Cong vase with light bluish-green glaze, Longquan ware, Southern Song to Yuan dynasty, 13th century

Cong vase with light bluish-green glaze, Longquan ware, Southern Song to Yuan dynasty, 13th century

• Image Number: K1B014107N000000000PAB
• Dynasty: Southern Song dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Flower vessel
• Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
• Description:
  The shape of the porcelain vase is imitated from the jade cong. The round mouth is slightly converging, the abdomen is deep and straight, the feet are circled, the middle circle is outside, and the Cong Zang veins at the four corners are simplified into long and short edge lines. In addition to the sole of the foot, the whole body is covered with blue glaze, the glaze is clear and moist, and the body has a piece. Such cong shaped bottles were often seen from the Southern Song Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty. In the Southern Song Dynasty, the porcelain cong shaped bottle of the official kiln of Tiger Cave in Hangzhou was formed by the way of a cylinder inside and four corners outside; However, this Longquan Kiln work is molded, with a relatively thin matrix, and the practice of long and short lines around it is also different from the above. The appearance of porcelain in the form of imitation jade or copper in the official kilns of the Southern Song Dynasty, in addition to showing a trend of venerating the ancient world, is also said to have replaced precious copper and jade sacrificial vessels as sacrificial vessels.