Octagonal vase with tubular lug handles in celadon glaze, Yuan dynasty, 14th century

Octagonal vase with tubular lug handles in celadon glaze, Yuan dynasty, 14th century

• Image Number: K1B013981N000000000PAB
• Dynasty: Yuan dynasty
• Category: Ceramics
• Function: Container
• Material: Minerals/Ceramics/
• Description:
  It has a flat octagonal body. With a long neck, two tubular ears are placed on both sides of the neck, and two strings are decorated on the upper and lower sides. The abdomen is tucked up from the top to the bottom. The round foot is slightly outward, also known as an octagon. It is fired by cushion firing method. The inside and outside of the glaze are painted with blue glaze, which is beige with gray. The gray edge is exposed at the thin edge of the glaze, and the glaze surface has gray black patterns. Apply glaze to the foot border, and apply ochre thin juice without glaze on the foot tip. Pan Mengguang’s tomb (1275) of the Southern Song Dynasty unearthed a flat jar with six sides and two ears. This jar is not only different from it, but also different from the flat round through ear jar of the official kiln of the Southern Song Dynasty. Since the similar shapes of the Yuan Dynasty hoards found in Xingang Street, Fanchang County, Anhui Province, and the six or eight arris shaped vessels are also found in the Yuan Dynasty bronze and blue and white porcelain, it is speculated that they may be a type of vessels circulating between different materials and different kilns in the Yuan Dynasty.