vase BM-PDF.91

Period:Yuan dynasty Production date:1279-1368
Materials:stoneware
Technique:glazed

Dimensions:Diameter: 76 millimetres Height: 120 millimetres

Description:
Guan stoneware ‘arrow’ vase with twelve lobed body and a tall cylindrical neck with two handles. The vase has thick bluish-grey glaze with brown-stained crackle.
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Comments:Published PDF date : Yuan dynasty or later Room 95 label text:PDF 91Arrow vase with guan glazeIt is modelled on the shape of an antique ‘arrow pot’, a vessel with short tubes either side of the narrow neck. In earlier dynasties, people played a drinking game of pitching arrows into the tubes and neck of larger bronze and ceramic pots of this shape.Stoneware with crackled glazeGuan ware 官窯Hangzhou, Zhejiang province 浙江省, 杭州Yuan dynasty, about AD 1279–1368 PDF 91官釉貫耳瓶（投壺）此壺造型源於古代投壺，投壺兩側有貫耳，頸部細長。投壺遊戲是古代的一種宴飲遊戲，衆人需要將箭投入器形較大的青銅或陶瓷材質的此類壺中。炻器，開片官窯浙江省杭州市元代，1279-1368年