Stepped pot with celadon glaze, Guan ware, Southern Song to Yuan dynasty, 13-14th century-China Archive

Stepped pot with celadon glaze, Guan ware, Southern Song to Yuan dynasty, 13-14th century

Image Number: K1B016930N000000000PAF
Dynasty: Southern Song dynasty
Category: Ceramics
Function: Container
Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
Description:
The rectangles are connected in three layers. The walls of the rectangles are bulging out layer by layer, and the mouth edge is convex with a narrow fold around, flat bottom, and rectangular feet. The fetal bone is slightly thick. It is fired by cushion firing method. Glaze is applied inside and outside. After firing, it is cream colored with slight gray, and brown grains appear locally. Repair the glaze around the bottom foot, and brush ochre juice at the foot tip. The inside of the foot is engraved with the imperial poem of Emperor Qianlong’s “Chanting the Three Ascending Bottles in the Official Kiln”. The content is: “The inside is built into a secret device, and the aged pottery is clear. The rest of the glory fire only cracks the fine grain ice. The spirit foot is maintained, and there is no flaw in it. By returning to the ancient times, we can wish the three ascents of objects”. At the end of the poem, “The Emperor Qianlong wrote the imperial title in the spring of the first day of the reign of the Emperor Qianlong” (the 39th year of the reign of the Emperor Qianlong: 1774), and the two seals of “Understanding is not far away” and “Dechong Fu” were affixed. According to the images of the altar listed in the Book of Agriculture by Wang Zhen of the Yuan Dynasty and the shape of the “state society”, it is known that the Emperor Qianlong looked at this object and associated it with its shape