Octagonal vase with dish-shaped-mouth in celadon glaze, Southern Song to Yuan dynasty, 1279-1368-China Archive

Image Number: K1B017701N000000000PAB
Dynasty: Southern Song dynasty
Category: Ceramics
Function: Container
Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
Description:
Disc shaped mouth, long neck, flat and muscular abdomen, flat bottom, short circle foot. The bottle body has eight ridges, and four strings are decorated between the neck and abdomen. The fetal bone is slightly thick, and the whole body is painted with green porcelain glaze. The glaze is gray green, and the glaze surface is opened with large dark patterns. The glaze is applied to the foot border, and there is no glaze at the foot margin. The exposed part is coated with gray black fetal protection juice. The shape is similar to glassware. The outer bottom is engraved with Emperor Qianlong’s “Chanting the Imperial Kiln Bottle”: “The pink and green are really top quality, and the eel blood has strange patterns. The trigrams have eight edges and two circular sections. They are said to be pure and simple, but interesting but colorful. They are more like Xuanchengjiao, and the vertebral wheel is like a group of bamboos.” The imperial poem. At the end of the poem, the inscription “Qianlong Renchen Meng Xia Yue Yu” (37th year of Qianlong: 1772) was signed, and two seals, “Guxiang” and “Taipu”, were affixed.