flower-pot-stand BM-PDF-A.40

Period:Yuan dynasty Production date:1300-1368
Materials:stoneware
Technique:glazed

Dimensions:Diameter: 83 millimetres (base) Diameter: 199 millimetres Height: 88 millimetres

Description:
Ge-type stoneware flower-pot-stand or censer with straight sides, five cloud-shaped feet and five raised bosses on the rim. The flower-pot-stand has a very dark grey body covered in grey glaze with uneven crackle which is reddish-brown on rim and grey in some areas. Where exposed in firing, the body is reddish. There are three large spur marks on the interior. The rim of the foot and the base of the feet are unglazed.
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Comments:Published PDF date : Southern Song or Yuan 13th-14th century Room 95 label text:PDF A40Bulb bowl standing on five feet 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Late Yuan dynasty, about AD 1300–1368 PDF A40五足球莖花盆（水仙盆）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），指口沿因燒窯時流釉較薄可見的釉下灰紫色胎體，與無釉圈足的鐵褐色。炻器，青釉官窯浙江省杭州市元代晚期，約1300-1368年