Tea bowl in olive green glaze with impressed chrysanthemum decor, Yaozhou ware, Song dynasty-China Archive

Image Number: K1B013974N000000000PAD
Dynasty: Song dynasty
Category: Ceramics
Function: Container
Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
Description:
The mouth of the cup is slightly tilted, with a deep arc wall, a slightly convex bottom, and a shallow circle of feet. The mouth is large and the feet are small, forming a bamboo hat. The carcass is light and thin. The inner wall of the utensil is decorated with six intertwined chrysanthemums. The heart of the utensil is a model printed chrysanthemum petal flower. The outer wall is carved with a simple straight line from the mouth edge to the foot edge. The inner and outer edges are surrounded by a shallow scribed pattern. The glaze is green with yellow color, transparent and shiny. The glaze is full of bright bubbles of different sizes. The glaze color is deep in the impression recesses, and the decorative patterns are particularly three-dimensional. The unglazed bottom foot is brown, and the exposed part of the body shows gray body soil. Yaozhou Kiln also produced a large number of tea wares in the Song Dynasty, including tea cups, tea saucers, tea bottles, tea powder boxes, slag buckets, etc. Besides celadon, there are also sauced glaze and black glaze tea wares. A number of Yaozhou kiln tea wares were also unearthed from the tomb of the Lu family of the Northern Song Dynasty in Lantian, Shaanxi, among which the tea powder box, tea cup and saucer are particularly exquisite.