bowl BM-PDF.106

Period:Northern Song dynasty Production date:12thC
Materials:stoneware, copper,
Technique:incised, glazed,

Dimensions:Diameter: 230 millimetres Height: 82 millimetres

Description:
Ding stoneware bowl, with six-lobed sides and copper-bound mouth rim. Creamy white. Floral motif in centre, with a peony spray on each of the six interior panels.
IMG


Comments:Published PDF date : 12thC Room 95 label text:PDF 106Bowl with peoniesThis bowl has six-lobed sides and a copper-bound mouth rim. There is a flower in the centre and a peony spray on each of the six interior panels. The base and foot of both are glazed. Between AD 1086 and AD 1127, Ding potters pioneered the technique of fushao (firing a vessel upside down on its rim). Kiln managers saved on fuel by firing a greater number of pots at one time, stacking them in stepped saggars. The disadvantage was the unglazed mouth rim, cleaned free of glaze to avoid the vessel sticking to the saggar. Craftsmen used sheet copper and occasionally gold or silver, cut to size and heated to fit the rims to hide this flaw. Historical accounts suggest that dressing the rim with metal actually enhanced the status of the clay vessel. Stoneware with carved decoration, transparent glaze and copper rim mountDing ware定窯Quyang county, Hebei province 河北省, 曲陽縣Northern Song or Jin dynasty, about AD 1100–1200 PDF 106白釉牡丹紋碗此碗呈六瓣形，鑲銅口，內壁六開光內飾刻花牡丹紋，底心飾花卉紋。器底及圈足滿釉。1086年至1127年，定窯窯工們開創性地使用了將器物口沿向下放置燒窯的覆燒技術。窯工使用階梯式匣缽疊放器物，這樣一次燒窯可以燒造大量的器物，節省了燃料。但覆燒的缺點是，為了避免向下放置的器物口沿與匣缽粘連，口沿處須刮掉釉層，使之成為“芒口”。工匠們以銅片，偶爾也使用金或銀片，切割成合適的尺寸，加熱后包鑲在口沿上來掩蓋這一缺陷。史料記載表明，以金屬包鑲口沿事實上提高了黏土燒成品的地位。炻器，刻花，透明釉，鑲銅口定窯河北省曲陽縣北宋或金代，約1100-1200年