mould BM-PDF.181

Period:Jin dynasty Production date:1184
Materials:stoneware
Technique:glazed

Dimensions:Diameter: 219 millimetres Height: 54 millimetres

Description:
Ding stoneware mould. There are floral and fruit motifs in the centre of the convex side, with phoenixes and flowers. There is an inscription on the concave underside.
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Comments:Published PDF date : Jin 12thC (1184) Room 95 label text:PDF 181Mould for making Ding waresFrom the mid-eleventh century, potters used reusable, intricately-carved moulds which sped up the production process at the Ding kilns. This one is carved with flowers and fruits and on the underside is an incised inscription which dates the mould to AD 1184. It reads 大定二十四年 四月廿六日王陞記□自造 (Dading ershisi nian si yue nianliu ri Wang Sheng ji □ zizao ‘Made on the 26th day of the fourth month of Dading [1184] by Wang Shengji himself’.) The missing character is a signature so it is indecipherable.Carved stoneware Ding ware定窯Quyang county, Hebei province 河北省, 曲陽縣Jin dynasty, dated equivalent to AD 1184 PDF 181定窯陶模自十一世紀中期起，陶工們使用可重複利用的、刻花精美的陶模來提高定窯的生產效率。此陶模刻有花果紋，下部刻有銘文，為“大定二十四年四月廿二十六日王陞□記 自造”，意為：王陞記製作於大定二十四年（1184年）四月二十六日。缺失的文字為簽名，不可辨讀。炻器，刻花定窯河北省曲陽縣金代，紀年為1184年