Gall-bladder-shaped vase with bluish-blue glaze, Ru ware, Northern Song dynasty, Late 11th- early 12th century-China Archive

Image Number: K1B004372N000000000PAD
Dynasty: Northern Song dynasty
Category: Ceramics
Function: Container
Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
Description:
The round mouth is inlaid with copper clasp, the neck is thin, the belly is round, and the feet are turned outward with copper inlaid edges. The whole body is covered with sky blue glaze, the glaze is even and moist, the glaze is covered with gray flakes, and some parts show pink luster. The bottom center scrapes off the glaze layer to form a round surface without glaze, and yellow thin juice is applied. The imperial poem of Emperor Qianlong’s “Chanting the Warming Pot in the Official Kiln” is engraved along the border. The content is: “The whole body is pure blue and fine, and you can smell it with a round trip. It’s hard for you to have your own business, and you can produce two fine ceramics.”. At the end of the sentence, “Emperor Qianlong’s title of the Second Spring Emperor” (40th year of Qianlong’s reign: 1775) was signed, and a seal of “Tai Pu” was affixed. In this poem, the Emperor Qianlong expressed that he regarded the Ru Kiln as the second Zhangsheng Kiln. Through the explanation of the note to the poem, it was also known that this information was mainly from the records of Lu Shen of the Ming Dynasty in his essay on the Spring Wind Hall, that is, the brothers Zhang Shengyi and Zhang Shenger respectively presided over a kiln to burn porcelain