has been seen in Ding porcelain of the Tang and Five Dynasties. At that time, the main purpose of inlaying metal buttons was to make the utensils look luxurious and noble. After the popularity of Ding Kiln covering firing method, the inlaid metal buckle not only has decorative function, but also can cover the defects of “awn mouth”, so it is more popular
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