Mud cricket pot

[Mud cricket can]

Mud cricket can, clear, 9.5 cm in height and 10.5 cm in diameter. The old collection of the Qing Palace
This cricket can is made of mud, light and plain, with a smooth surface and a paste coating. Its shape is simple and simple
In the Southern Song Dynasty, cricket feeding was popular in Jiangnan. The cricket pot is used for feeding autumn insects. It can also be divided into north and south. The difference is that the wall of the south cavity is thin and the wall of the north cavity is thick, which is caused by the climate. This pot belongs to the northern utensil. It is made with exquisite workmanship, and the lid and cavity are tightly connected. It is said that the cricket pot was cut with the royal golden brick axe and sharpened into a pot. It is probably because of the extremely fine clarity of the mud, and its name is “the jade clay pot in the tile”