Period:Tang dynasty Production date:9thC
Materials:stoneware
Technique:incised, glazed,
Dimensions:Height: 236 millimetres
Description:
Yue stoneware flask in the form of two confronted fish, with the two tails forming a foot, vertical ridges to indicate dorsal fins, and two small lugs at the shoulder. The flask has greyish olive green glaze on the exterior. There are naturalistic details of scales, gills and eyes incised onto the flask.
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Comments:Room 95 label text:PDF 251Double-fish shaped flaskThis flask has loops at the top and bottom of the sides for threading a cord through to carry it. It is skilfully modelled in the form of paired fish. Chinese people regard paired fish as a rebus (visual pun) for abundance as the words for both fish 魚 and abundance 餘, are pronounced yu. In China, the eighth and ninth century marked a shift in economic power from the north to the south and this coincided with a revival of the prosperity of the southern Yue ware kilns located in Yuezhou in modern Zhejiang province. Flasks of this form were also made in North China at the Xing kilns.Stoneware with incised and applied details and a thin dull-olive green glazeYue ware 越窯Shanglinhu kilns, Zhejiang province 浙江省, 上林湖窯Tang dynasty, about AD 800–907 For a Xing ware white flask in the shape of two fish see Zhang Bai (ed), Complete Collection of Ceramic Art Unearthed in China, volume 3, Hebei, 中國出土瓷器全，Beijing 2008, p. 53. This was unearthed in Jingxing county in 1964 and is in the Hebei Centre for Cultural Heritage Protection Ht. 21 cm PDF 251青釉雙魚形扁壺此扁壺呈雙魚形，造型精巧，器身兩側近口沿及近底處皆有環形系，以便於穿繩攜帶。中國人將成對的魚視作富足的象徵，因“魚”與“餘”諧音。在八至九世紀，中國的經濟中心經歷了由北方向南方的轉移，而這也恰恰帶來了位於南方越州（今浙江省）的越窯的繁榮。此類型的扁壺在中國北方的邢窯也有生產。炻器，劃花，局部貼花，暗橄欖綠薄釉越窯浙江省上林湖窯唐代，約800-907年
Materials:stoneware
Technique:incised, glazed,
Dimensions:Height: 236 millimetres
Description:
Yue stoneware flask in the form of two confronted fish, with the two tails forming a foot, vertical ridges to indicate dorsal fins, and two small lugs at the shoulder. The flask has greyish olive green glaze on the exterior. There are naturalistic details of scales, gills and eyes incised onto the flask.
IMG
Comments:Room 95 label text:PDF 251Double-fish shaped flaskThis flask has loops at the top and bottom of the sides for threading a cord through to carry it. It is skilfully modelled in the form of paired fish. Chinese people regard paired fish as a rebus (visual pun) for abundance as the words for both fish 魚 and abundance 餘, are pronounced yu. In China, the eighth and ninth century marked a shift in economic power from the north to the south and this coincided with a revival of the prosperity of the southern Yue ware kilns located in Yuezhou in modern Zhejiang province. Flasks of this form were also made in North China at the Xing kilns.Stoneware with incised and applied details and a thin dull-olive green glazeYue ware 越窯Shanglinhu kilns, Zhejiang province 浙江省, 上林湖窯Tang dynasty, about AD 800–907 For a Xing ware white flask in the shape of two fish see Zhang Bai (ed), Complete Collection of Ceramic Art Unearthed in China, volume 3, Hebei, 中國出土瓷器全，Beijing 2008, p. 53. This was unearthed in Jingxing county in 1964 and is in the Hebei Centre for Cultural Heritage Protection Ht. 21 cm PDF 251青釉雙魚形扁壺此扁壺呈雙魚形，造型精巧，器身兩側近口沿及近底處皆有環形系，以便於穿繩攜帶。中國人將成對的魚視作富足的象徵，因“魚”與“餘”諧音。在八至九世紀，中國的經濟中心經歷了由北方向南方的轉移，而這也恰恰帶來了位於南方越州（今浙江省）的越窯的繁榮。此類型的扁壺在中國北方的邢窯也有生產。炻器，劃花，局部貼花，暗橄欖綠薄釉越窯浙江省上林湖窯唐代，約800-907年
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