flask BM-PDF.242

Period:Yuan dynasty Production date:1279-1368
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed

Dimensions:Height: 310 millimetres Width: 354 millimetres

Description:
Longquan porcelain flask with flattened sides with two lugs near the base on each side, squared shoulders with two pairs of lugs, and short cylindrical neck with everted lip. The flask has grey green glaze. There is a four-lobed panel on each side with a three-clawed dragon chasing a pearl among clouds in relief, and floral motifs in relief on the shoulders.
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Comments:Published PDF date : Yuan 14th century Room 95 label text:PDF 242Flask with a dragon among cloudsIn the Yuan dynasty, potters working in the Longquan area were unable to recreate the blue-green opaque glazes of the Southern Song dynasty (AD 1127–1279), as they increased their production. Yuan Longquan wares, exemplified by this large wine decanter, are typically decorated with applied moulded designs such as dragons, fish or flowers beneath a bean-green glaze. Merchants exported Longquan ceramics widely. Customers in Southeast and East Asia, the Middle East, Africa and occasionally Europe admired their hard bodies and glossy celadon glazes.Stoneware, porcelain-type, incised, with applied moulded decoration and green glazeLongquan ware龍泉窯Longquan region, Zhejiang province 浙江省，龍泉地區Yuan dynasty, AD 1279–1368 PDF 242青釉雲龍紋扁壺元代，雖然產量繼續增加，但龍泉窯工已經無法燒制出南宋時（1127-1279年）那種藍綠呈色的不透明釉。元代的龍泉窯器物，更多的是此種大型酒器，通常在豆綠色青釉釉下裝飾模制而成的貼花龍紋、魚紋或花卉紋。龍泉窯產品大量外銷，東南亞、東亞、中東、非洲，間或歐洲的客戶都對其堅固的胎體和瑩亮的釉色讚賞有加。炻器，属廣義瓷器，劃花，貼花，青釉龍泉窯浙江省龍泉地區元代，1279-1368年