vase BM-PDF.449

Period:Qing dynasty Production date:19thC
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed

Dimensions:Height: 248 millimetres

Description:
Porcelain vase in the form of an archaic bronze ‘gu’, with flaring mouth, globular centre and spreading foot. The vase has white crazed glase, except in the area around the foot ring.
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Comments:Room 95 label text:PDF 449Gu shaped vasePotters modelled the form of this vase on an ancient bronze drinking vessel called a gu. Wealthy aristocrats and generals of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, (about 1600–256 BC), buried bronze vessels as part of ritual eating and drinking equipment for tombs. The shape was transformed into a vase in the Song dynasty (AD 960–1279) as catalogues of collections of antiques were published with woodblock-printed illustrations.The base carries an incised apocryphal Chenghua reign mark.Underfired porcelain with incised and moulded decoration and a transparent glaze Zhangzhou ware 漳州窯Zhangzhou, Fujian province 福建省, 漳州Qing dynasty, AD 1800–1900 PDF 449白釉觚此瓶造型源於遠古青銅禮器中的飲酒器觚。商周時期（約西元前1600-前256年）富裕的貴族及軍隊上層人士以青銅禮儀用食器與酒器隨葬。這種器形在宋代（960-1279年）伴隨著木版印刷的古物圖錄的出版為人所知，並逐漸演變為瓶。此瓶器底刻有偽托成化款。生燒瓷器，劃花，模印花，透明釉漳州窯福建省漳州清代，約1800-1900年