dish BM-PDF-A.46

Period:Song dynasty Production date:1127-1279
Materials:stoneware
Technique:glazed

Dimensions:Diameter: 100 millimetres (base) Diameter: 168 millimetres Height: 39 millimetres

Description:
Guan stoneware foliated dish in the form of a chesnut flower with eight petal-shaped foliations. The dish has a dark grey body and thick clear blue glaze with wide, fine golden brown crackle. The base is glazed and the foot rim unglazed.
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Comments:Published PDF date : Southern Song 12th-13thC Room 95 label text:PDF A46Eight-petal lobed dishThe shape of this dish is refined. Each petal lobe is curved and indented to create a naturalistic mallow flower form. Similar dishes made of silver were recovered from a Southern Song dynasty hoard of gold and silver wares at Pengzhou, Sichuan 四川,彭州. The glazer has left his fingerprints in the glaze on the base, a tantalising and rare trace of the craftsman’s hand. Writers described guan ware as having 紫口鐵足(zikou tiezu ‘purple mouth and iron foot’), referring to the dark purplish-grey body showing through the glaze where it runs thin at the rim and to the ferrous-brown colour of the unglazed foot. Stoneware with celadon glazeGuan ware 官窯Hangzhou, Zhejiang province 浙江省，杭州市Southern Song dynasty, AD1127–1279 PDF A46八瓣葵花式盤此盤造型文雅，每個花瓣都有弧度并內凹，模仿出了錦葵花的自然形態。四川彭州南宋金銀器窖藏中曾出土類似器形的銀盤。器外底釉上留有施釉工的指紋，這種古代匠人的遺痕非常罕見引人遐想。學者將官窯器物描述為“紫口鐵足”（意為紫色的口沿和鐵色的足部），指代口沿燒窯時流釉較薄處可見的釉下灰紫色胎體，以及無釉圈足的鐵褐色。炻器，青釉官窯浙江省杭州市南宋，1127-1279年