Tea bowl stand in white glaze with incised meander decor, Ding ware, Northern Song dynasty（960-1127）-China Archive

Image Number: K1B005133N000000000PAD
Dynasty: Northern Song dynasty
Category: Ceramics
Function: Container
Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
Description:
The typical tea saucer of the Song Dynasty is shaped like a bowl with a plate, hollow, with feet under it The deep belly bowl above the Ding Kiln tea holder is shaped as a tea holder ring, and the deep wall is used to hold the cup, which is hollow and bottomless; The plate mouth and ring foot are inlaid with copper buttons, and the ring mouth is unglazed without ring buttons. The tray is wide, round, flat and slightly upward, and the ring foot is slightly high. Both the ring mouth and the plate mouth are decorated with a circular pattern. The enamel is white and smooth, and the embryo is delicate. It was mentioned in the book of Qidong Wild Tales by Zhou Mi at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty that people in the Song Dynasty used tea cups together with saucers, which shows that saucers are used together with tea cups. Tea cups and saucers painted on Liao and Song frescoes or tea paintings generally appear in groups, inseparable from each other. When raising tea, one can hold the tray edge with one hand only. It was painted by Lin Tinggui, Zhou Jichang, of the Southern Song Dynasty (1178-88), or the Jin Tomb of Zhangjiazhuang, Xiaoyi County, Shanxi Province, unearthed in 1959