Period:Southern Song dynasty Production date:1127-1279
Materials:porcelain
Technique:celadon-glazed
Dimensions:Height: 26 centimetres Width: 20.90 centimetres
Description:
Green-glazed porcelain flower vase (Longquan ware). It is in the shape of an ancient jade ‘cong’.
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![图片[1]-vase BM-1947-0712.126-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Southern Song dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00032962_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-vase BM-1947-0712.126-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Southern Song dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00509275_001.jpg)
![图片[3]-vase BM-1947-0712.126-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Southern Song dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00564301_001.jpg)
Comments:Rawson 1992:Both the green glaze and the shape refer self-conciously to an ancient jade form. Such item would have been used on household altars or on desks in scholar’s studies. Although ancient ritual jades and bronzes went out of use for a time after the Han dynasty (206 BC-AD 220), they were revived from the Song period (AD 960-1279), as were ceramics based upon them. Vase in the form of a congIn about 3000 to 2000 BC, in China’s southeast, corresponding to modern Jiangsu and Zhejiang province, jade workers of the Liangzhu culture fashioned tubes of jade with square sides pierced by a circular opening called 琮cong. Ancient people buried these cong, which may have had a ritual function with the corpse. Educated men revived interest in antiques and excavated artefacts from the past. The new users adapted the functions of the antique objects thus an ancient jade form becomes a flower vase.Stoneware with celadon glazeLongquan ware龍泉窯Longquan region, Zhejiang province 浙江省, 龍泉地區Southern Song dynasty AD 1127-1279
Materials:porcelain
Technique:celadon-glazed
Dimensions:Height: 26 centimetres Width: 20.90 centimetres
Description:
Green-glazed porcelain flower vase (Longquan ware). It is in the shape of an ancient jade ‘cong’.
IMG
Comments:Rawson 1992:Both the green glaze and the shape refer self-conciously to an ancient jade form. Such item would have been used on household altars or on desks in scholar’s studies. Although ancient ritual jades and bronzes went out of use for a time after the Han dynasty (206 BC-AD 220), they were revived from the Song period (AD 960-1279), as were ceramics based upon them. Vase in the form of a congIn about 3000 to 2000 BC, in China’s southeast, corresponding to modern Jiangsu and Zhejiang province, jade workers of the Liangzhu culture fashioned tubes of jade with square sides pierced by a circular opening called 琮cong. Ancient people buried these cong, which may have had a ritual function with the corpse. Educated men revived interest in antiques and excavated artefacts from the past. The new users adapted the functions of the antique objects thus an ancient jade form becomes a flower vase.Stoneware with celadon glazeLongquan ware龍泉窯Longquan region, Zhejiang province 浙江省, 龍泉地區Southern Song dynasty AD 1127-1279
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