Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1426-1435
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:emperor/empress
Dimensions:Diameter: 16.20 centimetres Height: 8.70 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain bowl with a crackled imitation ‘ge’ glaze. This deep bowl has a small foot and sides which flare out from it. It is covered inside and out with a crackled off-white glaze in imitation of Song dynasty ‘ge’ wares. The ivory glaze has two crackles, known as ‘golden thread and iron line’. On the base is a six-character underglaze blue mark of the Xuande emperor in a double ring.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Ge wares were made in the Song and Yuan eras and are regarded by connoisseurs as one of the Five Great Wares of the Song era. Interest in archaism is a familiar theme in Chinese art history; according to the contemporary Ming writer Lu Zhen, the Xuande imperial household collected ‘zhai’, ‘ru’, ‘guan’, ‘ge’,’jun’ and ‘ding’ ceramics. In addition to collecting these original Song items, imitations of such wares were also commissioned to be made in porcelain at Jingdezhen. Indeed the Xuande era was a golden age of porcelain production at Jingdezhen in terms of quality and experimentation in a variety of shapes and glazes. The imperial factory made high-fired white, red and blue monochrome wares as well as low-fired yellow, iron-red, cafe au lait, aubergine, turquoise and green monochrome pieces, but also those items with glazes inspired by the Five Great Wares of the Song era. Shards from a bowl with this type of ‘ge’ glaze and a Chenghua reign mark have also been found at Jingdezhen. A chrysanthemum-petal dish with a ge-style glaze and six-character underglaze blue reign mark of Xuande is in the National Palace Museum, Taipei. An unmarked cylindrical tripod censer with a similar glaze was recovered from the Xuande stratum at Zhushan, Jingdezhen, in 1979.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, underglazed,
Subjects:emperor/empress
Dimensions:Diameter: 16.20 centimetres Height: 8.70 centimetres
Description:
Porcelain bowl with a crackled imitation ‘ge’ glaze. This deep bowl has a small foot and sides which flare out from it. It is covered inside and out with a crackled off-white glaze in imitation of Song dynasty ‘ge’ wares. The ivory glaze has two crackles, known as ‘golden thread and iron line’. On the base is a six-character underglaze blue mark of the Xuande emperor in a double ring.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:Ge wares were made in the Song and Yuan eras and are regarded by connoisseurs as one of the Five Great Wares of the Song era. Interest in archaism is a familiar theme in Chinese art history; according to the contemporary Ming writer Lu Zhen, the Xuande imperial household collected ‘zhai’, ‘ru’, ‘guan’, ‘ge’,’jun’ and ‘ding’ ceramics. In addition to collecting these original Song items, imitations of such wares were also commissioned to be made in porcelain at Jingdezhen. Indeed the Xuande era was a golden age of porcelain production at Jingdezhen in terms of quality and experimentation in a variety of shapes and glazes. The imperial factory made high-fired white, red and blue monochrome wares as well as low-fired yellow, iron-red, cafe au lait, aubergine, turquoise and green monochrome pieces, but also those items with glazes inspired by the Five Great Wares of the Song era. Shards from a bowl with this type of ‘ge’ glaze and a Chenghua reign mark have also been found at Jingdezhen. A chrysanthemum-petal dish with a ge-style glaze and six-character underglaze blue reign mark of Xuande is in the National Palace Museum, Taipei. An unmarked cylindrical tripod censer with a similar glaze was recovered from the Xuande stratum at Zhushan, Jingdezhen, in 1979.
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