vase BM-PDF.57

Period:Yuan dynasty Production date:1280-1368
Materials:stoneware
Technique:glazed

Dimensions:Diameter: 80 millimetres (base) Diameter: 79 millimetres (mouth) Diameter: 142 millimetres Height: 278 millimetres

Description:
Jun stoneware vase with bulbous body, long neck with two ornamental shoulders in the form of monsters swallowing fish, and a flattened and everted rim. The vase has thick, opalescent blue glaze with fine, close crackle.
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Comments:Published PDF date : Jin/Yuan 13th-14th century Room 95 label text:PDF 57Vase modelled after a Chinese bronze vesselJun wares were made in many kilns throughout Junzhou prefecture (modern Yuxian) in Henan province from the Northern Song (AD 960–1127) until the Ming dynasty (AD1368–1435). Jun wares have relatively coarse stoneware bodies. In the Northern Song and Jin dynasties they appear to have been popular rather than imperial wares. Jun wares are characterised by opalescent blue, purple or even green glazes. Stoneware with thick opalescent blue glazeJun ware鈞窯Yuxian, Henan province 河南省, 禹縣Yuan dynasty, about AD 1279–1368 PDF 57仿青銅器形瓶河南鈞州（原禹縣，今禹州市）的眾多窯址是鈞窯器物的產地，其燒造時間自北宋延續至明代。鈞窯器物胎質相對粗糙。宋金時期，被認為是民間用品而非宮廷御用器 。鈞窯器物以乳濁藍釉、紫釉甚至青釉為特色。炻器，厚乳濁藍釉钧窑河南省禹縣（今禹州市）元代，1279-1368年