brush-washer BM-PDF-A.26

Period:Northern Song dynasty Production date:11thC(late)-12thC(early)
Materials:stoneware
Technique:glazed

Dimensions:Diameter: 89 millimetres (base) Diameter: 129 millimetres Height: 34 millimetres

Description:
Ru stoneware brush-washer with flaring sides. The dish has a pale ash-grey body covered in thick blue-grey glaze with fine crackle and several tiny pin holes. Base and foot glazed with three small elliptical spur marks.
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Comments:Published PDF date : Northern Song early 12thC Room 95 label text:PDF A26Ru ware brush-washer This shallow dish-shaped brush-washer is covered in a beautiful green-blue crazed glaze which has incredible depth. It was designed to stand on a writing desk filled with water to cleanse calligraphy or painting brushes. Potters fired Ru wares like this in kilns shaped like mantou (steamed bread buns) fuelled with wood. In AD 2000, more than fifteen kilns were discovered at the edge of the remote village of Qingliangsi, near Baofeng in Henan province. Two workshop areas, together with mounds of kiln debris and broken pots, were also unearthed, testifying to a short but intensive period of celadon production. Stoneware with celadon glazeRu ware 汝窯Qingliangsi, Baofeng county, Henan province 河南省，寳豐縣，清凉寺Northern Song dynasty, about AD 1086–1125 PDF A26汝窯筆洗淺盤式筆洗通體施幽靜深邃的雅致天青色釉，釉面滿布細碎開片。筆洗置於文人案頭，用以書法或繪畫時盛水洗筆。汝窯窯工採用“饅頭窯”（因形似饅頭而得名）並以木材為燃料燒造汝窯器。2000年，考古學家在河南省寶豐清涼寺村附近發掘並清理出超過15座窯爐，2處作坊區，以及大量汝窯殘片和各類窯具，從而證明汝窯在較短的時間內曾進行過緊湊密集的生產。炻器，青釉汝窯河南省寶豐縣清涼寺北宋，約1086-1125年