jar BM-PDF.320

Period:Tang dynasty Production date:823
Materials:stoneware
Technique:glazed

Dimensions:Height: 235 millimetres

Description:
Stoneware jar, with four rectangular handles set horizontally on the shoulder. The jar has transparent greenish brown glaze on the interior of the neck, exterior, and on the base. There is a tiger and clouds painted on the brown exterior. There is with a long inscription underneath the glaze.
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Comments:Published PDF date : 823 AD Room 95 label text:PDF 320Jar with tiger and inscriptionChangsha wares were made at kilns located in an area of about five kilometers from Tongguan City to Shizhu Lake in Wangcheng County in Changsha City, Hunan Province. They are popular wares, characterised by rather coarse stoneware bodies modelled in shapes for daily use such as jars, ewers and bowls. Some examples are technologically very exciting as they demonstrate perhaps the earliest use of underglaze copper-red and copper-green decoration. This jar is painted in underglaze iron-brown with a tiger on one side and with an inscription on the other which translates ‘ in the third year of the Changqing period [AD 823], the Buddhist believer Bo Sidu respectfully made this vessel as an offering to be placed before the Great Buddha.’. Stoneware with inscription and decoration in iron-brown beneath a pale-green glazeChangsha ware 長沙窯 Tongguan kilns, Changsha, Hunan province銅官, 長沙市, 湖南省Tang dynasty, dated equivalent to, AD 823 PDF 320青釉褐彩虎紋銘文罐長沙窯位於湖南省長沙市望城縣銅官鎮，距石渚湖約五公里，以生產品質相對粗糙的各類日用器皿為主，如罐、執壺、碗等，頗為流行。長沙窯的一些產品使用了釉下銅紅及銅綠彩，也許是最早的實例，在技術角度頗為重要。此罐器身一面以釉下鐵褐彩繪虎紋，另一面有銘文，意為長慶三年（823年），佛教信徒薄四度（音）恭制此器進奉於大佛前安置。炻器，刻銘，淺青釉下鐵褐彩繪長沙窯湖南省長沙市銅官鎮唐代，紀年為823年