Flower-shaped washer with celadon glaze, Guan ware, Southern Song to Yuan dynasty, 13th-14th century-China Archive

Image Number: K1B008673N000000000PAF
Dynasty: Southern Song dynasty
Category: Ceramics
Function: Stationery and stationery
Material: Mineral/ceramic/porcelain
Description:
Eight sunflower shaped, with a long mouth, shallow wall, slightly concave bottom, and no foot. The whole body is covered with celadon glaze. The glaze color is gray and green. There are six dot shaped branch marks around the bottom. The surface of the glaze has fine and dense patterns. Gray edges appear at the edge of the mouth and the thin glaze at the bottom edge. The bottom is engraved with Emperor Qianlong’s “Ode to Official Kiln Dishes”: “It is still a relic of the Song Dynasty kiln to earn nails, and the ice cracks keep glaze water. An example of the imperial poem is that under the Phoenix Mountain, who is precious without pottery refining?”. At the end of the poem, the chronicle of the reign of Emperor Qianlong (the 40th year of the reign of Emperor Qianlong: 1775) was signed with a seal of “Tai Pu”. In recent years, as the excavation of the Tiger Cave in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, found the supporting burning utensils with the Batiba script and the “Zhizheng” chronicle, the excavators not only regarded this stratum as the Yuan Dynasty stratum, but also set the firing time of the porcelain unearthed together with it as the Yuan Dynasty. Hereafter, it has been handed down