box BM-PDF-A.35

Period:Qing dynasty Production date:18thC
Materials:stoneware
Technique:glazed

Dimensions:Height: 43 millimetres Width: 72 millimetres Depth: 71 millimetres

Description:
Ge-type stoneware square box. The box has a dark grey body covered with thick opaque blue-grey glaze with even crackle, mostly stained black with some ginger. Th mouth rim of the lid and the interior edge are wiped free of glaze. There are six round spur marks on the base, which is glazed.
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Comments:Published PDF date : Yuan or Ming 14th-15th century Room 95 label text:PDF A35Box with guan-type glazeThis square box has six spur marks on the bottom and is covered with a crackled celadon glaze. Its form while common in the Qing period, was unknown in the Southern Song era. Dark clays were used at Jingdezhen in the eighteenth century to create imitations of earlier dark-bodied wares but potters also applied brown washes to the exposed white porcelain body to recreate the紫口鐵足(zikou tiezu ‘purple mouth and iron foot’) of original guan wares made at Hangzhou (see case 54).Stoneware with guan-type crackled glazeGuan-type wareProbably Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮 Qing dynasty, about AD 1700–1800 PDF A35仿官釉盒此方盒施開片青釉，外底有六個支釘痕。器形為清代流行樣式，不見於南宋。為了模仿在杭州燒造的宋代官窯，十八世紀的景德鎮工匠們採用深色的胎土來模仿宋代的深色胎體，但是也在裸露白瓷胎處塗抹醬褐色釉汁以達到宋官窯“紫口鐵足”的效果（參見54號展櫃）。炻器，仿官開片釉仿官窯器可能是江西省景德鎮清代，約1700-1800年