Zun vessel in the shape of a zhadou spittoon with celadon glaze, Guan ware, Southern Song to Yuan dynasty, 13th-14th century

Zun vessel in the shape of a zhadou spittoon with celadon glaze, Guan ware, Southern Song to Yuan dynasty, 13th-14th century

• Image Number: C1B003191N000000000PAB
• Dynasty: Southern Song dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Container
• Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
• Description:
  Six petal flower mouth, inlaid copper buckle along the mouth, wide neck, flat and round abdomen, short circle foot. Green glaze is applied inside and outside. The glaze is beige and gray. There are gray brown pieces along the inner mouth and on the surface of the utensil. Six burn marks of branches can be seen on the inner bottom, and the foot is glazed to the foot border. The foot tip is unglazed and coated with iron juice, and the gray earth color is exposed locally. Similar artifacts can be found in the collection of the British V&A Museum. Examples of similar artifacts are the celadon of Longquan Kiln in Sichuan Province, and the slag bucket shaped artifacts of different shapes found in the submarine sunken ship in Xin’an, South Korea, and the Tiger Cave in Zhejiang Province. From this, we can see the situation of the circulation of this device in the major kilns during the Song and Yuan Dynasties. According to the Great Annals of Jiangxi Province written by Wang Zongmu of the Ming Dynasty, the “table ware” fired by the Imperial Ware Factory during the Jiajing period was in the form of “slag bucket”, suggesting that the slag bucket was used in catering. Its shape is in contrast to the records in the Huo Ji File of the Qianlong Dynasty