Period:Yuan dynasty Production date:1280-1368 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed
Dimensions:Height: 2 centimetres Length: 6.40 centimetres
Description:
Miniature ‘yi’ pouring vessel with qingbai glaze. This miniature ‘yi’ pouring vessel has a flat base, slightly sunken in the centre, rounded sides and a spout with angled edges, beneath which is a small scroll loop. Inside and out it is covered with a thin glossy qingbai glaze but the rim is wiped free of glaze and the base is only partially glazed. It is probable that this vessel was fired upside down on its rim.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:The technique ‘fushao’ or inverted firing was first introduced at the northern kilns producing Ding white wares in the Song dynasty (960-1280), but later this economical method of firing was also employed in the southern Jingdezhen kilns.Too small to have been of much practical use in the pouring of alcohol, it is possible that this ‘yi’ was made as a model for burial. Another miniature pouring vessel (height 3 cm), decorated with iron-brown splashes beneath a qingbai glaze, was exhibited in 1984 in Hong Kong. Both the present vessel and the iron-brown-splash-decorated vessel belong to a type of Yuan porcelain excavated in the Philippines.Full-scale pouring vessels of this form are known, also with qingbai glaze. One such is a ‘yi’, measuring 5.5 cm in height and 15.8 cm in diameter, discovered in a small Yuan hoard at Taishun in Zhejiang province in southeastern China. The form of such vessels is unknown before the Yuan period and was not used much after 1400. It is derived from metalwork, probably silver ware, where the angular edges of the spout would be easier to achieve than in softer clay which lends itself to more rounded shapes. ‘Yi’ pouring vessels were used, for example, to fill ‘yuhuchun’ bottles. A servant filling such a bottle with an ‘yi’ pouring vessel is depicted in a mural in a Mongolian tomb in Chifeng.
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed
Dimensions:Height: 2 centimetres Length: 6.40 centimetres
Description:
Miniature ‘yi’ pouring vessel with qingbai glaze. This miniature ‘yi’ pouring vessel has a flat base, slightly sunken in the centre, rounded sides and a spout with angled edges, beneath which is a small scroll loop. Inside and out it is covered with a thin glossy qingbai glaze but the rim is wiped free of glaze and the base is only partially glazed. It is probable that this vessel was fired upside down on its rim.
IMG
Comments:Harrison-Hall 2001:The technique ‘fushao’ or inverted firing was first introduced at the northern kilns producing Ding white wares in the Song dynasty (960-1280), but later this economical method of firing was also employed in the southern Jingdezhen kilns.Too small to have been of much practical use in the pouring of alcohol, it is possible that this ‘yi’ was made as a model for burial. Another miniature pouring vessel (height 3 cm), decorated with iron-brown splashes beneath a qingbai glaze, was exhibited in 1984 in Hong Kong. Both the present vessel and the iron-brown-splash-decorated vessel belong to a type of Yuan porcelain excavated in the Philippines.Full-scale pouring vessels of this form are known, also with qingbai glaze. One such is a ‘yi’, measuring 5.5 cm in height and 15.8 cm in diameter, discovered in a small Yuan hoard at Taishun in Zhejiang province in southeastern China. The form of such vessels is unknown before the Yuan period and was not used much after 1400. It is derived from metalwork, probably silver ware, where the angular edges of the spout would be easier to achieve than in softer clay which lends itself to more rounded shapes. ‘Yi’ pouring vessels were used, for example, to fill ‘yuhuchun’ bottles. A servant filling such a bottle with an ‘yi’ pouring vessel is depicted in a mural in a Mongolian tomb in Chifeng.
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