Yellow glaze gold color sacrificial ear jar

[Yellow glazed gold color sacrificial ear jar]

Yellow glazed gold color sacrificial ear jar, Meihongzhi, height 32 cm, caliber 19 cm, foot diameter 17.5 cm
The jar has a wide mouth, a short neck, a slippery shoulder, a large belly, a flat bottom, and symmetrical ox-head-shaped ears on both sides of the shoulder. The pot is painted with white glaze inside and yellow glaze outside. The outer wall is decorated with 9 gold-colored strings from top to bottom. There is no glaze on the base plain tire. No style
Most of the Ming Dynasty’s yellow glazed porcelain shapes are plates and bowls, while the pots are rare, and are unique to the Hongzhi Dynasty. In addition to the double animal ear pots, there are also ribbon ear pots
In addition to being used as royal tableware, the yellow glazed porcelain of the Ming Dynasty was also used as a sacrificial utensil for Fangqiu (Earth Altar), according to literature records. The volume 201 of the “Da Ming Hui Dian” reads: “In the ninth year of Jiajing, the porcelain of the four tombs in the four suburbs of the Ming Dynasty: round mound blue, square mound yellow, sun altar red, and moon altar white, which were calcined in the style of Raozhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province.”
The low-temperature yellow glazed ware was first fired in the Jingdezhen official kiln in the early Ming Dynasty, and has been produced in many dynasties since then. However, the Hongzhi dynasty products are most popular, and its firing level has reached the highest level of low-temperature yellow glaze in history. At that time, the glaze was applied by pouring glaze method, so it was called “pouring yellow”, and because of its delicate color, it was also known as “delicate yellow”.

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