flower-pot-stand BM-PDF.39

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

Dimensions:Height: 59 millimetres Width: 167 millimetres

Description:
Official Jun stoneware flower pot stand of elongated hexagonal form, with curved sides, flattened everted mouthrim, and six cloud-shaped feet. The stand has opalescent blue glaze on the interior, with blue glaze coloured purple with in-glaze copper pigment on exterior. The glaze has split in several places on the interior of the bowl leaving ‘earthworm marks’. There is an inscription, and eighteen small spur marks, on the base.
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Comments:Published PDF date : Jin or Yuan dynasty 13th-14th century Room 95 label text:PDF 39Hexagonal flower pot standThis flower pot stand has six faceted sides and four cloud-shaped feet. Its base has a ring of uneven spur marks and the Chinese character十 shi meaning ten 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.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 PDF 39六方花盆托花盆托呈六方形，以四個雲頭形足承托器身。器外底有一圈不均勻的支燒痕跡，並在燒窯前刻有數目字“十”。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。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