brush-washer BM-PDF-A.55

Period:Qing dynasty Production date:19thC
Materials:stoneware
Technique:glazed

Dimensions:Height: 25 millimetres Width: 74 millimetres Depth: 73 millimetres

Description:
Guan-type stoneware square brush-washer. The brush-washer has a brown body and dark grey glaze with uneven crackle stained dark grey. Where exposed, the body is reddish. There are four small, round spur marks on the base, which is glazed.
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Comments:Published PDF date : Yuan/Ming 14th-16th century Room 95 label text:PDF A55Square brush washer with guan-type glazeThis square brush washer 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-ware type wareProbably Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮 Qing dynasty, about AD 1800–1900 PDF A55仿官釉方形筆洗此方形筆洗施開片青釉。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，有的在裸露的白瓷胎處塗抹醬褐色釉汁以達到宋官窯“紫口鐵足”（意為紫色的口沿及鐵色的圈足）的效果（參見54號展柜）。炻器，仿官開片釉仿官窯器可能是江西省景德鎮清代，約1800-1900年