brush-washer BM-PDF.67

Period:Jin dynasty Production date:1115-1300
Materials:stoneware
Technique:glazed, moulded,

Dimensions:Diameter: 67 millimetres (base) Diameter: 176 millimetres (mouth) Diameter: 196 millimetres Height: 67 millimetres

Description:
Jun stoneware brush-washer in the form of a shallow bowl with sides moulded in six lobed foliations, with a small loop handle projecting under a flat flange. It has matt greenish-blue glaze with a fine crackle. There are three spur marks on the base, which is glazed.
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Comments:Published PDF date : Northern Song dynasty 11thC-12thC Room 95 label text:PDF 67Jun brush-washerThe shape of this brush-washer derives from silver ware. It has a side handle and flange. Although some scholars believe some very fine Jun wares were sent as tribute to the Northern Song court, most of the output from the Jun kilns appears to have been intended for non-imperial consumers and the ware was rarely exported.Stoneware with opalescent blue glazeJun ware鈞窯Yuxian, Henan province 河南省, 禹縣Jin to Yuan dynasty, about AD 1115–1300 PDF 67 鈞釉筆洗此筆洗有單柄，飾折沿，造型源於銀器。儘管一些學者堅信品質上乘的鈞窯器物曾作為貢品進奉北宋宮廷，但絕大多數的鈞窯器物是為皇室以外的消費者生產的，並極少外銷。炻器，乳濁藍釉鈞窯河南省禹縣（今禹州市）金至元，約1115-1300年