flower-pot-stand BM-PDF.34

Period:Ming dynasty Production date:1403-1435
Materials:stoneware
Technique:glazed

Dimensions:Diameter: 160 millimetres (base) Diameter: 219 millimetres Height: 82 millimetres

Description:
Official Jun stoneware flower pot stand in form of shallow bowl with an inverted rim, a band of raised bosses under the rim and above the feet, and three cloud-shaped feet. The stand has thick blue glaze on the interior, and a blue glaze with all-over-in-glaze copper pigment on the exterior. The glaze has split in several places on the interior of the bowl leaving ‘earthworm marks’. There is an inscription, and twenty-one small spur marks, on the base.
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Comments:Published PDF date : Northern Song 11thC-12thC Room 95 label text:PDF 34Bulb bowlThis bulb bowl has studs around the rim and cloud-shaped feet. Its base has a ring of uneven spur marks and the Chinese character 四 (si ‘four) incised in the base before firing. It has been suggested that the numbers refer to sizes, with one the largest and ten the smallest size, which would help to match flower pots and stands. Unlike earlier Jun wares, which are often highlighted with contrasting purple splashes, these later wares feature blue or purple opalescent glazes without splashes of contrasting colours. Furthermore in contrast to earlier Jun wares, these numbered flower vessels are shaped by moulding. There are two further inscriptions which read 永安寺 (Yong’an si ‘Temple of Eternal Peace’) and 悅心殿用 (Yuexin dian yong ‘For use in the Hall of the Heart’s Delight) both of which are located in Beijing.Stoneware body covered in blue and purple glazes with olive-green on base Numbered or Official Jun ware官鈞窯Juntai, Yuxian, Henan province 河南省, 禹縣, 鈞台Ming dynasty, about AD 1368–1435 PDF34鼓丁洗洗口沿下飾一圈乳丁，以雲頭形足承托器身。器外底有一圈不均勻的支燒痕跡，並在燒窯前刻有數目字“四”。研究表明數目字與器物尺寸相關，數字一尺寸最大，十則最小。數目字同時也可以方便花盆及盆托的配對。早期鈞窯以紫斑裝飾，與藍釉形成鮮明對比，而如本件這些較晚的鈞窯器物只是施藍色或者紫色的乳濁釉，沒有不同顏色的彩斑對比。而與早期鈞窯器物更為不同的是，這些帶有數目字的花盆類器物是模制的。器底另刻有“永安寺”及“悅心殿用”銘文，兩地皆位於北京。炻胎，施藍色及紫色釉，底部為橄欖綠色釉官鈞窯或帶數字鈞窯河南省禹縣（今禹州市）鈞台明代，約1368-1435年