Dish with hibiscus-shaped rim in celadon glaze, Ge ware, Southern Song to Yuan dynasty-China Archive

Image Number: K1B003271N000000000PAB
Dynasty: Southern Song dynasty
Category: Ceramics
Function: Container
Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
Description:
Six petal sunflower shaped, caulked mouth, shallow wall, flat bottom, short circle foot. The whole body is covered with green porcelain glaze, which is grey green with a slight beige color, and the glaze surface is covered with dark fine grain pieces. The glaze along the mouth is thin, showing a gray edge; Apply the glaze to the foot margin, and the foot margin is unglazed, revealing the burnt color. The bottom is engraved with Emperor Qianlong’s “Two Ge Kiln Plates”: “Xuan Cheng was made in modern times, but it was still refined, and Yao Xiang was born in Song Dynasty. Those who laugh at sunflowers are just like martyrs who follow their names.”. At the end of the poem, the chronicle of “Emperor Qianlong Gengxu’s Imperial Title of the Xia Dynasty” (the 55th year of Emperor Qianlong: 1790) was signed, and a seal of “Tai Pu” was affixed. In addition to comparing “Kui Kou” to “loyalty”, the Emperor Qianlong added “Ge Yao has cracks” under the two sentences of “those who laugh at sunflower rubbish are just like martyrs who are good at following their names” when appreciating this Ge Yao dish, to explain that he thought that the opening of Ge Yao porcelain was a feature of Ge Yao porcelain and regarded it as an image